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Chomsky: 'I Don't Look at Twitter Because It Doesn't Tell Me Anything'
Three decades ago, Professor Noam Chomsky, who is seen by some as the most brilliant and courageous intellectual alive and by others as an anti-US conspiracy theorist, penned his powerful critique of the Western corporate media in his seminal book Manufacturing Consent, with co-author Edward S Herman. The book had a profound impact on my perception of the mainstream media in my teenage years, and was crucial in some ways to my decision to start Byline with my co-founder Daniel Tudor. By cutting out the advertiser and political bias of the proprietor, we believed that crowdfunding had the potential to democratise the media landscape and support independent journalism.
In "Manufacturing Consent," Noam Chomsky posits that Western corporate media is structurally bound to "manufacture consent" in the interests of dominant, elite groups in society. With "filters" which determine what gets to become 'news' – including media ownership, advertising, and "flak", he shows how propaganda can pervade the "free" media in an ostensibly democratic Western society through self-censorship. However, lot has changed since then. We now have the Internet. The so-called legacy media organisations which have been "manufacturing consent" according to Chomsky are in massive financial trouble. Has any of his analysis changed? I recently interviewed Noam Chomsky at his MIT office, to find out his views on the current media landscape.
Seung-yoon Lee: Twenty-seven years ago, you wrote in 'Manufacturing Consent' that the primary role of the mass media in Western democratic societies is to mobilise public support for the elite interests that lead the government and the private sector. However, a lot has happened since then. Most notably, one could argue that the Internet has radically decentralised power and eroded the power of traditional media, and has also given rise to citizen journalism. News from Ferguson, for instance, emerged on Twitter before it was picked up by media organisations. Has the internet made your 'Propaganda Model' irrelevant?
Noam Chomsky: Actually, we have an updated version of the book which appeared about 10 years ago with a preface in which we discuss this question. And I think I can speak for my co-author, you can read the introduction, but we felt that if there have been changes, then this is one of them. There are other [changes], such as the decline in the number of independent print media, which is quite striking.
As far as we can see, the basic analysis is essentially unchanged. It's true that the internet does provide opportunities that were not easily available before, so instead of having to go to the library to do research, you can just open up your computer. You can certainly release information more easily and also distribute different information from many sources, and that offers opportunities and deficiencies. But fundamentally, the system hasn't changed very much.
Seuny-yoon Lee: Emily Bell, Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, said the following in her recent speech at Oxford: "News spaces are no longer owned by newsmakers. The press is no longer in charge of the free press and has lost control of the main conduits through which stories reach audiences. The public sphere is now operated by a small number of private companies, based in Silicon Valley." Nearly all content now is published on social platforms, and it's not Rupert Murdoch but Google's Larry Page and Sergei Brin and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg who have much more say in how news is created and disseminated. Are they "manufacturing consent" like their counterparts in so-called 'legacy' media?
Noam Chomsky: Well, first of all, I don't agree with the general statement. Say, right now, if I want to find out what's going on in Ukraine or Syria or Washington, I read The New York Times, other national newspapers, I look at the Associated Press wires, I read the British press, and so on. I don't look at Twitter because it doesn't tell me anything. It tells me people's opinions about lots of things, but very briefly and necessarily superficially, and it doesn't have the core news. And I think it's the opposite of what you quoted - the sources of news have become narrower.
So for example, take where we are now, Boston. Boston used to have a very good newspaper, The Boston Globe. It still exists but it's a pale shadow of what it was twenty or thirty years ago. It used to have bureaus around the world, fine correspondents, and some of the best journalism on Central America during the Central American wars, and good critical journalism on domestic events and on many other topics. Go to a newsstand and have a look now. What you see is local news, pieces from the wire services, some pieces from The New York Times, and very little else.
Now that's happened around the country, and in fact, around the world. And it's a narrowing of these sources of journalism about what's happening on the ground. That doesn't mean that reports in the NYT have to be read uncritically, or those in The Guardian or The Independent or anywhere else. Sure, they have to be read critically, but at least they're there. There are journalists there on the scene where major events are taking place and, now there are fewer of them than before, so that's a narrowing of the sources of news. On the other hand, there is a compensating factor. It's easier now to read the press from other countries than it was twenty years ago because of instead having to go to the library or the Harvard Square International Newsstand, I can look it up on the Internet. So you have multiple effects. As far as Silicon Valley is concerned, say Google, I'm sure they're trying to manufacture consent. If you want to buy something, let's say, you look it up on Google. We know how it works. The first things on the list are the ones that advertise. That doesn't mean that they're the most important ones. But it's a reflection of their business model, which is of course based on advertising, which is one of the filters [in our model], in fact.
I use Google all the time, I'm happy it's there. But just as when I read The New York Times or the Washington Post, or the Wall Street Journal knowing that they have ways of selecting and shaping the material that reaches you, you have to compensate for it. With Google, and others of course, there is an immense amount of surveillance to try to obtain personal data about individuals and their habits and interactions and so on, to shape the way information is presented to them. They do more [surveillance] than the NSA.
Seung-yoon Lee: In his essay "Bad News about News," Robert G. Kaiser, former Editor of the Washington Post says, "News as we know it is at risk. So is democratic governance, which depends on an effective watchdog news media. Both have been undermined by changes in society wrought by digital technologies—among the most powerful forces ever unleashed by mankind." Not only are the biggest news organisations like the New York Times, and the Washington Post (which was sold to the founder of Amazon for US$250 million, a small fraction of its worth just a few years before), and others are financially suffering and lack a clear roadmap for survival, but also numerous local newspapers across the United States and United Kingdom are shutting down every week. I know you see some of these organisations as "manufacturers of consent," but how can we fund quality journalism in this new digital age?
Noam Chomsky: How is the BBC funded?
Seung-yoon Lee: By the public.
Noam Chomsky: And take the United States. When the United States was founded, there was an understanding of the first amendment that it has a double function: it frees the producer of information from state control, but it also offers people the right to information. As a result, if you look at postwar laws, they were designed to yield an effective public subsidy to journals in an effort to try to provide the widest range of opinion, information, and so on. And that's a pretty sensible model. And it goes back to the conception of negative and positive liberty. You have only negative liberty, that is, freedom from external control, or you have positive liberty to fulfill your legitimate goals in life - in this case, gaining information. And that's a battle that's been fought for centuries. Right after the Second World War, in the United States, there was major debate and controversy about whether the media should serve this double function of giving both freedom from x amount of control – that was accepted across the board - and additionally, the function of providing the population with fulfilling its right to access a wide range of information or opinion. The first model, which is sometimes called corporate libertarianism, won out. The second model was abandoned. It's one of the reasons why the US only has extremely marginal national radio businesses compared to other countries. It relates to what you're asking--an alternative model is public support for the widest possible range of information and analysis and that should, I think, be a core part of a functioning democracy.
Seung-yoon Lee: In the absence of a good business model, new media organisations from Buzzfeed to Vice have pioneered so-called "native advertising," a form of online advertising that seeks to fool the consumer into believing that they are reading "editorial" content rather than paid advertisements. Basically, they are advertorials. Ironically, even a progressive newspaper like The Guardian publishes sponsored content from Goldman Sachs. What's your view on native advertising?
Noam Chomsky: This [native advertising] is exaggerating and intensifying a problem that is serious and shouldn't even exist in the first place. The reliance of a journal on advertisers shapes and controls and substantially determines what is presented to the public. Again, if you go back to our book, it's one of the filters. And if you look back, the very idea of advertiser reliance radically distorts the concept of free media. If you think about what the commercial media are, no matter what, they are businesses. And a business produces something for a market. The producers in this case, almost without exception, are major corporations. The market is other businesses - advertisers. The product that is presented to the market is readers (or viewers), so these are basically major corporations providing audiences to other businesses, and that significantly shapes the nature of the institution. You can determine by common sense that it would, but if you investigate it up front as well, it does [bear out], so what you're now talking about is an intensification of something which shouldn't exist in the first place.
Seung-yoon Lee: I was shocked to see that the global PR firm Edelman did some research on whether readers can actually tell whether what they are reading is an advertisement or an article... and 60% of readers didn't notice that they were reading adverts.
Noam Chosmky: And that's always been true. The effect of advertiser reliance and public relations firms is noticeable in the nature of what the media produce, both in their news and commentary. And how could it be otherwise, that's the market.
Seung-yoon Lee: Recently, The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency through Edward Snowden. Such reporting surely undermines the idea of what you would call the 'elite interest' that dominates the government and private sector. Does this case undermine your propaganda model or is it an exception to the rule?
Noam Chomsky: For the propaganda model, notice what we explain there very explicitly is that this is a first approximation - and a good first approximation - for the way the media functions. We also mention that there are many other factors. In fact, if you take a look at the book 'Manufacturing Consent', about practically a third of the book, which nobody seems to have read, is a defence of the media from criticism by what are called civil rights organisations - Freedom House in this case. It's a defence of the professionalism and accuracy of the media in their reporting, from a harsh critique which claimed that they were virtually traitors undermining government policy. We should have known, on the other hand, that they were quite professional.
The media didn't like that defence because what we said is – and this was about the Tet Offensive - that the reporters were very honest, courageous, accurate, and professional, but their work was done within a framework of tacit acquiescence to a propaganda system that was simply unconscious. The propaganda system was 'what we're doing in Vietnam is obviously right and just'. And that passively supports the doctrinal system. But on the other hand, it was also undermining the government. It was showing that government claims are false. And take, say, the exposure of Watergate, or the exposure of business corruption. One of the best sources of information on business corruption is the businessperson. The media do quite a lot of very good exposes on this, but the business world is quite willing to tolerate the exposure of corruption. The business world is also quite willing to tolerate exposure of governments intervening in personal life and business life in a way that they don't like, as they don't want a powerful and intrusive state. That's not to criticise The Guardian and The Post for providing an outlet for the Snowden/Greenwald material - of course they should have, they're professional journalists. There are a lot of factors, but we picked out factors we think are very significant but not all-inclusive, and as a matter of fact, we gave counter-examples.
Seung-yoon Lee: And do you think this is a counter-example, in some sense
Noam Chomksy: It's not a counter example, it's a demonstration that there are other things. That in addition to the major factors, there are also minor factors which we discussed, like professionalism and professional integrity, which is also a factor.
Seung-yoon Lee: Do you think that crowdfunding can help make journalism more independent?
Noam Chomsky: I think it's a good general principle that almost anything that increases the variety and range of available media is beneficial. Of course, this particular approach will have its own problems. Every approach does. There's no ideal type with no problems connected with it, but in general the wider the range of variety of what's available, the better off you are.
Seung-yoon Lee: Can I ask your opinion on Charlie Hebdo? What do you think of this 'freedom of speech no matter what' principle?
Noam Chomsky: Well, I think we should strongly support freedom of speech. I think one of the good things about the United States, incidentally, as distinct from England, is that there is much higher protection of freedom of speech. But freedom of speech does not mean a lack of responsibility. So for example, I'm in favour of freedom of speech, but if somebody decided to put up a big advertisement in Times Square, New York, glorifying the sending of Jews to gas chambers, I don't think it should be stopped by the state, but I'm not in favour of it.
Seung-yoon Lee: Also, regarding the specific incident of Charlie Hebdo, do you think the cartoonists lacked responsibility?
Noam Chomsky: Yes, I think they were kind of acting in this case like spoiled adolescents, but that doesn't justify killing them. I mean, I could say the same about a great deal that appears in the press. I think it's quite irresponsible often. For example, when the press in the United States and England supported the worst crime of this century, the invasion of Iraq, that was way more irresponsible than what Charlie Hebdo did. It led to the destruction of Iraq and the spread of the sectarian conflict that's tearing the region to shreds. It was a really major crime. Aggression is the supreme international crime under international law. Insofar as the press supported that, that was deeply irresponsible, but I don't think the press should be shut down.
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Michael Rudnin5 years ago
The Internet has not replaced the mainstream TV news media just yet, but we're working on it ...
Andrew Kensington5 years ago
CHOMSKY: 'I DON'T LOOK AT TWITTER BECAUSE IT DOESN'T TELL ME ANYTHING' I found this particularly ironic as I found this conversation while reviewing my Twitter feed.
non hic5 years ago
Journalism in the modern age is about relevance to viewer. Too much information is available. Chomsky is still doing his Don Quixote thing. I manufacture consent everytime I open my mouth. The false dichotomy in the media is notable and should be dealt with. However, we forget the balancing act this nation does by having such a free press. Look at ISIS on twitter successfully targeting psychologically immature and weak individuals? (teenagers) Then turning them. Tough questions have to be asked. Mistakes get made. Unlike the Gulf of Tonkin the reasons for going into Iraq were not fake. Deterrence needs to be projected to suppress states from trying to acquire WMDs. I agreed with the premise of the invasion. I thought state building afterwards was a mistake. I also thought disbanding the entire military structure was a mistake. General Shinzeki was correct when he wanted 450,000 troops for the mission to protect the cultural backbone and our supply trains more effectively. The errors there have impacted the ability for the mission to be completed.
Nathaniel Heidenheimer5 years ago
Chomsky is completely inaccurate about the last time a president in US tried to end warS plural. Read a real dissident. Read James W. Douglass author of JFK and the Unspeakable. Douglass explodes the myth of that plausible denial was a fixed reality from day one of National Security State. It was CIA v. JFK and if you show that our fake model of power for 310 million is out the window. How many does Chomsky, our Official Dissident reach?PLEASE SHARE TO MAKE JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE SELL MORE THIS SUMMER. WE ARE BANNED FROM THE BILLIONAIRES MEDIA . EITHER WE SPREAD OR WE LOSE------------------------------------------------------.FROM RAY MCGOVERN'S JUNE3RD INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL RATNER ON WBAI RE JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE WHY HE DIED AND WHY IT MATTERS MCGOVERN WAS CIA PDB TO PRESIDENT H.W. BUSH: "For those of your listeners who have not read James Douglass's JFK and the Unspeakable, you need to read that, because it's coming up on 50 years. The mystery has not been solved in the mainstream press. After reading James Douglass, who took advantage of all the previous studies, plus all the more recent information released by Congress, I'm convinced that John Kennedy was assassinated largely by Allan Dulles whom he cashiered as the head of the CIA after the Bay of Pigs, and a coterie of joint chiefs of staff, FBI, even some Secret Service folks who thought that JFK was being soft on Communism by back channel communications with Krushchev, that he was playing games with Fidel Castro…to repair the relationship, and worst of all he was giving Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now is there evidence for this? There sure as heck is. John Kennedy signed two executive orders just a month or so before he was killed. One of them said we're pulling out 1000 troops out of South Vietnam by the end of the year, the year being 1963. The other said we're going to pull out the bulk of the troops by 1965, we're finished in Vietnam. That's a matter of record. Was that a unanimous decision? Well if you say the president makes a one person decision, you know it's unanimous. Everybody else thought he was crazy, especially the joint chiefs of staff. So you need to read this book"
Stuart Angus5 years ago
I think the idea of crowdfunding has great potential for journalism but like traditional journalism there has to be care taken with where and from who the money is coming from..
Seung Yoon Lee5 years ago
Jordan, thanks so much for your interest in the article!
Jordan Wiley5 years ago
Great to have this opinion. When can we expect the next version of Manufacturing Consent to come out :)


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This post originally appeared on Burt M. Polson's Real Estate Journal and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList.
An attorney friend approached me, "I have a great topic for your next article. With the city approving short-term hosted rentals people need to know what they are getting into."
I was intrigued by his comment as he proceeded to unpack for me the laws governing an innkeeper and how that compares to a landlord-tenant relationship or the renting of a room in an owner-occupied home.
Demand is growing to legally rent an extra room in your home. With new websites like Airbnb, HomeAway, VRBO and craigslist the opportunity is much easier.
The Napa City Council adopted a new ordinance allowing short-term rentals hosted in homes with the proper permits. This ordinance, effective December 3, will allow 60 homeowners to rent out a room on a short-term basis.
There are three categories of renting to an occupant: an innkeeper renting rooms in his hotel to guests, renting a house as a landlord for longer than 30 days to a tenant and a homeowner renting an extra room in their home as a host to lodgers.
Renting a room in your home creates a new situation for you legally and financially. Additionally, there are differences from that of an innkeeper or landlord. An innkeeper, one who operates a hotel, is a business and has several licenses, permits, insurance, inspections, etc. to maintain. A landlord is governed under the laws of the landlord-tenant relationship.
Here are the first two of ten questions to consider:
Is my occupant a lodger, a guest or a tenant?
A lodger rents a room from the homeowner who lives in the property and "hosts" the lodger, a guest would book a room in a hotel operated by an innkeeper and a tenant rents from a landlord. This is a straight-forward question you should know as it determines the structure of your business and whether you will be operating in a lawful manner.
Is there a lease or a license?
A guest in a hotel is there by license from the innkeeper, which provides certain rights to the innkeeper if the guest overstays occupancy. Landlord-tenant law applies to periods longer than 30 days when renting a house and is covered by a lease agreement.
What instrument is used when a lodger occupies your room? When using Airbnb, for example, there is no clear contract between the host and lodger as to your policies and rules.
What happens if a short-term lodger in your room turns into a tenant by occupying for 35 days? The laws on how to handle this occupant may have changed because of the length of stay.
Being that this is such a hot topic not only in the Napa Valley, but throughout the nation and world I want to be sure to give you all the details. Please watch for my next article where I ask questions about property rights and control of property as well as others.
Burt M. Polson, CCIM, is a real estate broker with ACRES Real Estate Services Inc. helping clients sell, buy and lease real estate. Reach him at 707-254-8000, [email protected] or BurtPolson.com.
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Want to let you know that many experts are predicting a rise in inflation and consequently a rise in interest rates as a result of the government's stimulus spending. These charts demonstrate just how historically low interest rates are. Take a look at where rates were in the early eighties – the last time inflation skyrocketed.
Hope these charts provide food for thought for anyone wondering if now is a good time to get off the fence regarding a home purchase or refinance!


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The Thin Cheesecake release is out (v0.6.1)!
sudo gem install thin
That tasty and sweet Cheesecake release comes with some new sweet topping: config file support, uses less memory, some speed tweaks, but that's nothing new regarding what we all know and use from other web servers. Nothing very innovative, breath taking, crazy, revolutionary or surprising you say.
You're right!
Almost …
There's another feature that as never been seen amongst Ruby web servers (indeed, haven't found any that does that). But first, lets explore the typical deployment of a Rails app.
Let's deploy Rails shall we?
Typically you'd deploy your rails application using mongrel like this:
mongrel_rails cluster::configure -C config/mongrel_cluster.yml --servers 3 --chdir /var/www/app/current ... mongrel_rails cluster::start -C config/mongrel_cluster.yml
Then on your web server / load balancer configuration file (Nginx in this case):
upstream backend { server 127.0.0.1:5000; server 127.0.0.1:5001; server 127.0.0.1:5002; }
Now with Thin, it's the same
thin config -C config/thin.yml --servers 3 --port 5000 --chdir ... thin start -C config/thin.yml
That will start 3 servers running on port 5000, 5001 and 5002.
And your web server configuration stays the same.
Really, between you and me, is Thin really really faster?
Simple "hello world" app, running one server
And uses less memory too:
Mesured after running:
ab -n5000 -c3
What about that new, crazy, amazing feature you mentioned?
Ever wanted to keep closer to you web server? Sometimes connecting through a TCP port on 127.0.0.1 feels a bit … disconnected. What if we'd get closer to it, get intimate with it, share some feelings, exchange toothbrush?
Introducing UNIX socket connections
When using more then one server (a cluster) behind a load balancer, we need to connect those servers to the load balancer through dedicated ports like in the previous "Let's deploy Rails" section. But this connect the 2 using a TCP socket which means, all requests have to go though the network interface stuff twice! Once from the client (browser) to the load balancer / web server and again to the backend server.
There's a better approach to this. Some load balancer (like Nginx) support connecting to a UNIX domain socket.
upstream backend { server unix:/tmp/thin.0.sock; server unix:/tmp/thin.1.sock; server unix:/tmp/thin.2.sock; }
Then start your Thin servers, like this:
thin start --server 3 --socket /tmp/thin.sock
And yes, it is faster:
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Vile ingratitude
"Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations." Ezekiel 16:1, 2
suggested further reading: 1 Corinthians 6:12–20
God gives to his people riches, and they offer them before the shrine of their covetousness. He gives them talent, and they prostitute it to the service of their ambition. He gives them judgement, and they pander to their own advancement, and seek not the interest of his kingdom. He gives them influence; that influence they use for their own aggrandisement, and not for his honour. This is like taking his gold, and his jewels, and hanging them upon the neck of the god Ashtaroth. Ah! Let us take care when we think of our sins, that we set them in this light. It is taking God's mercies to lavish them upon his enemies. Now, if you were to make me a present of some token of your regard, I think it would be the meanest and most ungracious thing in the world I could do to take it over to your enemy, and say, "There, I come to pay my respects." To pay my respects to your foe with that which had been the token of your favour! There are two kings at enmity with one another—two powers that have been at battle, and one of them has a rebellious subject, who is caught in the very act of treason, and condemned to die. The king very graciously pardons him, and then munificently endows him. "There," says he, "I give you a thousand crown-pieces;" and that man takes the bounty, and devotes it to increasing the resources of the king's enemies. Now, that were a treason and baseness too vile to be committed by worldly men. Alas then! That is what you have done. You have bestowed on God's enemies what God gave to you as a love-token. Oh, men and brethren, let us bow ourselves in dust and ashes before God.
for meditation: Is a readiness to use God's gifts selfishly the reason why he appears to say "No" to so many of your prayer-requests (James 4:3–4)?
sermon no. 323[1]
[1] Spurgeon, C. H., & Crosby, T. P. (1998). 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 1) (p. 176). Leominster, UK: Day One Publications.


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Washington (CNN) - House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif, said Friday he was willing to postpone a vote holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department delivered documents related to the failed "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking operation to his committee before its scheduled meeting on Wednesday.
"While I do have substantial concerns that these documents may not be sufficient to allow the committee to complete its investigation, delivery of these documents before the scheduled consideration of contempt at 10:00 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, would be sufficient to justify the postponement of the proceeding to allow for the review of the materials," Issa wrote in a letter to Holder on Friday.
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Issa said he also wanted to meet with Holder, along with Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the top Senate Republican who has been investigating the Justice Department's program, as soon as Tuesday, but also pressed for the department to hand over the materials before any meeting was set.
Tracy Schmaler, a DOJ spokeswoman, welcomed Issa's move on Friday afternoon.
"We are pleased that Chairman Issa has agreed to our request to meet next week and we look forward to a productive session. It is in the best interest of all parties to bring this matter to a final resolution by avoiding a confrontation that involves contempt and we believe that the provision of documents must be part of an agreement that brings this matter to a close. We trust that Chairman Issa shares our interest in doing so and will work with us in a productive and good faith manner to achieve that end," Schmaler said in a written statement to CNN.
Both Issa and Grassley have been demanding information from DOJ on the program that allowed weapons to be purchased illegally in order to track them to senior Mexican drug cartel members. Agents lost track of hundreds of weapons in the process. Holder initially reported to Congress in February 2011 that senior officials denied there were any improper tactics in the operation, but months later he retracted that assertion and said the operation was "fundamentally flawed."
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Romney details 'First 100 Days,' says Obama's 'words are cheap'
Even if they were to vote hin in contempt, he would just ignore it anyway.
So what's going on CNN, you didn't like my writing that Holder just like Obama have shown by their actions that they don't care about our laws, they believe in do as you please, excuse everything? Wow, what's going to happen to our country?
I'll bet a dollar to a cent that it 'll be delayed until AFTER the election
Getoverit – I totally agree with you. Obama would ignore it also.
Darrell Issa himself should be disbarred and sent to prison for not doing his job when Valerie Plane was outed by Dick Cheney, et al and when the lie about WMD's in Iraq was told by none other than George W. Bush Issa said nothing and did nothing. I CALL FOR THE RESIGNATION OF DARRELL ISSA WITH NO POSTPONING.
November can't get here fast enough so we can send Obama and his administration packing. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is murdered and all Holder, Obama and his administration are worried about is saving their butts. Obama and Holder has the blood of Agent Brian Terry all over their hands.
The GOP hates anyone or anything that is good and fair to average Americans!
there is a mile long backlog of contempt citations from dum bass dubya's administration that need to be cleared before issa can go after holder.
The frustrated foxnewsies who posted here seem to ignore the fact their fearless leader Issa is playing politics in the worst way.
But then again, honesty isn't one of the conservative tenets. More like repeat a lie enough times.
I want 2 know why issa keeps denying the testamony of bushs doj that started this whole process n 2006? Cant contempt someone when documents u r asking 4 dont exist and know gd and well they dont. Fundamentaly flawed started under bush. Can anyone say witch hunt? Issa!
80% of Americans have nothing but contempt for congress. They earned it.
There is NOTHING there pISSA – give it up!!
Obama 2012 – The Only Trusted Way Forward!!
So what's going on CNN, you didn't like my writing that Holder just like Obama have shown by their actions that they don't care about our laws, they believe in do as you please, excuse everything? Wow, what's going to happen to our country?◄
Did you ever hear about "ongoing project" or "sensitive issues" or "top secret???" Everyone on the OUTSIDE is trying to judge what's going on in the INSIDE and don't have a clue as to what "should be" exposed and what "should not" be exposed – It's obvious there are matters we will never know about because of security reasons. I guarantee you after the meeting takes place, pISSA and company will BACK OFF!!!
This is a program that was started by BUSH – I am sure McSAME would have done the SAME if he was elected President – I wonder if it would be the same push from pISSA if it was the other way around and a person other than Holder was in charge???? Think About It!!
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Book Description
Almost 70% of Americans believe that we are suffering from a crisis of leadership, but rather than asking, why are leaders failing, we need to ask, "Why aren't we choosing better leaders?"
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Features interviews with with Mike Krzyzewski, Coach, 2008 US Men's Olympic Basketball team, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; George Steinbrenner, Scott Davis, CEO of UPS; Peter Loscher, CEO of Siemens; Toby Cosgrove, CEO, Cleveland Clinic; Hollywood movie directors, and many others
Includes academic study and field training at institutions such as Harvard, Yale, INSEAD, and IMD for developing future leaders.
Fresh and compelling, Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? shows how great leaders can be spotted and why they succeed – and is soon to the definitive resource guide for about choosing better leaders.
Table of Contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Integrity
- 2: Empathy
- 3: Emotional Intelligence
- 4: Vision
- 5: Judgment
- 6: Courage
- 7: Passion
- 8: A Better Way to Choose Leaders
- Appendix A: Commonly Used (and Misused) Leadership Terms
- Appendix B: The Dna of Leadership Competencies
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Index
Product Information
- Title: Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Potential
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- Release date: May 2011
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass


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LONDON (CNN) - Did President Obama land a Nobel peace prize at such an early stage of his presidency simply because he's not George W. Bush?
Diplomatic circles are certainly not dismissing such a notion and a "surprised and humbled" Obama has himself agreed that the award (for which nominations had to be submitted only two weeks after his inauguration) can hardly have been a recognition of anything he has yet accomplished. It is a prize for aspiration rather than achievement.
One of the best deliberate laughs Bush obtained in his last days in office came when he expressed himself pleased at the street reception during his attendance at a NATO summit in Romania.
"A lot of the crowd were waving... some of them with all five fingers," he said.
Bush was acknowledging that many in Old Europe at least could not wait to say goodbye to a man whom they saw as a Cold Warrior at heart, the president who had led the world into a disastrous intervention in Iraq and a man heading a gas-guzzling nation who was not prepared to help the world cope with climate change.
For many Europeans, the chief concern through the long, drawn-out race for the Democratic nomination and through the presidential election was that the result should give them anybody but Bush.
No. It had nothing to do with Bush. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize because of how he has already changed the world. He has inspired millions around the world with hope. Some say it's a false hope, that it's all lies, but he has inspired people to do good nonetheless.
If that is the reason, all the better!
Bush is unique. Nobody will be like him. Thank God!
I think the other nations see what the majority (silent) in this country voted for.
The loud juvenile, fear-mongering right-wing seems to have exploded with jealousy. NO MORE GOP. NO MORE WARS - NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL. NO MORE HALIBURTON --–
If this is the case, then how bad was Bush? If Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize because of the out going of Bush, then Bush must have been terrible Globally. So let the REPs explain that. I'm waiting for the Media to say ONE kind word about Obama winning the Prize. They are leading ungraceful charge.
He hasn't done anything. The voting was 12 days after he took office. What did he do in those 12 days? This is Liberal Europe giving Bush the finger. Nothing more.
Im cool with that conclution. But I feel him getting into the white house alone is a Nobel accomplishment
I just hope he will be able to live up to the award. He has big plans, maybe some of them will come to pass. Very premature award.
The world is relieved that Bush is gone, and no one is going to declare war on them for simply disagreeing with the U.S.
Sure, Obama just started his Presidency in January. But can anyone name someone else this year (Democratic, GOP, or abroad) who has pushed for the peace process as much as Obama has? Certainly no one in Europe, no one in Africa, no one in Asia, and certainly no one in the GOP. Call it what you will, for this year, for this moment in time, Obama was the big peacemaker. This is peace that is not at the point of a gun like those who have shoes thrown at them.
If the GOP or anyone else disagrees about the award...hey, there is another one next year! Get Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, or Sarah Palin right on it! They have a whole year to work on it!
Look: Put this to bed. Of course it was premature for Obama to be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, and certainly it really boiled down to an expression of a European perspective (though, frankly, one that I share) that is celebrating the end of the disasterous Bush presidency more than anything.
But stop trying to slam Obama in the head with his Nobel medal.... He didn't ask for it, and his own reaction echoes the befuddlement that everyone had over its being awarded as it was. To make this some sort of story of political liability only shows the eagerness of the allegedly "liberal" media gutlessly to swallow whole the talking points of the far right.
I have every confidence that Obama will do us all very proud over time.
Ya think?? What a farce this Nobel peace prize is. Nothing but more Liberal politics and prizes awarded for it too. Obama did NOT earn the Peace prize for doing anything other than speeches, he hasn't accomplished what he spoke of.
I hope America's enemies are as easily swayed by Obama!!
Only the simple minded would relate the Nobel Peace Prize reciepients to just one accomplishment. The arrogance of right-wingers claiming that he got it because he is President of the US, and that's unworthy because he was only Pres for a few weeks before the nominations closed.
What about all he accomplished before he became Pres? Could it be that was part of it!??
Obama did to rise above all the challenges he faced throughout his life to become the President of the US.
It's not that Obama is not Bush, it's that he is the total opposite of Bush. He actually worked very hard to get where he is and keeps working very hard. Thank God!
Do you remember when your mother used to say "shame on you"???? Well, I must say, it's time to say: SHAME ON YOU, MEDIA, PUNDITS, RUSH LIMBAUGH, MICHAEL STEELE, THE GOP, AND THE REPUBLICANS!!!! Having lived almost 7 decades on this earth, I cannot imagine EVER being disrespectful of my President of the United States, nor was I taught to be a "bully", a "liar", and a "two-faced' person!! We have an AWESOME PRESIDENT, and NONE OF YOU, KNOW HOW TO SPELL THE WORD, SO I'LL SPELL IT FOR YOU: R E S P E C T!!!!!!!!! We respect others, when we have self-worth, and can respect ourself. To DISRESPECT others, irregardless of the reason why you don't like what someone got, or said, is to lose sight of the bigest commandment in history: DO UNTO OTHERS, AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU!!!
I truly wish ALL of the above people I have mentioned, would GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!! We live in the greatest Country in the World, and I can only imagine what other Countries think of us, and see how really POLARIZED, AND BIASED some Americans are!!! The behavior of all of the above people is totally unacceptable in a society that is supposed to be the most Intelligent, Ethical, Integral, Honest, and free spirited society in the whole world! As the song says: And crown THY GOOD, WITH BROTHERHOOD, from Sea to shinning Sea!!!! There no longer is BROTHERHHOOD in America!! Our forefathers would be deeply disappointed to see the mean spirted actions of some of America's citizens in the 21st Century!!!
I am a democrat and I like Busch he is not a bad man he was just misled by Dick and Carl.
Alfred Nobel must be rolling in his grave.
Nobel Laureate President Barack Hussein Obama. Amazing! President Obama joins a host of Nobel Laureates that won before their goals were realized, i.e. Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King just to name a few. I am very proud that the intern...ational community sees in President Obama the things that I have seen. He is a man of great depth, intelligence, compassion, and integrity. While there are those that will say that he does not deserve this award, as he himself stated on yesterday, I will only say that often times in life we are all blessed with or attain things we feel that we are not worthy of , but it is what we do with those things that make us worthy. President Obama has pledged himself to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama has pledged himself to making a lasting peace in the Middle East, President Obama has pledged himself to speaking to our enemies rather than ignoring them and leaving them to their own devices.God Bless him for it.
Having traveled to other parts of the world recently, many are openly supportive of the new President. They really do like our country and want it to succeed. They have hope for us and President Obama illustrates that hope. We will have other countries trying to work with us under this new administration. So that alone makes it worthwhile that he is given the Nobel Peace Price honor.
Obama was given this prize for???.... I don't know why. I don't really care because it has once again opened any criticism of the man or his accomplishments to nothing but name calling and more derision of anyone who doesn't see Obama as some sort of saintlike figure that can do no wrong.
What I want to know is who nominated him and whether it was part of his own campaign team.
(1.) President Obama gives a 'tough-love' speech to the nation's students, hoping to inspire students (for national interest) to aim higher and strive harder. And CNN's response is to echo the stupidity of GOP idiots by questioning Obama's speech as a Marxist indoctrination speech.
(2.) Now President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, (obviously for his peace efforts 'prior' to his Presidency). And right on cue, CNN echoes the stupidity of GOP idiots by questioning whether Obama has earned the award. Dear CNN, did you ever think just to applaud Obama for being the first sitting American President to win such an award.
This is why the committee felt safe in awarding Obama the "Prize". Because Obama hit the ground doing what it took for a candidate to be considered for the Award. If Obama won after 12 days in office, what does that say about Bush who was in Office eight years. Oh, I forgot, he got us in this senseless War in Iraq.
Do you not watch TV outside of FOX and have you not seen clips of what Obama expressed for peace during his campaign. If you feel you can do any better in this time span then please do so, if you have solutions offer them, if not quit whining. I feel that people that make negative comments were a part of the problems during the last 8 years.
it seems like whomever would have taken the office after Bush would have won the Noble Peace Prize....could of been you, Hillary or McCain
To me that's exactly what it says. To me there should be some body of work to back up the award, and in this case there simply isn't any. How is the world a better place since Obama was elected? This was based on an anticipated outcome. If it doesn't happen, does he have to give the award back?
Past Nobel awards were for "A Big" effort. Ask Carter with his middle east peace accord. Ask the Desmond Tutu, Apartheid didn't take place until 10 years later. Ask the man fighting Hitlers take over of Germany.....wow see what happened after that.
I am a very proud American. There are millions of us in America that are proud. There are also BILLIONS around the world that are proud.
Yes he deserves it. We should all be proud that our President has won such a grand award.


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This gets me thinking every time I think of it; why am I here? Why me?
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HE said back to me…
I was puzzled and somewhat feeling special. But not for long. I had more questions for GOD.
But, you see, the key isn't entirely in the questions you ask—although that's the first step, the key is this: The sincerity, desperation and hunger of your heart to earnestly seek answers from God. GOD rewards seeking.
Emphasis on EARLY for the young people. You see the glory of the Youth (earliness) is in their strength. There is strength in seeking GOD early.
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Jeremiah replied "I am only a boy."
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No matter your family background, community, race, color, tribe, situation, you name it, GOD created you, put you in your body, put you in your community, made you talk the way you do and look the way you do, branded you with your gifting, potentials and abilities, for a PURPOSE.
In HIM you will find the answers to the questions that flood your heart even right now. In HIM you will find the meaning and the essence of your life. It doesn't matter what words have been spoken over your life, it doesn't matter if you were rejected by your parents, family, spouse, community or children. GOD needs you! HE needs you to carry out an assignment that only you can. HE made you. HE knows you. HE can tell the different names of the hairs on your head.
These aren't times for us to give up on ourselves, or our children, neighbors, strangers, community, leaders, and even the church.
I believe that sometimes, even helping someone get back on the right track, releases our own destiny. Why? Because we're love beings. Created for love, to love and be loved. When you're stuck on not knowing what to do about and with your life, start loving. When you're full of doubt, hopelessness, confusion and stagnation, start loving.
It might surprise you, that near the top of the list to love, is YOURSELF.
A lot of tension is released when we love and accept who we see in the mirror everyday. Who we are left with when no one else is around.
It all starts with this, and at the end you'll see that YOU'RE NOT BORN BY MISTAKE.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 — Fred D. Thompson, the soon-to-be-official presidential contender, has come under a good deal of criticism in New Hampshire this week for scheduling his formal announcement for next Thursday morning and thus skipping the Republican debate in Manchester on Wednesday night.
But that does not mean that television viewers watching the debate will not see him.
Campaign officials said Friday that Mr. Thompson had bought a 30-second spot that would be televised nationally on the Fox News Channel, the network carrying the debate, just as viewers are tuning in at the onset.
One campaign official familiar with the decision said the spot would be a sneak preview of the announcement that Mr. Thompson will make the next day in a video posted on his Web site, to be followed later Thursday by campaign appearances in Iowa.
Sort of the definition of thumbing your opponents. I've got to say I'm not sure how this will go over.
Either one of two ways:
1. Fred is seen as the true champion of conservatives and takes away all the press from the other candidates.
2. Fred is seen as a spoil sport for trying to grab attention while avoiding the debate reinforcing the rumors that he's not a serious candidate.
Republicans close to the Thompson campaign felt that the risks would probably be too great for any benefit. In the worst case, he might have made a mistake or come under attack from his Republican rivals, overshadowing the highly scripted rollout he has prepared for the next day.
Campaign officials said the advertisement would be relatively simple, featuring Mr. Thompson talking directly to the camera about the announcement he was about to make. It all but certainly ensures him a prominent spot in a debate he will not even attend.
This is risky, but then again that's what Thompson has said he will be doing in this campaign to carry him to victory.
Either way come Thursday we'll have the ad and the entire debate video. Also look for Thompson on Leno Wednesday which we'll also have uploaded in full.
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The woman who started the record-breaking anti-Brexit petition says she is "shaking like a leaf" after receiving three death threats by phone.
Margaret Georgiadou, 77, began the Revoke Article 50 petition, which had topped four million signatures by Saturday morning.
She said she was "totally amazed" it had become the most popular petition submitted to the Parliament website.
But Mrs Georgiadou said the "horrible" phone calls left her scared and angry.
The retired lecturer says she has also received abuse via her Facebook account.
She said: "I feel terrible, I feel angry with myself because I thought I was tougher than that. But I was scared."
"I haven't even told my husband because he is very old and he would become hysterical."
Mrs Georgiadou said she created the petition to stop people "moaning" about how awful they thought Brexit was going to be.
It has broken the record for the biggest petition on the Parliament's website, previously held by another Brexit-related petition from 2016.
Mrs Georgiadou said she wanted to get as many people as possible to sign it - but she wasn't hoping for a government response.
"Democracy is ruled by society for society, not the majority for the majority," she said.
"I want it to prove it is no longer the will of the people. It was three years ago but the government has become infamous for changing their mind - so why can't the people?
"People should ask themselves, who is it that wants Brexit? It will help Putin, it will help Trump… but will it help us? I doubt it," she continued.
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Since the success of her petition, Mrs Georgiadou has faced criticism over posts she allegedly made on social media, using threatening language about the prime minister. She said she had no memory of the posts.
She said: "It must have been a cut and paste job. The dates were all wrong."
"My friends thought it was funny. They have made photos of me trying to hold up a rifle with my zimmer-frame... I don't own a zimmer-frame by the way - or a rifle."
Mrs Georgiadou says she cannot attend the march for another EU referendum in London on Saturday but would welcome tributes from the demonstrators.
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~ Averill VT topo map, 1:62500 scale, 15 X 15 Minute, Historical, 1929, updated 1950
Averill, Vermont, USGS topographic map dated 1929.
Includes geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude). This topographic map is suitable for hiking, camping, and exploring, or framing it as a wall map.
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- Map Verison: Historical
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Christian fraud Cindy Jacobs took time off from her busy schedule of dishing up meals from her bottomless bowl of spaghetti to travel to Maryland, where she brought a message from God that he was going to soon expose corruption in that fair state.
"And the Lord says I am getting ready to begin to do my own exposé, says God," proclaimed Jacobs. "I'm going to begin to uncover in different layers of the government some money laundering. I'm getting ready to expose corruption. I'm getting ready to do my own exposé."
"And the Lord says," Jacobs continued, "I am coming to put the fear of the Lord into Maryland."
I'd say they really should have the fear of con artists like Jacobs.