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Monday, October 20, 2008
Dion Announcement Open Thread
33 comments:
- KRT said...
Thank you Mr. Dion, for making some of us actually believe in a politician again as a person of honour and integrity. (Too bad the Liberal Party is showing us why they deserve to be thumped and derided, for they show not even one ounce of your basic decency.)Remember that no matter what you do (here's hoping you use the conference to clean house rather then resign), fighting for the environment is more than politics and more than just one man, it is essential to our very survival.
Bush won twice by using division and smears, but Al gore has shown that there is another path upon which your strength, integrity and honesty can thrive. When comparing those two leaders, it is obvious who was the real leader and who was the pretender.
- 1:55 PM, October 20, 2008
- Mark Francis said...
Kady is liveblogging it
- 2:12 PM, October 20, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Rae and Ignatieff can go fuck themselves.
Here's to 6-10 more year of the Conservative, Reform, Alliance, Party.
- 2:13 PM, October 20, 2008
- PeterC said...
Well, the Liberals are idiots and will get exactally what they deserve.
Hopefully Dion can stem the hemorage of cash and prevent some of the leadership nastiness that is so halmark of the Liberals nowadays.
- 2:22 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
Nice to hear Dion will focus on renewal while he stays on, especially the financing angle.
- 2:22 PM, October 20, 2008
- Zorpheous said...
My thougths are found here
- 2:33 PM, October 20, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Wow, Dion is such a bigger person than I am. I only wish I could be as solid as him in times of stress.
- 2:33 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
What struck me, how Dion accurately understood the challenges for him moving forward, and the reasons why the Liberals failed. There goes one of the good one's...
- 2:36 PM, October 20, 2008
- A View From The Left said...
I agree, Steve.
However, I think too many of those senior party officials are too happy blaming it all on the leader to care about anything else.
- 2:40 PM, October 20, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I'm glad he's staying. The two factions (they know who they are) were already jockeying for position to get hold of the interim leader's spot and the optics of that was awful. We can't have a wild west atmosphere breaking out in the party where a leadership void is being exploited. So good. And let those bravehearts who made anonymous statements to the media have to face Dion in caucus.
- 2:43 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
That will be a tragic error. You ask those MP's at the door, when people said they didn't like the leader, the first adjective used was "weak". Where did that come from? That doesn't imply Dion didn't make mistakes, but there is no bandaid solution here, a new leader is a small part.
- 2:44 PM, October 20, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I have voted NDP for 30 years and Dion is the only Liberal leader I have supported. He was honest, caring, and visionary. I regret he was not political enough for the system we have now. He is a Cassandra about global warming, hopefully we are not Trojans and personally do what our politicians are to weak to do.
- 2:46 PM, October 20, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I give Dion a lot of credit. He was not my choice for leader but I always considered him to be very intelligent and dignified. Dion I think is someone who does very well at the cabinet table or in the backrooms, but not as leader. The reasons the Liberals lost weren't entirely his fault, and while leadership was one component, there are bigger considerations that the Liberals must address if they want to began a new dynasty.
I do not, however, think that Dion should remain leader until May. While he certainly has the right to do so and to leave in a manner he sees fit, my concern is that the Liberals may have a lame duck leader that no one supports. The next session of parliament will be an important one and it will be centred on the economy. The Liberals need internal renewal, but during this process, they also need to begin to demonstrate that they are an alternative to the government and have the sound economic judgement Canadians want.
Fairly or unfairly, Dion will continue to be associated with the smeared green shift plan, and I am positive the Conservatives will focus upon this whenever the Liberals try to mount an effective opposition. Personally, I would have preferred to see MacCallum and Goodale take over the leadership positions. With their background (McCallum is an economist) and experience (Goodale is a former finance minister), they would be in a position to give the Liberals considerable credibility in the economic debate.
I did not get to see the beginning of the press conference, but I hope Dion will continue to serve the Liberal party as Joe Clark and Stockwell Day have done for their parties. He is a good, intelligent man who can still contribute.
- 2:49 PM, October 20, 2008
- Mark Francis said...
By staying on, Dion may be able to make some changes in the party precisely because he is stepping down.
- 2:53 PM, October 20, 2008
- Anonymous said...
He was a loser. It's time to move on. The leadership candidates have a lot of work to do. Let's start looking forward, starting now.
- 2:58 PM, October 20, 2008
- liberazzi said...
I am glad that Dion is going to stay on until May. I am also glad that he pointed the other difficulties facing the party besides leadership and that he will work towards fixing those challenges in the next few months. I think he will be able to focus more of his efforts on fundraising etc, without the all the other BS that went on b4. Unfortunately, he will have to face the bullying from the other side in the meantime. My opinion that he had to resign has not changed, but a good man deserved a better fate. However, the voting public could not see past their own biases and would have never given him another shot in my mind.
- 2:59 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
At least you could have the guts to use your real nic ;) Another anonymous coward speaks.
- 3:00 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
He basically came to the same conclusion as you, that it would be too hard to overcome the cemented perceptions. I think that displayed an incredible sensibility.
- 3:01 PM, October 20, 2008
- The Dogs Have it! said...
I thought his speech was a wee bit too whiney. Blaming others, even if true, is never the classy thing to do.
- 3:07 PM, October 20, 2008
- Ivan said...
Dion is a great man whose done great things for Canada.
He should have been allowed to set his own terms of departure, and he did. Good for him.
I truly hope he sticks around cause I think he's a very able cabinet minister and will make a fantastic contribution to the Liberal government that will emerge in the next election.
- 3:13 PM, October 20, 2008
- 900 ft Jesus said...
Caught it live, class - and not an act.
I'm glad he's staying on as interim leader. Kudos to him for having such courage and not feeling he needs to hand his head.
I was impressed (but not at all surprised) that he accepted responsibility for his part.
His love of Canada and Canadians, and his absolute respect for them showed clearly and showed us what a quality leader he is.
Our loss, that he is leaving, but he explained well why this is needed. This man's selflessness and generosity in this speech may have stopped some people from leaving the Liberal party out of disgust.
- 3:13 PM, October 20, 2008
- catherine said...
Dion knows that, even though the Liberals did so poorly, there are some people who voted Liberal because of the platform and because of his integrity. You don't just toss those aside. So, yes, people want a leader who will sell and who will win, but no one was saying they want a Liberal party which doesn't care about the environment, social justice, a strong economy and honesty and integrity. Staying on gives the party a better chance to keep those who support Dion and the values they associate with him, while trying to reattract former supporters and new supporters with a new leader. I think Dion is doing what he considers best for the Liberals and for Canada.
- 3:18 PM, October 20, 2008
- Susan said...
As far as I'm concerned, he was sabotaged inside the party and out by the forces that are too stupid to realize that the status quo is no longer possible in any way - economically or environmentally and we have lost all possibility of being a world leader for the future. We have been sold out. And Harper will now continue to dismantle the country under the guise of fighting a potential deficit. I am heartbroken for my country.
- 4:04 PM, October 20, 2008
- Cousin Ben said...
I am a progressive conservative (note the small 'c') who voted for Dion. I did so for three reasons:
1. The Green Shift was a brilliant idea marketed poorly. It was actually a fairly conservative notion that the Cons will regret attacking so vehemently. Sadly, long-term thinking gets you nowhere in politics.
2. Dion was clearly a decent and genuine man, made more clear by today's announcement. I imagine his party will soon elect someone less dignified and more suited to play the dirty PR game.
3. The Reform Party, I mean Conservative Party, despite a few fine members in its ranks, is under the control of a foul and coniving man who will do anything to win. Poor form.
Good election posts Steve. I read 'em almost everyday. And while your partisan slip showed too often for my tastes, I can hardly complain from my partisan position, provincially.
- 4:05 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
Hey ben :) Partisan, I don't follow ;)
- 4:26 PM, October 20, 2008
- JimBobby said...
Well, I reckon Dion's a good man and I'd rather see him as PM than King Steve. Being a decent, intelligent person isn't enough in politics, though.
Salesmanship and image are vital for electability and Dion, good and decent as he is, is not a good salesman and he let the Con's create his image without fighting back until the election campaign. If the public didn't know the real Dion, he is as much to blame for that as the Cons and their attack ads.
I'm left wondering how much different the outcome would have been if there'd been fewer abstentions and a much earlier election. I thought that Dion et al would have made better use of the summer break to sell their platform.
The tax shift was a good idea. We've been touting it in the Green Party for several years. Now, unfortunately, the idea is political poison -- at least for any of the big 3 parties. I think the Greens'll hang on to it but Dion's fumbling of the sales job will make it an unpopular plank for years to come. Too bad. We really do need to deal with greenhouse gases.
- 4:30 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
He shares the blame, no question, everyone takes responsibility. However, what could he have done after the leadership, to respond to those ads? The party wasn't equipped, it was very maddening to watch it happen, with no return fire. That fact belies the real problem, which went beyond Dion. Ditto for the Green Shift rollout, I heard we would have ads, we never did, the Cons defined it immediately. Then, the Cons bombarded the airwaves prior to the election, while we searched for a plane. The lesson here, you can't let yourself get swiftboated, which means job one is acquiring the resources to fight back.
- 4:35 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
One more point, the abstaining. Apparently, Dion wanted to go in the early days, because he felt it was hurting our reputation, and his as well. It was the party that forcefully argued we weren't ready, and that decision became the central attack line for the NDP. Layton's chief attack was those abstentions, and it was a convincing argument, we are the real opposition, not those weak Liberals. Who's fault is it that we weren't ready, and what if we took a flyer and went in the spring?
- 4:37 PM, October 20, 2008
- JimBobby said...
...what could he have done after the leadership, to respond to those ads?
I think a good response would have been, "Not a leader? Just watch me." Then, of course, he'd have come up with some "whip 'em into shape, maintain party discipline, rally the troops" stuff.
Who knows what the outcome would have been without the abstentions? I have a hard time thinking the Libs would have done much worse than they did do.
Did I mention that I think Dion's a good and decent man?
I think you Libs should take a good look at Martha Hall Findlay. I've not seen her name come up much re possible leaders but I think she'd be a game changer.
- 4:48 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
Duly noted that Martha was present at Dion's press conference today. Might not be her time, but I really like her.
JB, one thing I will always wonder, what if all that energy spent on positioning for the next leadership race was invested in this leader. A team only succeeds with a hive mentality, and that was just never the case with Dion. Was it his fault? Possibly, but I've seen too many Liberals who NEVER got over 2006, and that's a shame in the grand scheme.
- 4:54 PM, October 20, 2008
- RuralSandi said...
To say it was the inside party people who were at fault is a little bit of a stretch. You have to face it - he didn't connect, like it or not.
That's where the Conservatives and NDP are smarter than our Liberal party.
They don't talk bad abut each other (Volpe/Kyrgiannis(sp?)and don't let their dirty laundry get out in public....and I'm sure they have it.
And, the supporters that comment don't help either. They are already at war - attack Rae or attack Iggy - both of whom never spoke ill of Dion and according to Elizabeth Thompson help a lot in raising funds to help the other candidates.
So, I think it's time for the supporters to do a little reflecting as well.
Face it - the Cons and NDP read your stuff and they will find a way to use the negativity against whatever candidates for for leadership and definately against the winner - think about it.
Why do we have to hate each other if we believe in one candidate over another? We have a problem in infighting and outfighting.
Time to clean up our acts folks.
- 6:36 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
That's funny, because I was just saying to someone else, you never see former NDP or Con bigwigs slamming their party, yet we see to have a LeDrew under every rock, and it's really a few parties within a big party, if the truth be told. This leadership will be divisive, it's just the nature and it never seems to change.
- 7:53 PM, October 20, 2008
- Steve V said...
Just to add, when people are working at cross purposes, then it doesn't help the leadership, when people are questioning everything, or doing things independently (which has happened), then it detracts from the whole. Sure, people did their part, but we all know other shit was happening as well, and Dion KNEW it too. That's not a winning formula, it just isn't.
- 7:55 PM, October 20, 2008


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Anime World Order Show # 60b - Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga and Morality Plays
Digg Podcasts is apparently too dumb to create new items for feed entries that don't have unique URLs associated with them, and since there's over 75 comments in the previous post, we may as well start a new one for what's technically the same show only not. This is Part 2 of our 60th show and Osamu Tezuka spotlight, containing Gerald's news segment as well as his review of Vertical Inc's release of the manga Apollo's Song.
Click Here to Download Part 2 - Let's News! and Apollo's Song
Let's News! (0:00 - 36:09)
People in Singapore aren't exactly happy about all this Odex stuff and are willing to break the law by exercising their non-right to assemble in public to convey their sentiment. As far as being particularly old news even by our standards, DMP is now including the Japanese publisher logos on the front covers of their books, and Genshiken Season 2 has begun in Japan. Pity that Japanese otaku care more about Kujibiki Unbalance, but that's no doubt due to the fact that Genshiken lost its edge once everyone started having sex with each other. I guess that's what happens when you follow the path of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure author and Purple Rain enthusiast Hirohiko Araki, who drew the cover to a American scientific journal.
None of that is related to Osamu Tezuka, which is what we should be talking about. However, Tezuka Productions is working on color adaptations of Osamu Tezuka's manga. This is an undertaking on the level of digitally remastering and restoring the entire Shaw Brothers film library. For further proof of how far behind the times we are, Daryl reminds everyone of the true definition of moe (bottom of page), since that is what otaku opt to experience instead of love lest they run the risk of their lives ending up like Apollo's Song. The rest of the news centers on the Geneon situation, and by that we mean "it's us saying 'we don't know!' for 20 minutes. That everybody got on Daryl's case for mispronouncing Barefoot Gen but nobody cares about how Geneon is pronounced is no doubt indicative of the real cause behind all this mayhem.
Promo: R5 Central (36:09 - 37:10)
Mike Dent, a man so ashamed of his Xbox Live Gamertag that he doesn't want anyone to know what it is until he can cough up the $10 or however much it costs to get it changed, has realized that the genius of nominating one's own self for an award is that you can go around and state that you're award-nominated! Man. Why didn't we think of that?
Review: Apollo's Song (manga) (37:10 - 54:38)
We put that Amazon link in here three times in a feeble attempt to stave off getting emails asking where one can purchase this. In any case, Gerald reviews this publication from Vertical Inc since we figure that with all the stuff they send us, the least we could do is actually read the entire things and discuss them at length. Though given what we discussed in the news segment, perhaps companies prefer to get buzz about releases within a week of the thing actually coming out. Too bad! Daryl should probably get a review of Andromeda Stories Volume 1 up, and now that the new Toward the Terra TV series is over, he can probably talk Volumes 2 and 3 of To Terra as well. Here's the link to the blog post on Apollo's Song Daryl mentioned. Curse Jog for getting his in-depth reviews out so shortly after release!
Part 3 of this will be edited and posted...eventually?

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(CNN) -- It's a snapshot meant to shock: a bloodied woman hunched over with this caption underneath, "My mother knew I'd never hurt her, then she got in the way."
Graphic ads about the dangers of meth addiction are trying to tackle what's a top drug problem in small towns.
The Meth Project has made a name for itself with graphic, disturbing print and broadcast ads meant to wake up kids to the dangers of methamphetamine addiction. Another ad shows a filthy urinal with the caption, "No one thinks they'll lose their virginity here. Meth will change that."
The nonprofit organization said it's baring the ugly truth about what the Drug Enforcement Administration calls the most dangerous drug problem of small-town America.
Now the Meth Project is targeting a new audience: the growing population of Spanish-speaking teens in the Western United States. It's releasing television commercials in Spanish in Arizona and radio ads throughout the West featuring young Latino addicts sharing real-life meth nightmares. Nothing is lost in translation.
In Idaho, one of the Spanish radio voices belongs to recovering addict Aucensio Flores. In his ad, Flores said he first tried meth at 15 and headed on a downward spiral, adding: "I think it affected my brain. I have bad thoughts and I only want to do bad things, such as hurt people. I think I am going crazy."
Flores said meth deadened his conscience, emboldened him and kept him up all night with an edgy high. Meth made it easier, he said, to become sucked into a world of crime and gangs. Flores remembers beating up and robbing people just walking down the street and taking part in drive-by shootings, including one in which "I shot 17 shots into the house and then I walked around the block and back into the car and just left."
Meth made him feel "big and bad," said Flores, who never imagined being locked up. He's serving time at the Nampa Juvenile Correction Center in Idaho for grand theft, possession of a weapon by a minor, and drug possession.
Flores' drug rehabilitation counselor, Colleen Foster, said that up to 40 percent of juveniles in the Nampa facility have a history of meth addiction. She said meth takes over their lives.
"It starts to destroy their value system. It eats away at every aspect of their life: family, responsibility to community, responsibility to education, responsibility to themselves even," Foster said. "It just eats away at all that until they have no value system left, that the only thing they're doing is seeking for that high."
Foster supports the Meth Project's Spanish ad campaign because, she said, denial of the problem extends to teenagers and parents in all populations -- including Latinos. She said she thinks outreach needs to be better tailored for the growing Latino community in Idaho.
Foster also counsels Yair Perez, a recovering meth addict who served time for robbery and was released recently from the juvenile detention center.
"When I was coming down from meth, I would feel bad. You know, I threw up and I couldn't eat. Even if I was hungry, I couldn't eat," Perez said. "You know, I would just stay in my room and not talk to anyone, because they would make me mad when they talked to me."
While on meth, Perez said, he also developed frightening ulcerlike sores on his body and suffered from an erratic heartbeat.
Still, he said, his cravings for the drug persist and he knows staying clean won't be easy. He's gotten a job at a fast-food restaurant, is reconnecting with his family and has recorded a Spanish radio ad for the Meth Project. Perez said he hopes to reach young Latinos who aren't getting the message about meth in English.
"They might understand a little bit of it or half of it," he said. "But if they hear it ... in their own language ... the way they were born and they were raised, you know, speaking Spanish, then maybe they will pay a little more attention to it and maybe think about it, instead of doing it."
Idaho Meth Project volunteer Miguel Mouw agrees, saying that "in the Hispanic community, there's just a lack of education, a lack of treatment and resources, there's a lack of support, because there are some communication gaps."
Mouw, also a recovering meth addict, speaks in classrooms throughout Idaho and at community events. He said he thinks the graphic nature of the ads is needed to drive home the dangers of meth.
"I've seen people lose everything, you know, from their toes to the top of the head, either through death or maybe it's the sores or the scabs [affecting] the teeth or the eyes," he said. "The list is endless. It really is."
Drug officials say meth -- also known as chalk, crank, crystal, glass, ice or speed -- has been a major threat in rural America because it is cheap and easy to make. Traffickers mix drugs bought over the counter with common ingredients, according to the DEA. Twelve- to 14-year-olds who live in small towns are more than twice as likely to use meth than those who live in larger cities, the agency said.
The Meth Project began in 2005 in what was then the heartland of meth: Montana. Government leaders there credit the effort with large declines in meth use, including a 45 percent drop in teen use since its ads first appeared. The ad campaign has since spread to a half-dozen other states, including Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois and Wyoming. Program organizers said they research and tailor their campaigns for each new state.
But not everyone is convinced of the program's effectiveness.
David Erceg-Hurn, a researcher and critic of the Meth Project, said: "There is the potential for boomerang effects with these ads. Some teenagers react negatively to graphic advertising. These people don't like 'being told how to behave' by the ads and may rebel against them."
The Meth Project is funded through private donations and receives millions of dollars in federal and state grants.
Erceg-Hurn said he thinks those dollars could be put to better use.
As for the Spanish ad campaign, he said: "I prefer the radio ads to the print and television ads. They're not so over the top. I like that the radio ads feature real former users rather than actors. This makes them seem more realistic. A problem is still that they don't provide any information about how to quit or avoid using meth. Teenagers need practical skills and information."
The Spanish ad campaign in Idaho is too new for analysis of widespread impact. Organizers said they hope for more reactions such as that of high school student Cindy Rodriguez.
Rodriguez, who moved to Idaho from Guatemala, said she and her parents have been listening to the radio ads together.
"My parents, we didn't see a lot of drugs during my time in Guatemala. So we didn't know what the drugs are and what they do," she said. "So what my parents would do, like when they would listen to the radio, they were like, 'Oh, you should listen to this, because this is what I want you to learn.' "
Rodriguez said she was prepared when peers offered her meth.
"They were like, 'Oh, you should do this, so that way you could be a little bit cooler or you're with us. You need to do this.' I'm like, no ... you know, cause I'd heard about it."
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|Nepal Research
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| Time in Kathmandu:
Re-escalation in the
Tarai: the danger of the failed state
Maleth, Saptari district, on March 6, a bloody incident occurred in
which five people were killed by targeted police shooting and numerous
others were injured. This renewed escalation was almost to be expected
in the face of extreme political tensions in the light of the local
elections scheduled for May 2017. The shock is all the deeper as the
police have once again proved their disrespect for human rights.
Nepal's politicians and the rule of law
0n March 30, 2016, the EU and India published a joint statement after a summit meeting in Brussels. Point 17 of this statement was related to the situation in Nepal. The EU and India pledged continued support to Nepal in its reconstruction efforts following the devastating earthquakes in 2015, including capacity building and long term development. But they also agreed on the need for a lasting and inclusive constitutional settlement in Nepal that will address the remaining constitutional issues in a time bound manner, and promote political stability and economic growth.
Nobody referred to the promised continued support offer to Nepal, but Nepalese government vehemently offended the critics in the constitutional procedure. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs verbally claimed: "The EU-India joint statement not only hurts the sentiments of the people of Nepal but also defies the fundamental principle of non-interference in internal affairs of a country. The constitution of Nepal was democratically drafted accommodating aspirations of the people of Nepal"
Two things in this statement are misleading or even wrong. First, many people have been dissatisfied with different parts and regulations of the new constitution and the way it has been written. These sections of society have definitely not been hurt by the EU/India statement but they may even feel happy about this support of their own critics.
Secondly, it is unbelievable that MoFA claims the new constitution has been democratically drafted and accommodates the aspirations of the people. The latter is always a problem as the aspirations have been very diversified in this multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual state with its long history of non-inclusive unitary politics. Those participated in politics and other spheres of public life naturally had the interest to preserve their status and privileges as far as possible while underrepresented sections of society like women, Janajati, Madhesi, Dalits and Muslims anticipated fundamental changes as they had been promised by the traditional political Tagadhari elite time and again after 2006.
This brings us to the lie within the MoFA statement. Many principles that had to be followed while drafting the new constitution had been fixed by the Interim Constitution (IC) of 2007 and several agreements between the political parties among themselves as well as with the Nepali state. In a democratic state, political parties are bound to respect the rule of law. In this case was the interim constitution the basic law, that had to be obeyed by the government, the elected Constituent Assembly (CA) and all other political activists. Under the rule of law, it is the fundamental duty of the Supreme Court to interpret the constitution and subordinate laws and to safeguard the strict obedience of this constitution by the state executive and legislative.
The interim constitution had prescribed that the new constitution had to be drafted by the inclusively elected CA, not by the leaders of the big political parties. The latter are all part of the traditional political elite of male Tagadharis, especially Bahuns. By nature, their interests collided with the interests of the underrepresented groups of society. This is why the IC demanded that the CA had to be elected inclusively with respect to all sections of society and that this inclusive assembly had to discuss and draft the new constitution as the foundation of an inclusive, secular and federal republic of Nepal.
The disregard of constitutional rules already started with the selection of candidates for the CA elections that according to article 63 of the IC had to reflect the composition of society in respect to the FPTP system as well. The parties violated against this article in 2013 even more than in 2008. Latest after the committees of CA I concluded their suggestions for the new constitution at the turn of the year 2009/10, the leaders of the big parties seized the task of discussing and drafting of the constitution from the elected members of the CA.
This disregard of constitutional prescriptions was continued under CA II as well. And this misconduct was committed by all the tree big parties without much difference. Nevertheless, was a new constitution not in sight, when the big earthquakes happened in spring 2015. The top leaders of the three parties forgot their differences of opinion on many issues of the new constitution only after they recognised that their public image declined dramatically because of their total failure after the earthquakes.
So, they openly placed themselves as overlords of the country, disregarded all constitutional rulings and prior agreement and even told the Supreme Court to shut up when it criticised their unconstitutional procedure on the new constitution claiming this was a political affair in which the SC not had to intervene. In a democratic state is the decision of the SC a binding law that has to be respected by executive and legislative, but obviously not so in Nepal.
Along these lines has the new constitution been drafted by a handful of traditional male leaders. The following discussion of this draft by the general public was a farce as the majority of the people did not get the chance to have their say. Not even the representatives of the traditionally excluded sections of society within the CA were allowed to suggest necessary changes of the draft but had to follow the voting order of their party leaders. Besides, the voting was not secret so that everybody could recognise dissenting MPs. Yes, MoFA, this constitution was democratically drafted, indeed!
The consequences of this continued disregard of the rule of law by government and leading politicians are well known. To hold the whole state as hostage and causing much suffering to the people, as was the reaction of the angry Madhesi groups in the Tarai, was not the right way, and also the support and extension of this blockade by India was reprehensible and a violation of international law against the suffering people of Nepal. But primarily responsible for all this have the leading politicians and their non-understanding of democratic rules, their duties and the needs of the country. How else can be explained that they still deny justice to the victims of the conflict, that they do nothing for the reconstruction of the country, that they hardly invest in urgent development projects as planned in the budget and that they still favour committed criminals and corrupt persons among the top leaders of their parties? Secularism is once again under discussion. Federalism only exists on paper and has hardly been discussed after the promulgation of the new constitution. The country is still ruled by the same old circles of male Tagadharis that have failed time and again. Many other things could be mentioned as well. The rule of law looks different. Failed politicians like Nepal's top political leaders have to be criticised for all this from inside and from outside of the country in support of the sentiments of the majority of the people of Nepal.
election to a second CA took place on 19 November 2013, the people were
hopeful that the power struggles of the political party elites had come
to an end. Despite the numerous and grave violations of the interim
constitution that paved the way to CA-II, the people peacefully
participated in the elections in never seen numbers.
One year after the
elections of 2013
One year has passed since elections to the second CA took place and hopes for a new constitution within the near future are shrinking once again. Leading politicians of the two parties in government, Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML may still be claiming that they want to push through a constitution of their mind by two thirds majority vote. But the facts speak a different language. The current proposal of NC and UML has nothing to do with the big promisses made by the political parties in 2006.
The proposal of the government parties means more a continuation of the current single ethnic identity based central state and its transfer upon seven future federal provinces than the introduction of the promised inclusive federal state with equal chances and participation of all sections of society. The government parties reject the introduction of ethnicity based federal units as they are demanded by ethnic organizations and left parties, claiming that the future federal porovinces have to be of multiethnic character.
Yes, Nepal in its entirety is a multiethnic state as it has been first admitted by the constitution of 1990. But this reality exists only on paper. It is not reflected in the country's political, social and economic spheres. The status of the traditionally excluded groups of society (women, Janajatis, Madheshis, Dalits, Muslims) has not changed much after the political Bahun elites made big promisses in 2006. Their representatives are still hardly to be found in state bodies and commissions, leading party circles, diplomatic service, upper administration levels, judiciary, media, security services, education system, health services, etc.
What is national is still defined by culture, thinking and values of the Tagadhari castes. Every demand that does not fit into this system is automatically called "anti-national". It is anti-national, if Janajati and Madheshi activists demand for federal units, whose boundaries fit to historical ethnic mainlands, and for an identification of the provinces with the culture and language of ethnic groups. But the male Bahun party leaders call it "national" if composition and structure of the single ethnic identity based central state are transferred to the future provinces.
The Madheshi activist CK Raut has been arrested because he verbally demanded for an independent Tarai state. Such demand may be against the interim constitution but this constitution also guarantees freedom of opinion, and Raut did not call for a militant revolution. It is also against the interim constitution if RPP-Nepal, RPP and members of the ruling NC demand for a return to monarchy and Hindu state and reject secularism. But these activists don't have to be afraid to be arrested for their verbal demands and threats.
If the top party leaders really want an inclusive federal system then they must first start to listen to the demands and interests of the traditionally excluded groups. They must try to understand their cultures, languages and values and accept them as integral parts of Nepali nationality and history. And they must start to participate them in an adequate and equal way on levels of state and society. Most of all, they must participate them in the writing of the new constitution.
So far, only the male Bahun leaders of the bigger parties discuss and decide about the contents of the new constitution. Why, at all, has a CA been elected? The so-called "leaders" should have written into the interim constitution that the new constitution is written by them and then be presented for voting at an elected parliament.
A new constitution only makes sense if it provides a basis for an inclusive federal state that adequately and equally participates all sections of society independent of race, caste, ethnicity or gender. The parties are wrong if they claim that future provinces cannot be named after the traditional ethnic mainlands. The latter are also an integral part of Nepali history. Such procedure would not open the way to separatism, as claimed by a number of "leaders", but it would show that the ethnic groups have a place the country's history.
Administrative reforms by the Ranas and later by the Panchayat system have intentionally divided traditional ethnic mainlands. The boundaries of the future federal provinces have to reverse this historical injustice. The current proposal by the ruling parties misses this chance and tries to continue the anti-ethnic politics of the past. Besides, it is doubtful that this proposal will be passed by the CA with a necessary two thirds majority. Many Janajatis, Madheshis and Dalits from among the MPs of NC and CPN-UML have already distanced from the proposal of the party leaders.
So, most probable is either a further delay of
the promulgation of the constitution or a defeat of the proposal of the
government parties by voting. One should also not forget that the two
ruling parties together have got less than 50 percent of the votes in
the elections of November 2013, in other words, they do not represent
the majority of the Nepali people.
Elections to a second CA took place on 19
November 2013. The Election Commission (EC) speaks of more or less
peaceful elections. The turnout of voters of
about 77.90% under the PR system and 74.65% under the FPTP system has
been a lot higher than ever before in
Nepali history. 4.96% of the FPTP votes have been invalid as well as
3.2% of the PR votes. In 2008, the figues had been 5.15% and 3.66%
Counting of the FPTP (First Past the Post) votes had been finished first. The UCPN-M that had won 50% of the FPTP seats in the 2008 elections is the big loser in the FPTP election this time. The winners under the FPTP system are the dominating parties of the 1990 political system, i.e. the Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN-UML. Both parties together have garnered 82.5% of the direct mandates. Only ten parties have been able to win FPTP seats; it had been nine parties in 2008.
9,463,862 valid votes have been counted under the PR system. Altogether 30 parties win seats (25 in 2008); 92 parties win no seat (29 in 2008). The three leading parties of the FPTP system also lead here, but the absolute dominance of NC and CPN-UML has vanished. The NC is the leading party here as well, but compared to 2008 it has got only about 4.46% votes more. The CPN-UML has got 3.39% more than in 2008, while the UCPN-M has lost about 14%. The conservative hardline party RPP-Nepal, that stands for monarchy and Hindu state and rejects a federal setup of the country, has ended on fourth place winning about 23 PR seats. In 2008 it had won only four seats, the only MPs who voted against the abolition of monarchy in May 2008. Also the conservative RPP has slightly improved with probably winning five setas more than in 2008. NC and CPN-UML together have failed a two-thirds majority in CA-II that had looked possible after the FPTP counting. As in 2008, two independent candidates win FPTP seats, one of them being a NC dissident.
were necessary in four constituencies because Sushil Koirala and Sher
Bahadur Deuba (both NC) as well as Madhav Kumar Nepal and Bam Dev
Gautam (both CPN-UML) had been victorious in two constituencies each.
These by-elections in Kathmandu-2, Chitwan-4, Bardiya-1 and Kailali-6
took place on 22 June 2014. This time, Kathmandu-2 where Madhav Kumar
Nepal had been successful in November 2013 went to the NC candidate.
The other three constituencies were won by the same parties as in
November 2013. This means that the NC
has now 197 seats in the CA and the CPN-UML 174 seats.
The final result of the elections to
CA-II looks like this:
Non-inclusiveness of elected FPTP candidates:
Ethnicity of the elected FPTP candidates:
The multiplicity of Madheshi parties - their number has been 34 in these elections - has led to a decline of directly elected representatives from these parties in the second Constituent Assembly (CA-II). Five Madheshi parties have won 12 seats. In 2008, 3 Madheshi parties had won 43 FPTP seats. 13 Janajati parties have participated in 2013 (7 in 2008) and they seem to have failed as in earlier elections, probably also because of missing unity.
Madheshi, Janajati
and Dalit parties (2008 and 2013 compared):
Definitely, it is far too early to ask for reasons of this election outcome. Probably, the reasons will be manifold. The great number of parties, especially with Madheshi and Janajati background, may have been an advantage for the bigger parties. Disappointment of unfulfilled promises of the winner of the 2008 elections, the UCPN-M, may have been one reason for their losses. The party's split, its denial of justice, its inability to introduce any of the promised and necessary social, economic and political changes, and, finally, its forgotten support of non-included sections of Nepali society may have been other reasons.
The attitude of NC and CPN-UML has not been better in recent years. The leaders of all three bigger parties have been responsible for the failure of the first CA. Maybe we must see the reason for the revival of NC and CPN-UML in the FPTP elections in the consciousness and democratic voting pattern of the Nepali citizens. In 2008, the people voted in great number for the Maoist party that had made big promises, while the other two parties had been responsible for the failure of the 1990 system. But the UCPN-M, besides many other failures, could not implement its ideas and promises. So, the voters returned to the other big parties hoping they have learnt. There is no reason to think so, but the voters, at least, gave them a new chance. This is democracy. The voters understand how it works, but the party leaders don't, neither those from NC and CPN-UML in 2008 nor those from the UCPN-M this time around.
there has been a general trend in the voting behaviour in Nepal ever
since 1991. In the first general elections after about 30 years of
partyless Panchayat system, the NC became the strongest party with an
absolute number of seats in the then 205 member parliament and a
relative majority of votes of almost 40%. After that, there has been a
continuous trend of voting for left, so-called communist parties. In
1994, the CPN-UML won a relative majority of seats and in 1999, it
would have got more votes than the NC for the first time, if the party
had not split prior to the elections. In 2008, the voters had great
hope in the UCPN-M and gave less votes to the CPN-UML that had played a
disappointing role under the 1990 system. The numerous communist
parties together already won an absolute majority of votes in 2008.
This trend seems to have been stopped for the moment.
An evaluation of the election results will take time. It already shows that the distinctness of the FPTP system has faded away after the counting of the PR votes, just as it did in 2008. As expected, the PR vote counting has been dominated by those parties that participated nationwide under the FPTP system.
The reason of the election has been to elect an assembly that shall write a new constitution. For this, it needs a two-thirds majority, and can definitely not be garnered by one or two of the bigger parties. This is what the parties will have to understand if the second CA shall be successful: Close cooperation and willingness for reasonable compromises will be necessary, but this is exactly what the parties have lacked in CA-I.:
of voters: 12.147.865
constituencies: 240
On 14 March 2013, a new government (election council) has been sworn in by President Ram Baran Yadav under the chairmanship of Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi. It is said that this government has been made possible by application of Article 158 of the Interim Constitution. Since this article requires the consent of the legislative parliament within one month, the president simply annulled this part of Article 158 for the time being, just as if this only representative president had absolutist powers.
As Regmi refuses to step down as chief justice, the separation of powers has been completely annulled. The executive parliament had already been destroyed by the top leaders of the bigger parties on 27 May 2012. But the Supreme Court (SC) had only decided that the Constituent Assembly (CA) could not be extended as the constitution writing body. It never mentioned that the CA also had to be abolished in its function as legislative parliament.
It would not have been any problem to revive the CA in this legislative function as active and former justices of the SC have confirmed on several occasions. It were the party leaders who were not able to bring the state back on a legitimate path by this most constitutional way.
Nepal has moved another step away from the rule of law. Not only the
top party leaders but also the president and the chief justice
disregard the interim constitution and subordinate laws. Executive,
legislative and judicative powers are joined in one hand, that of the
chairman of the so-called election government. But the male top leaders
of four parties (UCPN-M, NC, CPN-UML and MPRF) have already made clear
that they will have the final control over the ongoing processes. For
this reason, a so-called High Level Political Committee (HLPC) has been
formed with representatives from these major political parties. Its
task shall be to facilitate the election council and resolve political
problems. This may already mean the death of the election plans since
the leaders of the major political parties have proved often enough
that they will never be able to solve any problems.
plan was to hold elections for a new CA on 21 June 2013. Since this was
not possible, the elections shall now take place on 19 November 2013.
The composition of this new CA shall be reduced to 491 members, by Shambhu Ram Simkhada (rep) (from formerly 601).
240 of them will be directly elected, 240 through the proportional
representation system, and 11 shall be nominated by the election
council on the basis of political agreement. The first CA had been by
far too big but the reduction of the proportional system from 60% to
40% of the elected members is a
further step back from greater inclusion. Neither are the parties
inclusive nor have they democratic structures. Their almost exclusively
male Bahun leaders will never nominate the candidates for the direct
system in an inclusive way. This may be suggested by the interim
constitution and by the election law, but it is not binding as in the
case of the proportional system.
But not only the inclusive election right will be reduced, there are a number of other shortcomings that already call the elections for new CA into question. So is the right to vote still not guaranteed to all citizens of Nepal. This most prominently concerns, e.g., the traditionally excluded groups like Madhesi, Janajati, Muslims and Dalits, but also the descendants of Nepali mothers and foreign fathers. There may have been some legal changes in this respect after 2006 but they have never been really implemented, especially not with regard to the traditionally excluded groups.
Further, there have been a number of miususes of the first CA by the political parties, most of all by their so-called top leaders. Elections for a new CA only make sense if these misuses are prevented right from the beginning. One of the most prominent failures of the top party leaders has been the continued misuse of the CA for their political power games. Most negative has been the intervention of the party leaders into the constitution writing tasks of the CA. Not the party leaders but only the elected members of the CA had and will have to discuss and write the constitution. The inclusive election system only makes sense if they are totally free in their opinions and decisions concerning the new constitution and not bound to the will of the party leaders. The top party leaders have destroyed the first CA because they were not able to understand this system.
But the perspective must also include the time after the new constitution has been promulgated. The political parties should use the time to stand up for internal democracy, inclusion and transparency. Besides, they must turn away from their politics of impunity. The half-hearted ordinance for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as signed by the president on 14 March 2013, once again gives doubt that the party leaders will change. Nepal needs a completely new leadership within all political parties if the new beginning shall be successful.


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Thursday's game was highlighted by tremendous comeback performances following the Engineers' 4-3, extra-inning loss to Wheaton. Jason Witzberger, who had his 22-game streak of reaching base safely snapped against the Lyons, was brilliant at the plate versus Babson. He went 4-for-5 to pace all hitters and scored the game-tying run. Senior Cliff Roscow was equally prophetic, stepping in for the ninth and closing the door en route to an all-time Institute best fifth save.
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By Tom Heneghan, International Intelligence Expert
UNITED States of America – It can now be reported that Deutsche Bank is BROKE!
Oct 11, 2008 …P.S. The Virginia National Security Court, which George W. Bush fraud wants to close down, has compiled evidence showing the UN-elected punk Bush fraud has paid MILLIONS of dollars of BRIBES to German Prime Minister Angela Merkel in exchange for keeping secret the $BILLIONS of STOLEN U. S. Treasury funds kept at the Deutsche Bank.
Merkel is keeping secret the Deutsche Bank account numbers of Bush fraud's sociopath father, East German DVD agent, former president George Herbert Walker Bush.
It can be reported that daddy Bush has BILLIONS of dollars of STOLEN U. S. Treasury funds parked in his secret private accounts at the Deutsche Bank.
P.P.S. At least ten (10) assassinations of bank officials in Germany and World Bank employees have taken place in the last two weeks. All of the assassinations are linked to elements of the East German DVD and the rogue Bush – Bill Clinton – Israeli Mossad – Gary Best "TRUE COLORS" assassination teams.
These murdered bank officers had a long-standing relationship with former [privately owned] U. S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
Sep 18, 2016 …U.S. Treasury officials are now in possession of financial evidence tying Nazi German Deutsche Bank, HSBC Bank of Englewood, Colorado, run by Jewish Mobster and Bank Bail Out Scamster Larry Mizel, along with Bank of America and Wells Fargo, to secret ISIS accounts involving the sale of black market oil.
May 27, 2015 …It can now be reported that the massive bribery scandal involving the World Soccer Federation (FIFA) and its president Sepp Blatter currently being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice reaches beyond bribery and blackmail regarding competition between nations to host the World Cup Soccer Championships, which happens every four years.
This massive scandal involves the actual bribery of referees and the fixing of games tied to massive offshore gambling profits and international foreign currency trading.
FACT: The last World Cup semi-final in 2014 between host nation Brazil and the Federal Republic of Germany was fixed.
Joint U.S.-French Intelligence Task Force can now reveal that both the Central Bank of Brazil and the German Deutsche Bank paid off Brazilian coaches, Brazilian players, and totally corrupt Brazilian politicians to lose the World Cup semi-final by an unbelievable 7 to 1 margin.
This result on Brazilian home soil, a 5-time world champion, was clearly a scripted result with the financial gains in offshore gambling casinos who bet on Brazil to lose by this unprecedented margin was in the millions.
Jun 22, 2014 …the financial psyops involving "Crisis Actors" (NOT terrorists) in Iraq is being financed by British MI-6 aka the Bank of England's secret proprietary "Humewood Assoc" along with Sherwood Investments, a Bahamas money laundry tied to HSBC Hong Kong.
There is a tie in to United Asian Group, a Central Bank of Japan secret proprietary that specializes in writing illegal cross – collateralized derivatives based on the world price of oil with the benefactors being the German NAZI Deutsche Bank, Barclays Bank of England and the Bank of England.
The bagman for this money laundry is Hillary Rodham Clinton's financial stooge George Pasmore who works for Merrill Lynch and Bank of America and corresponds with Hillary by calling her "Queen Melusina".
Profits in these over inflated asset bubbles in the latest foreign currency ponzi scheme are being laundered through another secret CIA-P2 Bush proprietary, code name "Malaga" headquartered at the National Bank of Spain.
Saudi Arabia, the nation of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and British Petroleum (BP) are actually paying commissions to the ISIS "Crisis Actors" for their role in boosting the price of oil and other asset and currency bubbles as to allow the crooked banks to write even more derivatives aka I.O.U.s between each others, which will eventually collapse the entire world economy.
P.S. At this hour we can report that the IMF has frozen the NAZI German "Black Eagle Trust" account at the NAZI German Deutsche Bank.
Aug 10, 2014 …Mellon Bank of New York, U.S. Citibank and German Deutsche Bank as the …
Dec 28, 2014 …Barclays Bank of England, Citibank USA, the German Deutsche Bank, Bank of …
Bank Runs Hit Greece and Thomas Jefferson is in the Building, Next!
Jun 28, 2015 …"bail-out" plan proposed by European creditors (the Deutsche Bank) …
Apr 29, 2015 …of this massive Bush-Clinton-NAZI German Deutsche Bank ponzi scheme?
Aug 1, 2016 …Merkel administered Deutsche Bank derivative debt has now reach 98 TRILLION
May, 8, 2016 …the collusion between the Bush – Clinton – Barack Obama – Mitt Romney crooked bank alleged ISIS (a British MI6 entity) has allowed Saudi Arabia and Iran to control 80% of what is now a black market oil consortium, which allows the alleged terrorist organization ISIS to buy oil at $20 barrel.
This allows crooked worldwide banks, including Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Bank of New York Mellon and the noted Nazi German Deutsche Bank, to roll over worthless derivatives reference I.O.U.s between each other as collateral to rig worldwide financial markets with no real collateral or margin as a basis for their worldwide financial ponzi scheme.
At this hour, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde has frozen crooked foreign currency Danish kroner based accounts tied to the Bank of England and other crooked worldwide banks that have been tied to the theft of both U.S. and French Treasury funds based on the Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols.
Dec 16, 2012 …Psyops, Black Ops and Rip Offs
…It is important to remember that the night of the failed psyop in Benghazi, Libya massive volatility took place in the trading of both precious metals and energy futures markets.
We can now divulge that billions of dollars were exchanged the night of the Benghazi attack between U.S., Turkish, Saudi and Iranian representatives with the funds and proceeds laundered into the German Deutsche Bank, UBS Switzerland, U.S. Citibank and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
European INTERPOL, the IMF and the U.S. Provost Marshal are now in possession of computerized records generated by PROMIS software that fingers the aforementioned gangsters in this massive money laundry.
Item: We now know why the U.S. State Department refused to send armed security to the CIA outpost in Benghazi, Libya.
It is now clear that Ambassador Christopher Stevens own State Department wanted him kidnapped.
Stevens was quickly assassinated when he got a heads up from his own intelligence in the CIA, along with French intelligence, about this kidnapping ransom scheme involving the Muslim cleric.
However, Stevens did not die in vain since he was able to tip off the IMF, European INTERPOL and the U.S. Provost Marshal on what was occurring.
P.P.S. We can now report that Deutsche Bank, UBS Switzerland, HSBC Hong Kong and the Royal Bank of Scotland are about to face new IMF charges regarding the illegal manipulation of the London LIBOR rate.
New evidence links these crooked banks to rigging the LIBOR rate with the assistance of the U.S. Federal Reserve in keeping the Japanese yen at an artificially high rate of exchange versus the U.S. dollar for a period of two (2) years
Insider "Deutsche Bank COLLAPSE Tomorrow – Friday 9-30-2016" – Will Wipe out banking system worldwide!
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Insider "Deutsche Bank COLLAPSE Tomorrow – Friday 9-30-2016″ – Will Wipe out banking system worldwide!
German Bank insiders are confirming to SuperStation95 that Germany's largest, Bank, Deutsche Bank" will "colapse" tomorrow, Friday, September 30, 2016. The German government has no plans to bail out the bank and its demise could wipe out Banks in the US and other countries worldwide!
According to the insider:
System downfall tomorrow. A collapse of this bank is unavoidable now, and it wipes out everything immediately.
Wolfgang Gerke, President of the Bavarian Finance Centre, the German bank sees in a serious imbalance.
"This is absolutely not about Peanuts. We experience real shockwaves. The Bank is in real trouble, "Gerke said the Thursday edition of the" Passauer Neue Presse ".
This is as good as a death sentence. It is insider info (presumably from the DB itself), after the financial collapse is to take place on 30 September.
MORE: A "run" is taking place against Deutsche Bank in Germany as citizens rush to take out money . . . but they are being systematically delayed. At least on Depositor ordered 2,000 Euros transferred out yesterday via wire transfer. At close of business, Deutsche Bank had still NOT sent the money. When challenged, the bank claimed they needed to verify all the information. The Depositor now says he feels they no longer have liquidity and cannot pay depositors.
Germans are being quietly told that ALL BANKS in Germany will close on October 1, ALL ATMS, Credit and Debit Cards are likely to be "unavailable" for unknown duration! ! !
European Central Bank Chairman Draghi refused to talk about Deutsche Bank today, saying It is not his fault the bank appears to be in trouble.
German Insider:
There is panic in DB now. A lot of People withdraw money, close accounts. One guy says he transferred 25'000 Euro and the bank called him back if the amount and transaction is correct and true! Still has not sent the money!
This is a developing story, please check back.
Stock markets worldwide have now tuned-in to this situation and they are falling fast . . . .
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August 4, 2013 It can now be reported that the nation of Yemen has arrested five (5) Israeli Mossad agents who have been operating an alleged al-Qaeda terror cell on Yemeni soil.
This new Israeli Spy Ring is responsible for the alleged terrorist threats made against the American, British, German and French diplomatic installations around the world.
Note: The five (5) Israeli Mossad agents masquerading as al-Qaeda terrorists also have ties to the American-Turkish Council operating out of Istanbul, Turkey.
The American – Turkish Council (which has direct working relationship with the U.S. State Department) was responsible for the assassination of the late U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
P.S. At this hour the Obama Administration, along with the U.S. State Department, the CIA and the U S Department of Justice, are involved in a massive obstruction of justice operation in attempting to silence former and current CIA employees who are material witnesses to the massive TREASON that took place in Benghazi, Libya on 09-11-2012.
GOP Rep: Obama WH Is Hiding Benghazi Survivors AND Changing Their Names
P.P.S. We can also divulge that Canadian Intelligence officials have turned over new evidence to the U.S. Department of Justice that fingers two (2) Iranian Intelligence officers: Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser as the operatives responsible for the Patriot Day bombing in Boston, Massachussets (Operation Wack-a-Mole aka Benghazi Blowback).
Note: Both Esseghaier and Jaser were part of a four-man team that were on the ground in Boston and included two (2) Saudi nationals that escaped and flew out of Boston Logon Airport on a Lufthansa flight that arrived in the nation of Leichtenstein.
The two were assassinated the next day by outsourced Israeli Mossad assets, Blackwater mercenaries tied to British MI6, while they were on their way to the National Bank of Liechtenstein to receive their commissions. The commissions were to be paid out by none other than an American-Turkish Council account at the National Bank of Liechtenstein.
The two Iranians were arrested on April 23, 2013 by Canadian Law Enforcement and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train that just so happened to have three former CIA officials as passengers who had worked at the Benghazi, Libyan outpost.
It is not a coincidence that Canadian officials have produced evidenced showing that the two Iranians arrested in the plot to bomb a Canadian passenger train were also employees of none other than the American-Turkish Council.
Item: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the crisis actor and patsy and former Department of Homeland Security employee, who is on trial now for the Boston bombing FALSE FLAG remains totally innocent.
We can now divulge that Tsarnaev was never wounded in the neck and the injuries he received were at the Jewish administered hospital in Boston when the FBI and CIA officials violated Tsarnaev's Miranda Rights and then used intimidation and physical assault in a failed attempt to get Tsarnaev to give them a false confession.
January 31, 2016 It can now be reported that four (4) of the now classified TOP SECRET national security emails tied to the FBI investigation of former U.S. Secretary of State NAZI neocon Hillary Rodham Clinton deal with the existence of domestic political assassination teams headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a link to the NSA – administered E-Systems out of Dallas, Texas aka Bush NAZI 'Skull and Bones' headquarters.
June 9, 2016 It can now be reported that, as of this hour, alleged ISIS aka the Israeli Secret Intelligence Services, along with the NAZI Paperclip Bush-Clinton-Obama-CIA-NSA Crime Family Syndicate, have activated forty-five (45) U.S. domestic assassination teams on American soil to coordinate the murders of thousands of patriotic American citizens who are described as "loud mouths" and who know too much and are opposed to the illegal, un-Constitutional occupation of the United States of America by this treasonous filth that began in earnest with the year 2000 election coup d'état against the American People.
September 4, 2016 Stone also reveals that the corrupt Nazi Paperclip U.S. NSA and CIA plan to steal the year 2016 presidential election using NSA technicians headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey, which is a known outpost for the Israeli Mossad.
Reference: These are the same NSA technicians that were led by CIA – Bush Crime Family crony Charles Kane that hacked the Voters News Service at 8:00 p.m. CST presidential election night 2000.
It is called "Strip and Flip".
September 10, 2016 It can now be reported that Green Party candidate Jill Stein calls for a new independent investigation of 9/11 further confirms that the U.S. Military Michigan and Tennessee Flag Officers have enough evidence to arrest and detain year 2000 illegal White House occupant, junior George W. BushFRAUD and former alleged Vice pResident Richard Cheney for HIGH TREASON involving the 9/11 BLACK OPS aka Adolf Hitler – style Reichstag Fire that led to the destruction of the U.S. Constitution aka the Patriot Act aka junior Bush FRAUD's Nazi German-style Enabling Act, which made every American citizen a guinea pig to have all of their phone calls and email conversations monitored by the NAZI German administered CIA and NSA – totally illegally and UN-Constitutional!
Co-conspirators included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Mossad agent and then U.S. Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, then U.S. Senator and Bush-Crime Family CIA stooge, lesbian Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as former New York Mayor, Nazi Jew Michael Bloomberg.
All of the aforementioned parties were fully aware of intelligence briefings months before the 9/11 BLACK OP that the United States was about to be attacked aka a U.S. intelligence run Psy Op with the assistance of Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel Mossad as to end the U.S. Constitution as we know it, legitimize junior George W. Bush FRAUD after his blatant theft of the year 2000 presidential election, and pave the way for a U.S. CIA line of secession based on junior BushFRAUD and, of course, Nazi Jew neocon warmonger Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Note: John 'Skull and Bones' CIA Kerry Cohen Kahn was junior George W. Bush FRAUD's 2004 Massachusetts patsy like Dukakis was for daddy Bush (George Herbert Walker Bush) in 1988.
It should also be remembered that 'Skull and Bones' Kerry was 'Skull and Bones' George W. Bush's third cousin.
P.S. The dots have now been connected by the U.S. Military Flag Officers relating to the previously redacted 9/11 documents which connect the role of Saudi Intelligence assets in Los Angeles and San Diego to Israeli Mossad assets in Trenton, New Jersey to their role in the 9/11 BLACK OP including planting demolitions in the World Trade Center buildings the night before the 9/11 Reichstag Fire.
It should be noted that it was then Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Nazi Jew Michael Chertoff, that allowed the 9/11 co-conspirators aka "The Dancing Israelis" to be flown out of the United States days after 9/11 before the FBI could conduct and interrogation of the suspects.
It should also be noted that sexual deviate, junior George W. Bush FRAUD, allowed members of Osama bin Laden's aka CIA employee Tim Osman's family to be flown out of the United States on the actual night of 9/11 while junior BushFRAUD was getting drunk with the Saudi Ambassador.
In closing, at this hour, US. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg is in possession of the U.S. Military-Russian Federation year 2000 presidential election electronic audit, which clearly proves massive fraud on the U.S. Supreme Court in December of 2000 involving the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Scalia and lifelong Bush Crime Family crony James Baker III.
As reported in previous intelligence briefings, Albert Gore Jr. of Carthage, Tennessee actually won the U.S. popular vote by over four (4) million and amassed over 330 Electoral College votes. MORE
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Yes, the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself. We are dealing with human beings so it has already gotten personal and you know it is going to get physical.
Sunday November 15, 2015
The Time is Now the Match is Hot!
by Tom Heneghan, International Intelligence Expert
P.S. At this hour the United States faces a direct declaration of martial law as the NAZI Paperclip forces that control and occupy the United States have declared "Operation Jade Helm" (aka a martial law declaration).
This criminal NAZI filth have allowed up to 700,000 alleged Arab immigrants to illegally cross over the U.S. border with Canada and Mexico. At least 100,000 of these illegal INVADERS are scripted Islamic Jihadists who were trained in Yemen by the U.S. CIA and the Israeli Mossad.
P.P.S. We can now also report that command and control for the terrorist attacks in Paris, France last Friday was the U.S.-Israeli Mossad controlled American-Turkish Council headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Command and control was also headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, the headquarters for the NAZI German Bush P2 Adamus Group 9/11 Kurt Becker cell. MORE
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So, whatd you want to be when you were a kid? Until about the third grade, we probably all wanted to be fire fighters. Then we realized they run into burning buildings, and probably decided those guys werent wrapped too tightly. Joe Hernandez never made that connection, and now runs towards raging infernos on a daily basis, rather than away from them. Okay, he gets to drive big red trucks that make lots of noise, but thats still not enough incentive for us to impersonate a hot dog at a cook out.
But its not his choice of occupations that leads us to question his sanityits what hes done with his down time that makes us wonder. Starting an endeavor that would take only six months to complete, Joe bought someone elses unfinished projecta matching-numbers Super Track Pack 69 Charger R/T, originally equipped with a 440 and 727. Arriving at Joes in pieces, the body was quickly sent to Joes friend Richard Romanelli at Restifications Unlimited in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the sheetmetal was straightened and a flawless coat of black was applied. Inside, the interior was refinished with Legendary components and left pretty much alone, with the exception of an Autometer tach to monitor shift points.
The original engine was treated to a .030-inch overbore and filled with TRW pistons for a final compression ratio of 10:1, with the whole bottom end of the motor being balanced and blue printed. The 906 heads were treated to a full porting and fitted with oversized valves, and a .484 lift/284-degree duration cam was installed. A Mopar Performance distributor and orange box were added, and stock exhaust manifolds retained, with the mufflers being upgraded to Dyno Max three chamber units. Though the internal mods are relatively tame by most standards, the engine is able to make substantial power due to the induction system. Joe is good friends with Keith Wison, the owner of Wilson Manifolds, who happens to be the shop of choice for all of Chryslers NASCAR and Craftsman Truck intakes. Wilson worked his magic on the Edelbrock intake and topped it with a Holley HP 4150 carb. Though never on the dyno, the Charger has run 12.30 seconds in the quarter on BFG street tires. Thats downright respectable for a daily driven car.
Backing the 440 is the original 727 rebuilt by John Cages, which employs a reverse manual valve body and 2000 rpm stall converter. The power then makes its way to the original Dana 60 rear, fitted with 4.10 gears and held in place with Super Stock springs. Addco supplied the front and rear sway bars, shocks are KYBs all around, the factory power discs are up front, and American Racing CP 2000 wheels in as-cast finish are employed for a tough, classic look.
So why do we think hes nuts? Its not that we think he did anything wrong to the car. Heck, we cant think of a single thing wed change if it were ours, and wed probably run into a burning building ourselves for a chance at the title and keys. Its what hes done with the sinister looking R/T thats got us questioning his state of mind. Joe sold the car a few months back. The only thing thats keeping us and his friends from having him committed is that he replaced the Charger with a sleeper-styled 63 Post car. Weve heard its a great car, but were hanging on to the white coat with the funny sleeves until we see it ourselves, just to be sure.


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Pink is taking another shot at selling a home she owns in Sherman Oaks, this time priced at $3.499 million.
The three-time Grammy winner, who sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" at the Oscars this year, listed the gated property at $4 million three years ago or for lease at $8,500 a month. She ended up with a tenant instead of a buyer. The two-story home has been leased out for as much as $10,000 a month.
The Spanish-style house, built in 1946, features hand-hewn double entry doors and a two-story foyer. The 4,435-square-foot home has four bedrooms and five bathrooms.
The nearly three-quarters of an acre property includes an infinity pool, lawn and barbecue center.
Sound pretty sedate? Tucked behind a waterfall is a grotto-style spa cave.
Pink's latest album is "The Truth About Love." She recently concluded the tour of the same name. Among her hits are "Get the Party Started," "Trouble" and "Missundaztood." The singer-songwriter powerhouse has sold more than 45 million albums.
The 34-year-old rock star bought the property for $2 million in 2002 when she was still single. She married since-retired motocross and motorcycle racer Carey Hart in 2006.
Louis Woolf of Rodeo Realty is the listing agent.
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Mariah Carey and her husband, Nick Cannon, popped their Bel-Air home back on the market at $12.995 million after a hiatus of more than a month.
This time around they are working with a listing agent who has been around the block, specifically their block, several times.
Farrah Fawcett hired Paul Czako of Gussman Czako Estates to sell the then-five-bedroom home in 1999 for close to $2.7 million, according to Times archives. The former "Charlie's Angels" star had owned the 3-acre property for more than 20 years.
Her buyer, recording studio executive Allen Sides, had Czako sell the rebuilt and expanded house when Carey and Cannon bought it five years ago for $6.975 million.
The gated estate has a Hamptons-vibe traditional mansion with high ceilings, wood floors and French doors. The 13,000 square feet of renovated interior space include a music studio, a basketball court, a gym, a home theater, seven fireplaces, seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. An enormous hall for entertaining has room for several hundred guests.
The grounds include a putting green, a swimming pool, a spa, parking for more than 20 vehicles and room for a tennis court. There are canyon, city, mountain and ocean views.
Singer-superstar Carey has received five Grammy Awards. Among her achievements are her award-winning album "The Emancipation of Mimi" and recognition as best new artist in 1990.
Cannon has written for several television shows bearing his name as well as "Incredible Crew" (2012-13). He has hosted his own shows and "America's Got Talent" (2009-13).
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Beau Bridges and his wife, Wendy, have sold their longtime home in gated Hidden Hills for $2.4 million — twice what they originally paid.
The sale was a while in the making, however. They first listed the country English-style house in 2010 at $3.25 million and later turned to leasing.
Designed by architect Marshall Lewis and built in 1976, the ivy-covered house has a sunken den with a fireplace, a bar, a family room, a billiard area, an office, an ample wine cellar, a sauna, six bedrooms and six bathrooms in about 6,800 square feet of living space. A spiral staircase leads to loft space.
The ambience under the wood shake roof is cozy and relaxed. An atrium breakfast room takes in the views of mature trees. Skylights and wood beams complete the picture.
French doors open off the dining room to a patio. The yard, more than an acre, includes a swimming pool with a spa, a north-south tennis court, fruit trees and a greenhouse.
The Emmy-winning Bridges, 72, will be in the films "Underdogs," "Tumbledown" and "San Patricios," all due for release this year. He has starred on the series "The Millers" since last year. He was on "Masters of Sex" (2013), two "Stargate" series and "Harts of the West" (1993-94).
Dana Olmes and Jeffery Biebuyck of Ewing Sotheby's International Real Estate handled the transaction.
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Danny Pudi, who stars on the show "Community," has bought the Pasadena home of Olympic swimming gold medalist Betsy Mitchell for $1.32 million.
The 1925 house, near Caltech and the Huntington Library, retains original architectural details such as interior arches but has an updated kitchen and bathrooms.
The living room, off the formal entry, has a barrel ceiling, red tile flooring and a fireplace. French doors in the formal dining and family rooms open to outdoor patio space.
There are six bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and about 3,700 square feet of living space.
A courtyard doubles as an outdoor living room with dining and sitting areas, a spa and a shower.
Pudi, 35, has starred on "Community" since the comedy began in 2009.
Mitchell, 48, was also a world champion and world record holder, swimming the backstroke and freestyle.
The property previously sold in 2011 for $1.2 million, public records show.
Maggie Navarro of Teles Properties was the listing agent. Kathy Gibson of Podley Properties represented Pudi.
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Allison Adler, co-creator of "The New Normal" with Ryan Murphy, listed a house in the Beverly Crest area at $1.99 million and in three weeks it was in escrow.
The classic Midcentury Modern-style home, built in 1962, features an open floor plan, vaulted ceilings and walls of glass. The 2,459 square feet of living space include a media/family room, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
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Adler, 46, has scores of producing credits from shows including "Glee," "No Ordinary Family" and "Chuck."
She bought the property three years ago for $1.475 million, public records show.
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Amateur photographer going "professional." Pro in a sense that I am trying to earn extra income to put myself through college. I am a female college student with an idea to go around snapping photos of "events" (parties, football games, socials, horse shows, company picnics, family reunions, etc.) and then posting them to my website (http://www.phlashphotos.com) for sale. I will also do some contract work... My personality is fun and laid back.
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