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Rachel Maddow Compares Sovereignty Movement to ConfederacyApril 19, 2009
"Holy Shit!… Holy Shit! What is going on here? I spend two days in the E.R. and I come home and these people have gone insane. Listen, I'm as liberal as you can get. I'm an artist and a musician and I think anyone should do whatever the fuck they want as long as they are not hurting anyone. That's (kinda) what this Ron Paul "libertarian" movement is all about. More freedom for all people. We want government to stop meddling in all of our lives. The people I know in this "libertarian" movement are (obviously) more open minded and accepting to all races and sexual orientations than certain types of republicans but I find them to be much more ("smarter!!") and opened minded than your typical liberal democrat.
I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts… the most goddam liberal democrat epicenter in the country. And I'm fuckin'proud of it. I'm everything you'll find in a liberal democrat, except that I'm not stupid. Your suppose to evolve the older you get. Get it? The democratic party is as much a circus side-show business as the republican party. You've been indoctrinated your whole life on the idea that there are only two choices for a presidential canidate…………*BANG*………and here comes the "Libertarian, Ron Paul, 3rd Parties," (whatever you want to label it), offering the American people more choice, more diversity. If Rachel Maddow has such a feverish case of white-liberal-guilt I wish she'd used that energy to vote for a real African-American presidential candidate like Cynthia McKinney.
It just goes to show you what a machine our media is for the pentagon. The Limbaugh's, the Olbermann's, the Beck's, it's a fucking charade to divide the American people. Get it? Did you notice how Olbermann swept in just at the hight of anti-Bushy. Good timing, huh? We all hate Bush. Thats no secret. But… but… let's bring in the next talking head to adore our in-coming presidential king, Obama. Never in the history of this country was so much positive attention lavished on presidential candidate than Obama. Do you think the real powers that be didn't have anything to do with that? Are you that fuckin' naive and blinded by a mans race, liberal democrats? Just because a politician is black doesn't mean he's not like the rest of the fat fuckin' white fat cats stuffing their faces in Washington. You've been played like suckers. Just ask this Boston rapper. Ya'all need to stop watching television. Especially, the news. It's poisoning those sweet little brains of yours. I don't mean to be condescending but it is really hard to watch this mind-fuck that is being carried out on Obama supporters.
I don't support or like a guy like Rick Perry, nor do most Ron Paul/Libertarian people. But we sure as flying fuck support a sovereignty movement because our Federal Government is completely out of control. There are no more checks and balances, literally. They were out of control with Bush & Cheney. And now they are out of control with Obama & Brzezinski.
So, Rachel Maddow, a Sovereignty Movement would be good for all people, (I hate to use this word but she deserves it here), you dumb broad. It would be a step closer to freedom… away from our every growingly oppressive government… for all American people! Look into what it's really about before you bring some race-card bullshit into it. She has obviously lost her coffee sippin' Smith College brain. Or she's just another agent. An agent for an agenda that does not want you to taste T R U E F R E E D O M. The true people in power are scared shitless of the (real) Libertarian movement gaining more momentum and they have basically declared war on it with this fake tea party/ Republicans are Libertarian's/ weird race-card bullshit. Hey, if you wanna be a codependent to a President who is just as much a fraud as Bush, then stay in your little comfort zones. We're working on really fixing the fuckin' problem.
Ron Paul kinda people have nothing to do with REPUBLICANS, period. Yes, we support the right to bear arms and it's for all citizens… white, black, asian, gay, etc. And yes, we support immigration laws, so that our legal ctizens, i.e.-hispanic, white, black, asian, etc), can be taken care of before "criminals" who violate the law by sneaking into this country do.
Look into Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty you won't find any racists red-necks or any self-loathing white liberals… you'll find some very smart people of all ages, races and sexual orientations that have a real plan for change! And it's (fuckin') for the better of all our beautifully diverse American citizens.
Stop being played.
-Fred Face 4/18/09
Kurt Nimmo
April 18, 2009
Rachel Maddow, described as Keith Olbermann's "political soul mate" and "a liberal in the purest, almost mineral sense of the word," has characterized the states' rights and sovereignty movement as a modern spin-off of the Confederacy, "except the states aren't clinging to a slave-based economy." She claims to be "weirded-out by the Civil War theme" of the Tea Party movement.
Maddow's comments are part of MSNBC's nasty campaign to portray the April 15 Tea Party demonstrations held around the country as racist and troglodytic.
Faux conservatives are fond of ranting about the "liberal bias" of MSNBC, owned by the monopolistic software titan Microsoft and NBC. NBC's parent is General Electric, a multinational corporation that makes a lot of money in the "defense" business (this division generated $3,100,000,000 in 2003), not exactly the sort of business model liberals support.
It is interesting Maddow compares states' rights advocates to Confederates and then links them to the immorality of slavery. It is rather ironic — if not entirely hypocritical — that this "liberal in the purest, almost mineral sense of the word" works for a corporation that manufactures engines for Black Hawk attack helicopters used in Iraq. Liberals are said to be viscerally opposed to the Iraq invasion and occupation.
In fact, MSNBC is used by our rulers to amplify the false right-left paradigm that serves as a big distraction and keeps the masses squabbling over meaningless issues. Important issues like states' rights are minimized and excused in the most reprehensible manner (as an example, see the exchange between Keith Olbermann and the disgusting "comedienne" Janeane Garofalo).
Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank is surprised how "mainstream extremism is," an obvious attempt to link the Tea Party and sovereignty movement to the recently leaked "rightwing extremism" report produced by the Department of Homeland Security. Frank characterizes the "tea-baggers" as a "lunatic fringe" that has allowed itself to be exploited by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the Republicans, and "that other network" (Fox News).
Frank is right to a certain degree — the Tea Party movement, initially created by Libertarians, was co-opted by "mainstream" (establishment) Republicans and Glenn Beck "conservatives" for cynical political reasons. Rick Perry is a dyed-in-the-wool globalist minion groomed by the Bilderbergers and the CFR as a possible presidential selectee and has absolutely no plan to urge Texas secession.
It remains to be seen if Maddow and her guest realize the establishment Republicans are backing states' rights in order to derail the movement and use it as a tool to attack the left side of the false right-left construct.
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies," wrote Dr. Carroll Quigley.
Republicans are merely preparing to "throw the rascals out" during the next election cycle so a new (or recycled) batch of CFR, Trilateral, and bankster operatives can be installed. The agenda will remaind absolutely the same.
Maddow and her guest are on par with "doctrinaire and academic thinkers" who accept the "foolish idea" that there is a difference between Democrats and Republicans. Maddow's task is to sell this nonsense to liberals who apparently revel in the soft porn presented on MSNBC and CNN (where crude sexual imagery is employed to describe the Tea Party movement).
Dennis Kucinich: Where Is Osama bin Laden?April 19, 2009
The Torture Memos, Obama and the Banality of EvilApril 19, 2009
posted by RICHARD KIM on 04/17/2009 @ 2:01pm
The Nation
Even as President Obama acted in the name of transparency and accountabilty in releasing the Bush administration's OLC's torture memos, he made assurances that the CIA agents who used the "enhanced interrogation techniques" meticulously detailed within would not be subject to criminal prosecution.Glenn Greenwald at Salon, Jeremy Scahill on his blog,David Bromwich at Huffington Post and Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic all have good takes on why Obama's decision is wrong. I concur. However politically expedient, Obama's nearly carte blanche absolution of torture was morally wrong, and his justification of it, from a professor of constitutional law, is intellectually dishonest.
Obama's rationalizations were artfully made to the point of being obfuscatory, but they can be boiled down to three points:
1) The strategic issue of national security. "The men and women of our intelligence community serve courageously on the front lines of a dangerous world…We must protect their identities as vigilantly as they protect our security, and we must provide them with the confidence that they can do their jobs."
2) The legal-ethical issue of obedience. The CIA agents were only carrying out "their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice."
3) The political issue of national unity and progress. "This is a time for reflection, not retribution…at a time of great challenges and disturbing disunity, nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past."
The easiest to dismiss of these is the issue of national security. As Bromwich points out, the matter of protecting individual CIA agent's identities is "a calculated distortion." Any agent publicly named and prosecuted for torture would, of course, be removed from duty. Their identities no longer need to be protected as a matter of national security because they would no longer be in the business of national security.
As for the question of whether or not prosecutions would undermine intelligence agents' "confidence that they can do their jobs," I agree with Obama here. Prosecutions absolutely would undermine the CIA's confidence, and that is a good thing. No public official, least of all intelligence agents who already operate under cover of secrecy, should be wholly confident of the legality and morality of their actions. To guarantee such confidence would be to guarantee absolute impunity. Indeed, this necessary lack of confidence is precisely why the OLC memos exist in the first place, because interrogators were seeking advice about the legality of certain interrogation techniques. So the question is not whether or not prosecution would undermine the CIA's confidence, but rather a) how much so? and b) from what source is their confidence derived?
This brings us to the question of obedience. Obama's argument here is gravely disturbing. He asserts, in essence, that because the OLC says it is right, it is–that CIA agents should have absolute confidence in anything and everything approved by the OLC and/or ordered by the executive branch. Besides the shades of Nixon and Bush II, there are two things wrong with this assertion. First is the sweeping authority given to the OLC to determine wholly, by interpretation and in secrecy, the legality of actions that were known then to have been violations of multiple international and national laws. If the OLC determined tomorrow that rape was an appropriate interrogation technique, should CIA agents behave with confidence that they are acting within legal and moral bounds? I have a hard time believing that Obama, or anyone in his administration, thinks so.
Then there is the matter of culpability and deference to authority. Even if every single national and international law approved of the interrogation techniques used by the CIA, would they be just? Hannah Arendt wrestles famously with a similar question in Eichmann in Jerusalem. Eichmann claimed, as a CIA agent on trial might, that he was merely doing his duty, that he "not only obeyed orders, he also obeyed the law." Arendt, of course, found Eichmann both banal in his evil and culpable. Perhaps more to the point, she argued that the culpability of countless others (what others did or might have done) did not in any way mitigate Eichmann's guilt.
The same is true in the case of torture (although needless to say on a vastly different scale and context). Of course, higher-ups who ordered and sanctioned torture should be prosecuted as well, including the authors of the OLC memos. But that does not mean that the actual interrogators should be let off the hook en masse. Whether or not CIA interrogators should have refused orders or should have known that such orders were legally or morally wrong is a matter to be determined in trial, a matter of justice. It is not a question that can be swept away by the claim that they were just doing their jobs, that they were just being obedient subjects.
Because in the final analysis, it is highly likely that the CIA agents were just doing their jobs. And that those jobs were, in fact, criminal in nature. This brings me to Obama's last argument, that in essence we need to forget the past and move forward for the good of the country. The substitution here of the political necessity of unity for the constitutional and moral imperative of justice is Bushian to say the least. But perhaps what is most troubling is that our new President would calculatedly deploy his public goodwill to effect a kind of national amnesia in which actions he himself and his attorney general have called illegal and wrong are forgotten in the name of progress. Of course, I can see why he would do so, as a matter of political expediency. But political expediency is not justice.
Of Eichmann's crimes, Arendt wrote, "they were and could only be committed under a criminal law by a criminal state." That may also be the case with torture under the Bush administration. We owe it to ourselves to find out and that can not happen if we meekly follow Obama's request to forgive and forget.
Risen: NSA tried to wiretap Congressman without warrantApril 19, 2009
"Wow, what chance does an average American citizen have?"
David Edwards and Joe Byrne
Published: Friday April 17, 2009
Broad legal limits set by Congress last year were exceeded in recent months by the National Security Agency, reported James Risen and Eric Lichtblau in Wednesday'sNew York Times.
A segment on Keith Olbermann'sCountdown on Thursday featured Risen, who re-stated his claim that the NSA tried to tap the communications of a congressman, but were halted at the last moment from doing so. When Olbermann pressed Risen for more details about the congressman, Risen responded, "A very senior U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge of this, a person I can't identify, gave us this information and unfortunately, we haven't been able to identify the congressman yet. But we do know that it occurred overseas and that the NSA had already begun to eavesdrop on someone else who was traveling with the congressman, and then wanted to go up and eavesdrop directly on the congressman, but was blocked at the last minute."
The article by Risen and Lichtblau detailed the problems associated with the high-tech surveillance system. "Intelligence officials said that the problems have grown out of changes enacted by Congress last July in the law that regulates the government's wiretapping powers, and the challenges posed by enacting a new framework for collecting intelligence on suspected terrorists and spies.
"While N.S.A.'s operations in recent months have come under examination, new details are also emerging about earlier domestic surveillance activities, including the agency's attempt to wiretap a congressman without court approval on an overseas trip, according to interviews with current and former intelligence officials."
The changes in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) made by Congress last July had to do with granting immunity to corporations like AT&T who were supplying the data to the government and to extend the legal limit of warrantless wiretapping from 48 hours to a week. After a week, the NSA has to take their case to the FISA court for approval.
Olbermann asked Risen how big he thought the NSA wiretapping program has become. "We're still trying to figure that out," Risen responded. "What we do know is over the last few months there has been increasing concern both at the Justice Department and in congress over what appears to be just an inability of the NSA to stay within the legal limits that were established by the new FISA bill last summer. They're collecting far more domestic e-mail and telephone traffic than they're supposed to under the — even the very broad and relaxed regulations that were imposed last year. It makes it — it appears to be a problem of the inability of the NSA to distinguish between foreign and domestic communications. but the technical details, we're still trying to determine."
Risen closed the segment with a judgment of the Bush administration's lack of control over the program. "President Bush and other members of his administration kept saying, 'Trust us, we have very tight controls over this program.' I think what this shows is that the controls are much more lax than they ever wanted to admit, and that the spying on Americans may have gone far beyond anything we realized before."
This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Apr. 16, 2009.
Obama Appointee Suggests Radical Plan for Newspaper BailoutApril 19, 2009
Rosa Brooks, adviser to the Pentagon and former L.A. Times columnist.
Rosa Brooks, who has moved from the L.A. Times to the Pentagon, called for more "direct government support for public media" and government licensing of the news, which critics say would destroy the independent media.
Influential Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks has hung up her journalistic hat and joined the Obama administration, but not before penning a public proposal calling for some radical ideas to help bail out the failing news industry.
Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping "direct government support for public media" and creating licenses to govern news operations.
"Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off," she wrote in her parting column on April 9.
Brooks said this would help rescue the industry from a "death spiral" and left the government unaccountable to the journalists who must keep it honest. "[I] can't imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed," she wrote.
But critics say her proposal would spell an end to the independent media and make journalists reliant lapdogs.
"The day that the government gets involved in the news media you see the end of the democratic process, because an independent news media is absolutely essential to the success of a democracy," said L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group.
Bozell said licensing journalists would violate American traditions and was a form of "intellectual prostitution."
"Since when did our Founding Fathers envision that … you could exercise your right to freedom of speech provided you had a license from the federal government? This is the kind of stuff you have revolutions about," he told FOXNews.com.
Attempts to reach Brooks by phone and e-mail were unsuccessful. A columnist for four years at the Times, Brooks this week joined the office of the undersecretary of Defense for policy, the principal adviser to the Pentagon's top brass. She retains her post as a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and during the Clinton administration served as a senior adviser to the State Department.
Media experts said it was unlikely her calls for a bailout would be heeded by the government.
"I'm doubtful that one person taking a secondary job in the Pentagon is going to guide the policy on [bailouts]," said John Nichols, a longtime journalist whose own plans to help save newspapers were cited approvingly by Brooks, but who called licensing a "very dangerous move."
"I would be very surprised if the Obama administration actually proposed something like that," added Joel Brinkley, a visiting professor of journalism at Stanford University, who said that no one would trust the news industry if it accepted heaps of government money. "It's the first time I've heard this publicly discussed."
It is unclear whether the Obama administration is considering such assistance. A spokesman for Obama did not respond to questions about Brooks' statements, which were published after her appointment to the Pentagon.
Some in the government are already looking to assist the industry. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., proposed legislation in March that would allow newspapers to operate as tax-exempt nonprofits as long as they don't endorse political candidates. The move was heralded as a positive step toward finding a fix but condemned by critics for potentially making newspapers beholden to the government.
Some scribes are already closely bound to Washington. As jobs are axed and papers felled across the country, many journalists have sought work elsewhere. A number have gone to work for the Obama administration, including Chicago Tribune correspondent Jill Zuckman; Time magazine's Washington bureau chief, Jay Carney; former L.A. Times reporter Peter Gosselin; and Warren Bass, once the Washington Post's deputy editor.
Brooks is not the first journalist to support a broadsheet bailout, but she is the first member of the administration to publicly declare her support for the move, which appears to be gaining momentum.
Nichols and Robert McChesney suggested in an April 6 cover piece in The Nation that the government eliminate postal fees for smaller papers and periodicals and offer tax credits for newspaper subscriptions to help save the media. Looking for more direct assistance, the company that owns two Philadelphia papers approached Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell in January seeking a $10 million bailout to help cover its massive debts — and it's not the only conglomerate that's hurting.
The Tribune Company, which owns many of the nation's leading papers, including the Los Angeles Times, filed for bankruptcy protection in December. Many more newspapers have closed their doors, like the Rocky Mountain News, or have ended their print editions, like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Brooks worried in her column that the death of such newspapers would spell an end to investigative journalism and leave the country with only "yapping heads" on television and "nothing in our newspapers but ads, entertainment features and crossword puzzles."
But many media critics say the troubles facing newspapers are of their own making, and that throwing around money won't fix the problem.
"Licensing is a simplistic solution for historic trends battering the traditional newspaper industry," said Ken McIntyre, a media and public policy fellow at the Heritage Foundation, who argued that a bailout would "preserve businesses that free enterprise and competition marked for failure — or a transition into something else."
Dobbs On Garofalo Tea Party Comments: "She's Just Nasty — Nasty Piece of Business"April 19, 2009
Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
April 18, 2009
It was Fox News against the world about tea party coverage, but CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight" host showed he's just as disgusted with some of the coverage as many conservatives are.
Dobbs, on his April 17 radio program, criticized comedian Janeane Garofalo on his April 17 radio show for her vitriolic attack against the April 15 tea party protests.
"The national liberal media gets so snarky, it can't stand itself ," Dobbs said. "Then all these too cute by half ideologues trying to pose as some sort of objective journalists. You know, these fools, start falling off their little high horses – it's fun to me. But, I'm pretty sure you're going to see a lot more snarky little nastiness coming out of the national liberal media."
Dobbs, in his own brand of populist outrage showed his ire against the media for dismissing the April 15 protest.
"They can't accept that the American people – that the vast majority of American people are through with the ideological nonsense – whether it's on the left or the right. And they're sure through with the national liberal media who think you know they're just a heck of a lot smarter than everybody else in this country."
Janeane Garofalo appeared on MSNBC's April 16 "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" where she unleashed an ugly attack, calling the protesters "a bunch of teabagging rednecks."Dobbs unleashed his own assault on her commentary, the video of which appeared on the Web site OlbermanWatch.com.
"Get ready for a lot of vitriol, a lot of pure – I mean, this Janeane Garofalo – who by the way, I don't know what she does other than appear on left-wing venues and programs like Keith Olbermann's and then just sort of whine and snark – and she's a one-woman, you know – hate event. She's just nasty – nasty piece of business, my Lord. And to be on Keith Olbermann's show, you know a lot of meds running around there and his bile spewing everywhere."
Despite some of the disparaging coverage from CNN, including Anderson Cooper, Dobbs explained that the media are determined to prop up the policies of Barack Obama.
"Their responsibility as a media outlet is to be a conduit for the Obama administration," Dobbs added. "They think they are the bastion of, you know, of the 21st century socialistic thought. They're as left-wing as it can get and they apparently are hell-bound to be the conduit for the Obama administration – the venue for left-wing politics and zaniness in this country and power to them, because the farther they go in that direction, the more irrelevant – if they've been relevant at any point – but the more irrelevant they've become.
Obama's Followers: More Reprehensible than the NeoconsApril 19, 2009
"Wow is Ganeane Garofalo that stupid? Does she have any concept that this movement was hijacked by the neo-cons from the libertarians, (Ron Paul), movement? I used to see Garofalo often in NYC playing her part as the good hipster, hanging out at Monna'a Bar in the E.Village. We struck up conversations a few times and she seemed pretty smart but who knows what happened her. Talk about embarrassing herself… she has got to relax with the race stuff. (Even for the idiot Republican/Neo-Con's that infiltrated this tea-party movement… did they display any opposition to "race" stuff? I don't know, I'm asking? I don't watch television). I think someone's got the bad case of the white-liberal-guilt. It's ok to be angry at a "black man" when he is your elected official and is working together with wealthy "white-scum" bankers in destroying your country and the lives of the hard working people who live there, (that means poor black folks too). I just can't believe who stupid some people have become, really. Really, stupid. Really. Garofalo, good luck with what ever it is that duped you into this Obama hysteria… to become a codependent to a fraud. Umm, take deep breathe, everything is gonna be aright. Keep up your "race-freak-out" it will do wonders for your career.
-Fred Face 4/18/09
Kurt Nimmo
April 17, 2009
It is bad enough that Keith Olbermann has lost any sense of objectivity when it comes to the Tea Parties, but it is far worse that he invited the scurrilous Janeane Garofalo on his show. Garofalo wasted precious little time (at 8.25 into the video here) dismissing millions of people opposed to Obama's policies (that is to say the policies of Bush continued).
Garofalo called all of us to the man and woman racist. Regrettably, Keith Olbermann agreed with her.
It should be obvious by now these people are worse — more rabid and mean-spirited and pathological — than the Bush neocons who managed to kill more than a million Iraqis and set the stage for what shall come under Obama by the premeditated whacking the underpinnings of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Neocons rarely displayed such ugliness. Instead of abusing their enemies with foul epithets, they simply ignored them. Garofalo and Olbermann, however, seem to relish in such despicable attacks. Prior to inviting Garofalo on his show, Olbermann ticked off a series of adolescent insults directed at the "teabaggers" — meant in the pornographic sense, as eluded — that is to say anybody and everybody who believes cranking up the national debt to is a disaster in the making.
Olbermann and Garofalo are cheerleaders for more of the same. In fact, they are enemies of the people who they snidely dismiss as racists.
As John Stauber notes, the Obama administration has done a swell job hijacking the antiwar movement. MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change, USAction, and other so-called liberal organizations — so vociferous when Bush was running things — have uniformly failed to condemn Obama's Afghanistan policy. Jon Soltz, the head of VoteVets, went so far as to come out in support of Obama's Afghan strategy in an Op Ed with The Huffington Post. "Liberal groups don't want to distract from passing Obama's enormous domestic agenda," Soltz declared. "And officials with some of these groups don't want to lose inside influence with the White House."
Incidentally, MoveOn, USAction, and VoteVets are all Soros operations.
They are no longer opposed to the slaughter of Afghan children now that the former cigar store Indian George Bush is out of office.
It is no coincidence Olbermann and Garofalo are calling those of us opposed to more of the same as racists at the same time a "leaked" DHS report warns of "rightwing extremism" (categorized by the SPLC and ADL as not merely extremism, but racist and white supremacist extremism).
It is no mistake the elite have decided to play the race card. It is a near perfect way to demonize the opposition and discount their arguments. Few will oppose marching said racists off to FEMA camps where they will be reeducated to accept the global elite's master plan for worldwide slavery and misery — or short of that done away with.
For now, the fake liberals do not believe in the existence of FEMA camps anymore than the fake conservative Glenn Beck or his friends working in the Hearst empire do.
In the end, though, Olbermann and Garofalo and the foundation supported liberal Reichswehr will fall victim to a Night of the Long Knives because the global elite have about as much use for them as they do for the rest of us.
Our only hope is that we can awaken the American people to the scam in progress and turn the juggernaut around before it ends in disaster and a eugenics nightmare.
In the meantime we have no choice but to endure Olbermann's smirk and Garofalo's snide remarks.


text: The discovery a few years ago of beautiful green Fluorites with purple edging were quite the sensation, and they still command high prices and much attention. The Fluorites (almost 1 cm in size) have the same intense green color and purple zoning by the corners, and many have modified corners (cubes modified by octahedrons, I believe). The luster is good, and the crystal surfaces vary from glassy smooth to slightly etched. Combined with the Muscovite and the Albite, this has proven to be a classic locality.

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An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) has an interest rate that fluctuates periodically. This is in contrast to a fixed rate mortgage, which always has the same interest rate.
Every ARM has basic components:
An ARM's interest rate is tied to one of many economic indices, some examples of which are the 1-year constant maturity Treasury security, the Cost of Funds Index, or the London Interbank Offered Rate. Different indices move at different rates so know the characteristics of the index used for your ARM.
The interest rate for your ARM will be calculated by adding a margin to the interest rate from the index. The margin is basically the markup charged by the lender that allows them to make a profit off of your loan, such as adding 2% to the index, where the 2% is the margin. The margin of your loan usually does not fluctuate.
The Adjustment Period controls when and how often your interest rate changes. For example, if your ARM has an adjustment period of 1 year, your interest rate will be subject to change at the end of each year and your monthly mortgage payment will be recalculated to reflect this change.
Interest rate caps are built into the loan to protect the borrower from drastic interest rate fluctuations. The caps limit how much the interest rate or monthly payment can change at the end of each adjustment period. An ARM can also have a cap for the life of the loan. For example, during the life of a loan, the interest rate can only be increased by 5%.
The Initial Interest Rate is the interest rate that you start with at the beginning of your loan period. The length of time your loan stays at this rate is built into the loan. For example, you may stay at the initial interest rate for 1 year, 5 years, or another length of time depending on your specific mortgage. This type of ARM is generally referred to as a Hybrid ARM. The initial interest rate for an adjustable rate mortgage is generally lower than that of a fixed rate mortgage.
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Creating the Conditions for the Economic Social Political and Cultural Inclusion of Migrant Workers and their Families in Ireland
General Introduction
Integration is a term that has become both popular and controversial in recent times. On the one hand, it is deemed necessary for social cohesion and the successful integration of migrant workers is seen as an essential component in achieving economic growth and stability. On the other hand, attempts to define what an 'integration policy' should look like has proven problematic. In many European States integration is being discussed in the context of a discernable shift in political discourse towards notions of monoculturalism and reluctance to accept cultural and ethnic diversity within Europe. The introduction of much contested 'integration tests' in some European countries and the self-admitted failure of multiculturalism in places, such as the UK and France are examples of ongoing issues that have generated much recent debate on the future of integration.
The term integration itself can mean different things and has been interpreted differently in many European counties. The EU's Common Basic Principles (CBP) on integration have emphasised that integration is a, "dynamic, two-way process of mutual accommodation by all immigrants and residents of Member States."
The Irish Government has committed itself to developing an 'integration strategy' within an intercultural framework. It too defines integration as a two-way process, "that places duties and obligations on both cultural and ethnic minorities and the State to create a more inclusive society."
While such definitions are useful in terms of positioning integration as a two-way process that places demands and responsibilities on both the host country and immigrants, they say little about what is really required in order to make integration a reality.


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Not Another 'Swan' Song
Riveting, fluid and shocking are just three words to describe not only the storyline, but also Natalie Portman's and Mila Kunis' performances in this winter's stunning film, "Black Swan."
The film tells the story of a New York City ballet company on the brink of bankruptcy as their star dancer Beth Macintyre (Winona Ryder) ages and falls into the hands of alcoholism after her forced retirement from the company. In an attempt to save his company, the artistic director Thomas Leroy (world-renowned French actor Vincent Cassel) reinvents the classic "Swan Lake" ballet into an artistic masterpiece, where one special new dancer will take the lead of the company and play both the white and the black swan.
The film follows Natalie Portman's meek character Nina Sayers through her obsessive and dark transformation to seize the role of a lifetime as the lead swan. Nina, a skilled and beautiful dancer who perfectly embodies the innocence and purity of the white swan, must transform herself into the racy and sexual black swan to capture the role, while not losing herself in the process. Not only must Nina overcome her personal inner struggle, but she must also escape the controlling hand of her mother, a former star dancer who lives vicariously through her daughter, and also not lose the role to her new "friend" Lily (played by Mila Kunis), a new dancer who moved to the company from San Francisco and whose lyrical and sexually driven movements make her the embodiment of the black swan.
This film is clearly a psychological thriller from frame one, filled with dark themes of drugs, self-mutilation, domestic abuse and sex. This film is definitely not one for the modest so, if you normally shy away from the R-rated section, you may not want to spend the cash — though you'll be missing out. The movie is packed with many innuendos, some semi-sexual scenes involving the director of the ballet trying to get Nina to explore her sexuality more, repeated solo scenes of Natalie Portman and brief girl-on-girl action between Kunis and Portman.
"Black Swan" has received high praise and gained popularity quickly, which catapulted the film from small indie theaters to almost every theater in the country — with good reason. It's not hard to see why audiences have fallen in love with the complex storyline and powerful performances throughout the film. The film captures the true essence of ballerinas, forgetting that these girls are just actors, which is an extreme compliment to the lead actress' dedication to the film. Both Portman and Kunis prepared intensely for their roles and practiced ballet about 8 hours a day for a full year.
Yet, ironically enough, this was not the biggest struggle for the actresses. Portman and Kunis also had to get through the widely noted girl-on-girl scene in the film, having to put aside the fact that they have been close friends for years and leaving all the awkwardness aside to deliver convincing performances. Ryder's portrayal of a scorned woman, a washed-up dancer and alcoholic is scary in its believability and, although she did not take the lead in the film, she will be sure to be awarded for her supporting role. The professionalism, dedication, and magnificent acting from these three actresses will undoubtedly get them various nominations for their roles and, along with the creative cinematography provided by the film's director Darren Aronofsky, they will be sure to take many awards home this season.
Overall, the perfect performances of the actors, the clever storyline, and genre of the film could have easily been a disaster were it not for the perfect ensemble put together and the ingenious direction of Darren Aronofsky. Aronofsky's brilliant and keen eye for perfection is definitely noted throughout the film. His approach to lighting, camera angles and even settings elevate the film to a masterpiece of cinematic art. Not only are his past masterpieces, such as "Requiem for a Dream," reason enough to see the film alone, but his excellent work in the psychological thriller genre is clearly outdone in "Black Swan." This film is sure to become one of the most talked about films of the winter and is definitely worth the $10 at the theater.
Rating: 5 out of 5


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Our Ballarat Civic Hall project in the Newspaper
Once again a Baumgart Clark Project has made the local presses. This time it is our high-profile project, the refurbishment of the Ballarat Civic Hall. Featured in the article are a few of our internal renders of the scheme. Check out the article here. Below is a photo of the Mayor, Councillor Samantha Mcintosh, showing the plans. (Photo by Lachlan Bence).


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Jeff Pavlat, Interim Executive Director & Board Member | Jeff is the Vice President of Education and Newsletter Editor for the Austin Cactus and Succulent Society, and a past society president. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America and manages their publications. He is also the Austin Area Garden Council Vice President of Horticulture. Jeff received a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis on graphic design, photography, and printmaking. He works part time as a horticulturist at Oracle Gorge, a small cactus and succulent nursery. He is an expert on succulent flora and maintains a large collection of rare plants. His hillside garden in Austin features extensive plantings of cacti and succulents and has become a favorite stop on several local garden tours.
Roberta Sherfy, Education Coordinator | Roberta (Robbie) Sherfy was born in Denton and raised in Denison, Texas. She moved to Austin in 1980 to marry a man she'd known for only eight months. At the time she was teaching kindergarten. After settling in Austin, she taught at a private Episcopal School for five years before going back to teaching at public school. She taught in Pflugerville, Texas for 27 years before retiring.
Robbie has spent time volunteering at All Saints Episcopal Church in their Music program (Front Porch) and ran the Street Ministry programs (Loaves and Fishes) for 7 years before moving into the garden world. In the 90s, she volunteered with the Texas Book Festival, taking care of authors. Later she got a trip to the White House and brunch with Laura Bush while helping with the National Book Festival – the weekend before 9/11, getting home before airlines shut down.
Gardening has always been Robbie's hobby and passion. She became a Master Gardener in 2016 and has been volunteering at Zilker Botanical Garden as a docent with AAGC. For the past two years, she has been a volunteer in public schools with the Sprout Project, which teaches gardening in a classroom environment. She is also a volunteer at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Robbie feels like she's gone full circle – when she first moved to Austin in 1980, she worked for the Austin Parks and Recreation Department in their summer program and now finds herself back working with PARD at Zilker Botanical Garden.
Marion Alsup | A former registered nurse whose first degree is in Horticulture, Marion is President of the Austin Area Garden Center and President of the Docents of Zilker Botanical Garden. She has been a docent since 1995, leading many tours every year for visitors of all ages. She is inspired by their appreciation for this treasure and delighted to share in this opportunity to improve the garden and educational programs.
Colette Pierce Burnette | Dr. Burnette, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, joined Huston-Tillotson University as president on July 1, 2015. She served as interim President at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington, the Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer, Executive Assistant to the President, Vice President for Information Technology and Services and Chief Information Officer at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, Dean of Information Technology at Pierce College in Lakewood, Washington, and Manager of Consulting and Project Management Services at the Washington State Department of Transportation in Olympia, Washington. Colette has combined her IQ, EQ, entrepreneurial spirit and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology and education. Before transitioning into higher education, Colette worked as a Computer Analyst at The Washington Post, was an Operations Support Engineer at Proctor and Gamble, held the position of Director of Information Systems at Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., and ran her own computer consulting firm, CompuMent.
A strong proponent of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and civic and community engagement, Colette currently serves as co-chair of the Mayor's Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequities. She is also on the Minority Engineering Advisory board for The Ohio State University's College of Engineering, a member of the National Society of Black Engineers, Austin Area Research Organization, Texnikoi, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and The Links, Inc. to name only a few. She has served on numerous boards and committees including the Xenia Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Wright Patterson Air Force Base 2020 Taskforce Committee, National Association for Schools of Music Accreditation Committee, African American Male Leadership Institute Steering Committee, and Central State University's Campus Climate Committee. She currently serves on the following boards in Austin: Leadership Austin, Greater Austin Black Chamber of Commerce, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Greater Austin Urban League, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas Advisory Council, Girl Scouts of Central Texas, and Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy. Her many honors include the Ohio State University Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award, Ten Most Influential Women in Austin, Administrator of the Year, Distinguished Woman of the Year, US Army Distinguished Civilian Volunteer Service Medal Award, Thurgood Marshall Foundation Chief Information Officer of the Year Award, Thurgood Marshall Chief Fiscal Officer of the Year Award, Dayton Business Journal Chief Fiscal Officer Awardee, and the National Diversity Council Glass Ceiling Award.
Colette received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from The Ohio State University and a Master of Science in Administration from Georgia College. She is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Management Development Program and received her Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from University of Pennsylvania.
Colette is married to Daarel and they have two adult children (Daarel II of Washington, DC and Daana of New York, NY).
Frank Cooksey (Emeritus) | Frank was educated in the Austin public schools (Pease, UJH, Austin High) and is a graduate of the University of Texas in Psychology, Government, and Law (BA and JD), where he was Student Body President. He pursued the practice of Law with the Civil Rights Division and US Attorney's Office, U.S. Department of Justice; Special Assistant to the Attorney General of Texas; Private practice in Houston and Austin (with Hilgers & Watkins, P.C. for 16 years) . Additionally, Mr. Cooksey served as Mayor of Austin from 1985-1988. Married to Lynn Cooksey for 58 years, with two children and two grandchildren.
In addition to his work here in Texas, Mayor Cooksey also worked overseas for the Central and East European Law Initiative in 1999 and 2000) and monitoring municipal elections in Bosnia in 1997. He has served as President of the Board of Texas Institute for Families, Save Barton Creek Association, United Nations Association of Austin, Austin Metropolitan Ministries, Capitol Area Homeless Alliance, and, in Houston, the Southgate Civic Club and Houston Metropolitan Ministries.
Judith Craft | Judith Craft is a Travis County Master Gardener, and an active member of the Austin Herb Society who chooses to use her volunteer time maintaining the Herb Garden in Zilker Botanical Garden. She was very much involved with the design, layout and installation of the Native Texas Herb Garden in 2005. She has been the force behind moving and expanding the collection to the top of the Rose Garden executed in the spring of 2017.
When not wearing a gardening hat, Judith will often be in a docent's apron leading tours through Zilker Botanical Garden. She has been a member of the Horticulture Committees within the Austin Area Garden Council for a number of years, has held a board position for the Herb Society, and serves on a couple of committees for Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy.
Jeannie Ferrier, Board Secretary | Resident of this beautiful city for 58 years. Married, two children and two sweet grandsons. Retired school teacher of 34 years, go Cougars. Both parents live in Sun City Georgetown and going strong. As a child I remember working in the yard with my parents and to this day I am still working in my yard. I love the outdoors, smell of good dirt, flowers for the bees and growing food for our table. I am the current president of the Austin Pond Society and spend many an hour educating our members about pond health, koi, goldfish and water plants.
Margaret Galton | Margaret Galton grew up in Austin and graduated from The University of Texas. Through her work with the Red River Cultural District, the Waller Creek Conservancy, and now Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy she strives to preserve the Austin of her childhood as well as contribute to the evolution of the city in a way that is true to the community. Margaret currently works as a Talent Buyer on concerts, festivals, and events at C3 Presents.
Dr. Gloria Cisneros Lenoir | Dr. Lenoir is a writer and strives to help in the community in regards to organizations that are involved in earth care sustainability and quality of life issues. She has worked in the private and public sectors and has experience in education, finance and government.
Dave Martin, Board Chair | Dave Martin retired from full-time corporate work in 2016. He is currently teaching as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas. He also serves on the Northern Funds Board (Northern Trust) in addition to various volunteer and consulting activities.
Dave has thirty years of financial management experience at banks, broker/dealers and large asset management firms, including a background in international markets. As chief financial officer of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP from March 2007 to April 2016, he was responsible for providing accurate and timely information about Dimensional's finances and for business planning and analysis. He also oversaw facilities/real estate, business continuity, and compliance functions. Mr. Martin served as a director of eight internal boards, all non-US entities.
Prior to joining Dimensional, Mr. Martin was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Janus Capital Group Inc., where he oversaw finance and accounting, human resources, IT, real estate, and procurement. Previously, he spent six years at Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., serving in senior management positions across a variety of financial disciplines including traditional treasury functions, planning and analysis, forecasting, and reporting. Early in his career, Mr. Martin was executive vice president and chief financial officer for First Interstate Bank of Texas.
Mr. Martin earned his MBA in finance from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981 and holds a BS in mathematical sciences (1979) from Stanford University where he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Patrick O'Daniel, Treasurer | Patrick is a native Austinite and tax partner at Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP. He has served as Board President for the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum and Catholic Charities of Central Texas as well as general counsel for Zachary Scott Theatre. He is a CPA and also an adjunct professor who teaches partnership tax at the University of Texas School of Law.
Jennifer Orr | Jennifer Orr is a landscape architect, mother of two, and avid gardener. She has a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, is a founding Principal of her firm Studio Balcones, and throughout her work, strives to connect humans to nature – creating landscapes that are integrated, functional, sustainable and beautiful. Jennifer grew up in Austin and has a great love of the Texas landscape and is thrilled to be part of the ZBGC.
Ed Parken | Ed Parken graduated with his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State in 1962. Shortly after graduation he started his 22-year career with IBM and along with his wife, Judy, and two small children moved to Austin, Texas in 1968. Ed retired in 2001 and moved back to Austin. In 2005 Ed worked with a team to install a Rainwater Harvesting System for the Zilker Botanical Garden. Ed was the Project Manager for number of improvements to ZBG:the lower gate for the Japanese Garden, coating 4 of the Japanese Garden Ponds, and a inside-the-fence survey map of the ZBG. Ed serves on the Horticulture Committee, is on the ZBGC board and is a Master Gardener.
Hal Sanders, Vice Chair | Hal is a retired attorney (Haynes & Boone, LLP) who continues to serve as a mediator for assisting in the resolution of disputes in federal and state court. Hal serves on the State Bar of Texas lawyer disciplinary committee and is a volunteer counsel for the American Association of Woodturners a 15000 member organization of artists and craftsmen worldwide. Hal serves as Vice Chair of the Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy and as Chair of the Legal committee for the board. Hal has previously served as a Director of the University of Texas Law School Alumni Association.
Evan Taniguchi (Emeritus) | Owner and Principal of Taniguchi Architects since 1978, Evan specializes in architecture, urban planning and sustainable design. He is involved in many civic/community services; currently Chair of the City of Austin Design Commission, Board member and Past-President of the Austin History Center Association, Community Board Member of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, and a founding member of the Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy. His grandfather created the Isamu Taniguchi Japanese Garden which is located in the Zilker Botanical Gardens.
Amy Voorhes | Amy Voorhes is a passionate advocate for parks and green spaces. A former Capitol Hill press secretary, Amy consulted for many years in on national and regional public affairs campaigns. She received her B.A. magna cum laude from Brown University and did her graduate work in landscape design at the Arnold Arboretum. Amy has gardened in virtually every climate zone in the country and has been known to steal her neighbors' grass clippings to feed her mulch pile
Gwen Webb | Gwen is a native of Mount Vernon, New York. She came to Austin, Texas after graduation from Yale University with a B. A. with a major in Political Science. She received her J. D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Gwen Webb has been an administrative lawyer her entire professional career, including work as a staff attorney, hearings examiner and Assistant Chief Hearings Examiner at the predecessor agencies of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Ms. Webb was a Supervising Attorney for the City of Austin, representing the water utility, the public works department, and serving as a liaison to the Texas Legislature and other local governments. Since leaving the City in 1990 to start her own law firm with her husband and law partner, Stephen P. Webb, Ms. Webb has continued to serve the public sector, including serving on the City of Austin Planning Commission, and as Chair of the City of Austin Water and Wastewater Commission, a citizens' advisory commission providing oversight on matters related to Austin Water. Ms. Webb has also represented the City of Dallas since 1992 on water related matters before the TCEQ. Ms. Webb is a certified mediator, with significant experience mediating disputes between public organizations and individuals, especially regarding educational matters.


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Which modern technology "enables us to send communications…with the quickness of thought, and to annihilate time as well as space"?
If you answered "the internet," you're right. If you answered "the telephone," "the television" or any other speed-of-light telecommunication technology, you're also right. That quote is from an 1860 book by George Bartlett Prescott, an American telegraph official.
In 1860, the fastest telecommunication link between California and New York was the Pony Express, which took at least 10 days to get a message to the other side of the continent. Then one day in 1861, the First Transcontinental Telegraph was completed and you could send the same message across the continent in 10 seconds. Two days later, the Pony Express officially ceased operations. Prescott was onto something.
The Ancient Greek word "tele" means "far away". To telecommunicate is to communicate farther than you can shout. When you connect two points with a speed-of-light telecommunication channel, you annihilate the spacetime-distance between the points. You get a kind of wormhole.
The internet is a network of spacetime wormholes connecting every human being on the planet. If you want to chat with someone face to face, you just stare into your cell phone and they stare into theirs. You can't tell if they're a thousand miles away, or in the next room.
But when it comes to physical things, we're still living under the tyranny of spacetime. Kevin Ashton, the inventor of the term "Internet of Things", wrote in 1999: "We're physical, and so is our environment … You can't eat bits, burn them to stay warm or put them in your gas tank. Ideas and information are important, but things matter much more." Just look around the room right now, at anything other than your cell phone. All the things you can see and touch depend on where you are in space, or on how much time you spend moving yourself to a new location.
That's a problem, because at any given moment, most of the things you care about aren't in your line of sight. Almost none of the food you're going to eat that day is. Almost none of the appliances you're going to use that night are. That's the tyranny of spacetime, which the internet of things is now beginning to overthrow.
The internet of things has three major spacetime-annihilating functions:
- Transportation – making far away things come to you
- Teleportation – instantly getting copies of far away things
- Telepresence – interacting with far away people and things
In the past, far away things had no way to know what you wanted from them or when you wanted it. The right things wouldn't know how to find you. So you'd have to travel to where the things were — to a restaurant, to your house, to various stores.
If you shop on Amazon instead of going to the store, you're on the internet of things.


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Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino marks a bizarre turning point for Arctic Monkeys
May 16, 2018
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The new Arctic Monkeys album, Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, provides a surreal experience for listeners and a medium for Arctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turner to vent about his qualms with society and what he fears is in store for society's future. Through this album, which was released May 11, Arctic Monkeys diverged from their previous sound with an album heavy with experimentation. This was the first album Turner wrote with the piano, and the album has a melancholy sound with influence from jazz and blues genres while still retaining elements of the rock genre Arctic Monkeys has always belonged to.
The whole concept of the album is something unconventional in the music world. Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino is based on the existence of a fictional hotel and casino, located on the moon at the exact spot of the first moon landing. The whole album plays like a story, where Alex Turner is the narrator as well as a character in a science-fiction satire of society. Each song is a chapter where listeners follow along and hear Turner's social commentary hidden between the lines of seemingly eclectic lyrics.
The journey begins with "Star Treatment," where Turner discusses the senselessness of pursuing fame and the lies people accept when they see media portrayal of "stars." Turner, in writing the song, uses the concept of starlight as a play on words, using starlight to also mean the images and representation of celebrities in lines like "It took the light forever to get to your eyes."
The first song, as well as later tracks such as "Four Out of Five," "Batphone, and the title song "Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino" all hold a melancholy, longing tone with a sound reminiscent of older genres. Interestingly, the songs also have futuristic vibes, perhaps due to the fact that Turner's voice echoes throughout, and the topic matter usually involves technology. While the message is interesting, the band plays the music well and Turner has a mesmerizing voice, the consistency of one vocal pitch and the repetitive instrumentals result in songs that fall flat.
One exception is "Golden Trunks." It starts out with a more intense tone, contrary to the other songs' dejected sounds. It also is more poetic and song-like, with alliteration and up-and-down vocals reminiscent of poetic meter. While the song is primarily a love song, it also features social commentary in the lyric "The leader of the free world / Reminds you of a wrestler wearing tight golden trunks," supposedly alluding to Pres. Trump.
While Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino comments on important topics such as the dominance of technology in the modern world, politics and the hollowness of fame, it is hard to interpret the lyrical genius and the messages between the lines. While most songs are relatively short, they seem to drag due to Turner's tone and the repetitive beat. While the experimentation with eeriness, voice echoing and piano and organ music marks an interesting turning point for the band, their new sound takes a while to adjust to. The album takes listeners on a trip to a faraway place, and while I respect the band's attempts to try new things, I couldn't really get into their new sound.
Interests/Hobbies: Breathing, reading, sleeping, and eating.
Favorite year in music: 1971
Goals in life: Live until 29.
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CIO Profile: BAA's Phlip Langsdale
Flights at Heathrow are running "100 percent" on-time despite the national strikes today, the airport's owner BAA has revealed.
In the lead-up to the strikes over public pensions, media reports had predicted 12 hour-long passport queues at airports, and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said that the army were on standby to handle the potential queues.
BAA implemented a business process management software from Pegasystems in March 2009, which it said has helped increase on-time departures at Heathrow from 68 percent to 83 percent.
"When I looked this morning, with the strike, we're on 100 percent," Eamonn Cheverton, enterprise architect at BAA told Forrester's Business Process Summit in London.
However, in an effort minimise the potential impact of the strike, airlines including BA and Virgin had cancelled some of their flights, and the airport's passenger numbers were around a third lower than on a typical 30 November.
Heathrow manages and monitors a sequence of processes that start from when a plane lands at the airport and ends when it takes off again.
The Pega system runs on an Oracle database and Weblogic application server, using Sonic ESB SOA and integration products .
The system uses a set of rules designed by BAA to optimise day-to-day running. If it detects an unusual scenario, such as delays caused by weather, strikes or a terrorism alert, it downloads the rule sets that BAA has designed to manage the new situation, and allocates a new resource plan.
This resource plan is monitored in real-time, allowing the airport operator to respond to changes in circumstances quickly. BAA is planning to extend the functionality of the system to include information from The Met Office, so that it can better manage the effects of adverse weather conditions.


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Brachial Plexus Injury Compensation Claim
Birth injuries and defects can sometimes lead to life-long health issues, which can make a real difference to the life of your child and the entire family. Any kind of brachial plexus injury can lead to nerve damage which might never be recovered from. Making sure that you receive compensation for any kind of birth injury is essential when it comes to equipping your home for their disability or paying for necessary treatment which might not be covered by the NHS.
In some cases, your child will be able to recover from these birth injuries in just a few months. However, if the damage to the nerve collection is severe, it may require extensive physical therapy for your child to recover. In some cases, it can even require surgery for the nerve damage to be effectively repaired. If you and your child have suffered because of a difficult birth due to medical negligence, then our team are here for you.
Here at Tylers Solicitors, we can provide reliable no-win, no-fee legal services for all kinds of birth injuries and medical negligence cases. Over the years, we have helped thousands of clients to get the compensation that they need to move on with their lives. Our medical negligence specialists have worked with all kinds of families to deliver the compensation they need to move on with their lives.
What is Brachial Plexus Injury?
Like Erb's Palsy, a brachial plexus injury involves damage to the nervous system. The brachial plexus itself is a large group of nerves which run from the neck down to the arms. These nerves are essential when it comes to providing controlled movement in addition to feeling to the arm and hand. It is possible that any kind of brachial damage can influence all 5 of the primary nerves.
In many cases, this kind of birth injury can result in complete or partial paralysis of the arm. In some cases, the damage can simply be due to bruising, which can cause pain and temporary injury. However, there is also the risk that these nerves can be torn, which can commonly result in long-lasting damage.
What Causes Brachial Plexus Injury?
Brachial injuries commonly occur during childbirth. Due to excessive stress or traction during childbirth, normally when the baby becomes trapped in the birth canal, the child can become compressed. The pressure can often prevent the child from being able to breathe properly during birth, which can also lead to a range of other birth injuries and defects.
What are the Symptoms of Brachial Plexus Injuries?
There are several classic signs that your child may have suffered undiagnosed brachial injuries during birth. Some of the most common signs include:
- Non-Bending Elbow.
- Waiter's Tip (Hand Naturally Turns Backwards).
- Paralysis of the Arm or Hand.
- Limp Hand/Reduced Muscular Strength.
- Stunted Arm Growth.
- Inability to Regular Arm's Temperature.
If your child is suffering from any of these symptoms after a difficult birth, then it is possible they may have suffered damage to their brachial plexus.
Can Brachial Plexus Damage Be Treated?
There are some treatments available, but it largely depends on the severity of the injury. In some cases, the damage may be limited to bruising – in this case, it should repair itself over the weeks or months following birth.
There is also the possibility of physical therapy and rehabilitation exercises. These can help to repair damage to the brachial nerves and plexus. This is essential when it comes to ensuring that the affected arm develops normally.
In the most extreme circumstances, there is the surgical option. This can be reused to re-attach torn nerves after shoulder dystocia or ensure that they are not trapped.
Can I Make a Brachial Plexus Injury Claim?
If you're looking to make a brachial injury claim after a difficult birth, there must be evidence that the medical practitioner was negligent towards you and your child. When it comes to claims like these, it can be difficult to effectively assign blame. However, these claims which are successful can usually be grouped into two different categories. These are:
- Caesarean Section – If your medical practitioner had any reason to expect a difficult birth, including shoulder dystocia, then the should have recommended a Caesarean section. This can allow the child to avoid the birth canal and prevent the damage from occurring.
- Negligent Handling of the Birth – If the medical specialist doesn't comply with established medical procedures, then they can be found negligent.
If either of these choices is applicable to your situation, then you may be entitled to make a brachial plexus injury claim.
Contact Tylers Solicitors for Professional Brachial Plexus Injury Claims
As a no-win, no-fee team of medical negligence and personal injury lawyers, we can work with you to make sure you get the compensation that you need and the justice you deserve. For many years, the Tylers Solicitors team has worked to provide industry-leading legal services to all kinds of clients across the country.
Whether the brachial injury results in long-term or short-term damage, the money that you'll receive from your no-win, no-fee service can be essential when it comes to outfitting your property. If you're looking to make a medical negligence claim following a difficult birth, get in touch with our professional team today.
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