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– The Trouble with Rand Paul (June 8, 2012):
Rand Paul just endorsed a man who is deeply hostile to human liberty.
Perhaps that's Rand's idea of playing politics? Come to the table, strike a deal, get what you can. Trouble is, it's tough striking a good deal when the guy on the other side of the table believes that the government should be allowed to claim — without having to produce any evidence whatsoever — that certain people are terrorists, and therefore should be detained indefinitely without any kind of due process.
That's textbook tyranny.
Yes, I would have [signed the NDAA]. And I do believe that it is appropriate to have in our nation the capacity to detain people who are threats to this country, who are members of al Qaeda. Look, you have every right in this country to protest and to express your views on a wide range of issues but you don't have a right to join a group that has killed Americans, and has declared war against America. That's treason. In this country we have a right to take those people and put them in jail. If I were president I would not abuse this power. But people who join al Qaeda are not entitled to rights of due process under our normal legal code. They are entitled instead to be treated as enemy combatants.Mitt Romney
Except, if the government had any evidence they were really members of al-Qaeda and engaged in a war against America they could be charged with offenses under current laws and tried in front of a jury of their peers. As was proven when Judge Katherine Forrest struck down the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA as unconstitutional, the real detention targets are people like the ones who brought the case — writers, investigative journalist and whistleblowers: people like Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Jennifer Bolen, and Birgitta Jonsdottir.
Rand Paul might have done some good work trying to filibuster the Patriot Act, but endorsing Mitt Romney goes beyond the pale. The NDAA is Romney's most egregious transgression against liberty, but not far behind are his desire to start a war against Iran, to increase military spending, to start a trade war with China and his belief that corporations are people.
I know I will never agree with any politician on every single dimension of every single issue, and that to some extent politics will always involve compromise. Certainly, I disagree with Ron Paul on some issues. But Mitt Romney's stances on these issues seem much, much, much closer to Barack Obama than they do to Ron Paul. In fact, he might as well have endorsed Obama for President.
And the Ron Paul supporters are noticing: Rand has probably burnt most bridges to his Father's supporters now. His Facebook page has seen a huge outpouring of fury:
Just lost a lot of faith in a man I otherwise adored.
You suck Rand! Traitor!
That's why this country is doomed! Even the person you trust is a sell-out. I'm done with politics, people deserve what they get. Let the country run itself to the ground, and still people will not understand what freedom and self-responsibility is about. People want big gov't, big brother every step of the way. Well, they got it. The rest of us, might as well try to move to another country or find an island and move there.
I knew I'd never vote for Mitt… Now I know I'll never vote for Rand.
He has fully sold out to the bankers
Endorsing Romney is tantamount to an utter sell-out of conservative principles.
Did George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison try to compromise with King George? Or — when it became obvious that they were facing tyranny — did they stand up for the principles of liberty?
I have always been uncomfortable with the children of politicians becoming politicians. Every anointed child feels like a step away from meritocracy. Dynasties are dangerous, because the dynasty itself comes to be more important than the qualities of the politicians. Who would Rand Paul be if he wasn't Ron Paul's son? Just another neocon. Neocons often have a few "unfashionable" libertarian or constitutionalist sympathies; look at Charles Krauthammer. But — unlike Ron Paul — the neocon never has the spine to do much about their libertarian or constitutionalist sympathies. They just ride on the establishment steamroller, into foreign occupations, empire building, corporate welfare, and banking bailouts. Into Iraq, and soon into Iran.
Rand Paul just got on the steamroller.


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The legalization of recreational marijuana in the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado will force Mexico to rethink its efforts to halt marijuana smuggling across the border, the main adviser to Mexico's president-elect said Wednesday. Luis Videgaray, head of incoming President Enrique Pena Nieto's transition team, told Radio Formula that the Mexican administration taking power in three weeks remains opposed to drug legalization. But he said the votes in the two states complicate his country's commitment to quashing the growing and smuggling of a plant now seen by many as legal in part of the U.S.
"Obviously we can't handle a product that is illegal in Mexico, trying to stop its transfer to the United States, when in the United States, at least in part of the United States, it now has a different status," Videgaray said. "I believe this obliges us to think the relationship in regards to security … This is an unforeseen element." Videgaray stopped short of threatening to curtail Mexican enforcement of marijuana laws, but his comments, less than three weeks before Pena Nieto travels to the White House days before taking office, appeared likely to increase pressure on the Obama administration to strictly enforce U.S. federal law, which still forbids recreational pot use.
"These important modifications change somewhat the rules of the game in the relationship with the United States," Videgaray said. "I think that we have to carry out a review of our joint policies in regards to drug trafficking and security in general." Videgaray will almost certainly be one of the most important figures in Mexico's new administration and he has been central to the planning of the U.S. trip by Pena Nieto planned for Nov. 27. Videgaray said security would obviously be discussed during that trip and he indicated that marijuana legalization would be an important topic.
The Obama administration has said little about how it will handle pot legalization in two states and U.S. officials offered no comment on Videgaray's remarks. The current Mexican administration has been vehemently opposed to pro-marijuana measures in the U.S., and President Felipe Calderon spoke out against a similar legalization move in California two years ago. Calderon and members of his Cabinet remained silent Wednesday on the U.S. votes.
In other Latin American countries, where cocaine production is dominant, some officials, ordinary citizens and independent experts said they expected little immediate change in U.S. drug policy, but expressed hope that the marijuana votes were the start of a softening in U.S. attitudes toward drug production. Officials with governments in the region that back U.S. policy offered little comment on the Colorado and Washington ballots.
"The fact that two states in the United States have recognized the recreational use of marijuana makes us encouraged about possible changes," said Dionisio Nunez, vice minister of coca in Bolivia, where cultivation of the coca plant — commonly used as a stimulant by local people — is legal but production of cocaine is not.
Government officials in other countries who back U.S. policy offered little comment on the Colorado and Washington ballots.
A former high-ranking official in Mexico's internal intelligence service who has studied the potential effects of legalization measures told The Associated Press that he was optimistic legalization in the two states would damage Mexican drug cartels. However, the former official, Alejandro Hope, now an analyst at the Mexican Competitiveness Institute, added that a key factor would be the reaction by the U.S. federal government to the votes. A strong federal crackdown on legalized pot could negate all but the smallest effects on Mexico's cartels, he said. Hope said a flourishing legal pot market in Colorado could reduce Mexican cartels' estimated annual income from roughly $6 billion to about $4.6 billion.
If U.S. states start developing a marijuana industry, "This will not be a super-lucrative business proposition for a criminal enterprise," Hope said. "This will not be a cash cow." The loss of income to cartels might lead them to branch into other criminal activities at home like kidnapping, Hope said, but he said such crimes were much more difficult to carry out than marijuana smuggling, so he considered that relatively unlikely. He said he believed it was more likely the loss of income would force cartels to shrink and even cut into their smuggling of other drugs, because they have been using income from marijuana smuggling to pay the costs of other illegal operations, such as bribes to officials. "It might produce a reduction in cocaine and heroin smuggling if the effect was large enough," Hope said. "… How much, and in what directions, beats me at this point."
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Tuberculosis (TB) often goes undiagnosed in children from birth to 15 years old because they lack access to health services – or because the health workers who care for them are unprepared to recognize the signs and symptoms of TB in this age group. With better training and harmonization of the different programmes that provide health services for children, serious illness and death from TB could be prevented in thousands of children every year, WHO and Stop TB Partnership said today.
Childhood TB a hidden epidemic
"We have made progress on TB: death rates are down 40% overall compared to 1990 and millions of lives have been saved," said Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the WHO Stop TB Department. "But unfortunately, to a large extent, children have been left behind, and childhood TB remains a hidden epidemic in most countries. It is time to act and address it everywhere".
Most families who are vulnerable to TB live in poverty and know little about the disease and how to obtain care for it. All too often, when an adult is diagnosed with TB, no attempt is made to find out whether children in the household also have the disease. This is a crucial step, since most children catch TB from a parent or relative. Any child living with a TB patient and that has an unexplained fever and failure to thrive may have the disease and should be evaluated by a health worker for TB. Those who are not ill with TB should be protected against the disease through preventive therapy with the drug isoniazid. Those who are ill should receive treatment.
Low cost solutions to treat and cure
"Two hundred children die from TB every day. Yet it costs less than 3 cents a day to provide therapy that will prevent children from becoming ill with TB and 50 cents a day to provide treatment that will cure the disease," said Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership. "But before we can give prevention or treatment we have to find the children at risk of TB, and this will only happen if governments, civil society and the private sector work together. From now on let us agree: It is unconscionable to let a single child die of TB."
TB can be hard to diagnose
Another problem is that TB can be hard to diagnose. While high-income countries now use sophisticated childhood molecular tests to detect TB, most developing countries still use a method developed 130 years ago. The patient must cough up a sample of sputum, which is then checked under the microscope for the bacteria that cause TB. Young children generally are unable to produce a sample. Even if a child with active TB succeeds in providing a sample, it often contains no detectable bacteria.
Recent studies have shown, however, that when health programmes do start looking for children with TB, they find far more cases than expected. InKarachi,Pakistan, in 2011, researchers trained community members in the Korangi and Bin Qasim Towns to use an electronic score card on a mobile phone to find people who needed a TB test and then accompany them to the hospital or clinic. One result was a 600% increase in detection of pulmonary TB among children. Another recent study inBangladeshfound that the number of children found to have TB more than trebled when workers at 18 community health centres received special training on childhood TB.
Actions to improve TB care
WHO and the Stop TB Partnership point to three key actions needed to improve TB care and prevent TB deaths in children:
- Examine all children who have been exposed to TB through someone living in their household. If they are very ill or living with HIV, treat them for TB immediately if they have typical signs and symptoms – even if a definitive diagnosis unavailable.
- Provide preventive treatment with the drug isoniazid to all children who are at risk for TB but are not ill with the disease.
- Train all health workers who care for pregnant women, babies and children to check patients for TB risk, signs and symptoms and refer them for TB preventive therapy or TB treatment as needed.
Children at special risk of TB
TB most commonly affects the lungs, but it also can affect other parts of the body. Infants and young children are at special risk of having severe, often fatal forms of TB, such as TB meningitis, which can leave them blind, deaf, paralysed or mentally disabled. Children are just as vulnerable as adults to developing – or becoming infected with – drug-resistant forms of TB that require a lengthy, costly treatment with often severe side effects.
At least half a million babies and children become ill with TB each year and as many as 70 000 are estimated to die of the disease. Children under 3 years of age and those with severe malnutrition or compromised immune systems are at greatest risk for developing TB.
The only vaccine currently available for TB is the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), which offers limited protection against severe forms of TB, such as TB meningitis, in young children. BCG does not create lifelong protection against pulmonary TB, and is unsafe for use in children living with HIV. Scientists are actively searching for a fully effective vaccine to protect children and adults against all forms of TB.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. paper money is getting a historic makeover.
Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist born into slavery, will be the new face on the $20 bill.
The leader of the Underground Railroad is replacing the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president and a slave owner, who is being pushed to the back of the bill.
And Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Treasury secretary who's enjoying a revival thanks to a hit Broadway play, will keep his spot on the $10 note after earlier talk of his removal.
The changes are part of a currency redesign announced Wednesday by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, with the new $20 marking two historic milestones: Tubman will become the first African-American on U.S. paper money and the first woman to be depicted on currency in 100 years.
"This gesture sends a powerful message, because of the tendency in American history, the background of excluding women and marginalizing them as national symbols," said Riche Richardson, associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. "So even the symbolic significance of this cannot be overstated."
Lew also settled a backlash that had erupted after he had announced an initial plan to remove Hamilton from the $10 bill in order to honor a woman on the bill. Instead, the Treasury building on the back of the bill will be changed to commemorate a 1913 march that ended on the steps of the building. It will also feature suffragette leaders Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul.
The back of the $20, which now shows the White House, will be redesigned to include the White House and Jackson, whose statute stands across the street in Lafayette Park.
The $5 bill will also undergo change: The illustration of the Lincoln Memorial on the back will be redesigned to honor "events at the Lincoln Memorial that helped to shape our history and our democracy."
The new image on the $5 bill will include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who gave his famous "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the memorial in 1963, and Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt. Anderson, an African-American opera singer, gave a concert at the memorial in 1939 after she had been blocked from singing at the then-segregated Constitution Hall. The Lincoln Memorial concert was arranged by Mrs. Roosevelt.
An online group, Women on 20s, said it was encouraged that Lew was responding to its campaign to replace Jackson with a woman. But it said it wouldn't be satisfied unless Lew committed to issuing the new $20 bill at the same time that the redesigned $10 bill is scheduled to be issued in 2020.
Lew didn't go that far Wednesday. But he pledged that at least the designs for all three bills will be accelerated so they'll be finished by 2020 — the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. He said the new notes will go into circulation as fast as possible after that, consistent with the need to incorporate new anti-counterfeiting measures in the designs.
U.S. currency has undergone upgrades over the years to stay ahead of counterfeiters. But the updates proposed by Lew for the three bills would be the most sweeping changes since 1929, when all U.S. paper money was redesigned to feature more standard designs and a smaller size to save printing costs.
Lew had initially selected the $10 bill to feature a woman because under the original timetable it was the next bill to be redesigned. But that proposal met fierce objections from supporters of Hamilton, who is enjoying renewed popular interest with the smash Broadway hit musical "Hamilton."
Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early part of the 19th century, escaped and then used the network of anti-slavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad to transport other slaves to freedom. After the Civil War, Tubman, who died in 1913, became active in the campaign for women's suffrage.
Numerous groups have been campaigning to have a woman honored on the nation's paper currency, which has been an all-male domain for more than a century.
Amrita Myers, a historian at Indiana University, said honoring Tubman was appropriate.
"Not only is this going to be the first African-American historical figure on U.S. currency, but it's a woman specifically from the era of slavery," Myers said.
Wednesday's announcement helped mark a decades-long decline in the reputation of Jackson, once a pillar of the modern Democratic Party but now often defined by his ownership of slaves and the "Trail of Tears" saga that forcibly removed American Indians from their land.
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker said in a statement that the currency move was a "small but meaningful vindication" for Native Americans.
The last woman featured on U.S. paper money was Martha Washington, who was on a dollar silver certificate from 1891 to 1896. The only other woman ever featured on U.S. paper money was Pocahontas, from 1865 to 1869. Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea are on dollar coins.
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Associated Press
Associated Press reporters Deepti Hajela and Hillel Italie in New York and Errin Haines Whack in Philadelphia contributed to this report.


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Title: Elysium
Series: Reunion Series #3
Author: JJ Harper
Genre: M/M Romance
Release Date: June 16, 2016
With Nico by his side, Ryan says goodbye to his old life and moves away, leaving his job and his hometown behind him.
Ready for a fresh new start together, Ryan and Nico settle down into a slower and easier lifestyle and life becomes as perfect as they could wish for.
When Ryan is unexpectedly reminded of the life he happily walked away from, his world is turned upside down when he gets notice of news that he never expected to hear. Ryan is tormented by what is being asked of him; the very thing he was promised would never be asked of him again.
A man Nico once knew returns, and Nico wishes he'd never caught up with Lyle. His ploy to keep Lyle away from Ryan fails and Lyle tells all about his previous connection to Nico. Ryan takes off, leaving no clues as to where he's gone and Nico is devastated believing that Ryan has left him.
When Ryan finally returns home; so does his past and he is forced to visit an old friend. But things are not what they seem and Ryan must fight as hard as he can to keep himself safe.
Maybe the perfect life with a happy ever after just isn't in the cards for Ryan and Nico after all.
Reading this may seriously raise you blood pressure, contains lots of hot scenes of sex between two men and has strong language throughout
This book is intended for 18+ readers.
The evening is drawing in and we have in fact done exactly what Nico wanted, we have spent the day naked and in bed. The sex has been off the charts I can feel my body humming with content and satisfaction, I think we have both dozed in and out of sleep but I know I'll get fidgety if I don't do something. "C'mon babe, I need to do something." I nudge Nico, he's lying on his stomach with his hands under the pillow, I know he's not sleeping but he's not far away. "Nicky, come on let's go out to eat." Lifting his head up I laugh at the scowl crossing his face. "Really? You want to go out, what happened to naked day?" Lifting his head from the pillow just to check if I'm messing with him.
Seconds later I'm out and walk into my bedroom still drying my skin, looking up to see him sitting in my bed with a pillow behind him as he leans against the wooden head board, my mouth goes dry. "You look good there lover." "You don't look too bad either. So are you going to stand there ogling me or are you going to help with do something with this?" His hand pushes the duvet down from his stomach giving me a perfect view of his hard dick.
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Visualisation software company offers historical cross-media project, which includes documentary film.
Last week Paris-based software company Dassault Systèmes unveiled a unique new tour of Paris. It wasn't just a tour of the city's great monuments, but a tour of its great monuments through the past 2,000 years, and it was all done within the confines of Dassault's headquarters.
Dassault Systèmes specialises in simulation and visualization software for a wide range of industries, including architecture and manufacturing. "Our job is to create virtual worlds," said Mehdi Tayoubi, Dassault Systèmes VP of Digital & Experiential Strategy, "We always ask, 'How can we use virtual reality to visualize everything about your project?'" The company's new project is a hyper-realistic, 3D simulation of the entire city of Paris, created in partnership with the Carnavalet Museum, one of Paris's oldest museums.
The 3D Paris project was launched two years ago and was conceived from the start as a transmedia collaboration, which would include a documentary film, an iPad app, online content, and a print book. The plan was to create a virtual model of Paris that could be navigated in real time and would feature monuments and key features of the city in unprecedented detail. The success of all the various media elements depended on the success of Dassault's model.
Tayoubi says, "We love crazy ideas. The crazier the idea, the more we like it. And there is no taboo. Everything can be simulated before it is ever tried in the real world." Dassault's also offers a 3D immersion room which allows clients to experience the 3D model as if they were physically present inside it.
The company has had a track record of supporting culture and education, which it believes gets its message out better than mere traditional marketing. They launched its "Passion For Innovation" programme in 2005, dedicated to taking helping individuals and non-profits bring innovative ideas to live using their 3DS software.
Dassault's virtual Paris is the second historical project the company has been involved in. In 2007, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, came to Dassault with a theory of how the pyramids at Giza were built. The resulting computer simulations led to a digitisation of the entire Giza plateau and its tombs, as well as the objects in each tomb. This Virtual Giza is now used as a teaching tool in the history department of Harvard University, which also employs Dassault's 3D immersion room tech to take students on guided lecture tours of passages, rooms and buildings that are mere rubble today.
Dancer Pietra Galla was also invited to Dassault to explore its virtual world innovation. Her visit inspired a collaboration which has resulted in the multimedia dance performance "Mr. & Mrs. Dream" (M. & Mme. Rêve), in which the dancers move inside and interact a surrealistic virtual scenarios projected in 3D.
Having created the "star" of the piece – the city itself – every other element in the creative process unfolded – the book, app, and film. "The Paris Experience was truly a transmedia approach," says Tayoubi, "with each medium completing the other one." The model features Paris at a half dozen periods of its history, including the Iron Age, the Roman Period, the mid and late Middle Ages, and in 1887 during preparations for the World's Fair and construction of the Eiffel Tower. The dates and monuments were chosen based on discussions with the director of the documentary.
The documentary, called "Paris: The Great Saga", was a coproduction with Planète+ and ran this autumn on French TV. Directed by Xavier Lefebvre, the film was produced in two versions – a 90 minute feature and a 4 x 52 minute series. The film tells its story of Paris though a family's tour over Paris in a hot air balloon that begins in 3000 BC. It's a story device perfectly aligned to take advantage of the aerial flights of fancy that Dassault's 3D virtual camera allows.
The directors could use the virtual Paris to create any kind of shot they wanted, on the fly, some of which were plates for additional action to be added later. The sophistication of the 3D model meant that a shot could start from high above the city and end on a tiny detail of Notre Dame Cathedral all with a high degree of resolution. Dassault's Paris model also features a population of "extras", virtual citizens of each period, dressed in appropriate costumes, filling the streets and buildings.
Dassault's 3D Paris is an asset that continues to grow in size and detail. It will premiere for public viewing this December at Notre Dame Cathedral. It is also available for free at the iTunes app store and at Dassault's website. Dassault is in talks with other European cities to do similar projects.


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Inside the Life of Centurion Cardholder Taysha Valez
You probably think the holders of the very best credit cards, such as the American Express Centurion (the "black card"), are all celebrities. But that may not be the typical Centurion member.
Perhaps a better example is Taysha Valez, the 29-year-old founder of myTAY PCS, a mobile phone and Internet company. Valez lives in Hawaii and New Jersey. We chatted with her via email to find out how she uses the infamous credit card.
How did you get invited to be a Centurion member?
The invite was the same [for business and personal]. You must be a current AmEx card holder and spend a minimum of $250K in one calendar year. In 1999 our [business] spending was well over $250K a month on the card. I have never personally had a Platinum AmEx card. So the myth that you must have a Platinum card in order to be invited is not true. I am not sure if that has changed since, but in my experience it's not true.
Is this Centurion card related to business or personal use?
Both. My first one was related to business use. I've had my own business since I was 15. At that time I was a cardholder on my parents' AmEx account. Then by 18 I had a personal Gold card, and I would send American Express a check covering my expenses at the beginning of the month so that they would raise my limit. I went from Gold to Black by 19.
My current card is Personal. Most of my expenses on my personal card are still associated with my business because my business and personal life overlap. Being the "Princess of Pricey" is a pricey gig. I personally pamper my clients, friends, and family without a write-off.
Tell us about your business.
myTAY PCS is beauty, tech and telecom. In a nutshell we handle everything that has to do with the Internet and mobile. myTAY.tv, myTAYISP, myTAY.com, myTAY.in, GildedGosSIP.com, myTAY.mobi and ShopMrCruz.com--we power about 30 different niche social recommender communities. We're family-owned and homegrown.
Our core client is 24-34, women, no children, and graduate school-educated. myTAY PCS is the only telecom that caters to activating and servicing high-fashion phones. Most of our clients are lovers of fashion and shopping. It's almost a sport for them, and we provide the services to keep them connected at all times. More than a few of our clients are Centurion card holders from around the globe.
What does it cost to carry the card?
I hear the fees went up, but when I got my first card there was no initiation fee, just an annual fee of $1,000. And in 2005 the fees were as follows: upfront fee--$5,000; yearly fee for the first card--$2,500; yearly fee for each additional card--$1,500.
Do you feel that it's worth it to have the card, despite the high minimum and the fees?
High is relative. Compared to the benefits and the ease and upgrades, it's paid for itself 10 times over. For example, in fall 2007 Centurion-AmEx had a private dinner at Bergdorf Goodman. It was great! Each table had a private gift bag with the new Black card cases, and a swag bag that was personalized for each client, based on our previous purchase history. Nights like that are priceless.
What is the most you've charged on the card in one month's time?
The most was about $930K and it was for a home-decorating project that went way over budget. LOL But it was worth it. Gilded mirrors and antique washbowls and Swarovski crystal-lined whirlpool baths add up!
What was your most exotic, or single biggest purchase with the card?
It was an 18-carat padparadscha sapphire ring for $700K. It was an estate auction buy. This is like a championship ring--that's how huge and beautiful it is. I love it.
Do retailers have a reaction when they see the card?
It all depends on the retailer. Shopping areas like Short Hills [Mall in New Jersey], Kalakaua Avenue [in Waikiki], Fifth Avenue, etc., are used to the Black card. A lot of Centurion card holders from around the world shop those areas. It's when you whip it out at the local pharmacy or grocery store that you get the most "oohs" and "ahs." I try to use a cash card at select places. I don't use my Centurion for every single plastique purchase. Never at restaurants where the waiter walks away with the card, for example. Casual dining and day to day I use my TAY PAY card.
One time I was in Wegmans grocery store and all I had was the Centurion card. And I thought, "Oh, this is Wegmans so it won't be a big deal." Wrong! The check-out lady called over her co-workers and everyone in line started asking about who, where and what do I do for a living to have a card like that. Everyone assumes I'm married and it's my husband's account. That was a very wacky experience. LOL All I wanted was my grapes and walnuts.
Does having the card make you feel special or different? Do you feel part of an elite club? I feel different and special at the same time. And yes, I do feel a part of an elite club. It's a blessing to be able to afford to pay the dang bill every month! LOL All from my hard work, you know--do what I love to do, not what I have to do. So that's the club, that's where the specialness comes from.
Everyone I know who has the card is an entrepreneur. We all had a vision, went after it, took the risk, and delivered, and are handsomely rewarded for believing in ourselves and seeing our visions through to success. The Centurion card represents that. Hard work pays off. Anything is attainable. The card represents a limitless life. And I love that!
What extras do you get from the card, and which of those extras do you appreciate most?
Travel and shopping. It's all located in the booklets and the little USB stick that's included with it. I thought the business and the personal cards were the same, but it turns out there are differences:
Business gets these benefits:
*Quarterly Management Report *Regus Program (virtual office) *Fortune Small Business magazine *Assured hotel reservation program *Employee-card misuse protection *Savings of 5 to 15% on purchases from certain vendors, such as FedEx, Hyatt hotels and Hertz, just to name a few.
The main benefits on the personal card:
*The assigned concierge. All those last-minute gifts and they will even contact ShopMrCruz.com and expedite any gift orders I might have. They are like human search engines when you're searching for something that seems un-findable.
*The FHR (Fine Hotels and Restaurants) benefits because I love beautiful hotels.
*The Buyers Assurance Program has come in handy twice thus far. It covered a digital camera and had it replaced super-fast!
*The invites to exclusive events. From sky boxes and floor seats at sporting events to red carpet events and uber-exclusive gatherings around the world.
Do you consider yourself wealthy?
Yes, but not because of the card. Because wealth is an abundance of health, affording yourself options of all sorts, and having an abundance of love and joy in your life. So yes, I consider myself extremely wealthy and extremely blessed.
Curious about another entrepreneur with a Centurion credit card? Read our Q&A with Don Sabatini.
The original article can be found at CardRatings.com:Inside the life of Centurion cardholder Taysha Valez


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In America we spend billions of dollars helping our children master reading, writing and arithmetic. And then we send them out into the world lacking the basic skills to prosper in life: understanding personal finance and economics.
We help teachers bring important lessons about personal finance and economics to their students by providing them with free teacher workshops, engaging activities and programs, and hundreds of online lesson plans, tools and videos.
One teacher can make a difference in the lives of a classroom of students.
May 19-21, 2018
The Challenge recognizes exceptional high school students for their knowledge of economic principles and their ability to apply critical-thinking skills to real-world events.
October 4-6, 2018
The Conference brings together over 500 K-12 educators. Providing professional development workshops on economic and financial literacy to meet the needs of teachers throughout the country.
October 24, 2018
The Visionary Awards honors leaders who promote economic and financial literacy to create a better-informed society.
"This has been the finest in-service training in my 36-year teaching career. Economics is useful everywhere, and so is economic thinking. It has influenced every class I have taught and I am forever grateful and excited to return to these events."
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia said Tuesday that it has narrowed the search for a downed jetliner to an area the size of Texas and Oklahoma in the southern Indian Ocean, while Australia said improved weather would allow the hunt for possible debris from the plane to resume.
The comments from Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein came a day after the country's prime minister announced that a new analysis of satellite data confirmed the plane had crashed in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 aboard.
But the searchers will face a daunting task of combing a vast expanse of choppy seas for suspected remnants of the aircraft sighted earlier.
"We're not searching for a needle in a haystack — we're still trying to define where the haystack is," Australia's deputy defense chief, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, told reporters at a military base in Perth, Australia, as idled planes stood behind him.
There had been two corridors — based on rough satellite data — for the search. Hishammuddin said operations had been halted in the northern corridor that swept up from Malaysia toward Central Asia, as well as in the northern section of the southern corridor that arches down from Malaysia toward Antarctica.
That still leaves a large area of 1.6 million square kilometers (622,000 square miles), but just 20 percent of the area that was previously being searched.
In remarks to the Malaysian Parliament on Tuesday, Prime Minister Najib Razak cautioned that the search will take a long time and "we will have to face unexpected and extraordinary challenges."
Late Monday, Najib announced that the Boeing 777 had gone down in the sea with no survivors. That's all that investigators and the Malaysian government have been able to say with certainty about Flight 370's fate since it disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.
Left unanswered are many troubling questions about why it was so far off course. Experts piecing together radar and satellite data believe the plane back-tracked over Malaysia and then traveled in the opposite direction to the Indian Ocean.
Investigators will be looking at various possibilities including mechanical or electrical failure, hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or someone else on board.
"We do not know why. We do not know how. We do not know how the terrible tragedy happened," the airline's chief executive, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, told reporters.
Najib's announcement set off a storm of anguish and anger among the families of the passengers and crew — two-thirds of them Chinese.
Nearly 100 relatives and their supporters marched to the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing, where they threw plastic water bottles, tried to rush the gate and chanted, "Liars!"
Many wore white T-shirts that read "Let's pray for MH370" as they held banners and shouted, "Tell the truth! Return our relatives!"
President Xi Jinping ordered a special envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, to Kuala Lumpur to deal with the case, and Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng told Malaysia's ambassador that China wanted to know exactly what led Najib to announce that the plane had been lost, a statement on the ministry's website said.
Malaysia Airlines Chairman Mohammed Nor Mohammed Yusof said at a news conference Tuesday that it may take time for further answers to become clear.
"This has been an unprecedented event requiring an unprecedented response," he said. "The investigation still underway may yet prove to be even longer and more complex than it has been since March 8th."
He added that even though no wreckage has been found, there was no doubt it had crashed.
"This by the evidence given to us, and by rational deduction, we could only arrive at that conclusion: That is, for Malaysia Airlines to declare that it has lost its plane, and by extension, the people in the plane," he said.
The conclusions were based on a thorough analysis of the brief signals the plane sent every hour to a satellite belonging to Inmarsat, a British company, even after other communication systems on the jetliner shut down for unknown reasons.
The latest satellite information does not provide an exact location but just a rough estimate of where the jet crashed into the sea.
Hishammuddin said the data is still being analyzed "to attempt to determine the final position of the aircraft" and that an international working group of satellite and aircraft performance experts had been set up. He did not give any details.
Although there have been an increasing number of apparent leads, there has been no confirmed identification of any debris.
"A visual search will resume tomorrow when the weather is expected to improve after gale force winds and heavy swells resulted in the suspension of the search operation on Tuesday," said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is overseeing the search out of Perth, Australia.
There is a race against the clock to find any trace of the plane that could lead searchers to the black boxes, whose battery-powered "pinger" could stop sending signals within two more weeks. The batteries are designed to last at least a month.
Several countries have begun moving specialized equipment into the area to prepare for a search for the plane and its black boxes, the common name for the cockpit voice and data recorders, needed to help determine what happened to the jetliner.
Hishammuddin said a U.S. Navy deep-sea black box locator was on its way to Australia and would be installed on an Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, that is expected to arrive in several days. It is not expected to reach the search area until April 5.
There are 26 countries involved the search, and Hishammudin said the problems now facing the hunt to recover Flight 370 are not diplomatic "but technical and logistical."
The U.S. Navy has also sent an unmanned underwater vehicle to Perth that could be used if debris is located, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he had spoken to Najib to offer help with the ongoing search and investigation.
"What up until now has been a search, moves into a recovery and investigation phase," Abbott said. "I have offered Malaysia, as the country legally responsible for this, every assistance and cooperation from Australia."
The search for the wreckage and the plane's recorders could take years because the ocean is up to 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) deep in some parts. It took two years to find the black box from an Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009, and searchers knew within days where the crash site was.
"We've got to get lucky," said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. "It's a race to get to the area in time to catch the black box pinger while it's still working."
Associated Press writers Todd Pitman in Kuala Lumpur; Christopher Bodeen, Ian Mader, Aritz Parra and Didi Tang in Beijing; Cassandra Vinograd in London; Darlene Superville in Washington; and Kristen Gelineau in Sydney and Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia, contributed to this report.


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Q: Could you possibly clear up the notion of Kobe beef? From what I have read it is extremely hard to find the real stuff outside of Japan and that in the U.S. it's all just a big scam.
—Patrick W. Marsden, Marina del Rey, Calif.
A: Genuine certified Kobe beef comes from the Tajima breed of cattle raised in a prescribed way in the Japanese prefecture of Hyogo, of which Kobe is the capital. Kobe beef is a registered trademark in Japan.
At one time, Kobe beef imports were banned in the United States, sparking a Forbes website article in April 2012 by Larry Olmsted titled, "Food's Biggest Scam: The Great Kobe Beef Lie." Later that year, the U.S. government allowed Kobe beef into the country.
The American distributor of Kobe beef is Fremont Beef Co. of Fremont, Neb. Laun Hinkle, Fremont's sales manager, tells me you should ask to see proof of authenticity before ordering any meat described on the menu as "Kobe beef." A restaurant or market with the real stuff should be eager to show you the certification.
Why the hunger for Kobe beef?
"The Japanese have done an excellent job of marketing it like caviar and high-end wines,'' Hinkle says. "Also there's a very, very limited supply, only about 3,000 animals a year."
Why look for it? Kobe beef is prized for its flavor, its marbling, its mouth feel.
"It's a very buttery, smooth-textured product completely different than U.S. beef,'' replies Hinkle, noting Kobe beef is so rich a 4-ounce portion would suffice. "An 8- or 10-ounce steak would be hard to eat,'' he adds.
Now, just as there is Champagne from Champagne, France, and "champagne" from, say, California, there is "kobe" beef from the United States. You need to look at the fine print for phrasing like "American kobe" or "kobe-style" or "domestic kobe" and decide accordingly.
Martha Patterson, registrar and administrative assistant for the American Wagyu Association, a breed association headquartered in Post Falls, Idaho, says association members are urged not to use the word "Kobe" with their animals out of respect for Kobe being a place name – like Champagne.
"Wagyu" is the name for certain Japanese cattle breeds. If "Kobe" is the Champagne of Japanese steers, both because of its location-specific use and rigid quality standards, "wagyu" is a more generic term, like sparkling wine. (Don't sniff; just ask any wino. Sparkling wine can be as good, or better, than Champagne depending on the maker.) While not as legendary as Kobe, wagyu is also famed for flavor, texture and a high degree of marbling.
Some wagyu breeds are now being raised in the United States and Australia and others areas around the globe. American wagyu "is the same animal" as the Japanese original, says Patterson, but I'm sure Japanese cattle farmers would beg to differ with her.
Florence Fabricant, in a 2012 New York Times article on the return of imported wagyu to the United States, wrote that Japanese version "is as costly for one steak as a cashmere sweater and is much more densely marbled with fat. Its muscle is paler in color than its American counterpart." The American version, she added, was redder, "beefier-tasting, more like a super tender, classic American steak."
Given you will likely pay a premium for a "name" piece of beef, whether its Kobe or wagyu, do request documentation to make sure you are getting what you pay for.
Do you have a question about food or drink? E-mail Bill Daley at: email@example.com. Snail mail inquiries should be sent to: Bill Daley, Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 60611. Twitter @billdaley.


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{sale} My Outnet Clearance Sale Picks
Have you or will you buy anything from the sale? Hurry up, there's only 4 days left! (The brown printed dress is one I own, seen here and here)
Click to go to the product page!
Looks like I've got a little online shopping to do!
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Love your stylish picks here....thanks for sharing dear!!!
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when i get thin again, i'm grabbing those dresses.ReplyDelete
I have to tell you..I was scrolling through this post, looking at your gorgeous picks, and when I got to those sparkly Michael Kors pants I actually gasped. Literally, out loud. In the middle of my office.
Have a great weekend!
The first dress, you need. The second looks far too much like one you've already got, so I'm saying no. Okay?
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Sigh...can I just have everything?? Amazing picks, naturally.ReplyDelete
I hope you are staying warm and safe despite the weather! Love the printed PJ set, looks so cozy and adorable! Have a great weekend!
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So many beautiful shoes!!ReplyDelete
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amazing items!
great selection, I love the first dress the most:)
xx Kate
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great picks! there are so many things I would love to have;)ReplyDelete
Oooh! Those picks are absolutely marvelous :)
Hope you're staying warm. I love these picks, especially the striped dress and sandals. xx/MadisonReplyDelete
I just love the outnet!!! Got a $1 Miu Miu dress at their first birthday. Best day of my life
The sparkly pants are so fun! Hope you'll be back soon. Enjoy your time off.ReplyDelete
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1 A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, by K. O. Mueller. Vol. i, p. l9l. London, Parker, 1858.
2 Select Fables of Aesop, and other Fabulists. In three books, translated by Robert Dodsley, accompanied with a selection of notes, and an Essay on Fable. Birmingham, 1864. P. 60.
3 Some of these fables had, no doubt, in the first instance, a primary and private interpretation. On the first occasion of their being composed they were intended to refer to some passing event, or to some individual acts of wrong-doing. Thus, the fables of the "Eagle and the Fox" and of the "Fox and Monkey' are supposed to have been written by Archilochus, to avenge the injuries done him by Lycambes. So also the fables of the "Swollen Fox" and of the "Frogs asking a King" were spoken by Aesop for the immediate purpose of reconciling the inhabitants of Samos and Athens to their respective rulers, Periander and Pisistratus; while the fable of the "Horse and Stag" was composed to caution the inhabitants of Himera against granting a bodyguard to Phalaris. In a similar manner, the fable from Phaedrus, the "Marriage of the Sun," is supposed to have reference to the contemplated union of Livia, the daughter of Drusus, with Sejanus the favourite, and minister of Trajan. These fables, however, though thus originating in special events, and designed at first to meet special circumstances, are so admirably constructed as to be fraught with lessons of general utility, and of universal application.
4 Hesiod. Opera et Dies, verse 202.
5 Aeschylus. Fragment of the Myrmidons. Aeschylus speaks of this fable as existing before his day. See Scholiast on the Aves of Aristophanes, line 808.
6 Fragment. 38, ed. Gaisford. See also Mueller's History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, vol. i. pp. 190-193.
7 M. Bayle has well put this in his account of Aesop. "Il n'y a point d'apparence que les fables qui portent aujourd'hui son nom soient les memes qu'il avait faites; elles viennent bien de lui pour la plupart, quant a la matiere et la pensee; mais les paroles sont d'un autre." And again, "C'est donc a Hesiode, que j'aimerais mieux attribuer la gloire de l'invention; mais sans doute il laissa la chose tres imparfaite. Esope la perfectionne si heureusement, qu'on l'a regarde comme le vrai pere de cette sorte de production." M. Bayle. Dictionnaire Historique.
8 Plato in Ph2done.
9 Apologos en! misit tibi Ab usque Rheni limite Ausonius nomen Italum Praeceptor Augusti tui Aesopiam trimetriam; Quam vertit exili stylo Pedestre concinnans opus Fandi Titianus artifex. Ausonii Epistola, xvi. 75-80.
10 Both these publications are in the British Museum, and are placed in the library in cases under glass, for the inspection of the curious.
ll Fables may possibly have been not entirely unknown to the mediaeval scholars. There are two celebrated works which might by some be classed amongst works of this description. The one is the "Speculum Sapientiae," attributed to St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem, but of a considerably later origin, and existing only in Latin. It is divided into four books, and consists of long conversations conducted by fictitious characters under the figures the beasts of the field and forest, and aimed at the rebuke of particular classes of men, the boastful, the proud, the luxurious, the wrathful, c. None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist. The exact title of the book is this: "Speculum Sapientiae, B. Cyrilli Episcopi: alias quadripartitus apologeticus vocatus, in cujus quidem proverbiis omnis et totius sapientiae speculum claret et feliciter incipit." The other is a larger work in two volumes, published in the fourteenth century by Caesar Heisterbach, a Cistercian monk, under the title of "Dialogus Miraculorum," reprinted in 1851. This work consists of conversations in which many stories are interwoven on all kinds of subjects. It has no correspondence with the pure Aesopian fable.
12 Post-medieval Preachers, by S. Baring-Gould. Rivingtons, 1865.
13 For an account of this work see the Life of Poggio Bracciolini, by the Rev. William Shepherd. Liverpool. 1801.
14 Professor Theodore Bergh. See Classical Museum, No. viii. July, 1849.
15 Vavassor's treatise, entitled "De Ludicra Dictione" was written A.D. 1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D'Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers. Francisci Vavassoris opera omnia. Amsterdam. 1709.
16 The claims of Babrias also found a warm advocate in the learned Frenchman, M. Bayle, who, in his admirable dictionary, (Dictionnaire Historique et Critique de Pierre Bayle. Paris, 1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opinions of his learned predecessors, Nevelet and Vavassor.
17 Scazonic, or halting, iambics; a choliambic (a lame, halting iambic) differs from the iambic Senarius in always having a spondee or trichee for its last foot; the fifth foot, to avoid shortness of meter, being generally an iambic. See Fables of Babrias, translated by Rev. James Davies. Lockwood, 1860. Preface, p. 27.
18 See Dr. Bentley's Dissertations upon the Epistles of Phalaris.
19 Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and Fables of Aesop examined. By the Honorable Charles Boyle.


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Candidates for 2013 Gold Stock of the YearWritten by Jeff Clark Subject: Casey Research Articles
Is your precious-metals portfolio ready for 2013? We want to get positioned in the best performers ahead of the industry's next big move to maximize profit while minimizing risk.
Some readers may question if gold stocks really have snapped out of their funk. We could discuss this topic for many pages, but the bottom line for us at Casey Research is simple: if you believe gold and silver prices are going higher, then equity prices will follow.
Precious metals are headed higher for reasons we've outlined before: intractable levels of government debt, reckless deficit spending, and worldwide money printing. GDP growth won't be near strong enough to meet future liabilities, and neither politicians nor the public will agree to austerity measures that will be austere enough. Gold and silver will move higher as the value of currencies declines as governments attempt to pay existing and future obligations.
With that in mind, some stocks will certainly do better than others. Recall 2011, when gold continued higher while stocks as a group performed poorly. However, there were still profits to be made…
You can see that while the equity ETFs performed poorly last year, select producers still returned big gains. This is why it pays to be picky.
We won't always be right about which companies will be a given year's trophy, yet there are definitely steps we can take to improve our odds. As 2013 swings into gear and you review your precious-metals portfolio, keep the following in mind…
1. Keep share performance in context. Don't sell a stock whose share price has "underperformed" during a period of bearish market sentiment, unless there are also serious operational difficulties that deserve the discount. While some of our picks did poorly last year, I'm convinced we have the best of the best in our portfolio. We'll advise, of course, if we think a company should be sold, but many of our weaker performers simply haven't had their day in the sun yet.2. Don't chase last year's results. Last year's winner is unlikely to also be this year's champ.3. Keep buying physical gold and silver. The metals have advanced every year since 2001 (save silver in '08 and '11), and we fully expect this trend to continue. That means the bullion you buy today should be selling for a higher price by year-end 2013 and entails less risk.Gold and silver should be viewed as money. We believe serious inflation lies ahead from ongoing currency dilution, making it highly likely we'll someday use precious metals to maintain our standard of living.Buy now before prices break out of their trading ranges.4. Focus on only the strongest companies. Experienced and proven management, robust production growth, low costs, a strong balance sheet, and operations in low-risk political jurisdictions define a solid company. Owning companies that meet these criteria gives us the best shot at owning a 2013 winner, while mitigating risk.5. Diversify your picks. Don't put all your money in one or two stocks. If you already own several strong gold miners, determine if you need to adjust your portfolio so that the risk – and potential reward – is spread around.
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Here's a problem of professional ethics right out of today's headlines: If a news organization prohibits its own staff from using certain reporting techniques–say, deception–should it publish information that somebody else gathered using those same forbidden techniques?
Consider the resurgence of journalistic stings engineered by free-swinging ideologues to embarrass political opponents. Stings are a kind of undercover reporting in which targets are lured into fabricated situations intended to make them look bad.
Most recently, a major fund raiser for National Public Radio was secretly videotaped in a Georgetown restaurant by two men posing as potential contributors. The official, Ron Schiller, made disparaging remarks about the Tea Party and acquiesced in offensive comments about Zionist influence made by the phonies, who claimed to be from some Islamic foundation. The video got picked up by established news media, Schiller, scheduled to leave NPR for a position with the Aspen Institute, lost both jobs, and NPR boss Vivian Schiller (no relation) was forced out.
That came soon after another sting targeting Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin. In late January, Walker took a phone call from a man falsely claiming to be David Koch, the ultra-rich Wichita oil baron, and was secretly taped making a series of embarrassing comments about politicking, funding and unions. Again, the story was picked up and reported extensively by established news media.
This is a boom time for stings. In January, make-believe pimps entered a dozen Planned Parenthood clinics in six states seeking medical attention, including abortions, for prostitutes, some allegedly as young as 14. The anti-abortion activists who ran this beauty released one of the videos they took, from a New Jersey clinic, and got a clerk fired, even though the clinic had promptly called the cops.
Still, the sting got wide publicity and strengthened a push to deny Planned Parenthood federal funding.
Now, few of the news organizations that are dutifully reporting this rubbish would countenance such deceit themselves. The U.S. journalistic establishment frowns on undercover reporting, and stings are usually confined to cheesy exposes of sexual predation and small-bore consumer scams during TV sweeps weeks.
One recent exception was the 2007 cover story in Harper's magazine in which Washington editor Ken Silverstein claimed to be seeking high-powered PR help for a central Asian tyrant, and recounted the calisthenics K Street lobbying firms performed to audition for his money. It wa s a disturbing and illuminating story, but Silverstein drew a lot of criticism.
The general standards, promulgated by the Society of Professional Journalists, recognize that stings are unfair and grossly violate privacy. News organizations are admonished to avoid deception unless the story is truly important and can't be obtained honestly, and unless they are willing to come clean with their readers.
Yet now, stings are being mainstreamed—not through their wholesale adoption as a legitimate device, but in a backdoor way, when established media grant these hoaxters the news channels they are desperate for.
And that's even worse than if news organizations were doing the stings themselves.
First, there are no quality controls—not the slightest assurance that the setup is what it's presented as. One of the worthies behind the Planned Parenthood hit was also an author of the disgraceful 2009 videos purporting to show the anti-poverty group ACORN consorting with a make-believe pimp and prostitutes, videos found to be fraudulent.
Second, even if they're not frauds, where's the evidence the findings are reasonably representative of any underlying reality? The Planned Parenthood hit team tried a dozen offices before they got somebody to say something lame. The NPR stingers apparently tried the Public Broadcasting Service as well but couldn't get anybody to embarrass themselves. Where's the footage of all the people who did the right thing?
The wrongness of the stings has been completely eclipsed by the attention lavished on the marginally interesting revelations they bring. But the question remains: If stings are wrong to commit, are they any less wrong to endorse through publicity? And if established media persist in publicizing these stunts, don't they ensure that these stings will continue and, indeed, proliferate?
What we have is a dangerous and open-ended invitation to fraud. I don't see how the news media can duck responsibility for unleashing, by proxy, a vast army of ideologically-blinkered tricksters by granting them access to the country's most trusted channels of news distribution.
For the media, the solution is simple enough. Cut it out. Follow your own principles. If certain reporting techniques may not be used unless the information is exceptional and otherwise unobtainable, so be it. Stop legitimating deceit by rewarding the deceivers.
Note: An earlier version of this column said that Ken Silverstein was "roundly condemned" for his 2007 Harper's sting. In response, Silverstein wrote that he recalls the media's response as more nuanced, and in fact he did have his defenders (I was among them.) I do think the predominant reaction was negative, but I have toned down my characterization.


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