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Authorities at the border have discovered a massive tunnel dug by Mexican drug cartels that extends from a Tijuana warehouse to a San Diego industrial building complex.
The tunnel is reported to be more than six football fields in length and includes lighting, ventilation and a railway system.
It is believed the railway was used for smuggling drugs and people right under U.S. officials' noses. Not that such subterfuge is really necessary since the Border Patrol has been ordered by the Obama Administration to effectively stand down and stop enforcing the border.
It's not the first such tunnel discovered. It is one of more than 75 such tunnels found since 2008. And there were others before then.
In Washington, D.C., the City Council and mayor are pushing through a measure that would legalize marijuana possession. Democratic Mayor Vincent Gray announced last month that he supports the bill and he hopes to sign it into law by January.
Drug advocates want the city to go even further by taxing and regulating the drug like Colorado and Washington state have done.
The decriminalization of pot in D.C. began the same way it began elsewhere, with passage of "medical" marijuana laws. In California, such laws have become a bane of police, as major cities such as Los Angeles have seen hundreds of "clinics" pop up overnight to tend to "patients" who have prescriptions but dubious need.
It's clear to anyone with open eyes where these trends are heading: the total decriminalization of pot and eventually the legalizing of other addictive drugs. (Pot users often insist marijuana is not addictive, yet I've noticed that people who say that tend to be long-term, habitual pot smokers.)
The recently found tunnel and others like it are not just symptoms of America's drug addiction, but signs indicating how it happened.
Constructing a tunnel on that scale is a massive undertaking and requires obvious activities, such as dirt hauling, welding, concrete mixing and cable laying that cannot be hidden just by a warehouse roof.
Ask yourself how it is that nobody noticed the construction of 75 tunnels that would put many public works projects to shame. Ask yourself how nobody noticed truckloads of people and mysterious freight pouring out of a building in San Diego.
Then think about the politicians and activists in D.C., Colorado and Washington who have been agitating for years to legally make a profit from illegal activity. Think about the decades of lax border controls and the almost complete absence of border security currently.
The entire situation screams official collusion, at the highest levels. This sort of massive industry is not the undertaking of a few low-level security guards and police officers on the take. Our government, which is supposed to protect us, clearly has been cooperating with the drug runners at various levels.
If you need confirmation, look no further than the Fast and Furious operation, in which our government funneled weapons to drug runners, ostensibly to shut down illegal cross-border gun sales. There is at least one cartel bookkeeper in U.S. custody who has testified that Fast and Furious was actually a deal to provide one cartel with weapons in exchange for information on other drug operations. In other words, it was drug monopoly granted by the U.S. government.
How else do you explain the lack of interest in prosecuting or even investigating the operation which has resulted now in hundreds of deaths by weapons we provided to criminals. The congressional investigation has been stymied by Obama himself, via executive order.
Do we need to bring up Obama's "choom gang" from his high school days?
The drugging of America has been a long-term project of America's enemies. This is one of those facts that Americans have been trained to dismiss with the knee-jerk cry of "conspiracy theory."
But it is no theory. Socialists within and outside U.S. government have worked to swing American culture toward acceptance of mind-altering drugs. The CIA involvement in the growth of the drug culture on college campuses in the sixties is well documented, as is their interest in using drugs as forms of mind and behavior control through programs such as MK-Ultra, which eventually became the subject of congressional inquiry before the entire operation went underground.
Less well known are the roots of the South American and Mexican drug cartels, which did not grow spontaneously out of the rain forests but in many cases were founded with Nazi money that had been spirited out of Germany before the end of WWII through a massive international network of Nazi shell companies and banking connections. The masters of the Third Reich didn't just disappear at the end of WWII. Many of them fled to South America, many went into business and banking, many came to the United States via official programs like Project Paperclip and wound up in our government as members of the intelligence and scientific communities.
Similarly, the Soviet Union took in many of Hitler's top strategists, scientists and advisers for their own purposes, which after the war turned toward opposing the U.S. (at least publicly).
MK-Ultra, which was the CIA's umbrella operation for its mind control programs, has connections to former Nazi death camp scientists brought over by Project Paperclip. LSD was just one result.
It's obvious on its face that the War on Drugs never stood a chance, if it was even intended to be fought, because of shadowy interests that want the U.S. brought low — interests that have their roots in Soviet and German socialism.
With our current president's socialist connections and personal history of drug abuse, there's no sense in expecting anything to change in the project to make Americans slaves to mind-altering substances.
Americans have been betrayed by those who should have been protecting them. We've been sold into captivity, and we've gone along willingly.
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Nabiximols (Sativex), a ms drug produced from a mix of TCH and CBD, qualifies within the Uk and Canada to deal with MS discomfort. However, researchers think the CBD within the drug might be adding more using its anti-inflammatory qualities compared to acting from the discomfort. Numerous studies of CBD are required to determine whether it ought to be employed for discomfort management.
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What is everyone using for 3/4 Maple ply?
We have been using a Columbia product. I think it is called purebond and have noticed in the last year the quality has been going down. I have to pick through everything before it is cut because of the waviness and voids that often don't show up until after paint. We use it for face frame cabinets that get painted on the outside and Lacquered on the inside.
We purchase most of our Maple plywood from Birchwood Best. They do a very good job and are price competitive.
I think veneer core plywood - for building cabinetry- is more common in the USA than Canada (or so it seems), but I think particle core material is far better IMO for paint grade work.
I use both depending upon my customer's preference, and prefer PC due to the fact the thickness is very consistant, the face veneers are very smooth and flat, and the board has less tendency to move/twist/curl.
The only disadvantage to PC material IMO is weight. It machines better (we do rabbets and grooves for assembly) and holds screws better on edge.
It also takes abuse better, as the face of the particle board is case hardened from pressing and backs up the face veneer better than a ply core, which up here is usually poplar or fir, and somewhat soft.
Columbia pure bond has been shit every now and again for the past 6 or so years. I've ripped 3/4 sheets and have ended up with two 3/8 sheets a few times...not to mention voids, waviness, bows, discoloration in prefin sheets (usually at the ends)
We have had many rippling problems with plywood. Probably a couple of years now. I have also had the sheets split in two when you rip them. The bad thing is you walk into a house, and the first thing a customer say is " I don't want any of that particle board crap". So you deal with it, fight with it, and keep going until it looks good on the exterior. BTW, after a job has been in for awhile, anyone ever have a plywood shelf twist so bad it looks like you drilled the shelf holes wrong. All or paint jobs, we use MDF core with a maple veneer, It cost more, but it gives you the painted wood look in the finish. Yes it weights more, but when you do a 10' high fridge panel in one piece, it really sets your jobs apart from the box stores who do an 84" with a piece of scribe over the seam. I know I rambled a bit, but not a big fan of the plywood now. Thanks MIKE
I have had many of my customers tell me they dont want particle board.
I bring them into the shop, and physically show them the various materials - and how, in my opinion building cabinets for 25 years, that I would use PC material for my own, versus ply core. Once I show them, explain the reasons, etc - and also explain that the same grade of face veneers is less money with PC versus ply, they usually dont mind any more.
If they insist on veneer, thats fine too. But then you have to be prepared for a bit of waviness.
I also use MDF core veneers, but mainly for 1/4" stock for my doors that are not solid panel. I get veneers custom pressed to a true 1/4", my choice of face veneers on MDF.
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Since my time with Twinfinite, I have played more than my share of tower defense games. From simple flash games to the superb Anomaly Warzone Earth, there appears to be no shortage of what at first seemed to be a dying genre. Thanks to mobile devices, the genre reclaimed its second wind, and with a vengeance. Is Fantasy Conflict —Gaijin Games's newest offering to the tower defense library– a no-brainer, or is it a game that you'll struggle with keeping on your iPhone?
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A renowned specialist and professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg, Jan Assmann moves beyond his immediate area of expertise to offer an illuminating and finely researched essay on Friedrich Schiller's well-known ballad of 1795. Rather than give a line-by-line explication de texte, Assmann takes this poem of fatal curiosity and reads it as a site where various, complicated lines of cultural and intellectual memory converge. Such an exposition proves to be quite ambitious, and Assmann does an excellent job of covering a very broad field in a remarkably short space. In addition to offering a wonderful (and altogether entertaining) reading of the poem, I believe this essay also has some significant theoretical ramifications for literary history in general. I shall first give a quick summary of the essay's contents and then comment on a few of the more important methodological points.
In brief, the essay aims to demonstrate how Schiller's poem articulates at least three fundamental precepts of eighteenth-century esotericism: 1. Behind the veil of official Egyptian polytheism there exists a single, monotheistic divinity; 2. this true Egyptian godhead is identical to Jehovah, the God of Mosaic monotheism; and 3. this common divinity is to be understood as all-encompassing and sublime, corresponding to Spinoza's controversial deus sive natura. A reading of Schiller's earlier essay, Die Sendung Moses (1790) is introduced to corroborate this interpretation. As Assmann shows, Schiller's primary model for this essay is a book by an acquaintance at the University of Jena, the freemason-philosopher, Karl Leonhard Reinhold. Reinhold's book Hebräischen Mysterien oder die älteste religiöse Freymaurerey (1788), is a veritable compendium of intertextual sources and provided Schiller with a firm basis for his own formulation of the Egyptian mysteries. The poet simply colored the material more explicitly in the language of the Sublime.
The central concern throughout, then, is the poem's particular conception of Egyptian religion and its sources in the European hermetic tradition. As such, this work belongs to Assmann's lengthier project on the "mnemohistorical" construction of Egypt in the Western tradition, which he published in English a few years back under the title, Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (Harvard University Press, 1997). The term mnemohistory, Assmann's own coinage, deserves further explanation. Distinct from history proper (but not opposed to it), mnemohistory restricts itself to the study of cultural memory. It forgoes a positivistic investigation of the past in favor of an analysis of how the past is remembered. Whereas historical scholarship presumably works to disentangle some objective truth from mythologized, egocentric accounts, mnemohistory adheres to the truth of memory. The professional Egyptologist, therefore, in his discussion of the ancient mysteries, is licensed to ignore the evidence of the primary sources, which only began to speak after Champollion's celebrated decipherment in 1822. Nonetheless, despite his explicit methodology, Assmann is still tempted to introduce material that was inaccessible to Schiller. However, this move is wholly justified by the dictates of source analysis. For example, when reference is made to the cult of Neith within Saite theology, it is mentioned only as possible background for Proclus' version of the veiled image.
By all accounts, the argumentation is incredibly rapid. Of course, this essay, part of a series of lectiones Teubnerianae, was designed as a public lecture. A steady, step-by-step presentation is abandoned for the more exhilarating pace of an argument that "only connects." For example, the initial discussion of the poem centers on the final couplet which expresses the relation of knowledge and guilt -- "Weh dem, der zu der Wahrheit geht durch Schuld / Sie wird ihm nimmermehr erfreulich sein." Then, after an interesting detection of the differing motives beneath this relation (biblical, Platonic, Egyptian-mystical), the subject is dropped suddenly and replaced by an examination of Schiller's sources for his Egyptianizing. When the knowledge-guilt problem does resurface, it is raised in connection first with Apuleian and Augustinian curiositas, and then with the figure of the περίεργος found throughout the Corpus Hermeticum. Little work is expended to situate the texts historically. Instead, the reader is invited to participate in a kind of literary flanerie that simply collects the fragments of many histories.
This is the major consequence of a mnemohistorical approach. I hardly view it as a failure but rather see it as a potentially useful contribution to more conventional methods of scholarly research. Insofar as it is interested in how the past is structured by the present, mnemohistory brings historical research closer to the conceptual perspective and sophistication of literary reception theory. Such an interdisciplinary alliance is crucial for our understanding of the processes of tradition, both on a broadly cultural level as well as on a narrower, specifically literary level. For this reason, I see Assmann's mnemohistory as continuing the iconological work represented by Edgar Wind, Erwin Panofsky and their predecessor, Aby Warburg. It is not unimportant, for example, that Warburg's grand library project bore the motto, "Mnemosyne." What is of issue in this kind of research is not necessarily the identification of themes and motifs, but rather the study of what Panofsky would call "cultural symptoms," where "documents bear witness to the political, poetical, religious, philosophical, and social tendencies of the personality, period or country under investigation."1 In this way, therefore, mnemohistory not only successfully augments historical research by applying theories from the fields of literary studies and art history, but also serves as a beneficial corrective for standard, German Quellenforschung.
Such a methodological approach proves most suitable for examining the highly charged, intellectual ferment of Schiller's eighteenth century. With apparent ease, Assmann traces the lines of the broad, intertextual conversation compiled by Karl Reinhold, stretching from Plutarch and Pausanias, through Maimonides, to the Cambridge Hebraists, Ralph Cudworth and John Spencer. As Assmann shows, Reinhold inherited much from William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, who, in his epic study on The Divine Legation of Moses (1738-1741), greatly expanded upon Spencer's project of disclosing the Egyptian sources of Hebraic law. Schiller's poem is thereby explicated as an accumulation of cultural memory that antedates the poet by some two thousand years. If the analysis of each source appears too selective and decontextualized, it is because mnemohistory is primarily a process of selectivity and decontextualization. Of course, works like Reinhold's Hebräischen Mysterien and Schiller's Die Sendung Moses respond especially well to this type of analysis. But I am convinced that Assmann's approach would prove most fruitful when applied to other texts, less mnemohistorically driven.
1. See the introductory essay in E. Panofsky, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (2nd ed: New York: Harper and Row, 1962) 3-31; the citation is from p. 16.


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Gates wrote a blog post Friday to argue that the U.S. shouldn't slash humanitarian aid. Spending on projects overseas helps "keep Americans safe," Gates wrote.
"By promoting health, security, and economic opportunity, they stabilize vulnerable parts of the world."
American aid, Gates wrote, helps prevent and eradicate epidemics, citing polio and Ebola as examples.
To illustrate the security benefits of international aid, he praised former President Bush's efforts to combat HIV/AIDS abroad with a program known as PEPFAR. Eleven million people with HIV are alive because of the program, Gates said, and "many more never got the virus in the first place because of the prevention efforts supported by PEPFAR." What this meant, he continued is that there were more teachers, entrepreneurs, and other workers "contributing to strong, stable societies," and Gates pointed to a study that showed that political instability and violence in African countries with PEPFAR dropped signficantly, compared to when PEPFAR was not in use.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed on to play the Exterminator in the upcoming remake of "The Toxic Avenger". The Exterminator trains Toxie, formerly known as Melvin who gets tossed into toxic waste, turning him into the Toxic Avenger. John Travolta was at one point rumored to be involved and Steve Pink ("Hot Tub Time Machine") was attached to direct. After "The Last Stand", maybe Arnold should just pass on this project.
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2 tablespoons butter
1 cup chopped onions
1-1/2 cups chicken or vegetable stock
2 cups cubed peeled potatoes (2 potatoes)
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In large saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat; cook onions, stirring occasionally, until softened, 10 minutes. Add stock, 1 cup (250 mL) water and potatoes; bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Add peas; simmer, covered, until peas are tender, 5 minutes.
In batches, transfer to blender or food processor; purée until smooth. Transfer to bowl. Blend in cream; stir in salt and pepper. Refrigerate until chilled, about 4 hours.
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Level 2 classes take all of the fundamentals of a Level 1 Pilates class and bump it up a notch. Level 2 is designed for clients who have Pilates experience and want a challenging workout. These classes are faster paced and combine traditional Pilates exercises, like the hundreds or footwork, with bootcamp favorites, like planks or standing lunges. Most clients are ready for a Level 2 after 10 classes.
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VIDEO: The "Alternative" To Roe Will Put Lives On The Line
Trump And Right-Wing Media Are Demanding Greater State Control Over Abortion -- Even If It Causes Harm
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Forty-four years ago, Roe v. Wade determined that the constitutionally protected right to privacy ensures an individual's ability to make personal, medical decisions without interference from politicians -- including the decision to have an abortion.
But now, President-elect Donald Trump and anti-choice politicians who have made careers from promoting scientifically dubious and medically harmful anti-abortion laws want to eliminate Roe's protections.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump promised to appoint "pro-life justices" who would "automatically" overturn Roe. After the election, Trump told CBS' Lesley Stahl that he would prefer control over abortion "go back to the states" even it it meant that women would "perhaps have to go … to another state" to obtain necessary reproductive health care.
This may sound like hyperbolic campaign rhetoric, but the threat is very real -- and it's impossible to overstate how dangerous losing federally protected abortion rights would be.
Right-wing media have consistently argued that greater state control over abortion clinics and providers is necessary to "protect women's health." The Supreme Court rejected this allegation in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, which rebuked states for attempting to baselessly regulate abortion clinics under the guise of improving public health and safety.
Legal abortion is one of the safest and most common medical procedures. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, "Where abortion is legal, it is extremely safe. … In contrast, historical and contemporary data show that where abortion is illegal or highly restricted, women resort to unsafe means to end an unwanted pregnancy."
In contrast, life before Roe v. Wade -- without federally protected abortion rights -- was dangerous and difficult. Women traveled to neighboring states or even other countries to receive an abortion, often alone, in secrecy, with just enough money pooled together from friends or roommates. Some even saw their friends die from what can and should be a safe and simple procedure.
Trump and anti-choice lawmakers seem to think a return to this grim reality would constitute "protecting women."
Even without attacks on Roe, accessing reproductive health care is already difficult -- especially for marginalized communities. Between rules like the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortion, and the targeted restriction of clinics meant to increase logistical barriers to abortion access, essential reproductive care is already tenuously out of reach for many.
Conservatives are already putting people's lives at risk with medically unnecessary laws that restrict abortion access. If they succeed in eliminating the federal and constitutional protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, people will get hurt.
Anyone trying to spin that as "protecting women's health" is lying to you.
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If this section does not answer your particular question, please email your equipment Testing questions here.
How do I submit my design to see if it conforms? top
Click on the following link for information regarding submission: Getting Equipment Tested
Do chippers conform? top
Yes, chippers are iron clubs not putters, and therefore must conform with the requirements for woods and irons. For example, chippers may not have a putter grip, two striking faces or appendages for aiming purposes. See Rules 1 through 5 in Appendix II.
Can I orient the shaft in the club any way I want to? top
A player can place a shaft in any orientation to the clubhead provided the desired orientation is not for the purpose of influencing the club's performance (e.g., to attempt to correct for a hook or slice). Additionally, manufacturers of clubs may orientate or align shafts which have spines for uniformity in assembling sets or in an effort to make the shafts perform as if they were perfectly symmetrical (i.e., aligning in a neutral position). However, a shaft which has been manufactured and/or orientated for the purpose of influencing the performance of a club would be contrary to the intent of Rule 2b, Appendix II.
Do the Ping Eye2 irons conform? top
Yes, they have been grandfathered under USGA Rules. When playing in Europe or Asia and other regions not under the jurisdiction of the USGA, please contact The R&A.However, please check the conditions of competition for your event to ensure compliance (e.g., Ping Eye2 irons with square grooves that were manufactured prior to April 1990 are not permitted for play at all phases of the U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open and U.S. Women's Open Championships).
Do laser range finders conform? top
Yes, provided that the local Committee (i.e., committee in charge of a particular competition, golf course, Rules of Golf Committee, etc.) has established a Local Rule allowing players to use devices that measure distance only. Use of devices that gauge or measure other conditions that might affect a player's play (e.g., wind, gradient, temperature, etc.) is not permitted, regardless of whether any such additional functions are actually used.
Can I attach a piece of tape to my clubface? top
No, external attachments to the clubface are not permitted under Rule 1a in Appendix II.
Do the suction cups on the end of the putter grip to retrieve the ball from the hole conform? top
Yes, it is permitted as an exception to Rule 1a in Appendix II.
Can I have two grips on my putter? top
Yes, provided they are both circular in cross-section and properly spaced apart (at least 1.5"). See Rule 3(v), Appendix II. These grips do not need to have the same diameter, but the diameter must be no more than 1.75" measured in any direction. See Rule 3(iii), Appendix II. A grip with a reminder rib is not considered to be circular in cross-section.
Can I place a coat hanger under my grip? top
No, this is not considered to be a slightly raised rib (Rule 3(i), Appendix II).
Can I have two shafts, or handles on my putter? top
No, Rule 1a in Appendix II states that the club shall be composed of a shaft and a head.
Can the neck be attached to the toe and heel of the head? top
No, Rule 2c in Appendix II states that the shaft shall be attached to the clubhead at the heel through a single plain neck and/or socket. A putter shaft or neck or socket may be fixed at any point in the head.
How is the 5" maximum length limit for the neck determined? top
This measurement is made along the axis of the shaft, or the neck or socket, to the bottom of the sole of the club (Rule 2c in Appendix II). See also the illustrations under Figure IV and Figure V in Appendix II of the Rules of Golf.
Do training aids conform? top
We don't rule on training aids unless they are capable of being used during a stipulated round, in which case they would not conform with Rule 14-3, which prohibits unusual equipment or artificial devices that might assist the golfer in his play.
Can I use a bowler's glove or wrist brace to play during a stipulation round due to my arthritic condition? top
Braces of this type are generally not permitted under Rule 14-3. However, personal handicap items designed to be used for a specific handicap or ailment, are considered and ruled on individually and requests of this nature should be submitted in writing to the Technical Department.
Do X-out balls conform? top
All golf balls that are sent to the USGA for conformance evaluation, that are tested and found to conform to the Rules, are published on a monthly basis on the USGA's Conforming Golf Ball List, which can be found at Conforming Golf Ball List. X-out balls are normally not submitted for conformance and are not considered representative of balls with similar markings that may be on the List. As a player, you should check to see if the Conforming Ball List is in effect as a Condition of Competition at your club or event. If it is not, a golf ball may be used under USGA Rules of Golf provided it is not obviously non-conforming or advertised as such (see Decision US/5-1/101 - Status of Ball Not on List of Conforming Golf Balls, in the Decisions on the Rules of Golf).
Do square grooves conform? top
Grooves may be shaped in a variety of ways, including square, "V" shaped or "U" shaped, provided their sides do not converge, they have a symmetrical cross-section and they meet all other specifications under Rule 5c in Appendix II. Also, see figures XI, XII and XIII in Appendix II of the Rules of Golf book.
Can my long putter have an adjustable shaft for travel purposes? top
Yes, provided the adjustment mechanism is not readily adjustable (see Rule 1b Appendix II). A locking mechanism is required to ensure the shaft is not readily adjustable. An Allen screw placed through the joint of a pool-cue type shaft would suffice. It is recommended that adjustable features for clubs be submitted to the Technical Department for evaluation.
How rough can the clubface be? top
A decorative sandblasting is permissible however, it may not exceed 180 micro inches in roughness. Very fine milling is also permitted but should be submitted for our inspection.
Can I apply a substance to the clubface to either reduce spin or increase spin? top
No, Rule 4-2b states that foreign material must not be applied to the club face for the purpose of influencing the movement of the ball. Any coating designed to influence the movement of the ball by either increasing or decreasing spin, or to have any other effect on performance is not permitted.
What's the longest ball? top
You won't find the answer from the USGA; that information is confidential.
When can you use a Distance-Measuring Device and what devices are permitted? top
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Alex joined CRP as a reporting intern in January 2016. Before that, she worked through the Brown Institute at Columbia University on a multimedia investigation of contemporary Iranian art, publishing several pieces resulting from the project in The Guardian. She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia.
Congressional candidate hasn't returned all money from "pharma bro" Shkreli
Financially speaking, Will Jawando, a former campaign staffer for President Obama, isn't doing well in the crowded contest for Maryland's 8th Congressional District seat. With just $357,000 raised as of Dec. 31, he trails the race's top fundraiser, Kathleen Matthews, by more than a million dollars.
About 8 percent of that money — $28,300 — was given by either Martin Shkreli or employees of his former company, Turing Pharmaceuticals. After Shkreli became the infamous "pharma bro" — a superlative he earned when Turing hiked the price of a lifesaving drug from $13.50 to $750 per pill last year — Jawando did not give all of Shkreli's money to charity, as he said he would. Rather, he kept half of it, or $2,700 the campaign had earmarked for the general election.
Jawando's campaign told OpenSecrets Blog in an email that it would donate the rest of the money after Jawando wins the primary.
Last week, Shkreli grinned his way through a hearing at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, claiming his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Afterward, he tweeted, "Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government."
On Dec. 17, he was arrested on fraud charges over a hedge fund he managed from 2009 to 2014 and was later released on $5 million bond. That same day, the Baltimore Sun reported that Jawando would refund the $5,400 Shkreli contributed to his campaign in August and September.
"I met Mr. Skhreli (sic) one time and he decided to support my campaign after hearing me speak," Jawando said in a statement to the newspaper. But, he said, "There's no mistaking my strong support for preventing drug companies from price gouging and Hillary Clinton's proposal to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for seniors." Jawando told the Sun he would donate all $5,400 to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington. Shkreli resigned as CEO of Turing the following day.
In an email to the Washington Blade in early January, the campaign said it had already donated the money. Federal Election Committee records tell a different story. The day after the Baltimore Sun article ran, on the day Shkreli resigned as Turing's CEO, Jawando's campaign donated half of what Shkreli had contributed.
"Our compliance attorneys told us that that other half is earmarked for the general election," a representative of the campaign told OpenSecrets Blog; he said the rest of the money would be donated to the Boys and Girls Club if Jawando wins the primary. If he loses, the campaign will have to refund that money to Shkreli.
But what about the $22,900 from six other Turing employees? The campaign is keeping that. "They didn't do anything illegal," said Aubrey Sylvester, Jawando's campaign manager. "They weren't indicted for anything." Asked whether the fact that such a significant portion of the campaign's total contributions has come from employees of a single company — one that's currently being investigated for pharmaceutical price gouging — would affect Jawando's policies, Sylvester said no.
Jawando is the only candidate that five of the six other Turing contributors have supported with contributions.
Turing Pharmaceuticals has not responded for a request for comment on this article.
Martin Shkreli has given to two other candidates this cycle: Rep. Gregory Meeks ($2,600) and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ($2,700). Sanders donated the contribution to Whitman-Walker Health, a Washington, D.C. health clinic specializing in HIV/AIDS care; Washington Business Journal confirmed the donation two days later.
Researcher Anya Gelernt-Dunkle contributed to this story.


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It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon. You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone. The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work. This is all hailed as a great success, and it is a great success -- for a very small sector of the population. - Noam Chomsky, "Globalization and Resistance"
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"You missed our visitor", Liz told me as I staggered in from my 13 mile run. Then she showed me this photo.
We keep the conservatory door open and have had quite a few birds flying in, mainly chaffinches, to grab a beak-full of the seeds we put out for them.
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O Glorious Saint Anne! =)
From St John Damascene, a Doctor of the Church, he declares in his writing that "Saint Anne, is a generous mother, a compassionate mother, a gracious mother, because the word 'Anne' means 'generous, merciful, gracious'."
This Saint Anne, is the mother of the most Blessed Virgin Mary! How full of sanctity she was to be honoured by God, this singular grace, to be the mother of the mother of God, the Grandmother of the Saviour! This favoured Saint definitely ranks high in merit and glory, near to the Word Incarnate and to His most holy Mother. Certainly, then, St. Anne has great power with God. Yes, assuredly the mother of the most powerful and amiable Virgin is likewise full of power and mercy.
Tradition, the history of the Church and the chronicles of various places of pilgrimage have recorded countless miracles wrought by Christ through the intercession of His sainted grandmother. Nor have they ceased to this day. Yearly, thousands of thousands of persons visit the shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre in Canada alone. (here's a picture of how the interior of the basilica of Saint Anne of Beaupre looks)
A little more about the Church of Saint Anne de Beaupre in Quebec, Canada.
The Church of St. Anne de Beaupre in Quebec, Canada has long been privileged to possess a rare relic of the Saint. It is a fragment of the wrist bone of St. Anne, about two or three inches in length, with the skin and flesh still adhering to the bone and showing the joint near the thumb. When the precious relic arrived in New York from Rome on May 1, 1892, a holy enthusiasm seized the busy metropolis. Crowds of the faithful began to flock to the church of St. Jean Baptisete, where the relic was temporarily deposited for the veneration of the faithful. It was a spectacle never before witnessed in the New World.
After obtaining this relic, the Redemptorist Fathers, guardians of the Shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre, sought to obtain the possession of the forearm from which the wristbone had been detached in 1892. This relic had been venerated for centuries in the Major Basilica of St. Paul-Outside-the-Walls in Rome. In May, 1960, this cherished desire of the Redemptorist Fathers was realised when the Benedictines in charge of the Basilica of St. Paul donated the entire forearm of St. Anne to the Basilica of St. Anne de Beaupre. This relic measures seven inches in length by two inches at the base.
On the occasion of its translation, splendid spiritual celebrations again took place in the church of St. Jean Baptiste in New York and at the Shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre. On July 3, 1960, the first Sunday of the month of St. Anne, the new relic was solemnly enthroned in the Basilica of St. Anne, where it has since been venerated by the crowds of pilgrims who come to the shrine.
(more on St. Anne de Beaupre later ...)
All information on Saint Anne is taken from a little booklet on her, entitled Good Saint Anne, published by TAN publishers.
Here's an extract of a sermon by Archbishop M. Lefebvre
you can learn a little more about what he has to say about Saint Anne here.
As taken from http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/Archbishop-Lefebvre/Apologia/Vol_three/Chapter_35.htm
Appologia pro Marcel Lefebvre
Volume 3, Chapter XXXV
Extract from a Sermon pronounced by His Excellency Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on the Pardon1 at Lanvallay (Brittany), France27 July 1980
My dear friends,
It was with great joy and great satisfaction that a few minutes ago we blessed this chapel dedicated to Saint Anne. We thank God that we are able to provide these places for Catholic worship, and to place this chapel under the protection of St. Anne, heavenly patroness of Brittany. We thank all who have had a part in the establishment of this chapel, in making such places as this truly worthy of the Holy Sacrifice and of the Holy Mysteries which are to be celebrated here, making them worthy of St. Anne.
Since we are honoring St. Anne, Patroness of Brittany, let me say a few words which the occasion calls to mind. It seems to me that St. Anne, by her example, gives us three great lessons: she asks those who are joined in the bonds of matrimony to live as Christians and to have Christian families. St. Anne has set us an example, as we are told in the Gospel. She lived with St. Joachim sine querela (without quarreling) for many years in peaceful marriage. St. Anne and St. Joachim lived in the faith. Where Christian marriage is concerned, they are models for Christian spouses. This is the first important lesson that St. Anne gives us by her example.
And by her example she also shows how Providence blesses Christian homes. Although she was barren, look how God gave her a child in her old age: Mary, who would be the mother of Jesus. This is why St. Anne is often represented, as you see her in this statue here, pointing out in a Bible the passages referring to Mary. She was no doubt inspired by the Holy Ghost to do this: a virgin will have a son. So Mary herself received a profoundly Christian education.
The second lesson that St. Anne gives us is Christian education of children – Christian homes, Christian education.
And finally, a third point: St. Anne gives true priests. For let us not forget that Mary was born and chosen by God to give birth to the Eternal High Priest. St. Anne also had the great privilege, at an advanced age, of having a child who would become the mother of the great High Priest. She was therefore the grandmother of Jesus – Jesus the Eternal High Priest. So St. Anne's message for us is that, in Christian homes, there are vocations – holy vocations, vocations to the priesthood, to the religious life. This, I think, is the great thing St. Anne teaches us and spreads her blessings over Brittany.
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So we beg you to join your prayers to ours; let us pray together for the graces we need from God. Without God we can do nothing, without the graces of Christ we can do nothing. He it is Who saved us on the Cross and gives all graces possible to us.
Let us ask St. Anne, His grandmother, let us ask His Mother Mary to obtain these graces for us, so that we may remain faithful children of Our Lord, of the Blessed Virgin and St. Anne.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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With all the great sights during the Crown of Maine Balloon Fest, many spectators can be found snapping photos to capture the beauty of the balloons flying through the sky, the excitement on the ground as balloons are inflated, or the incredible spectacle of the Balloon Grow.
The Crown of Maine Balloon Fest steering committee welcomes the photographic participation by spectators, volunteers and area photographers in the COMBF. An amateur photography contest is sponsored by the COMF for spectators and volunteers who are under or over the age 18. Contest rules and applications are on the Photography Contest Page where last year's winners' photos located.
Amateur and professional photographers may be granted access to the launch field. Calls must be placed to the Central Aroostook Chamber (207-764-6561) to receive permission to photograph from the field. Additional attendance of the annual safety training session is also required.


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Ahhh...smell that? Oh God, not that!....It's the smell of a new year and a fresh start. We bring you our first official hottie of the year. Ashleigh, a 25 year old Philly hottie. We're all born with hopoes and dreams. I wanted to be a baseball player when I grow up, but Ashleigh....she aspires to bee a trophy wife. Looking at her, I don't think she'll have a problem with that. in order to be a baseball player, you need to be athletic, driven, and have some sort of talent....but to be a trophy wife you'll need to be ridiculously hot, have a good figure that will stick throughout the years, and be able to spend money. I'm well aware just from the pictures that Ashleigh has 2 of the 3. As an added bonus, she's also the "illest rapper around"...MC Whyte. You can catch Ashleigh enjoying the nightlife and having late nite dance parties with her roomates. If those are anything like the movies I've seen, I'm picturing a lot of Victoria's Secret complimented by some Akon or T-Pain. She's also got an odd fascination with the live poultry market on Spring Garden. I didn't even know that existed, but if it does, I'm checking it out. I've gotta see the details behind that. Anyway grab your chicken costume, your bank statements, and your finest phat beats (?)....and listen to this hotties advice.
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Q: Although it's probably the most difficult part of the date, how should a guy approach you for a date?
A: If a guy wants to ask a girl out, making her laugh is key...no cheesy pick up lines. He's got to be one fly guy...


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Impeachment Trial of Renato C. Corona
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by: Political Jaywalker at 1/19/2012 10:35:00 AM
by: Guest Editorial at 1/14/2012 04:43:00 PM Labels: Corona Impeachment, corruption, Philippine Politics
This is not my personal fight, this is the fight of the judiciary and democracy. If this [fight] is only for me, there is a simple solution. But this is not my personal fight. We will make known what is right under our Constitution.
Ang problema sa ibang tao, hindi ko na sasabihin kung sino, akala nila magnanakaw ako tulad nila (The problem with my detractors is that they think I'm a thief like them).
Eh di ilabas nila. Kung mailalabas nila iyong properties ko ibibigay ko na lang sa kanila (So disclose it. If they could produce the properties they can have them)…I will sign a deed of donation, Corona told reporters after the 7th day of Novena at the Supreme Court.
by: Political Jaywalker at 1/12/2012 04:24:00 PM Labels: Activism, Corona Impeachment, corruption, Patronage Politics, Philippine Politics
by: Political Jaywalker at 1/04/2012 09:21:00 PM Labels: Domestic Violence, Human Rights, Justice, Missing Persons
I would like to believe the first day will not proceed immediately on the trial of the merits. There are so many preliminaries that may take place and may eat up the agenda of the impeachment court of that day. Second, we have alleged in our answer an affirmative defense.
They say we are delaying the proceedings...but that's part of our answer and the law allows that.
by: Political Jaywalker at 1/03/2012 10:25:00 AM Labels: Corona Impeachment
Verizon just announced that it's not going to charge customers a fee to pay our bills online.
Two nights ago, I started a petition on Change.org telling Verizon that it can't nickel and dime customers like me with new fees. Within hours, more than 130,000 of us signed the petition. (Thanks, by the way -- you're amazing!)
It took months of hard work to get Bank of America to drop its $5 debit card fee, but Verizon backed down in less than 24 hours. Turns out people like you and me are getting more powerful by the day.
Congrats, and happy New Year!
- Molly
by: Political Jaywalker at 1/01/2012 12:01:00 AM Labels: 99%


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If you speak English, you make use of the English present tense every day. And chances are, if you're not an English scholar or planning on teaching English, you don't know how to explain how each of the four tenses making up the present tense are formed and used (or even that there are four variations!). For the average person; there is one present tense and that's all there is to know. If you want to know more (or plan on teaching English) then knowledge of each of the four minor tenses that make up the present tense is required. The four present tenses are: present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous.
This simple guide will tell you everything you need to know about the last of the present tenses, the present perfect continuous tense.
When is the present perfect continuous tense used?
The present perfect continuous tense is used for:
- Referring to ongoing activities (which may now be over) when describing how long they have been going on for and that have been going on up until this moment e.g.
I have been attending their meetings for the past year; I have been training since June; She has been running around all day
How is the present perfect continuous tense formed?
Tenses have three variations: Affirmative, Negative and Question
Note: The auxiliary verb "have" has two present forms: has (used with he, she, it) and have (used with everything else).The present participle is the "ing" form of a verb.
-Affirmative: Subject + Auxiliary verb "have" + been + Present participle
They have been walking around town today
-Negative: Subject + Auxiliary verb "have" + not + been + Present Participle
They have not been walking around town today
- Question: Auxiliary verb "have" + Subject + been+ Present Participle
Have they been walking around town today?
Contracted forms
Contracted forms are more natural in spoken English. When combining the subject with the auxiliary verb "have", the resulting terms can be shortened as follows:
I have = I've
You have = You've
We have = We've
They have = They've
He has = He's
She has = She's
It has = It's
Note: Each contracted form is formed by adding the subject + an apostrophe + the auxiliary verb "have" minus its first two letters.
The above contractions are usually only used with the affirmative form. When used with the negative form of this tense, the sentence will still be correct but too formal for spoken English e.g.
I've not been much a lot today.
While this is correct, one would usually say: I haven't been eating much today. Note that the auxiliary verb "have" + not forms the contracted term. These terms are shortened as follows:
Have not = Haven't
Has not = Hasn't
Note: These contracted forms are formed by combining the auxiliary verb "have" + not and replacing the "o" with an apostrophe.
When learning English, it is much more important to know how to form each tense correctly rather than to know each contracted form and when to use them. Sentences will still be correct without using contracted forms – they can be learnt later as one gains experience and wishes to speak English more naturally.
Keep it simple
It may seem that there is no simple way of learning the English tense system, but by taking one minor tense at a time and practicing its formation and different uses, one will find that the tense system can be learnt fairly quickly. Knowledge of parts of speech and the rules to form each tense is important in the beginning, and once these are fully remembered, practice will see the entire system becoming much easier to understand and use naturally and correctly.


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NEW YORK -- As the United Nations (UN) Security Council meets to discuss the final stages of the Angolan peace process, Amnesty International reiterated its call on the UN to ensure that human rights are at the forefront of its agenda on Angola.
The United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM III) which is overseeing the peace agreement of 1994 is planning to withdraw its 6,500 troops by February 1997. Although it is probable that some form of UN presence will remain beyond that date, so far a suitable and effective mechanism to protect human rights after the withdrawal has not been established.
"Human rights abuses by both sides over the years have led to a profound mistrust," Amnesty International said. "Without adequate human rights protection, there could be a new wave of deliberate and arbitrary killings of civilians."
"In late 1992 the first attempt to bring peace to Angola shattered, resulting in the killing of many hundreds of people. The lack of human rights safeguards at that time contributed to these deaths, and it cannot be stressed enough that at this very delicate stage of Angola's transition to peace, everybody concerned must have human rights as their main priority."
It was largely an atmosphere of mistrust which caused the delays in completing the main tasks specified in the 1994 peace agreement. At the end of November 1996, the incorporation of UNITA troops into the Angolan Armed Forces had hardly started and the proposed Government of National Unity and Reconciliation was not in place.
Amnesty International is calling on the UN to assist in the establishment of a human rights mechanism to provide human rights protection after its troops withdraw. There are various models which could provide the basis for such a mechanism -- the UN has instituted monitoring operations in Burundi, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
Any mechanism set up in Angola could be assisted initially by international human rights monitors and other experts. Eventually these outside experts could be replaced by Angolans.
"If an impartial, independent and effective human rights mechanism were set up it would send a clear message to all in Angola that human rights violations will not be tolerated," Amnesty International said. "This would help to instil confidence and allow the mistrust to fade."
"The UN should ensure that the Angolan peace process is not considered complete until adequate protection for human rights, without which peace cannot last, is established."
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Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by lexus, Nov 4, 2006.
This means you should open Disk Utility (under applications> utilities) and repair disk permissions for your boot drive.
Close System Preferences, then look for a file called "com.apple.preferencepanes.cache"...it's in <your user directory>/Library/Caches. Drag it to your Desktop and then try opening System Preferences again. If all looks well, you can go ahead and trash the file you dragged to your Desktop.
It's a very common bug on the Intel Macs...it's been around for quite a while now, but Apple doesn't seem to have addressed it.
That worked thanks, I will repair permissions anyway now.


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Obama's real constituency
Three years of Obama have clarified the role of the Democrats in a two-party system.
BARACK OBAMA is back on the campaign trail. But this is not 2008. This time around, he will need a different set of slogans. "Hope" and "change" have effectively been emptied of any content over the last three years.
Three years ago, Obama won the presidency because millions of people believed that his election would bring about profound changes. Predictably, people who needed things to change the most voted overwhelmingly for Obama--the greater the need, the greater the votes.
Some 95 percent of African American voters pulled the lever for Obama--so did 66 percent of voters under the age of 30. According to the Pew Research Center, Obama won 60 percent of voters earning $50,000 a year or less. Among voters who said that they were worried about being able to afford health care, 65 percent supported Obama.
So how are these constituencies doing? Are things improving for young people? For people of color? For those making $50,000 a year or less? For those worried about being able to afford health care?
Brian Jones is a teacher, actor and activist in New York City. He is featured in the new film The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, and his commentary and writing has appeared on MSNBC.com, the Huffington Post, GritTV and the International Socialist Review. Jones has also lent his voice to several audiobooks, including Howard Zinn's one-man play Marx in Soho, Wallace Shawn's Essays and Noam Chomsky's Hopes and Prospects.
Columnist: Brian Jones
Brian Jones is a teacher, actor and activist in New York City. He is featured in the new film The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, and his commentary and writing has appeared on MSNBC.com, the Huffington Post, GritTV and the International Socialist Review. Jones has also lent his voice to several audiobooks, including Howard Zinn's one-man play Marx in Soho, Wallace Shawn's Essays and Noam Chomsky's Hopes and Prospects.
During the last three years, by and large, if there has been any change for these voters, it has been for the worse. Unemployment for African-Americans persists at nearly twice the rate for whites. The Obama administration has actually stepped up the rate of deportations of immigrants. And those who are worried about paying for health care have even more to worry about now that the health care legislation Obama signed into law will mandate tens of millions of people to purchase insurance from private companies--which are planning to raise their rates!
And just when you thought we had hit bottom, along comes the budget battle. Now we have a $38.5 billion cut in spending that must be imposed in just the final months of the current fiscal year that finishes at the end of September. There are drastic reductions in social programs that Obama's constituents desperately need--for example, a $3.5 billion reduction in federal funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program.
HOW CAN this be explained? Why would Obama agree to screw his core voting base? We're told that it has to do with the principled struggle between Democrats and Republicans. Republicans stand for policies that benefit the rich, and the Democrats stand for helping the working class. Therefore, for better or worse, we who are not fabulously wealthy are obliged to vote for the Democrats. If the Republicans seem to dominate, we're told to chalk it up to temporary weakness or strategic moves by "our" party.
But this explanation doesn't make sense unless you're prepared to believe that the Democrats, year after year, happen to be a collection of professional weaklings, nincompoops and nitwits.
Here's a better explanation: The Democratic Party's real constituency is the American rich. And it's not just that the Democrats are funded by the rich. At the highest echelons of the party, they are the rich. The apparent "weakness" of the Democrats in the face of Republican attacks is not "spinelessness" or lack of negotiating savvy, but a logical consequence of the reality that they serve the interests of the wealthy, while struggling to maintain the appearance of doing the opposite.
According 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, a clear majority of Americans--61 percent--don't want governments to cut social spending, but rather, to solve the deficit problems by taxing the wealthy. Obama has made some faint noises in this direction. But he has done the opposite of raising taxes on corporations and the rich in actual practice, and he just "negotiated" devastating cuts in government spending--the opposite of what a clear majority of people wanted.
Did he ever really consider a different outcome? After all, to wage a real campaign for taxing the rich would mean opening up a can of worms--for the rich. It would require a campaign of mobilizing popular forces behind the administration's proposals, and a strong public relations campaign to expose the unfairness of the current tax system.
Now, the Democrats read the same poll data that you and I do. They know that such a campaign would be immensely popular, and would help them in the elections. But there is another, overriding concern--the interests of their real constituency. An aggressive "tax the rich" campaign would mean biting the hand that feeds them--or, more accurately, biting their own hand. So don't hold your breath.
Many people suffered under the illusion that the horrors of the Bush years (illegal war, torture, attacks on immigrants) flowed somehow from Bush's personal nature--ignorant, nasty, etc. Surely, if he were replaced with someone different, then the policies of the White House would change.
In so many ways--some superficial, some less so--Obama seemed to be a profoundly different person. Bush could barely speak a complete sentence, and Obama was a college professor. Bush was a silver-spoon incompetent, and Obama was a bootstrapping person of color.
But instead of profound change, we have experienced profound continuity. The wars continue and are even expanded. The detention and deportation of immigrants continues and are likewise expanded. High-stakes testing in our schools has continued, and the stakes are raised higher.
What does this mean? It means we are not so much governed by particular individuals as we are by institutions. The Democratic Party, the White House, the Congress--these have always been institutions of a particular class...and it ain't the working class!
Understanding the class nature of these institutions helps us make sense of the profound continuity from one administration to another--even when there are very different personalities in charge.
Consider the 2008 financial meltdown. After years during which we were told that there was no money to rescue people from dire circumstances, a crisis emerged, and suddenly, trillions of dollars--literally!--were made available to rescue people.
Did these trillions subsidize food for the hungry? Did they pay mortgages and prevent foreclosures? Did they forgive medical debts or college loans? Were trillions of dollars mobilized to alleviate the suffering of anyone who makes $50,000 or less?
No, the trillions were made available to alleviate the "suffering" of banks and of bankers--people who were already fantastically wealthy. This rescue was George W. Bush's policy, and it was continued and expanded by Obama.
DIE-HARD defenders of the Democratic Party might concede all of the above. To get your vote, however, they have one last resort'--the Republican bogeyman (and this time around, given the rise of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, it might be more appropriate to say "bogeypeople"). Surely we must admit that the Republicans are a genuinely frightening bunch of bigots! Isn't that reason enough to support the Democratic Party?
Yes, the Republicans are terrifying. But once you understand who the Democrats really are, and whom they truly serve, it becomes apparent why the Democrats need the Republicans. After all, without the Republicans, there would be no one to hide behind.
There is no better evidence of this reality than the fact that whenever Democrats win, the first thing they do is act like they lost.
After the 2008 election, the Democrats held the White House and both houses of Congress. There was no need to compromise with the Republicans on anything. Yet Obama went out of his way to try to reach out to Republicans on every issue, from foreign policy to stimulus spending to the budget.
Why? We were told at the time that Obama was operating according to a high-minded ideal: bipartisanship. When it came to health care legislation, for example, we couldn't have single-payer health care because we couldn't build a new system "from scratch" and because Republicans would never agree. But without the Republicans involved in the debate, Obama's real position--loyalty to the powerful health insurance companies--would be much harder to defend to his constituents.
The Republicans now say they want to repeal Obama's health care law. However, as industry whistleblower Wendell Potter has pointed out, both sides of this "debate" are funded by the same health care industry giants.
Since the law requires Americans to purchase their product, insurance companies don't actually want the bill repealed--though they'll be happy if they can further restrict and undermine any of the new regulations that are supposed to be applied to them. "The court challenges and repeal efforts are, in reality," Potter writes, "a useful smokescreen for the big insurers, whose real agenda is to gut the law while preserving the mandate."
On this basis, Republicans--rather than disappearing into irrelevancy after suffering a landslide defeat in the 2008 election--were brought into nearly every major decision that this Democratic administration makes. They have been allowed to shape the "discussion" of every issue, tilting it ridiculously to the right.
But why does Obama need to hide behind the right? Isn't he a liberal? Why would he want politics skewed rightward?
The answer to these questions doesn't lie within the heart or mind of Obama, but with the needs of the American ruling class.
Ask the question a different way: Why might the American ruling class want politics skewed rightward?
In the context of growing international competition with the rising powers of China and India, the question almost answers itself. The American ruling class wants--or more accurately, needs--to lower the living standards of American workers. Compared to the people sweating their days and nights in China's iPhone factories, American workers are "overpaid." To compete, the ruling class need us to make do with less--much, much less. And, ideally, they'd like us to believe that this is a good thing.
Like the squabbles over the health care legislation, the budget "battle" between Democrats and Republicans only makes sense in this light. Each side puts up a big "fight" to satisfy their respective bases, but the real outcome is never in doubt. In the case of the budget, both sides have agreed to not really consider taxing the rich, and instead to frame the discussion around which social programs must be cut
The Republicans want to take an arm and a leg. The Democrats have a counterproposal. They're "outraged" that both limbs might be sacrificed.
"Cut off your arm, not your arm and your leg." That will be Obama's campaign slogan for 2012. And we're supposed to feel like he's doing us a favor. Worse, we're supposed to endorse it with a vote.


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