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To fulfill the requirements of the Integrative Core Curriculum (ICC), transfer students matriculating at Ithaca College in summer 2013 and thereafter will complete a transfer student seminar in their first semester of enrollment. The transfer seminar will be a variable credit (0-1 credit hours) course designed to introduce students to the ICC and to determine each student's plan for completing the ICC. During the seminar, the student will be introduced to the electronic learning portfolio, will complete an initial reflective artifact analogous to that completed by first year students in the Ithaca Seminar, and develop a plan for completing any remaining requirements of the ICC. The seminar will also address the value of a liberal arts education and introduce students to the Ithaca College community.
During the transfer student seminar, students who achieved the student learning outcomes for an ICC component or components in their college course work before coming to Ithaca College will develop reflective artifacts addressing how their prior course work helped them to achieve the student learning outcomes for that component or components. For student learning outcomes not achieved in prior course work, students will, in conjunction with their instructor, create a plan for completing Ithaca College course work that achieves those outcomes; this plan will be completed by the end of the seminar (the end of the student's first semester enrolled at Ithaca College). Transfer students will have the option of completing one of the Ithaca College Themes (more likely to be an option for students entering with fewer credits earned) or an optional Liberal Arts and Society theme open only to transfer students. Students electing the Liberal Arts and Society theme must submit their plan for completing the theme to the Office of the Registrar after approval by the Director of the Integrative Core Curriculum no later than the beginning of their second semester of enrollment at Ithaca College. All transfer students will complete a designated ICC Capstone course.
Students who have completed an A.A., A.S., or bachelor's degree at a regionally accredited college or university before transferring to Ithaca College will be required to complete only the transfer seminar and ICC Capstone requirements to complete the ICC.
This policy will be formally reviewed every two years beginning in Fall semester 2014 to allow at least a year for changes to be implemented.
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The latest trailer for Peter Berg's board game movie is out! And it's all aliens, aliens, aliens! So many aliens! Alien autopsies, weird alien fingers, alien super-suits, and alien lizard eyes! Battleship is shaping out to be quite the explosion-happy summer action film. Plus, there's a great cameo by both wet Rihanna and Liam Neeson's Taken voice! What a deliciously unlikely combination! But the real question here is, why haven't we seen anyone scream "You sank my battleship!" yet? Battleship will be in theaters on May 18.
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This painting is part of George Colin's "Found Paper" collection. This unique collection is of George's earliest work as a self-taught folk artist. Papers was scare in those does, so he used what he could find. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and rare. It measures 16" x 20". Signed on front & back by artist & dated 1-11-1985.
This is one of George Colin's earliest and quite rare works on "found paper". When George first began, he considered paper too costly for his simple life, so he illustrated his works on paper he could find from discarded packaging. Many of the "found paper" pieces have advertising on the other side from that packaging.
About the artist:
George Colin, who started painting in late 1979 - early 1980, passed away in 2014 at age 84. George Colin is a world-renowned folk artist whose artwork is owned by such collectors as Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, former U.S. President George H. Bush & US Senator Dick Durbin.
A former assembly line flour bagger at Pillsbury Mills in central Illinois, Mr. Colin has had his art displayed at the Smithsonian, New York City's American Folk Art Museum & in many business venues and private collections all over the world.
Among Mr. Colin's many achievements, he illustrated the cover of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's The Band LP album titled "Jubilation" (featuring guest Eric Clapton). In addition, George illustrated the children's book " The Little Turtle" accompanying Vachel Lindsay's poetry.
Colin's paintings are showcased in Chicago's Bigsby & Kruthers clothing store in Lincoln Park, Oprah Winfrey's Eccentric restaurant, and Shaw's Crab House.
George Colin has been the subject of numerous documentaries on P.B.S., Lifetime & Discovery Channel. He has appeared in Art History, People, and Better Homes and Garden magazines to name a few.
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text: Eight-millimeter home movies and statist hymns from the Soviet past haunt Robin Hessman's documentary of a contemporary Russia pocked with international logos in which five Muscovites recall their lives and, in the process, 40 years of national history. A married couple, teachers Borya and Lyuba Meyerson, testify for the camera alongside Borya's grade-school classmates, now middle-aged: Andrei, a well-off clothier; Olga, a single mother working for a billiards-table rental company; and Ruslan, a retired rock star not reconciled to the new world. Each tells a parallel story of mandatory youth-group membership during the Brezhnev '70s, the disorder of perestroika, the optimistic euphoria of 1991's demonstrations, and the subsequent onset of adult pragmatism and disillusion — the latter clearly evident after the election of Putin's appointed successor, Medvedev. The subjects, plainspoken and insightful, attempt to extract the objective lessons of the political past from their subjective fortunes. This struggling to untie the personal-political knot makes for compelling oral history, even as Hessman occasionally overreaches to create anticapitalist anxiety, as when loading a scene of Andrei dictating company dress code with ominous significance. Adaptable Andrei thrives, as he probably would in any circumstance, while reactionary Ruslan shelters good-old-days memories from the reality of his still-gigging "sell out" ex-bandmates. The oddest evidence of Soviet-era cultural totality, however, is vintage footage of the band barking doctrinaire antiauthoritarianism, party-line punk.


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BEMIDJI, MN (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says the wolf suspected of attacking a teenager during a camping trip in northern Minnesota has tested negative for rabies.
The wolf that was tested was trapped and killed Monday at West Winnie Campground on Lake Winnibigoshish. Sixteen-year-old Noah Graham, of Solway, was camping with five friends last weekend when he was bitten in the back of his head, a wound which took 17 staples to close.
As of Tuesday, The DNR is waiting for DNA test results to confirm whether a wolf trapped and killed is the animal that attacked Graham.
Department of Natural Resources officials think it's the first documented serious-injury wolf attack on a human in Minnesota.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Forest Service has reopened the campground, which had been closed since Saturday.


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| This course covers a wide variety of project management subjects and offers practical application to your current projects. This course is designed to give you a working knowledge of project management. You will be able to use these concepts the very next day on your projects thus giving you the edge over your competition. This course follows the best practices for Project Management as outlined in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
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Aerial Views of San Francisco
Being able to photograph San Francisco from the air has been on my list for a very long time. Finally, after months of planning, the conditions were perfect for my first aerial photo shoot.
My friend and pilot, Philip Andre and I took off in our single engine Cessna from the airstrip in Palo Alto. Wheels-up at 18:20, just in time to make the pre-sunset golden hour lighting coming over first Sutro Tower, then the Golden Gate Bridge. This Bay Tour offered us incredible views of the entire San Francisco Bay, and allowed me ample opportunities to photograph all of it. This has a been dream of mine for a long time. Even with the window open and the surprisingly warm wind shaking the camera around, I managed to capture a few great aerial pictures of San Francisco. Score.
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In terms of preparation for my aerial tour of San Francisco, the photo gear that I decided to bring for this amazing shoot attached the the Nikon body was my Nikon 70-200mm F/4 VR for the majority of the flight. If I had a second body, I would have kept my 18-35mm F/3.5 attached at all times, but due to the limitations of the shoot I had to interchange those two lenses once or twice on my primary body. Not super ideal, but it ended up working out just fine. Almost all of these aerial images were shot somewhere between 80 and 150mm.
I decided to leave all my graduated filters in the bag. I wanted to spend all my time hanging out the window and shooting, not fiddling with my gear. This turned out to be a good call, especially because with the capabilities of Adobe Lightroom CC, I was able to post-process in a minimal but effective way, making graduated filters unnecessary for this shoot.
My Camera Settings for an Aerial Shoot
This being my first aerial shoot, figuring out my settings took some serious thought and preparation, and I definitely learned a lot in the process. I decided early on that I wanted to be able to focus on the view out the window, and not have to be looking at the LCD screen to check the exposure and then compensate over and over. Therefore I set every shot to take three bracketed exposures on high continuous mode. This way I was assured that every shot would have three options to choose from for the ideal exposure.
The 70-200mm F/4 has the best vibration reduction on any Nikon lens to date. And I can say for certain now that it really made a significant difference here. On the lens, I had it set to ON, and on ACTIVE, due to the high amount of consistent vibrations from the plane's engine.
I choose to shoot in full manual mode for shutter speed and aperture. However I did try something new, which was automatic ISO. You can easily set the minimums and maximums, making this feature essentially key to the success of this shoot for me. It allowed me to focus on the minimum shutter speed that I felt was required for the aerial vibrations and low evening light, as well as keep the f stop at it's lowest nearly the whole time.
All in all I am very happy with the gear and settings choices that I made. I suppose the only thing I would do differently is to bring an additional camera body, and a F/2.8 wide angle to capture the super low light better.
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One of our dear blog readers recently had her cover reveal for her upcoming book (it is really beautiful, seems to capture her story, and I love it). It made me think, though: covers are SO important. An embarrassing fact is that, way back when, I picked up the first Twilight book not because I'd heard about it but because of its intriguing cover. (There are actually a lot of embarrassing things about that sentence actually... moving along).
I DO judge a book based on its cover. I've heard other readers say the same thing on reviews (spanning genres). About a third of the books in B&N make me think, oof. Not something I'd want for mine, for sure.
I realize if you are commercial publishing, you ARE giving up some of these powers, I just don't know how much.
How much say does an author have on their cover? Can they give ideas to an artist or is this laughable and insulting to even think of such a thing? And then, is it ever appropriate to bring up the 'cover' issue when you are talking to a potential agent, esp. if all agents are different on these matters? I don't want to ever come across as insinuating that they (agent or artist) don't know how to do their job. But although a cover may seem like a ridiculous detail, it is so important to me.
The Twilight book cover is compelling, yes indeed.
Book covers are NOT something you talk about with an agent before signing unless you want to set yourself up for failure. If a potential client yakked on about how important "the right" cover was, I'd think not once, not twice, but three times about signing them.
I understand how much you care about your book, and how much you want it to have a good cover. I want that too. When you start talking about that before the manuscript is finished, before the book is on submission, before the book is sold, before the editor has done her edits, before the first marketing and publicity memos have been written, then what I hear is that you're obsessing about things before their time, and you're going to require a lot of education and handholding.
While this is not an asshat indicator, it's troubling. I prefer to work with clients who tackle the problems in front of them first and rely on their agent to advocate for them. Rest assured, I'm not going to say "make sure you put a godawful cover on that book."
More generally: Book covers are ENTIRELY the purview of the publisher. Most of my publishing contracts have cover clauses requiring "meaningful consultation" to "mutual agreement" but you'll notice that doesn't include "approval."
I'm sure if you sell eight gazillion copies a year you'd get cover approval if you want it but if you're selling eight gazillion copies a year, you've probably got a pretty good cover artist already.
Also: most authors have no clue what makes a good book cover. It's not just a pretty photo.
And forgive me for this skepticism: most authors who have strong ideas about what a book cover should look like also have no aesthetic taste whatsoever. To support this dire opinion just take a look at most of the self-published books you see.
While it's entirely true that some book covers from trade publishers are horrendous (and yes, I've had a few of those) generally you wait to see what you get before you start talking about what you want.
We all know book covers are important, crucial in fact.
But a smart author will know when to talk about that, and when to zip their lip.
Here's a terrific interview with a brilliant cover designer Chip Kidd.
(When I am Queen of the Known Universe and Absolute Monarch of All She Surveys, every contract I negotiate will mandate Chip Kidd as the cover designer.)


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Please login here: https://members.expertboxing.com/login
What if i forget my pw?
There's a "loss password" option you can use when you try to login. Or contact me and I'll generate a new one for you. You can also change your password after you login.
Russell Phillips
Hey Johnny, I lost access to my account as well. Could you please help me out?
Also, on a boxing note, do you ever turn into body punches to block them? I saw one instructor teaching this and I was under the impression that you would always drop the elbow to block the punch while rolling it away.
Hi Russell,
Turning into body punches to block them CAN work (and also help to set up certain counters) as long as you don't over-turn or turn yourself in a way that leaves you exposed.
Please contact me directly so I can solve your login issues.
Tomas Corby-brieger
hey johnny, i lost access to my account, could you help me out.
No problem, Tomas. I resent your login to you. Check your email now.
chris armstrong
just bought your package, stared to download on ipad then realised I needed to do it on my PC, stopped and now on PC but can't identify how to start the process
How do I recover to a page where I can download. I can't seem to find any link to manage it
Hi Chris,
You should have received a login email immediately after payment. In there is a username and password you can use to access the members area. Please check your spam folder if you don't see it.
Hi, i just paid for the advanced boxing workshop but did not recieve any email. I wpuld like to download the video onto another computer of mine. Thanks!
Hi Nash,
Please check your spam folder to make sure the login information didn't get sent there. The email will go to the same address as the one registered with your Paypal account. If you'still can't find your login, please send me a personal email and I will help you there.
Thank you for your support!
Matt Salceda
jus bought it Johnny kant wait to read it i love boxing try to find anything thats boxing to watch every day haha and i check my inbox to see if you post any new guides keep me posted and keep up the good work my boi!
Yooo Johnny!! I would like to become a member on this site so i can learn more about boxing with some questions, how do I make an account?
Hi Jayson,
The members area is for people who have purchased the premium guides. The members area is only for downloading ebooks and videos and whatever other premium content is back there. If you have questions, you can post them in relating boxing guides on the website. Or even on the Youtube videos.
Purchased "Dancer's Footwork for Fighters" on 4/4/14. Have no access to my account at this time. Never got an email (checked all folders). Password recovery did not work (no record of anyone w/my email address, for some reason).
Hi Eric…I saw the problem. The email was spelled wrong with "gamil" instead of "gmail". I've fixed it from the back-end and resent your login information. Please let me know if you don't find it.
Johnny, the 30 days fighter diet is just what I was looking for! I've been trying to get down to 141 without killing myself to do it and I've dropped 5 pound already a little over a weak in. Keep up the great work.
Very glad to hear about your progress, Brian. Thanks for the feedback!
hey man I cant access my account
Hi Jono, I resent your login to you. Hope it works now. If you have any more problems, please contact me directly.
I am just about to start the diet programme but would like to know what the best protein shake to take for weight loss. I am slight
Y disabled and don't walk as fast as others so it take longer for me burn fat. Could anyone recommend a good brand as went to health shop and was completely confused.
Thanks and happy Christmas
Thanks Johnny, I'll try the anti fatigue mat. (Just 10 dollars)
I'm having problems login in to my account
Hi Marcos. I emailed you directly just now.
Thank you for creating this book and videos. I have a few questions though. I I gave my friend the money and he bought this for course for me as I did not have a paypal account. I went back to log in w/ the information that was sent to him and it said that the account activated. I activated the account a few weeks ago. Is there any way to change the log in and the password so that it is accessible to me? I feel bad as all of the emails are being sent to him and he's not the one boxing. I am the one using the materials. Is there anyway to change all of this?
You can definitely have the account changed to your info. Have him send you the login information and after you log in, you can change the details yourself to anything you like.
Hey, I bought the 30 day fighter diet book, started to read it and now am unable to access it. I've tried login in but was unable to, and when I clicked on the "forgot my password" link nothing happened.. Can you help me out Johnny?
Hi Derek,
Please contact me directly in the future if you have problems. I have resent your login just now. Hopefully you get it.
Hi johnny
I have just sent you an email.
I can t access to the site as member.
Pb of password.
Thanks for your help.
Angelo Curro
Just bought video set with paypal . I was never given a password and my e-mail is somehow not registered on your site to retrieve password. Need help
Hi Angelo,
I sent you a private email. Please answer there.
Hello Johnny (again),
I purchased the 10 day course and do not have access. My email is not registered with your site (so I can't get a new password); no confirmation email from your site (including the spam folder); only proof I have is the PayPal transaction. Could you help me out? thx in advance.
Hi Phil,
I manually activated your account just now. I don't know what happened but thank you for contacting me. For future problems, please contact me directly (via email).
Hey Johnny,
Suddeny i cannot login anymore and acces my products
Hi Sebastian, I emailed you directly. Did you not receive it?
Yo Johnny,
I was try to download the dancer's footwork day-1 and day-2 but it is stuck at 90%. and the others i havent tried yet.
Hi Erwin, please contact me directly for a faster response. Try another browser, like Chrome or Firefox. And let me know if you're still getting the same problems.
Marines Solares
I pay the book, how can i get it? or how dowland
Marines Solares
I purchased the 10 day course and do not have access. My email is not registered with your site (so I can't get a new password); no confirmation email from your site (including the spam folder); only proof I have is the PayPal transaction. Could you help me out? thx in advance.
Hi Marine,
I contacted you directly. Please reply to me there for a faster response.
Pete Zackaroff
Johnny- I cannot access videos message display states: " Video can't be played because the file is corrupt".
Thanks for your help!
Adam Hatibu
Thanks men I just training to fight on friday, So thanx!
Adam Hatibu
#Adam_Hatibu, Can you tell to fight like Canelo?
Adam Hatibu
Am in Ghana, how can I buy your package?
Look at the products shown on the right side of the page and buy the ones you like. 🙂
Gilberto Carrijo do Couto Filho
Hi Johnny, I have purchased one of your products, I have the paypaul receipt but I didn't receive the email with the login information. I also have checked the spam folder and there is nothing there. Can you help me log in?
So sorry about that, Gilberto. My system acts weird with certain last names. I activated you manually. Please let me know if you received it now.
Caolan Cassidy
Hi Johnny, I have purchased one of your products, I have the paypaul receipt but I didn't receive the email with the login information. I also have checked the spam folder and there is nothing there. Can you help me log in?
Hi Caolan, I replied to you via email!
José Carlos González Sánchez
Hi Johnny, I have just purchased Dancers Footwork for Fighters but I have no access since my email is not registered with your site. I haven't received any confirmation email either. The only proof I have is the PayPal transaction. Thank you in advance.
Hi Jose, I've manually activated your account. The system sometimes has a problem with processing names that have accent characters. Happy New Year, my friend!…and please send me a personal email (for faster response) if you need anything else!
Ben Gale
hey johnny i also purchased the fighters duet and have nothing but my pay pal receipt. how do i gain access
Hi Ben, I resent your login just now…did you get it?
Liam Daly
Hey, Johnny.
I was just wondering if you have made any changes to the website. I can no longer access any of the forums or videos in the video library, even though I used to be able to. It just comes up with a message saying that the page is for EB Members only and it keeps asking me for my login, despite the fact that it says at the bottom that I am still logged in. I can access the courses that I have purchased separately (the dancer's footwork for fighters one) but I can't access any of the videos or forums. Have there been any changes to the website where I can only access these videos if I purchase a premium membership or is it just a problem with my login? If there has been any changes, then no worries, I was just wondering because I used to be able to access the videos/forums, but I can't anymore for some reason. If you could help me out, that would be great. Thanks!
P.S. Please keep the content coming, I always learn a lot from your videos.
Hi Liam, you probably had a free trial membership that came with your course. To access the videos/forums from now on, you need a membership. I think you should get the GOLD. It has all my guides and also lifetime access to the EB membership!
Love the boxing gloves reviews and have been following them over the years. It seems like prices have exploded: the Di Nardo gloves are now listed at USD 1800 when following the link. They seem to be updating their website though and may make some changes.


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Richard "Dick" Weigel
Richard "Dick" L. Weigel, 69, of Platteville died on Monday, January 21, 2013 at his home.
A celebration of Dick's life will be 1:00 p.m. Sunday, February 3, 2013 at the Cowboy Country Church, 1200 Betty Lane, Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Pastor Stephen Troester will officiate. Chapel Military Rites will be accorded by American Legion Post #42 and VFW Post #5274. Friends may call from 11:30 a.m. until the time of the celebration at the church. Memorials may be made to the Richard "Dick" L. Weigel Memorial Fund. Online condolences can be made at www.melbyfh.com
Dick was born on February 3, 1943 in Platteville, Wisconsin, the son of Clarence and Jean (Henry) Weigel. He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He was united in marriage to Shirley Bowden on February 18, 1967 at the Lutheran Church of Peace, Platteville. For over 47 years Dick drove truck where he received many awards for being incident and accident free during his career where he drove over millions of miles. He hauled milk while in school and later for McMorHan Co of Shullsburg. He drove for Ruan Transport for 15 years and then for Air Liquide America until his retirement in 2009. Dick was a member of the Cowboy Country Church where he served as a deacon. He was a member of the VFW and Teamsters Union. He enjoyed the outdoors and riding horse with his wife and family. He loved to spend time with his family where he cherished following his sons and their families in all of their activities.
Dick is survived by his wife, Shirley; two sons, Kenny (Carrie) Weigel of Cuba City, WI; Jason (Tracy) Weigel of Platteville; four grandchildren, Jamie, Brandon, Hailey and Jessa; sister, Barbara (Charlie) Bratton of Platteville; brothers, Ronald (Julie) Weigel of Mineral Point, WI; Mike (Buffy) Weigel of Platteville; brother-in-law, Norman Mauthe of Platteville; sisters-in-law, Beth (Roger) Steinhoff of Platteville; Nancy (Mark) Burbach of Elkhorn, WI; Paula (Dan) Cushman of Platteville; special nephew, Robbie Weigel and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, and sister, Joyce Mauthe.


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ANDERSON, THOMAS, clergyman in the HBC's service; d. 1696.
Engaged in 1693, he was sent to York Fort and after only a year there was taken prisoner when the French under Pierre Le Moyne* d'Iberville captured the fort. Anderson, being learned in Latin, was called upon to write the terms of capitulation. The interpreter on the opposing side was the Jesuit Pierre-Gabriel Marest*. Evidently Anderson died while still a prisoner near Dinant, France, in 1696. Whether he was the Thomas Anderson who graduated B.A. from Cambridge in 1684 and M.A. in 1688 has not been established.
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Guests: Phil Mudd, Mark Potok, Tony Perkins, Claire McCaskill, Mark Mazzetti, Debbie Stabenow
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Running for cover.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight:
Welcome to the real world. Disney World has two realities, the part above ground, where we take rides and eat fun food, and the part below ground, where the people who run the place move around, organize, do their quiet work. Well, today, the world learned that we the people are living on the playland part of the planet, not the reality. The reality is in the corridors of power that run below ground. The reality goes on down there, the work indoors, the secret Arab push, for example, for us to hit Iran. What do we really think of leaders like Robert Mugabe? All kinds of stuff going along below the surface.
But now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has to explain the hardball tactics we rarely get to see. We're talking, of course, about the planetary damage control from WikiLeaks. We'll talk to one of the "New York Times" reporters who broke the story and to Senator Claire McCaskill.
Also, if you want to know where the fight is in Washington, here you go. The Republicans are fighting to keep tax cuts for the wealthy while saying no to extending unemployment benefits for the unemployed. It's actually the same amount of money, roughly, but who gets it is the question. If the Democrats can't make a winning issue out of this baby, they shouldn't be in the game.
Plus, the conservative Family Research Council said it was a victim of a smear campaign after the Southern Poverty Law Center listed it as a hate group for its anti-gay views. One big reason, something one of the FRC people said right here on HARDBALL. Well, fasten your seat belts because the head of both groups will be here tonight to debate the issue.
And let's give credit to the FBI. Those agents broke up what could have been a horrendous terror attack out in Oregon. We'll talk to a former FBI agent.
Finally, what would Teddy Roosevelt have to say if that fellow up on Mt. Rushmore could talk? Well, what would he say about us, or what would anybody say about us? Well, a top Teddy Roosevelt historian says foreigners (ph), what they think of us is that we're insular, insensitive, lazy, obese and complacent—all that. Check out the "Sideshow."
We start with WikiLeaks. Senator Claire McCaskill is a Democrat of Missouri. She sits on both the Armed Services and the Homeland Security Committees. And Mark Mazzetti covered the story for "The New York Times."
Senator McCaskill, let's go to the news flash in here. I am—I'm not going to say I'm stunned to know that gambling goes on, like the guy in "Casablanca," but I am amazed to see all this information come forth about all these Arab leaders now and what they were saying about Iran. They want us to attack Iran's missile sites.
Quote—this is from the head of—from Saudi Arabia. He told us to cut the head off of the snake, words like this the cables expose various (ph) Arab leaders—Arab leaders pushing the U.S. to take out Iran's nuclear program. As I said, Saudi Arabia ambassador the United States Adel al Jubeir said that King Abdullah, quote, "told you to cut off the head of the snake."
King Hamad of Bahrain said, quote, "That program"—that missile program—"must be stopped. The danger of it—letting it go on is greater than the danger of stopping it."
And Abu Dhabi's crown prince said, quote, "Amadeenjad (SIC) is Hitler"
Ahmadinejad, obviously. And Lebanon prime minister Hariri said back in 2006, when he was parliamentary majority leader, quote, "Iraq was unnecessary," but "Iran is necessary." The United States "must be willing to go all the way, if need be."
Are you stunned at that candor from these Arab Islamic leaders that we should blow away, basically, Iran?
SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D), MISSOURI: Well, I think what I'm stunned about is that someone that had access to this information decided it was a great idea to make it public. That, to me, is terribly damaging to our national security. It's damaging to our alliances around the world. People need to feel like that they have the ability to speak freely in certain places about their fears and frustrations about leaders around the globe, and I don't know how we get our allies to trust us if we can't protect the information that they give us.
And it is extremely unfortunate, and I really do think it's time that we take a look and make sure that our laws are strong enough in terms of going after people who leak this kind of classified information that can kill Americans if it's used improperly.
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look at what the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said about those very cables describing Arab leaders' fears of a nuclear Iran. Let's listen because this is a somewhat different take, Senator. She seems to see the positive in this, at least in this portion of it.
HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE: Any of the comments that are being reported on, allegedly from the cables, confirm the fact that Iran poses a very serious threat in the eyes of many of her neighbors.
If anyone reading the stories about these alleged cables thinks carefully, what they will conclude is that the concern about Iran is well founded, widely shared and will continue to be at the source of the policy that we pursue with like-minded nations to try to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
MATTHEWS: Well, she's giving a couple of points there. One, the secretary of state says that it's good that we know, the whole world knows, that it's not just us and Israel that's worried about Iran, or Europe even, but the Arab world, the Islamic world is worried about them. She seems to think that even though she can't acknowledge the actual facts in these—these cables, and the wording, that the message is a good one for us. Is it?
MCCASKILL: Well, I think that if there is any silver lining in this very dark cloud that all of this leaked information represents, it is that it confirms that the leadership in Iran is distrusted by everyone in the world...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MCCASKILL: ... and that they are isolated in terms of their power. And it also, frankly, Chris, tells us that our alliance with Russia as it relates to Iran is incredibly important.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MCCASKILL: That's why I find it incredible that the Republicans are willing to put national security on the line in order to try to damage the president of the United States by trying to block the ratification of the START treaty.
MATTHEWS: I agree with you on that one.
Let's go to Mark Mazzetti of "The New York Times." Let's talk about
the impact of this, not whether the group, WikiLeaks, should have—leaks
should have published it, or whatever—I know you don't want to get into that—but the political realities of this. I am—I'm not shocked by this stuff, that Mugabe will do anything to hold onto power, you know, in Zimbabwe—hot flash.
MATTHEWS: We all know that. He's 100 years old. He ain't going to give it up to anybody or any election. Is it a hot flash that the Arab leaders, especially conservative leaders of Saudi Arabia, are scared to dickens of—to use a Christmastime reference—of Iran having a nuclear weapon and warning that if get the nuclear weapon, other Arab states will have to get weapons of the same kind. These are not flashes of news, are they? The only thing I think hurts—your reaction to this—is the Yemen president, where the Yemeni president, basically, is admitting that he's covering for us in attacking the terrorist sites in his country.
MARK MAZZETTI, "NEW YORK TIMES": And—but of course, that was—that's been reported for months, that the U.S. is behind this campaign of missile strikes in Yemen.
MATTHEWS: So what's the news here?
MAZZETTI: Well...
MATTHEWS: What's the horror story?
MAZZETTI: Well, I mean, the news is you're getting this window into American diplomacy. You're getting a—a number of—you're seeing the behind-the-scenes efforts by the Obama administration and the Bush administration to deal with these very sensitive issues, like Iran's nuclear program...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MAZZETTI: ... like the terrorist threat in Yemen, like Pakistani nuclear material, like the effort to get rid of—or to or empty out Guantanamo Bay and the sort of horse trading that goes on...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MAZZETTI: ... with all these countries who don't want to take...
MATTHEWS: Well, were you, as a journalist who covers these stories, surprised by anything in these cables?
MAZZETTI: Oh, I think there's a lot that's surprising in terms of...
MATTHEWS: What?
MAZZETTI: ... in terms of the details of...
MATTHEWS: Tell the viewers right now.
MATTHEWS: What shocked you?
MAZZETTI: There's a story that I did in today's paper about how diplomats are increasingly asked to get personal information of foreign—of foreign officials' credit card information...
MATTHEWS: OK, so Secretary of State—let me go—let me go back to Senator McCaskill on this. Everyone respects the work that Hillary Clinton's doing in the United States secretary of state position, but is she right or wrong to be seeking inside information about diplomats assigned to the U.N., credit card information, travel information, that sort of thing. Is that wrong or right?
MCCASKILL: Well, I mean, Chris, I think you'd have to be naive not to understand that there's a lot of intelligence work that is done within the diplomatic corps. And this is true with every country—it's true with our allies, it's true with our enemies—that the diplomatic corps is part of intelligence gathering in our work in terms of keeping Americans safe.
So I think what's troubling about this is that it's important for that work to be done well, that it not be something that is paraded on the front pages of newspapers.
MATTHEWS: But how do you stop it?
MCCASKILL: Well, what you do is...
MATTHEWS: It's done.
MCCASKILL: Right, it...
MATTHEWS: The milk is—cow's out of the barn. The milk is spilled, whatever metaphor you use. The world now knows the United States, the secretary of state, the previous secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, both ordered their troops to spy on diplomats at the U.N.
MCCASKILL: Well, I...
MATTHEWS: We all know that now.
MCCASKILL: Well, and I think that most people in America and most people, frankly, around the world know that diplomatic corps have been engaged. If you look at history, diplomats for...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MCCASKILL: ... through all the conflicts in this world have been involved in intelligence gathering. So I don't know that that's shocking. What's shocking is somebody thinks this is a good idea that has access...
MATTHEWS: To leak it.
MCCASKILL: ... an American...
MATTHEWS: Well, they're our enemies.
MCCASKILL: ... somewhere leaked this.
MATTHEWS: But they don't think it's a good idea, though, Senator.
They don't like us. This guy in Australia says Assange doesn't like us. Obviously, WikiLeaks doesn't like us. They're doing this to hurt us, aren't they?
MCCASKILL: Well, the ability...
MATTHEWS: Or hurt our policies.
MCCASKILL: The ability to get this information—some of this information that's been leaked came from Americans that leaked it. So I guess...
MATTHEWS: Yes, but what are we going to do with this guy?
MCCASKILL: Well, I...
MATTHEWS: What do you think we should do to him, fry him?
MCCASKILL: I think—think we should figure out a way to bring the force of law to anyone who takes...
MATTHEWS: Well, he is already arrest, isn't he?
MCCASKILL: ... this information...
MATTHEWS: Aren't we beating...
MCCASKILL: If you teal something...
MATTHEWS: ... a dead horse? This guy's got—he's facing 20 or 30 years at least, isn't he?
MCCASKILL: I don't think we can give up on that. If somebody steals something, we go after them with the force of law and we don't give up just because they've already been caught stealing.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MCCASKILL: We continue to go after them because they stole something else. We've got to—this is—this is property that has been stolen, and we should treat it that way...
MCCASKILL: ... and make sure that we try to have some deterrence so this doesn't continue happening.
MATTHEWS: OK, Manning, the guy—the enlisted guy who did the leaking, the hacking, he's facing heavy time here, isn't he?
MAZZETTI: That's right. He's in a—he's in a...
MATTHEWS: Now, the other guy's...
MAZZETTI: ... military prison.
MATTHEWS: ... the one, Assange, the Australian guy who published this stuff on line—he's probably—is he going to skate or what? What's it look like?
MAZZETTI: It's actually unclear what his legal status is. He's around Europe. He's in and out of countries in Europe...
MATTHEWS: Does he have a country of residence where we can actually nab him?
MAZZETTI: He does spend a lot of time in London.
MATTHEWS: London. The Swedes are after him, right?
MAZZETTI: Yes, and as we've reported...
MATTHEWS: How did they get in the act?
MAZZETTI: They're pursuing him on some sexual assault charges.
MATTHEWS: Oh.
MAZZETTI: So it's questionable about...
MATTHEWS: Sexual assault? I think it's rape.
MAZZETTI: And—and...
MATTHEWS: This guy is a rapist, apparently, too, according to...
MAZZETTI: It's unclear what exactly's going to—is going to happen to him...
MATTHEWS: I don't know he—well, he's been accused of rape.
MAZZETTI: Can I make one previous point that the senator made on intelligence gathering? I mean, there's no question that the diplomatic corps over—over decades has helped the intelligence community build profiles of foreign leaders. We contacted several ambassadors, recently retired ambassadors, who retired before these new directives went out, and they were shocked, actually, that the diplomats were actually now being tasked to do this type of information—credit card—how do you steal credit card information or frequent flier numbers?
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MAZZETTI: They thought that was actually crossing a line into spying which, in their mind, actually put diplomats in danger overseas because they're then suspected of no longer being just diplomats.
MATTHEWS: What can we do, Senator McCaskill—this guy, Assange—as was pointed out a moment ago, he faces charges, apparently, from the Swedish government for sexual assault or rape, we're not sure yet. But if these charges are pending, is that all we're going to nab him on, sort of hit him on something else than this particular incident, what he did here? Is this how we're going to have to live with this, that there's no outstanding crime that he's guilty of in this regard of publishing this material on line?
MCCASKILL: Well, I think we need to get information from him and use the criminal charges against him to leverage and get information. We need to pull this thread and find out how he got this information. Where did it come from? There, in all likelihood, is someone else involved here, and in all likelihood, it's someone that has much closer ties to the United States of America than this person does. So I think it's important that we look at all of our laws, see if they need to be updated. We're in a new generation now, a new era of technology. We've got to make sure that our laws are modernized to reflect...
MATTHEWS: Does this crime exist?
MCCASKILL: ... that new technology.
MATTHEWS: Senator, you're a lawmaker. Does there exist in the present world environment—is there such a thing as a crime to publish this information that this guy got from a hacker? Once he got the information on the international information market and published all this information on line—you say squeeze him on the charge of rape, or whatever else the Swedes have him on. But is there a real crime here that we know of that exists in publishing this information?
MCCASKILL: Well, there certainly is—there certainly is with the hacker. And the question is, what jurisdiction do we have over the Internet. If this information is being published on the Internet in other countries, what jurisdiction do we have? And I don't think our laws have caught up to that technology in that regard...
MATTHEWS: That's for sure.
MCCASKILL: ... but I do know that there are laws about the hacker. And I know Senator Ensign and Senator Webb are working on some legislation as we speak to update some of the current statutes we have, to make sure...
MCCASKILL: ... that it covers human intelligence and not just the kind that's written down.
MATTHEWS: Senator Claire McCaskill, thank you for joining us, so much, and getting to the criminality, perhaps, of this whole matter, and Mark Mazzetti of "The New York Times" for joining us.
Coming up: Let's get this straight. Republicans are blocking jobless benefits for the unemployment (SIC), which are running out, saying we can't afford it. But they want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the very rich, which is about the same amount of money per annum, about $80 billion. Can Democrats make them pay politically for this line of thinking? They're choosing the rich over the unemployed? Is that a good choice for America?
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MATTHEWS: I have to pay tribute tonight to that great actor, that comedic actor, Leslie Nielsen. He died at his Florida home at the age of 84 the other day. It's hard to believe that Nielsen started his acting career with dramatic roles in serious movies when it was the disaster spoof "Airplane" that made his career. Nielsen deadpanned some of that film's best lines, classics like, "Surely, you can't be serious." "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
Of course, he went on to star as the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun" with O.J. Simpson and its absurdly titled sequel, "Naked Gun 2 ½," and "33 1/3" the other one. By the way, "2 ½" was my favorite of the Nielsen films of all time. HARDBALL—what a great actor, what great fun he gave us, Leslie Nielsen—we'll be right back after this.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Congress is back to work for its final work of the year, and the battle lines are clearly drawn. Democrats want to extend unemployment benefits for people out of work. Republicans are insisting on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Get the picture?
Here's Senator Dick Durbin the subject on "MEET THE PRESS" just yesterday.
SEN. RICHARD DURBIN (D), ILLINOIS: We should be focusing on what it takes to move this economy forward. We should not be worried about the discomfort of the wealthy but the fact that there are many people struggling to survive every day now because they have no job.
MATTHEWS: Well, joining me now are two Democratic senators, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island, both representing states with horrendous unemployment rates. I want to start with Senator Stabenow. It seems to me that this is one of the easy arguments than you can face in politics, looking out for the vast number of unemployed people and all they want is unemployment benefits, about a couple hundred bucks a week, max, and people who want to have big tax cuts who are making billions of dollars or millions of dollars, at least, and they don't really need the money, whereas these people desperately do. How do you lose this argument, to put it bluntly?
SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW (D), MICHIGAN: Well, Chris, I think you're absolutely right. And I find it amazing that after over a year of Republicans saying that it's such a national emergency to have the deficit we have, that the first thing they want to do is increase the deficit by $700 billion to give an extra tax cut to millionaires and billionaires, and at the same time say no to people who are out of work.
You know, this week, starting Wednesday, we will begin to see 142,000 people in Michigan who are out of work through no fault of their own—they're going to begin to lose their benefits, people who, at this point, are using those benefits just to keep a roof over their head and food on the table for their families.
So, this is an outrage. And, boy, if there ever was a difference in who we're fighting for, this is it.
MATTHEWS: Senator Whitehouse, it seems to me there's a bit of an ideological here, not just a class fight, if you will. The Republicans, at least the ideologues, like Senator Kyl of Arizona, are arguing the case that giving people extended unemployment benefits encourages them to slough off, not to go looking for a job. That's what he's saying.
SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE ( R) RHODE ISLAND: That's the argument, but in Michigan and in Rhode Island, that argument is clearly nonsense, because there are an awful lot more people running around looking for jobs than there are jobs.
There are 65,000 people unemployed, just by the government statistics, in Rhode Island. There are not 65,000 jobs out there waiting for those people. So, the argument is nonsense. And the economics of it are lousy.
The very best thing that you can do to revive this economy, the most efficient way to spend money to revive this economy is to put it in the hands of the unemployed. It's a 2-1 immediate rebound for the economy.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WHITEHOUSE: It's literally the best way to do it.
And, finally, you have got the simple fairness argument. I mean, here are people—it's their last support. These families are getting desperate. And you kick away the very last income that they have, and they're really destitute, and it's a tragedy.
On the other hand, what we would be doing is asking the wealthiest Americans to go back to the tax payments that they were making under the Clinton administration, when the economy booming, and everybody looks back at that as the good days.
STABENOW: Right.
MATTHEWS: Well, we couldn't get any Republican people on from the Congress tonight. We are going to keep trying to get them on to make their case in this regard.
But, Senator Stabenow, here is the problem. Is there going to be a deal here? And it seems to me the Republicans would love a deal. They have got their tax cuts for the rich. And then they could say don't blame us for the unemployed not getting their benefits, because we said OK to that.
Wouldn't you be letting them off the hook with some simple quid pro quo here?
STABENOW: Well, I think so.
I'm certainly not one that believes that we should extend an economic policy of extra tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires that hasn't created jobs for 10 years. You know, Chris, if that policy had created jobs, I would be all for it.
But we have lost hundreds of thousands jobs in Michigan under a policy for 10 years of giving tax cuts to the very rich and hoping it trickled down—that trickles down to everybody else.
I mean, we want and I strongly support tax cuts for the middle class, for small businesses, helping people who are out of work when there's five people looking for every one job that's available.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
STABENOW: And in my judgment, we need to stand firm on that and make it clear that we're not going to be held hostage. We're not going to let them hold middle-class families and small businesses hostage or people who are out of work hostage to give an extra tax cut that adds $700 billion to the national debt for the few wealthiest Americans.
MATTHEWS: What do you think, Senator Whitehouse, a guy up in Rhode, Rhode Island, a working-class guy, would say if you said to him, you can get your unemployment benefits if the rich get their tax cuts? Would he say forget it about it or would he say, yes, I guess you have to cut a deal with the wrong guys? Or what would he say? How do you speak for a person like that?
WHITEHOUSE: If it comes down to keeping these people with body and soul together with their last remaining shred of income and with no jobs around them, I think that has to be our first priority.
MATTHEWS: You mean you would give away the tax cut to get that?
WHITEHOUSE: If we're clear about this choice, I don't think we have to, because I think Americans get this.
STABENOW: Right.
WHITEHOUSE: You asked earlier the question, how can we lose this one? I think the only way we could lose this one is by not being clear and not being solid together. And if we start to wobble, then I think, you know, that's how we lose it.
But if the White House stands firm and if we stand firm, I think we can do what is right for people who are unemployed through no fault of their own and protect our debt and our deficit levels from having to borrow more money from China to fund huge tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans.
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look at Senator Kyl, a Republican, on this issue. He was on "Meet the Press" yesterday defending the Bush tax cuts. He says they aren't a tax cut. Listen to the way he argues this. Let's listen.
SEN. JON KYL (R-AZ), MINORITY WHIP: Nobody is talking about tax cuts. We have had the rates in existence now for 10 years. All Republicans are saying is, keep them in place. Don't raise taxes on anyone. And so our position is, let's extend all of the current rates for some period of time. Obviously, we would like to do it permanently, but if it's three or four years, that's fine, too.
MATTHEWS: Well, catch the logic. Here he is, the same senator who said the tax cuts are not tax cuts, even though they were sunsetted back when they were passed, here he is in March saying extending unemployment benefits don't create jobs. He's knocking the benefits. Here he is. Let's listen.
Here it is: "In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work."
There you have your argument, Senator Whitehouse. There you have your classic Republican conservative argument, that unemployment benefits encourages laziness, it encourages sloth, it encourages not looking for jobs, whereas tax cuts for the rich are really not tax cuts, because all they do is continue the beneficence of George W. Bush.
STABENOW: You know, Chris, if I could jump in here and just say...
MATTHEWS: Sure.
STABENOW: ... I would invite Senator Kyl to come to Michigan and talk to the 50-year-old person who's never been out of work in his entire life who now finds himself in a spot where he is just barely holding on, and in a economy where there aren't more jobs is trying to figure out what in the world he's going to do.
A lot of folks are trying to go back to school. They're trying to have a second career in their 50s or early 60s. But this is a very difficult situation that is going on. And, frankly, if the tax policy that he's talked about had worked for the last 10 years, we would be creating jobs.
But it hasn't worked. My question to him is, where are the jobs? It hasn't worked.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
STABENOW: It added to the deficit, but it certainly hasn't created jobs.
MATTHEWS: Well, thank you so much.
WHITEHOUSE: The job growth was in the Clinton years under the taxes, before George Bush did these cuts. That's when the real job growth was. That's when the economy was booming.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WHITEHOUSE: And that's what the Republicans apparently are afraid of going back to.
MATTHEWS: Well, it seems to me that Jon Kyl, now opposing the New START treaty, trying to screw up our relations with Russia, trying to defend tax cuts for the rich by saying they're not tax cuts, by knocking unemployment benefits for people who are hard-up, seems to be running for Dr. Evil this Christmas.
Anyway, thank you very much for joining us, Debbie Stabenow, the senator from Michigan, and Sheldon Whitehouse, the senator from Rhode Island.
Up next: The man responsible for giving us Sarah Palin as our almost famous person is now comparing her to one of the greatest figures in Republican history, John McCain dancing with the one he brung—his effusive praise for his one-time running mate next in the "Sideshow."
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now to the "Sideshow."
First: Dance with the one you brung. Ever since he found her in Alaska, John McCain has defended that Hail Mary pass of his, that pick of Sarah Palin for his running mate two years ago. Yesterday, he played his pick on an even higher pedestal. He said she was—hold your breath—right up there with Ronald Reagan. That's right, folks, the Gipper.
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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN ®, ARIZONA: I think that anybody who has the visibility that Sarah has is obviously going to have some divisiveness.
I remember that a guy named Ronald Reagan used to be viewed by some as divisive.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I remember a guy named Ronald Reagan. He was the guy who beat Bobby Kennedy in the Oxford Union debate, a guy who spent much of his adult life writing about his conservative philosophy, a guy whose commentaries written over many years were serious business, serious argument.
As "The Weekly Standard" put it last week, Palin's given us no reason for anyone to follow her, no reason.
Speaking of Reagan, the Gipper's somewhat questionable biographer, Edmund Morris, came up with colorful language yesterday when asked to challenge the subject of his latest and previous much-praised biographical workers, Theodore Roosevelt.
Here he is with CBS' Bob Schieffer.
BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST, "FACE THE NATION": What would Teddy Roosevelt think of today's politics, Edmund?
EDMUND MORRIS, AUTHOR: You keep asking these presentist questions, Bob.
MORRIS: As the immortal Marisa Tomei said in "My Cousin Vinny," that's a (EXPLETIVE DELETED) question...
MORRIS: ... because you cannot pluck people out of the past and expect them to comment on what's happening today.
I can only say that what he represented in his time is what we look for in our presidents now—what we hope for in our presidents now, and we're increasingly disappointed. He was somebody who understood foreign cultures. He represented the dignity of the United States. He was forceful but at the same time civilized.
I can, sort of, see us, us Americans, with their eyes. And not all that I see is attractive. I see an insular people who are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent.
MATTHEWS: It's funny. There sure are a lot of people out there who want to get into this country, though, aren't there? Hmm.
Up next: The culture wars are getting hotter. The conservative Family Research Council has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And we have got the leaders of both groups coming here to settle it next.
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A bomb plot planned for the tree lighting ceremony out in Portland, Oregon, was stopped by an FBI—by the FBI in a sting operation. The suspect just appeared in federal court this afternoon. So chalk one up for the agency, the FBI.
How many similar plots could be brewing out there in the U.S.?
Philip Mudd is a former deputy director in the FBI's National Security Branch.
I guess a lot of people are disappointed. We Americans felt for a while—and maybe it was naive—that terrorism was a foreign problem, that Americans were not going to be drawn into it. Now, here, you have an immigrant from Somali—from Somali—Somalia.
PHIL MUDD, FORMER FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Mm-hmm.
MATTHEWS: What do you make of this as a pattern here? Are we going to face more of this, based on what you've been seeing?
MUDD: I think we will face it for years. I think we were naive to believe this wouldn't cross the Atlantic.
We have seen this in Europe since 911. We saw it at Madrid. We have seen it in London. We have a large immigrant population here. To believe that Americans wouldn't be a part of the global sort of al Qaeda revolution is I think naive.
MATTHEWS: What about assimilation? We have always taken—I, personally, am emotional about this. I think this is the one country you can become an American. You can come into this country, no matter where you come from, and really join our society.
Is that not happening with the Islamic people coming here, or some of them? They're not joining? They're not really assimilating?
MUDD: You do see a great deal of assimilation here.
But, remember, in the case of Somalia, you're talking about families that came in post 1991, 1992. So, these kids were either born there or born here shortly after their parents got here. So, these are kids who have not been here for generations, in contrast to a lot of the other communities that we have.
MATTHEWS: So, let's talk about this operation. I don't think it was entrapment. And you tell me why it wasn't.
MUDD: Because you have a kid who repeatedly, in the indictment, talks about his willingness to murder innocent people around a Christmas lighting ceremony.
MATTHEWS: So, he had a spot lined up. He had an event lined up, the Christmas tree lighting...
MUDD: The's correct.
MATTHEWS: ... a location lined up, and a time of year and everything else. And all he needed was what from the FBI?
MUDD: He needed a weapon, so that he could go and commit what he wanted to commit anyway.
MATTHEWS: Suppose he hadn't been given that weapon?
MUDD: I think he would have found another way around it. If you look in this country, you can buy a weapon, you can buy explosives. We have seen it repeatedly in plots across this country.
MATTHEWS: But he was operating alone?
MUDD: That's right.
MATTHEWS: Now he wasn't because we helped him.
MUDD: No, I don't buy this.
Look, in this country, you can go to a gun show and you can buy a weapon. He wanted to build an explosive. If he hadn't gone this route, imagine. In two years or three years, he might have shot up a shopping mall.
MATTHEWS: What do you make of this—the way they confected this, with a big bunch of drums of gasoline, right? Isn't that what they put together?
MUDD: I think he—he was looking to do what we have seen elsewhere in this country and overseas. And that is have a big bomb, like we saw at Oklahoma City, for a major splash that would be on the front of the media around the world.
MATTHEWS: Let's talk pattern here, not guilt, but pattern of possible behavior around the country.
Nobody's worried about this kid anymore. He's going to face serious time. He's not going to be a problem into his 40s, probably, or 50s even, based upon this—if he gets convicted.
But recent immigrant population, we know around the country, a lot of people come here from that part of the world, the Islamic part of the world. They come from the Horn of Africa. They come from East Africa. They come from West Africa. They come from the Middle East, right?
MUDD: That's right.
MATTHEWS: Lot of people. This is a great country to come to and they're the hardest people—they're hard working. They're gung-ho. I have to love them because I see a lot of them. As drivers, I see them working at hotels when I travel around. They are gung ho Americans, but there so many of them.
Within that universe, there will be—you're arguing some people.
MUDD: Absolutely. If you look around this country, we have huge problems with drug violence, huge problem with child pornography. We're going to have problems with extremism as well. It's a phenomenon we see in South Asia and the Middle East and Europe and it's here.
MATTHEWS: OK, you're in crime. You've been a crime—well, you get the criminal after the act.
MUDD: That's correct.
MATTHEWS: Let's talk about getting him before the act. We have Internets. We have an Internet. I'm talking like Bush here.
MATTHEWS: We have the Internet. We have that accessibility for lonely people to get online and talk to anybody in the world they want to talk to basically.
They can talk to people for the same background. They can talk in their language. They can talk in the way the country has talked, where they come from. They can feel very much at home.
Is that a particular sensibility in pushing a young guy like this toward a bad act?
MUDD: I think it's critical in terms of radicalization. But there's a bit of a misunderstanding here—it's critical as an accelerant once the kid wants to go down a path. What I saw in nine years of threat briefings is kids who are talking among themselves, they're vulnerable like a lot of kids are. And a few of them will say, OK, let's do something about it. And then they go off and start looking at images like Abu Ghraib, looking at kids killed in Gaza, kids killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
MATTHEWS: They radicalize themselves.
MUDD: Well, they radicalize among themselves and they accelerate down that path when they see images on the Internet.
MATTHEWS: And they have enough of a case because by our nature, we give it to them or we have made those mistakes?
MUDD: Well, and the people who want to see this in their minds are very effective—
MATTHEWS: Do you buy the argument that's been made by some of our military people—I think maybe Petraeus is one of them—that one of the things that it radicalizes people is our—the way we behave with prisoners in Abu Ghraib?
MUDD: Ghraib, I think, was a huge issue in this county. Not huge enough. This was a critical factor in the radicalization of kids not only in this country but kids, for example, who went from places like Syria or Yemen into Iraq.
MATTHEWS: I wonder how we're going to win this war. And I ask you because there's about three ways we're trying to fight the war. Detection of a criminal behavior in this United States, you can make a case against this kid perhaps. You find people who commit crimes, but it's already too late because they're committing the crimes or they've gotten involved in a crime because of action by the FBI in detecting them, right?
MUDD: That's right.
MATTHEWS: Working with them and get them before they can do any bad thing.
And then you have the problem of dealing with the wars we fight overseas, then you have the problem of dealing with protection on airplanes, right?
MUDD: You're making it sound harder than it was.
MATTHEWS: It is hard, because I'm telling you, we fight overseas, we fight on airplanes, we fight with protection, and then we try to catch the bad guys. Where's our biggest vulnerability?
MUDD: I think the biggest vulnerability is in overreacting to incidents like this. Look, al Qaeda is going to lose. They have a message that if you look at research around the world is slipping in the eyes of people who are potential recruits because they murder too many innocents. The problem we have in this country is losing our ability to absorb an immigrant, if people—and we saw this in a mosque over the weekend. If people overact to this—
MATTHEWS: Tell me what happened. I want to hear from your view.
MUDD: Well, we had people react to an incident—
MATTHEWS: Out there?
MUDD: Out there—a kid who was a murderer. He's not a Muslim. He's a murderer. We have this murder happens everyday and we ought not to make this into ideology or Islam. We ought to regard him as a murderer.
MATTHEWS: So, this American, what you called it, vigilantes, whatever you called them, apparently when it hit that Islamic group, even though that was the group from which we got the information.
MUDD: That's correct. And they're feeding a sense potentially among immigrants that this is not a place people want to live.
MATTHEWS: Is everybody in the FBI as enlightened as you?
MUDD: It's good question. I think so. It's an organization that
MUDD: What's that?
MATTHEWS: I some of the problem there?
MUDD: No, I don't think so. The FBI—I mean, we haven't had an attack since 9/11. If we would have been on 9/12/01, you would have taken this bet in a heartbeat.
MATTHEWS: Thank you for your service.
MUDD: My pleasure.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, Phil Mudd, from the—recently with the FBI.
When we return, that hot fight between the Family Research Council and Southern Poverty Law Center is coming right here. The law center says the Family Research Council is a hate group based to some extent on what was said here by one of the representatives.
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MATTHEWS: Mark Kirk of Illinois is being sworn in late today as a United States senator. Senator Kirk becomes the 42nd Republican senator, narrowing the Democratic majority in this lame duck session. Senator Kirk replaces Roland Burris, of course, who was appointed after Senator Obama's election to the presidency. Kirk fills out the remainder of Obama's term and will be seated for a full term starting in January.
HARDBALL will be right back.
MATTHEWS: The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified the Family Research Council as one of its hate groups. The FRC, needless to say, does not appreciate it. Both are with me now.
Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council. Mark Potok is the intelligence project director for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Mr. Potok, make your case.
MARK POTOK, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: Well, let me say for starters that our—when we name groups "hate groups," that has nothing to do with any allegation of criminality or some kind of measure of expected violence. It's purely about ideology. Do groups demonize entire groups of people with falsehoods and other kinds of demonizing propaganda, conspiracy theories and so on?
The Family Research Council, among many other things, has associated falsely gay men with pedophilia. They have suggested that homosexual men molest children at rates that far out distance those heterosexuals and that's simply a falsehood and a known falsehood.
On your show, Chris, a representative of the council, Peter Sprig came out and said something that frankly would have been sufficient for us to list them as a hate group all by itself. That homosexuality behavior—
MATTHEWS: Well, let me show you that right now. It was Peter Sprig.
MATTHEWS: Right. As you're right to say that. A senior fellow for the policy, the Family Research Council was on HARDBALL on February 2nd this year. His name is Peter Sprig. He's senior fellow to the FRC. Let's listen to what he said.
MATTHEWS: Do you think that we should outlaw gay behavior?
PETER SPRIG, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: Well, I think, certainly—
MATTHEWS: I'm just asking you. Should we outlaw gay behavior?
SPRIG: I think that the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which overturned the sodomy laws in this country, was wrongly decided. I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior.
MATTHEWS: So, we should outlaw gay behavior?
SPRIG: Yes.
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you very much, Peter Sprig. We know your position. It's a clear one.
MATTHEWS: Is that your position, Mr. Perkins, that we should outlaw gay behavior? Is that your group's position, outlaw it?
TONY PERKINS, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: We have not been or are we nor we'll be working to recriminalize homosexual behavior. His point in that interview was that in 2003, we were opposed to the overturning of Lawrence—of the sodomy laws in the Lawrence v. Texas case and for a reason. We think to be silent when it comes to homosexual behavior, that's both harmful to society and more importantly to the individuals who engage in it to be silent, that is in fact hateful.
MATTHEWS: But he said we should outlaw it. Is that your position?
Just to get that straight, should we outlaw it?
PERKINS: No, we are not—no. No, we are not—
MATTHEWS: So he doesn't speak for your group? He doesn't speak for your group?
PERKINS: Look, Chris, I just said we have not been—we are not and we are not going to be working to recriminalize homosexual behavior. That's not the issue today. What's at issue here is in an attempt to take our public policies and enshrine homosexual behavior as some protective class, redefining marriage, and, of course, voters in 31 states have rejected that idea. So that's what we're working on. We have never put forth a policy that would recriminalize homosexual behavior.
MATTHEWS: Let me go back to you, Mark.
PERKINS: Well, let me speak—
MATTHEWS: I want Mark to respond to this issue because now we're having president of the Family Research Council saying that the position that was taken here by Peter Sprig, which said we should outlaw gay behavior is not his position, not the position of his organization.
Does that exempt—does that exempt him from your classification as a hate group, that action today, just now?
POTOK: No, no, I think it's—I think it's ridiculous. And I say that for this reason. Peter Sprig went on your air, just as I am doing, as a representative of his organization. The Family Research Council made no sound about this. There was nothing remotely approaching the repudiation or even a clarifying statement about the statements that were made.
I mean, look, the Family Research Council has done things a few years ago—they put out a pamphlet called homosexual behavior and pedophilia in which they said that a part of the so-called homosexual agenda was to destroy, to get rid of all age of consent laws, having to do with sexual behavior, and then the Family Research Council went on to say that, in fact, homosexual activists—in their words—were working to make pedophiles the kind of apostles—
POTOK: -- the profits of a new sexual order. Those are simply falsehoods. Those are simple lies.
MATTHEWS: OK, is that true—
PERKINS: Let me go back to—
MATTHEWS: You stand by that or not?
PERKINS: Let me go back to the first issue that Mark brings up about the connection between homosexual men and pedophilia. If you go back to the archives of sexual behavior, a peer-reviewed journal that stated in a self-identified, 86 percent of men, homosexual men who engaged—men who engaged in molestation of children, 86 percent of them are identified as homosexual or bisexual. That study has not been refuted. And that is in part what's based upon—that statement was based upon.
If you look at the American College of Pediatricians, they say the research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a risk to children. So, Mark is wrong. He needs to go back and do his own research because this—this evidence is out there.
And what we're saying is this is not beyond debate and what is troubling here, Chris—
MATTHEWS: Right.
PERKINS: -- is that the left is losing ground in this public policy debate and so they start this juvenile process of name-calling and trying to shutdown debate over public policy.
MATTHEWS: OK, stop for a second because you just made an argument of fact here. You say that the public is turning against this, whatever, the latest poll numbers we've got from CNN and all kinds of reputable polls is that the country is turning more and more towards accepting open service by gay people in the U.S. military. So it's not as simple as you put it. I know that the country moved right in the last election. But when it comes to open service, this country is overwhelmingly moving toward acceptance of open service, are they not?
PERKINS: Well, if you look at the men and women who actually serve, which is only about 12 percent of the population that's been serving in the military, it's almost inverse. In a poll that'll be coming out tomorrow, 63 percent of those who serve or who are currently serving or have served are opposed overturning this policy because they're the ones who have to live by it.
PERKINS: But if you look at what's happened in this last election, the American public has rejected this—this radical push for social policy when the administration said it was going to be focused on jobs.
MATTHEWS: I think they rejected—I think they rejected a 9.5 percent unemployment rate. That's my view.
PERKINS: That's right.
MATTHEWS: Tony, always—go back and spank Peter Sprig for saying the wrong thing on this show because he said the opposite of what you said.
PERKINS: We don't do that either.
MATTHEWS: You don't spank, OK, well maybe you should, at least verbally.
Thank you so much, Mark Potok, for coming on the program on a very hot issue.
When we return, let me finish with why the right is wrong about the pat downs and body scans at the airport. At least that's my opinion.
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MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this story that wasn't a story at all. How do you compare the G.I., who loses an arm overseas in war, to the embarrassment someone might feel during an airport scan? Or even a pat down?
I've been thinking of this over the weekend, over the Thanksgiving Day weekend and think about what the Theodore Roosevelt historian Edmund Morris said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. He was asked what Teddy Roosevelt would say about people of today, and instead, he offered a view from an immigrant to this country, that Americans are lazy, obese and complacent. Well, forget the obese and complacent part. Make your judgments on that yourself.
But the lazy part—the lazy way of thinking where people never stop to think, "Oh, that would be hard," when they complain about body scans, to think of what other Americans are giving up in this same battle to fight terror or they never think about the simple facts. What is the enduring pain or discomfort or anything that affects you a nanosecond after you've been scanned or patted down at the airport? What does that enduring cost to you, that pain, that supposed horror? It just isn't.
I think that Teddy Roosevelt that Teddy Roosevelt guy is onto something.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us. Right now, it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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Minn. legislative session winding down
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers are back in action after a week away from the Capitol, but their annual session is rapidly winding down.
Fewer than four weeks remain before lawmakers must conclude their work. Democratic majorities are hoping to finalize plans for the remaining budget surplus with a mixture of new spending and additional tax relief. They also are trying to cobble together enough votes to pass a construction borrowing plan of $850 million or more.
The borrowing bill requires Republican votes for the needed super-majority, so the GOP has more leverage than usual.
The session must end by May 19, but many around the Capitol are banking on a quicker finish.


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Venus Express has made the first detection of an atmospheric loss process on Venus's day-side. Last year, the spacecraft revealed that most of the lost atmosphere escapes from the night-side. Together, these discoveries bring planetary scientists closer to understanding what happened to the water on Venus, which is suspected to have once been as abundant as on Earth.
The spacecraft's magnetometer instrument (MAG) detected the unmistakable signature of hydrogen gas being stripped from the day-side. "This is a process that was believed to be happening at Venus but this is the first time we measured it," says Magda Delva, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, who leads the investigation.
Thanks to its carefully chosen orbit, Venus Express is strategically positioned to investigate this process; the spacecraft travels in a highly elliptical path sweeping over the poles of the planet.
Mars, Earth and Venus are immersed in a flow of plasma, an ionized and highly variable gas originating from the Sun, called the solar wind. While Earth has a planetary magnetic field, which can deviate the flow of solar wind, Venus (and Mars) don't. Gases in the upper atmospheres of these planets are ionised and can thus interact with the solar wind. Venus is as large as Earth and it is difficult for its atmosphere to escape due to the planet's gravity. The solar wind is the best source of energy to accelerate the upper atmosphere's charged particles, giving them enough energy to escape. This is why Venus loses its atmosphere due to interaction with the solar wind.
To understand this phenomenon, the key questions that the instruments studying plasma on Venus Express must answer are: what and how much of the atmosphere is lost, and where is it lost? Right now, solar activity is at its minimum in the 11-year cycle, making the solar wind weaker than average. The critical question now is how solar wind interacts with Venus when solar activity is low. Credits: ESA (Animation by C. Carreau)
Water is a key molecule on Earth because it makes life possible. With Earth and Venus approximately the same size, and having formed at the same time, astronomers believe that both planets likely began with similar amounts of the precious liquid. Today, however, the proportions on each planet are extremely different. Earth's atmosphere and oceans contain 100 000 times the total amount of water on Venus. In spite of the low concentration of water on Venus Delva and colleagues found that some 2x1024 hydrogen nuclei, a constituent atom of the water molecule, were being lost every second from Venus's day-side.
Last year, the Analyser of Space Plasma and Energetic Atoms (ASPERA) on board Venus Express showed that there was a great loss of hydrogen and oxygen on the night-side. Roughly twice as many hydrogen atoms as oxygen atoms were escaping. Because water is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, the observed escape indicates that water is being broken up in the atmosphere of Venus.
The Sun not only emits light and heat into space, it constantly spews out solar wind, a stream of charged particles. This solar wind carries electrical and magnetic fields throughout the Solar System and 'blows' past the planets.
Unlike Earth, Venus does not generate a magnetic field. This is significant because Earth's magnetic field protects its atmosphere from the solar wind. At Venus, however, the solar wind strikes the upper atmosphere and carries off particles into space. Planetary scientists think that the planet has lost part of its water in this way over the four-and-a-half-thousand million years since the planet's birth.
"We do see water escaping from the night-side but the question remains, how much has been lost in the past in this way," says Stas Barabash, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna and Principal Investigator of ASPERA, that looked at night-side data.
The discovery takes scientists a step towards understanding the details, but it does not provide the last piece of the puzzle. To be certain that the hydrogen is coming from water, Delva and colleagues must also detect the loss of oxygen atoms on the day-side and verify that there are approximately half as many leaving Venus as hydrogen.
So far, this has not been possible. "I keep looking at the magnetometer data but so far I can't see the signature of oxygen escaping on the day-side," says Delva.
It also highlights a new mystery. "These results show that there could be at least twice as much hydrogen in the upper atmosphere of Venus than we thought," says Delva. The detected hydrogen ions could exist in atmospheric regions high above the surface of the planet; but the source of these regions is unknown.
So like a true lady, Venus still retains some of her mystery.
Article: 'First upstream proton cyclotron wave observations at Venus' by M. Delva, T. Zhang, M. Volwerk, W. Magnes, C. Russell and H. Wei, published in the Geophysical Research Letters.
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For readers near Stockholm. I'll be speaking Jan 14th at a seminar on design in the Anthropocene at Konstfack, the University College of Arst, Crafts, and Design in Stockholm.
I'll give a talk "Co-Creating the Anthropocene: What are some possible roles for design?"
The seminar announcement states:
What is the Anthropocene?
Scientists are beginning to call our current geological period "the human age", in other words, "the Anthropocene".
Excerpt from http://www.anthropocene.info/: "Every living thing affects its surroundings. But humanity is now influencing every aspect of the Earth on a scale akin to the great forces of nature.
There are now so many of us, using so many resources, that we're disrupting the grand cycles of biology, chemistry and geology by which elements like carbon and nitrogen circulate between land, sea and atmosphere. We're changing the way water moves around the globe as never before. Almost all the planet's ecosystems bear the marks of our presence.
Our species' whole recorded history has taken place in the geological period called the Holocene – the brief interval stretching back 10,000 years. But our collective actions have brought us into uncharted territory. A growing number of scientists think we've entered a new geological epoch that needs a new name – the Anthropocene. (…)"
What roles could design take and what insights arise in relation to this understanding?
Together with guest speakers, we at ID will be discussing this perspective on design during this important symposium.
The event will be recorded – when it is on the web I will post a link here.
Schedule of speakers
Monday, January 14 2013
09:00 Welcome and introduction/ Martin Avila, Bo Westerlund – Konstfack ID
09:20 Anthropocenic citizens need anthroposcenic imaginaries [and designs]/ Jakob von Heland – Filmmaker and consultant on human ecology and resilience.
09:50 Metadesign and Fashion – How can we mobilise design sensibilities for sustainable products, systems and paradigms? / Dr Mathilda Tham, Visiting Professor in Fashion and Sustainability Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm. Metadesign researcher, Goldsmiths University of London.
10:20 Coffee break
10:40 Co-Creating the Anthropocene: What are some possible roles for design?/ Garry Peterson, Professor in Environmental Sciences with key focus on resilience in social-ecological systems at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.
11:10 Panel discussion
Videos of the event are now online at Konstfack.


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