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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Taliban in Karachi
In its interim order on the Karachi law and order situation, the Supreme Court directed the Sindh government to take immediate action against all armed groups, including the Taliban, and to take seriously the issue of the Taliban presence in the city. The advice about 'seriousness' is particularly important given that the two alliance partners in the provincial government, the MQM and the ANP, have been at loggerheads over the issue, with the former insisting the Taliban were active in Karachi and the latter reacting angrily, refuting the assertion as an indirect attack on its fellow Pashtuns.
The nation's commercial capital, Karachi has attracted a large number of people from all over the country. Hence, even though the Taliban's home base is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and parts of Punjab, it is hardly surprising if some of them have found their way into Karachi - needless to say, not all Pashtuns or Punjabis sympathise with them. Also inviting for the Taliban has been the environment created by turf battles among Sindh government's coalition partners: the PPP, MQM, and ANP. These insurgents are known to have had a nexus with al Qaeda. How these links worked has come to light several times with the arrest of al Qaeda leaders and operatives who took refuge in Karachi. In May of last year, for instance, the security agencies announced nabbing a senior al Qaeda operative, Mohammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, a.k.a. Abu Abu Shohaib al Makki, from the city. In June this year, Karachi police said they had arrested seven suspects belonging to an al Qaeda affiliate, and recovered seven explosives-laden jackets, rockets and detonators from them. These people obviously had local connections.
Instead of squabbling, all political players need to rise above ethnic/political affiliations to face the common enemy. More importantly, the government has to act decisively. In its last year's verdict on the Karachi situation, the Supreme Court had noted that all members of the ruling coalition were responsible for endless violence and lawlessness, and made several recommendations to restore normality to the city. Due to reasons of political expedience, the government paid little heed to those recommendations, prompting the court to revisit the same issue this year. Meanwhile, the conditions have worsened, becoming ideal for the insurgents and all sorts of criminal elements to operate in. Interior Minister Rehman Malik has promised compliance with the court order this time, saying that Karachi has turned into a Taliban stronghold, and that the government would act in accordance with the SC interim order and go after the Taliban. He also claimed that some Taliban-specific measures had already been initiated. Any such measure in isolation from the other factors causing relentless violence in Karachi will be unhelpful.
Pakistan: Now another institutional clash?
www.dailytimes.comSpeeches the other day by COAS General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry had much in common and much to commend them. However, they did also contain some things implicitly that have aroused concern. On the face of it, the COAS in his speech to officers at GHQ seemed to be responding to recent criticism of some retired Generals charged with interfering in the political process (the Asghar Khan case, in which a former COAS and former head of the ISI have been squarely put in the dock), and corruption (in the NLC and now Fauji Fertilizers cases). The COAS' take on this was that individuals' mistakes in the past should be left to the judicial (due) process and guilt or innocence should not be presumed before that. Additionally, and perhaps more ominously, the COAS hinted at judicial berating and a media trial of the institution itself, which the COAS believes was undermining the public's confidence in the military, creating rifts amongst the high command (perhaps mere speculation) and between the high command and the rank and file of the military. Obviously, any such development that impacts on the internal cohesiveness and discipline of the military is bound to arouse the concern of the top commanders. At the hands of the judiciary too, apart from the Asghar Khan case, the missing persons and law and order cases in Balochistan have seen the judiciary criticising the policies and actions of the military and its intelligence arms in unprecedented fashion. It has been a rough two years for the hitherto unassailable and immune reputation of the armed forces, starting with the Abbottabad raid and winding its way through other embarrassing revelations and open criticism. This has naturally rattled an institution and its top command, accustomed as they are to a culture of unquestioning impunity inherited from our past of being a security state. The CJP hit the nail on the head when he said in his speech to civil servants that national security is no longer measured in terms of military hardware, but rather whether a state is answering to the needs of its citizens. Were that not the case, a superpower such as the Soviet Union would not have been banished into oblivion. But where there is room for concern is the reiteration by the CJP of the "ultimate jurisdiction" of the Supreme Court (SC) in matters constitutional and legal. The letter of the law certainly conforms to the CJP's formulation. However, in its zeal to correct "past wrongs" and set 'everything' right, the SC stands accused of intervening in matters beyond its turf. This activism, arguably unfettered by the time honoured juridical principle of restraint, has caused the court to become increasingly controversial, having brought it into conflict incrementally with the executive, parliament, and now potentially the military. Rights and wrongs embedded in the system inherited from a chequered past cannot be transformed to the ideal overnight with the wave of a magical judicial wand. Without in any way disrespecting the good intentions of the court, it must be reiterated, as we have consistently done in this space, that the respect and dignity of the judicial institution is too precious to allow even the shadow of doubt or accusation to fall upon it. In this regard, where there is much to commend in the SC's judgements over the past almost three years, there are also rising concerns about conflict and clashes between state institutions, which is neither the intent of the court, nor welcome, yet seem to be the inevitable and logical outcome of the court's well intentioned but arguably overzealous interventions in matters of great and even small import. It is not without interest to examine the process of evolution of the democratic system in the last five years. State institutions seem to be jockeying for turf and space, a process known to have been part of the evolution of mature democracies. President Zardari the other day characterised this process as the "dying kicks of the old order", implying the certainties of the past on which state institutions may have rested so far, were yielding to new realities in which each institution had to re-examine its powers, boundaries and limitations. It is no surprise therefore that every time a powerful head of one or the other state institution speaks publicly, the common point of reference tends to be a recognition of, and respect for, the legitimate purview of each institution, and appeals for restraint as far as straying into the turf of other institutions is concerned. May this democratic evolution finally arrive at an agreed delineation of these matters that proves mutually acceptable to all institutions. There lies hope and confidence of a better future.
Zardari warmly congratulates Obama on his re-election
President Asif Ali Zardari
has warmly felicitated President Barack Obama on his re-election as the President of the United States of Ameirca.
In a message to President Obama, President Zardari described his election to a second term as a clear reaffirmation of the American people of their confidence in his leadership and a powerful endorsement of Mr Obama's vision for his country.
The President expressed the hope that relationship between Pakistan and the US would continue to prosper during President Obama's new term in office. He stated that he was confident that the leadership of the two countries would be able to further deepen and broaden bilateral relations on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interests.
The President said that he looked forward to working closely with President Obama towards the shared objectives of peace, security, stability and prosperity in the region.
Pakistan: Terrorists creating panic
Reacting over the suicide blast that killed as many as six people, including a senior police officer in Peshawar on Wednesday morning, Senior Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bashir Ahmed Bilour said that terrorist were creating panic ahead of Muharram, Geo News reported.
Speaking to media, Bilour said that the terrorists wanted to cause terror among people days before Muharram but "entire nation is united". "We are not scared of suicide blasts," he added.
The minister said that a meeting had been convened on November, 11 to chalk out a security plan in connection with Muharram.
Peshawar suicide blast kills top Pakistan police officer
A suicide bomber in north-western Pakistan has killed a senior police officer and at least four other people in the city of Peshawar, officials say.
They say that the bomber, who was on foot, targeted the car of Assistant Superintendent of Police Hilal Haider in a congested part of the city.
Pakistani newspapers said that police bodyguards were among the dead.
Peshawar is near Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border - a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.
Violence from the tribal regions has in recent years spilled over into the city.
There were at least three bombings in Peshawar in September.
Militants have in recent months specifically targeted senior police officials in and near the city. A senior bomb disposal officer was among those killed in September.
'Deafening blast'
Police say that at least 30 people, including passers-by, were injured in the latest incident.
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman told the AP news agency that the group carried out the latest attack.
"We killed him today in Peshawar because he was behind the arrest of some of our fighters," spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said from an undisclosed location.
The Pakistani Taliban have been fighting a bloody insurgency for several years against the Pakistani army as part of their campaign to enforce their austere version of Islamic law in the country and in protest against the government's alliance with the US.
Witness Amin Khan told the AFP news agency that the bomber struck when he was in a rickshaw, going to the local market.
"Suddenly a deafening blast shook the area. My rickshaw was overturned. When I came out I saw smoke and dust had covered the blast site," he said.
Other witnesses described blood and body parts on the street.
The attack came as US President Barack Obama was re-elected - Washington is the main focus of the anger of militants in Pakistan.
During his first term as president, Mr Obama increased the number of drone strikes in north-west Pakistan against militants who he argues are planning attacks against America and its Nato allies in Afghanistan.
Militant attacks, drone strikes and army offensives have killed thousands of people in north-west Pakistan in recent years.
US confirms Malala attack mastermind hiding in Afghanistan
The Taliban leader who sparked international outrage by ordering the attack on a Pakistani schoolgirl last month has escaped retribution by hiding in a section of eastern Afghanistan where U.S. forces are already spread thin and focused on other targets, according to U.S. officials.
U.S. military and intelligence officials said that Mullah Fazlullah, the mastermind of the attack on 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai, operates out a region adjoining Pakistan where several hundred U.S. troops are stationed. But they said finding Fazlullah is not a priority because he is not affiliated with al-Qaeda or with insurgents targeting U.S. and Afghan interests.
"Our guys just aren't tracking him," a senior Special Operations official said. "He is viewed as an 'other-side-of-the-border' problem."
When asked if Fazlullah was a priority, a senior intelligence official responded, "Not with so many other potential targets" in Afghanistan.
Fazlullah's relative safety reflects a larger trend in the difficult terrain along both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border. Plenty of attention has been focused on militants attacking U.S. and Afghan troops from havens inside Pakistan. But officials said extremists from Pakistan also have managed to evade the Pakistani army and CIA drones by finding sanctuary in remote parts of Afghanistan.
"The FATA is difficult [for insurgents] because there are drone strikes," said a congressional staffer, using the acronym for semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas on the Pakistan side of the border. "It's easier to be in eastern Afghanistan where there's no real presence" of U.S. troops.
All three people spoke on condition they not be named because they were not authorized to speak for attribution.
Tom Collins, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, said: "ISAF is maintaining steady pressure on insurgents throughout Afghanistan. Mullah Fazlullah, like many insurgents who are transitory, remains a person of interest. If we receive actionable intelligence that he is in Afghanistan, we will attempt to take him off the battlefield."
Collecting accurate intelligence is the most difficult step in locating and attacking enemy forces. In Konar and Nuristan, the two provinces where Fazlullah is believed to be hiding, the problem is tougher because ISAF advisers believe the Afghan army is allowing the Pakistani Taliban to operate in retribution for Pakistan not doing enough to stop cross-border rocket attacks and armed infiltrators using Pakistan as a haven.
Not all Pakistani militants escape attack inside Afghanistan. On Aug. 25, one of the group's senior leaders was killed in a NATO air strike. ISAF said the leader, Mullah Dadullah, was helping fighters who had attacked Afghan and coalition forces and had close ties with al-Qaeda. Fazlullah, on the other hand, remains focused on Pakistan and he is not believed to have ties to al-Qaeda or attacks on coalition or Afghan forces.
The Pakistan government has criticized both the United States and Afghanistan for not trying harder to capture or kill Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan. Washington, for its part, has long accused Pakistan of refusing to take on the Haqqani network, which uses northwestern Pakistan as its base for attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
More aggressively targeting the Pakistan Taliban would divert military resources, particularly drones and other surveillance capacity, to the region at a time when personnel and assets are being reduced in anticipation of the end of combat operations in 2014.
But some experts say that reducing the threat to Pakistan's stability from its homegrown extremists should be a vital goal.
"I think it is in the U.S. interest to go after the threats to Pakistan because our policy and long-term interests are to have a stable Pakistan," said Wendy Chamberlin, a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and now president of the Middle East Institute, a Washington think tank.
The senior intelligence official said U.S. offers of additional training and intelligence support have been turned down by Islamabad, where suspicions of U.S. motives run deep.
"We could share more," the senior intelligence official said. "They actually aren't opening up as much as we would like them to."
The existence of a haven for Pakistani militants inside Afghanistan feeds the distrust that has developed between the United States and Pakistan since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, said Moeed Yusuf, who heads the Pakistan program at the United States Institute of Peace.
"Both sides have really been caught up for a long time in the blame game," he said.
The number of insurgents taking refuge in the border region has increased in recent years, particularly on the Afghan side, according to the congressional staffer, who follows the region closely.
Besides small numbers of al-Qaeda fighters, the militant population includes the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Afghan and Pakistani Taliban and a growing number of Punjabi extremists involved in the Kashmir border conflict with India, according to U.S. officials and outside experts.
"It's a jihadi soup," said the congressional staffer.
Fazlullah, also known as Mullah Radio because he uses a mobile clandestine radio transmitter to broadcast didactic speeches denouncing girls' education, music and all things Western, sought safety in Afghanistan sometime in 2009. He fled Paksitan after leading a gruesome campaign in Swat Valley, seeking to impose his extreme interpretation of Sharia law through beheadings, floggings, bombing girls' schools and killing hundreds of civilians, Pakistani police and soldiers.
A U.S. defense official familiar with the tribal structure of the region said Fazlullah has found sanctuary in Konar and Nuristan through personal ties with tribal leaders. His fighters have launched numerous attacks across the border that U.S. defense officials say are intended to raise Fazlullah's profile and make the Pakistani army look weak.
In June, about 100 of Fazlullah's fighters crossed the border into Pakistan and beheaded 17 soldiers. A year earlier, they had captured 16 Pakistani policemen and executed them by firing squad.
But it was the attempt to assassinate 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai on Oct. 9 that pushed Fazlullah into the international limelight.
Since she was 11, Malala had been an outspoken champion of the right of girls to attend school. Last month, she was on her school van when gunmen boarded the bus and shot her twice at close range. Two classmates were also wounded. All three survived and Malala is recuperating in Britain.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and U.S. intelligence officials say evidence points to Fazlullah as the person who ordered it.
The shooting galvanized Pakistan and many other Muslim countries. Muslim clerics in Pakistan denounced the violence and thousands protested in Pakistan. Perhaps feeling pressure from a worldwide condemnation, the Pakistani Taliban released a seven-page justification for the shooting.
But condemnation from Washington has been purposefully muted. Although Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized the attackers, others have not done so for fear of a backlash from Pakistan, where conspiracies about U.S. involvement in the country are rife and anti-American sentiment high.
Pakistani authorities have arrested at least 30 people for questioning, but say they have not yet found the shooters or their leader, Fazlullah.
Malala Yousufzai status updates 07 November 2012
The nursing staff caring for Malala at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham said she remained in a stable and comfortable condition today.
Barack Obama's victory: A big night for Democrats and liberals
To appreciate the magnitude of the victory Barack Obama and Democrats won tonight, think back to what the political landscape looked like in the spring. The Supreme Court appeared ready to strike down Obamacare, the President's signature domestic achievement. The recovery was stalling; Republicans were preparing to unleash $1 billion in super PAC ads; Obama's reelection seemed perilous; and Dem control of the Senate was in doubt. It looked perfectly possible that the congressional GOP's strategy of obstruction at every turn could be rewarded by voters, possibly with a return of one party rule to the GOP. The Obama experiment appeared headed for failure, and the prospects for the future of progressive reform were teetering on the brink.
Instead, Obamacare survived. Obama has been reelected with a resounding victory in the electoral college (the popular vote is outstanding). Democrats have routed Republicans in the Senate races. A progressive champion has been sent to the Upper Chamber in the person of Elizabeth Warren. The first openly gay Senator — Tammy Baldwin, another solid liberal — joins her. The Dem majority will be more progressive and energetic. In Maryland, gay marriage has been ratified by popular vote for the first time.
The story of this election will be all about demographics. As Chuck Todd noted earlier today, the fact that it remained unexpectedly close in GOP-leaning southern states shows that the GOP is not keeping pace with the changing face of America. Meanwhile, Obama's support proved unexpectedly strong among workers in the industrial midwest, thanks partly to his willingness to pursue aggressive government action to save a major American industry. Obama's team made the right bet on the true nature of the American electorate. Rather than reverting to the older, whiter, more male version Republicans had hoped for, it continues to be defined by what Ron Brownstein has called the "coalition of the ascendant" — minorities, young voters, and college educated whites, particularly women.
Obamacare will survive. It will continue to be implemented, and provided that it works, it will grow in popularity as its benefits kick in. The health law will slowly get woven into the fabric of American life, just as the major progressive reforms of the 20th Century did over time.
The economy is likely to continue to recover. If Mitt Romney had won, he and his ideas (tax cuts, deregulation, unshackling the free market) might have been associated with the recovery, leaving Keynesianism and stimulus spending thoroughly discredited. Instead, Obama and Democrats will hopefully gain more credit for the ongoing recovery, and perhaps the idea that government can act to fix the economy will get rehabilitated. Warren's victory is important here, too: The most vocal advocate of progressive taxation in the country was sent to the Senate, at a time when the argument over whether to raise taxes on the rich to help fix our fiscal problems is about to climax.
The GOP held the House, and the road ahead remains very difficult. A lot will turn on how Republicans handle this defeat and how they interpret it. GOP operative Steve Schmidt said on MSNBC today that this will require "soul searching" by the party. But there will be tremendous pressure on GOP leaders from the GOP base and conservative opinionmakers — angry about tonight's results — to continue to obstruct Obama at every turn. However, the President will have leverage. He will be able to point to the fact that Republicans lost resoundingly after adopting a four-year strategy of scorched earth obstructionism to argue that it's time the GOP sees the writing on the wall and cooperates with Democrats to move the country forward.
Obama wins 2nd term
President Barack Obama rode a wave of broad support from moderates, women and minorities to win re-election Tuesday by defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Democratic strongholds and key battleground states.
According to CNN projections, Obama surpassed the decisive 270-vote threshold in the Electoral College with victory in Ohio. That and a later projected victory in another swing state -- Virginia -- gave him 303 electoral votes to 206 for Romney, according to the CNN call based on unofficial returns.
Joyful supporters danced and cheered at Obama's victory party in Chicago, and the president thanked them for ensuring the nation will continue to move forward while warning the battle for change they seek will continue to be difficult.
"Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come," Obama said to prolonged cheers.
He emphasized his main campaign theme of fighting for equal opportunity for all, saying the political arguments that come with democracy in America were a necessary part of the process."We will disagree, sometimes fiercely," Obama said, noting that "progress will come in fits and starts" and the victory Tuesday night "won't end all the gridlock."
Foreshadowing hard decisions ahead, the president said blind optimism and wishful idealism "can't substitute for the need to make difficult compromises to move forward."
When he finished, the first family and Vice President Joe Biden and his family joined him onstage in a celebration of waves, hugs amid a blizzard of confetti.
In Boston, Romney supporters hugged and wept in a somber vigil while waiting for their candidate to concede.In a brief speech he delivered alone, Romney congratulated and said his prayers would be with the president at such a challenging time for the country.
"At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing," Romney said, later adding that he wished he had "fulfilled your wishes to lead this great country in a different direction."
Romney's wife, Ann, and most of his family, as well as running mate Rep. Paul Ryan and his family then came on the stage for a few minutes in what was a subdued farewell.Obama withstood a late push by Romney in Pennsylvania and won battleground states of Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada and Colorado, according to CNN projections.
One other battleground, Florida, remained too close to call early on Wednesday.
He also easily won traditional Democratic strongholds of California, New York and other populous states such as Michigan, the state where Romney was born and his father served as governor.
Exit polls showed Obama received strong support, as expected, from women voters as well as overwhelming support from African Americans and strong backing from Hispanic voters, similar to the coalition that carried him to victory four years earlier to make him the nation's first African American president.
Meanwhile, CNN projected that Democrats will retain their majority in the Senate, ensuring another divided Congress after Republicans earlier were projected to hold their majority in the U.S. House.The result showed Republicans need to recalibrate their approach to broaden their appeal to a nation of changing demographics, analysts said.
Exit polls indicated that white voters made up 72% of the electorate, with African Americans, Latinos and other minorities comprising a growing share.
"It's not about geography anymore with the Republican Party," said Margaret Hoover, a Republican strategist and CNN contributor. "It's about demographics, and we've got to start thinking about growing the party."
David Gergen, CNN's senior political analyst, said the Grand Old Party must move its foundation back toward the political center from the increasingly right-wing positions pushed by tea party conservatives.
"It seems to me that the lesson has to be clear to Republicans that they have to adjust," Gergen said. "They've gotten too far out."
Race was dead even in final polls
Obama and Romney ran dead even in final polls that hinted at a result rivaling some of the closest presidential elections in history, reflecting the deep political chasm in the country.
A heavy turnout was reported in much of the nation, and both campaigns expressed confidence that they would prevail in what was expected to be a long night awaiting results from the eight states still up for grabs that will determine the victor.As predicted, the election was decided in the battleground states, and as the returns emerged, it became clear that Romney was failing to win them.
Overall, Obama led by more than one million votes in the popular tally.
The president won his home state of Illinois as well as Romney' s home state of Massachusetts -- where the Republican previously served as governor. He also won Romney's birth state of Michigan, along with Colorado, Nevada, California, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Maine, Rhode Island, Hawaii and the District of Columbia, according to the CNN projections.
Romney won North Carolina, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Missouri and Georgia, CNN projects.
According to early exit polls, 60% of voters said the economy was the most important issue, 59% thought abortion should be legal and 50% wanted Obama's health care reform law repealed while 43% wanted it to remain in place or be expanded.
The breakdown of voters, according to the early exit polls, was 73% white, 13% African American, 10% Latino and 3% Asian. Pre-election polls showed Romney holding an advantage among white men while Obama had the edge with white women, and Obama receiving overwhelming support among minorities.
With the victory, Obama will face the challenge of leading a country facing chronic federal deficits and debt as well as sluggish economic growth in the wake of a devastating recession and financial industry collapse that confronted Obama when he took office in January 2009.
Around the country, voters formed long lines at polling places after record numbers participated in early balloting, indicating a strong turnout.
Sporadic reports of irregularities included malfunctioning voting machines and other problems, including electoral hardships for some struggling to recover from the devastation of Superstorm Sandy in states in the country's northeast.
A judge in Philadelphia, a heavily Democratic city, ordered election officials to cover a mural of Obama at one school used as a polling location after Republicans complained the painting violated election laws.
Elsewhere in the city, GOP poll monitors were being escorted into precincts by sheriff's deputies after some observers had been denied access earlier in the day, said Tasha Jamerson, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.
In New Jersey, which permitted electronic balloting in the aftermath of last week's storm, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union headed to court on Tuesday on behalf of voters who said their requests for an electronic ballot weren't being acknowledged.
Candidates usually take Election Day off, but both sides continued to make public appearances even as voting was under way.
Obama visited a local Democratic election center in the Chicago area, while Vice President Joe Biden made "an unannounced but long-scheduled" stop in the key battleground state of Ohio.
Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, also arrived separately in Ohio, with Romney's campaign plane and Air Force Two, which carries the vice president, crossing paths at Cleveland's airport.
Earlier Tuesday, Romney cast his ballot outside of Boston on Tuesday, while Obama previously became the first sitting president to vote early when he did so in Chicago last month.
New pressure for deficit deal
With the election over, the White House and Congress will face fresh pressure to legislate a comprehensive deficit reduction deal that has been stymied so far by intransigence on the issue of tax reform, with Republicans refusing to consider any kind of tax increase while Obama and Democrats insist on at least the wealthy paying a higher income tax rate.
Despite the building drama toward Election Day in the campaign expected to cost $2.6 billion, much of the outcome already was known.Only a handful of states were considered up for grabs and both candidates and their campaigns concluded an exhausting final sprint through them over the weekend and on Monday.
The barnstorming amounted to a montage of Americana electioneering, with Obama and Romney shouting themselves hoarse before boisterous crowds, joined by top surrogates and star power such as Bruce Springsteen singing for Obama and Kid Rock for Romney.
In their final speeches, the candidates and their running mates blended inspirational visions for a better future with well-honed attacks in hopes of ensuring their committed supporters actually cast ballots while trying to coax votes from anyone still undecided.
Obama briefly waxed nostalgic at his first event on Monday in Madison, Wisconsin, referring to Springsteen when he said: "I get to fly around with him on the last day that I will ever campaign, so that's not a bad way to end things."
He cited accomplishments of his first term, including ending the war in Iraq, winding down the war in Afghanistan, passing health insurance and Wall Street reforms, and ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that banned openly gay and lesbian personnel from the military.
Emotion overtook the president at the end of the day.
His eyes welled with tears as he thanked the people "who've given so much to this campaign over the years," during a stop in Des Moines, Iowa -- a place where his first campaign gained an early foothold in his first run for the White House.
Republicans pick up key seat in governors' races
For his part, Romney called Obama's record one of underachievement and failure, telling a cheering Virginia crowd at his second stop of the day that "almost every measure he took hurt the economy, hurt fellow Americans."
At an earlier event in Florida, Romney asked if people wanted four more years like the last four, raising the specter of continuing gridlock in Washington and adding that "unless we change course, we may be looking at another recession."
He had promised to repeal the health care and Wall Street reforms of the Obama presidency and to "limit government rather than limiting the dreams" of Americans.
As the challenger, Romney sought to frame the election as a referendum on Obama's presidency and to capitalize on his own background as multimillionaire businessman by depicting himself as better able to handle economic issues identified by voters as their biggest concern. His campaign stump speech hammered Obama over high unemployment and what he called excessive taxes and regulations that Romney said stifled faster growth.
Obama and his team attacked Romney's politics and his background as a venture capitalist, saying he would back policies favoring the wealthy over the middle class and exacerbate the already widening income and opportunity disparity in the country. The president wanted the race to come down to competing visions for the future and his oft-repeated goal of restoring the promise of the American dream of equal opportunity for all.
In particular, Obama repeatedly noted he backed a taxpayer bailout that helped restore General Motors and Chrysler while Romney opposed it. The issue resonated in auto industry states like Michigan and Ohio, which was considered the most significant of the battlegrounds in the final days of the race.
Opinion: Obama will get little time to celebrate
Campaign chess match
Aside from the policy differences, the election amounted to a campaign chess match targeting specific states and demographic groups as part of plan to create a path to electoral success. Polling portrayed a race that hinged on the social and democratic divides in American society, with Obama supported most strongly by women, minorities and young respondents, while Romney did better among wealthy and middle class white men, from senior citizens down to 30-year-olds.
In response, Obama emphasized the anti-choice positions of Romney and conservatives on abortion, their stance against gay rights and their opposition to providing a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.
Re-election offered Obama, 51, the chance to secure a two-term legacy and seek further reforms he promised in his historic campaign of 2008 but was unable to deliver in the first four years. In particular, he has made comprehensive immigration reform a top target, as well as a deficit reduction plan that ends tax breaks for income over $250,000.
However, the wave of optimism that carried to him to victory four years ago seemed muted during the campaign this time, with former supporters angered by the failure to achieve the kind of change in Washington they believed Obama had promised but failed to deliver.
For Romney, a multimillionaire businessman who sought to become the nation's first Mormon president, the election concluded a six-year quest for the White House.
Romney also failed in his first bid for the Republican nomination in 2008, then spent the next two years preparing for a second run that began in 2011 with a grueling primary campaign featuring a record 20 debates. Romney, 65, shifted to the right for the primary race to overcome a broad field.
Romney declared himself "severely" conservative and adopted stances against abortion, gay marriage and a path to legal residency for undocumented immigrants while also opposing higher tax rates as part of a deficit reduction plan.
His support remained steady -- though well below a majority -- throughout the primary campaign while opponents dropped out one by one until Romney emerged as the winner and claimed the nomination at the GOP convention in late August.
However, his campaign endured a tough September, due in part to some unforced errors. A secretly recorded video from a May fundraiser became public, showing Romney referring to 47% of the country as dependent on government handouts and therefore unreachable to him as a candidate.
When U.S. diplomatic compounds came under attack on September 11, including an assault that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, Romney quickly issued a statement that was criticized for mistaken information and seeking to politicize a sensitive national security issue.
Then, in the first presidential debate on October 3, Romney began an energetic shift back to the political center and scored a clear victory over Obama by presenting himself as more moderate than the right-wing zealot portrayed by the president.
Obama's lackluster showing in the first debate contributed to an overwhelming consensus among analysts and poll results that Romney carried the night, and he began rising in the polls to erase what had been a consistent Obama lead since the conventions a month earlier.
Stronger performances by Obama in the second and third debates began to slow Romney's momentum, though the Romney team claimed a surge put states like Michigan and Pennsylvania back in play. They were previously thought safe for the president.
With polls tightening in the final weeks, Romney or his surrogates heightened their attacks on key issues, including a campaign ad that implied the auto bailout led to shifting the production of iconic Chrysler Jeeps to China. The automaker joined the Obama campaign in complaining that the ad was misleading, and the president said it was intended to scare workers for political gain.
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However, the biggest impact on the end of the campaign was Superstorm Sandy, which blasted the East Coast from Maryland to Connecticut just over a week before Election Day. Obama and Romney canceled campaign events, and the president shifted to full emergency response mode as the storm and its devastation dominated the national focus for much of the final full week of campaigning.
On the ground, record numbers of voters cast early ballots as both sides boasted of ramped-up organizations to identify and contact supporters.
Overall, the total cost of the election for president and Congress could top a record-breaking $6 billion, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. The figure covers spending from January 2011 through whatever totals emerge after Tuesday's election.
Outside groups accounted for the biggest boost in spending, with independent organizations dropping more than $970 million. The increase was largely related to the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for super PACs to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money as long as they did not coordinate with the campaigns.
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Support for heirs of slain judiciary execs sought
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FOLLOWING the National Heroes' Day message of President Rodrigo "Rody" Duterte of looking after the welfare of the State's partners in its war against drugs and criminalities, Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Raneo Abu said the state should also address the serious challenges to the nation's judicial system, particularly the daily risks that dispensers of justice face.
"Dispensing justice is as risky, in some cases fatally risky, as the search for justice itself by victims of injustice," Deputy Speaker Abu pointed out.
This concern prompted the Batangas lawmaker to initiate HB 2683 to be known as the "Support for the Surviving Spouse and Children of Slain Judiciary Officials Act," filed on August 8, 2016.
HB 2683 is entitled "An Act providing support for the surviving spouse and children of slain Judges, Justices and other Judiciary officials, and for other purposes."
"The country, in recent years, has experienced judiciary officials being murdered, assassinated, and brutally killed by criminals in hopes of obstructing the ends of justice," Abu lamented.
He cited a report by Amnesty International showing that from 1999 to 2012, some twenty two judges have been murdered or assassinated in the Philippines, which translates to two judges being killed each year.
Abu added that Section 2 of R.A. 9946, as amended, states that "when a justice or judge is killed intentionally while in service, the presumption is that the death is work-related."
Furthermore, he explained that the daily job-related risks that judiciary officials face should be counterbalanced by providing them with a grant that will encourage them to fully perform their duties and responsibilities. Hence, this bill seeks to support the judiciary by granting benefits to surviving heirs in case they are killed while dispensing justice.
"This proposed amendment to R.A. 910, as amended by R.A. 9946, as amended, will embolden our judges and justices, especially the young idealistic judges and justices, to dispense justice without fear knowing that the government has their back covered and will support them and their families, as they uphold the rule of law," Rep. Abu stressed.
HB 2683, among other salient provisions, provides: "Section. 3 -- A. All pension benefits of retired members of the judiciary or their surviving spouse and children shall be automatically increased whenever there is an increase in the salary of the same position from which he/she retired or is granted benefits. If a surviving spouse and children of a killed Judge or Justice have not received the full lump sum due them within one (1) year from the death of the Judge or Justice, any lump sum still to be granted to the surviving spouse or surviving children of the killed Judge or Justice shall be computed based on the difference between the amounts already received and the ten-year lump sum based on current rates of salaries, benefits, allowances and other grants given to an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court."
It is vital to note that the bill mandates that the benefits shall be granted to all those who have retired or were killed due to his/her work "prior to the effectivity of the proposed Act." Initial funding for the measure shall be charged against the current year's saving of the Judiciary, and thereafter, such sums necessary shall be included in the General Appropriations Act.

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Apple denies having given iOS devices information to the FBI
Apple denied having given information identifier (UDID) Apple device to the FBI. Yesterday, a group of hackers leaked these codes 1 million , claiming that the laptop had been obtained from a federal agency, and that the original file containing data of 12 million people.
"The FBI has not requested this information from Apple, nor have we given to the FBI or any organization. Additionally, with IOS 6 launched a new set of APIs that will replace the use of UDID and soon we will eliminate the use of them, "said a spokeswoman for the company to All Things D.
The hackers claimed to have obtained the information from a laptop FBI Agent Christopher K. Stangl through a Java vulnerability. However, the FBI denied this information completely earlier .
"We never had information. Conclusion: It is totally false, "the agency said through its press office.
From somewhere must have gone AntiSec leaked data and seemingly legitimate. The option left – if any of those who have spoken lying – are developers, who have had access to the UDID before the change will be implemented with iOS 6.
Link: Apple denies giving iOS device identifier list to FBI (ArsTechnica)
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Rep. Maxine Waters, a far leftist from California, raised the specter of Impeachment Possibility while talking about the fate of President Donald Trump during a video talk she posted to Twitter.
My response to questions I've received about @realDonaldTrump & impeachment. In my estimation, he's leading himself to impeachment. pic.twitter.com/SByVtlxltT
— Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) February 6, 2017
Waters currently serves as the ranking member of the House Committee on Financial Service, and has been on Capitol Hill as a legislator for nearly 27 years.
In her video vent, she said of Trump: "[He's] done enough in the short period of time for questions to be raised about whether or not he is acting in the best interest of the country."
Waters repeated the mantra during various talk shows and social media posts, saying: "This man is questionable."
Here's a list of her grievances against Trump she finds "questionable" and possibly impeachable, according to AOL News:
"The congresswoman points to his refusal to release his tax returns, ongoing committee investigations into the Russian hacking of the 2016 election and the travel ban executive order now caught up in court as examples of Trump's so-called presidential errors. …
"The California Democrat is building her case on possible ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the president's 'unconstitutional' travel ban – which is part of what she describes as the 'chaos and disruption' Trump has caused in his first weeks in office."
In one other statement, Waters said Democrats would have to keep an eye on Trump, due to his "suspicious" nature.
"Because we are suspicious, many of us, about who he is, where he came from, what his actions are and all of his conflicts," she said, "we have to find out more about him. And some of that, I think, leads to the possibility of impeachment and I think that's legitimate to say given everything we know at this point."


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Sydney's summer was the hottest on record. AAP Image/Dean Lewins March 2, 2017 Climate change's signature was writ large on Australia's crazy summer of 2017 Andrew King, University of Melbourne; David Karoly, University of Melbourne; Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute ; Matthew Hale, UNSW, and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW New South Wales has just had its hottest summer on record – an event that was made 50 times more likely by humans' impact on the climate.
Cows don't do well in the heat. Shutterstock February 27, 2017 Severe heatwaves show the need to adapt livestock management for climate Elisabeth Vogel, University of Melbourne; Christin Meyer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Richard Eckard, University of Melbourne As the climate changes and extreme weather effects become more common, cattle and other livestock are becoming more stressed.
Emergency crews tackle a bushfire at Boggabri, one of dozens across NSW during the heatwave. AAP/Karen Hodge February 15, 2017 Climate change doubled the likelihood of the New South Wales heatwave Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW; Andrew King, University of Melbourne, and Matthew Hale, UNSW Heat records have tumbled across New South Wales as the state suffered through the weekend's heatwave. A new analysis shows that climate change made this kind of event much less of a rarity.
Sydneysiders cool off in heatwave conditions gripping eastern Australia in January 2017. AAP Image/Joel Carrett January 19, 2017 2016 crowned hottest year on record: Australia needs to get heat smart Liz Hanna, Australian National University; Kathryn Bowen, Australian National University, and Mark Howden, Australian National University 2016 is the third consecutive hottest year on record. How can we adapt?
Cyclone Oswald caused flooding that forced the evacuation of more than 100 patients from Bundaberg Hospital to Brisbane in January 2013. Dave Hunt/AAP January 11, 2017 Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts Martin Loosemore, UNSW and Anumitra Mirti Chand, UNSW Most of our hospitals were not designed to cope with the health impacts of future extreme weather. And hospital infrastructure has not been adapted to secure health care during such events.
When New South Wales burned in 2013, Tony Abbott was quick to point out that individual events can't be attributed to climate change. But they can. AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy October 31, 2016 Unnatural disasters: how we can spot climate's role in specific extreme events Sophie Lewis, Australian National University The science of attributing extreme weather events to human-induced climate change has evolved rapidly in recent years. But how we communicate it to the public has not kept pace with this advance.
Australia's oceans are heating up. Richard Rydge/Flickr October 26, 2016 State of the Climate 2016: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO Karl Braganza, Australian Bureau of Meteorology and Steve Rintoul, CSIRO The new State of the Climate report outlines Australia's rising temperatures and its regional rainfall declines - and the trends that are locked in for the coming few decades due to greenhouse emissions.
Huge swathes of Tasmania have burned this year. Warren Frey/Tasmania Fire Service September 15, 2016 After Tasmania's year of disasters, bushfire tops the state's growing list of natural hazards Christopher J White, University of Tasmania; Alexei Trundle, University of Melbourne; Darryn McEvoy, RMIT University; Stuart Corney, University of Tasmania, and Tomas Remenyi, University of Tasmania A comprehensive analysis of Tasmania's natural disaster risks has identified bushfire as the biggest threat, alongside emerging issues such as disease epidemics and heatwaves.
imnoom/Shutterstock.com September 7, 2016 Electric fans may not help the elderly in a heatwave George Havenith, Loughborough University An electric fan cools you down in extreme heat, but not if you're old.
The Great Barrier Reef is already feeling the effects of climate change. AAP/Supplied August 15, 2016 We have almost certainly blown the 1.5-degree global warming target Andrew King, University of Melbourne and Ben Henley, University of Melbourne Limiting global warming to 1.5℃ already looks out of reach, so where do we go from here?
Victoria was one of several states to suffer bushfires as temperatures soared in late 2015. AAP Image/David Crosling August 4, 2016 State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling Andrew King, University of Melbourne and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW 2015 was the world's hottest year on record. The US State of the Climate report has rounded up the litany of temperature and other records that were broken all over the globe.
Mrs Ya/Shutterstock July 20, 2016 The third day of a heatwave is the tipping point … are we ready? Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University Around 15,000 Parisians died in the August 2003 heatwave. So what lessons have been learned?
Scorching temperatures in Jammu, northern India. This month has seen records smashed in nearby Rajasthan. Jaipal Singh/EPA May 27, 2016 What is going on with India's weather? Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW; Andrew King, University of Melbourne, and Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute The city of Phalodi has set a temperature record for India, hitting 51℃. Until now, India's smog problem has curbed extreme temperatures. But that could be about to change.
Tasmania's bushfires damaged pristine bushland and stretched emergency services to the limit. AAP Image/Patrick Caruana April 19, 2016 Was Tasmania's summer of fires and floods a glimpse of its climate future? Alistair Hobday, CSIRO; Eric Oliver, University of Tasmania; Jan McDonald, University of Tasmania, and Michael Grose, CSIRO This summer has seen Tasmania suffer through drought, bushfires, floods and the worst marine heatwave on record. Is this what life under a climate-changed future will be like?
Bushfires and heatwaves are expected to increase and significantly impact on Australian cities and urban communities. AAP/Tracey Nearmy March 15, 2016 Hot cities: the 'smart' response to urban heat threats Wendy Steele, RMIT University; Ian McShane, RMIT University; John Handmer, RMIT University; Sarah Pink, RMIT University, and Yolande Strengers, RMIT University How well does the 'smart' city respond to the devastating scale and impact of urban heat threats such as bushfires and heatwaves?
Nice day for the beach. In fact there have been rather a lot of those in Sydney lately. Natalia Montes de Oca/Wikimedia Commons March 6, 2016 Sydney, so hot right now: what's behind the city's record run of warm weather? Agata Imielska, Australian Bureau of Meteorology and Blair Trewin, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Sydney is in the process of smashing the record for the longest run of days above 26℃. Weather, El Nino and climate change are all playing their part.
Extreme weather could trigger ecosystem collapse, including mass tree deaths. Dead tree image from www.shutterstock.com February 18, 2016 Rising extreme weather warns of ecosystem collapse: study Alfredo Huete, University of Technology Sydney and Xuanlong Ma, University of Technology Sydney Extreme weather will affect people and animals, as well as whole ecosystems. Research using satellites shows that ecosystems worldwide are vulnerable to collapse.
The cover that trees provide transforms cities into much more hospitable places, especially in hot weather. AAP/Joe Castro February 8, 2016 In a heatwave, the leafy suburbs are even more advantaged Rachel Hughes, University of Melbourne; Elizabeth Taylor, RMIT University; Melanie Davern, University of Melbourne; Nicole Cook, University of Melbourne, and Stephen Livesley, University of Melbourne Six years after Black Saturday, it's worth remembering that heatwaves kill more people than bushfires do, so shade can be a life-saver. But tree cover and shade are not evenly distributed in cities.
Rural southern Australia has been drying out over the past several decades. Pictured here, Burra in South Australia. David Jones January 27, 2016 Hasta la vista El Niño – but don't hold out for 'normal' weather just yet David Jones, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Andrew B. Watkins, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Karl Braganza, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and Scott B. Power, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Australia is the land of drought of flooding rains, driven by events such as El Nino. But despite this variability, some parts of Australia are clearly drying out.
A hot end of the year contributed to Christmas Day fires in Victoria. AAP Image/Keith Pakenham January 5, 2016 Australia's climate in 2015: cool to start with a hot finish Blair Trewin, Australian Bureau of Meteorology El Niño dominated global climate in 2015, but in Australia the story was more complicated. 2015 was Australia's fifth warmest year on record, and saw the return of very dry conditions to parts of Australia.
'Silhouette' via www.shutterstock.com Why losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
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Adam Rozanas How a Christian movement is growing rapidly in the midst of religious decline Brad Christerson, Biola University and Richard Flory, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Jessica M. Kuhn / U.S. Army Stop obsessing over talent—everyone can sing Steven M. Demorest, Northwestern University
American Community Survey (ACS) 2011-2015 5 year estimates, Table S1810 Six charts that illustrate the divide between rural and urban America Brian Thiede, Pennsylvania State University; Lillie Greiman, The University of Montana; Stephan Weiler, Colorado State University; Steven C. Beda, University of Oregon, and Tessa Conroy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Some people are natural team players. They are collaborative, they are easy to work with, they're committed and helpful to their team mates. When companies invest in team building events, it's these people who get even better. The same cannot be said of others. It seems to have no effect on them. They continue to be difficult to work with and this makes it frustrating for those who have natural preference for teamwork.
Working successfully in a team requires skill. Some people developed these skills early in their lives because they are naturally wired for collaboration, coordination and cooperation. Some people are more comfortable with being self-sufficient and getting things done with as little interaction with others as possible. There are types of work where people with these skill-sets can do well. However, a lot of organizations and business processes require interdependence where not being a team-player is a definite show-stopper.


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Before the farms there was the tall grass, and before that the boundless wind and whipsawing climates, and before that mile-thick blankets of ice. "A prairie never rests for long, nor does it permit anything else to rest," wrote John Madson in his book Where the Sky Began, an eloquent evocation of the changing heartland and its people. "Those first Europeans had no basis for even imagining wild fields through which a horseman might ride westward for a month or more." The land enlarged their spirits and made them prosper.
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Why Avemar With Meratrim May Be A CFS Cure
Disclaimer, This site is for Information Only And Is Not Intended To Prevent, Treat, or Diagnose Any Condition or Event. Use of This Site is At The Risk of The Reader, and is not A Substitute for A Doctor's Care. Here I speak only from my own Perspective and these methods may not work for individuals since all health situations are special as they are unique.
The odds of anyone getting cancer are now 2 out of 3. This means as I did if you have CFS you may have what seems to be a project on stress ahead. Can you imagine how I felt at first when I found out I had both? I'd had CFS for about 10 years and then skin cancer. It may seem incredible but I've survived and am thriving because not only is there a way to control 97% of the symptoms cheaply and with ease of CFS, cancer is often curable by the same method...
The way out, the way up, may be Avemar.. the Nobel proze winning powdered beer brew, essentially a small loaf of bread carbs, a small tablet that's wonderous, beauteous for cancer, yes there is such a word as wonderous, it's beautious, my mom the English professor and journalist says she hopes it's so..
Avemar as I'm taking it, about 45 dollars a month is a powerful powerful immune booster and modulator. It's believed by many the cause of CFS is the Herpes HHV6 virus, and Avemar goes deep down to cleanse out the virus. Untreated CFS has 10,000 times the viral load they find in research, in addition to HHV6 there are about 20 or 30 viruses in the muscles PWC's can't feel, but they are there. If anyone pays 45 for junk TV shows would anyone pay this much to both cleanse out all this junk and cure the cancer too?
As you may know your body only is able to stop cancer by constantly cleaning out all these threats, they lurk hiding pretending to be do gooders to your immune system, so they get by under the radar.
Avemar does a deep, deep cleanse, it's advertised to completely repair even a severely damaged immune system.
While in the US Avemar costs 60 per tablet or 45$ a month for the 2 and 1/2 tablet dose I'm taking currently, in Hungary where it was invented it's subsidized and all Hungarians can get Avemar for just 3$ a month or so. Avemar is believed to be of real worth for a long list of improvements in health and has been well researched.
Before Avemar, I was taking Activive from a company called Hello Life. Activive is great for CFS, it was like night and day, it reverses 97% of the symptoms and the enzyme deficiency, almost all the pain, the neural symptoms are also much improved like 97% improved etc, etc. It has no side effects and isn't edgy, other than somewhat if I sometimes miss a dose. But why am I talking about Activive with my click and spel left, if Avemar seems the solution for me?
First you may want to know it's an option, e.g. if you can't take Avemar if you had blood sugar issues (Avemar like powdered beer has a lot of carbs) or because of cost perhaps.
More important may be because it works really fast, the first day.. I was so greatful!!!!! I'm just great! Merely Amazing me..
And Avemar may be uncomfortable while you wait for the Avemar to solve the CFS so you may find more continuous relief while you wait.
As in, it often takes months of pain for some OTC's or perscriptions to work, I couldn't stand the thought of anyone feeling the CFS way for a day, I know what it felt like, and if I can spare you three or four months of CFS agony till the Avemar might be a cure, than you may like me and Activive in the short term till the cure might be in reach for you with Avemar.
Avemar is essentially, powdered German beer. It costs 180 for 300 tablets. The patent may not expire for years and it's just beer or bread as they say on a site like Denver Naturopathic.
The site says that this kind of bread, artisinal bread presumably has much of the value of Avemar if you merely bake your own bread by the recipe they give from their long experience in the bread booze biz, how to booze on slices of foam! Bread is much like beer, it has the same bacteria used to make each. At first I thought I'd have to make beer and other sites said that if my pot belly isn't a microbrew like what's his name the Ohio Jesus who had the yeast in his gi that always turned the water he would drink to beer not wine! The problem with brewing my own beer was that other sites I read in more depth seemed to say you have to get the brew just right of the beer or it's just a batch of vinegar, and this to spend all the money on a beer brewing machine and then perhaps to have it fail was enough for me to first try the Avemar to see if it even works, and yes it does. No side effects other than lots more energy and removed blemishes etc. after several months. I'm hoping to brew my own Avemar bread and then just supplement with Avemar I buy, this is in case the bread has no value for some reason, better safe than sorry, you know, it's always the second mouse that gets the cheeze, life is just this whey!
Here's the link to the site with Avemar recipe or see link at the bottom of the page;
At first I thought I couldn't take a higher dose (2 tabs PM 1/2 AM so no wooziness by the carbs all day if this may be possible. It definitely doesn't work as well at low doses, this 2 1/2 tabs is 1/4 the recommended dose, or 300 tabs a month for 180$)
I would get woozy from sugar before, so I use a weightloss formula called Meratrim to counteract the blood sugar issues and lose weight to boot!
More The Meratrim; ABOUT MERATRIM
It counteracts the two hunger hormones discovered in the late 2000's leptin and gherlin. Leptin, like greek "leptos" or light controls hunger, and ghelin controls satisfaction after you eat, actually it seems to moderate both. Like Avemar it profoundly influences glucose, this is one of the main ways Avemar is so powerful against cancer since cancer cells use 6 times more glucose than other cells. Indeed, like Avemar, Meratrim is a fitness and cognative booster in essence, and neither have edginess. And like Avemar, Meratrim is strongly anticancer, removing 80 to 100% of cancer cells in vitro.
One good reason it seems Meratrim is in reach for me is because as I say, Activive is not involved with chemical sensitivity like MCSS, and Meritrim has only two ingredients. They researched out of 10s of thousands of herbs that convert fat to muscle and improve hunger and so Meratrim has only two ingredients, Mangosteen and a herb called sphearanthus indicus, indian thistle. In the old days I wasn't much interested in multiherb formulas, and my common sense is aware here of the value of only two ingredients in Meritrim. You can buy it from Swanson online, a discount brand I've trusted for more than 15 years of experience. (Amazon may be unsafe for herbs, counterfeits by third world and shady operators abound).
If you have cancer and CFS even so you may not want to take Meritrim since more than half of cancer deaths are by starvation as the cancer uses up most of the energy your healthy cells would be getting.
Another way I use to save more on OTC's etc. is to take ginger which increases the absorption of any OTC you take by mouth. I'm in hopes I can get by with reduced cost of any other herbs I take. One problem is that ginger itself is rather expensive. So I take pepper with the ginger which boosts the absorption of the ginger itself 100's or 1000s of times. Absorption of absorption of absorption...Ginger causes low blood sugar, but Meratrim seems to counteract this also. I've had low blood sugar wooziness after sugar but this was only when I was also taking 4 or 5 other herbs that each cause this by necessity in the old days.
Avemar seems superior to Activive in general even with Activive's super anti CFS power because even if Activive is of real value and has no negative symptoms you can feel, it's complex while Avemar is simpler. In other words there would seem to be longer term risks of side effects possible with Activive, and on the insert they say it has all these great powers for anyone who's tired not just PWCs it also says just the one word "for temporary relief", (I don't have CountRight!). Even so it doesn't say for temporary use only, and I've used Activive for seven years with no side effects I can find other than mild edginess if I miss the dose. But Avemar may go deeper in to stop HHV6 which is well known to cause fatigue, 99% have HHV6 and it is believed it lurks until some stress or other burden then makes it able to cause CFS.
Also there is the problem that even if Activive is real good for CFS, if the Activive company Hello Life goes out of business and while businesses have life ever lasting "by some accounts!" then when the Activive runs out the CFS pain and confusion may return. Activive as I was able to afford it was when I took about 3 drops AM and PM and one bottle for 35 or so would last about 3 months. But it may not be simple or a cure or a way to save as much "bread" as Avemar...I can't afford a lifetime supply of Activive, it would cost thousands, so perhaps Avemar is better in the long run. I don't yet know Avemar is a cure, even so I'm already able to cut down on my Activive costs 3/4 with ease after 6 months of Avemar.
Avemar, for me at any rate, is a powerful way to defend against both cancer and CFS and all kinds of other pathogens. It may be a cure for both or for me, this may not work for you.
In the time until the Avemar takes hold against the CFS and cancer if you have both or don't want the risk, Activive may be of worth for healthy energy in just a day or so;
Avemar has blood sugar wooziness and is expensive. You may want to make your own Avemar bread as on the simple recipe on the Denver Naturopathic site;another way to save may be to absorb more with ginger, or even pepper with ginger to boost absorption.
To counteract the wooziness I use Meratrim (though this may not be for just anyone).
For the Avemar site how to make your own Avemar bread, Click Here http://www.denvernaturopathic.com/poolishwheatgermbread.htm


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Israeli hit squad that killed Hamas commander 'had Irish passports'
The Belfast Telegraph | February 6, 2010
Members of a hit squad that assassinated a top Hamas military commander used Irish passports to enter and leave Dubai, it's been claimed.
The suspected Israeli hit team, including at least one woman, entered the United Arab Emirates using Irish documents, police authorities said.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (50), held responsible by Israel for the abduction and murder of two Israeli soldiers in 1989, died in mysterious circumstances on January 20 in a Dubai hotel room.
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said yesterday: "We are aware of the media reports and we are in contact with authorities locally to try and determine the truth of the reports."
Al-Mabhouh was said to have been shocked with an electric weapon held to his legs and then suffocated or poisoned.
Iran and Hamas have blamed Israel for the killing, but Israeli news media claimed al-Mabhouh had many enemies and could have been killed by other Arab factions.
Up to seven people were said to have been involved in al-Mabhouh's killing, four of whom used Irish passports to enter Dubai and who later fled to a "European country" after the killing, according to police sources in Dubai.
Declining to reveal their identities, an official said UAE security personnel were co-ordinating with Interpol to have them extradited.
Al-Mabhouh had been out for most of the day and returned to his room only after 9pm, police said.
Pathologists were said to have determined the cause of death as asphyxiation, probably with a pillow found near the body and stained with blood. A room cleaner found his body the next day.
He had travelled to Dubai under another name.
The victim was said to have been in charge of weapons procurement for Hamas and was on a mission in Dubai.
His brother said it was not the first attempt on his life. Six months ago, he was rushed to hospital in Dubai in a coma and treated for poisoning.
Mr Mabhouh's funeral was held in Damascus, where he had lived for 20 years with his wife and children.
In 1986, US officials, including Oliver North, reportedly used Irish passports to travel to Iran to offer missiles for hostages.
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SAN DIEGO -- Sean Lissemore, the projected starter at nose tackle for the San Diego Chargers, practiced for a second straight day and appears on track to play for the first time in nearly a month in his team's season opener against the Arizona Cardinals.
Lissemore suffered an ankle injury on a cut block by tight end Zach Miller in San Diego's second preseason game, against the Seattle Seahawks on Aug. 15. He practiced for the first time on Monday, and was a full participant during individual drills in the early portion of practice for the Chargers on Tuesday.
The Chargers are not required by the NFL to release an injury report until Thursday this week.
If Lissemore can't play, rookie Ryan Carrethers and new addition Ricardo Mathews would be options to start at nose tackle.
"I'm feeling good," Lissemore said. "I'm working my way back into practice and just trying to get healthy. I'm mentally preparing, where I can't get any reps at some points. So I just watch the guys, and get those mental reps, which is really important.
"Arizona is a heck of a team, across the board. So we have to be prepared in all phases."
Inside linebacker Manti Te'o (foot) and defensive end Lawrence Guy (shoulder) also practiced for a second straight day on Tuesday. Safety Jahleel Addae (hamstring) and cornerback Chris Davis (unknown) did not practice for a second straight day.
Chargers name captains: San Diego coach Mike McCoy announced his team's captains, voted on by the players, on Tuesday. Quarterback Philip Rivers and center Nick Hardwick are once again the captains on offense, while safety Eric Weddle and outside linebacker Jarret Johnson are the captains on defense. Darrell Stuckey is the special teams captain. The only difference from last season is inside linebacker Donald Butler served as a captain in 2013.
McCoy credited the veteran leadership on the team for helping the Chargers get through some adversity and ultimately make the playoffs last season.
"The veterans on your team are the leaders of the team," McCoy said. "They take control of things. It's not always coaching. Players have to be held accountable to one another. And when you have good leaders, it makes everything a lot easier."
Added Weddle: "For them to vote for me is something I hold as a high regard. I don't take it for granted. I try to do things as best as I can, on and off of the field. And for them to recognize that, it means the world to me."


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I now made a little list with possible names.
Mutter aiþei, modar
Vater atta, fadar
Bruder / brother broþar
Schwester / sister swistar
Sohn / son sunus
Tochter / daughter dauhtar
Großmutter / grandmother - awo(fadarmodar, modarmodar)
Großvater / grandfather - awa(fadarfadar, modarfadar)
Großeltern / grandparents - fadrein
Cousin gadiliggs
Cousine gadiliggo
Neffe / nephew niþjis (actually kinsman, but Peter Heather sees it as nephew, which would be etymological logical)
Nichte / niece niþjo
Onkel / uncle modarbroþar, fadarbroþar / baro (vgl. barus (Rothari's edict)
Tante / aunt modarswistar, fadarswistrar / bara
Ur- - us-
Schwiegervater / father-in-law swaihra
Schwiegermutter / mother-in-law swaihro
Schwiegersohn / son-in-law megs
Schwiegertochter / daughter-in-law bruþs, snuzo
groß- / grand- - *mikil- / *alda-
Enkel / grandchild *barnisbarn / *leitilbarn / forms as above
I didn't know how to say uncle or aunt. When we look at the scandinavian languages such formulations are quite frequent. But there is no such formulation attested for gothic. And uncle and aunt are derrived from the latin language.
The dictionary of Köbler has forms for son- and daughter-in-law.
us- as a form for ur- seems also to be attested.
Even for groß- / grand- I wasn't sure. There are mostly forms with words that have the same etymologie as great- or grand-. But there is no such word in gothic. So, mikil- or also alda- could be possible, but don't fit that well in my subjective opinion. What do you think?


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Beijing – July 23, 2007 – China's intelligence services are gearing up for next year's Beijing Olympics, gathering information on foreigners who might mount protests and spoil the nation's moment in the spotlight.
Government spy agencies and think tanks are compiling lists of potentially troublesome foreign organizations, looking beyond the human rights groups long critical of Beijing, security experts and a consultant familiar with the effort said.
They include evangelical Christians eager to end China's religious restrictions, activists wanting Beijing to use its oil-buying leverage with Sudan to end the strife in Darfur and environmental campaigners angry about global warming.
The effort is among the broadest intelligence-collection drives Beijing has taken against foreign activist groups, often known as non-governmental organizations, or NGOs. It aims to head off protests and other political acts during an Olympics the communist leadership hopes will boost its popularity at home and China's image abroad.
"Demonstrations of all kinds are a concern, including anti-American demonstrations," said the consultant, who works for Beijing's Olympic organizers and asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The government, he said, is "trying to find out what kinds of NGOs will come. … What are their plans?"
While foreign governments often monitor potentially disruptive groups ahead of big events, Beijing this time is ranging farther afield, targeting groups whose activities would be considered legal in most countries.
As such, the move carries risks for Beijing. Evidence that the communist government is withholding visas or engaged in heavy-handed policing to suppress protests would likely draw negative press and could unnerve the International Olympic Committee and corporate sponsors.
Scott Kronick, the president of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide's China operations, said he raised concerns about the way protests might be handled when an official with the Beijing Olympic organizing committee asked him about the possibility of activists disrupting the torch relay.
"I said, 'People will understand that. That's the way different groups act. What you need to worry about is what your response is going to be and how you will act,'" said Kronick, whose clients include Adidas, an Olympic sponsor.
The Ministry of Public Security, the national police agency which runs some domestic spying networks, declined to comment as did the Beijing Olympic organizing committee. Phone numbers for the main spying agency, the Ministry of State Security, are not published, and the Cabinet's main information office would not provide them.
Concerns about foreign protesters are a reminder of how the Beijing games differ from most previous Olympics. Aside from the hefty $40 billion price tag and the government's outsized political ambitions, security poses a different challenge, complicated by Chinese leaders' repressive policies at home and growing profile abroad.
"They are worried about a larger number of things and they are worried about keeping the lid on," said Arnold Howitt, who runs crisis-management training programs for Beijing officials at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Like all Olympic hosts post-Sept. 11, China's security services are concerned about terrorism. Attacks by militant Islamic groups, some of them homegrown, top the list of scenarios the police and the military are preparing for, Chinese and foreign security experts said.
Yet China also faces a plethora of disaffected domestic groups – Tibetans eager to cast off Chinese rule, farmers upset at land confiscations and Falun Gong, a once-popular spiritual movement the government suppressed as a cult. A research institute involved in crisis-planning for the Olympics has looked into possible unrest by unemployed workers, analysts at the think tank said.
China has long been wary of NGOs, fearing they might be acting as agents for foreign governments or encouraging defiance of the Communist Party.
Those worries grew in recent months as a multiplying number of foreign groups mounted public campaigns to tie causes as varied as promoting labor rights and protecting sharks to the Beijing games.
The Darfur campaigners, who threatened to re-brand the games the "Genocide Olympics" if China does not pressure Sudan to stop the conflict, particularly alarmed Beijing.
"As far as the Chinese side is concerned, NGOs are a destabilizing factor," said the security consultant.
Though Chinese leaders believe a boycott is unlikely, successful protests by foreigners would not only tarnish the games but could also embolden domestic critics, Chinese foreign policy experts and activists said.
After four Americans unfurled a banner calling for Tibetan independence on the Chinese-controlled side of Mount Everest in April, China tightened access to Tibet for foreigners, especially Americans, Western diplomats in Beijing said.
In trying to neutralize foreign NGOs, Beijing is in part building on methods used to quash Falun Gong. After declaring the spiritual movement illegal in 1999, Beijing infiltrated the group and identified many among its millions of followers, both within China and overseas.
As with Falun Gong, the security consultant said government agencies were compiling lists of foreign NGOs and their members. He declined to specify whether electronic surveillance or infiltration, a textbook tactic for China's police and spying agencies, were being used.
Part of the research into NGOs, including into Darfur groups, was being conducted by the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, a think tank affiliated with the Ministry of State Security that also has an Olympic security task force, the two analysts said.
Officials in China's overseas diplomatic missions are also being tasked to gather information on groups, the consultant said.
When The Associated Press reported in May on plans by U.S. and other Christian groups to proselytize at the Olympics, the press officer at China's U.N. mission contacted the AP seeking more information.
"Africa, global warming, Darfur," said the security consultant, "without the Olympic Games, Beijing would not be paying attention to these things."
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London – July 23, 2007 – The decision to slaughter a bull revered as sacred by his Hindu caretakers is justified, a British court ruled Monday, overturning a decision by a lower court last week.
The ruling could spell the end for Shambo, a 6-year-old Friesian bull, whose life has been in jeopardy since he tested positive for bovine tuberculosis in April.
Local regulations stipulate that cattle suspected of carrying the disease be slaughtered, but Shambo's caretakers at the Skanda Vale monastery in southwestern Wales have mounted a campaign to save the beast. Hindus consider cattle sacred, and lawyers for the monastery argued that slaughtering the bull would interfere with their religious rights.
The monastery also took its case to the public, creating an Internet petition, a blog containing Shambo's "daily thoughts," and even a Webcast called "Moo Tube" that tracks the bull's movements around its hay-filled shrine.
Last week, a judge in Wales ordered local authorities to reconsider their decision to slaughter the bull. But on Monday, the Court of Appeal in London reversed the decision, ruling that Shambo's slaughter was justified considering the risk posed by bovine tuberculosis.
The disease can spread to other cattle and deer, and in rare cases to other animals and to humans, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The monastery said it was devastated by the news.
"This decision seriously disregards the principal tenets of Hindu Dharma (divine law)," Skanda Vale said in a statement, adding that Shambo should receive medical attention rather than be executed. "We don't cull infected humans, we treat them," the temple said.
It added that the temple's monks should not be expected to participate in any move to have Shambo killed. Sanjay Mistry, a spokesman for the temple, said it was likely the bull could be killed within the next few weeks.
Mistry said the monastery was still trying to determine whether or not it could appeal the decision.
Shambo is one of a herd of cattle kept on the monastery's 115-acre spread.
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Manila, Philippines – July 19, 2007 – An Italian missionary priest kidnapped more than a month ago has been released after negotiations with a rogue faction of a Muslim separatist group, Philippine police said Friday.
The Rev. Giancarlo Bossi, 57, was kidnapped June 10 in the Southeast Asian nation's volatile south.
Chief Superintendent Jaime Caringal, a regional police commander, said the Roman Catholic priest was freed at about 9 p.m. Thursday along the boundary between Lanao Del Sur and Lanau Del Norte provinces. "He is well, but he lost a lot of weight," Caringal said.
In Rome, Italian Premier Romano Prodi announced the release. "Father Giancarlo Bossi has been freed … I'm truly emotional, happy," Prodi said. "Today is his mother's birthday, so it was also a very lucky coincidence."
On July 10, a Philippine marine convoy searching for Bossi was ambushed by Muslim insurgents in jungle on the southern island of Basilan, and 14 troops were killed. The military blamed the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf for the clash.
Pope Benedict XVI said last week that he was praying daily for Bossi, and Italy sent a longtime diplomat, Margherita Boniver, to the Philippines to work for his release. Benedict received the news of Bossi's release with "great joy," according to Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi.
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Washington – President Bush signed an executive order Friday spelling out new interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects that bar cruel and inhumane treatment, humiliation or denigration of prisoners' religious beliefs.
The White House declined to say whether the CIA currently has a detention and interrogation program, but said if it did, it must adhere to the guidelines outlined in the executive order. The order targets captured al-Qaida terrorists who have information on attack plans or the whereabouts of the group's senior leaders.
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Cowper MP accused of misleading ads
As federal election campaigning gains momentum, the independent candidate for Cowper has accused the sitting Nationals' MP of running misleading television advertisements.
John Arkan says the campaign advertisements feature the National party's Luke Hartsuyker and his Pacific Highway plan for Cowper.
But Mr Arkan says images used in the ad are not of the Pacific Highway or in the Cowper electorate.
He says the Nationals have instead used vision of the Oxley Highway upgrade in Port Macquarie.
"I'm really disappointed that the Nationals have made this rather crucial mistake, it's misleading, I think it's something the voters can't really trust, I think it needs to be withdrawn and an explanation needs to be given, I think the local representative should know their area," he said.
The independent Member for Lyne, Rob Oakeshott, is also calling on the Nationals to withdraw the advertisement, saying it is false
Mr Arkan says voters are being mislead and the Nationals appear not to know their own region.
"I think it needs to be withdrawn and an explanation needs to be given," he said.
"Locals know their area and the local representative should know their area and should know the people, and if they are going to do any advertising they should do it in their local content."
Meanwhile, Mr Hartsuyker says Mr Arkan needs to get his priorities in order.
Mr Hartsuyker says the real issue is saving lives on the highway, which he is committed to doing.
He says he will not be removing the ad.
"You'd have to say that Mr Arkan's priorities seem extremely strange to say the least, that he would be focused on a few seconds of vision in a TV commercial rather than the bigger issue of getting the highway upgrade as quickly as possible, of saving lives, of making travel safe between Brisbane and Sydney, of working for the people of Cowper," he said.
"I'm not aware of the reference Mr Arkan is making, we have a range of commercials we have prepared and without knowing which commercial he's talking about I'm not going to comment on that, but let's just stick to the real issue here, fixing up the highway, just as quickly as possible, I'm committed to doing that," he said.
Meanwhile, Port Macquarie has been chosen by the Federal Government as one of 23 new GP super clinic locations.
A total of $7 million will be provided for the clinic, which will include after-hours GP services, designed to take pressure off the Port Macquarie Base Hospital emergency department.
The federal ALP candidate for Lyne, Dr Frederick Lips, says it will greatly benefit the region.
"The Government's inviting the stakeholders to make a submission, I hope that it's a cooperative submission that can serve the interests of the whole medical practice community and for treating patients and multi-disciplinary training for doctors and nurses and also allied health care work," he said.
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Localizing and globalizing Rails apps has gotten much easier with version 2.2. Add model translations with Globalize2 and you?re on your way. But where to store the locale? The session is a big no no, so it would be more elegant to just prepend them to the path and adjust the routes accordingly:
Rails routing is arcane and difficult, so hacking away at it is like stumbling into a mine field. Especially difficult is the preservation of url_helpers, so Sven Fuchs decided to wrap the whole blob with a routing filter whose sample implementation is in:
and now works out of the box, so there?s no need for you to hack your own filter module as it might appear reading the docs.
An alternative approach is translate_routes by Raul Murciano which might be more feature-rich. Also check out Karel Minarik?s sample app.


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There were cheaper ways of introducing the Public Private Partnership (PPP) deal for maintaining and upgrading London Underground, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report said.
Committee chairman Edward Leigh said: "It appears to have cost the public purse the best part of ?1billion to set up and finance the deals in this way.
"The PPP deals ... are inherently complex and have led to enormous costs for the taxpayer. The set-up costs to the public sector include LU's costs of £18million and the payment of ?275million of bidders' costs."
Under PPP, two infrastructure companies, Metronet and Tube Lines, are now responsible for maintaining and upgrading the Underground.
The committee's report said a bond financing scheme would have been cheaper than the PPP financing costs.
A recent inquiry by the Commons Transport Select Committee was also sharply critical of the PPP scheme.
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