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One was shown in your article "Flowing Concrete," in the January 1979 issue.
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South Korean car maker Ssangyong Motors has announced it will now build cars in China in partnership with China's Shaanxi Automobile Group. The joint venture will build a new plant in the Xi'an Economic and Technological Development Zone in Xi'an City in Shaanxi Province, and will furthermore set up an engine plant, an R&D center, and a distribution center.
Production is set to start in 2019 with an initial annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles and a full capacity of 300,000 vehicles. The plant will make SUVs, MPVs and pickup trucks under the Ssangyong brand name. Further in the future, the plant will also make a line of electric vehicles under a separate Chinese brand.
The plant in Xi'an will be Ssangyong's first local production base in China, thought it does currently already sell its own cars on the Chinese market. The brand's current offerings in China are imported from South Korea and therefore relatively expensive. Local production will lower prices and will allow Ssangyong to fine-tune their cars for Chinese tastes.
The joint venture hasn't announced which cars exactly it will build but given the popularity of compact SUVs, the Tivoli and the Korando are the most likely SUV candidates.
Competition in the SUV segment is fierce, with literally hundreds of cars on offer, from both Western and Chinese brands. If Ssangyong wants to succeed in this market it needs to come up with a truly original unique selling point. For now, the brand seems to be focusing on stylish design, an area where Chinese automakers in particular lag behind.
Ssangyong doesn't currently produce an MPV, so the planned MPV for the joint venture will likely be an all-new car. The only pickup truck that Ssangyong is selling is the Actyon Sports, which seems too expensive for the Chinese market where pickup trucks are mostly cheap countryside workhorses. The joint venture might go for a cheaper version of the Actyon Sport, or develop something new again.
Not exactly well known around the world, Ssangyong is the fourth largest South Korean automaker. In 2011, it was acquired by India's Mahindra & Mahindra, and presently produces cars in South Korea, Russia, and Ukraine. The company makes a range of compact and medium sized SUVs and a single large sedan.
Shaanxi Automobile Group, on the other hand, is one of China's largest automobile conglomerates, founded in 1968. It makes a wide range of trucks, heavy duty trucks, military trucks, and bus chassis. It has a joint venture with Cummins making truck engines for the Chinese market. Interestingly enough, Shaanxi Automobile has no experience yet making passenger cars.


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Ilham is the new fragrance by soOud: in Arabic it is the sound of the word whose corresponding meaning is "Inspiration". A complex and intense olfactory pyramid, notable for such precious and unusual ingredients as saffron, grey amber, tree musk, the Indian spice Nagarmotha or the Malaysian essential oil Gujum.
In soOud, the sensuality of oriental fragrances, profound, intriguing and passionate, typical of the Arab world, encounter a soul refined in its western manifacturing. Two precious raw materials conceal rare essences dedicated to the exploration of the senses, divided into two lines: Nektar, true high-concentration, rich, precious extracts, and Eau Fine, intense and delicate on the skin.
The names chosen are the phonetic translation of Arab words: on every package you can discover their meaning in English and French. Every fragrance extols inner beauty: the bottles almost entirely lacquered – except for the central part where a strip of transparent glass appears – to remind us of the niqab veil, which leaves a glimpse only of the eyes of the person who wears it. The stopper with its half cut recalls the sloping lines of modern buildings in the Middle East, completing a masterful blend of traditions and contemporaneity. Ilham was launched in 2014.
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If you are like me and cant pick apart every little note and and just can tell what the overall smell is like well let me tell you. You are basically gonna get this sweet caramel and vanilla smell then you will get in the mix of that this sweet fruity smell.That might not sound like a good mix but trust me if you like sweet juice this is for you.Its not overly sweet or overaly fruity its a very nice blend of both and is perfectly unisex.Very nice fragrance perfect all year around in my opinon.
honey , plenty of honey , very balmy as well
the top note and when first sprayed it goes extreme virgin Pena colada. the fresh pineapple and white Indian coconut with a hint of caramel and a bit of vanilla to splash the taste. then goes a bit calm in away the saffron and the pepper raise up a bit to settle in the middle, the red berries peaches and leather comes also in the middle and the base note as well as what makes it harsh and dark is the balsamic effect with the help of patchouli but saffron is quite harsh in here as once it's out and never leaves and i guess that what the saffron always do. but surprisingly the saffron hold up in the same line with vanilla, peach, berries, and the patchouli and maybe a bit backward to make it balanced and less strong than the caramel.
this fragrance is like a long blood red dress with a living fresh berries, and scoops of caramel beaches creme with thin twigs of vanilla as it's leaves are patchouli. quite strong and lasts forever, and to be honest it's strength gives me headaches.
one last thing, this fragrance needs to be strong so in my opinion never go for the white bottle which is the Fine, go for the small black bottle which is the extract, it's a bit more expensive, less in ml (around 30ml), but saves you more of the enjoyment.
I like this one, sadly my lack perfume knowledge will prevent me from describing this scent with much accuracy.
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I get a sweet balmy smell, with just a tinge of the medicinal Oud-ness. It seems dense without being heady.
I'm testing from a vial and I don't find the projection too strong but that might change if I were to spray it
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How can I get the Skambankt records in Europe?
The easiest way: Order them online, either from www.cdon.com or from Lo-Fi Merchandise. Cdon is a Swedish company, Lo-Fi is German. Downloads are available, for example, on www.amazon.com, and probably also on iTunes.If you want to have your local record store order the CDs for you, that's also possible. The first three albums are released on Dog Job, a label of Tuba Records. In Denmark, the record company was Kick Music for the first three albums and Sony Music starting with Søvnløs.
The first three records are distributed by Soulfood in Germany, Bertus in the Benelux, Irascible in Switzerland, Target in Denmark, and Sound Pollution in Sweden. With that information, your local record dealer should be able to order the CDs... hopefully. =;-)
Where can I buy merchandise?
The best way is to buy it after the concerts - but this might be a little harder in Europe, I admit that. =;-)The German company Lo-Fi Merchandise sells Skambankt merchandise. They have an online shop that ships to basically everywhere, and in Cologne, there is also a "real" shop. You can find the address on their website.
What are Skambankt's ambitions for Europe?
Skambankt's only goal is to have fun making music. So there are no serious ambitions to conquer Europe, neither with the records nor touring, but if there's an opportunity like the gig in Berlin, they certainly won't say no. The big question is: "How far can fun bring you"?What are the plans for the nearer future?
Skambankt have just returned from a pretty long break. Now they'll be touring a lot, play the summer festivals, and then ...? Probably start working on new songs, I'd guess.When will the next Skambankt album come out?
Well, they just released a new album at the beginning of 2014, so give them some time. =;-)I like Kaizers Orchestra. Will I also like Skambankt?
Maybe. Maybe not. Skambankt are completely different from Kaizers.Listen to the music and decide for yourself.
When will Skambankt finally come back to $TOWN?
Check the tour dates. Check www.skambankt.com. If you don't find any dates for $TOWN there, there's probably no concert planned.Are there any concerts around here soon?
That depends on where "around here" is. =;-) The easiest way to find out is to check the tour map and zoom to where you want to go see them. Click on the stars to see where and when the concert will take place!Where can I see the Skambankt videos?
Here or on YouTube. If you live in Germany, you might have to use a service like unblockyoutube.co.uk though.Where can I listen to some Skambankt songs?
Skambankt songs are available on Spotify and Wimp. If you don't have access to those, YouTube is probably your best option.What does "Skambankt" mean?
Something like "beaten to pieces".For the linguists: skam - shame, disgrace; bankt - past participle of banke - beat up, thrash =;-)


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Ravi Rakkulchon '15 designed the set for the opera "Little Women", composed by Mark Adamo and currently in performance in Dillingham Center. Rakkulchon is a B.F.A. theatrical production arts major with a design concentration, originally from Bangkok, Thailand.
The Ithaca College Department of Theatre Arts will present "Dying City" by Christopher Shinn. This production is directed by Timothy Rheiner '15 and will be presented in the Earl McCarroll Studio in Dillingham Center.
Tickets for "Dying City" are free, but reservations are required. To reserve tickets, visit ithacaisdying.eventbrite.com. All tickets are reserved on a first come, first served basis. Tickets must be picked up no later than 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the performance. Performance dates and times are as follows:
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Passion, betrayal and tradition come to the forefront as Ithaca College Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prize–winning play "Anna in the Tropics," by Nilo Cruz. Performances will run in the Clark Theatre in Dillingham Center Dec. 2, 4, 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. with a 2: p.m. matinee on Dec. 6 and 7.


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DOOM is still a thing, right?! A couple of years ago I built a Miniland scale diorama of this classic videogame (there's even a video that will take you right back to 1993). Below is a building guide for the game's hero, commonly known as "DOOM Guy" (click here for embiggened version). This version is equipped with a basic shotgun. If you wanna kit him out with other hardware, or build him some enemies to blast, I'd suggest using photos of the original DOOM diorama as inspiration.
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Ready to build something awesome this weekend? To inspire you with some new building techniques you may not have thought of on your own, here's an in-depth article about the unique 3.18 mm connections available throughout the LEGO System of play. This article by Tim Johnson originally appeared on New Elementary.
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I am sure that many people, upon seeing these models, would cite them as proof that LEGO® have lost their way "since I was a kid, when it was just bricks". Whilst these are indeed new parts, the fact is that the changes that brought them into the LEGO System occurred in the 1970s.
Classic 1963 Porsche 911 zooms along the Autobahn
If you don't have a couple hundred thousand dollars to spend on your own 1963 Porsche 911, you can always build one in LEGO. Michael Jasper has built a lovely 911 in black, reflecting all the iconic bulges and curves of the original. Much of the car's sides are built studs forward, while the curves on the fully detailed underside are built studs down.
How do we know so much about the car's interior structure? Because Michael has posted this (literal) cut-away view highlighting the complex techniques he used to achieve the vintage vehicle's shaping.
All we need is a bit of wind to grind the grain
Windmills have been utilising the energy of the wind power to automate tasks such as water pumping of grain grinding since 500-900 A.D. in Persia. This LEGO windmill by Issac S was inspired by some of the windmills seen in the video game Skyrim and was built for the 2017 Brickstory contest in the Early Middle Age category. The textured stone base of the windmill contrasts nicely with the wood and lighter stone central section and inspired use of the upturned barrel is the cherry on top.
The model features working windmill blades and a grindstone that are simultaneously operated by a crank on the back of the windmill. Issac has shared a video of this feature in action.
If you want to read more about the landscaping and, in particular, the tree seen in the left hand corner of this build, Issac has shared a tutorial. Originally this technique was used by Joeri Riddler and Issac has unpacked the design to allow others to develop the technique.
Build your own LEGO Mass Effect M-6 Carnifex in preparation for Andromeda [Instructions]
In the same format of the instructions for my Ronin Titan, I present the first life size weapon build in this tutorial style: the M-6 Carnifex hand cannon from the Mass Effect series. See the list of parts needed, then follow the step-by-step video below and be prepared for the challenges the Andromeda Galaxy sends your way. The video shows techniques I commonly use for working triggers and slides on weapon builds at this scale, as well as one technique I sometimes use for angled pistol grips.
If LEGO be the food of love, build on [Instructions]
I've been meaning to create a Brick-moji building guide for a while – the problem was deciding which one(s) to feature! After a couple of failed attempts and with Valentines Day looming, I finally settled on the "Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes", an emoji that consistently ranks among the top ten most widely used across the web (…the original that is, not my model).
Now, you weren't really going to just get roses and chocolates AGAIN were you?! Click here for an embiggened version of this guide, and build it for that special plastic-loving person in your life!
It's as easy as A-B-C... LEGO font built from quarter tiles
In the decades-old history of LEGO fan creations, there have been many techniques to create brickbuilt letters, but never has it been as simple as now, with the new quarter circle and "fingernail" tiles. lisqr has used these new pieces to create the alphabet, both in lower and upper case. I have given the builder feedback on some of the letters that I feel could be improved, but the font looks pretty classy even as it is. With the growing supply of quarter circle tiles, I can imagine this technique appearing more and more in the future.
The builder also provides an LDD file of his alphabet. I can't wait to see what other builders write with this!
The sword is yours, Pilot; build your own LEGO Titanfall 2 Ronin [Instructions]
Since completing my LEGO Ronin Titan back in August 2016, I received numerous requests for a building guide for him. After reconstructing him in LEGO Digital Designer and photographing steps requiring techniques that stress parts, I present step-by-step directions to build your own Ronin. Take a look at the parts list, then follow the video below and tear up the Frontier with a brand new broadsword-wielding mech.
New NEXO Knights "Nexogon" part analysis by New Elementary [Guest Post]
Here at The Brothers Brick, we tend to specialize in certain kinds of news, LEGO creations, and reviews, but thanks to our partnerships with other LEGO websites, we're able to bring you more kinds of content. Please enjoy this excellent analysis of a unique new part available now in NEXO Knights sets, which originally appeared on New Elementary.
The LEGO® NEXO KNIGHTS™ theme introduced many exciting and useful new elements into the LEGO System in 2016 and this trend continues into 2017. Today we look at a highly unusual piece which is set to take your building into totally new dimensions, literally!
Delivery of a cute LEGO cat called Jiji [Instructions]
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We loved Jiji so much here at TBB that we asked CK to make some instructions and he very kindly obliged to allow us all to have a best friend called Jiji.
How to build a vintage Tatra 148 LEGO fire truck [Instructions]
Sometimes the simplest of LEGO creations can be the most lovely. Talented Technic builder František Hajdekr, whose working LEGO chainsaw we featured earlier this year, recently posted an adorable vintage fire truck based on a Czech Tatra 148 from the 70's. What I love about this is that the builder has incorporated actual vintage LEGO tires from the 70's into his modern creation.
František quickly followed that up with step-by-step instructions, which you can watch in this video (with complete parts breakdown as well: part 1 & part 2).
If you like 6×6 Tatra fire trucks, check out my LEGO Wildland Ultra XT (with instructions).
Build your own LEGO Oliver Twist the pug dog [Instructions]
Even though The Brothers Brick's official mascot is some type of strepsirrhine primate, our unofficial mascots have always been my pugs, first the late, great Mr. Pugsly and now Oliver Twist. TBB's own Elspeth De Montes created a LEGO version of little Ollie for our recent calendar contest, and she has just posted simple instructions for you to build your own LEGO pug.


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When we first purchased this print we were struck not only by the beauty and clear, intense colors, but also by the imagery: the courtesans casually watching the storm, the prominent nature of the lightning itself, the comfortable setting with the brazier, blue and white porcelain teacup and the magic lantern. But it was the lightning which really caught our attention. For that reason we have assembled a page of print details illustrating the representation of lightning with an emphasis on the historical development and the variations in style. Click on the lightning mon below to view our page on lightning in Japanese woodblock prints. Illustrated: Ukiyo-e: Japanische Farbholzschnitte des 19. Jahrhunderts - Schenkung Dr. Hans Lühdorf, by Friedrich W. Heckmanns, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, 1990, p. 77, number 107.


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HINDUISM (India) - Shiva-Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance, is said "to have brought cannabis from the Himalayas for human enjoyment and enlightenment." The Sadhu Priests travel throughout India and the world sharing "chillum" pipes filled with cannabis, sometimes blended with other substances. In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna states, "I am the healing herb" (Ch.9:16), while the Bhagarat-Purana Fifth Canto describes hashish in explicitly sexual terms. BUDDHISM (Tibet, India and China) - from the 5th century B.C. on ritually used cannabis; initiation rites and mystical experiences were (are ) common in many Chinese Buddhist Sects. Some Tibetan Buddhists and lamas (priests) consider cannabis their most holy plant. Many Buddhist traditions, writings, and beliefs indicate that "Siddhartha" (the Buddha) himself, used and ate nothing but hemp and its seeds for six years prior to announcing (discovering) his truths and becoming the Buddha (Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path). Regarding the ZOROASTRIANS or Magi (Persia, circa 8th to 7th Centuries B.C. to 3rd to 4th Centuries A.D.), it is widely believed by many Christian scholars, commentators, etc., that the three "Magi" or Wise Men who attended the birth of Christ were cult references to the Zoroastrians. The Zoroastrian religion was based (at least on the surface) on the entire cannabis plant, the chief religious sacrament of its priest class, and its most important medicine, (e.g., obstetrics, incense rites, anointing and christening oils), as well as lighting or fire oils in their secular world. The word "magic" is generally considered derived from the Zoroastrians "Magi." The Mysteries of Mithras was a synthesis of Zorasterianism and Gnostic Mysteries. The ESSENES, the Hebrew cult that penned the Dead Sea Scrolls and inhabited the settlement at Qumran, a plateau in the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea from approx. 200 B.C. to 73 A.D. used cannabis religiously. THERAPEUTEA, from whom we get the term "therapeutic, was a Greek term for worshippers of the Hellenistic Egyptian god, Serapis followers of Asclepius the Healer. Both the Essenes and the Therapeutea worked to synthesize Hebrew Oral Tradition with Pagan Gnostic traditions of the Greater Mediterranean to create a synthetic religion that would be generally undestood by the Hellenized population. EARLY HEBREWS, As part of their holy Friday night services in the Temple of Solomon, men ritually passed around and inhaled from incense burners filled with kanabosom (cannabis), before returning home for the largest meal of the week . The Therapeutea continued this ritual. SUFIS OF ISLAM (Middle East) - Muslim "mystical" priests who have taught, used and extolled cannabis for divine revelation, insight and oneness with Allah, for at least the last 1,000 years. The mysticism of the Sufi Priests descended from the synthesis of Gnostic Mysteries with Islam which survived the Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th Centuries A.D. and subsequent conversion (change your religion and give up liquor or be beheaded). COPTIC CHRISTIAN (Egypt/Ethiopia) - Some sects believe the sacred "green herb of the field" in the Bible and the Biblical secret incenses, sweet incenses and anointing oils to be cannabis. The BANTUS (Africa) - had secret Dagga Cults,* societies which restricted cannabis use to the ruling men. The Pygmies, Zulus and Hottentots all found it an indispensable medication for cramps, epilepsy and gout, and as a religious sacrament. *These "Dagga" cults believed Holy Cannabis was brought to Earth by the Gods, in particular from the "Two Dog Star" system that we call Sirius A and B. "Dagga" literally means "cannabis." Interestingly, the surviving Indo-European word for the plant can also be read as "canna," "reed" and "bi," "two," as well as "canna," as in canine; and "bis," meaning two (bi) "Two Dogs." The RASTAFARIANS (Jamaica and elsewhere) are a contemporary religious sect that uses "ganja" as its sacred sacrament to communicate with God (Jah). "And the Earth brought forth grass and herb-yielding seed after its kind and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after its kind: and God saw that it was good." Genesis: Chapt. 1: Verse 12 "God makes the Earth yield healing herbs, which the prudent man should not neglect." Sirach: 38:4 "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; That which cometh out of the mouth defileth a man." Jesus, quoted: Matt. 15:11. "In later times, some shall speak lies in hypocrisy commanding to abstain from that which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." Paul: 1 Tim. 4:1 Many historical biblical scholars believe that Jesus of Nazareth was an Essene or aligned with the Essenes . Josephus identified the Essenes as one of the three major Jewish sects - the Pharisees and the Sadducees being the other two at that period of time. The Pharisees informed future Judaism. The Sadducees informed Zionism enhancing and elevating the ponerological pathology of the "Chosen Ones". The Essenes were the librarians of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the historians of local events. The accounts of Josephus and Philo state that the Essenes led a strictly celibate and communal life - often compared by scholars to later Christian monastic living - although Josephus speaks also of another "rank of Essenes" that did get married. According to Josephus, the Essenes observed collective ownership, elected a communal leader with law enforcement executive power, were forbidden from swearing oaths and sacrificing animals, were charged with controlling their temper and act as channels of peace, carried weapons only as protection against robbers, had no slaves but served each other and, as a result of communal ownership, did not engage in trading. Both Josephus and Philo have lengthy accounts of their communal meetings, meals and religious celebrations. According to the Dead Sea Scrolls the Essenes' community school at Qumran was called "Yahad" (meaning "unity") in order to differentiate themselves from the rest of the Jews who are repeatedly labeled "The Breakers of the Covenant". The online jewishencyclopedia defines Essenes as "A branch of the Pharisees who conformed to the most rigid rules of Levitical purity while aspiring to the highest degree of holiness. They lived solely by the work of their hands and in a state of communism, devoted their time to study and devotion and to the practice of benevolence, and refrained as far as feasible from conjugal intercourse and sensual pleasures, in order to be initiated into the highest mysteries of heaven." cannabis usersBarack Hussein Obama II - president of the united statesWilliam Jefferson Clinton - president of the united states (but he did not inhale) Michael Phelps - won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics the CIA and drugs"The CIA's a bureaucracy which feeds on itself, and those involved are constantly sitting around thinking up schemes for [foreign] intervention which will win them promotions and justify further additions to the staff. It self-generates interventions that otherwise never would be thought of, let alone authorized." - Senator Frank ChurchA pattern has become apparent in regimes installed or supported by the CIA. Nearly every regime seems to derive a portion of its cash flow from the distribution of narcotics. There is always someone very close to the installed puppet, a relative, that seems to heavily involved in a narcotics supply network. In China Chiang Kai-shek and his brother-in-law T.V. Soong; in Mexico Luis Echeverría Álvarez and his brother-in-law Rubén Zuno Arce; in Iran Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and his twin sister Ashraf Pahlavi; in Vietnam Ngô dình Diem and his brother Ngô dình Nhu; in Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and his brother Ahmed Wali Karzai. In the absence of a popular base for externally installed puppets external funds are needed for political repression. The American presence in Afghanistan was weakened initially by its dependence on a drug-trafficking Tajik-Uzbek minority coalition - the Northern Alliance. The CIA's principal ally was Ahmad Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance was a drug trafficker. "Since 2002, the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan at all levels' has been based on an implied strategy of attrition via clearing operations virtually identical to those pursued in Vietnam. In Vietnam, they were dubbed "search and destroy missions;" in Afghanistan they are called "clearing operations" and "compound searches," but the purpose is the same, to find easily replaced weapons or clear a tiny, arbitrarily chosen patch of worthless ground for a short period, and then turn it over to indigenous security forces who can't hold it, and then go do it again somewhere else." - Thomas Johnson When the CIA began supporting the Laotian Phoumi Nosavan in 1959 they saw opium traffic as an alternative source of income for Phoumi Nosavan's government. This decision ultimately led to the growth of northwest Laos as one of the largest heroin-producing centers in the world in the late 1960s. The CIA not only supported General Ouan Rattikone (Phoumi's successor) and his drug-funded army, it supplied airplanes for opium transportation and intervened militarily with air support in a battle over a contested opium caravan in Laos. Conversely, when the US withdrew from Laos in the 1970s, opium production plummeted, from an estimated 200 tons in 1975 to 30 tons in 1984. A Senate staff report has estimated "that $500 billion to $1 trillion in criminal proceeds are laundered through banks worldwide each year, with about half of that amount moved through United States banks." The London Independent reported in 2004 that drug trafficking constitutes "the third biggest global commodity in cash terms after oil and the arms trade." Washington and the mass media have portrayed the U.S. in the forefront of the struggle against narco trafficking, drug laundering and political corruption: the image is of clean white hands fighting dirty money from the Third world (or the ex-Communist countries). The truth is exactly the opposite. U.S. banks have developed a highly elaborate set of policies for transferring illicit funds to the U.S., investing those funds in legitimate businesses or U.S. government bonds and legitimating them. The U.S. Congress has held numerous hearings, provided detailed exposés of the illicit practices of the banks, passed several laws and called for stiffer enforcement by any number of public regulators and private bankers. Yet the biggest banks continue their practices, the sums of dirty money grows exponentially, because both the State and the banks have neither the will nor the interest to put an end to the practices that provide high profits and buttress an otherwise fragile empire. In the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, this analysis found support from the claim of Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, that "Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis." According to the London Observer, Costa said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result... Costa said evidence that illegal money was being absorbed into the financial system was first drawn to his attention by intelligence agencies and prosecutors around 18 months ago. "In many instances, the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital. In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor," he said. As I have observed elsewhere about the U.S. campaign against the FARC and cocaine in Colombia, the aim of all U.S. anti drug campaigns abroad has never been the hopeless ideal of eradication. The aim of all such campaigns has been to alter market share: to target specific enemies and thus ensure that the drug traffic remains under the control of those traffickers who are allies of the state security apparatus and/or the CIA. This was notably true of Laos" - Peter Dale Scott the Golden TriangleFollowing the effective suppression of the heroin© trade in America during World War II and the subsequent decision to stamp out opium growing by Turkey which had been one of the main sources of raw opium organized crime in both America and Europe collaborated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to establish new centers of opium production, heroin© refining and distribution in Southeast Asia; these collaborations were greatly facilitated by the Central Intelligence Agency and by the unstable political situation created by the ongoing Vietnam War. During the First Indochina War (1947-1954), the French SDECE military intelligence agency was in need of money for its covert operations. Its officers contacted opium producers in the Golden Triangle, and set up an international system of smuggling, the French Connection, aided by intelligence and other aid from SDECE. The "French Connection" conspiracy arose from an alliance between the Corsican Mafia, who had an historical presence in South Vietnam dating back to the French occupation, and leading members of the American and Sicilian Mafia, under the leadership of Lucky Luciano, who had been imprisoned in the U.S. during World War II for racketeering, but was asked to provide assistance to American military intelligence about Axis infiltration of the waterfront in American ports (which was effectively controlled by the Mafia), as well as assisting Allied forces in their invasion of Sicily and Italy. He reportedly used his contacts in the Sicilian Mafia to assist U.S. forces by gathering intelligence and identifying both fascist collaborators and Socialist/Communist elements in the Italian resistance movement, who were then systematically eliminated. In return for his assistance, Luciano was covertly permitted to run his crime operations from prison, and at the end of the war he was deported back to Sicily, where he immediately began a major expansion of his drug operations, forging alliances with Corsican Mafia members in South Vietnam and organized crime figures in other countries, including Australia. "American involvement had gone far beyond coincidental complicity; embassies had covered up involvement by client governments, CIA contract airlines had carried opium, and individual CIA agents had winked at the opium traffic. As an indirect consequence of American involvement in the Golden Triangle until 1972, opium production steadily increased. Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle grew 70 percent of the world's illicit opium, supplied an estimated 30 percent of America's heroin©, and was capable of supplying the United States with unlimited quantities of heroin© for generations to come." - Alfred W. McCoy The CIA recruited drug lords in Burma in 1950 in operations against China and was involved in drug trafficking from 1965 to 1975 in Laos and through the 1980s in Afghanistan, supporting for example the drug and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hezbi-i Islami guerilla group. CIA controlled banks have been involved with money laundering activities. Castle Bank was replaced by the Nugan Hand Bank, who had as legal council William Colby, retired head of the CIA. "The boom in the Pakistan drug trade was financed by BCCI."- Alfred W. McCoy a group of Nicaraguan exiles set up a cocaine ring in CaliforniaA group of Nicaraguan exiles set up a cocaine ring in California, establishing ties with the black street gangs of South Central Los Angeles who manufactured crack out of shipments of powder cocaine. The profits made by the Nicaraguan exiles was funneled back to the Contra army - created in the late 1970s by the Central Intelligence Agency, with the mission of sabotaging the Sandinista revolution that had evicted Anastasio Somoza and his corrupt clique in 1979."For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the CIA." - Gary Webb That San Francisco drug ring was headed by a Nicaraguan exile named Norwin Meneses Cantarero, who served "as the head of security and intelligence" for the leading organization in the Contra coalition, the FDN or Fuerza Democratico Nicaraguense. The FDN was headed by Enrique Bermudez and Adolfo Calero, who had been installed in those positions under the oversight of the CIA. Meneses came from a family intimately linked to the Somoza dictatorship. One brother had been chief of police in Managua. Two other brothers were generals in the force most loyal to Somoza, the National Guard. While his brothers were assisting Somoza in the political dictatorship that darkened Nicaragua for many decades, Norwin Meneses applied his energies mostly to straightforwardly criminal enterprises in the civil sector. He ran a car theft ring and was also one of the top drug traffickers in Nicaragua, where he was known as El Rey del Drogas (the king of drugs). Meneses worked with the approval of the Somoza clan, which duly received its rake-off. In 1977, Norwin Meneses felt it necessary to register his disquiet at a Nicaraguan customs probe into his smuggling of high-end North American cars from the US into Nicaragua. The Meneses gang murdered the chief of customs. Owing to Norwin's powerful family, the case was never prosecuted. The US Drug Enforcement Agency and other agencies had been keeping files on Meneses since at least 1974. Yet he was granted political refugee status in July 1979, when he and other members of Somoza's elite fled to the US. Meneses landed in San Francisco as part of what became known locally as the Nicaraguan "gold rush." Here he lost no time in rebuilding his criminal enterprises in stolen cars and drugs. Meneses's contact in Los Angeles was another Nicaraguan exile, Oscar Danilo Blandon. Blandon had left Managua in June 1979, a month before Meneses, on the eve of Somoza's downfall. The son of a Managua slumlord, Blandon had earned a master's degree in marketing from the University of Bogota in Colombia and had headed Somoza's agricultural export program. Agricultural exports were an important component of the country's mainly ranching- and coffee-based economy, with the Somoza family itself owning no less than a quarter of the nation's agricultural land. In his position as head of the export program, Blandon had developed close ties to the US Department of Commerce and the US State Department. He secured $27 million in USAID funding and was well known to the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency, both of which had a commanding presence in Somoza's Nicaragua. (Somoza had sent his officer corps for training in the US, and the CIA station chief was the most powerful foreigner in Managua.) Blandon's wife, Chepita, also came from a powerful clan, the Murillo family. One of her relatives was the mayor of Managua. Like many other Somoza supporters, both the Blandon and Murillo families lost most of their fortunes in the 1979 revolution and burned with the desire to evict the popular government headed by the Sandinista commanders. Blandon and his wife settled in Los Angeles, where he started a used-car business. He also began to involve himself in Nicaraguan emigre politics. Testifying on February 3, 1994 as a government witness before a federal grand jury investigating the Meneses family's drug ring in San Francisco, Blandon said he drove to San Francisco for several meetings with Norwin Meneses "to start the movement, the Contra revolution." Blandon had known the Meneses family in Nicaragua. In fact, Blandon said, his mother shared Meneses's last name of Cantarero, "so we are related." He said he and Meneses "met with the politics people," but couldn't find a way to raise big sums of cash. In the spring of 1981, Blandon got a phone call from an old friend and business associate from Managua named Donald Barrios. Barrios, then living in Miami, was moving in high-level Nicaraguan emigre circles. This group included General Gustavo Medina, once an important intelligence officer in Somoza's National Guard, a position in which he had long-standing ties to the CIA. Blandon later testified that Barrios "started telling me we had to raise some money and send it to Honduras." Barrios instructed Blandon to go to Los Angeles International Airport to meet Meneses. Blandon and Meneses then flew to Honduras and, in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, met with Enrique Bermudez, former National Guardsman and military commander of the FDN. In Somoza's final days, President Jimmy Carter had made a last-ditch effort to maintain a US-backed regime in Nicaragua even if Somoza should be forced to quit. The plan was to preserve the bloodthirsty National Guard as the custodian of US interests. When this plan failed and the Sandinistas swept to power, Carter ordered the initial organization of what later became known as the Contras, operating out of Honduras. The CIA mustered Argentinian officers fresh from their own death squad campaigns, and these men began to organize the exiled National Guardsmen into a military force. Bermudez was key to this CIA-organized operation from the start. He had been a colonel in the National Guard, had trained at the US National Defense College outside Washington, D.C., and had served from 1976 to July 1979 as Somoza's military attache in Washington. Furnished with $300,000 in CIA money, Bermudez took command of the fledgling Contra force in Honduras. In the summer of 1981, at the dawn of the Reagan administration, Bermudez held a press conference in Honduras. In language drafted by his CIA handlers, Bermudez announced the formation of the FDN and his own position as commander of its military wing. The CIA script later installed Adolfo Calero, formerly the Coca-Cola concessionaire in Managua, as the FDN's civilian head, operating mainly out of the United States, where he was under CIA supervision. Blandon and Meneses arrived to meet Bermudez at a moment of financial strain for the Contra army, then in formation. The CIA had provided seed money, but it wasn't until November 23, 1981 that Reagan approved National Security Directive 17, which provided a budget of $19.3 million for the Contras, via the CIA. The Contras, Bermudez said, needed money urgently, and, Blandon later testified to a US federal grand jury, it was at this meeting that the need for drug money to finance the Contras was proposed. "There's a saying," Blandon testified, "that `the ends justify the means.' And that's what Mr. Bermudez told us in Honduras." Bermudez was not repelled by the moral implications of drug smuggling. In fact, evidence gathered during congressional hearings in the mid-1980s suggests that Bermudez himself had previously had a hand in the drug trade. "Bermudez was the target of a government-sponsored drug sting operation," said Senator John Kerry, who chaired a committee that investigated charges of Contra cocaine smuggling. "He has been involved in drug running." Kerry charged that the CIA had protected Bermudez from arrest. "The law enforcement officials know that the sting was called back in the interest of protecting the Contras," Kerry concluded. CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US Released on April 13, 1989, the Kerry Committee report concluded that members of the U.S. State Department "who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking...and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers." In 1996 Gary Webb wrote a series of articles published in the San Jose Mercury News, which investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly smuggled cocaine into the U.S. which was then distributed as crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. 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The New York Times has a section in their on-line newspaper reporting on International Terrorist incidents and responses to them. But what you won't find there is anything about Israel. Apparently a Palestinian terrorist blowing himself or herself up and killing innocent civilians isn't terrorism, when the targets are Israelis. You can check out Honest Reporting's article on the subject for more details but really, just click on the New York Times link yourself, it only takes a second. If you agree that this is a blatant example of Anti-Semitism then write to the New York Times.
Here is the letter I sent in:
I am confused and a bit scared by the New York Times section entitled "Threats and Responses – Targeting Terror" [1]. This is clearly supposed to be a list of terrorist attacks and official responses yet no attacks on Israelis or responses by the Israeli government seem to be listed. For example, the section on 8/18/2003 covers an 8/13/2003 New York Times article on a terrorist raid in Saudi Arabia [2] but doesn't carry an 8/13/2003 New York Times article on Terrorist Bombings in Israel [3]. Honest Reporting provides evidence from May of this year [4] showing that exempting terrorist attacks in Israel is not a new policy by the New York Times.
Are suicide bombers terrorists in Indonesia [5] but not Israel? How would the New York Times have readers interpret the omission of terrorist attacks in Israel?
Yaron Y. Goland
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/worldspecial2/
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/international/middleeast/13SAUD.html
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/international/middleeast/13MIDE.html
[4] http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/NY_Times_Ignores_Palestinian_Terror.asp
[5] The following link was taken from the 8/18/2003 edition of "Threats and Responses – Targeting Terror" – http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/international/asia/18INDO.html


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Politics of Queensland
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The politics of Queensland has several unique features with respect to other states in Australia including a unicameral legislature.
Constitutional structure[edit]
Like the other Australian states, Queensland is a dual-level constitutional monarchy. Thus the Queen of Australia is head of state of the Commonwealth and of Queensland. The Queen is represented in the state by the governor, currently Paul de Jersey. The governor appoints the premier (currently Annastacia Palaszczuk) and members of cabinet from the majority party in the Legislative Assembly.
Queensland is the only Australian state to have a unicameral parliament. The Legislative Assembly has 89 members and sits in Parliament House, Brisbane. The result of the Queensland state election, 2015 was ALP 44 seats, with the LNP 42 seats, Katter's Australian Party 2 Seats, and independents 1.
The Supreme Court of Queensland, Trial Division, is the highest original jurisdiction, and the Court of Appeal is the highest appellate jurisdiction within Queensland. The current chief justice is Catherine Holmes. The High Court of Australia hears appeals from the Court of Appeal.
There are several factors that differentiate Queensland's government from other Australian states. The legislature has no upper house. For a large portion of its history, the state was under a gerrymander that heavily favoured rural electorates. This, combined with the already decentralised nature of Queensland, meant that politics has been dominated by regional interests. Queensland, along with New South Wales, formerly operated a balloting system known as Optional Preferential Voting for state elections. This is different from the predominant Australian electoral system, the instant-runoff voting system, and in practice is closer to a first past the post ballot (similar to the ballot used in the UK), which some say is to the detriment of minor parties. The next Queensland election will use instant-runoff voting.
These conditions have had notable practical ramifications for politics in Queensland. The lack of an upper house for substantial legislative review has meant that Queensland has had a tradition of domination by strong-willed, populist premiers, often with arguably authoritarian tendencies, holding office for long periods.
While most Australian states have their populations heavily concentrated in the capital cities, Brisbane accounts for only about 45 percent of Queensland's population. The strong decentralisation of the population made the state a stronghold for the National Party. Before the merger of the Queensland branches of the Liberals and Nationals as the Liberal National Party, the National Party had been the senior partner in the non-Labor Coalition since 1924. In other states and federally, the long-standing coalition between the Nationals and Liberals typically has the National Party as the junior partner.
Recent history[edit]
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The dramatic collapse in support for the Goss government resulted in its returning from the 1995 general election with a majority of only one seat. This in turn was subsequently lost after the controversial and closely fought Mundingburra by-election. The Nationals formed minority government after securing the support of independent Liz Cunningham, with Rob Borbidge becoming Premier.
In stark contrast to some of his predecessors, Borbidge's government was not markedly domineering. However, controversies such as public service purges, disputes with the Criminal Justice Commission, and other scandals did do some damage to the government.
Events were superseded by the meteoric rise of controversial federal politician Pauline Hanson. Especially popular in her native Queensland, Hanson's decision to form her own political party (Pauline Hanson's One Nation) was greeted with apprehension by all the other parties, in particular the Nationals striving to maintain their rural conservative heartland. In 1998, a bitter dispute broke out within and between the Liberal and National parties over whether One Nation candidates should be ranked lower on how-to-vote cards than Labor candidates. Eventually, the Nationals decided to place Labor behind One Nation. This move backfired spectacularly in the election, with the urban Liberal vote deserting to Labor and an unexpectedly high One Nation primary vote of just under 23%, giving the party 11 seats in parliament.[1] Labor attained 44 seats, one short of a majority, and achieved government with the support of Cunningham and new independent Peter Wellington.
The new minority government managed to secure itself a majority in a by-election and was dominated overwhelmingly by the self-confessed "media tart" Peter Beattie. A major controversy broke in 2001 on the eve of the election, when a number of very prominent Labor Party figures were implicated in rorting internal preselection and party ballots. The subsequent Shepardson Commission of Inquiry was widely expected to destroy the government. Beattie immediately undertook a purge, taking the opportunity to dispatch several factional enemies, and promised a "cleanskin" approach.
To the surprise of many, Beattie's public contrition was overwhelmingly popular, and in contrast to its previous tenuous hold on power, the government won a massive majority of 66 seats, with the Liberal Party reduced to only three seats.
In February 2004, The Beattie Labor team was again returned to government with 63 seats, National Party 15 seats, the Liberal Party 5 seats, 1 One Nation and 5 independents.[2] This election saw the continual decline of the once conspicuous One Nation party from 3 seats in 2001 and 11 seats in 1998. It also saw the entrenched status of the Queensland ALP with its untouchable majority, despite allegations of bullying by senior Ministers, improper private use of public vehicles, the "Winegate" affair involving first-time Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Liddy Clark, and the government's repeated use of freedom-of-information laws to prevent the publication of potentially damaging information. Some notable outcomes of the 2004 election were the unseating of Labor Minister, Merri Rose, with a two-party swing of 15 points following her involvement in the use of a government vehicle by her son for private purposes, and the victory in former National Party Premier Rob Borbidge's seat, Surfers Paradise, by the Liberal Candidate, John-Paul Langbroek. Following the 2004 election, the National and Liberal parties ended their coalition and the Liberal party became a minor party on the back benches.
2005 saw a similar landscape for Queensland politics as 2004: increasing allegations that the Labor government lacked accountability and that the opposition lacked ability to hold the government to account. The once unstoppable National–Liberal coalition remained in tatters as the parties continued their war of words over who held the greatest chance of electoral success in the one-time National Party heartland of the Gold Coast. The Liberal Party was adamant that it had better electoral prospects by distancing itself from the National party despite the National Party holding three times as many seats. The premier instigated an independent inquiry into allegations of medical malpractice at Bundaberg Hospital, and in particular the circumstances behind the engagement of the unqualified doctor, Jayant Patel, more popularly known as "Dr Death", whose involvement was linked to numerous deaths at the hospital. Opposition parties and community groups protested that the terms of reference were narrow, avoiding investigation into broader allegations of maladministration of Queensland Health and bullying of departmental employees.
The resignations of deputy premier Terry Mackenroth and Speaker Ray Hollis triggered by-elections in the electorates of Chatsworth and Redcliffe on 20 August 2005. Both of the formerly safe Labor seats were lost and Liberal candidates Michael Caltabiano and Terry Rogers were elected as the new members for Chatsworth and Redcliffe respectively.
Following the announcement that Nita Cunningham would be retiring because of cancer, Premier Beattie called a general election for 9 September 2006. The Coalition failed to promote a united team under Lawrence Springborg MP, ready to assume government following a failed attempt to merge to the National Party into the Queensland Liberal Party earlier in the year. With the election due to be called any day, the Liberal Party surprised the public by ejecting long-standing leader, Bob Quinn, and electing Bruce Flegg MP as leader of the Liberal Party.
The election campaign started badly for the Coalition when in the opening days, Flegg was unable to clearly articulate the Coalition position should the Liberals achieve a majority in their party on winning government, and continued with numerous gaffes which were keenly covered by the media. The Coalition found it difficult to gain momentum after these initial blunders and despite a number of real issues to take the government to task over concerning infrastructure, the health system and water, the media remained focused on the personal leadership skills of the Coalition's front men. The ALP campaigned on the theme of a solid leadership team and this was overwhelming endorsed at the polls.
The 2012 election saw the Liberal National Party defeat the ALP, winning 49.65% of the primary vote and 78 of 89 seats, leaving the ALP with 7 seats (26.66% of the primary vote), the newly formed Katter's Australian Party winning 2 seats, and the remaining seats won by independents. In 2007 the Queensland Parliament had the highest female parliamentary representation in Australia and the third highest in the world, with 30 out of 89 members having been women.[3] After the 2012 election, Queensland now has the lowest female parliamentary representation in Australia.[4]
See also[edit]
- ^ Wanna, John (2003). "Queensland". In Moon, Campbell; Sharman, Jeremy. Australian Politics and Government: The Commonwealth, the States and Territories. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp. 93–94. ISBN 0521825075. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ Election Commission Queensland
- ^ Sanderson, Nicole (December 2006). "In the hot seat - Lindy Nelson-Carr" (PDF). profile. CityLife Townsville. Retrieved 2007-07-29.[dead link]
- ^ "Women parliamentarians in Australia 1921–2012". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2013.


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Maoists shot dead a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a Uranium Corp of India Ltd (UCIL) worker in Jharkhand, police on Thursday said.
BJP's Munna Gupta was gunned down in Latehar district late Wednesday by guerrillas from Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), one of six Maoist groups active in the state, police said.
The BJP leader was surrounded by 15-20 rebels, a few kilometres from the Balumath police station, when he was going to Balumath from Hehegara. He was killed and his supporters were beaten up.
TPC left behind pamphlets accusing the BJP leader of extorting money in the name of Maoists.
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