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Welcome to the Brass Taps Campus Pub
Welcome to Summer at your Campus Pub!
We are excited to announce to the university community that we will be open over the entire summer with the exception of July 18th - August 3rd when we will be undergoing some minor renovation work. Join us and try out some of our new menu items including our Grilled Atlantic Salmon Focaccia sandwich, crispy Thai Infused Nachos, or one of our signature local burgers made with your choice of Wellington County beef, turkey, or our delicious veggie burger.
We are available to accommodate your special event requests, conference get-togethers, and pick-up orders if you are looking for some great priced, gourmet food to enjoy in the sunshine.
Closed for Renovations! July 18th - August 3rd
We will be closed from July 18th - August 3rd for minor renovations to our bathrooms, kitchen and bar areas. We will re-open on Thursday, August 4th and look forward to previewing our new menu and providing you with great service!
Good Times on Tap!
The Brass Taps Campus Pub, or "The Keg" as it is known to our alumni and staff members, has been the University of Guelph's campus home of good times for over forty-two years!
We are your campus pub open exclusively to the University of Guelph community, alumni members and the Guelph area. Established in 1974, our customers continue to include not only students, but university staff, faculty, alumni and their friends and family. Your campus pub is your source for great daily food and beverage selections, top rate event food service at competitive rates, intimate concert performances, regular entertainment programs, guest lectures, and special event hosting.
Our Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide you with friendly quality customer service along with top quality food and beverage selections at "student-friendly" prices in a comfortable campus environment.
Our Location
The Brass Taps Campus Pub is centrally located in the University Centre on the second floor, just up the stairs from the central Courtyard. You can always count on us to have great food, good times, and the best atmosphere on campus!
Everyday Services Available to You
Enjoy the following daily services from your campus home:
- Quality Food and Beverage Selections including 26 Draught Taps!
- Full Casual Table Service & Takeout Service from our entire menu
- 17 screens to enjoy any sports game, TV show or movie
- Special Food Service Dietary Considerations
- Free Billiards Table (All Day and Night)
- Payment via all UG Express Meal Plans, Debit, Credit, Cash and University GL Coding
- Two Private Special Event Rooms (The Keg Lounge and 74 Lounge)
- Reservation Services and Special Event Planning Assistance
- Support Access to tickets for Campus Concert Events
- Private Event Hosting and Customized Catering for Events
Our Food
We offer friendly table service with a seasonal menu including a little bit of something for everyone. Our menu includes the pub favourites like burgers and wings, but we also strive to provide amazing selections including personal pizzas, signature curries, and the Taps classics like BBQ Chicken Caesar & Buffalo Wraps, Taps Chicken Fingers and those all-time favourite Crosstrax lattice fries.
We also offer daily specials, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. Just ask your server for details and check out menu.
26 Ice-Cold Draught Selection!
Our pub offers an excellent selection of both alcoholic and non-alcohol beverages as well as daily drink specials. Not to mention, our amazing draught selection from our twenty-six ice-cold beer taps!
We offer a wide range of draught beer from various suppliers including Molson, Labatt, Premium Beer Company, Wellington Brewery, Sleeman, Mill Street and a number of local seasonal draught options! To top this off, we are the only establishment in Guelph to offer all 26 Draught Selections at one great price everyday with no time changes or other purchases required.
Every business day at The Brass Taps features a daily beverage special to better accommodate the student budget! We also offer a variety of cocktails, shooters and other mixed drinks that can be created from our large liquor selection. Ask your local Brass Taps bartender or server about our daily specials, seasonal offers and excellent custom drinks!
Our daily beverage specials for Winter 2016 include:
- MONDAY: $4.50 Local & National Tall Cans of Beer
- TUESDAY: $4.00 Sleeman Original & Sapporo Tall Cans
- WEDNESDAY: $3.75 Mixed Rail (Rye, Rum, Gin, Vodka) Drinks
- THURSDAY: $4.75 Draught Pints & $14.25 Draught Pitchers
- FRIDAY: $4.00 Mason Mugs of Caesars & $4.75 Draught Beer Sampling Flights
Keep up with what The Brass Taps Campus Pub has to offer in terms of special offers, prizes and giveaways throughout the academic school year on our Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebrasstaps.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/thebrasstaps
Special Event Services
The Brass Taps Campus Pub is happy to provide a long list of social event ideas and concepts for any student, staff/faculty or conference group. Many groups interested in providing food and beverage services for their members flock to The Brass Taps for its casual atmosphere, great value and service.
Past events include trivia nights, student/faculty pub nights, social networking activities, speed dating and movie nights. Ask us anything and we can help you plan a fun and successful event catering to any and all age groups!
Reservations are available**, but not required, at the Brass Taps Campus Pub. Contact the Manager on Duty at 519-824-4120 x58751 or use our Direct Reservation Service.
**During the academic year, Tuesday evening's past 7:30pm are unavailable for reservations due to increased business activity.
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The First Sinkhole Corvette Was Restored For SEMA And Looks Perfect
The 2009 Corvette ZR1 was the first car recovered from the massive 30-foot-deep sinkhole at the Corvette Museum and also the first car restored for SEMA.
The 2009 Corvette ZR1 was the first car recovered from the massive 30-foot-deep sinkhole at the Corvette Museum and also the first car restored for SEMA.
For the nine people sitting on the fence about buying a $109K Corvette ZR1, today's a good day. GM's offering either 0% financing or $5000 rebates on 2009's and $3000 off the 2010's. Everybody else? Remain poor and ZR1-less. [CorvetteBlogger]
Despite it being a Friday in the Summer, some of us were working. For example, I drove all three of these. More on that next week. In the meantime, I want to know — what're your driving plans this weekend?
It's not every day you get to hand-build a 638 HP LS9 engine that'll slip under the hood of a Corvette ZR1. Yesterday was one of those days. Here's how the magic is made.
It doesn't matter whether your opinion's positive or negative of designer Jason Castriota and his Corvette ZR1-based Bertone Mantide, either way it's a marvel of modern design. Here's the final episode of Inside Project M.
German Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis just took delivery of a 2009 Corvette ZR1. Why the sad face? Don't worry, you'll forget about the interior the first time you hit the Autobahn. [Corvette Blogger]
Racing liveries come and go, but there are some so iconic, so recognizable, they'll be remembered forever. For example, Gulf and Martini Racing. There's now a new one to add to that list. Meet "Jake."
"Hero Edition" Corvette ZR1: Finally, a special edition we can get behind. [CorvetteBlogger]
What's better than witnessing a high-performance car getting flogged at the track? A 750 HP Hennessey ZR750 getting flogged at the track. Even better? Seeing a 750 HP Hennessey ZR750 flogged in an artsy video.
NOOOOOO! Unless we're mistaken, the first recorded Corvette ZR1 crash's popped up on eBay, after the driver apparently lost control of Lutz's raging 638 HP hard-on, curbing it very hard. "Buy-It-Now" price? $97,500!
We were at the Shanghai Auto Show foam mock-up revealing of Stile Bertone's Mantide, but our friends from The Italian Junkyard did one better. Check out the real Mantide, interior and engine included.
Meet the one-off Bertone Mantide — part Corvette ZR1, part Italian model, all sex appeal. Designed by Jason Castriota, the Mantide may even outshine his last great design, James Glickenhaus' Pininfarina P4/5. Exclusive gallery below.
We recently learned the Corvette ZR1-based Project M will be called the Mantide. Thanks to this wind tunnel photo we've lightened up a bit, we also have an idea of what it will look like.
The chassis for the Stile Bertone Project M one-off super car? It's a 2009 Corvette ZR1. We should have known Jason Castriota's one-off project car documented in a Bradley Farrell-produced web-series would be a Chevy.
Unfortunately, this deal spotted at a shop in GM's Renaissance Center HQ in Detroit is for the little-known "Big Time Muscle" edition Corvette ZR1 and not its bigger, more people-friendly daddy.
This is it. It's the 2009 all-electric Corvette ZR1. Never heard of it? With a 0-to-30 of less than 1:20 and a 1/4-mile of less than three minutes, you will.
GM's John Heinricy retired, but hasn't disappeared just yet. He's now a consulting engineer for Hennessey and you can see him here taking the new 705-horsepower HRE ZR700 for a couple of seriously hot laps.
What's that? You think the 2009 Corvette ZR1's 638 HP could put your grandmother to sleep? Fret not, Hennessey and his Houston shop have just the thing to make your loins tingle once again.

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Greenpoint resident Teresa Toro has announced her resignation from Community Board 1 where she has served as its Transportation chair for the past seven years.
Toro cited a timing issue as her reason for resignation, as she is beginning to wrestle with increasing demands from work and graduate school.
A native of Cypress Hills, the chatty chair has long advocated for a comprehensive transportation plan for North Brooklyn while shepherding community involvement a number of projects including the reconstruction of Flushing Avenue, rail transportation for Waste Management cargo, a truck traffic study, and the inclusion of more bicycle lanes in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
She remains most well-known for her involvement in the Department of Transportation's Kent Avenue redesign project, where she was briefly forced to step down from her position as chair in January this year due to an internal disagreement.
Toro stressed that she was resigning of her own volition, adding that new responsibilities of her position may have contributed indirectly to the timing of her decision.Last month, when community board members were given committee assignments for the coming term, the Motion Pictures committee was folded into the Transportation committee. That committee typically addresses issues regarding complaints from residents over street closures and noise relating to film shootings in the neighborhood.
"I am not resigning simply because the Motion Pictures Committee was merged with mine, but the Transportation Committee's plate was already quite full," said Toro."One could have made a valid point that instead of resigning, I could try to lower my level of service, but I've tried that and have had a hard time making that a reality. I know it's a volunteer position, but in my opinion, the fact that you've volunteered for it obligates you to do it as well and thoroughly as possible."
Requests for comment from CB1 on Toro's resignation and plans for her successor were not returned by press time.
Public officials and transportation advocates throughout Brooklyn praised Toro's dedication to her volunteer work.
"Just as community boards are the heart and soul of municipal government in New York City, Teresa Toro was the heart and soul of CB1, whether she was working with community groups at the grassroots level or fighting to make her community's streets more livable and transportation systems safer and more efficient," said Borough President Marty Markowitz.
Streetsblog, a transportation blog covering Albany and New York City, called her "one of New York City's most productive livable streets activists in recent years," while outgoing Councilmember David Yassky (D-Williamsburg) declared that he is "a big fan" and that he is grateful for her work and her service.
"She is a model citizen activist in her willingness to devote time effort, blood, sweat and tears to work on genuine community issues," said Yassky.
For transportation advocates, Toro's absence on CB 1 represents a significant loss not just for Williamsburg but for the city as a whole.
"Teresa knows trucks, she knows bikes, she knows pedestrians, she knows drivers," said Transportation Alternatives spokesperson Wiley Norvell. "The board would do well to continue to seek out those kinds of people of expertise who see things as holistically."
Those closest to her professionally, including her community board colleague Ward Dennis, chair of CB1's Land Use Committee, highlighted Toro's work ethic and her ability to "raise consciousness about transportation issues and how tightly those issues are intertwined with our everyday lives." Her friend, Democratic District Leader Jo Anne Simon, said that Toro personifies what a citizen-responsible committee chair should be like.
"Her commitment to keeping the dialogue open on so many issues is a testament to her belief in transparent and citizen-responsive government," said Simon. "Nobody does it better."
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Awww... so cute. A gaggle of repressed white boys dancing badly, but earnestly and with enthusiasm. They look like they are sincerely having fun, heaven forbid. If this is all it takes to offend conservative Poles, they've got pretty thin skin. I was actually slightly disappointed to see that there really isn't anything overtly homosexual about the video, other than they happened to pick "YMCA" to dance to. It could have just as easily been any other tune with a happy dance beat.
Still, it makes me giggle. A nice way to start my morning.
(Ivan: I know, I just wasn't sure what the PC equivalent of "control-click" for downloading a file is. Maybe it's "control-click"....)
You could just "click".
PCs had Ctrl keys before there WERE Macs.
I agree with you. Windows users should get Macs.
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Merry day after ChristmasSteve
12/26/2011, Ramada Inn, Mazatlan
You may be wondering....gee what happened to Steve yesterday, Christmas day came and went and no exciting blog???? What happened???
Travel liftSteve
12/22/2011, fonature Boat yard, Mazatlan
Sorry to beat this haul out thing into the ground.....but any little boy (or girl) that ever played with a Tonka truck has got to love the travel lift. I mean really, it is a HUGE piece of equipment that can gracefully pluck a large boat from the water and wheel it all around the boat yard before easing it down onto jack stands.
12/22/2011 | Sharon
Omg she looks so small on that giant thing. And doesn't the E with a circle/line through it mean no parking? That's pretty funny... Hope we don't get a ticket ;-)
12/22/2011 | Pat K'ski
She does look small...all about perspective. SiBon tooling around the boatyard. Great stuff!
Haul outSteve
12/21/2011, Fonature Boat yard, Mazatlan
One of the first things I realized after purchasing Si Bon 2 years ago, was that although I had had plenty of experience sailing 20-30 foot boats, there was a huge difference in handling a 42 foot boat. The actual sailing part is pretty much the same on a larger boat, but docking is MUCH more challenging. I spent many hours practicing docking and even at one point hired a professional Captain to teach me a few things. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think anyone should get to cocky when it comes to maneuvering a sailboat in tight quarters, sailboats do not turn the same as a power boat, especially in reverse. I now have about as much confidence as anyone should have in my docking abilities (not cocky, just confident).
12/22/2011 | shaybo24
wait for the day that i have to doc Si Bon... that'll be a real eye opener! really proud of you and looking forward to her safe return in the water. :)
12/23/2011 | Steve Cook
I think Mazatlan will be a good place for you to start your docking practice. Lots of empty slips at the other marina for you to practice on.....food for thought.
time to get busySteve
12/20/2011, Mazatlan
Amber and Ashley left today after a 4 day visit....which was WAY to short. It was really great to be able to see them and show them a little piece of my current lifestyle. We rode in the local Pulmonia's and used the local bus system, we went to a Venandos game and toured the Centro Mercado. We even climbed to the top of El Faro before boarding the water taxi to eat lunch at Stone Island. Even with all of the other excitement, one of the the highlights of their visit was dinner last night in which they prepared the famous Cook family tuna noodle casserole...which was certainly a challenge here in Mexico.
12/20/2011 | shaybo24
haha, i'm glad you finally got your tuna noodle casserole, lord knows i wont touch the stuff... the thought of eating hot canned tuna-fish totally creeps me out. :-/
12/21/2011 | Mark
I would service the transmission, check valve adjustment, check hoses, including hose clamps and the exhaust system. I used aircraft type when i put thenew exhaust system in my boat. Im sure you will do a good job.
12/21/2011 | Pat K'ski
Send the recipe! Only right that SiBon gets a make-over since she's been so good to you. Gotta take care of your women. Enjoy the space and hotel amenities.
12/21/2011 | Steve Cook
Shaybo, you'll have to eat it at some point, it's part of the Cook family initiation. Pat, I'll give it to you when you're here in Feb, but I can tell you that the only one that has ever made it the same was my Mom and she didn't leave us the Recipe. Mark, they are also going to pull and service the heat exchanger and they are going to clean and reset the injectors and who know what else.
12/21/2011 | shaybo24
okay, well the day i am officially "initiated" into the Cook family, i promise i'll have a bite. but until then, there will be no tuna-noodle casserole for this cat... sorry babe :(
Comings and goingsSteve
12/18/2011, Mazatlan
Lots of changes the past couple of days. On Friday Amber and Ashley arrived to Mazatlan, after checking into their hotel we made our way back to Marina El Cid where they were to enjoy their first boat party. Our friend Keith on Victoria Dos had purchased 2 kilos of delicious Mazatlan shrimp and as he was returning to Canada the next day for Christmas, we had to eat it all or throw it away...no problema. This was also to be Sharon's last night in Mazatlan until she returns after the holidays, so it was a sorta welcoming and going away party for all. After enjoying happy hour on Victoria Dos the girls (Amber, Ashley, Sharon) and I headed out to a Vernados game (baseball), everyone was kinda pooped out so we left after about the 6th inning and called it a night. Yesterday morning before Sharon left, we all met for a beautiful desayuno (breakfast) on the beach.
12/18/2011 | shaybo
awe.... how'd i get so lucky. and hopefully i can get KB to fill in as onion chopper while i'm here. if not i'll blame my tears on missing you. loves ya!
12/19/2011 | Midge
Glad your girls are with you & a quick return for Sharon.
Paradise found?Steve
12/14/2011, Diego's beach bar, Mazatlan
As the time nears that Sharon will be returning to the States for Christmas we continue to check things off our "to do list". Since arriving in Mazatlan we had wanted to see one of the local performers who goes by the name of Brenster, Brenster does a combination of his own songs, some Buffett, some country and a little rock and roll. Brenster does a show every Tuesday from 2:00 till 6:00 at a place called Diego's beach bar, there is a 50 paso cover charge (4.00 USD). Diego's has a special that enables you to pay 200 pasos which includes the cover charge and all you can drink during the show. So just to clarify it... we could get into the show and drink as much as we wanted for FOUR HOURS for a total price of about $15.00 USD, for those of you that don't know Sharon and I....this was not a good business decision for Diego's. We had heard that you needed to grease the waiters palm if you wanted to get served very quickly....however this was not the case with our waiter Mitchell, Mitchell never let one beer get completely empty before he had another one in front of us. Mitchell would then encourage us to guzzle down whatever was remaining in the one he was replacing by yelling "come on drink up, it's free".
12/14/2011 | Karen
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!! I look at your blog with envy and excitement for you both! I hope Sharon will be making it back after the holidays! ENJOY!!!
12/17/2011 | Kathy
I never stop being amazed at the wonderful life you guys are living. I''ll be glad to see Sharon but I'm sure she'll get tired of Vermont weather in a few days. Will miss you.
12/22/2011 | Phil Anderson
Thanks for the tip on Diegos.. .good spot to get some
" liquid" inspiration !
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Jim Bobs – best bar in london.guaranteed to have a good time...you will always get insanely sloppy every time you go there
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UWO does not have a visible or problematic drug scene. There are very few drug related problems on campus. Marijuana is the drug of choice after alcohol...UWO is a drinking school. This can be really a great asset if you want to go have a few drinks at one of the campus bars with friends but can be an issue on campus. The campus restaurants serve alcohol and the Spoke has a beautiful outdoor patio. UWO puts an unusually high level of emphasis on St. Patrick's Day and it is not unusual to see drunk students staggering around the campus. UWO is also home to the most notorious party/ sex co-ed dormitory in Canada: Saugeen Maitland Hall. It lives up to its reputation as an animal house. Don't be surprised to see drunk students all over campus during OWeek and Frosh Week. (that being said Oweek at UWO is DRY- as far as the University is concerned...I am talking about the extensive in residence drinking that goes on.Peer pressure is not a big issue at UWO.** If you are a smoker you will probably find that you are not very well accepted. Ontario's smoking laws prohibit smoking indoors (including bars) and within 10 metres of a building entrance (about 30 feet)- although people still do smoke in front of buildings I have seen students issued $150 fines or citations from campus police.
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Alcohol and drug availability is a reality both on and off-campus. The biggest concern I believe is the atmosphere of permissibility that goes hand in hand with university life. Students are pressured to use these substances early on in their university career. There is a distinct lack of available information on proper response and safety techniques for overdoses. Also, local police are more concerned with being reactive as opposed to proactive.
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From your first day at Western, you'll notice that it is a party school. People drink their faces off during Orientation Week (both frosh and upper-year students), and student life revolves around the weekend. There isn't pressure to drink, but be warned: nearly everyone does. Playing beer pong, going to a kegger, or even drinking at a bar is a staple of the University experience, and these actions definitely do not fall short at Western. Underage drinking isn't taken very seriously. Minors caught using a fake ID at a bar might be thrown into a drunk tank, but that's about as stringent as it gets. In residences, you may get warnings; however, it's rare for students to be kicked out of residence for drinking unless they were destructive.
Marijuana is prominent, but there isn't pressure to partake. Western's inclusive community allows "to each his own," so if weed isn't your thing, don't bother. If caught blazing in a residence, the consequences would most likely be far more severe than underage drinking.
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After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a "dirt-poor" childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic, because Winchester, like countless American small towns, is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas. Nearly everyone over fifty has serious health problems, and many have no health care. Credit ratings are low or nonexistent, and alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape.
A raucous mix of storytelling and political commentary, Deer Hunting with Jesus is Bageant's report on what he learned by coming home. He writes of his childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced; the mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt, i.e., "white trashonomics"; the ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn't get it; Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England; and the blinkered "magical thinking" of the Christian right. (Bageant's brother is a Baptist pastor who casts out demons.) What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns brutal, tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks."
Deer Hunting with Jesus is a potent antidote to what Bageant dubs "the American hologram"—the televised, corporatized virtual reality that distracts us from the insidious realities of American life.
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Editorial Reviews
In this trenchant, aggravating, humorous, and heartbreaking book, Bageant, whose blog has a bit of a cult following, uses a combination of political commentary, reporting, and storytelling to explore what he describes as an unacknowledged class war in the United States. Returning after 30 years to the "dirt-poor" neighborhoods of his native Winchester, VA, Bageant examines the lives of the working poor using the stories of his friends and neighbors. Through these bleak tales, he paints a picture of a permanent underclass exploited by the Right and forgotten or even disdained, by the Left. Bageant explores, among other things, gun culture, Christian fundamentalism, predatory mortgage lending, illiteracy, outsourcing, and the decline of the American healthcare system. Written as a wake-up and rallying call for progressives, the work is decidedly partisan. Bageant's writing is witty, bilious, tender, and cruel by turns. Though his style often engages, it also alienates. His perspective is so fresh and his message so important that it is frustrating that many readers may be put off by his approach. The book would have benefited from closer editing; it is a slim volume but could stand to be leaner still. Recommended for collections with a current affairs focus, especially those in public libraries.
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—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
"This book is righteous, self-righteous, exhilarating, and aggravating. By God, it's a raging, hilarious, and profane love song to the great American redneck. As a blue state man with a red state childhood, I have been waiting for this book for years. We ignore its message at our peril."
—Sherman Alexie, author of Reservation Blues
"This fine book sheds a devastating light on Bush & Co.'s notorious 'base,' i.e. America's white working class, whose members have been ravaged by the very party that purports to take their side. Meanwhile, the left has largely turned them out, or even laughed at their predicament. Of their degraded state—and, therefore, ours—Joe Bageant writes like an avenging angel."
—Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again: The Real Case for Election Reform
"Joe Bageant is the Sartre of Appalachia. His white-hot bourbon-fuelled prose shreds through the lies of our times like a weed-whacker in overdrive. Deer Hunting with Jesus is a deliciously vicious and wickedly funny chronicle of a thinking man's life in God's own backwoods."
—Jeffrey St. Clair, author of Grand Theft Pentagon and co-editor of CounterPunch
"This recounting of lost lives—of white have-nots in one of our most have-not states—has the power of an old-time Scottish Border ballad. It is maddening and provocative that the true believers in 'American exceptionalism' and ersatz machismo side with those stepping all over them. Bageant's writing is as lyrical as Nelson Algren's, and if there's a semblance of hope, it's that he catches on with new readers thanks to the alternative media."
—Studs Terkel
"Deer Hunting with Jesus is one of those rare books that is colorful, depressing, hilarious, and biting all at the same time. Joe Bageant has given us a glimpse into the vicious class war that is too often ignored or hidden by those happily perpetrating this war."
—David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover
"Dead serious and damn funny...Bageant writes with the ghosts of Hunter S. Thompson, Will Rogers, and Frank Zappa kibitzing over his shoulder...Takes Thomas Frank's What's the Matter With Kansas, to the next level. "
—Mother Jones
"Bageant mixes a reporter's keen analysis, a storyteller's color, and a native son's love of his roots in this absorbing dissection of America's working poor...wise, tender, and acerbic."
"Mixing folksy populism with the lacerating fury of Hunter S. Thompson, Bageant's bitingly funny report can at times make Michael Moore seem tame. While Hunting may leave you heartsick, it's hard to turn away."
—Entertainment Weekly
"Informative, infuriating, terrifying, scintillating...Imagine a cross between Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas?, Hunter S. Thompson's booze-and-dope-fueled meditations on Nixon's political potency, and C. Wright Mills's understanding of the durability of the power elite."
—The American Prospect
"Hilariously funny, very angry, and somewhat depressing...The one book I read in 2007 that I would like all of you to read."
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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American Serfs
Inside the white ghetto of the working poor
"73 virgins in arab heaven and not a dam one in this bar!"
—Men's room wall, Burt's Tavern
Faced with working-class life in towns such as Winchester, see only one solution: beer. So I sit here at Burt's Tavern watching fat Pootie in a T-shirt that reads: one million battered women in this country and i've been eating mine plain! That this is not considered especially offensive says all you need to know about cultural and gender sensitivity around here. And the fact that Pootie votes, owns guns, and is allowed to purchase hard liquor is something we should all probably be afraid to contemplate. Thankfully, even cheap American beer is a palliative for anxious thought tonight.
Then too, beer is educational and stimulates contemplation. I call it my "learning through drinking" program. Here are some things I have learned at Burt's Tavern:
1. Never shack up with a divorced woman who is two house payments behind and swears you are the best sex she ever had.
2. Never eat cocktail weenies out of the urinal, no matter how big the bet gets.
As you can see, learning through drinking is never dull. But when karaoke came to American bars, my hopsy approach to social studies got downright entertaining, especially here where some participants get gussied up for their three weekly minutes of stardom.
Take Dink Lamp over there in the corner, presently dressed like a stubble-faced Waylon Jennings. At age fifty-six, Dink's undying claim to fame in this town is not his Waylon imitation, however, which sucks (as do his Keith Whitley and his Travis Tritt). It is that he beat up the boxing chimpanzee at the carnival in 1963. This is a damned hard thing to do because chimpanzees are several times stronger than humans and capable of enough rage that the pugilistic primate wore a steel muzzle. Every good old boy in this place swears Dink pounded that chimpanzee so hard it climbed up the cage bars and refused to come back down and that Dink won a hundred dollars. I don't know. I wasn't there to see it because my good Christian family did not approve of attending such spectacles. One thing is for sure, though: Dink is tough enough to have done it. (To readers who wonder whether people really have names such as Dink and Pootie: Hell, yes! Not only do we have a Dink and a Pootie in Winchester, the town that stars in this book, we also have folks named Gator, Fido, Snooky, and Tumbug--whom we simply call Bug.)
Anyway, with this older crowd of karaoksters from America's busted-up laboring lumpen, you can count on at least one version of "Good-Hearted Woman" or a rendition of "Coal Miner's Daughter," performed with little skill but a lot of beery heart and feeling. And when it comes to heart and feeling, the best in town is a woman named Dottie. Dot is fifty-nine years old, weighs almost three hundred pounds, and sings Patsy Cline nearly as well as Patsy sang Patsy. Dot can sing "Crazy" and any other Patsy song ever recorded and a few that went unrecorded. She knows Patsy's unrecorded songs because she knew Patsy personally, as did many other people still living here in Winchester, where Patsy Cline grew up. We know things such as the way she was treated by the town's establishment, was called a drunken whore and worse, was snubbed and reviled during her life at every opportunity, and is still sniffed at by the town's business and political classes. But Patsy, who took shit from no one and knew cuss words that would make a Comanche blush and, well, she was one of us. Tough and profane. (Cussing is a form of punctuation to us.) Patsy grew up on our side of the tracks and suffered all the insults life still inflicts on working people here. Hers was a hard life.
Dot's life has been every bit as hard as Patsy's. Harder really, because Dot has lived twice as long as Patsy Cline managed to, and she looks it. By the time my people hit sixty we look like a bunch of hypertensive red-faced toads in a phlegm-coughing contest. Fact is, we are even unhealthier than we look. Doctors tell us that we have blood in our cholesterol, and the cops tell us there is alcohol in that blood. True to our class, Dottie is disabled by heart trouble, diabetes, and several other diseases. Her blood pressure is so high the doctor thought the pressure device was broken. And she is slowly going blind to boot.
Trouble is, insurance costs her as much as rent. Her old man makes $8 an hour washing cars at a dealership, and if everything goes just right they have about $55 a week left for groceries, gas, and everything else. But if an extra expense as small as $30 comes in, they compensate by not filling one of Dot's prescriptions--or two or three of them--in which case she gets sicker and sicker until they can afford the co-pay to refill the prescriptions again. At fifty-nine, these repeated lapses into vessel-popping high blood pressure and diabetic surges pretty much guarantee that she won't collect Social Security for long after she reaches sixty-three, if she reaches sixty-three. One of these days it will truly be over when the fat lady sings.
Dot started working at thirteen. Married at fifteen. Which is no big deal. Throw in "learned to pick a guitar at age six" and you would be describing half the southerners in my generation and social class. She has cleaned houses and waited tables and paid into Social Security all her life. But for the last three years Dottie has been unable to work because of her health. Dot's congestive heart problems are such that she will barely get through two songs tonight before nearly passing out.
Yet the local Social Security administrators, cold Calvinist hard-asses who treat federal dollars as if they were entirely their own in the name of being responsible with the taxpayers' money, have said repeatedly that Dot is capable of full-time work. To which Dot once replied, "Work? Lady, I cain't walk nor half see. I cain't even get enough breath to sing a song. What the hell kinda work you think I can do? Be a tire stop in a parkin' lot?" Not one to be moved by mere human misery, the administrator had Dot bawling her eyes out before she left that office. In fact, Dottie cries all the time now. Even so, she will sing one, maybe two songs tonight. Then she will get down off the stage with the aid of her cane, be helped into a car, and be driven home.
Although it might seem that my people use the voting booth as an instrument of self-flagellation, the truth is that Dottie would vote for any candidate--black, white, crippled, blind, or crazy--who she thought would actually help her. I know because I have asked her if she would vote for a candidate who wanted a national health care program. "Vote for him? I'd go down on him!" Voter approval does not get much stronger than that.
But no candidate, Republican or Democrat, is going to offer national health care, not the genuine article, although I suspect the Democrats will bandy some phony version next election. If Dot is lucky, a pollster might call her, take her political temperature over the phone to be fed into some computer. But that is about as much contact as our system is willing to have with a three-hundred-pound diabetic woman with a small bird and a husband too depressed to get out of his TV chair other than to piss or stumble off to his car-washing job.
Americans are supposed to be so disgustingly healthy, educated, rich, and happy. But I have seen half-naked Indians in Latin America eating grubs and scrubbing their codpieces on river rocks who were a whole lot happier, and in some cases more cared for by their governments. Once, in Sonora, Mexico, I got very sick among the Sari Indians and needed a doctor. Every Sari Indian had national health care, but the American crapping his guts out behind their shacks, a man who made fifty times their annual income, could not even afford health insurance in his own country because I was a young freelance writer without the protections of a salaried staff position with a newspaper or magazine. Anyway, I wish I could say the Saris also had a native cure for dysentery, but they did not.
Actually, I can think of one politician who stands up for people like Dot and programs like national health care. But he is busy right now being president of Venezuela. Show me a political party willing to train and put real working-class people on these streets door-to-door, which is what it will take to mobilize the votes of the working screwed, and I will show you one that can begin to kick a hole in that wall between Capitol Hill and the people it is supposed to be serving. But we all know that is not about to happen. Parties do not lead revolutions. They follow them. And then only when forced to. The Democrats began to support the civil rights movement only after the bombings and lynchings and fire hoses and marchers caused enough public outrage to indicate there were probably some votes to be wrung out of the whole sorry spectacle playing out on American TV screens. That was back when a good old-fashioned Watts-type city burn-down could still get Washington's attention. I suspect nowadays it would be one of those national emergencies that Homeland Security would handle.
But Dink and Pootie and Dot are the least likely Americans to ever rise up in revolt. Dissent does not seep deeply enough into America to reach places like Winchester, Virginia. Never has. Yet, unlikely candidates that they are for revolution, they have nonetheless helped fuel a right-wing revolution with their votes--the same right-wing revolution said to be rooted in the culture wars of which neither of them has ever heard.
In the old days class warfare was between the rich and the poor, and that's the kind of class war I can sink my teeth into. These days it is clearly between the educated and the uneducated, which of course does make it a culture war, if that's the way you choose to describe it. But the truth is that nobody is going to reach Dink and Dot or anyone else on this side of town with some elitist jabber about culture wars. It is hard enough reaching them with the plain old fact that the Republicans are the party of the dumb and callous rich. As far as they are concerned, dumb people in our social class have been known to become very rich. Take Bobby Fulk, the realtor we all grew up with. He's dumber than owl shit but now worth several millions. And he still drinks Bud Light and comes into Burt's once in a while. Besides, any one of us here could very well hit the Powerball lottery and become rich like Bobby Fulk.
It's going to be a tough fight for progressives. We are going to have to pick up this piece of roadkill with our bare hands. We are going to have to explain everything about progressivism to the people at Burt's because their working-poor lives have always been successfully contained in cultural ghettos such as Winchester by a combination of God rhetoric, money, cronyism, and the corporate state. It will take a huge effort, because they understand being approximately poor and definitely uneducated and in many respects accept it as their lot. Right down to being sneered at by the Social Security lady. Malcolm X had it straight when he said the first step in revolution is massive education of the people. Without education nothing can change. What my people really need is for someone to say out loud: "Now lookee here, dammit! We are dumber than a sack of hair and should'a got an education so we would have half a notion of what's going on in the world." Someone once told me that and, along with the advice never to mix Mad Dog 20/20 with whiskey, it is the best advice I ever received. But no one in America is about to say such a thing out loud because it sounds elitist. It sounds un-American and undemocratic. It also might get your nose broken in certain venues. In an ersatz democracy maintaining the popular national fiction that everyone is equal, it is impermissible to say that, although we may all have equal constitutional rights, we are not actually equal. It takes genuine education and at least some effort toward self-improvement just to get to the starting line of socioeconomic equality.
Why are my people so impervious to information? Despite how it appears, our mamas did not drop us on our heads. Hell, thanks to our kids, most of us even have the Internet. Still, my faith in the Internet's information democracy wilted when I once suggested to a friend facing eviction that we Google "renter's rights" to learn his options, and watched him type in "rinters kicked out." (Then too, when we bumped into the banner on a site reading jennifer licks the huge man's sword, we both got sidetracked.) Yet two weeks later he had found the neoconservative website NewsMax.com and learned how to bookmark it. Sometimes I think the GOP emits a special pheromone that attracts fools and money.
The lives and intellectual cultures of these, the hardest-working people, are not just stunted by the smallness of the society into which they were born. They are purposefully held in bondage by a local network of moneyed families, bankers, developers, lawyers, and businesspeople in whose interests it is to have a cheap, unquestioning, and compliant labor force paying high rents and big medical bills. They invest in developing such a labor force by not investing (how's that for making money out of thin air!) in the education and quality of life for anyone but their own. Places such as Winchester are, as they say, "investment paradise." That means low taxes, few or no local regulations, no unions, and a chamber of commerce tricked out like a gaggle of hookers, welcoming the new nonunion, air-poisoning factory. "To hell with pollution! We gonna sell some propity, we gonna move some real 'state today, fellas!" Big contractors, realtors, lawyers, everybody gets a slice, except the poorly educated nonunion mooks who will be employed at the local plant at discount rates.
At the same time, and more important, this business cartel controls most elected offices and municipal boards. It also dominates local development and the direction future employment will take.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Joe Bageant writes an online column (www.joebageant.com) that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. He has been interviewed on Air America and comments on America's long history of religious fundamentalism in the BBC/Owl documentary The Vision: Americans on America. Until recently he worked as a senior editor for the Primedia History Magazine Group. Bageant and his wife recently downsized their lives in America so that Joe could spend half the year in Belize, where he writes and sponsors a small development project with the Black Carib families of Hopkins Village.
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Reviewing the Reviewers I find the two negative reviews regarding this book interesting in that they betray so much of who and what and where the reviewers are. Arrogant landholding upscale Winchester Virginia snobs who are either blinded by their economic distance from the subjects of this book or, more likely, who have set out to sink it. Their reviews speak volumes, if not about the book, then about themselves. No problem, jackasses; as you no doubt know, Joe dropped his mortal coil several months back. You will need to dissemble no more. For the rest of you, let me say that this book and Joe Bageant told it like it was at the time, and most likely like it will be for a long time to come. If you like Studs Terkel, you'll love this book. Panama Red
and Republican voters (the manipulated). It also emphasizes the impotency of democratic stategists to decouple conservative social issues from the bogus reagonomics of the right.
As a Scots-Irish liberal who wandered off the reservation many years ago, Joe Bageant has an extraordinary empathy for these Middle American conservative Western Virginia folk who have never been given a fair shake. They have let us know in recent years that we have ignored them at our peril. Joe Bageant laughs with them, not at them. Highly recommended to every high faltin' college graduate liberal who has no understanding of middle America. I too am a Scots-Irish liberal who wandered off the reservation many years ago and he describes my roots to a T.
Bageant is very humorous while illuminating a serious situation--the culture of blue-collar America and the ways in which both political parties fail these people: Democrats by either ignoring or looking down on them, Republicans by cynical manipulation of them. Sounds heavy, but the book is so entertaining that you don't mind getting educated.
Joe Bageant writes of his small town Winchester Virginia, the lives most of its citizens lead, and the reasons why the majority of them will not support contemporary Democratic Party positions. The book was written in 2007 but most of the information is still accurate. The stories are interesting and mildly humorous but not often laugh-out-loud funny. If you ever wondered why working poor people could vote for politicians and policies that seem counter to their own fair treatment and the future of their children, you owe it to yourself to read this book. If you wondered how fundamentalist Christian beliefs experienced a resurgence in the US, this is also a good book for you. Last but not least, Mr. Bageant makes a good case for private gun ownership rights. Even if you disagree with that, it helps everyone if you understand the position of those that agree with it, and respect them for it.
A little dated, but recommended reading.
I highy recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the social fabric of america. I have a background similar to the author and live in an area and work people like those in the book. I feel that I have found a kindred sprit in Joe Bageant, his observations are insightfull and accurate. I anxiously await any new books he may publish.
Although colorfully written and a catchy title, this book hashes over the same liberal drivel about how Bush is to blame for everything including the Democratic Congresses' social agendas over the past 60 years. It really puts down Winchester, Virginia which is a nice small town where the author grew up. Too bad he has to blame everyone else for his shortcomings.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY BUYING THIS BOOK! He has has absolutely no research put into this book and wants you to believe his statements as fact!


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Small Wisconsin Community Becomes a Real Boom Town
No Explanation Yet for Series of Noises Rattling Windows, Nerves; 'Like a Cannon'
CLINTONVILLE, Wis.—Sue and Ben Wedde were watching television Sunday evening when they heard a loud boom that made their windows rattle and their neighbor's visiting Bichon Frise, Lexie, jump off the couch.
"It was like a cannon going off," said Ms. Wedde, who delivers a local weekly shopper, "or maybe some kids playing with fireworks—like those cherry bombs." But when Mr. Wedde, a retired factory worker, went outside to check, he didn't see anything.
Three days later, no one can explain the loud and house-shaking noises that have been plaguing a several block area in this city of modest homes and factories, about 40 miles west of Green Bay. The noises tend to subside during the day, then pick up again each evening and carry on throughout the night.
"Nobody is getting much sleep," said Ms. Wedde.
"It's like a car slammed right into the building or a tree fell on the roof," said City Administrator Lisa Kuss, who felt the effects herself on Monday evening around 9:45 p.m., while inside a city utility building.
Officials in the city of 4,600 have checked for gas leaks, tested water pumps and contacted mining companies, factories and other large businesses. The National Weather Service ruled out a meteorological cause, amid clear skies at night and warm sunny days.
There is no ice left to crack from the mild winter on Pigeon Lake or the Pigeon River, which snake through town. A spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command said neither its fighters or jets flown by the Air National Guard were responsible for the sounds.
"It's a puzzler, it really is," said David Hart, a professor with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey in Madison.
"All of our simple thoughts—none of them are working out," said Mr. Hart, noting that the granite and sandstone soils in the area aren't likely to produce sink holes that might generate the noise. And the source of the sounds doesn't appear to be strong enough to be caused by earthquakes.
Ms. Wedde said Lexie was nervous all day on Saturday. "She was so antsy, she didn't know where to lie down or anything," Ms. Wedde said. "She must have sensed something."
David Hill, an emeritus scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., who has written about such phenomena, said they have been around for a long time and have been reported all over the world.
"Back before the Industrial Revolution, Indians and early explorers talked about booming sounds in the northeast," he said.
Powerful booms periodically rattle windows on the North Carolina coast. In upstate New York, residents near Seneca Lake call the phenomena the "Seneca Guns." In Coastal Belgium, the sounds are called "mistpouffers," or fog belches, Mr. Hill found. In the Ganges Delta and the Bay of Bengal, they are called "Bansal Guns." People in the Italian Apennines call them "brontidi" or thunder-like, and residents of Shikoku, Japan, have dubbed them "yan."
There are many possible causes for such sounds, he said, including large waves, earthquakes, shifting sands in dunes or deserts, far off thunder or man-made sources like factories, explosions or sonic booms.
But many times, as appears to be the case in Clintonville, an explanation can be elusive.
Jordan Pfeiler, a 21-year-old worker in a factory that makes fire engines for New York and other big cities, said people in the neighborhood had been hearing unusual sounds for weeks. "The neighbor asked my dad what he was doing in the garage," she said. "That's when we realized we had all been hearing it."
The recent episode began Sunday, when many people in the northeast part of the town started hearing loud noises, but few thought to alert police, Ms. Kuss said.
Many people thought it was thunder, or fireworks or one of the occasional bangs from a local foundry, the biggest employer in town. But an especially loud boom around 1:45 a.m. Monday woke many people up. As the booms continued, residents flooded emergency lines with about 150 calls.
Mark Werner said he didn't hear the sound, but his dog, an Australian Shepherd mix named Jack, did. "Usually when he barks or something in the middle of the night, he has to go to the bathroom, so I took him outside," said Mr. Werner, a 56-year-old worker in a feed mill. "Then all of a sudden I heard a boom-boom-b-boom, like that."
Mr. Werner said he tried to get back to sleep, but soon his street began to fill up with police and neighbors, so he went out to join them. His personal theory is that the warm temperatures in the past few days are causing a violent and rapid thaw underground. "It's like when the hot and cold come together in the sky you get thunder," he said.
The booms quieted during each of the next two days, only to return at night. The booms did little damage, other than knocking a few trinkets off shelves. Still, some people worried about damage to their foundations or other hidden problems.
A few residents, especially those with young children, packed up and left the area to get some sleep. After struggling through Sunday and Monday night with barely any sleep, Ms. Pfeiler's mother, Shari, put two fans on in her room Tuesday night, hoping to drown out the noise, which both women describe as "thunder underground."
There were fewer reports of booms that night, but Shari Pfeiler attributes her good night's rest to the fans and exhaustion. "I could've slept through anything last night," she said. "Five hours of sleep in two nights is ridiculous."
On Wednesday, Ms. Kuss, the city administrator, said she was arranging with an engineering firm to bring in seismic equipment to see if they can pinpoint the epicenter of the booms—and then determine how far down in the ground they are located.
"The geologists seem to think it would be a mile down to be an earthquake," she said, "but this only seems to be several hundred feet."
Ms. Kuss, who has been on the job for 14 ½ years, said the town has never received this much attention. People locally got excited last fall when the city council decided to turn off 70 streetlights to save money—but that didn't bring CNN or the Today Show.
She said she is torn between wanting the booms to go away and wanting to figure out what is causing them. "If it stops one day, it may just remain a mystery," she said.
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* About to meet P Diddy, Phoenix tells his companion: "Don't tell them you're from New Jersey".
* There are a lot of scenes with men lying around on beds talking. One particular friend likes to expose his genitals for the cameras. There is another scene of a naked friend running around while Phoenix playfully chases him with a towel, popping the friend's hind end. As the movie progressed, I half expected a gladiator scene. Gag or not, there is a subtext here. Not sure whether that was intended or not.
* Phoenix snorting coke (or powdered sugar) off a hooker's breasts.
* Ben Stiller (in on it?) trying to convince Phoenix to play in his new movie. Phoenix accuses Stiller of "playing Ben Stiller" and that is exactly what he is doing. It was the same semi-loser character from all of his films.
* Phoenix fleeing a movie premier and fighting furiously to get through a door with a huge "this is not an exit" sign on it.
* The actual hip hop performances. Phoenix is like the huge drunk guy on karaoke night storming the stage to sing "Free Bird". The best indicator this is actually a big gag.Read more ›
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welcome back al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. america's top diplomat heading to ukraine. secretary of state john
meeting with the key players in kiev. >> translator: this was an unconstitutional coup. >> reporter: and vladimir putin speaking out about the represents. president obama outlining his budget wish list and an emphasis on the working poor.
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and we'll tell you how police in new orleans are trying to keep things under control for fat tuesday. ♪ secretary of state john
is in kiev at this hour. he is expected to speak shortly showing u.s. support for ukraine's new government. we are waiting for that to happen. vladimir putin spoke out earlier, rejecting the new government in ukraine. phil ittner watching the situation for us from kiev. and phil this is the first time we have heard from vladimir putin since the crisis began? >> reporter: that's right, dell, secretary of state
did show up and spend some time on the square paying tribute to those who lost their lives, but you are right, before he showed it up was vladimir putin who was
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in the spot light. he spent an hour with the russian press outlining his position on the ukrainian crisis. a crisis today, del, that threatened to turn violent. >> reporter: the first shots have been fired but the russian's only target was the air. as they used it as a warning when ukrainian soldiers demanded their jobs back. it reflects the tensions in the region especially as russia's military might was on display. putin made his first remarks since what the ukrainian government calls an invasion. but the russian president is dismissing that kind of talk saying the use of force in ukraine would be a last resort and made very clear who he believed is the legitimate ruler of ukraine. >> translator: it's
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constitutional reward and military seizure of power. the only legal president is yanukovych. only -- only -- few reason why -- how president can be changed. he is dead, impeachment, or resignation letter. >> reporter: but putin also went on to say that yanukovych has lost his power in ukraine, and can no longer return to lead. putin dismissed the west's support for the new government. as for his country's government in crimea, the russian president pointed to its historic ties to ukraine, calling it a fraternal partner bound by the partnership on the shores of crimea with a strong naval presence in the back sea. now del that naval port on the black sea has been within the russian spear of influence and control since the 18th century and katherine the great.
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it is highly unlikely they are going to get that out, it is key to their military power. but it is also important to note that vladimir putin said it wasn't just crimea he is looking at now, he is looking at the risk to russians in the eastern part of the country. del? >> phil ittner thank you very much. and as we mentioned secretary of state john
is in ukraine today, the u.s. pledging $1 billion in aid, but also preparing sanctions against russia. lisa stark is in washington. >> del, as you mentioned that $1 billion aid package is the first thing out of the gate. it is a loan guarantee. it still needs approval by congress. it would help cover some of the energy costs in the ukraine, because they would be losing probably the energy subsidies they get from russia. they are also talking about sending technical advisors in a
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whole host of areas first to work with the central bank and finance ministry, also to train election monitors, there is the hope there could be an election in may in ukraine. and the hope is that the u.s. can train monitors to ensure that is a free and fair election. and they also want to send technical advisors to help ukraine identify and recover any stolen assets we have heard about president yanukovych and the oligark, spirit billions of dollars out of the country. the administration has been saying that it has a wide host of sanctions that it can consider. they would be done through presidential executive order. they have already taken some diplomatic steps. they have pulled back on
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preparations for the g-8 summit. they have canceled trade talks. and what they are talking about as far as further sanctions could be the freezing of assets for russian government and military top officials and looking to see what the eu may do, apparently there is more reluctance there to put on tough sanctions. putin said they could hurt both sides. del? >> lisa stark for us in washington. thank you very much. many living in crimea are welcoming russian troops with open arms, but as nick schifrin reports not everyone supports the military presence. >> reporter: this is a ukrainian base on ukrainian land, but those aren't ukrainian soldiers or a ukrainian flag. and the welcoming committee doesn't pledge allegiance to ukraine. >> translator: we're here to support the russian peace
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keepers he says. they are the only means to stop the violence in ukraine. in this area, the russian occupation is growing, and the resistance seems non-exist important. these russian soldiers occupied the base without firing a shot. visitors brought sandwiches and a teapot. soldiers relaxed and ate. in the windows they had heavy sniper weapons. through the fence as we watched them, they watched us. these troops don't seem to be going anywhere any time soon. can i ask you a question? can i ask you a question, please? i guess not. just down the road some crimeians welcomed their occupiers. >> translator: we think they protect us she says, they
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protect our village and crimea. these residents repeat a russian government claim. they are threat inned by protesters from kiev 350 miles north. you said they protect you from the people in independence square in kiev. have you seen any of those people here? no, we haven't seen them, she says but we heard rumors that they could storm crimea. this is where they get those rumors. this is russian tv watched by the vast majority of crimeians, and the anchor is suggesting these protests will spread to crimea. the battle for crimea isn't only on bases, it is also on the airwaves. 21-year-old is the anchor for crimea's most popular tatar state. tatars are crimeas largest ethnic minority. they suffered a mass deportation
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under communist rule. and they are quietly resisting the invasion. nationalities are all coming together against one enemy, the russians. at night they unite to guard their own neighborhoods. this man says if ukrainian soldiers won't help, he'll defend his family himself. he invited us in his home. for him the russians are invaders. history might be repeating itself he says, clearly russia wants crimea back. and at the end of the day, the russian presence is growing and becoming more entrenched and they don't have to look far to find support. nick schifrin, al jazeera, ukraine. again, this is the image live in kiev right now. we are awaiting word from u.s. secretary of state john
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$1 billion in u.s. aid for the new government of ukraine. including technical assistance and economic advice. for the latest events coming out of ukraine and the rest of today's headlines you are follow us on twitter. benjamin netenyahu giving the keynote address at a gathering this morning of aipac. benjamin netenyahu saying he will do whatever it takes to defend israel. >> did you ever hear about iran sending a humanitarian delegation overseas? no? you missed that memo? [ laughter ] >> you know why? you know why you haven't heard anything about that? because the only thing that iran sends abroad are rockets, terrorists and missiles to
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murder, maim and menace the innocent. [ applause ] >> on monday netenyahu met with president obama pushing back against white house pressure to cut a deal with the palestinians. president obama warning the time for peace is running out. and later today the president submits his $4 trillion budget to congress. the president saying he wants to cut taxes to workers who don't have children. >> let's make this a year of action. >> reporter: following his state of the union, president obama is taking action with his 2015 budget, the people who would benefit low wage workers. for years it has only been workers with children who benefited from the earned income tax credit. under the president's proposal that tax break would expand to those without children. he wants to double a childless worker's tax credit to about $1,000 a year, to offset the cost of the new tax break, the president is proposing an end to
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an old tax break to the wealthy. that move is projected to garner some $60 billion over ten years. the president is also proposing full-time workers with kids get a bigger tax credit to cover child care costs. he wants to make preschool available for all four year olds. and the tax credit for college tuition, he wants to make that permanent. and proposing funding to upgrade aging highway systems across the country. the plan is expected to help 13.5 million americans. erika pitzi, al jazeera. comes up on al jazeera america, as tensions escalate between russia and ukraine. russia's actions could be undermining its own economy. and when you think of mardi gras you think of one gig -- big party, but for police it is one big headache.
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again, we want to take you right now to ukraine, where we are still awaiting word from secretary of state john
, who will be addressing reporters there. when he speaks we will bring you his comments live. the u.s. promising $1 billion in assistance. it is primary day in texas and the it is a democratic candidate for governor that is grabbing all of theed a tension. heidi zhou castro reports. >> reporter: the phones are ringing off the hook. and the pizza is flying out of the box. the headquarters of thedemocratic party is in full-on election mode. early voting numbers are promising. here in dallas and other urban
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counties turn out among democrats is on that to surpass that of the 2012 presidential election. it's excitement over wendy davis. who is now on the ballot for governor. >> we have got that fire, and i think that's what is making a difference. >> reporter: carman -- sees davis as the best hope in 20 years. texas is one of the reddest states in the country. but she sees it differently. >> i see it purple. i have seen people become more politically involved in the last year. >> reporter: the last time that texans voted for governor was in 2010 in the lowest turnout in the nation.
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and half of texas democrats vote in gubernatorial primaries as texas republicans, which is why walking the streets of heavily democratic neighborhoods is the focus of this man. >> there has probably been a lot of depression in the democratic party, why bother? we're not going to win. this is a list of folks -- >> reporter: dalton and his team are optimistic that november matchup could be an upset. the republicans see that as wishful thinking. >> the democrats were serious about having wendy davis in a state-wide office, they would have put her in an office she could win. >> reporter: but they say if she doesn't win she could gather momentum.
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bullard is already a democratic party volunteer even though his father is stanchly republican. have you tried to sway him? >> yeah. >> has it gone anywhere? >> sometimes it does. sometimes it doesn't. >> reporter: but the fact that the debate is happening at both bullard's kitchen table and across the state is something texas democrats see as progress. heidi zhou castro, al jazeera, dallas. ♪ on wall street this morning we are seeing a major rebound, the dow up 207 points, easing tensions in ukraine turning around investor sentiment. the dow is in positive territory. tesla is expanding its reach in europe. it will now open 30 new stores and service centers.
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tesla expects combined sales in europe and asia to double the sales in america. singapore is now the most expensive city to live in. it is priceyer than ever, replacing tokyo, topping the list last year. the most expensive american city new york, coming in 26th on that list. bill gates still the richest person in the world, his net worth is $76 billion. he is taking the top spot from mexico's telecom typhootyphoon. in ukraine tensions grow and the russian economy is suffering. >> reporter: russia flexes its military muscle in ukraine and escalates tensions, it faces a threat at home to its own
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struggling economy, with global markets rattled and the international community condemning russian's actions. the central bank stepped in with dramatic oftures. it pumped a reported $10 billion in reserves to boost its currency. >> they were absolutely desperate to try to stabilize the currency and prevent a vicious cycle of flight of capitol from russia >> reporter: long before the ukraine crisis, russia's growth was weak. there's been a steady decline since 2010. analysts point to weak growth as a result of a lack of business confidence, a lack of consumer confidence, corruption, red tape, and russia's heavy
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dependance on oil and natural gas exports and little else. 70% of russia's exports are in the energy sector. what is murky is where growth will come from, since many young people are choosing to live someplace else. one of the biggest threats right now? investors fleeing the country. all right investments by businesses in russia fell by 7%. >> people viewed the putin administration as relatively cautious and pragmatic. and i think the risk is that we see western sanctions and that could undermine the willingness of investors to put money in russia. >> reporter: the big question now is what effect the economic fallout will have on the region. up next, 2 million people, one big party, and one big need
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for mardi gras security. we'll tell you what they are doing to keep the big easy safe.
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welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are your headlines at this hour. secretary of state john
in kiev for talks on the crisis in ukraine. the u.s. offering a $1 billion aide package to help boost the economy. benjamin netenyahu speaking at aipac, the powerful pro-israel lobby. netenyahu saying palestinians must be prepared to recognize israel as a jewish state and iran must be stripped of its nuclear capabilities. and later the president will submit his $4 trillion budget to congress. he says he'll make tax credits available to workers as young as 21. in new orleans it is mardi gras and they are right in the thick of fat tuesday, and today's party is expected toe
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huge like ever year. a million people joining parades that will roll for miles. ben do police ever get used to handling this type of crowd? >> reporter: del, it's a lot more difficult when it is cold and raining like it is today, but when people think about new orleans a lot of times they think about bourbon street and the french quarter, and that's a play where it is a party pretty much all the time. you are carry alcohol out on the streets. but when it comes to mardi gras it is a much broader spectrum for police, and that can be a tough task. ♪ [ cheers ] >> reporter: as the tourists flock in from around the world. >> it's mardi gras 2014. >> reporter: there is a certain mentality. >> if you drink alcohol last night, and wake up with a headache, you have to start
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drinking again. >> that's when you have problems. you are looking for trouble on the french quarter on burden street, you are going to find it. >> reporter: the mardi gras goers outnumber the police two to one. >> we are going to be looking for people who are inebriated to the point when they are jeopardizing their chance for safety and those around them. >> we are going to break away from our coverage right now of be ben -- ben to go to secretary of state john
's comments. >> at the cite of last month's deadly shootings. it was really quite remarkable. i have to tell you to -- to see
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the barricades, the tires, the barbed wire, the bullet holes in street lamps, the extraordinary number of flowers, the people still standing beside a barrel with a fire to keep them warm, the shrouded vision in the clouds of the buildings in which the shots came. and the photographs of those who lost their lives, of the people who put themselves on the line for the future of ukraine. it was deeply moving to walk into a group of ukrainians spontaneously gathered there, to listen to them, to listen to their pleas of passion for the
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right not to go back to life as it was under former president yanukovych. one woman who pleadingly said how poor they were, how the rich lived well, and how those in power took the money, and how they were left behind, and particularly one man told me that he had recently traveled to australia, and he had come back here, but he came back determined to be able to live as he had seen other people live in other parts of the world. so it was very moving, and it gave me a deep personal sense of how closely linked the people of ukraine are to not just americans, but people all across the world who today are asking for their rights, asking for the privilege to be able to live, defining their own nation, defining their futures.
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that's what this is about. the united states extends our deepest condolences to those who's grief is still very fresh. and those who lost loved ones who bravely battled against snipers on roof tops and people armed against them with weapons they never dreamt of having. these brave ukrainians took to the streets to stand peacefully against tyranny, and to demand democracy, so instead they were met with snipers who picked them off one after another, as people went out to get them, drag them to safety, give them comfort, expose themselves. they raised their voices for dignity and freedom, but what they stood for so bravely, i say with full conviction will never
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be stolen by bullets or by invasions. it cannot be silenced by thugs from roof tops, it's universal and unmistakable. it's called freedom. so today in another part of this country, we're in a new phase of the struggle for freedom, and the united states reaffirms our commitment to ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity. we condemn the russian confederations act of aggression, and we have throughout this moment, and evidence of a great transformation taking place, and in that transformation, we will standing with the people of ukraine. today ukrainians are demanding a government wite
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