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NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL's 100th season will begin with its most classic rivalry and feature the Super
Bowl champion Patriots hosting Pittsburgh in the first Sunday night game.
As previously announced, NFL 100 will kick off with Green Bay at Chicago for the 199th meeting of a
series that began in 1921. That Sept. 5 game in the Thursday night slot usually reserved for hosting by
the NFL champ forced New England to open three nights later.
The Patriots have a home schedule loaded with top attractions, including Kansas City on Dec. 8 in an AFC
title game rematch, and Dallas on Nov. 24.
Monday night's doubleheader on ESPN will feature Houston at New Orleans and Denver at Oakland.
"We know every year there seems to be a last-to-first story," said new Broncos coach Vic
Fangio, the Bears' defensive coordinator last season. "We were that in Chicago last year. I suppose
a lot of teams counted us as a win last year. Every season is a new season and the order they choose for
us to play them in, we'll play them in."
Week 2 includes an intriguing Monday night matchup of Cleveland at the New York Jets. The very first
Monday nighter was a Browns win over Joe Namath and the defending champion Jets in 1970. This one will
feature the return to the Meadowlands for now-Browns receiver Odell Beckham Jr., and two young,
potential star quarterbacks in Cleveland's Baker Mayfield and New York's Sam Darnold.
National broadcasts rarely have included the downtrodden Browns, but they're a popular choice this year:
Cleveland will have four prime-time games, also facing the Rams, San Francisco and archrival Pittsburgh.
Every team will have at least one national TV appearance. New England, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Green
Bay, Seattle and the Rams get the maximum prime-time games, five.
The traditional Thanksgiving Day games will have Detroit at home to Chicago, then Buffalo at Dallas. The
night game to close the holiday schedule will be New Orleans at Atlanta in another long-time rivalry.
The NFC champion Los Angeles Rams will host Cincinnati in London for one of five international games on
the 2019 schedule. The Rams and Bengals will face off at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 27.
Earlier in October, the league will play two games at Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium in London. The
Raiders will host the Bears on Oct. 6, and the Buccaneers will be the home team against the Panthers on
Oct. 13.
Wembley will be the site of the fourth London match, with Houston facing host Jacksonville on Nov. 3.
The league returns to Mexico, after last season's Chiefs-Rams game was moved to Los Angeles because of
poor field conditions at Azteca Stadium. On Monday night Nov. 18, the Chiefs will play LA's other team,
the Chargers.
In Week 16, the NFL has left 10 teams in semi-limbo. Three games are scheduled for NFL Network on
Saturday, Dec. 21, and will be chosen among these five: Detroit at Denver; Oakland at the LA Chargers;
Buffalo at New England; the Rams at San Francisco 49ers; and Houston at Tampa Bay. The non-Saturday
games will be played Sunday.
The season ends Dec. 29, when Chicago finishes at Minnesota for the fourth successive year. All finales
are divisional games for the 11th straight season.
"This is an exciting time," said Giants coach Pat Shurmur, whose team opens at Dallas.
"This week, we started the offseason program. And now we can see when we're going to play. We knew
who our opponents would be and where we are going to play, but there's an excitement that builds once
the schedule comes out."
Among the oddities, in one stretch the Raiders will go seven weeks before playing a game in Oakland. They
entertain the Chiefs on Sept. 15, then have road games at Minnesota and Indianapolis, host Chicago in
London, are off Oct. 13, then go to Green Bay and Houston. They return to Oakland on Nov. 3.
Miami opens with four 2018 playoff opponents: home for Baltimore and New England, at Dallas, home for the
Chargers. Then the Dolphins have a bye.
One team, Philadelphia has three straight home games and three consecutive road games. No other team has
three away matches in a row, though the Rams will be away from LA for a visit to Atlanta on Oct. 20,
that "home" contest in London the next week, then a bye and a trip to Pittsburgh.
Also with three straight home games will be Green Bay, Atlanta, Arizona, San Francisco, Buffalo,
Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Houston.
AP Pro Football Writer Dennis Waszak Jr. contributed.
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With the start of the new year, we wanted to discuss a topic that will likely garner attention throughout 2024: the potential sunsetting of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2025.
Although some of the provisions within the TCJA are permanent, such as reducing the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, most individual tax changes are not. If Congress does not act to renew all or part of this law passed in 2017, changes may be on the horizon for taxpayers.1
It's important to remember that tax rules can change without notice, and there is no guarantee that the treatment of specific rules will remain the same. This article is for information purposes only and is not a substitute for real-life advice. You may want to review any specific questions about the TCJA with a tax, legal, or accounting professional.
While allowing the TCJA to sunset at the end of 2025 may have some positive outcomes, there might be some negatives to consider when evaluating potential tax strategies.
Current and Post-TCJA Comparison
The TCJA had multiple provisions, modifications, and new rules. If the law is allowed to sunset, untangling everything might create new complexities. To help you better understand what may change, here is a comparison of where things stand today and what could happen after the TCJA expires.2
Changes That May Affect Some
- The SALT deduction would no longer be capped at $10,000 annually but would be subject to phaseouts at higher income levels.
- Because state and local taxes vary widely throughout the country, this cap affected wealthy taxpayers the most in states with high tax rates, like New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois.
- The deduction allowed for mortgage interest would increase from $750k of debt to $1M plus $100k in home equity debt.
- This would be felt by taxpayers with high mortgage debt.
- Miscellaneous deductions could return.
- Before the TCJA, several household deductions, including investment expenses, moving expenses, tax preparation fees, and unreimbursed employee expenses exceeding 2% of adjusted gross income, were allowed. Specific households may see these deductions return.
Changes That May Affect Others
- The standard deduction would be cut in half, to the level it was before the TCJA.
- Whether this change affects you may depend on your family size and filing status.
- The AMT would apply again to many more taxpayers.
- The AMT has been around for many years and has been a thorn in the side of some taxpayers. Originally designed to ensure that high-income earners paid more taxes, it affected a disproportionate number of households over the years because it was never indexed for inflation. The TCJA raised the AMT exemptions, but if the law sunsets, the AMT is expected to return to prior levels.
- The unified lifetime exclusion for estates and gifts would be reduced roughly in half.
- High-net-worth individuals, business owners, and others need to know about this potential change.
For Business Owners Specifically
- The TCJA expiration would result in all pass-through income being taxed at the personal income tax rate of the business owners.
- The TCJA changed how pass-through entities were taxed, creating a new 20% qualified business income deduction for many owners of pass-through entities, such as FLPs, LLCs, and S corporations.3
- Businesses would no longer be allowed to fully and immediately expense short-lived capital investments for five years, and the $1 million cap would shrink back to $500,000.
- In addition to changes to capital investment, various business taxes and expenditure reductions are expected to go away, including the deductibility of net interest, net operating loss carrybacks and carryforwards, and the corporate AMT.4
Forewarned is Forearmed
We have yet to determine what Congress will do about the pending expiration of the TCJA. Congress could have a bipartisan epiphany and decide to renew all or at least parts of the law, making them permanent and taking a degree of uncertainty out of your future tax strategy.
Regardless of what happens in D.C., focus on what you can control. If you have any questions about these potential changes, don't hesitate to contact us. We may have some tax-related resources to help guide you through the evolving tax landscape.
1. Kiplinger Personal Finance, June 13, 2023
2. Putnam Personal Finance, February 22, 2023
3. Advisor Perspectives, October 2, 2023
4. Tax Foundation, August 30, 2023

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At the age of 16, Femi Kuti's life took a hard left. The compound run by his father—the world-famous Nigerian musician and antiauthoritarian rebel Fela Kuti—was stormed by Nigerian soldiers in 1981, leaving his father severely wounded and his grandmother dead.
Two decades later, the general who led the assault, Olusegun Obasanjo, has become the democratically elected president of Nigeria. Fela succumbed to AIDS in 1997, but Femi has stepped into his father's shoes—both politically and musically. In addition to playing Afrobeat that is every bit as funky and fiery as his father's, Femi has become a strident critic of Obasanjo's regime, which has been praised by Western leaders but vilified by many Nigerians for having done little to curb corruption.
Recently, Femi also reopened his father's nightclub, The Shrine, and plans to revive its rebellious musical, cultural, and political spirit. He spoke to Mother Jones in New York City, where he was putting the finishing touches on his new album, Fight to Win.
Mother Jones: Why was your father's nightclub, the old Shrine, important?
Femi Kuti: It was a place where everybody got to listen to my father talk. It kept the people alive to know that there was somebody there for them, opposing [the government] and understanding their suffering.
MJ: And you wanted to continue the tradition?
FK: Yes, because my father never had his own place [for the club]. Everywhere he moved, they had a reason to kick him out. That was the saddest part of his life. So now there is a place, and as long as this life exists, it will be there.
MJ: Tell me about the work you've been doing on AIDS.
FK: The best work I'm doing now is putting a track on the album about AIDS. I am going to fight the African governments on the issue. They are handling the problem very badly.
MJ: How so?
FK: President Bush gives Obasanjo millions to give the AIDS drugs to the people. But I know it is only going to the rich. It will never get down to the grassroots level—nothing gets to the grassroots level.
Why are Europe and America supporting governments that they know are not building roads or putting hospitals in Africa? That is the issue. America is taking oil. And they are dealing with corrupt leaders. Their intelligence tells them that these leaders are corrupt. So why are they dealing with them?
MJ: What are your views on the Obasanjo government?
FK: Obasanjo has left the country 58 times since he resumed power. How can you be leading a country which has so many problems and you are traveling? I am the one who is supposed to be traveling, to win more support for Africa and take African music to another level. And how can he be so fat? Any African leader who is fat should be banned from entering America! [Laughs.]
MJ: The animosity appears to be mutual.
FK: When Clinton came to Nigeria last year, they did not invite me to play. They invited all the nonpolitical artists to play for Clinton. They knew if I was there I would say it straight: "President Clinton, I think …"
Ah, but they played my father's tune. I was so mad! Obasanjo broke into my father's house and beat the shit out of my father, and there he is dancing to my father's music with his fat stomach.
MJ: Obasanjo's government banned your hit single "Beng Beng Beng."
FK: It was a case of victimization. They banned the sexual song. Then they [let in] all the gangsta music from America. They show us all the Africans that are going about saying, "Eh, you bitch, you muthafucka." You think I want my kids calling another girl a bitch? That is American education. I don't want that in my life.
MJ: Tell me about some of the songs on your new album.
FK: There's "Traitors of Africa," "Stop AIDS." There is also "Eko Lagos Africa." That is about a dream that everything really did come true, and there was peace and there was love. You know, I don't really want to write about hiv. I don't want to write about traitors of Africa. I just want to sit down and write love songs. I would love to write about "Oh, I wish it would snow in Nigeria."
MJ: You do?
FK: Of course! Really I would. It's a contradiction in my life right now. I don't want to be doing what I am doing. What an unfortunate life! [Laughs.]
MJ: There were press reports that were saying Femi Kuti has gone mad. What was that about?
FK: The press is saying I am mad because I was talking. You want to talk openly about politics? You can't do that in Nigeria. I was saying the way that AIDS has been talked about in Africa is wrong—nothing has been done about it. The corruption—if we are going to have a good life in this country, we must march against the government. Is that wrong?
So I went back to Lagos. My fans were happy to see me back. I said, "We have to analyze who is mad here. You have no lights. I've been in Paris. It's been a cold winter and they have lights." I asked, "Who is mad?" They said, "Nigeria is mad!"
I said, "You have no water. It's the 21st century. You cannot have water running in your taps in the democratic government. Who is mad?" Ah. "Nigeria is mad." Very good.
I said, "Your currency has dropped again. Who is mad?" Ah. They start to laugh at themselves. I said, "And you all are allowing it to happen. You are all in church praying for God to bring the solution. You don't want to do nothing about it for yourselves." Ah. By the time I was finished with them they knew where I was coming from. [Laughs.]


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Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Afghans are trying to get out of Kabul right now. Yesterday, in the course of just a few hours, President Ashraf Ghani fled. Helicopters then flew diplomats from the U.S. Embassy to the airport, and Taliban fighters were seen inside the presidential palace. The Biden administration acknowledged that the Taliban's victory happened more quickly than anticipated. Joining us now from Kabul is Susannah George with The Washington Post. Susannah, what are you hearing and seeing in Kabul this morning?
SUSANNAH GEORGE: Well, the scenes out of Kabul airport are incredibly distressing. It is thousands of Afghans who've descended on the airport over just the past day and a half. These are people who are desperate to get out of the country. Many of them are people who had applied for these special visas and were uncertain about whether or not this final withdrawal of U.S. forces would include some sort of a mass airlift to bring them out. Initially, there wasn't any security at all at the airport, and so it allowed people to move onto the tarmac, sit under planes, start dismantling some of the landing gear of planes. And this caused the airport to almost completely shut down to commercial flights over the next two days. Then we heard that gunmen moved into the airport. We don't know exactly who these people are. And five civilians have been killed as the gunmen tried to contain the crowds.
MARTÍNEZ: The Taliban has promised a general amnesty - no revenge killings. Do Afghans believe them?
GEORGE: Well, it really depends who you ask. I think there's mixed feelings on this. A lot of Afghans, I think, would like for government employees to accept these amnesty deals. They'd like for the country to kind of get back to work. Right now nothing is really (inaudible) - no government services are operating. But a lot of other Afghans have heard reports and these are reports that The Washington Post (inaudible) - and other forces have (inaudible) - only to be killed. And it's often in mass executions.
MARTÍNEZ: Susannah, President Ghani fled the country, said he did it to avoid clashes and bloodshed with the Taliban. What's the reaction been to what he did?
GEORGE: Well, again, it's mixed. Some say good riddance. They see Ghani as the source of much of what went wrong here in Afghanistan. But others say, you know, that, really, the United States set Ghani up to fail, and they believe that the blame rests on the U.S.
MARTÍNEZ: One more thing, Susannah - what's the biggest change you've noticed in the past couple of days?
GEORGE: The biggest change is that there are Taliban fighters out on the streets in Kabul. They're setting up checkpoints. They're driving around, searching cars. Most of their interactions with civilians that I've seen have been pretty amicable. I've seen some fighters in a pickup truck pull civilians over, ask them to get out of the cars, ask them a few questions. And no major violence in other parts of the city.
MARTÍNEZ: OK, Susannah George is with The Washington Post in Kabul. Susannah, thanks a lot.
GEORGE: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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A flash flood in Rapid City, South Dakota, kills more than 200 people on this day in 1972. This flood demonstrated the danger of building homes and businesses in a floodplain region.
The native Sioux called the river Minnelusa when European settlers overtook the Black Hills region in 1876 as part of one of the last gold rushes in North American history. The settlers built the town of Rapid City well south of the floodplain and for 75 years there were few flooding problems for the residents.
In 1952, the Pactola Dam was built 10 miles from the city. The new dam controlled the floods, setting off a boom in development of the floodplain area. Eventually, the Rapid City area became home to 50,000 people.
In the spring of 1972, torrential rains battered the Black Hills. Warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico collided with a Canadian cold front, causing 15 inches of rain to come down in only six hours. The spillway for the Pactola Dam got clogged with debris during the storm, leading to the total collapse of the dam and a devastating wave of water crushed most of the nearby buildings and swept away 238 people. Residents, most of whom were not insured for flood damage, suffered $160 million in damages.
In the wake of this tragedy, it was decided that the floodplain should no longer be used as a residential area. It is now a golf course and a park with several ponds.
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Canaan Secures Order for 30,000 Bitcoin Mining Rigs From Genesis Digital Assets – Mining Bitcoin News
The application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Canaan has announced the company has secured a follow-on contract from Genesis Digital Assets for 30,000 mining machines. The sale is part of an agreement between Canaan and Genesis that gives the mining operation the option to purchase up to 180,000 ASIC bitcoin mining rigs.
Canaan Secures Follow-on Contract for 30K Bitcoin Miners From Genesis Digital Assets
At the end of August, Genesis Digital Assets purchased 20,000 of Canaan's top ASIC bitcoin mining rigs and explained that it had the option to buy 180K more. Following the announcement, Genesis raised $431 million from strategic investors at the end of September, and the following week it revealed a new data center in Texas. Now Genesis is following up on its deal with Canaan and has inked a follow-on contract with the mining rig manufacturer for 30,000 more ASIC miners.
Abdumalik Mirakhmedov, the co-founder and executive chairman of Genesis, explained the 30,000 mining rigs will bolster the company's operations. "This most recent order of machines will support our efforts to rapidly scale our operations as we work towards our goal of increasing our capacity to 1.9 gigawatts by the end of 2023," Mirakhmedov said.
The option agreement for 180K ASIC miners is considered one of the "mining industry's largest mining machine deal to date," according to the two firms. "The option agreement entails three phases, with mining machines amounting to 30,000, 60,000, and 90,000 units to be purchased respectively. The acquired machines from the first phase of the contract are expected to be delivered in the first quarter of 2022," Canaan said.
The mining rig manufacturer's top device is the Avalonminer 1246 that was released last January. The Avalonminer 1246 model produces around 90 terahash per second (TH/s) and pulls 3,420 watts off the wall. Canaan's machine, at $0.12 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) and today's bitcoin exchange rate, would produce roughly $15 a day in profit, according to asicminervalue.com metrics.
The secondary sale prices for the Avalonminer 1246 are around $7,000 to $9,000 per device, while Canaan's website doesn't show a price for the unit. Canaan's shares listed on Nasdaq were trading for $5.93 on December 30, 2020, and today shares exchange hands for $5.42, or 8.6% lower. On March 11, 2021, the firm's stock tapped a high of $36.40, and at $5.42 shares are 85.10% lower than the 2021 price high.
What do you think about Genesis ordering 30,000 Canaan miners and the option to purchase more? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.
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Date Published: December 15, 2016
One year ago, Sera Murano chose evil. She left her human world behind to transform into an Ensoul, a rare and powerful demon, all to fight the evil she was about to become. Working for her father Lorenzo, the leader of all demons, she secretly vowed to overturn his plot to destroy humankind.
That is, until demon hunters attack Sera and her beloved, Damon, and the truth about the human-demon war is revealed. Torn between the human life of her past and the supernatural one she lives now, Sera must decide who is the worse enemy: evil or humanity.
To win the battle of her life, Sera is forced to do the unthinkable, taking drastic measures and risking the lives of those she loves most. She must fight to the death against the only supernatural leader she's ever known, all for a chance to break the cycle of evil.
Time was of the essence. Sera burst out of her room and into the hallway and raced down the long corridor. As she reached the winding stairs, she opened her mouth to scream that she was coming for Damon. But before she could say anything, a booming crack silenced her. It bellowed loudly.
The noise stopped her in her tracks. She had no idea where the sound had come from. Dazed, she froze in her steps and looked around, trying to identify its source. What was that? Her blood pumped fast through her system. When she took her next step, an excruciating and undeniable agony came over her. She had been attacked.
Stars swirled and danced in her vision. Everything dimmed. The back of her head throbbed. The pain pounded in her skull, making a ba-boom sound over and over again. Without further warning, her body gave way, and she dropped fast to the hard floor. As she fell and desperately tried to right herself, she spun on the perfect angle to see the reason for her unfortunate circumstance. He loomed over her, poised for a further assault.
Her attacker was a dark, blurry figure. He watched her collapse with his small beady eyes glaring at her from the holes in his black mask. While the hunter's face was obscured, his smile gleamed brightly in the dimly lit house. Sera could have sworn she heard laughter. It was a note higher than she anticipated. She noticed the hunter's right arm; he was positioned ready to strike. He wielded a giant baseball bat, which had just connected with her head.
"What the…?" Sera's rage metamorphosed into energy, thrusting through her like a roaring and violent storm. It readied her body to respond to her attacker.
The hunter pulled his arm back slowly until it was raised high above his head. He paused, a cocky move, meant to intimidate her.
Unwilling to fall victim to the masked assailant, Sera summoned her supernatural strength once again and pushed herself off the floor to face him. In a flash, he twisted his body and swung the bat toward her. Sera hesitated a beat too long, just enough for the demon hunter to get his wish.
She had been mere inches away from an upright stance, when the bat, in full swing, connected with her cheekbone. The impact sent Sera careening backward until she slammed up against a wall.
For seconds she teetered on the edge of the top stair. Finally, she lost her battle with her balance and slid off the wall. To save herself, she took a leap, high into the air. But nonetheless, her body tumbled and crashed down the steps of the grand staircase.
The fall felt as if it lasted for minutes, but only seconds had passed. Conscious as she experienced her soar through the air, her body twisted and turned as it made its way to the bottom of the stairs. Without warning, her head smashed violently onto the marble foyer entrance. Everything faded to black.
About the Author
Kristina Rienzi is an American author who has been writing in some fashion for several decades. In 2014, she achieved traditional publication for her debut novel, Choosing Evil (Ensouled Trilogy, Book One), and has since independently published, Luring Shadows, Twisted, and Winter Road. Her latest novel, Breaking Evil (Ensouled Trilogy, Book Two) will be releasing soon.
Professionally, Kristina has been active in the writing community as a member of several organizations such as Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and International Thriller Writers. She has also served as the New Jersey Romance Writers Literary Book Fair Chair and, most recently, the President of Sisters in Crime-New Jersey. Kristina holds a Masters Degree in Psychological Counseling and a Senior Professional Human Resources Certificate, working in both fields throughout her business career.
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2016 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh tea cake
Our 3rd production from Bing Dao village and the first from Spring harvested tea leaves! Bing Dao Lao Zhai (lit Bing Dao Old Village) is one of the two villages called "Bing Dao". There is Bing Dao Xin Zhai (lit. Bing Dao New Village) as well, which is the more famous of the two villages in the same area. Bing Dao Lao Zhai trees range in age from 100-300 years old, and while there are older trees we were not privy to that material due to high demand and very high prices. That being said this is still the most expensive Lincang tea we have ever produced. It is also one of the best we have produced and if you want to drink Bing Dao tea from spring harvest and from old trees, then this is an excellent choice!
It's interesting that "Bing Dao" means "Ice Island" in Chinese, because this tea is very cool in the mouth and is at once subtle and powerful. It's got a "creep up on you" cha qi and a powerful pungent mouth-feeling that will stay with you long after your session has ended. There is is bitterness and astringency but it's never center stage and adds to the complexity of this tea. One of the more difficult to describe raw pu-erhs I have had. It can only really be judged by several sessions, so I recommend buying at least 25 grams to start.
Vintage: April 2016 material
Quantity: 120 cakes in total produced (48 kg)
Area: Bing Dao village, Mengku County, Lincang Prefecture
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"The mining interest of the State is now only second to the farming interest." So wrote a reporter of the Western Carolinian of Salisbury in 1825. But according to historians Richard D. Knapp and Brent D. Glass in Gold Mining in North Carolina (1999) the average Tar Heel did not fall victim to gold fever. Nevertheless, there was enough demand by 1830 for a Charlotte-based Miners' and Farmers' Journal to begin publication.
Like many remarkable events with long lasting and beneficial results, the discovery of gold was unplanned. In 1799, John Reed's son, Conrad, found a 17-pound gold nugget in a creek bed. Yet for three years, the Reeds knew not the rock's worth, and it served as a doorstop. After learning its value, John Reed panned nearby Little Meadow Creek for more nuggets. And many more he found. Little did the German immigrant know that, deeply below his farm, quartz veins carried gold.
Until the mid-1830s, farmers panned for gold during the off-season. Prospectors swirled the gold in pans and rockers full of water; a rocker was a wooden box or set of connected boxes that, when rocked, separated gold from gravel. Because gold is heavier, it rested at the bottom of the shaken pan or rocker.
By the late 1820s, in many places, prospecting in creeks turned into deep-mining operations. The enterprise was now a full-time job, and mine companies replaced part-time miner-farmers. Typically, the mining operations were small. Vincent de Rivafinoldi, however, started Mecklenburg Gold mining company, which employed approximately 600. Yet, it was the diminutive operations that played a big part in providing a blueprint for later pursuits in the furniture, textile, and tobacco industries.
Because of gold mining, Charlotte evolved from little more than a village during the antebellum era (1820-1860) into a regional financial center. American and foreign investors heard and read of gold discoveries in Mecklenburg County. Many immigrated to the Carolina Piedmont to start or work in the mines. Although gold prospecting and mining occurred as far west as present-day Cherokee County and as far east as present-day Nash and Halifax counties, most gold was found in ten Piedmont counties: Guilford, Randolph, Davidson, Rowan, Montgomery, Stanly, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Gaston, and Union
Less than thirty years after Reed's discovery, and sparked by the rapid growth of mining, North Carolinians asked to what extent the government should participate in the mining and minting of gold. During the 1820s, there was minimal, direct government involvement. The state granted the first charter to a gold mining company in 1827; charters ranged from $100,000 to $300,000 (At least $100,000 was needed to start a deep-mining operation). For many years, North Carolina provided the only native gold for the United States mint. Once the gold was shipped to Philadelphia to be minted, however, little came back to circulate in the Tar Heel state. As a result, North Carolinians wanted a government mint. Interestingly the U.S. opened the Charlotte mint in 1837, when gold miners turned in fewer deposits. In any case, the federal government was now highly involved in gold and mining enterprises in North Carolina.
While Congress delayed in deciding to establish the mint, private enterprise met the demand. With home-made equipment, Christopher Bechtler coined gold, including the first minted-gold dollar. Historians report that Bechtler coined $109,000 in his first four years of business (1831–1835). Always trusted, the Bechtler mint lasted until 1857, a decade and half after its founders' death.
In the 1840s, gold mining revived, and miners, many of them immigrants, established new operations. Although the California Gold Rush lured many potential entrepreneurs westward, the vast majority of North Carolinians remained and participated in the state's mining renewal.
Eventually, technology that was used in the California Gold Rush, such as hydraulic mining, was used in North Carolina. During the 1850s, mining activity waned because digging deeper and deeper for less and less gold yielded little profit. During the Civil War (not because of it) gold mining activity stopped.
For more than financial reasons, gold mining affected the Old North State. According to Knapp and Glass, it led to the state's unique economic development: a "leading manufacturing state and one of the most rural states in the nation." But Tar Heels' character may have affected the industry more than it influenced them; for mining for gold consumed few North Carolina entrepreneurs.
The overall effects of gold mining remain debatable. Again, Knapp and Glass are quotable: "The importance of government actions in support of mining," they argue, "did not overshadow the leadership of private enterprise in exploiting North Carolina's mineral resources."


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So Martha Stewart doesn't like bloggers--does that mean me?
But, it's been a few years since I've spent much time looking at her recipes or projects, since most of them are similar to what I see in the blog world, anyway. Of course I wasn't too impressed with the whole insider trading thing, and I read an interview with her in the magazine on a flight recently where she talked about the 5 cell phones she caries with her at all times--I was a little turned off.
But, I keep an open mind and don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. So I was more puzzled than anything to hear about Martha's anti-blogger comments this week.
Martha bashes bloggers
If you've spent much time on Twitter or some of your favorite blogs this week, you may be aware that on Tuesday Martha spoke out against "bloggers" in a Bloomberg News video. When asked if she feels social media is in "poor taste"...
Here's the quote.
"I do have a minor gripe about that, too, because who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors and writers at Vogue magazine. I mean, there are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested, that aren't necessarily very good or are copies of everything that really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts and we have to understand that."
Bloggers bite back
Luckily, there've been a bunch of great responses out there--very well-said, blogging community. You really can write!
- This LA Times piece said, what about the bloggers who seriously are experts in cooking, fashion, lifestyle...? Classically trained chefs and designers blog too, you know...
- This piece on BlogHer points out that um, bloggers ARE experts in many things, blogging included. We are all accountable to each other and our readers and we won't succeed if we're not good at what we do and write about. Also, Martha, you really should have said to bloggers, "THANK YOU for appreciating me all these years and sharing my content!"
- This piece on Babble says that, yep, Martha's audience has turned to blogs, the "non-experts" instead of her magazine for our ideas and instructions, but that makes bloggers the experts in what readers want to know, from an everyday person perspective--polls show that women trust bloggers the most for information.
I think I know what's really going on here. You've put in the work and you resent that we young, "untrained," middle-class folk can sit at home and create something for ourselves, while you've worked all these years to create your empire and now your magazine sales are slumping (big downturn from 2007 to 2012) because none of us need your magazines for Halloween costume or wedding dress inspiration anymore. I understand that it's frustrating, and I see why you might be jealous. But please get back to working with us, not against us, and don't trash talk us and make yourself sound ignorant--and it wasn't even really on-topic!!
So is Martha's critical mistake that she discounts bloggers as non-experts, or that readers want to hear from non-experts??
Martha likes bloggers?
Yes, who are these bloggers?
If what she cares about is the amount of expertise bloggers have, who all is she talking about?
Does she mean she a cooking blog who knocks off her pâte sablée recipe and calls it their own? Because I understand being frustrated about that, too--when someone copies my tutorial or doesn't credit me for a photo, I get a little miffed. Yes, blogging is a new kind of media and there are a lot of kinks to work out. But her quote makes it sound like she's saying, any blogger anywhere (in food, fashion, or lifestyle) is not to be trusted and does not have good taste.
But does she dislike me because I didn't go to school for fashion design, and yet I publish photo tutorials? And I try recipes and tweak them and share them, along with my editorial comments? And I wear clothes I've made and post photos of my outfits?
Honestly, that sounds like what a blog is supposed to do. Not a professionally published magazine or book or TV show--bloggers share real-life content that is relatable for readers in a way that wasn't possible 30 years ago. Back then a non-celebrity getting a moment in the spotlight to share a project was even more special, but we still haven't lost our desire for girl-next-door stories and real-time content.
A blog is not a book
I'll still refer to Martha or Julia or Anthony Bourdain if I want a classic Boeuf Bourguignon recipe, and I'll still buy a book about upholstery or carpentry or something very detailed and hard, but I look to my friends and community of peers in the blog world for pretty much everything else. I love getting inspiration from the push-button publishers of the world, because they're not classically trained experts but they're people like me.
Sorry, Martha. I don't expect to be buying your magazine soon. I respect you for what you've created, but I also respect individuals who put their content out there on their own and who don't have 600 employees carrying out their vision. Those bloggers sound a lot more like me when I try to make a nice dish for a party, and I probably could learn a lot from "experts" and bloggers alike.
So what do you think? Why do you read blogs? Do you think bloggers ARE experts, or is our amateurism what makes us interesting? And, in general, are you pro- or anti-Martha?!


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Race Track Business Conference – 2012 Attracts Expert Presenters and Attendees from Many Countries
Wilmette, IL (December 4, 2012) – For Immediate Release
Tim Frost, organizer of the Race Track Business Conference Director said the "conference was able to appeal to its target audience from the motorsports industry while serving up the topical issues concerning their respective forms of racing." Frost is reporting that the one-day conference, which recently ended in Orlando, Florida, exceeded our expectations. "We confirmed that there was high interest in the business and the quality of the participants, spoke to the demand of connecting away from the race track."
The mixed speakers' group which included track operators, sanctioning body executives, track designers, construction managers, attorneys, financiers, marketing professionals, racing and driving school directors, and other leaders were "excited about the opportunity to be involved."
Legendary promoter Humpy Wheeler headlined the day's activities. "It's good to see people get together in the racing business as we're all fighting the same battle with an economy that hasn't yet comeback yet," said Wheeler. "That's when the real promoters come out and you have to do things different. Creativity comes from and exchange of ideas you have at a conference like this. It's a great setting with PRI, which is just a tremendous show. You can sense how big the racing industry is when you come down here."
Tim Frost, publisher of National Speedway Directory said "the event exceeded our expectations. PRI has been great. The entire team has been fantastic to us. From an event standpoint, we're excited to be part of this team."
"It's very important for us to have events co-locate with us to have everyone in the racing industry together all at one place, all at one time," said John Kilroy, PRI Trade Show Producer. "We think it's invaluable to have PRI buyers not only attend the PRI Trade Show to see all the newest parts and technology for the 2013 season, but also to have the opportunity to attend a racing business seminar. We're standing here seeing race professionals from all around the industry. It's more than we imagined when we first began Race Industry Week."
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So Farrah Faucet died and that was a bummer, but really, that didn't upset my world. Michael Jackson died, and though he was a highly influential musician, I didn't care that he passed. I mean I don't even own one album or have one song downloaded on my Ipod.
But then the news that John Hughes died….that one finally got me. The man pretty much made every movie that I loved and related to as a teenager. Plus he gave me one liners that to this day I still love and use.
So I feel that the next few posts will be dedicated to the movies that John Hughes brought to me and touched me in some way.
We will start with Sixteen Candles.
Oh the movie that gave every teenage girl hope. Hope that the hottest guy in school would leave his well endowed, hot girlfriend for geeky, no body you. Did I mention he is not only hot, but rich and drives a Porsche? Oh yes, this was the modern day Cinderella story that every female teeny bop was waiting to happen. Unless of course, you were the well endowed, hot chic at school…then it was already happening to you (bitch).
That being said, I would never give my undies to a geek. Or anyone for that matter. Now perhaps back then, when my undies were bought by my mother and were ugly (probably the 20 pack from Costco) I might not have cared as much. But gosh darn it, now a days, good looking undies just cost too much to be giving away. Or ripped off for that matter. Granted this did not happen in Sixteen Candles, but it happens in a lot of movies. Sure it isn't sexy to have to stop to take off your undies, but really, it probably hurts to have them ripped off. And hurts even more if they are La Perla and you paid $45 for them. Now, that hurts. So girls, keep your undies. Or if you do give them to a geek, work out a payment plan with them, and charge interest.
Boobs. Now I am a reasonable person. But for whatever reason, I thought for sure I would wake up on my 13th birthday with boobs. When that didn't happen, I knew for sure it would be my 16th. For sure. There is a part in the movie where the main character Sam is standing in front of the mirror checking out her lack of bod. Oh how I related to this. When I woke up on my 16th birthday rationally knowing boobs did not grow over night, I still had to look. And look I did, all day. Thank goodness my birthday is in the Summer, I would have hate to have been caught starring at my own chest in school. That would have been cool. Not.
Alas I am still waiting on my boobs. Oh sure, from time to time if I gain enough weight I can get some bigger boobs, but then I just get bigger me and so they don't really look all that hot. So in honour of the boobs I never got and only get when I gain pounds…I made pound cake. 😉
This Brown Sugar Almond Pound Cake is nice and simple…and loaded with calories…3 sticks of butter and 3 cups of sugar. Surely you can pack on some boobs (and stomach, thigh and butt) with this yummy treat….after all "the Donger needs food".
This cake is moist and all things right in a cake. I ate SOOO many pieces of this stuff. You don't need the apples and caramel but it just puts it over the top. And in case you were wondering…all of my Fall baking has tricked the weather. We went from 100 plus temps last week to low 60's this week! 🙂 One happy Peabody!
Brown Sugar Almond Pound Cake with Sauted Spiced Apples
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ¼ cup almond meal
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 ½ cups unsalted butter, at room temperature
8 ounce cream cheese, at room temperature
2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1 TBSP pure vanilla extract
1 tsp pure almond extract
6 large eggs, at room temperature
Spray a Bundt pan, 10-inch tube pan, or two 8 ½ by 4 ½ inch loaf pans with non stick cooking spray (I used a loaf pan spring form and two mini loaf pans).
Preheat oven to 325F.
In a bowl, sift together the flour, almond meal, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, using an electric mixer set on medium speed, cream together the butter and cream cheese, about 3 minutes. Gradually beat in the brown sugar and powdered sugar and continue beating until pale and fluffy.
Beat in the vanilla and almond extract.
Add eggs, one at a time, scraping down the bowl after each addition.
Switch over to using your hand and a spatula. Add the flour mixture and fold into the batter. Do this until no flour can be seen and batter is smooth.
Spoon batter into prepared pans. Bake until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 75-90 minutes. For my mini loaves, it took 55 minutes. For the spring form loaf pan it took 70 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.
Cake recipe from Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey by Jill O'Conner (if you don't own this yet, you should!)
While cooling, make the apples.
Sauted Spiced Apples
½ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground nutmeg
3 large apples, I used Pink Ladies, peeled, cored, and sliced
1 TBSP unsalted butter
Place the sugar and spices into a medium sized bowl and mix till completely combined.
Dredge the apples in the sugar mixture, turning to make sure they are coated well.
Heat butter in a large saute pan over medium heat. Place apples in saute pan and cook until apples become soft.
To prepare:
Slice piece of pound cake. Top with spiced apples. Spoon homemade or store bought caramel sauce.


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Today, May 21st …
Several American newspapers carried advertisements for a new product on this day in 1921.
So now the mystery we will end,
And to every home a message send,
A message that brings joy to you,
To mother, father and grandma, too,
To Mary, Betty, Jack and
For all the family will learn to know,
The meaning of this wonder word
That everyone has read and heard.
A new delight with every bite,
Both morning, noon and every night,
For Mary knows, you know her well,
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Delicious WONDER BREAD
The Staff of Life it isn't.
Is it unethical, to despise something you have never actually tasted? I confess to never having eaten Wonder Bread on any of my several short trips to the
Wonder Bread contains wheat flour, water, and:
High fructose corn syrup, soybean oil, salt, molasses, yeast, mono and diglycerides, exthoxylated mono and diglycerides, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium iodate, calcium dioxide), datem, calcium sulfate, vinegar, yeast nutrient (ammonium sulfate), extracts of malted barley and corn, dicalcium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, calcium propionate (to retain freshness).
Wonder Bread sounds pretty scary.
By way of contrast, William Ellis in his Country Housewife's Companion (1750) described how a Cheshire servant made her bread:
She told me in November 1746, that in the part of Cheshire where she had lived they eat barley-bread, or bread made with half rye and half wheat-meal, which they there call mobbum bread; but in other parts of Cheshire, towards Manchester, she says, they eat sour cake, that is to say, oatcake-bread. Her way to make barley or mobbum bread was to save a salted piece of leavened dough against next baking, and then crumble it into warm water, with which she mixed her flower, and made it just into a dough over night, and let it lie till next morning, when she kneaded it for good. She said, they make use of no yeast, unless they think the leaven not strong enough to ferment the dough of itself, - but to make leaven the first time, knead a piece of dough with salt, as long as it will take up any, then hang it up, or leave it covered in salt; and to make it better, you may add a little yeast to the dough, or instead thereof some grounds of ale, or an egg. The staler the leaven the closer will be the bread, and the sooner sour, and if the dough is not well kneaded, it will be streaky.
Mobbum Bread sounds pretty good. Unless you would miss those exthoxylated mono and diglycerides of course.
Tomorrow's Story …
A Receipt for Caveach.
Quotation for the Day …"...the best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker...." Pablo Neruda


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Fighting Fate
by Scarlett Finn
Publication Date: July 14, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Suspense
Ivy Dune knows how to survive.
Even when her paycheck-to-paycheck life is ripped from her by a vicious crimelord without a conscience, Ivy knows she'll do whatever it takes to make it to the other side alive.
Dax Harrow has made a living off of blood and pain…both in the ring and out.
As an enforcer for the most lethal family in California, Dax knows the bounds of loyalty and will do anything to pay back the debt he owes them, no matter the cost.
When Ivy is placed in Dax's care neither of them are prepared for the fallout. As enemies close in around them, Ivy and Dax must be prepared for the fight of their lives.
About Scarlett Finn
Having known from a young age that writing was her passion Scarlett has spent large portions of her life dreaming up men, and women, and putting them together to see what they get up to.
"The characters write the story. I just get it down on paper for them."
Finding her solace in books, reading and writing, have been her eternal companion through all the highs and lows in her life.
Now is time to let the characters flourish and to live forever as she shares them with you.
Good luck on your adventures.


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Development of head probes for optical tomography and topography of the newborn infant brain
Branco G., Everdell NL., Gibson AP., Delpy DT., Hebden JC., Slater R., Cantarella A., Meek JH.
Novel probes have been developed for optical tomography (whole-brain imaging) and optical topography (cortical mapping) of the newborn brain. These have been evaluated on a range of infants at rest and during functional stimulation. © 2006 Optical Society of America.


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Such was the case with Crete's Samaria Gorge. Our first views of the Gorge were of its end, at Agia Roumeli, a small village on Crete's southern coast.
Approaching Agia Roumeli, Crete, from the Libyan Sea |
Since our first visit to Crete five years ago, we've:
*vowed to hike the Gorge, and
* visit this small town -- with a population of less than 150 people - that welcomes hikers as they emerge from the Gorge's 18 km (11.8 mile) route.
The gorge, by the way, is said to be the longest in Europe.
Streets are lined with cafes in Agia Roumeli |
Much to our surprise, Agia Roumeli, with paved roads and sidewalks that lead visitors to a large selection of restaurants and tourist accommodations, is more spread out than Loutro.
(And until we arrived in Agia Roumeli,we hadn't seen ads for fish pedicures since we'd left the big city, Heraklion, on Crete's northern coast a week before.)
And the Gorgeous Gorge. . .
Guidebooks say the Samaria (sah-mah-rih-ah) Gorge is carpeted with spring wild flowers and is home to a number of endangered species, including the Kri-Kri, a wild Cretan goat.
Samaria Gorge from Agia Roumeli |
The Scout sets out to see the Gorge |
The 1.2 km stretch we walked is described as 'uninteresting' in Lonely Planet's guidebook.
'Uninteresting' ?!?! That must mean the gorge is pretty spectacular or the reviewer was tuckered out by the time he/she got to this leg of the hike.
We heartily disagree with that description! Here are just four reasons why:
This beautifully maintained church and cemetery we passed along the way |
One of the many buildings that make up the abandoned Old Town |
This minuscule chapel built into the rock wall high above us |
And scenes like this along the way |
Remains of the Turkish fortress that towers over Agia Roumeli Crete |
If You Go:
There are excursions to Samaria Gorge from every sizable town in Crete.
* The full one way hikes leave from Omalos to the north (not pictured on the map) and end in Agia Roumeli; shorter round-trip hikes loop from Agia Roumeli taking you the narrowest part of the Gorge, its Iron Gates.
* Locals have said it is more fun to hike the gorge on your own and not keep pace with an organized group. Note: It also means you are on your own for transportation arrangements to and from the gorge.
* Starting before 8 a.m. will help beat the bus-loads of hikers that have purchased the package hikes.
* The gorge opens late in the spring. It had been open only a couple of days when we visited in early May 2013. So, if hiking the Gorge is in your plans, make sure it is open.
Thanks to Lonely Planet for the map above.
That's it for this week's Travel Photo Thursday, but to continue your armchair travels head to Budget Travelers Sandbox.


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I had recently been directed to this new posting by Joseph Welch who poses 15 questions to the 9/11 Truth Movement that he feels will point out logical gaps in our arguments. Because he does not have an available e-mail address that I can respond to, I will post my answers here for all to either criticize or agree with depending on their view, and hopefully will make its way back to Mr. Welch. ( Be sure to click on the links embedded in the text. )
Joseph Welch)-Let's take your thesis (that 9/11 was an inside job perpetrated by the Bush administration, and covered up by a coalition of US government agencies, allied powers, big business and the media) as read. The following questions point to logical and factual gaps within that thesis. It is now up to you to answer these questions and explain why your theories are still valid. For your answers to be credible, they need to be detailed and based on verifiable evidence. No suppositions, no speculation, no unsupported assertions, just the facts. Stop "asking questions", and provide answers. These fifteen initial questions will do for starters.
Stewart Bradley)- After looking over your 15 questions I have found most of them to be irrelevant to the main concerns of the 9/11 Truth movement and the LIHOP case which I focus on in particular. But I will answer these fifteen questions to the best of my abilities provided I get a civil and intelligent response to my four short questions posted below. Lets begin:
(1) On 9th September 2001 Ahmed Shah Massoud, the most effective military commander of the anti-Taliban coalition (the Northern Alliance, or NA) was killed by two Arab suicide bombers posing as journalists. The assassination of Massoud had taken months to plan, and the latter had received the bogus request for an 'interview' in May 2001 (See Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, pp.574-576; Jason Burke, Al Qaeda, p.197; Daniel Byman, Deadly Connections, p.210. Two days before 9/11, Al Qaeda killed the Taliban's main enemy, who had also played a pivotal role in keeping the NA factions together, and who would have been the obvious figure to liase with if the Americans had decided to effect regime change in Afghanistan. If Al Qaeda were not responsible for 9/11, then why was Ahmed Shah Massoud's assassination so well co-ordinated with the attacks on New York and Washington?
SB)- Your question asserts as fact that Al Qaeda was responsible for the Ahmed Shah Massoud's assassination. How do you know that some other involved faction did not commit the crime and use Al Qaeda as the scapegoat? The only people who know for sure are conveniently dead.
(2) Conversely, prior to 9/11, the US government had minimal contacts with Massoud and other Northern Alliance figures, much to the latter's frustration (See Coll, passim). If 9/11 was a "false flag" operation intended to justify a pre-determined plan to invade Afghanistan, then why didn't the CIA and other US government agencies do more to facilitate ties with the NA?
SB)- Here you assume that the CIA wanted the involvement of the Northern Alliance before the invasion. If the true motive of the war was the construction of the Trans-Afghani pipeline, along with occupational forces to guard the project, would Massoud and the NA have supported the invasion? Especially when the US already had Harmid Karzai, who was directly involved with the pipeline deal, to install as Afghanistan's new leader.
(3) Just before 9/11, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other key Al Qaeda personnel left their quarters in Kandahar to hide in Tora Bora (Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower, pp.356-358). Why did bin Laden and al-Zawahiri suddenly leave their known locations and go to ground, if they were not anticipating imminent military action by the USA?
SB)- Despite the Bush administrations outrageous claim that there were no warnings of the 9/11 attack, there are dozens of documented reports of an imminent attack on America, many of which Osama bin Laden had access to. ( Many claiming to be from Al Qaeda. )
The real question is why our military allowed bin Laden to escape into Pakistan when we had him boxed in at Tora Bora?
(4) In the days following 9/11, the Bush administration asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a plan to invade Afghanistan. The JCS had to admit that they had no contingency plan for such an invasion, and in the weeks preceding Operation Enduring Freedom the CIA and the Department of Defense were obliged to improvise a plan of attack against the Taliban and its Al Qaeda allies (Benjamin Lambeth, Air Power Against Terror; Bob Woodward, Bush At War). If 9/11 had been an inside job, and if there was a long-standing intention by Bush and his advisors to invade Afghanistan and overthrow the Taliban, then why did they have to scrabble around for a workable plan? Why was one not prepared beforehand?
SB)- Congratulations on telling your first bold faced deception. It has been well publicized that according to Condi Rice on September 9, two days before the attack, the final plans to go to war against the Taliban to begin in October were ready for President Bush to sign despite having no Congressional approval for any military action. It is critical to point out that without the 9/11 attack the Bush administration would not have had justification to use this plan.
(5) We are being asked by the truthers to believe that the 19 hijackers were "patsies", or non-existent. If that was the case, and if the intention of the real plotters in the US government was to justify military interventions to overthrow hostile regimes in the Middle East, why were 15 out of the 19 'bogus' Al Qaeda terrorists given Saudi nationality? The other four hijackers consisted of an Egyptian, a Lebanese and two citizens of the UAE. We are being asked to believe that the conspirators behind 9/11 decided that they would make the hijackers citizens of allies of the USA, not enemies. Why were they not given Iraqi, Iranian or Syrian identity? Why were they not given forged links with terrorist groups (such as the Abu Nidal Organisation, the PLFP-GC or Hizbollah) with closer links to Tehran, Damascus and above all Baghdad? If we are supposed to believe that the Israelis had a hand in 9/11, then why were none of the patsies Palestinians linked to Fatah or Hamas? What kind of conspirator sets up a plot to frame an innocent party without forging the evidence to implicate the latter?
SB)- While we could speculate for years, as to the true identities of the hijackers, or if there is any hard evidence that these men were really on board the doomed flights, it is clear that the attack was meant to incriminate Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network. Your guess may be as good as mine here, but considering this was the opening of the "War on Terror" the enemy "Boogymen" had to be portrayed as part of a world wide network and not linked specifically to one nation if they hoped to extend and expand the war as wide as possible.
To play devils advocate, it seems odd to me that these hijackers, who cleverly evaded detection for years, would on 9/11 suddenly leave such an obvious paper trail to their supposed identities, some of which are still in dispute.
(6) Following on from this point, if the identities and the nationalities of the hijackers were faked, then why did the Saudi, Egyptian, Lebanese and UAE governments accept that citizens from their own countries were involved? What incentive did Saudi Arabia have for accepting that 15 of its own people had committed mass murder on US soil? Why would the Saudis co-operate in a plot which would blacken their country's name, benefit Israeli interests in the Middle East, provide the pretext for the overthrow of one fundamentalist Sunni regime in Afghanistan, and contribute to the destruction of a Sunni Arab dictatorship in Iraq long seen by the Saudi royal family as a bulwark against Iran?
SB)- Indeed, how do bullies on the playground coerce the lunch money from smaller children? With threats of military action. I'm not sure if you recall our president telling the world, "If you are not with us you are against us", and how quickly all aforementioned countries joined the US led effort against terrorism, despite the US being instrumental in the creation of these very terror organizations.
(7) Afghanistan is a landlocked country (truthers may need to be reminded of this fact), and any invasion is logistically impossible without the support of its neighbours. Prior to 9/11, Pakistan was a staunch ally of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan (see Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, passim). The former Soviet Central Asian states of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan backed the NA, but were also wary of antagonising their former imperial master, Russia. Pre-September 2001 these states would not have contemplated admitting any US or Western military presence on their soil. Although Russian President Vladimir Putin backed the USA's invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, it took the Americans considerable effort to persuade him to permit the US and NATO forces to use bases on Uzbek and Tajik territory as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. It also took time and considerable pressure to force General Pervez Musharraf to abandon the Taliban - despite resistance from the military and ISI. Given the geo-political realities of Central Asia in mid-2001, there were no guarantees of any host nation support for any attack on Afghanistan. Assuming againt that 9/11 was an inside job, how could the US government realistically presume that the Russians and Pakistanis would actually permit the USA to effect regime change against the Taliban?
SB)- Again your question is based on false information. First, if Pakistan was such a Taliban ally then why was the head of the ISI, General Mahmoud Ahmed meeting with Bush administration officials in Washington during the time of the attack, while approving funding to lead hijacker Mohammed Atta?
Secondly, at the end of the Cold War several major American energy companies began buying up oil supplies in the Caspian Sea region, including Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan which border Afghanistan. There were already US troops based in Uzbekistan before 9/11 to protect these oil supplies, which then became a staging area for the Afghanistan invasion.
(8) Assuming that claims of Mossad complicity in 9/11 ("dancing Israelis", etc.) are correct, can the truthers suggest a feasible motive for the Israeli government conniving in an act of mass murder on US soil? Since 1967, the mainstay of Israel's security and survival has been its alignment with the USA, and the military assistance it has received as a result. This relationship is based on a bipartisan political consensus (both the Republican and Democratic parties are predominantly pro-Israeli) and considerable public support in the USA. Why engage in a "false flag" attack against the civilian population of an ally, when you have so little to gain and so much to lose if your responsibility is ever disclosed?
SB)- Israel has obviously benefitted from the invasion and occupation of both Afghanistan and Iraq, who were two known enemies of Israel, and certainly enjoys having US troops nearby to help protect it from it's other enemies in the region. Although I have personally seen no empirical evidence to suggest that the Mossad were involved in 9/11, it's always useful to debunkers to try to associate the 9/11 Truth Movement to anti-semitism and other hate based groups.
(9) Following on from this, assuming that the "five dancing Israelis" story isn't a complete fabrication, what kind of secret service recruits undercover agents who compromise themselves by acting so ostentatiously in public? And if the five arrested Israelis were part of a conspiracy organised with the US government, then why did the FBI hold them in custody for over two months, instead of releasing them on the quiet a matter of hours and days after their apprehension?
SB)- I don't personally believe that the story of the "dancing Israelis" is either true or relevant to the 9/11 case.
(10) If the WTC towers in New York City were destroyed by controlled demolitions rigged by US government agencies, then why were the fake terrorist attacks used to cover up these controlled demolitions so insanely convoluted? Why concoct a scenario involving the hijacking of planes which are then crashed into tower blocks (involving complicated planning involving remote controlled flights timed with explosives detonated in the towers, which allow plenty of opportunities for gliches and technical errors)? Why not use a more simple means, such as a truck bomb?
SB)- While this question is purely speculative and ignores the WTC anomalies that are in question, the tactic of using hijacked commercial aircraft in Kamikaze style attacks had been know about and planned for by our air defenses before 9/11.
If 9/11 was a false flag attack then using commercial planes is much more sinister because of the helpless people aboard the aircraft. And the timing of the second aircraft crash almost insured live coverage of the attack, providing the maximum psychological impact on the viewing public. And considering the technology available at the time, faking an attack like this would not be so difficult to carry out, providing one can explain why our air defenses did not intercept the flights, and can direct any resulting investigations into the attack.
(11) Assuming that Niaz Naik's account of his alleged meeting with retired US officials in July 2001 is true, then where were the 17,000 Russian troops who were supposedly ready to invade Afghanistan when it came to the commencement of military operations in October 2001? And if the main motive behind the invasion was to build a natural gas pipe-line which would be under US control, then why was no attempt ever made to build one once the Taliban were overthrown?
SB)- While it is impossible to know whether Niaz Naik's story is legitimate the agreement for the pipeline deal was signed in December of 2002, while the construction of the pipeline (now called TAPI) has been hindered by the ongoing war.
(12) We are being asked by the conspiracy theorists to assume that NORAD was stood down on the morning of 11th September 2001 so as to enable the success of the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. NORAD is a combined command, not a purely American one - it has a binational staff drawn from the US military and the Canadian Forces (CF). We are either supposed to believe that the CF personnel assigned to NORAD were too stupid to notice anything amiss in their headquarters - and query it - or that the Canadian government and the CF were complicit in 9/11. Which of these scenarios is true?
SB)- Both of these scenarios assume incorrectly that a "stand down" scenario would require complicity with all NORAD personnel. These men follow orders in a chain of command and are informed of situations on a "need to know" basis. The person in charge and giving the orders is the only one who is responsible for their actions, or inactions. On the morning of 9/11 that person was Dick Cheney.
(13) If Al Qaeda were set-up for the 11th September attacks, then why have its leaders and spokesmen repeatedly affirmed their responsibility for - and pride in - these attacks (see here, here, here and here for examples)? Why are we supposed to believe that repeated video pronouncements by bin Laden and Zawahiri are fake, while just one written statement allegedly from bin Laden denying responsibility - which was handed by courier to al-Jazeera without any confirmation of its origins - was genuine?
SB)- You do not need to convince me that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attack, rather you need to convince the FBI. To this day the FBI claims it has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11 and the 9/11 attack is conspicuously absent from his list of crimes on their website. While it only took three months to obtain a Federal indictment against bin Laden for his role in the 1998 embassy bombings, there has been no indictment issued for 9/11 after 7 years of searching. The justice department isn't even trying to get an indictment. What do they know that you can't seem to accept as reality?
Now let's assume there was no direct history between Osama and the CIA and that Al Qaeda is not being sponsored to justify the War on Terror, do you mean to tell me you Did Al Qaeda have a grudge against old, asbestos laden buildings?
(15) Finally, if the US government is institutionally ruthless enough to organise the massacre of thousands of its own citizens in a series of "false flag" attacks, then why is it too squeamish to arrange for the deaths of the supposed "truth-seekers" (David Griffin, Kevin Barrett, Steven Jones, Richard Gage, the Loose Change team, Alex Jones, etc.) who have exposed their complicity in one of the most heinous crimes a government can commit against its own people? Why are these people still alive and well, and in a position to publicise their "theories" on radio, television, in print and online?
SB)- The obvious reason is that if popular and outspoken Truthers would start dying in mysterious accidents it would only serve to raise suspicions about what they are saying. Why go to all the trouble of assassinating the Truthers when the guilty parties have the media power to assassinate their character by publicly denouncing them as "loony moonbats" while preventing any serious debate about their claims on any mainstream media source. Small radio shows and internet videos aren't considered a threat when they know most Americans only get their information from major network news broadcasts.
There, I answered your questions. Now will you answer my four short and simple questions?:
1. Why did the Bush administration ignore 9/11 warnings and obstruct FBI investigations?
2. Who scheduled the multiple military war games for the morning of 9/11?
3. Why did the Bush administration try to block the 9/11 investigation?
4. The FEMA funded study by WPI documented WTC steel melting. How did this steel melt?
I look forward to your answers but I won't hold my breath.
With all due respect..... Stewart Bradley
Related Info:
Beyond 15 Questions; Historical Context of 9/11
Conflicting Sources: Another Final Note to Joseph Welch
Master Debaters: A tribute to Joseph Welch


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