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Saddam Execution: More Staged Propaganda
Order out of chaos agenda continues in Iraq as Hussein video stokes sectarian violence and paves way for escalation of war
Steve Watson
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Evidence has emerged that the execution of Saddam Hussein was purposefully allowed to descend into chaos as senior American and Iraqi officials carefully staged managed a situation whereby Shi'ite militias were able to infiltrate the chamber and actually carry out the deed themselves.
Reuters today reported that Iraqi officials acknowledged that the execution chamber had been infiltrated by outsiders bent on inflaming sectarian tensions.
"Whoever leaked this video meant to harm national reconciliation and drive a wedge between Shi'ites and Sunnis," said National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, one of a group of 20 officials and other witnesses who were present at the execution at dawn on Saturday.
"The execution was carried out by militias and outsiders. They put aside the team from the Interior Ministry that was supposed to carry it out," another Iraqi official said.
US officials have said that they had nothing to do with the execution or the videoing of it which has sparked international condemnation. Saddam was handed over at the facility by U.S. troops who then immediately left the building before Saddam was executed.
How incredibly convenient. Does it not seem a little bit strange that after capturing and holding Saddam prisoner for over three years, strictly overseeing his trial, that he would just be handed over by American officials who then did not even bother to stay and witness the execution?
According to deputy chief prosecutor Munqid al- Farun, only two of those present at the execution had mobile phones - national security advisor Muwafak al-Rubaie, and a second government representative. Both were said to have taken pictures. Farun claimed that the cell phone video was captured by these senior government officials, not secretly by guards or witnesses as has been claimed by the government.
Al-Farun said he had threatened to leave the room if order was not restored, which would have halted the execution, as a prosecution observer must be present by law.
"Two officials were holding mobile phone cameras," said Farun, who was a deputy prosecutor in the Saddam case and is chief prosecutor in a second trial that will continue against his aides for genocide against the Kurds.
"One of them I know. He's a high-ranking government official. The other I also know by sight, though not his name. He is also senior."
Telling how U.S. troops searched the official delegation to the hanging before they were allowed on to the gallows, he said: "I don't know how they got their mobiles in because the Americans took all our phones - even mine which has no camera."
The Iraqi government has arrested two guards and an official who supervised the execution for making the mobile-phone video that has stirred so much controversy.
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The New York-based International Action Center, led by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, one of the former dictator's defence lawyers said the hanging was part of a plan to escalate the war. Clark had predicted during the Iraqi leader's trial that a bloodbath would follow if he was executed. In a statement, the center said:
"The execution of Saddam Hussein is a clear sign that the Bush administration is looking not to negotiate a way for the US to leave Iraq, but is instead sending a signal that it will continue the war and escalate it despite the impending disaster,".
Both President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair have remained distanced from the execution, Bush saying he has not seen the video and Blair failing to even make a formal statement on it much to the anger of several MPs within his own party.
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw was on the money when he commented that it was "difficult to imagine" how the execution of Saddam Hussein "could have turned out worse."
"[W]e portray ourselves around the world as the champions of democracy and the rule of law," Brokaw said, yet Hussein's execution "resembled the worst kind of nightmare out of the old American West." As a result, Hussein, who "had disappeared, in effect, as some kind of a symbol over there, suddenly becomes a martyr."
Patrick Cockburn today wrote in the Independent that "It takes real genius to create a martyr out of Saddam Hussein." and that Bush and Blair's choices have led to disaster in Iraq, culminating in a chaotic execution that is fueling civil war.
Meanwhile, according to an Angus Reid Poll, 90% of Iraqis believe that they were better off under Saddam than they are now without him.
British MP George Galloway echoed the sentiment that Saddam has been intentionally made a martyr, highlighting how much of a staged managed joke the trial leading up the final execution had been:
"Nothing became the Saddam Hussein era like his leaving of the stage. If he had died the day he was dug up from a hole, the collective memory of the Arabs — the only audience that ever mattered to him — would have been different. Instead, they will recall his astonishing sangfroid before a kangaroo court. The first judge resigned in protest at American interference. The second one was sacked by the US-installed puppet regime for refusing to obey orders." Galloway writes.
Indeed, the first chief judge, Rizkar Mohammed Amin, has said that the late dictator's execution by the Iraqi government was illegal. Amin said Iraqi law banned executions during the Eid al-Adha festival period that marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
The four-day Feast of the Sacrifice began for Iraqi Sunnis on Saturday -- the day Saddam was hanged in Baghdad -- and on Sunday for Shiites.
Amin also claimed that Iraqi law stipulates an execution must be carried out 30 days after the appeal court's decision on the sentencing, which in this case upheld the death sentence of Saddam.
Some have intimated that the execution has thus been seen by Shia's as a welcome sacrifice on one of the Holiest days of Islam, and was carefully staged managed as a deliberate act meant to create a backlash amongst Muslims and foment a Shia-Sunni conflict in the Muslim world.
No Iraqi officials have been able to explain why Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki bypassed constitutional and religious precepts and had been unwilling to allow the execution to wait. Nor would any explain why those who conducted it had allowed it to deteriorate into a sectarian free-for-all that had the effect, on the video recordings, of making Hussein, a mass murderer, appear dignified and restrained, and his executioners, representing Shiites who were his principal victims, seem like bullying street thugs.
Why would Iraqi officials who are truly seeking stability and an end to sectarian conflict want this to happen?
Qui Bono? Bush wants to send another 30,000 troops into Iraq, the al-Maliki government are total puppets to a man that have been installed purely to carry out orders of the Neoconservative elite, who are also in bed with the oil plundering Saudi royals and the Zionist Israeli oligarchy who have long sought Balkanization of the middle east. In 1982, Oded Yinon, an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs office, wrote: "To dissolve Iraq is even more important for us than dissolving Syria. In the short term, it's Iraqi power that constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. The Iran-Iraq war tore Iraq apart and provoked its downfall. All manner of inter-Arab conflict help us and accelerate our goal of breaking up Iraq into small, diverse pieces."
We have also previously highlighted other facets of the long term order out of chaos agenda to stoke civil war in Iraq and the middle east, such as the 'Salvador Option'. Top analysts in the CIA and State Department, as well as large numbers of Middle East experts, knew that a U.S. invasion of Iraq would result in a violent ethnic and sectarian conflict. The war's intellectual architects even acknowledged as much: In a 1997 paper, prior to becoming major figures in the Bush foreign policy team, David Wurmser, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith predicted that a post-Saddam Iraq would likely be "ripped apart" by sectarianism and other cleavages but called on the United States to "expedite" such a collapse anyway."
Throughout history we see the tactic of divide and conquer being used to enslave populations and swallow formerly sovereign countries by piecemeal. From the British stirring up aggression between different Indian tribes in order to foment division, to modern day Yugoslavia where the country was rejecting the IMF and world bank takeover before the Globalists broke it up and took the country piece by piece by arming and empowering extremists.
And why shouldn't we suspect the Saddam execution to be another piece of stage managed propaganda within this agenda? The announcement of the verdict on Saddam sentencing him to death was conveniently switched last year to 5 November, the last daily news cycle before the US mid-term elections.
The US largely orchestrated the entire trial from behind the scenes because it was clear that if it became a real trial mountains of evidence would have poured forth detailing how criminal elements within the US government brought Saddam to power, maintained him in office, underwrote his tyranny, and rewarded his aggression.
Everything about Saddam has been staged managed, he was a puppet from the very start, beginning with the CIA's assistance in not one but two coups that first brought the Baath Party to power then cemented the hold of Saddam's internal faction on Iraq.
The Western elite have played him like a fiddle ever since, right through to the "spider hole" capture three years ago, which was later admitted to be totally staged for propaganda purposes, his kangaroo court trial and his do-it-yourself style execution.
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Finding the Perfect Trade Return for Aaron HarangMarch 5, 2013 at 9:18 am | Posted in Aaron Harang | Leave a comment
I think we're all in agreement that if and when a Dodger starter gets traded, it's probably going to be Aaron Harang. That's because of all the reasons we've been over before, mainly because he's not a bullpen option and (unlike Chris Capuano) probably wouldn't even consider the thought. So sure, it could be Capuano who goes, or Ted Lilly, but I don't think I'll get too much argument that it's probably going to be Harang.
While we'd all like to think that Harang — coming off a decent 3.61 ERA season — could bring back the righty 1B/OF this team so badly needs or perhaps another option at third base, the problem is he's just not that good. I know, I know, for a fifth starter that ERA over 180 innings isn't that bad. But it's also not backed by a 4.14 FIP, and as FanGraphs czar Dave Cameron noted on Twitter yesterday, "Teams interested in Aaron Harang might want to check his BB/K trend." Let's do that.
Boy, it's too bad that giant floating head of Dusty Baker got in his way after 2007. So sure, Harang has some mild value. He's also entering his age-35 season, is striking out less and walking more than ever, and can vest a $7m option for 2014 if he pitches 180.1 innings in this year — or almost exactly what he threw in 2012. That, plus the fact that the Dodgers have a full 40-man roster, means that more than likely they're ending up with a decent-but-not-outstanding prospect return for him.
Taking a page from a discussion that Chris Jackson started in the comments yesterday, let's try to figure out exactly who that player will be. With science! Sort of. Not really.
1. Identify the teams most likely to trade for Harang.
Other than a few teams like San Francisco, Detroit, & Cincinnati who clearly have no need for another starter, you could probably make some sort of case for about 20 other clubs in baseball that might find a small upgrade with Harang. But then you eliminate NL West rivals — I know, Harang in Coors Field would be fun — and teams like Houston & Miami that aren't even in position to bother, and that list starts to shrink a little. To keep this manageable, let's settle on the Brewers & Orioles (who scouted his start yesterday), and also the Twins, Pirates, & Mets, all among the teams who had been connected over the winter and could still use some rotation love. (And, it should be noted, largely don't have the major league piece available the Dodgers would need.) No, I'm not including Texas, who just lost Martin Perez, because not only would Harang be a terrible fit in that park, they're probably going to sign Kyle Lohse — and Robbie Ross might be better anyway.
2. Find prospects that are good, but not too good.
Good prospects get included on top ten lists. Lesser prospects don't even make the top twenty. For example, when the Dodgers traded Dana Eveland to Baltimore last year, they got Tyler Henson (ranked as Baseball America's #22 Oriole prospect) and Jarret Martin, who I don't believe was ranked at all. Harang's clearly better than Eveland, so let's stick with the #11-20 prospect range as defined in BA 2013. (Yes, I'm aware this is already flawed, because one team's #24 prospect could be better than another team's #14 guy, and when you get past the top five or so it's all very subjective anyway. We're trying to have some fun here.)
With our five teams, that's 50 names. Time to narrow them down.
3. Eliminate anyone who had been a first round pick in the last three years or currently holds a 40-man roster spot.
Teams are probably not willing to give up on a first round pick just yet, and the Dodgers will probably need to find at least one roster spot as it is for whichever reliever might make it — and two if they decide to have Tim Federowicz play every day in Triple-A, meaning Wilkin Castillo, Ramon Castro, or Jesus Flores would need a spot.
So long, Steve Johnson (BAL), Jed Bradley, Mark Rogers, Logan Schafer, Hiram Burgos, Khris Davis (MIL), Joe Benson — who I actually kind of like — Daniel Santana, Travis Harrison, Levi Michael, Chris Herrmann, B.J. Hermsen (MIN), Robert Carson, Hansel Robles, Wilfredo Tovar (NYM), Vic Black, Tony Sanchez, Andrew Oliver, Bryan Morris (PIT).
19 down, 31 to go.
4. Eliminate anyone else who was drafted in 2012, and therefore can't even be dealt.
That's you, Josh Hader, Christian Walker, Mason Melotakis, J.T. Chargois, Luke Bard, Tyrone Taylor, and sadly, you too, Torsten Boss.
That removes 7 more, 24 remaining. We're halfway there.
5. Eliminate any outfielder at Double-A or above.
When trying to obtain minor leaguers, you generally look for best talent available rather than filling a need. In this case, the Dodgers have so many outfielders at the top three levels that guys like Kyle Russell are in genuine danger of being cut. (Or, perhaps, included in a deal like this.) Let's assume they're not adding more here.
The only three here are Cory Vaughn & Cesar Puello, who are probably not returning for third seasons at High-A with the Mets next year, and fellow Met Matt Den Dekker. We're left with 21.
6. Eliminate anyone with the word "parasites" in the second paragraph of a story about them.
From a more technical perspective, they wouldn't even be trading for a Cuban defector who has only just recently signed with Baltimore anyway, but…
Cuban defector outfielder Henry Urrutia, displaced in Haiti since the Orioles signed him to a $778,500 bonus in the summer, is expected to report to the club's minor league facility at Twin Lakes Park some time this weekend.
"There's a lot of unknown about what kind of shape he's in," Showalter said, "in more ways than one, parasites, other stuff you need to rule out."
…no thanks. 20 left.
7. Eliminate anyone who still hasn't made it out of A-ball after five seasons.
The fact that Nick Bucci is even ranked here says a lot about the state of the Milwaukee system, I think. 19 to go.
At this point, the low-hanging fruit is gone and we're left with a lot of teenagers who haven't yet left the Dominican and college draftees who are old for their leagues — and Minnesota, with only infielder Jorge Polanco remaining, has been almost entirely eliminated. Rather than really go through each and every one and make this stretch on endlessly, let's hit the lightning round.
Give extra credit to any team that has been confirmed to be actively scouting Harang now.
We know that's Baltimore & Milwaukee, though of course I'm sure many other teams are sniffing around.
Give extra credit to any team that has made similar trades with the Dodgers in recent years.
As discussed above, Ned Colletti and Dan Duquette hooked up on the Eveland deal last year. Colletti also swapped Chin-lung Hu for Michael Antonini with Sandy Alderson in 2010, a few months after the horrible Octavio Dotel deal with Neal Huntington, and Vinny Rottino for Claudio Vargas with Doug Melvin in 2009. The Dodgers and Twins haven't agreed on a move since 1995, so they're out entirely here. Baltimore wins this round because their deal was not only the most recent, it was the most similar.
So we're going to go with Baltimore as the most likely destination, and the "winners", somewhat subjectively from the few remaining, are A-ball outfielder Glynn Davis (described as "blazing speed, will take a walk" here and as high as Baltimore's #7 prospect here) and 22-year-old Texan Clay Schrader, a lefty who has huge strikeout stuff — 157 whiffs in 116 pro innings — and the control problems to match.
Sexy? No. But then again, neither is the prospect of having Harang guarantee that vesting option.
(thanks to Dustin Nosler for some research assistance)
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Dr. Joe and Margaret Brown | Phoenix
I just got done reading the article on Tom and Karen Seemeyer. Keep up the good work and hopefully Sonoran News will keep informing the public how deceitful and dishonest the Seemeyers really are. I personally met Tom and Karen Seemeyer years ago through her mother and father, Bob an Kay Andraski. There was an 'air' about Karen – 'she' thought she was better than anyone else.
I don't want to write about Karen and her husband, but about how hurtful she and Tom have been to her father, Bob Andraski. How she managed to spend his life savings, and embarrass him through her actions. I hope she has a 'conscience' because of her and Tom Seemeyer's actions; it has really ripped at Bob's soul. I really don't have any idea how a daughter could steal from her own parents. Bob Andraski is a very caring, thoughtful, living and gentle man. How dare they hurt him like that! I hope one day they truly will take responsibility for their actions and accept the consequences for all they've done!
Every time we see Bob, we try to make the evening as uplifting as possible, but somehow another article has been published about Tom and Karen Seemeyer. Thank you for letting the public know how deceitful they really are.
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Rock star politics
Ralph G. Smith | Cave Creek
The media seems to be fascinated by Barack Obama, who goes to Europe acting as if he is already the President of the United States, beating his breast, muttering "mea culpa" (on behalf of the country he claims to love, of course) and leaving each meeting of dignitaries with his nose noticeably browner than it was prior to his "consultations." He draws huge crowds and applause in some of the very countries that the U.S. has several times saved from total disaster. This guy is a real "rock star," and he wants to be your president.
Few people are old enough to remember the early days of the Great Depression, and the colorful and flamboyant Huey P. Long – "the Kingfish" – of Louisiana. The Kingfish was immensely charismatic and drew huge crowds which he harangued as he campaigned first for governor of Louisiana and later for the U.S. Senate. He created the "Share Our Wealth" program, – "Every Man a King" – and he fought with Standard Oil, which he claimed was exploiting Louisiana's oil and gas resources. As governor of Louisiana he built a very strong political machine, passed "free textbook" legislation and did some admirable things such as building roads, bridges, and schools. He also attempted to pass an "occupational license tax" on refined oil. He claimed that the Spanish-American War and World War I were unwarranted and caused by Wall Street, and he proposed a progressive tax that would end up by taxing the eighth million of income at 64 percent, and the remainder at 100 percent.
Unfortunately, he kept his political machine going by rampant fraud, bribery and the wholesale gift of government jobs to political cronies, who were forced to contribute a good part of their salaries to his "slush fund." He opposed FDR, who called him a "radical demagogue" and he planned to run for president in 1936. He never got that chance, due to his early demise in 1935.
Huey Long was the early day equivalent of a "rock star politician," and his life inspired at least a couple of novels: It Can't Happen Here, and All the King's Men. Many of his ideas seem to have outlived him by 75 or 80 years.
I doubt that Obama would turn into a latter-day Kingfish, but even so, I don't know if this country is ready for a "rock star" president. I know I am not. As of now I will remain with the "acoustic" crowd, with no electronic (or media) augmentation of the natural sound of the candidates "music."
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COPP political committee candidate recommendations
The COPP Political Committee | Bob Vairo, President | Scottsdale
In the September 2 Primary City Council election, Scottsdale residents will be faced with a field of seven new faces and four familiar faces – eleven candidates in all – three for mayor and eight for City Council. The incumbents are Mayor Mary Manross, Councilman Jim Lane who is challenging Mary Manross for the Mayor's seat, Councilwoman Betty Drake and Councilman Ron McCullagh. Challenging Betty Drake and Ron McCullagh for seats on the Council are Lisa Borowsky, Joel Bramoweth, Oren Davis, Tom Giller, Suzanne Klapp and Nan Nesvig. John Washington is running for Mayor as a write-in candidate.
We asked each candidate to provide information on their background and experience and also to answer a number of questions on issues of importance to the governance of Scottsdale that influence the quality of life for all residents. A copy of the unedited questionnaire can be found at www.coppeak.org.
The COPP Political Committee evaluated each candidate to determine which ones we believe will best represent our values and concerns. Based on a recent survey of residents in the three northernmost zip codes, highest among those concerns are the completion of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, questionable zoning decisions and traffic congestion. We weighed each candidate's position on these issues, together with their experience, education and desire to change things for the better throughout Scottsdale.
For mayor we recommend Mayor Mary Manross for a third term. While we have not always agreed with her decisions, she has a wealth of experience as a two-term mayor and her involvement in various positions in Scottsdale governance for the past twenty years. Of all the candidates, she has consistently been the staunchest advocate and supporter of Scottsdale's Preserve vision. Challenger Jim Lane's four years on the council and his financial background are valuable, but we believe not enough to keep Mayor Manross from being returned for a third term as Scottsdale's Mayor.
The three council positions were a bit easier to evaluate. We believe electing Nan Nesvig and Tom Giller will give the city council a balance that is needed to provide a stronger voice for Scottsdale residents and neighborhoods. It is important for ordinary citizens to have elected officials who understand their concerns and represent them well in decisions that affect their quality of life. Tom and Nan's emphasis on open government, protecting neighborhoods and keeping Scottsdale unique underscores their desire to make this happen.
We believe Nan and Tom will bring new energy and a different approach to governance with a transparent sense of governance for residents. We have interviewed them and believe we know them well enough to be convinced they will provide a fresh approach to the city council. We recommend a vote for both of them as agents of change for the future.
We also believe that Councilwoman Betty Drake should be returned to the city council for another four year term. Of all the current candidates for Council, she is the most knowledgeable about land use, city planning and related issues. Given the adoption of a new Downtown Plan in a few months and the updating of the General Plan for the entire city in 2011, we need to have someone of her experience and skills on the city council.
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McCain rhetoric is smokescreen
Shannon Crane | Scottsdale
Let's not be fooled by the smokescreen rhetoric of McCain's campaign regarding Iraq.
Recent NBC/Wall Street Journal polls show over 60 percent of Americans want a clear timetable to get out of Iraq. McCain's campaign rhetoric puts a spin of language on appearing to support withdrawal of troops ... however, that has never been his position. He has stated many times that, withdrawal is "surrender" and that victory is "just around the corner."
John McCain has no plans to bring our troops home. He only plans to occupy Iraq.
(See "Iraq: Six Months at a Time," MoveOn.org Political Action, April 9, 2008,
 or http://youtube.com /watch?v=suNqiAgE1kw)
Don't be fooled! Our only safeguard of Democracy is an informed populous! Thank you.
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Obama and McCain's history of drug abuse
Arlin Troutt | Apache Junction
The drug war is a massive multi-billion dollar failure that has been destroying our nation and kids for generations. The Obama and McCain family drug abuse history seems to be off the table of discussion. Did Obama smoke marijuana? Was John McCain's wife so hooked on prescription drugs that she was caught stealing drugs from medical relief packages being flown to Nicaragua?
We are being lied to about drugs and this drug war that we have fought since Nixon declared it in 1971. Millions of kids like my sister and I were lied to about Marijuana. My friends coming back from the Vietnam War gave us our first marijuana and told us everything we had heard about marijuana and drugs was a lie. They were telling the truth about the marijuana but they had already got hooked on heroin in Vietnam and that was not a lie. Marijuana was not a "Gateway Drug" to other drugs it was a "Gateway Lie" that got kids hooked on dangerous drugs.
Marijuana and alcohol were made illegal 70 years ago because Rockefeller did not want farmers making their own gasoline. When the American people wake-up I hope they punish the people that told the lies that killed my sister and destroyed so many lives.
I want to hear John McCain and Barak Obama discuss this drug war that started in Vietnam and what affect this drug war and drug abuse have had on their personal lives and this nation. We are being lied to and abused by these drug warriors.
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The 1.4 Billion dollar B-52
Steve Takesian | Cave Creek
That's what we spend on one B-52. The plane that crashed in Guam this last week,with six crew members who were killed, was not on a Mission. It was on parade duty for a FLYOVER on GUAM ... How much money have we spent on flyovers for NASCAR ETC. Talk about a waste of money, time and life.
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This will make you retch
Walter J. Boyne | Ashburn, Virginia
Re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg DZ4GJkqds
Retch? It guarantees projectile vomiting at the truth of what is wrong with America: weak-kneed liberals who've had life handed to them on a platter and have never had to make a tough decision in their lives except for which brand of marijuana to smoke.
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Mexico – A Third World Country
Name withheld by request
I often wonder what the country of Mexico has cost the United States and its' taxpayers. While a handful of Carefree residents hire them for cheap labor, they suck our medical system dry when visiting our emergency rooms. They vote illegally in states that don't have verification programs, cause accidents that kill or scar people for life (such as officer Jason Schechterle who was burned, or the bicyclist hit and killed on Pinnacle Peak Road). Let's not forget crime such as rape in schools and now home invasions.
I can't imagine how many other resources they consume such as back to school hand outs from large corporations for their anchor babies, or any charity such as The Red Cross, Goodwill, or The Salvation Army. Now, Mexico is responsible for salmonella outbreaks! Just in order to locate the source, I wonder how much money was lost in the banning of tomatoes? It's obviously in the millions, maybe even billions.
Lets face it, Mexico is a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY with a corrupt government. It's not OUR jobs to support them. Period! Do you hear that, Mayor Flash Gordon?
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McCain & Armageddon
Ron Lowe | Nevada City, California
John McCain has the fundamentalist armageddon vote locked up. Pastor John Hagee's end times theology and those who subscribe to it are wildly enthusiastic about John McCain. Why not, with McCain as president they will be a button away from their glorious Armageddon.
No, seriously, only fruitcakes want end times to transpire. Here's the scenario: The planet is destroyed and the human population is decimated so that a few million fundamentalist foot soldiers can be saved and lifted up into heaven. How altruistic.
These end timers and Apocalypse Now folks have prostituted Christ's teachings and they see John McCain as their last best chance for salvation – the world be damned!
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Our 50 states can save us from federal tyranny
Larry William Bradbury | Reseda, California
It does not take a rocket scientist to see that our country is rapidly becoming a federal police state. Fortunately, our individual states can save us from this tyranny if enough of them, and their citizens, are willing to act.
We need to remember that it was the original 13 states that set up the federal government and granted it the limited powers stated in the U.S. Constitution. All federally elected and appointed officials take an oath to obey our Constitution. Sadly, they have disregarded it in about 80 percent of their activities.
The Tenth Amendment can help us reclaim our lost liberties if enough of the states act to regain their lost powers. This Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." The states can get their lost powers back by claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment
The state of Oklahoma started the ball rolling with its House Joint Resolution 1089 which it passed 92 to 3 on March 13. However, opponents in the Oklahoma Senate kept it from being voted on before this year's legislative session ended. But, it is certain to be voted on again in 2009. See www.thenewamerican.com for details. All we have to do now to lose the shackles of the federal government is to get enough citizens to demand that their states use similar resolutions.
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J-P. A. Maldonado |
Desert Foothills
Today the Arizona People's Democratic Republic reported that 18 percent of the illegal aliens in Arizona have returned to their countries of origin. At the same time, the State Attorney General's office is reporting that violent crime has decreased by 18 percent. Coincidence?
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Beiträge zur statistischen Modellierung und effizienten Dekodierung in der automatischen Spracherkennung
Dr. Willett, Daniel
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The thesis deals with different aspects of automatic speech recognition. After an introduction, which describes the most important fundamental ideas, methodologies and algorithms, some new approaches are outlined and evaluated, which aim for the optimization of the acoustic modeling component of a speech recognition system. The target is the fine adjustment of the selected modeling structure to the quantity and type of the available acoustic training data. In experimental investigations on internationally known speech recognition tasks the presented new modeling scheme outperforms conventional systems by approximately 10% in recognition performance. In addition, the approach of tree-based clustering of context-dependent model states is extended in such a way that the specification of phonetic categories can be avoided. The recognition system clustered with the help of this procedure achieves a similar recognition performance as the best systems of the official evaluation of the Wall Street Journal large vocabulary recognition task with 5,000 words. Furthermore, discriminative training procedures for acoustic modeling are discussed and evaluated. The approach of vocabulary-based discriminative training is proposed and the extension to vocabulary- and language model-based training is outlined in detail. The experimental results prove the suitability of the approach for better parameter estimates in contrast to Maximum-Likelihood training and the conventional frame-based discriminative training. Additionally, new hybrid recognition systems with a discriminatively trained preprocessing are presented. The hybrid recognition system with context-depending modeling set up in the experiments with the Resource Management database achieves one of the best ever reported error rates obtained with comparable systems. In the following paragraph, the two most common forms of organizing the decoding procedure are presented and the contributions of the author within this area are presented and evaluated. Time-synchronous Viterbi-decoding with a tree-structured recognition network that makes use of partial tree copies and language model smearing proved to be a powerful and efficient decoding approach in case of a bi-gram language model. With the proposed A-Posteriori pruning and A-Posteriori-Lookahead pruning a further acceleration of the decoding can be achieved, which only causes a relatively small additional search error. Moreover, the principle of decoding with stacks is illustrated, which is of great advantage when making use of language models of higher context depth. The developed stack-decoder "DUcoder" is introduced. In evaluations, decoding with a 95,000 words vocabulary and a tri-gram language model in almost real-time is achieved. This, however, still comes along with a substantial search error. Finally, the German large vocabulary speech recognition system "DuDeutsch" developed by the author is presented. It allows the speaker-independent and the speaker-dependent recognition with a vocabulary of up to 95,000 words. For acoustic modeling the clustering and structure optimization procedures presented in the thesis are applied; decoding is performed with the presented stack-decoder. The speaker-dependent models are gained from the speaker-dependent ones using adaptation techniques. The proposed discriminative adaptation approach results in approximately 15% improved error reduction compared to the common Maximum-Likelihood approach.
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Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften » Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
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600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften » 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften
Automatic Speech Recognition, Effecient Decoding, Adaptation, Discriminative Training, Acoustic Modeling, Man-Machine-Communication
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rigoll, Gerhard [Gutachter(in), Rezensent(in)]
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Hit-men, assassins and serial killers are united in condemnation of new European Union rules that went into effect at midnight making it illegal to add anyone from the EU to any kind of "hit-list" without their express consent.
With fines of up to 400 euros for repeat offenders, professional killers are claiming the added paperwork will push them over the edge. Mario, a retribution consultant from Sicily, gave his opinion of the new legislation - "It's terrible. First, we have to visit the client, explain that we would like to put them on our list and the reasons why. If they choose to accept, they still have a 28-day 'cooling off' period when they can request to be removed from the list. I always expected to be buried with the fishes, not in paperwork."


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Montgomery-Lonsdale may leave MRC
The Montgomery-Lonsdale School Board discussed ways to improve its schools athletic programs, including possibly leaving the Minnesota River Conference.
Montgomery-Lonsdale is the smallest public school in the MRC.
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Why not, everyone else has me in their sig.
Sigma, that was from years ago.
Sigma, there is so much I want to tell you but I've been making promises with the big man.
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No. I used Facebook briefely before I was thrown off.
Oh. I saw canvas in your location then that guy added me. Weiiiiiiird. Deleting now.
Lemme get some shit in order and we'll enjoy a toty and a joint at Oak Tree.
Sounds good sir. Don't Catfish me tho
I feel this thread needs some dirty haiku's to get us all thru to lineup announcement time
she lay on the sand
my cock sits satisfied raw
a very sandy cooch
Slap burn tingle moan
She peers over her left shoulder
Slap my ass again
Hand print on round butt
Spreads her open from behind
She bites her pillow
Limericks are a better choice for a dirty poetry form, I'd say.
There once was a man named Vigo
made women cry wherever he go
Just the sight of his face
Made the whole human race
Puke blood like a tick or a flea, no?
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Thomas Edison State College MSN?
Anyone currently pursuing their MSN through Thomas Edison State College? I have read some older post and would like to hear from someone who has graduated or is currently in the program. How long did it take you? How are the instructors and the layout of the program? Any information would be great.


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[This is post #038 towards #100DaysOfFoodBlogging, our goal to do 100 posts in 100 days as part of The 100 Day Project. Yeah, we're behind, but we'll catch up…]
"Let's make fish and chips!"
It seemed like a great idea when we woke up this morning…
Oh the tricks our minds play.
We used this recipe from Tyler Florence. The recipe and the food were actually good, so the declaration in the title wasn't a result of how things tasted.
The fish itself was cooked well, and possibly better than most places. Our homemade tarter sauce with capers, pickles, parsley, and Cholula hot sauce wasn't too shabby, either. I'll definitely be dipping fast food fries in it pretty soon… And as a bonus for those needing to avoid gluten, the fish recipe is wheat-free, utilizing rice flour and soda water (instead of beer).
However, as good as it all was, it wasn't great. And since it was just good, we don't think it was worth the effort. After about two hours in the kitchen (on top of the hour it took to go grocery shopping), we were left with a house that smells of fish and a kitchen smattered in oil.
All of which might have been fine, but there's a perfectly good pub about 10 minutes from our house, which serves a solid fish and chips and plenty of ice cold beer.
I'm sure if we had a deep fryer, a hood ventilation system, and a cod surplus, we'd be frying up fish and chips all the time. But until then…
Never again.


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My profile for the January life@home magazine is of Bobby Mallozzi, who lives on a five-house Rotterdam cul-de-sac in which each home is owned by a member of his family. Story here, recipes here. Right, Suzanne Kawola photo of Mallozzi with his daughter, Stella, born last spring. Short version:
Multiple baby sitters are always nearby; the clan gathers for several meals weekly at one house or another; and movie- and sports-watching nights often take place in the commodious cinema in the basement of Bobby's home. There's a big projection screen, thunderous audio, a theater-size popcorn machine and functional, megawatt klieg lamps once used in moviemaking — though now for show, not illumination. Posters from old movies hang in frames, printed on foam to improve the room's acoustics.
Old Hollywood inspires Bobby, from the style and décor of his home to the people he knows to his family's Albany restaurant, the Brown Derby. It is modeled after the Tinseltown namesake, complete with authentic, decades-old celebrity caricatures from the original's walls. "I love everything about that period," says Bobby.
The magazine is available at all area Bruegger's and Starbucks locations, at seating areas around Colonie Center and the Times Union office at Wolf and Albany Shaker roads in Colonie. To sign up to have it delivered, go here.


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Diouf has European dream for Sunderland
Sunderland`s new recruit El Hadji Diouf is hoping Sunderland can push for a European spot this season.
The skilful forward is raring to get his Sunderland career under Keane off to a good start is hoping his new club can compete for the places near the top of the league.
Diouf told the Sunderland Echo "When I went to Bolton people asked me why, but we finished sixth and qualified for Europe. I want to do the same with Sunderland, why not aim for the UEFA Cup?"
"I am very happy to be at Sunderland and it is a club which should demand respect. It is moving forward to bigger things for me."
"I can`t wait for my Sunderland career to get going. All I will promise is to give my best for the team."
"I am happy to play for a man like him, I like this type of man, he is a big character and I know he wants to do something big at Sunderland. I remember playing against Roy Keane in the League Cup final at Cardiff."
"We had a bit of banter in the game but I like that. He is a strong character and so am I."
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I would be delighted to be anywhere near the European spots but to actually qualify would put me on cloud nine.


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In order to build communities' and countries' resilience, it is critical to build disaster risk redcution and climate change adaptation into the development agenda, stated officials at the World Bank/International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings, as reported by the Daily Observer.
"We have too often witnessed how disasters can roll back years of development progress. On top of that, we now need to prepare for a changing world — rapid urbanization and a changing climate are reshaping and exacerbating disaster risks," he added. But geography need not be destiny, and the future — however uncertain and unpredictable when we factor in the impact of climate change – need not be feared if correct preventive policies are taken today," said Mahmoud Mohieldin, World Bank managing director.
However, he warned: "In the second half of the century, we are looking at a ten-fold increase in the frequency of severe heat events. The most extreme heat waves that we currently experience only once a decade will become annual events."
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What does BUFFET mean in Funnies?
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One Synth Challenge # 71 selected Hive as the synth of choice. As the name implies, the challenge was to create a track using only one synthesizer. The 67 entries displayed a wide variety of styles and genres—the participants did a fantastic job of showing off Hive's capabilities.
Congratulations to Jasinski for winning, and a big thank you to everyone who participated—great stuff all round!
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The principal shooting of Mahesh Babu starrer Aagadu has resumed today in Hyderabad. A special set has been erected at Sarathi Studios in Hyderabad for this film and several key scenes are going to be shot on the lead cast in this schedule. Sreenu Vaitla is directing the film and this is his second film with Mahesh Babu after delivering a blockbuster like Dookudu.
Talking about his role, Mahesh Babu said, "I'm playing a completely different character in this film and it'll be a typical mass entertainer in Sreenu Vaitla's style." The film is reportedly set in Rayalseema backdrop and Mahesh Babu will be seen as a powerful cop. Mahesh Babu has allotted bulk dates for the film and he'll shoot non-stop till he completes the film. Most of the film will be shot in Hyderabad and Gujarat.
Tamannaah is the lead actress in the film. S S Thaman is scoring the music and KV Guhan is the cinematographer. Gopichand, Anil Sunkara and Ram Achanta are producing the film under 14 Reels Entertainment Pvt Ltd banner.
- Interesting updates on Bharat Ane Nenu's plot
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Onam, the harvest festival of Kerala, is here and it's time for Malayali's pride—the mouth-watering sadya, the Kerala banquet. Trends in Onasadya have been undergoing changes as people have shifted to a more health conscious diet, of course, owing to the ever increasing rate of lifestyle diseases in God's own country. This could be reflected in the way side dishes are consumed in sadya. Side dishes like Puli inji, which is traditionally served in low quantity, is being demanded more in sadya as ginger is well known for its medicinal value as a solution to the symptoms of gastrointestinal distress.
Preparations for Onasadya have already been in full swing in many places of the state. Onam will arrive early this time and the ground works for sadya are underway. The well-known cooks of Kottayam have received sadya orders for more than 50,000 persons until now. The celebrations of Onam commence from the first day of Chingam in most places and that include offices and schools across the state.
Another remarkable piece of information about the ongoing trend in Onasadya is the decrease in the consumption of rice. Earlier, 10 kg rice was not sufficient for 40 people in a sadya. However, nowadays, it is more than enough for satisfying the appetite of about 110 people. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to state that the new generation mantra of eating 'less rice and more curries', which is supported by doctors as well, has brought about a little trouble for the catering units.
Earlier, Onasadya used to be a four course feast along with a payasam (kheer). The main dishes used to be kalan, olan, elissery and inji curry (puli inji) and if necessary, a thoran or a mezhukkupuratti. Everything is perfect if payasam gets added to this. But of late, the consumption of payasam has seen a steady decline, obviously, with the increasing number of diabetic patients in Kerala. According to the catering units, the earlier rate of 250 millilitres of payasam per person has been considerably diminished to 75 millilitres now. Except those who consider it as an opportunity to free themselves from the heavy restrictions of family members on sugar consumption, all the others (with diabetics) choose not to have payasam while enjoying the sadya.
Apparently there is an increase in the number of dishes incorporated in the Sadya also. As people prefer to have more vegetables these days, the number of dishes have reached up to twenty six and sometimes, more than that. The most demanded items are aviyal, pachadi and madhurakkari (sweet dish). Subsequently, according to the culinary experts, even if delivered accurately based on the number of people, these items are never adequate for a sadya. This season, the rate of sadya, which includes around twenty dishes and two different flavoured payasams, comes up to Rs 110-120, while orders with three different payasams could be up to Rs 125 per person.
Generally there are variations in the range of the orders for Onasadya too. It could be either an order for 10 persons from a Village Office or a comparatively larger one for 800-1000 people from the Medical College, which comprises the superintendent, doctors, nurses, students and other staff and sometimes the list includes patients as well. They take extra care while delivering to offices as the order could even be from the District Police Headquarters.
The banana leaves for sadya arrive from Theni. Paper banana leaf used to be considered as an alternative for the natural one till recently. But, evidently, people are not very fond of the artificial paper banana leaf at the moment. According to Pazhayidam Mohanan Namboothiri, a veteran in sadya catering, people insist on having the natural banana leaf while giving the order itself. "We don't purchase any ready-made items for the sadya from outside, and that include banana chips and jaggery chips. "Everything is prepared here and we need at least fifty helpers on a regular basis to handle the business", says Shankar Swami, a famous culinary expert from Kottayam, who is running a catering unit of his own.
Kannan, of KNB Catering Unit, Ettumanoor, says "Being punctual is very important in this business and for that we are looking for more persons who could deliver the orders on time".
Appetite differs from person to person and the one who serves the food should have an ability to sense the need of the person sitting in front of him/her. The timing also matters in this regard. Food prepared for 100 people shall be served to almost 115 to 120 people, if the sadya is served during 11.00 to 12.00. If it gets a bit late and goes up to the time range of 12.00 to 1.00, then the number would be around 110 persons. Nevertheless, if the clock ticks 1.00 and the lunch time prolongs up to 1.30, not a single person other than the expected 100 people would be able to have it, as appetite can be on its peak during this time span.


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William Asher, the Executive Producer of "Bewitched" and husband of Elizabeth Montgomery, has stated in several interviews that Season 8 of the show was, in his opinion, the weakest. This is one of those episodes which makes me agree with him.
Tabitha likes the story of Hansel and Gretel but she finds herself feeling very sympathetic for them due to their plight and zaps herself into the story book to ask their father if they can spend the night at her house. When she gets herself into trouble with the nasty old witch, Samantha finds it necessary to go into the book herself to save the day.
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DHAKA - A Bangladesh court Tuesday ordered the arrest of owners of a garment factory where 111 workers were killed last year in the country's worst such fire, after police laid charges.
The court in Dhaka issued the warrants for Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter and four others over the blaze that gutted the Tazreen factory where workers stitched clothes for Western retailers including Walmart.
Senior judicial magistrate Wasim Sheikh gave the order after declaring all six "fugitives" for failing to appear in court over charges laid by police earlier this month against 13 people over the tragedy, a prosecutor said.
The magistrate formally accepted the charges against the 13 including the owners, factory managers and security guards, who all face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.
"Dhaka's senior judicial magistrate Wasim Sheikh issued the warrants of arrest against the two fugitive owners ... and four other company officials for the Tazreen factory fire," prosecutor Anwarul Kabir told AFP.
"The owners and 11 others have been charged with arson, culpable homicide not amounting to murder and death by negligence," Kabir said. Seven of those charged were in court or in custody.
The fire, the country's deadliest at a garment factory, highlighted appalling safety problems in the sector, a mainstay of the economy, where about four million workers toil for some of the lowest sector wages in the world.
The country suffered an even greater tragedy just months later in April when the Rana Plaza garment factory complex collapsed in Dhaka's outskirts, killing 1,135 people in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
The arrest order signals a toughening stand by local authorities against influential garment manufacturers, who openly flout safety rules for Bangladesh's 4,500 garment factories, where deadly accidents are common.
Police last week said it was possibly the first time an owner has been charged over a fire in the sector, which accounts for up to 80 per cent of the impoverished country's exports.
Delwar Hossain, who since the tragedy has been barred from leaving the country, has been accused of breaching construction rules including building unsafe and narrow staircases in the nine-storey building.
Hossain, who is the managing director of the factory and his wife the chairperson, could not be contacted for comment despite several calls to his mobile phone numbers.


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Our father Alex Gordon, who has died aged 79, was a Glaswegian socialist whose life's work was in Kettering, Northamptonshire. In the course of 40 years there, he served as a councillor, minority leader, a committee chairman and mayor of the town. He also served on Northamptonshire county council for eight years.
Alex was born in Torrance, near Glasgow, the youngest of eight children. He was orphaned at the age of eight and was brought up by his older brothers and sisters. Although the family experienced poverty and deprivation, they stayed together.
Through sheer determination, Alex completed his schooling and went on to Glasgow University as a member of that golden Labour club generation which included John Smith and Donald Dewar. Over the next 60 years, always on the left of the party, he maintained his faith in Labour.
He moved to Kettering in 1964 with his wife Rona, a maths lecturer at a local college. Local and county council aside, he also stood for the European parliament in 1979 and as a general election candidate in 1983.
His many other community roles reflected his range of interests, from education to mental health. A lifelong campaigner for peace, Alex opposed warfare - from Suez in 1956 to Iraq in the 1990s and again this century. He was active in the Co-operative party, embracing its collectivist ethos and taking an active role in shaping its national policies.
A warm and highly compassionate man, with many memorable sayings and a loud, distinctive laugh, Alex is survived by Rona, his beloved wife of 45 years, ourselves, his son-in-law Andrew, and three grandchildren.