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Race Format
These rules and procedures, supplemented by Quarter Midgets of America tech specifications, rules, and regulations, govern activities at all Portland Quarter Midget Racing Association events.
General Information:
- No race cars shall use the track for practice or racing before 9:00 am on weekdays and Saturdays or 10:00am on Sundays. Special circumstances are allowed for region or national races and must be directed through the club President
- Any non-PQMRA member must have a PQMRA member present to utilize the track for practice.
- All PQMRA members are expected to respect and follow the Alpenrose Dairy facility rules and policy.
- All official PQMRA business and communication with Alpenrose Dairy will be handled by the President or a designee by the President.
- The race track will remain locked at all times when the track is not being used. Members are responsible for locking the gate when finished with practice.
- Valid QMA identification with club affiliation must be available at all times during a racing event.
- The race track and hot chute are restricted to General Members and Alternate Handlers only and must have current QMA identification.
Code of Conduct:
- Per the PQMRA Bylaws, QMA code of conduct will be enforced at all events. During racing events while race conditions exist, the use of intoxicants by car owners, mechanics, pit attendants or track officials is strictly prohibited. Any member in the area of a scheduled event violating this rule will be escorted from the event and/or suspended for a period as noted in the Code of Commitment policy.
- Each participant, handler, racecar owner, and sponsor(s) will fulfill all requirements and applicable rules of racing, while conducting oneself in a sportsman like manner. All participants are expected to sign the Code of Commitment policy and adhere to all rules.
General Racing Rules:
- Pit Fees include: $25 for the first car, $15 for each additional car. $5 Late entry fee for each car if Registration after closing on race date, line up at rear of field (no pill draw).
- Any handler wishing to have their driver participate in an upper competitive class must first receive approval from the Novice Committee and Regional Director.
- You cannot approach any Racing Officials other than the Race Director (e.g., tower, flagger, judges, scorers, etc). The penalty can be a suspension for the race day. If any additional disciplinary action is necessary, the Code of Conduct process can be followed.
- The location of the transponder is a DQ item. The transponder must be located on either side of the race car, 40 inches minimum to 44 inches maximum from the front of the bumper to the front of the transponder. It must be located no greater than 6 inches from the bottom of the frame rail to the top of the transporter within the nerf bar.
- No plastic wrap, factory or otherwise on tires after they have been mounted outside of the trailer.
- All race cars shall display the Alpenrose Dairy sticker.
- Two cars constitute a race. Both cars must take the initial green of a heat race and main event to be considered for awards in that race.
- Drivers must participate in eight (8) of the eleven (11) races for year end participation awards.
- All rules and procedures not set forth herein will follow the current QMA rule book or procedure manual.
- All cars will be safety checked by the Safety Director or designee prior to entering the race track at every race.
- The Safety Director or designee may inspect the car at the scales to check all necessary items.
- Safety equipment and clothing to be governed by QMA or local ordinances, whichever is most stringent.
- Drivers are to obey the flagger at all times. Drivers failing to answer the flags on the second attempt will be disqualified from that session and asked to leave the track immediately.
- All visors will be in place before the car approaches the track. Clear or amber shields required after dusk.
- All corner workers will be in their respective corners, coinciding with the numbers on the racecars prior to the start of the race. For Novice races it is recommended that two corner workers are in each corner. If corner workers are not present it is the discretion of the Race Director to red flag the race until corner workers are present.
Technical Procedures:
- The Tech Director will draw the number of classes he/she chooses at the end of the A-Mains in the presence of handlers at impound.
- Top four finishers in each A main will automatically be impounded to a specified area for Technical proceedings. The Tech Director has the right to tech any or all cars in any class at his/her discretion.
- The Tech Director will make available a weight to calibrate the scales.
- If a muffler comes loose but does not leave the car, it is NOT reason for immediate disqualification. All mufflers must be securely fastened to the header pipe and the header pipe must be securely fastened to the head. Handlers may repair broken exhaust pipes or mufflers in the designated work area under yellow or non-medical red flag conditions. Muffler baffles, mufflers, and exhaust pipes lost during a race and not repaired back to QMA legal specifications before the checkered flag waves will be reason for disqualification at scales.
Fuel and Sealing:
- An 89 Octane unleaded gasoline is required. The required fueling station is the 76, located at 3975 Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy. Additives are reason for disqualification. The Tech Director will supply a unique paint marker for sealing at each race.
- All sealing will be done per QMA procedures and rules.
- Failure to have your tank sealed or tampering with the seal or fuel is reason for disqualification. On qualifier days, your car must be fueled and sealed directly after qualifying.
- The Tech Director will be testing fuel, oil, and tires as necessary.
Spec Tire:
- PQMRA will have an open tire series until the implemented QMA tire rule anticipated by 6/1/11. At that time, all cars in all classes, with the exception of Novices will be required to run Vega MBM tire. If a car is spotted in staging with the wrong brand and compound tire, they will be required to change to the allowed tire brand and compound before being allowed to enter the track. If a car finishes a race with the wrong brand and compound tire, then they will be DQ'd at scales and receive zero points for that race. All other QMA rules pertaining to tires apply.
- At all events in the 2015 PQMRA series, each car will be required to run the same right side tire that they ran during their respective heat race. Allowances for a replacement tire can be made with prior Race Director approval in cases where a tire becomes inadvertently damaged beyond use. The replacement tire must also be a previously marked tire. Penalty for racing the main event without the required marked tire will be a DQ at scales and receive zero points for that race.
Novice Information:
- The Novice committee must authorize all Novice move ups with a unanimous vote. Any request denied by the Novice committee must be accompanied by written memorandum stating reasons of denial. All new Novice racers are required to start in the back of the pack for their first race.
- All Novice drivers training programs will be governed by QMA guidelines. It is recommended that beginning drivers attend 4 drivers training classes prior to advancing to Novice class.
- Novice Class is NOT racing for points or championships. Their attendance is logged for year-end participation awards.
- One judge is required to be in the judging area prior to cars being pushed off for the warm up period.
- A minimum of three judges is required to be present prior to the display of the green flag for a race event. If judges are not present a red flag will be called for by the Tower Coordinator or Race Director and the race will not begin until all judges are present.
- Judges shall not be handlers, owners or parents of drivers entered in the same division at the race event.
- It is recommended that all judges view the QMA Judging Video prior to judging any race.
Judging Calls:
- If contact is made between two or more cars or if a car is damaged while avoiding a wreck, resulting in a caution flag, the handler will receive eight (8) laps once a line up is achieved to work on their car in the pits. If you do not make it out by the green flag and one full lap has been completed, then the car cannot rejoin the race.
- All judging calls are final and cannot be protested.
All club races that require qualification will be ran using the QMA National qualifying procedures.
- In the event qualifying is not completed due to time requirements or other obstacles, the racing positions will be determined by the pill draw.
- Drivers arriving late and miss qualifying will start at the back of the pack and behind any "No Time" qualifiers. Late arrivals positions will be determined by order of sign in.
- Track records will be open at each qualifying event. Cars must minimally meet the following guidelines:
A. Car and engine meet all specifications in accordance with QMA rules.
B. The car must utilize approved track fuel
C. The race car is within weight requirements and engine is sealed immediately upon exiting the track after qualifying.
D. The race car must remain in impound while these procedures are under way.
2014 Race Weekend Format:
Alpenrose Chase for the Championship (point series):
Saturday racing will start at 8:00 – 9:00am with Safety and sign-in. Pit meeting at 9:30am. Novice practice starts at 10:00am with racing to follow no later then 10:30am.
Sunday racing will start at 8:00 -9:00 am – Safety and sign-in. Pit meeting at 9:30am. Novice practice starts at 10:00am with racing to follow no later than 10:30am.
Practice on the race days will be reserved at the discretion of the Race Director and will be determined based upon attendance.
There will be a eleven race point series named "Alpenrose Chase for the Championship" and is open to all current PQMRA full members.
April 12
April 13
May 10
May 11
June 7-8 – Alpenrose 100 *** Double Points***
June 14-15 – Region Portland
July 12
July 13
August 23
August 24
Sept 13
Sept 14
Each driver will receive points for their respective finish in their heat and main event, as well as five participation points. Each driver will receive points for their respective qualifying order to match the heat format (i.e., fast time awarded 20 points). There will be two throw outs as voted upon by the club. In the event of a tie, at the end of the series both drivers will be awarded that finish place.
QUALIFYING: (1 point spread per race)
1st place = 20
2nd place = 19
3rd place = 18
HEAT RACES: (1 point spread per race)
1st place = 20
2nd place = 19
3rd place = 18
A MAINS: (two point spread per race)
1st place = 150
2nd place = 148
3rd place = 146
B MAINS: (two point spread per race)
5th place = 130,
6th place = 128
7th place = 126
(Novice & Jr Classes Start at 134)
Participation Points:
Drivers will receive 5 points for participating in the race day in each class they ran.
If two or more cars are disabled together and are unable to continue, the points will be added together and divided between them equally EXCEPT if one of the cars is charged with a charged yellow, in which case the cars will be scored as if the car receiving the call exited the race before the other disabled car.
Flagrant black flags will receive no points for that race. Technical DQ's at tear down will receive no points for the entire event. All other DQ's will receive no points for that respective race.
Drivers who score DNF (did not finish) as the result of a crash, third charged yellow, or any other instance identified as DNF under QMA rules in a race, will receive points according to when they dropped out in relation to other drivers. Drivers who attempted to warm up and/or race and received a DNS (did not start) will receive last place points.
Move up Points:
- Any move from one class (e.g., Sr. Honda to Lt. 160), the driver will enter the new class with zero points.
- Any move from one division within the same class (e.g., Jr. Honda to Sr. Honda, LT. 160 to Hvy. 160), the driver will enter the new division with points previously earned or one point below the lowest point total in the new division with the equal number of races run, which ever is less. Only one move per series allowed.
Example: A Jr Honda driver moves to Sr Honda mid-year. The lowest points earned by a current Sr Honda driver participating in the points series = 230; the driver moving into the class would receive a total points value of 229, assuming the same number of races were completed.
- Novices moving up will start with 1 point less than the last place driver in the new class with the equal number of races in the point series.
HEAT FORMAT: Two Heat Races and One Main Event
Order of the races will follow the QMA format unless otherwise determined by the Tower Coordinator. This will be presented at the Pit Meeting.
Heat Races begin immediately following pit meeting. Line ups are determined by the pill draw. First heat will be straight up (lowest pill draw number to the front). Second heat will be a full invert from the first heat (lowest pill draw number to the back). In the event there needs to be two heats for one class, the two lowest pill draw numbers will fill the pole position, followed by the next two lowest pill draw numbers in the number two position. *Late arrivals will start in the back of both heats*
All handlers must seal immediately after the first heat race and have their tires branded. Handlers will be required to run the branded tires for the remaining heat and main event(s). In the event you experience a tire defect (e.g., cut tire) you can acquire a branded tire from the Tech Director. If a tire wheel is damaged during a racing event, it will be at the discretion of the Race Director or Tech Director to determine if another used tire (non branded or branded) can be used. The handler must get approval first before using another tire.
Two (2) minute warm-ups. In the event of a red flag during the warm up period the clock will be stopped, however, in the event of a yellow flag the clock will not be stopped. There will be an announcement that time is up. At that time, all cars must be past the track entry line. In the event a car or cars are not on the racing surface they will be placed at the back of the pack.
There will be a maximum of nine cars in junior classes with 15 laps and a time limit of 15 minutes. There will be a maximum of eleven cars in the senior classes with 20 laps and a time limit of 20 minutes.
Prior to the main events, there will be a 30 minute break to allow handlers, drivers, and other volunteers to eat lunch. This break may be shortened based upon weather and will be determined by the President and Race Director.
Main Events: Invert top 4 finishers from heat races in junior classes, top 6 finishers in senior classes, based on total number of points from both heats. If there is a tie in the total points, the driver with the lowest pill draw will received the position. There will be a two (2) minute warm up. There will be a maximum of eight cars in junior classes with 30 laps. There will be a maximum of ten cars in the senior classes with 40 laps. Time limit for all main events is 30 minutes.
Timed Out Race:
When time is up per the tower, the race will finish on the next incident flag or at the checkered flag. If the incident occurs that brings out the yellow or red flag, the field will be lined up in the re-start order and that will be the finish of the race signified by the waving of the yellow and checkered flags together.
Rain Out of Event:
As per the PQMRA Bylaws, The President is responsible, along with the Race Director to cancel or postpone any race due to weather, tragic events, natural disasters, and the like.
In the event of rain, if the first main event has been completed, the race will be considered final. If the first main event has not begun, the race will be moved to the next rain date and all results will be voided and no points provided. The format will be the same as the race rained out.
Qualifying Format: Qualify, one heat and one main event
Qualifying immediately following pit meeting and is determined by the pill draw. Note: The qualifying class order will be determined by the Tower Coordinator based upon the number of classes and presented at the pit meeting.
Your car must be fueled, sealed, and tires branded directly after qualifying. Handlers will be required to run the branded tires for the remaining heat and main event(s). In the event you experience a tire defect (e.g., cut tire) you can acquire a branded tire from the Tech Director. If a tire wheel is damaged during a racing event, it will be at the discretion of the Race Director or Tech Director to determine if another used tire (non branded or branded) can be used. The handler must get approval first before using another tire.
In the event you forget to put the transponder on your car or the wrong transponder is put on your car, you will NOT restart your qualifying session. You will only be allowed to run the amount of laps remaining in your session. If the transponder is from PQMRA and is not working properly, you will be given a new transponder and the full amount of laps.
Refer to QMA rulebook for any other items regarding qualifying format.
Heat Race: Invert top 4 qualifiers for junior classes and top 6 qualifiers for senior classes. In the event there are two heats for one class, the top 2 qualifiers will be slotted into the inverted position respectively, followed by the next two qualifiers.
Two (2) minute warm-up. In the event of a red flag during the warm up period the clock will be stopped, however, in the event of a yellow flag the clock will not be stopped. There will be an announcement that time is up. At that time, all cars must be past the track entry line. In the event a car or cars are not on the racing surface they will be placed at the back of the pack.
There will be a maximum of nine cars in junior classes with 15 laps and a time limit of 15 minutes. There will be a maximum of eleven cars in the senior classes with 20 laps and a time limit of 20 minutes.
Main Events: Invert top 4 finishers from heat races in junior classes, top 5 finishers in senior classes. There will be a two (2) minute warm up. There will be a maximum of eight cars in junior classes with 30 laps. There will be a maximum of ten cars in the senior classes with 40 laps. Time limit for all main events is 30 minutes.
These racing rules may be amended, revised, or repealed in the following manner:
Any modification must be discussed during a general (club) meeting. A majority vote by those in attendance must be achieved to have the amendment, revision, or repeal accepted, otherwise the amendment, revision, or repeal will be voided.


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"We have to keep playing and attacking," MSU forward Nick Auditore said. "We've had some problems getting some goals and finishing, but we got five of them today. That should definitely help our confidence."
Auditore led the charge with his first two tallies of the season, but it was the MSU midfield that provided the lift against the Rangers, who slipped to 2-2.
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Gertrude A. Robertson, 85, of Manteca, passed away Friday, January 15, at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton. She was born on January 21, 1924 in Hebron, ND. She worked during World War II for the Federal Government in Baltimore, Maryland. She was transferred to the Sharpe Army Depot at the end of the war. In 1946 she met and married Kenneth N. Robertson and became the mother of three step-children.
Doris Yvonne House Allsup passed away Thursday, January 14, at home with her family in Riverbank. She and her husband, Glen Allsup, just celebrated their 55th year of marriage on January 10.
Paulina Scarlet Antemate, 11, lost her 8-month battle to leukemia on January 19, 2010 at UC Davis in Sacramento, California. She was born on April 5, 1998 in Redwood City, California. She joins her grandmother and grandfather in heaven, Laura De La O and Eduardo Soto SR.
Linda Diane Taylor Paul, 60, passed away on January 7 at home with her family after fighting a two-year battle with melanoma cancer. Linda was a longtime resident of San Joaquin County. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and friend to all that were blessed to know her.
Leilani Sue Vaughn, 59, of Manteca passed away on January 2, 2010 in French Camp. Leilani was born on November 22, 1950 in Turlock, CA and was a resident of Manteca for 38 years. She was a member of the Manteca Quilters for many years, as well as a member of the Church of Christ.
John Anacleto, 63, passed away Monday, January 11 in Manteca. He was born March 10, 1946 in Ribeira Seca, St. George, Azores.
Gladys Lenerville, 97, died peacefully in her home in Sedona, Arizona. She was a long time resident of Manteca until she moved to Sedona. Gladys is survived by her partner of 14 years, George Wysong and her daughter, Connie Lambkin, as well as five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Robert G. Hills, Sr. passed away Saturday, January 9, in Manteca at the age of 88 years. He was born July 20, 1921 to Randall and Jessie (Sovern) Hills in Burlington, Iowa. Robert was a veteran serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1943 to 1946. He was a carpenter by trade, enjoying creating items for others that were for practical use. Robert was an honest hard working man who cared about his family and his country. In his later years he enjoyed touring the U.S. and playing cribbage with family and friends.
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Arthur D. Costley, 77, entered into rest on January 8 in Manteca. He was born on February 12, 1932 in Minnesota. He was preceded in death by his sister Vera Varhola and his mother and father Elizabeth and Cleveland Costley. He was a resident of Manteca for over 14 years.
Kevin M. Fatzer, 55, entered into rest on January 7 in Modesto. He was born on June 30, 1954 in Stockton, California. He was preceded in death by his father Edward Fatzer. He was a resident of Modesto for 12 years.
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Three remarkable items in Thursday's Charlottesville Daily Progress. First, a football player explaining that when he proclaimed his superiority to his opponent after a game he was caught up in the game's passion, and that the overblown reaction to his obnoxious comments seems racist. Indeed it does, but it seems to reflect another type of willful ignorance as well.
Spectators at gladiator matches don't want to see too deeply into the minds of the gladiators. We want to watch violent sports without peering inside the helmets. Do they have to tell themselves the other team is dirt? Are they scared? Are they vicious? We don't want to know that stuff. We want them to give the other guy brain damage and then jump up and talk to the microphone like a coach: "They played a great game today, and in my analysis we won by outplaying them at the game of football. That's what it really comes down to."
Football players are the least of it. Their thoughts would be far more acceptable in prime time than the thoughts of some other people on that field. In many ways, football games have become advertisements for wars and militarism. Jets fly over. Soldiers hold flags. Guns are fired. War-based national anthems are sung. Troops are honored. But do those troops chant what they chant in basic training? Do they scream about how blood makes the grass grow? Do they shout their racism and bigotry and insatiable desire to kill? Of course not. Barbara Bush didn't want her beautiful mind disturbed with body counts and why should we?
If Richard Sherman is a thug for saying he's better than an opposing player, what are soldiers, sailors, Marines, and drone "pilots" who have been conditioned to kill on command because they are so far better than the men, women, children, infants, and grandparents they kill, as to consider those lives expendable? Football fans don't want to know. Who wants to see what went into a hotdog? Who wants to know what it means to have panem with your circenses? Who wants to experience what it takes to make the United States -- in a recent poll of 65 nations -- the overwhelming leader as the greatest threat to peace in the world? Who wants to hear that Pat Tillman came to oppose the war he was engaged in and was killed by "friendly fire" with no "enemies" for miles around? It's a good thing the uniformed thugs of halftime don't speak unrehearsed into microphones.
I recall in a recent Super Bowl hearing the announcer thank U.S. troops for watching from 177 countries. That number could go up a little this year. To put it in context, there are 196 countries on earth. What are armed Americans doing in 177 countries? They're making their fellow Americans hated. Look at this week's election in Okinawa, where the victorious mayoral candidate ran on a platform of opposing the U.S. bases. Look at Italy, where the entire nation turned against the massive U.S. base construction at Vicenza. Look at South Korea, where the people of Jeju Island are willing to give their lives to stop the construction of a huge base for U.S. ships. Look at Bahrain, where the people are courageously resisted a vicious monarch, a thug if ever there was a thug, and the United States that stands behind him for the sake of docking its deadly ships in his little boat-dock nation. Look at Yemen, whose corrupt government was forced to admit last week to a major humanitarian crisis of traumatized children -- traumatized by the constant buzzing of U.S. drones. Who wants to know that? I want to see cheerleaders and funny commercials!
Item number two: "Kaine Talks War Powers Bill." This article suggests that Senator Tim Kaine wants to restore warmaking powers to Congress. But read Kaine's press release. This bill would violate the Constitution which gave war powers to Congress, and the War Powers Resolution which retained partial war powers for Congress. Rather than a Congressional authorization, under Kaine's bill, presidents would just have to talk to Congress, after which they could tell Congress to go to hell and proceed with their desired wars (except for endless drone wars, for which Kaine says the requirement to talk to Congress is waived). And why undo the War Powers Resolution? The thinking, as recounted in the article, is that, since presidents keep violating it, repealing it is the way to uphold "the rule of law." So, what will uphold the new law? If presidents don't even talk to Congress -- as Obama went out of his way to avoid doing before bombing Libya -- will the new law have to be repealed to uphold "the rule of law"?
One would think presidents couldn't be impeached and prosecuted.
If only there were someone to ask about that!
Item number three: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to speak at UVA's Miller Center at 3 p.m. Thursday. Public not welcome.
I don't recall the exercise of one's rights under the First Amendment requiring an invitation. Do you?
Same criminal spying but with a White House blessing: Obama in NSA Speech Says Nothing Will Change
By Alfredo Lopez
This past week, the Federal government threw a one-two punch that will effectively destroy the Internet as we know it. Demonstrating, once again, his talent for obfuscation and misdirection, President Obama made a speech about reforming the NSA and controlling surveillance that actually officially recognized, sanctioned and even expanded the NSA's domestic spying and cyber-warfare.
Why the Washington Post's New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
By Norman Solomon
American journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain.
A tip-off is that the Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos -- who's now the sole owner of the powerful newspaper at the same time he remains Amazon's CEO and main stakeholder.
The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million "cloud" computing deal with the CIA.
The situation is unprecedented. But in an email exchange early this month, Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron told me that the newspaper doesn't need to routinely inform readers of the CIA-Amazon-Bezos ties when reporting on the CIA. He wrote that such in-story acknowledgment would be "far outside the norm of disclosures about potential conflicts of interest at media organizations."
But there isn't anything normal about the new situation. As I wrote to Baron, "few journalists could have anticipated ownership of the paper by a multibillionaire whose outside company would be so closely tied to the CIA."
The Washington Post's refusal to provide readers with minimal disclosure in coverage of the CIA is important on its own. But it's also a marker for an ominous pattern -- combining denial with accommodation to raw financial and governmental power -- a synergy of media leverage, corporate digital muscle and secretive agencies implementing policies of mass surveillance, covert action and ongoing warfare.
Digital prowess at collecting global data and keeping secrets is crucial to the missions of Amazon and the CIA. The two institutions have only begun to explore how to work together more effectively.
For the CIA, the emerging newspaper role of Mr. Amazon is value added to any working relationship with him. The CIA's zeal to increase its leverage over major American media outlets is longstanding.
After creation of the CIA in 1947, it enjoyed direct collaboration with many U.S. news organizations. But the agency faced a major challenge in October 1977, when -- soon after leaving the Washington Post -- famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein provided an extensive expose in Rolling Stone.
Citing CIA documents, Bernstein wrote that during the previous 25 years "more than 400 American journalists ... have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency." He added: "The history of the CIA's involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception."
Bernstein's story tarnished the reputations of many journalists and media institutions, including the Washington Post and New York Times. While the CIA's mission was widely assumed to involve "obfuscation and deception," the mission of the nation's finest newspapers was ostensibly the opposite.
During the last few decades, as far as we know, the extent of extreme media cohabitation with the CIA has declined sharply. At the same time, as the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq attests, many prominent U.S. journalists and media outlets have continued to regurgitate, for public consumption, what's fed to them by the CIA and other official "national security" sources.
The recent purchase of the Washington Post by Jeff Bezos has poured some high-finance concrete for a new structural bridge between the media industry and the surveillance/warfare state. The development puts the CIA in closer institutionalized proximity to the Post, arguably the most important political media outlet in the United States.
At this point, about 30,000 people have signed a petition (launched by RootsAction.org) with a minimal request: "The Washington Post's coverage of the CIA should include full disclosure that the sole owner of the Post is also the main owner of Amazon -- and Amazon is now gaining huge profits directly from the CIA." On behalf of the petition's signers, I'm scheduled to deliver it to the Washington Post headquarters on January 15. The petition is an opening salvo in a long-term battle.
By its own account, Amazon -- which has yielded Jeff Bezos personal wealth of around $25 billion so far -- is eager to widen its services to the CIA beyond the initial $600 million deal. "We look forward to a successful relationship with the CIA," a statement from Amazon said two months ago. As Bezos continues to gain even more wealth from Amazon, how likely is that goal to affect his newspaper's coverage of the CIA?
Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." Information about the documentary based on the book is at www.WarMadeEasyTheMovie.org
Addicted to the fruit of a poisoned tree: Thanks to George Bush, Talks with Iran Make Sense
By John Grant
US military history from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan is too often a combination of destructive stumbling around followed by an effort to sustain and project forward the notion of US power and exceptionalism. To forge another narrative is very difficult.
Gangsters, warriors, thugs TAO is the NSA's Band of Technology Criminals
By Alfredo Lopez
On this website, we've speculated that one outcome of the flood of NSA-centered revelations has been to desensitize U.S. citizens and diminish outrage at what is actually revealed. We are becoming conditioned to the horror story that is the National Security Administration.
The CIA, Amazon, Bezos and the Washington Post: An Exchange with Executive Editor Martin Baron
By Norman Solomon
To: Martin Baron, Executive Editor, and Kevin Merida, Managing Editor, The Washington Post
Dear Mr. Baron and Mr. Merida:
On behalf of more than 25,000 signers of a petition to The Washington Post, I'm writing this letter to request a brief meeting to present the petition at a time that would be convenient for you on Jan. 14 or 15.
Here is the text of the petition, launched by RootsAction.org:
Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis
1. Any article listing the top 10 of anything will be widely read.
2. A poll of people in 65 countries, including the United States, finds that the United States is overwhelmingly considered the greatest threat to peace in the world. The consensus would have been even stronger had the United States itself not been polled, because the 5 percent of humanity living here is largely convinced that the other 95% of humanity -- that group with experience being threatened or attacked by the United States -- is wrong. After all, our government in the U.S. tells us it's in favor of peace. Even when it bombs cities, it does it for peace. It's hard for people under the bombs to see that. We in the U.S. have a better perspective.
3. Polls in the United States through the 2003-2011 war on Iraq found that a majority in the U.S. believed Iraqis were better off as the result of a war that severely damaged -- even destroyed -- Iraq[1]. A majority of Iraqis, in contrast, believed they were worse off.[2] A majority in the United States believed Iraqis were grateful.[3] This is a disagreement over facts, not ideology. But people often choose which facts to become aware of or to accept. Tenacious believers in tales of Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction" tended to believe more, not less, firmly when shown the facts. The facts about Iraq are not pleasant, but they are important. To believe that the people who live where your nation's government has waged a war are better off for it, despite those people's contention that they are worse off, suggests an extreme sort of arrogance -- and a misplaced arrogance because you've just proven that a few slick politicians can make you believe up is down.
4. According to U.S.ians the greatest threat to peace on earth is a nation that hasn't threatened any other, and hasn't attacked any other in centuries, a nation that suffered horrible chemical weapons attacks and refused to use chemical weapons in response, a nation that has refused to develop nuclear weapons but been falsely accused of doing so by the U.S. government for decades. That's right: a bit of laughably bad propaganda, regurgitated in variations for 30 years, and the smart critical thinkers of the Land of the Free declare a nation with a military budget below 1% of their own -- Iran -- the Greatest Threat to Peace.[4] Edward Bernays is cackling wickedly in his grave.
5. Because no cartoon character has ever been named after Edward Bernays, nobody's ever heard of him.
6. In poll after poll after poll, 75% to 85% in the United States say their system of government is broken. Yet, what remains the top piece of advice to agitators for change? That's right: "Work within the system." And what remains the fallback ultimate reliable justification for launching or escalating or continuing a war: That's right: "We need to bring our system of government to others."
7. When U.S. military spending begins to inch below $1 trillion a year, military-friendly journalists declare the weapons lobby dead. When it begins to inch back slightly above $1 trillion a year, slightly less military-friendly journalists declare the weapons profiteers alive but struggling. In both scenarios the level of spending remains roughly $1 trillion and the difference between the high end and the low end, while greater than most other public programs will ever see, is less than the Pentagon "misplaces" in an average 12-month period.
8. On Tuesdays, President Barack Obama goes through a list of men, women, and children, picks which ones to have murdered, and has them murdered. Knowing this would conflict with hating exclusively a particular sub-group of our public sociopaths, so most people simply choose not to know it.
9. If Iraq had really had those weapons, and if Syria had demonstrably really killed a small number of its victims with the wrong type of weapons, and if Iran were really building nuclear weapons, . . . then launching wars on those countries would still be illegal, immoral, and disastrous. We all have opinions about the question the warmakers want asked, but not about the insanity that lies behind the question.
10. People have been dying since before recorded history, and yet only those who pretend to believe nobody dies can be considered serious, honest, upstanding folk. That there's another longer life helps us not worry so much about getting screwed during this one. Perhaps it also helps us in allowing our "representatives" to routinely end the lives of so many foreign, and thus ignorant, people.
1. The last such poll may have been Gallup in August 2010.
2. Zogby, Dec. 20, 2011.
3. The last such poll may have been CBS News in August 2010.
4. Check out Gareth Porter's forthcoming book, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.
Art, Ideas and the Profit Motive: Capitalist Executives Evicerate a Working Class Film
By John Grant
The issue of economic equity is appearing on the national agenda. We're suddenly hearing lots of talk about raising the minimum wage and other reforms to break the cycle of social Darwinism and provide working people at least a livable wage for their labor.
One cheer for the Times (three for the Guardian): Nation's Major Paper Says Snowden's a Hero, but Won't Say Obama's a Criminal
By Dave Lindorff
Let's start here by conceding that today's New York Times editorial saying that President Obama should "find a way to end (Edward) Snowden's vilification and give him an incentive to return home" was pretty remarkable.
It shouldn't be, though.
Talk Nation Radio: Robert Parry on Syria in Reality and in the New York Times
Robert Parry reports that the New York Times has finally, and quietly, admitted that a key claim pushed in September by the New York Times and Human Rights Watch that nearly took the United States to war in Syria is false. Parry has been the editor of ConsortiumNews.com since 1995. He broke stories on Iran-Contra and the October Surprise for AP and Newsweek and other outlets. His books include America's Stolen Narrative: From Washington and Madison to Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes to Obama.
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NY Times Admits Pro-War-on-Syria "Evidence" Pushed by Human Rights Watch and New York Times Was Wrong
For months, the "slam-dunk" evidence "proving" Syrian government guilt in the Aug. 21 Sarin attack near Damascus was a "vector analysis" pushed by the New York Times showing where the rockets supposedly were launched. But the Times now grudgingly admits its analysis was flawed, reports Robert Parry.
Looking for clues, not 'sacred' relics: NY Times admits Exhumation Proves Ex-Brazilian President Murdered
By Dave Lindorff
A few weeks ago, WhoWhatWhy ran a piece of mine criticizing a subtly deceptive article in the New York Times that made light of a wave of exhumations of popular leftist figures in Latin America. Quoting unnamed "scholars," the paper's Latin American correspondent Simon Romero suggested the forensic digs may be the secularized continuation of customs from the time of early Christianity, when a vibrant trade involved the body parts of saints.
That, in fact, is nonsense. The purportedly "natural", "accidental", or "suicide-related" deaths of such important left-leaning figures as Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda, Brazil's President Joao Goulart and Chile's President Salvador Allende all occurred during the rule of various rightist dictators.
The re-examination of evidence in these cases is based therefore on strong skepticism about the "official" narratives of their deaths. This skepticism, in turn, is based on a well-documented history of thousands of cases of political murder in the region.
Far from looking for relics to sell, investigators are looking for evidence that these deaths were actually assassinations, the work of fearful tyrants anxious to prevent the victims' return to power. Now one result is in, and it's explosive.
Truth Commission: Juscelino Kubitschek Assassinated
Investigators from Brazil's Truth Commission, looking into the 1976 car crash of former leftist Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek and his limo driver, have discovered a bullet fragment lodged in the driver's skull. This finding, the Commission ruled, along with other evidence, suggests that Kubitschek was murdered—most likely at the behest of the leaders of the CIA-backed military coup that also ousted his successor Joao Goulart.
A criminal government at work!: The NSA Paid to Steal Your Private Data
By Alfredo Lopez
As the people of this country, and much of the world, observe the year-end holidays, we can look back on 2013 as the year when any illusion of genuine democracy was dashed by the remarkable revelations about the police-state surveillance that watches us. Last week, we saw a deeply disturbing stroke added to that incrementally developing picture.
US hypocrisy over diplomatic immunity: US Embassy and Consular Employees Deserve It, Foreign Diplomats Not So Much
By Dave Lindorff
The diplomatic brouhaha between the US and India over a federal arrest and multiple strip-search and cavity search of a high-ranking Indian consular official in New York has exposed the astonishing hypocrisy of the US when it comes to the issue of diplomatic immunity.
Corporate media keeps US citizens in the dark: Pakistan Outs Three US CIA Station Chiefs in Three Years
By Dave Lindorff
For the third time in three years, a CIA station chief has been outed in Pakistan, a country where the CIA is running one of its largest covert operations. It's a remarkable record of failure by the CIA, since each outing, which has required a replacement of the station chief position, causes a breakdown in the agency's network of contacts in the country.
It's been a 'Catch-22': My Experience with Obama(doesn't)care
By Alfredo Lopez
The web designers will tell you: when it comes to websites, good design can't mask bad ideas.
I've been thinking about that for the last six weeks as I've confronted, with waning trust morphing into enraged frustration, the remarkably complicated corridors of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (popularly known as "Obamacare"). The problems in the roll-out of this ersatz reform are generally known and, depending on who's talking, have led to irritated calls for fixes or have been cited as proof that anything the government does that is socially responsible is a communist-inspired train wreck.
Two cheers for Pope Francis: About Time American Idiocy and Paranoia over Marxism Got Called Out
By Dave Lindorff
So Pope Francis, the new pope who has conservative American Catholics, particularly those in politics and the media, freaked out because he is criticizing capitalist greed, knows Marxists who are "good people," and isn't upset to be labeled one of them, even though he says "Marxist ideology is wrong.".
How a Hit Piece Happens
The producer and director of the investigative documentary "TWA Flight 800" responds to Geoffrey Gray's piece in New York Magazine
The Warm-Up
It began with an email on October 24, 2013 to Tom Stalcup, Ph.D., Co-Producer and Senior Science Advisor for the new documentary, "TWA Flight 800". New York Magazine intern Claire McCartney wrote that editor Geoffrey Gray wanted to talk to Stalcup and to "get in contact" with Kristina Borjesson, the film's Producer/Director.
In his first phone conversation with Stalcup, Gray jokingly identified himself as being with the National Transportation Safety Board. He congratulated Stalcup on his success and suggested he write a book. Stalcup asked if Gray had seen the documentary. Gray hadn't, but promised to talk again after watching it.
Gray portrayed himself as an honest investigative journalist, saying that investigations like Stalcup's into TWA 800 are his life and that he has conducted many of them and knows what it's like. He gave Stalcup the impression that he was working on a serious article for New York Magazine. Stalcup provided Gray with verified, factual information, free of any speculation or theorizing.
Making good news out of bad: BLS 7% Jobless Rate for November is Nothing to Cheer About
By Dave Lindorff
The White House, and most headline writers around the country, are crowing that the November jobless rate of 7.0%, reported Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is the lowest since 2009 when President Obama took office, when it was 7.3% and rising.
But is this number really something worth cheering?
What we need is a movement!: Saving Social Security and Closing the Income Gap Go Hand-in-Hand
By Dave Lindorff
Talk about a no-brainer!
Killing the First Amendment in Dealey Plaza: JFK Assassination 50th Anniversary and the Eyes of Texas (Pt. II)
By Lori Spencer
"This is content based denial of free speech in a public park and at a designated historic site. Dealey Plaza belongs to history and to the American people, especially on the 50th anniversary."
-- John Judge, executive director of the Coalition on Political Assassinations
Obama Approves Major Border-Crossing Fracked Gas Pipeline Used to Dilute Tar Sands
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Keeping it unreal in Dallas: JFK 50th Anniversary and 'The Eyes of Texas' (Pt. I)
By Lori Spencer
I once did know a President
A way down South, in Texas.
And, always, everywhere he went,
He saw the Eyes of Texas.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you, all the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you, you cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them
At night or early in the morn
The Eyes of Texas are upon you 'til Gabriel blows his horn.
US Court Denies Halt on Pipeline Set to Replace Keystone XL Northern Half
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
The ever-wise Yogi Berra once quipped "It's like déjà vu all over again," a truism applicable to a recent huge decision handed down by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Shifting from Defense to Offense: Americans Want Improved Social Security and Medicare and less Military Spending
By Dave Lindorff
A tectonic shift is occurring in the US body politic. Ignore the media-driven sideshow about the 2014 contest for control of the House or about the screwed-up Obamacare insurance-market website. The real political battle is over Social Security and Medicare, and there the story is a historic turn from fighting against Washington efforts to cut those programs to demanding that both be expanded.
The real criminal, our government, jails the real hero: The Hero and the Villains: the Jeremy Hammond Sentence
By Alfredo Lopez
This past Friday, Internet activist Jeremy Hammond stood in a federal courtroom and told Judge Loretta A. Preska why he released a trove of emails and other information uncovering the possibly illegal and certainly immoral collaboration of a major surveillance corporation called Stratfor with our government.
News Dissection: CBS Still Under Attack for Benghazi And Other Reports
By Danny Schechter
New York, New York: Good news amidst the bad at CBS: Their drama, "Criminal Minds" had its biggest audience this week. Am I alone in believing that the network, once known for the stellar journalism of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite can at the same time be on the receiving end of at least three attacks, suggesting there is something far from kosher going on in the minds of the people at charge?
First, we have the now infamous 60 Minutes Benghazi report, which when criticized, was defended, as if it was a papal encyclical, by the powers that be, until problems were acknowledged, a luke-warm apology offered by chief correspondent, Lara Logan, that, boo hoo, did not quite silence the doubters who are still besieging CBS Hq. at the Manhattan building known as Black Rock with fresh doubts and unanswered questions.
Back to Benghazi, once known as Al Qaeda's favorite Libyan port, in a hot second.
Then, as we approach the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, when yet another tribute is aired to late anchor Walter Cronkite's sterling coverage that began when he took off his glasses to brush aside a tear and show that he was, despite being a news God, a human being.
A '60-Minutes' Scandal: Lara Logan, Hotness and Benghazi Gone Wild
By John Grant
Lara Logan is a formidable TV reporter who has covered wars and other stories at significant risk. She's supremely confident and has a powerful journalistic institution supporting her. But as a would-be ethical journalist, she seems to rely too much on her sexual allure and to be too tight with elite elements of the US military establishment.
What's more important: Security or freedom?: The Big Question the National Security State isn't Asking
By Dave Lindorff
So National Security Agency Director Keith B. Alexander, who, along with his boss, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., thinks that "if you can collect it, you should collect it," now is asking whether it might not be such a good idea in the case of spying on the citizens of US allies like Germany, France, Spain et al.


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Kropp: High school tennis not all it could be
For all the encouraging aspects of tennis, like players rising in the rankings and the number of quality tournaments taking place every weekend, there is also the concern by some who wonder if everything is being done to grow the sport.
In Ventura County, fortunately, evidence of positive growth can be seen. On the west side of the county there a number of clubs that have junior programs and outstanding local area professionals. The Conejo Valley is a hotbed for the sport. And the Ventura County Junior Tennis Association continues to nurture kids into the game at the right pace as does Junior Team Tennis.
Another avenue in tennis for junior players is the high school season, and one longtime coach in the area believes not everything is being explored to make this as positive an experience as it could be.
Bowie Hahn, owner of Pacific Tennis Club in Westlake Village and coach of the La Reina High girls the last six years, is convinced more could be done to improve tennis at the high school level. For every dominant program, like the Thousand Oaks boys, there are others that have difficulty competing.
The problems, in Hahn's view, come down to two primary areas — a lack of coordination to develop a quality tennis program at most high schools and giving coaches the incentive to stay.
"My bottom line is the high school tennis system is antiquated and needs revamping to provide a better quality experience for both students and coaches," Hahn said. "Funding is the key. High schools need to manage their courts as money generators to fund the coaches along with the varsity and JV tennis programs."
Hahn believes there is a solution, one that is workable. The idea is have a high school hire a coach and let him or her to be able to teach, give lessons and clinics by using the courts at the high school. In fact, one school in Ventura County has this type of setup and the results for the players and coach have been encouraging so far.
Tim Schnaible is the boys' and girls' coach at Oak Park High the last six years. He also runs a year-round tennis program and gives private lessons at the school.
"It works out pretty good for me," Schnaible said. "The relationship I have with the high school has been great. I get a chance to expose young kids to the great game of tennis."
Some of those kids have gone on to play for Schnaible at Oak Park. And the Eagles have fielded several strong teams, one of them this past spring when the boys finished 13-5 overall and second place in the Tri-Valley League.
Hahn is fully aware courts at high schools often vacant for a good part of the year. If the schools and park districts could create a plan for utilization, the situation could be beneficial for both players, coaches and the schools.
"Right now the high school coach has no incentive to stay," Hahn said. "A plan to do this is simple and easily implemented. It just needs the right administrators who want to see a better program."
Passing shots: Dylan Brown of Camarillo defeated Eduardo Nava of Woodland Hills 6-2, 6-2 to win the Boys' 14 singles title at the 94th annual Santa Barbara Summer Junior Tournament. Other winners at the USTA designated tournament were Billy Pecor of Ojai (Boys' 18 singles) and Yuki Chiang of Ojai (Girls' 16 singles). ... Kyle McMorrow of Thousand Oaks, playing in the qualifying of the USTA Pro Circuit Futures tournament at Loomis, won his first two matches but lost his third match to Jun-Chao Xu of China 2-6, 6-2, 6-3. There are two more Futures events in Northern California this month and the Washington-bound McMorrow is playing in both of them. ... It was announced last week that Croatia's Mario Ancic will miss the Davis Cup tie against the United States because he has not regained fitness after suffering mononucleosis two years ago. The United States and Croatia play in the quarterfinals at Croatia on July 10-12. Despite the loss of Ancic, who had to pull out of the French Open, Croatia still has strong players in Marin Cilic (ranked No. 13), hard-serving Ivo Karlovic (ranked No. 29) along with Davis Cup stalwart Ivan Ljubicic. ... The 2009 Paribas Open in Indian Wells drew 332,498 fans this March — the third year in a row the popular pro tournament set an overall attendance record.
Key dates: USTA —107th annual Southern California Junior Sectionals, June 20-29; USTA — 65th Ventura Junior Tournament, Saturday-Monday; ATP Tour, WTA Tour —Wimbledon, June 22-July 5.
— Keith Kropp writes on tennis for The Star. E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Bio: The Basement Tapes with Nick & Bootsy debuted on KKID 92.9fm Salem/Rolla on July 11, 2010. The show was created to feature local, unsigned bands/musicians from the South Central Missouri area. Since then, the playlist has grown to include indie musicians from as far away as Iran, Croatia and Sout... See Full Bio
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