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Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried shared a laugh this morning at the Villamagna Hotel in Madrid. She was decked out for the occasion in a multicolored dress from designer Michael Angel. She and Justin have moved promotion for their thriller In Time on to Spain following a stay in Germany, where they had a photocall and premiere in Berlin. While JT is busy chatting up their movie, his on-again girlfriend Jessica Biel has a head start on talking about New Year's Eve ahead of that star-studded film's holiday release. She spoke about her career and personal aspirations but wouldn't touch on the subject of Justin. Jessica Biel told Elle, "A girl doesn't kiss and tell."
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Written by Brenden Fletcher and Cameron Stewart
Art by Babs Tarr
Published by DC Comics
Landing on shelves this Wednesday, Batgirl #35 feels likes something from a different time and place. It goes against the grain compared to DC Comics’ regular output, a laid back slice of life superhero tale where our hero barely puts on a mask. Brenden Fletcher and Cameron Stewart take up the reins on this title after a three year run by fan-favorite Gail Simone, making this a big pair of shoes to fill..
The issue opens up with Barbara Gordon getting all her earthly possessions into a moving van as she heads off to a new place to live and a new status quo. Shortly, after a full night of partying, Barbara finds herself stuck in a real crisis as her laptop (and all her research and Batgirl data on it) stolen which leads her on the road to find thieves who have been making off with the computers and smartphones in her new neighborhood. It’s a solid done-in-one issue with promising lead to feed into next month.
The highlight of this issue is by far is the art by Babs Tarr whose style can go from tranquil to energetic in a beat. Most of the comic is laid back as Barbara settles into her new life. She’s not facing off against the latest escapee of Arkham Asylum as she settles in, but the bigger battles will likely come in due time. The issue also shines in how it shows Barbara Gordon using her detective skills as a civilian, something often missed in the Batman titles. This is a book that is very reader friendly as it requires little to no extra knowledge of the previous run on Batgirl. While it runs that risk at first by introducing Black Canary in a supporting role as a pseudo tie-in of Birds of Prey, it’s explained very well with only a few lines of dialogue required. This is also one of the most diverse mainstream books coming out from the Big Two as it sports a large supporting cast of numerous colors, genders, and sexualities and presents them in a way that doesn’t feel cynically demanded by a PR department.
However that is not to say this issue is perfect. Writers Brenden Fletcher and Cameron Stewart are new and not as well tuned for writing. It’s clear they are aiming for something akin to Marvel’s Ms. Marvel series and possibly overdoing it. There’s a lot of excessive use of social networking and blogging that comes off heavy handed, like the only things college students do are throw parties, update their statuses, hook up, and drink Starbucks. It pulls one out of the experience, and only gets worse at the very end with the villain being an obnoxious DJ who speaks in hashtags. Here’s hoping he never returns.
Despite its flaws, Batgirl #35 is a very promising issue for a new direction by DC to broaden their audience and tone of their universe. With the arrival of this and Gotham Academy, the DC Universe just got a little brighter.

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What will you say…?
I am becoming so much more inclined towards violent revolution.
It is not what I want, and yet what do I see for the future of my children unless we refuse the yoke of capitalism?
How can I, as a father ensure the future of my children while the banker decides their fate?
This is not me; I try to be the voice of the people; in some small way, perhaps I am; but you- what will you say to your children?

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Two University of Colorado Colorado Springs representatives will travel to the White House this week to meet with officials in the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
On Aug. 3, Peg Bacon, provost, and Jeff Scholes, instructor, Department of Philosophy, will discuss UCCS involvement with President Barack Obama’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge for the upcoming academic year. In June, Scholes applied to the program which encourages colleges to commit to a year of interfaith and community service programming. The application builds on Scholes’ role as instructor of world religion courses at UCCS and director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life.
“The goal of the President’s challenge is to bring people of different faiths, as well as those who are not religious or secular in their worldview, together to work toward a common goal: an improved Colorado Springs,” Scholes said. “This vision, as expressed by the White House, dovetails nicely with the UCCS goal to engage its community as well as the goal of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life to encourage dialogue involving religion. We’re very excited to be participating in the President’s program.”
After being accepted to the program, Scholes and Bacon were invited to share their ideas and to hear the ideas of others selected to participate. The opportunity to visit the White House and participate in discussions will serve as impetus for the Center’s year-long plan and for Scholes, who successfully organized an event in February that allowed students, faculty and staff to experience Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Shamanism, Buddhism and Hinduism by visiting several rooms in the University Center.
“That event helped members of the UCCS community to experience religion from a different perspective,” Scholes said. “One of the goals for this year’s initiative is to bring people who consider themselves religious together with those who do not to move collectively towards meeting some needs of the wider community.”
Ideas that Bacon and Scholes hopes to pursue with White House staff and throughout the fall semester with the UCCS campus community include helping military families who may have a member who is deployed overseas or a community service project focused on Colorado Springs parks. After several engagement sessions with speakers and dialogue in the fall semester, Scholes hopes to channel this work into these student-led service projects during the spring semester.
“In the fall, we hope to have engagement,” Scholes said. “In the spring, we hope to have action.”
For more information about the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, visit http://whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ofbnp/interfaithservice.For information about the UCCS Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life, visit http://www.uccs.edu/~rdpl/people.html.
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs, is one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The university offers 36 bachelor’s degrees, 19 master’s and five doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls about 9,000 students annually.


Grant Robertson’s refusal to rein in spending and take meaningful action to dampen inflation is piling pressure on primary industries, National’s spokesperson for Rural Communities Nicola Grigg says.
“This Labour Government has unleashed unprecedented levels of spending in last week’s Budget, with more than $9.5 billion in new spending forecast this year alone. To put it in context, they are now spending 68 per cent more, or an extra $51 billion per year, since coming into office.
“This out of control spending is putting huge pressure on the economy and is driving inflation to a record 30-year high, with the cost of farm inputs rising by 9.8 per cent since the March quarter last year.
“This week we saw another 50 basis point jumps in the OCR, the first back to back 50 point increase since the OCR was introduced – which has never happened before and will effectively double interest rates compared with last year. . .
A new guide has been developed to help farmers get the most out of wetlands on their land – and it features a case study that shows a wetland on one Waikato farm removed about 60 percent of nitrogen from the water it receives.
As more farmers look to reduce their environmental impact, there’s growing interest in re-establishing and constructing new wetlands.
Dairy NZ and NIWA, with guidance from the Fish and Game Council have teamed up to create a guide for farmers, which features a Waikato dairy farm as a case study.
Gray and Marilyn Baldwin developed a wetland on their 713 hectare dairy farm, where over 12,000 native plants were put in. . .
Critical questions – Owen Jennings:
A number of critically important questions have been raised in recent discussions I have had with farmers about their greenhouse gas emissions. They deserve answers. The mainstream media ignore them preferring to bag the farming community saying they are getting off lightly and are not meeting their responsibilities.
Question 1. Why is Article 2 (b) of the Paris Agreement ignored when it states clearly that countries should not reduce food production in their pursuit of emission goals? Proposals that will reduce production by 15% or more violate the Agreement.
Question 2. Why are we taking unilateral action that will cut production in NZ that has the planet’s lowest carbon footprint when we know that other countries, with a worse record, will make up the shortfall leading to increased emissions overall?
Question 3. Why is 1990 used as a base date for measuring ruminant emissions when methane emissions only last 9 to 10 years in the atmosphere? Isn’t that deceptive? The Climate Change Commission showed clearly ruminant methane emissions are stable or falling slightly since 2005 which means farmers have achieved ‘net zero’ and are actually contributing to cooling the planet. The amount of methane from the farm in the atmosphere is falling. Farmers are heroes not villains. . .
A stalwart of the Marlborough wine industry, Dominic Pecchenino, has been honoured by the board of Wine Marlborough with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award, which recognises service to the development of the Marlborough Wine industry, was presented to the viticultural consultant during the Winter Pruning Field Day held at Matador Estate today [Wednesday, 25 May].
Wine Marlborough General Manager Marcus Pickens says Mr Pecchenino has played a significant role in the development of Marlborough’s wine industry as a scientist and viticulturist.
He arrived in Marlborough from the US in 1994, as vineyard manager of Matador Estate – the very place where he was honoured with his award, almost 30 years later. . .
Olive oil growers in Wairarapa are optimistic about the season’s harvest, despite some very wet weather to start with.
Leafyridge Olives manager and grower Craig Leaf-Wright said the weather had thrown growers a curveball.
“We’ve had a lot of rain in the Wairarapa since December, and then on and off since then, and that kind of skewed things a bit for people,” he said.
“Some people thought that their fruit was ripening earlier, I think it’s probably about on par, and some people believe it should be a bit later. . .
In Sri Lanka organic farming went catastrophically wrong – Ted Nordhaus & Saloni Shah:
Faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agriculture this winter. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised in his 2019 election campaign to transition the country’s farmers to organic agriculture over a period of 10 years. Last April, Rajapaksa’s government made good on that promise, imposing a nationwide ban on the importation and use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and ordering the country’s 2 million farmers to go organic.
The result was brutal and swift. Against claims that organic methods can produce comparable yields to conventional farming, domestic rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. Sri Lanka, long self-sufficient in rice production, has been forced to import $450 million worth of rice even as domestic prices for this staple of the national diet surged by around 50 percent. The ban also devastated the nation’s tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.
By November 2021, with tea production falling, the government partially lifted its fertilizer ban on key export crops, including tea, rubber, and coconut. Faced with angry protests, soaring inflation, and the collapse of Sri Lanka’s currency, the government finally suspended the policy for several key crops—including tea, rubber, and coconut—last month, although it continues for some others. The government is also offering $200 million to farmers as direct compensation and an additional $149 million in price subsidies to rice farmers who incurred losses. That hardly made up for the damage and suffering the ban produced. Farmers have widely criticized the payments for being massively insufficient and excluding many farmers, most notably tea producers, who offer one of the main sources of employment in rural Sri Lanka. The drop in tea production alone is estimated to result in economic losses of $425 million. . .


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India’s roads are pretty notorious for being crowded, busy and incredibly hectic. We always prefer to self-drive whenever we can and so to make the trip from Varkala to Kovalam in southern India we took our lives in our hands, driving a scooter on India’s crazy roads. Vying for space on the ‘highway’ were trucks, buses, cars, scooters, bicycles, animals and anything else you can think of. The only way to survive is to drive like a local; overtake, undertake and duck and weave between the traffic and take it all in. You see so much more from a bike than you ever would from a bus, we passed families on bikes, guys standing in the back of trucks and even a sausage dog on a motorbike!
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Statement from Richard Gage, AIA, Founder, Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Welcome to our Pre-Release Edition of “9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out” where we are partnering with you to complete this important film with sufficient quality to maximize its effect in informing and enlightening professionals and the general public worldwide about this critical evidence regarding the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers.
AE911Truth is encouraged by the excitement surrounding this new milestone documentary. Now is the time for all responsible professionals to speak out about the scientific
forensic evidence that has been hidden and distorted by officials tasked with reporting the facts — yet discovered and disseminated by thousands of truth seekers around the world with no axes to grind.
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth now number over 1,500 technical and building professionals, 43 of whom are doing just that in this film — speaking out about the deep flaws in the official story.
This is a time that calls for courage — and we applaud these professionals for their bold choice to participate in this documentary.
The film was inspired two years ago by our video team member, Marty McGee of Buffalo, NY, who pressed forward with this vision by flying around the country
in a 24-stop route to videotape the experts.
Over one hundred hours of remarkable testimony was distilled into this documentary. However, we’ve already posted a dozen full-length interviews on our website
and plan to publish them all for you… Continue reading
By Jeff Stein
August 30, 2011
New York (CNN) — When debris rained from the sky in lower Manhattan on September
11, 2001, the first responders to the terrorist attack did not turn away. They
rushed to the World Trade Center buildings while the world around them crumbled.
Yet now, after all the wreckage has been cleared and the rebuilding has begun,
their path is again blocked — not by flying chunks of smoldering rubble, but
by space constraints.
The first responders are not invited to this year’s September 11 memorial ceremony
at ground zero, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office confirmed Monday.
It’s a painful insult for many of the approximately 3,000 men and women who
risked their lives, limbs and lungs on that monumental day, puncturing another
hole in a still searing wound.
In a statement, Bloomberg spokesman Andrew Brent said the commemoration ceremony
is for the victims’ families.
"While we are again focused on accommodating victims’ family members,
given the space constraints, we’re working to find ways to recognize and honor
first responders, and other groups, at different places and times," Brent
But first responder John Feal, founder of an advocacy group for the police
officers, firefighters, civilian volunteers and others who worked at ground
zero, assailed Brent’s response, saying Bloomberg "lives in his own world."
"The best of the best that this country offered 10 years ago are being
neglected and denied their rightful place," Feal said.
Denise Villamia, a first responder who… Continue reading
Introduction: 9/11 Ten Years Later
The words in the title of this book – “9/11 Ten Years Later” – are often followed with an exclamation point. The exclamation point may be a way of expressing, by members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, amazement that the truth has not already been publicly revealed. The exclamation point might be used by detractors of this movement — perhaps along with an expletive — to express their feeling that it is time for these people to “get a life.” The exclamation point might reflect a position somewhat in the middle — of spouses of members hoping that no more years of their family life will be oriented around the work of trying to get the truth revealed.
In any case, for reasons discussed in this book (especially the final two chapters), there is nothing surprising about the fact that the 9/11 crime has not been revealed. Those who have gained control of a state in an ostensible democracy have many means not only for orchestrating major crimes, but also for preventing those crimes (including their crimes against democracy itself) from being publicized.
What is somewhat surprising, perhaps to the perpetrators themselves, is the fact that the 9/11 Truth Movement is still alive and, in fact, continues to grow. The first professional 9/11 organization, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, was formed in 2005, and since then a dozen professional organizations have been created. It was not until 2006 that architect Richard Gage started… Continue reading
From the Remember Building 7 Campaign:
September 2, 2011
If you thought the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 would be an endless barrage of
media coverage rehashing the official story and taking occasional swipes at
the 9/11 truth movement with one-sided reporting, think again.
Well, if you live in Europe, that is.
This coming Sunday, September 4, three major European channels will air in-
depth stories on the Remember Building 7 campaign. M6, among France’s
largest channels, will show a 90-minute documentary about various 9/11 family
and first responder groups, a significant portion of which will cover Remember
Building 7 (click here to see the trailer). In the same vein, RAI 3, Italy’s
BBC, will show a feature length documentary that devotes significant time to
Remember Building 7. And RTL, one of Germany’s largest channels, will
show a Spiegel TV special about Remember Building 7 and the 9/11 truth movement.
That is just the beginning. Next week more stories will follow. When all is
said and done, tens of millions of Europeans will learn about Building 7 during
the 10th Anniversary.
With the 10th Anniversary Campaign now in high gear, this coverage comes at
exactly the right time to help the campaign reach $1 million by September 11.
If you have not yet made your donation, please go to RememberBuilding7.org
now and get it done!
Meanwhile, in the US and UK, journalists are having a tougher time being journalists,
and they just don’t seem to get that shamelessly overt bias isn’t
that good at persuading viewers (unless it’s on FOX News).…
By Paul Craig Roberts
August 24, 2011 Information Clearing House — — -In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government’s official account of the event held up over the decade?
Not very well. The chairman, vice chairman, and senior legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission wrote books partially disassociating themselves from the commission’s report. They said that the Bush administration put obstacles in their path, that information was withheld from them, that President Bush agreed to testify only if he was chaperoned by Vice President Cheney and neither were put under oath, that Pentagon and FAA officials lied to the commission and that the commission considered referring the false testimony for investigation for obstruction of justice.
In their book, the chairman and vice chairman, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, wrote that the 9/11 Commission was “set up to fail.” Senior counsel John Farmer, Jr., wrote
that the US government made “a decision not to tell the truth about what happened,” and that the NORAD “tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public.” Kean said, “We to this day don’t know why NORAD told us what they told us, it was just so far from the truth.”
Most of the questions from the 9/11 families were not answered. Important witnesses were not called. The commission only heard from those who supported the government’s account. The commission was a controlled political operation,… Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AS 10TH ANNIVERSARY APPROACHES, NEW BOOK CHALLENGES OFFICIAL STORY OF 9/11
While next month ‘s commemorations in New York, San Francisco and other cities are affirming the official narrative for the 9/11 tragedy, MOUNTING EVIDENCE shows how it doesn’t square with information now available. In each of the key areas — the shifting stories, the remarkable intelligence lapses, the stunning air defense failures, the unprecedented fall of the World Trade Center buildings — the government explanations conflict with what is known today.
There’s little doubt the tragic attacks on 9/11 quickly became the defining events of our time, shaping much of what has followed. But if Americans don’t understand the past, are they ready to face an uncertain future? In MOUNTING EVIDENCE, Dr. Rea shows that by understanding the shattering events of that dark day, Americans can help to end seemingly endless wars, take back their lost personal liberties, and restore their democracy.
While other researchers have written about 9/11, this fact-based volume is the first comprehensive treatment of the many different angles. It connects the dots to reveal disturbing patterns concerning the intelligence failures, the hijackers’ backgrounds, and the role of the Saudi funders.
Presented in a lively, accessible way, Dr. Rea ‘s findings call out for a new investigation. Former US Senator Mike Gravel, who is already organizing ballot referenda in… Continue reading
By Russ Baker
Another original investigation by WhoWhatWhy.com
Article Summary: When you look closely, nothing seems right about what will surely become the accepted account of the raid that nailed America’s enemy number one. And then things get even weirder…
The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, and more prone to be pawns in complicated games that affect the public interest in untold ways. A significant recent example is The New Yorker ‘s vaunted August 8 exclusive on the vanquishing of Osama bin Laden.
The piece, trumpeted as the most detailed account to date of the May 1 raid in Abbottabad Pakistan, was an instant hit. “Got the chills half dozen times reading @NewYorker killing bin Laden tick tock…exquisite journalism,” tweeted the digital director of the PBS show Frontline . The author, freelancer Nicholas Schmidle, was quickly featured on the Charlie Rose show, an influential determiner of “chattering class” opinion. Other news outlets rushed to praise the story as “exhaustive,” “utterly compelling,” and on and on.
To be sure, it is the kind of granular, heroic story that the public loves, that generates follow-up bestsellers and movie options. The takedown even has a Hollywood-esque code name: “Operation Neptune’s Spear”
Here’s the introduction to the mission commander , full of minute details that help give it a ring of authenticity and suggest the most… Continue reading
August 24, 2011
By Stephen C. Webster
Despite a prohibition on spying within the United States, the Central Intelligence
Agency played a key role in transforming the New York Police Department’s intelligence
unit into a cutting edge spy shop dedicated to gathering information on Muslims,
and not just in New York.
That’s according to a new report out Wednesday by The Associated Press, which
claims a veteran CIA agent helped train one of the NYPD’s detectives in advanced
surveillance methods. They also sent an undercover agent to work in the department,
the report says.
With the CIA’s help, the NYPD has gathered information on cab drivers, street
level food vendors, ethnic book stores, Internet cafes and even mosques, sending
snoops in to listen to sermons — all without a hint of federal, state or local
Part of their strategy involves the use of a “Demographic Unit,”
which the NYPD officially denied exists. One undercover officer quoted by AP
said he was ordered to move into an ethnic neighborhood and “act like a
civilian” so his monitors could use him like a “walking camera.”
Detectives have also tapped shopkeepers and “nosy neighbors” in ethnic
neighborhoods to keep them updated on local goings-on, according to the report.
They’ve even sent officers into prisons to promise help for Muslim prisoners,
if they’ll just work with the police.
Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is prohibited from
conducting similar operations without prior evidence of wrongdoing, the NYPD
is unrestricted in this manner, although AP noted that the department has been
keen to cover its tracks, to prevent any appearance of civil rights abuses or
August 13th 2011
By Alison Gendar
NYDaily News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON – The cops, firefighters and rescue workers who toiled at Ground
Zero will not be invited to take part in the 10th anniversary ceremony, a city
official told the Daily News Friday.
First responders will instead be asked back to the site at another day for
a separate commemorative ceremony, city officials said.
Space and security logistics were at the heart of the decision, those involved
Family of the nearly 3,000 killed receive first priority at an event with maximum
President Obama’s appearance will make the day even more of a security concern.
For many first responders, though, the news was a bitter pill.
[Photo, right: A select few gathered at the relecting pool honoring 9/11
victims at Ground Zero last year for the ninth anniversary of the attacks on
the World Trade Center. Credit: Don Emmert/Pool]
“To have a separate service on another day has no significance, no meaning,”
said David Jacobs of Queens, who volunteered at the site sifting debris and
who lost a childhood friend, a city firefighter, in the attacks.
“For many of us, we gave a lot at that site,” he said.
As many as 91,000 people took part in the initial search and rescue and subsequent
10-month cleanup, according to estimates taken for the city.
In past years, first responders were welcomed to the annual commemoration because
little or no construction had begun at the site and space was not… Continue reading
By Kevin Zeese
October2011.org seeks to Stop the Machine and Create a New World. It can be done. Indeed, it must be done and now is the time to do it. The thousands who have joined October2011.org know the challenges we face but we also know that the disastrous direction the country is going is unacceptable. We have seen that the normal tools – elections, lobbying and education – do not work. The U.S. is facing a crisis on many fronts – economic, environmental and in foreign relations – and the government does not respond or even makes things worse.
We certainly understand the despair, lost hope and discouragement that many Americans feel about the U.S. political system. The system seems designed to make change impossible. We also see the power and sophistication of the corporate propaganda media machine. But, we also see people in the United States seeing through the propaganda, understanding the truth and getting angry. In every rebellion around the world that has occurred in the last year – from Egypt to Spain – the view that it can’t be done, the people will not rise up would have been the belief of 95% of the population before it happened. Predicting the future is not as easy as it looks. There is a lot of evidence that the time may be right for an American Awakening. The past is not always the future.
TORONTO, August 8, 2011 — A decade after the events of September 11, 2001, which resulted in the immediate deaths of nearly 3,000 people on American soil, countless victims from toxic dust, and hundreds of thousands of deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, international hearings on this pivotal event will begin in Toronto in September.
The events of September 11 provided a pretext for a War on Terror that has led to military invasions and occupations, and attacks upon civil and human rights throughout the world. The credibility of the official investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, carried out by the U.S. Government between 2003 and 2005, has been questioned by millions of citizens in the United States and abroad, including victim family members, expert witnesses and international legal experts.
To date, open and transparent judicial hearings to question the official evidence provided by the U.S. Government have never taken place in the United States or abroad. Similarly, no perpetrators of the events of September 11 have ever been brought to justice on American soil.
A group of international citizens has therefore undertaken to privately fund and cause these independent hearings to take place. Because of the global ramifications of the events of 9/11, the initiators of this inquest have opted to select an international location outside of the United States for these hearings to proceed. The city of Toronto, Canada was chosen as an ideal “international” location because of its proximity to New York, Washington and Shanksville (the… Continue reading
by Carol Brouillet
As the ten-year anniversary approaches, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance is organizing its annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival to be held on Thursday, September 8, beginning at 1:00 pm at the Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave., Oakland, and on Sunday, September 11, beginning at 1:00 pm at the Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco.
Speakers and filmmakers include:
In addition to the films “Psywar: The Real Battlefield Is the Mind,” “You, Me & the SPP: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule,” “Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup,” “Hypothesis: A Documentary about Prof. Stephen E. Jones,” and “9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out,” there will be live streaming from 9/11 events in Toronto and Seattle.
Peter Dale Scott
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 9, Issue 31 No 1, August 1, 2011.
Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America’s interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1 Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe.
U.S. interventions in the Balkans and then Libya were presented by the compliant U.S. and allied mainstream media as humanitarian. Indeed, some Washington interventionists may have sincerely believed this. But deeper motivations – from oil to geostrategic priorities – were also at work in both instances.
In virtually all the wars since 1989, America and Islamist factions have been battling to determine who will control the heartlands of Eurasia in the post-Soviet era. In some countries – Somalia in 1993, Afghanistan in 2001 – the conflict has been straightforward, with each side using the other’s excesses as an excuse for intervention.
But there have been other interventions in which Americans have used al-Qaeda as a resource to increase their influence, for example Azerbaijan in 1993. There a pro-Moscow president was ousted after large numbers of Arab and other foreign mujahedin veterans were secretly imported from Afghanistan, on an airline hastily organized by three former veterans of the CIA’s airline Air America. (The three, all once detailed from the Pentagon to the CIA, were Richard Secord, Harry Aderholt, and Ed Dearborn.)2 This was an ad hoc marriage of convenience: the mujahedin got to defend Muslims against Russian influence in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, while the Americans got a new president who opened up the oilfields of Baku to western oil companies.
The pattern of U.S. collaboration with Muslim fundamentalists against more secular enemies is not new. It dates back to at least 1953, when the CIA recruited right-wing mullahs to overthrow Prime Minister Mossadeq in Iran, and also began to cooperate with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood.3 But in Libya in 2011 we see a more complex marriage of convenience between US and al-Qaeda elements: one which repeats a pattern seen in Bosnia in 1992-95, and Kosovo in 1997-98. In those countries America responded to a local conflict in the name of a humanitarian intervention to restrain the side committing atrocities. But in all three cases both sides committed atrocities, and American intervention in fact favored the side allied with al-Qaeda.
The cause of intervention was fostered in all three cases by blatant manipulation and falsification of the facts. What a historian has noted of the Bosnian conflict was true also of Kosovo and is being echoed today in Libya: though attacks were “perpetrated by Serbs and Muslims alike,” the pattern in western media was “that killings of Muslims were newsworthy, while the deaths of non-Muslims were not.”4 Reports of mass rapes in the thousands proved to be wildly exaggerated: a French journalist “uncovered only four women willing to back up the story.”5 Meanwhile in 1994 the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy (BHL) traveled to Bosnia and fervently endorsed the case for intervention in Bosnia; in 2011 February BHL traveled to Benghazi and reprised his interventionist role for Libya.6
In all of the countries mentioned above, furthermore, there are signs that some American and/or western intelligence groups were collaborating with al-Qaeda elements from the outset of conflict, before the atrocities cited as a reason for intervention.. This suggests that there were deeper reasons for America’s interventions including the desire of western oil companies to exploit the petroleum reserves of Libya (as in Iraq) without having to deal with a troublesome and powerful strong man, or their desire to create a strategic oil pipeline across the Balkans (in Kosovo).7
That the U.S. would support al-Qaeda in terrorist atrocities runs wholly counter to impressions created by the U.S. media. Yet this on-going unholy alliance resurrects and builds on the alliance underlying Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1978-79 strategy of provocation in Afghanistan, at a time when he was President Carter’s National Security Adviser.
The Shah (left), Brzezinski (right), Carter (second right)
By Jonathan Lemire
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU
Wednesday, July 27th 2011
New York Daily News
Image: Retired Firefighter Kenneth Specht said the exclusion of cancer as a disease covered by the Zadroga health act was “absolutely unacceptable”. (Photo credit: Elisa Miller for News)
They sacrificed their bodies – and in some cases, their lives – for their noble
work at Ground Zero, and now they and their loved ones feel abandoned.
Scores of first responders believe they contracted cancer due to the time they
spent at the toxic World Trade Center site and are outraged the disease is being
excluded from the new James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.
“Every time we bury a New York City firefighter: Cancer. Cancer. Cancer,”
said retired Firefighter Kenneth Specht, who is battling thyroid cancer.
“How can that not be included? It’s absolutely unacceptable.”
Specht, 43, retired in 2008 after 13 years with the FDNY, too sick to keep
working. He spent two months at Ground Zero after the terror attacks, desperately
searching for the remains of his fallen colleagues and unaware that he was breathing
in apparently dangerous chemicals.
“How can they not say, ‘You were in a bad position and we’re going to
try and rectify this?'” said Specht who, because of the cancer and gastroesophageal
reflux disease, is a prisoner in his Nassau County home.
“It’s not about money – we’re looking for some decency,” he said.
Margaret Stroehlein was driving from her Long Island home to… Continue reading
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN
July 18, 2011
Relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks have asked to meet with the FBI and top members of the Obama administration about allegations reporters from one of Rupert Murdoch’s British papers tried to hack the cell phone accounts of victims.
In letters sent Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, a lawyer representing some victims’ families is asking for meetings to discuss a report that journalists from the now-defunct News of the World asked a New York-based private investigator to help them gather information from victims’ phones.
The FBI has initiated an informal probe into the allegations, which were first reported by the Daily Mirror.
“We commend the FBI for opening a preliminary inquiry into this serious issue and we are requesting a meeting to ascertain the scope, goals and timetable of the inquiry,” the letter to Mueller said, Reuters reported. The FBI’s press office declined to comment.
The lawyer representing the victims’ relatives, Norman Siegel, told the wire service that his “clients are troubled about the allegation of potential hacking and they are particularly upset that there now exists an allegation that a newspaper would seek to illegally obtain information about their loved ones.”
“I tried in the letter not to accuse anyone, especially News Corp, of anything yet because you don’t want a media frenzy accusing someone if the facts aren’t there. We want… Continue reading
It’s front page news today that :
Journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s now-shuttered News of the World paper tried to access the mobile phones of 9/11 victims, a former New York City police officer claimed on Monday.
It’s also front page news today that the new Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said that American soldiers are in Iraq because of 9/11 , even though AFP notes:
That was one of the justifications for the 2003 US-led invasion, but the argument has since been widely dismissed.
(see this for details).
But a more important story – and one which might focus on a more appropriate country than Iraq – is that the co-chair of the Congressional Joint 9/11 Inquiry (Bob Graham) today alleged a cover up by the U.S. government of state assistance by Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 hijackers.
Graham is no flake. He was a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 10 years (including 18 months as chairman), member of the CIA External Advisory Board, chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, 18-year U.S. senator, two-term governor of Florida, co-chair of the national commission on the BP oil spill, and member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Graham writes today in the Daily Beast:
… Continue reading
The first two hijackers who entered the United States did so through Los Angeles International Airport in mid-January 2000. Within days they were urged by a shadowy man, already described in an FBI report as an “agent” of the Saudi government, to relocate to San Diego with promises of extensive support–promises on which he promptly delivered.?
June 14, 2011
By Brian Truitt
It has been nearly 10 years since 9/11, and the tragedy is still on the minds of many Americans. One of those, writer and artist Rick Veitch, is convinced we haven’t been told the complete truth about it.
Veitch structured the story similarly to the 1963 Twilight Zone episode “No Time Like the Past,” in which a man uses a time machine to try to “fix” three events: warning a Hiroshima policeman about the atomic bomb, assassinating Hitler before World War II and stopping the sinking of the Lusitania.
In The Big Lie, the heroine is a woman named Sandra, who lost her husband, Carl, during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. A particle physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider, she figures out a practical way to travel back in time, so she ventures from present day to Manhattan an hour before the first plane hits the towers on Sept. 11, 2001.
She rushes to his office at a risk-management consulting agency, but since she has aged 10 years, Carl can’t quite accept that it’s her. And even though she brings evidence on her iPad, neither her spouse nor his co-workers believe her warnings.
“The… Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – Pittsburgh Steelers halfback Rashard Mendenhall remained a target of sharp criticism by Twitter users on Tuesday after he posted a message questioning whether news that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed should be cheered.
Bravo, sir! It’s wonderful to see an athlete serve as a true role model, for a change. Thank you.
As spontaneous celebrations broke out in the hours after the nation learned bin Laden was shot dead by U.S. forces in Pakistan, Mendenhall used the social media site to denounce the response.
“What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side,” Mendenhall wrote in a message posted to the social media site on Monday.
Some Twitter users responded by asking if Mendenhall would have said “the same thing when people celebrated Hitler’s death,” others said it was “ignorant” to give… Continue reading


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As public wellbeing officials carry on to plead with persons who could have been exposed to fungal meningitis at two cosmetic clinics in Mexico to get examined, physicians in a compact Texas county are noticing a peculiar complication: Some people who seem to be recovering with remedy instantly get sicker.
7 people today have died from the fungal meningitis outbreak associated with the two operation clinics in Mexico, according to the Facilities for Disorder Manage and Avoidance.
The fungal meningitis outbreak associated with surgical strategies using epidural anesthesia has contaminated just about a few dozen people and killed seven so much, in accordance to the latest quantities from the CDC. It is not obvious how lots of individuals are hospitalized across the country. Most of the people are youthful women from 23 states in the United States who went to the clinics for beauty surgical procedure strategies among Jan. 1 and May perhaps 1.
A greater part of those people uncovered, on the other hand, are from Texas.
“We’re nonetheless obtaining men and women trickle in that have not been tested but the vast greater part have been notified,” said Dr. Ivan Melendez, the general public overall health authority for Hidalgo County in Texas. “Less than 50 % have in fact accomplished the examination,” a spinal tap to seem for signs of meningitis.
Melendez and other health and fitness officers are anxious that individuals who have been uncovered are not having the possibility very seriously.
Indicators of fungal meningitis, as opposed to bacterial or viral meningitis, generally acquire weeks or longer to seem. Some fungal bacterial infections can just take up to a calendar year to show indications. The CDC declined to give a particular day when men and women could be assured they are no for a longer time at danger.
In Cameron County in southern Texas, the place a few of the seven fatalities have been documented, only 50 % of the 54 sufferers discovered have gotten the spinal faucet, said Dr. James Castillo, the wellness authority for the county.
The existing outbreak is considered to be prompted by a reasonably rare organism, Fusarium solani, that has been isolated from a several clients so far. This is the exact fungus dependable for an outbreak of fungal meningitis in Durango, Mexico, past November that killed practically 50 % of all those contaminated.
Surprising complication from fungal meningitis
Dr. Jose Campo Maldonado, an infectious disorder professional at Valley Baptist Healthcare Heart in Harlingen, Texas, seen that contaminated clients have issues with blood vessels in the mind.
“Practically all the individuals that we have viewed in the healthcare facility have some kind of neurovascular problems,” he claimed. These consist of issues these kinds of as spasms of the arteries in the brain or an infection of the walls of the blood vessels themselves, recognized as a mycotic aneurysm, he added.
All clients at Valley Baptist Healthcare Centre were being tested lately immediately after some clients appeared to be carrying out effectively on treatment method but then out of the blue took a flip for the even worse, Castillo mentioned.
“It appears to be like like a stroke where they quickly can go unconscious,” stated Castillo, who was shocked by how numerous patients are getting this issue. “For some purpose, the aneurysms and the spasms are all taking place close to the brainstem but no person is familiar with why it is happening.”
Blood vessel challenges are not distinctive to fungal meningitis and can also take place with the far more common bacterial meningitis.
A possible clarification, Campo Maldonado mentioned, is that the Fusarium solani organism has a exclusive liking for the blood vessels in the brain. Far more testing would be required to say for absolutely sure, however.
This condition, sadly, is common to CDC researchers who, in a connect with final week with Campo Maldonado, explained very similar results in a fungal meningitis outbreak in Durango, Mexico, that killed just about fifty percent of those people infected.
“This helps make the problem of some of the patients who are hospitalized right now quite sophisticated simply because we are looking at a superior prevalence of those same complications,” he reported.
As a result, some sufferers have been left with long-lasting vision decline and hydrocephalus, a problem the place there is as well substantially fluid in the brain.
Due to the fact cure entails a few to 6 months of antifungal remedy, it’s far too early to know the full prognosis of clients who come in for cure, Campo Maldonado explained.
Earning recovery far more complicated, he mentioned, is the host of aspect consequences related with medication made use of for therapy, such as hallucinations and kidney and liver challenges.
Virtually 40% of the verified scenarios in Cameron County have died and none of the just about dozen confirmed circumstances in hospitals there have been discharged due to the fact of issues, Campo Maldonado mentioned.
The 3 verified situations in Hidalgo County are recovering at house and will keep on to be on procedure for some time to come, Melendez mentioned.

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Every month for the last 5 years 5 of us ladies in the family go to dinner then a movie. Even though there are lots of places to eat in the falls - we go to Applebys. Once or twice the service was slow or the food was not up to par - but the other 58 times it was very good. Their menu changes constantly and even though we have our favorites - we often try the new menu items. My favorite is the Crispy Orange Chicken Bowl and we do like some of the Santa Fe and Chinese salads. Lately some of the shrimp items have been very good! You would think we would geet board of the same place - but there is enough change that it is always a good time at Applebys.
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By Charumini de Silva
In a fresh attempt to boost exports, Primary Industries Minister Daya Gamage last week urged the spices industry to focus more on value addition and market medicinal benefits if the sector were to enhance export earnings to $1.5 billion.
Minister of Primary Industries Daya Gamage addressing the AGM. From left: SAPPTA 1st VC Yaan La Brooy, Head of Corporate Banking People’s Bank Aruni Goonetilleke, SAPPTA Chairman Vernon Abeyratne, SAPPTA 2nd VC Prins Gunasekare, SAPPTA AGM Sub Committee Chairman S.A.Cader and CCC Assistant Secretary General Gillian Nugara
Addressing at the Spices and Allied Products Producers and Traders Association (SAPPTA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) last Friday, he said if the industry could focus more on the medicinal value of the spices we export, the country could earn a better revenue while serving a lot of people around the world.
He pointed out increasing export revenue of the country was the only way out from the current debt-ridden economy.
Despite apparel sector revenue accounting for 43%, he noted that the value addition in the sector was low compared to spices and allied products like cinnamon and pepper.
The Minister said cinnamon was the highest earning crop in the spice exports, where they were expecting revenue of $ 1 billion. However, he emphasised the importance of increasing the value additions and marketing its medicinal values.
According to a survey conducted by the Ministry, cinnamon is exported to only 13 countries and 52% is to Mexico. In addition only 15% is exported after value additions, while the majority is exported in bulk form.
“We have failed to properly market our spices to the world with value additions, despite having the Export Development Board and organisations like SAPPTA. Our export value to the global market is around 13% and value-wise it is 33%. We have not been able to provide Country of Origin for pepper at the point of exporting. These are some vital factors that need to be ironed out in order to increase our export earnings,” he stated.
Noting that he travels mostly in his helicopter to save time, it was pointed that except palm oil, estates like coconut, tea and cinnamon have not fully utilised the lands completely. “There is no need to increase the land area. If we can convert those unused lands in the estates, we can easily enhance yields. Unfortunately, our planters and owners of the lands are not very concerned about it.”
He claimed that most of the coconut estates were family owned and currently most of them are based in Colombo engaged in white collar jobs while enjoying earnings generated from those estates as a bonus income. The Minister said if those lands are properly utilised, the yields could be tripled.
Further it was pointed out that only a very few companies had invested in sourcing raw materials locally to compete head-to-head with global factories.
The Minister assured low interest loans would be provided to uplift small-scale entrepreneurs with the assistance of the World Bank and local banks. “As I closely work with the businesses, I understand all the hardships that you businessmen encounter on a daily basis. It is a nightmare to obtain a loan from banks without a security. We are now working with the World Bank to get a grant of around Rs.100 million to uplift the primary industries and provide loans with low interest rates of 5%-6%,” he added. Gamage said they had already received 1,300 applications and hoped to assist nearly 2,000 business proposals.
In addition he said Ministry officials were in the process of developing a software to collect data, which is important to uplift primary industries in the country.
The Minister categorically asserted that he was not interested in executing any project through the Government, insisting he would do them with private sector.
–Pix by Indraratne Balasuriya
Pepper cultivatorsto get Rs. 200 per kilo subsidy boost
Giving a little breathing space to pepper cultivators in the country, Primary Industries Minister Daya Gamage assured he would put forward a Cabinet proposal s
eeking a subsidy of Rs. 200 per kilo in the near future.
He made these remarks at the Spices and Allied Products Producers and Traders Association (SAPPTA) AGM held last week.
SAPPTA Chairman Vernon
Abeyratne said although there were 35,000 hectares under pepper cultivation, the yield was the lowest among pepper cultivating countries.
“Of course we understand that we are not using pesticides, but we have to introduce high-yielding varieties and maintain the pepper plants to increase the yields.”
Pepper prices are in the range of Rs. 1,000 to Rs.750-800 per kilogram, mainly due to the falling of the international market in light of increased production from other origins.
“World production has increased over the demand and a further decline is inevitable in January and February when the new Vietnam crop commences in December and January.”
Abeyratne also said the 45th Annual Session of the International Pepper Community (IPC) would be held in Sri Lanka from 30 October to 2 November in Kandy. This annual session brings the stakeholders of the pepper industry together to discuss important issues pertaining to the industry.
He believes that this annual session will be a great opportunity for Sri Lankan exporters to meet buyers and negotiate fresh orders, noting that the local crop is in full swing at present.
SAPTA claims Customs discouraging spice exports
The Spices and Allied Products Producers and Traders Association (SAPPTA) claims that export procedures and documentation have been becoming increasingly difficult and more time-consuming in the recent past, discouraging the export of spices.
SAPPTA Chairman Vernon Abeyratne, Minister of Primary Industries Daya Gamage and SAPPTA 2nd VC Prins Gunasekare
Elected for the third consecutive year at the SAPPTA AGM held last week, Chairman Vernon Abeyratne urged the Government to iron out the difficulties faced by the spices exporters and insisted the industry concentrate on niche markets to obtain better prices, highlighting quality standards.
Although SAPPTA was successful in getting export cess charged by Customs removed on spices since November 2015, the exporters are yet to get the refund.
Noting that land area and quantities of spices were limited in the country, he said the products however are appealing in niche markets given the high quality.
“We have to increase our yield to meet the increasing world demand and promote plantation companies to utilise their unproductive lands for cultivation of spices, cocoa, garcinia, lemon grass, ginger, turmeric and cashew.”
Despite the notable interest seen from plantation companies to cultivate cinnamon and pepper, Abeyratne said there weren’t sufficient plantation materials available to carry out the plantation programs. Hence, he called on the Department of Export Agriculture to coordinate with plantation companies to meet their requirements of planting materials.
He emphasised on the need to recognise cinnamon peelers with a suitable designation and increase the facilities available to attract them to the industry, noting that there was a considerable shortage of experienced peelers despite there being two cinnamon training centres in the country.


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Many women from other nations and the United States desire to meet and marry a man from another nation. While it’s tough to find a guy from the Philippines, then it is relatively simple to come across a person that’s from the Philippines. There are and the union contract is not hard to obtain. However, the short period of the marriage contract may make it harder for men to get married.
The Filipinos are extremely kind to women as well as the women make utilize of the internet to discover the perfect individual. It is possible to find but it is not simple. The men who are willing to marry women in the Philippines are very satisfied with the short length of time that they’re allowed to pay with the woman before they are required to come into a formal marriage contract.
Men from the Philippines to send postcards to their wives with invitations to the wedding and then after that they go online and use the service of mail-order brides in the Philippines. The first thing that the women will need to do is to accept the invitation. After which, they can start working on the wedding and put up the decorations.
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The priest has accepted the service and also once the paperwork is done a mail order brides in the Philippines will arrive at help transfer the goods to the marriage location. They prepare the marriage dinner and are going to help with the arrangements.
The Filipino government actually has a laws which the couples must adhere to in relation to the fact that the union license has to be accepted as it concerns the marriage ceremonies. The issue of the approval for the marriage permit will call for the approval of their government’s office. Sometimes the newspaper work may be gotten through the Philippine Embassy in the country.
The one special thing about the Philippines that has helped it become popular for women to travel there to look for husbands is the beauty of the Filipino women. They are very beautiful and it is the perfect country for those who want to have a beautiful family and marriage with beautiful women. Just make sure that you are respectful and polite.


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For years, radical groups have succeeded where it counts the most—in the courts. Now, a Canadian lawyers” group is providing pro-family Canadians a voice in the legal system
Canadian pro-life activists have an ally they can count on when legal problems arise.
For the last three years, the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre for Law and Justice has been providing legal representation and counsel without charge to pro-life groups and individuals. It’s part of what the Centre describes as its overall mission to defend freedom, human life and the family in the legal arena.
The non-profit CCLJ was formed in 1993 as an offshoot of Pat Robertson’s American Centre for Law and Justice in the U.S. It received help and startup capital from the American PARENT—INCLUDING ADVICE FROM ACE ACLJ lawyer Jay Sekulow—but it is now aiming to be
“The CCLJ uses Canadian law as a tool for building a better Canada—a nation where the family, religion and respect for the sanctity of life are upheld.” Says Gerard Guay, the CCLJ’s senior counsel. “We believe that Canadians are a tolerant and spiritual people who willingly accept that religion has a vital role to play in their lives and in the lives of others.”
Guay says there is a need for the CCLJ because freedom, faith, family and human life are under greater seige then ever.
“Especially over the last 12 years, through a careful strategy of verbal, social and legal engineering, our freedoms of speech, association and religious expression have been curtailed. Yet the Fathers of Confederation did not separate God from law or daily life. Nor was it their intention to create a country where secularism would prevail.”
Guay points to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, enacted I 1982, as the chief vehicle special interest groups have used to mould Canadian society in ways objectionable to most Canadians. “We believe that the majority of Canadians neither expect nor want Canadian society to be reshaped in this manner.”
He says some of the Centre’s most important pro-life work has included assistance to Human Life International during its recent conferences in Montreal and Calgary.
In Montreal, the Centre arranged for a bailiff to serve letters to leaders of the “Coalition Against HLI” which was put together for the event, advising them that HLI had a constitutional right to hold a meeting without disruption. The CCLJ also sent letters to other interested parties advising them that HLI was not planning demonstrations during the conference.
The CCLJ played a key role in obtaining entry visas for Joe Scheidler and Randall Terry (who was initially banned from Canada because of a U.S. conviction for conspiring to show a dead fetus to President Bill Clinton).
“When Theresa Bell, the Canadian president of HLI called me requesting the assistance of the CCLJ, I was both pleased and honoured to respond,” says Guay. “It was imperative that the CCLJ help reestablish some balance to this public (abortion) debate and remind individuals supporting the (anti-HLI) coalition of their responsibilities as citizens.”
The Centre has also been involved in other recent legal wrangles, including the former Ontario NDP government’s injunction application against pro-life protesters, and the convictions of por-life picketers for mischief in Halifax.
“The sanctity of life from conception to natural death must be restored to the laws and in judicial decisions of Canada,” says Guay. “The CCLJ will be (a) voice in the courtrooms from coast to coast promoting and defending the sanctity of life.”
Guay says outside the pro-life sphere, the Centre has been active in trying to secure broadcast licences for Christian radio and television stations across Canada. These efforts received a blow, however, when the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission recently turned down all seven applications for Christian TVB stations. The CCLJ is appealing the decisions to the Federal Court of Appeal.
Securing the right of public school students to pray in school has been another important component of the CCLJ’s work. Guay says this effort is most prominently manifested in the annual “See You at eh Pole” event, in which public school students gather for prayer at their school’s flagpole during non instructional time. About 50,000 Canadian students took part in the most recent event last September.
Also in September, Guay attended the Christian Coalition
S Road to Victory ’95 conference in Washington, D.C. to study how lessons from the American Experience can be applied here. “We Canadians can learn much from our American friends and neighbours, and Road to Victory ’95 was yet another opportunity to do so, another step by the ever growing number of Christians dedicated to changing Western culture he says.
Guay observes the Centre has had to cut back on staff lawyers because the American Centre for Law and Justice has ceased its funding of the Canadian offshoot. But he hopes that the Canadian Centre will soon become self-sufficient and strengthened as Canadians rally behind it.
“We’re hoping the Centre can be a permanent presence… I believe we’ve gained a lot of credibility in Canada.”
For the future, Guay says the CCLJ hopes to extend its influence down to the local level notionwide. “We are setting up a network of lawyers and associates across Canada with whom we can regularly exchange ideas or information and to whom the CCLJ can refer cases in their respective local areas.”
The Centre will also concentrate on renewing the effort to get fulltime Christian television stations on the air across Canada. Guay says he is working on setting up a coalition for Christian broadcasting, and he is hopeful that pro-life groups will be among the first to join.
He believes a television presence would give pro-life groups an exciting, new platform to get their message out. “Once we’ve got this (broadcasting) battle won, we can concentrate on the others…with the benefit of Christian television in Canada, we will be much more effective for the fight for pro-life.”
Guay says pro-life activists who require legal advice from the Centre should write or fax their requests with a description of the problem to: The Canadian Centre for Law and Justice, P.O. Box 36038, 1318 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 3A0 fax (613) 778-3443.
He adds that the Centre is always pleased to receive donations towards its work at the same mailing address.

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THE smiles on their faces said it all – this year's Teddy Bears Picnic in Ponty Park was a big hit – despite the drizzle!
Around 5,000 tots, parents and teachers and their favourite cuddly toys enjoyed the annual event in Ynysangharad War Memorial Park, officially opened by Rhondda Cynon Taf's Mayor Jane Ward.
Children came from across the borough and from as far afield as Cardiff and Barry for the event and enjoyed arts and crafts, face-painting, a funfair, puppets and much more.
Shrek, Princess Fiona and Prince Charming made an appearance and Welsh language television stars Super Ted and Sali Mali also thrilled the crowds.
“This was a wonderful event enjoyed by hundreds of children, their teachers and parents,” said Coun Annette Davies, Cabinet Member for Children and Equality.
“Everything went well, despite the weather being far from ideal, and once again we were delighted to host such a magical day.”

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Explanatory MemorandumCirculated By the Authority of the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation, Corporate Law and Human Services, the Hon Chris Bowen
Chapter 8 - FRC functions and funding
Context of amendments
8.1 Prior to the enactment of the Governance Review Implementation (AASB and AUASB) Act 2008 ( GRI Act), the AASB and the AUASB were statutory bodies governed by the CAC Act. The GRI Act has transferred the AASB and the AUASB from the CAC Act to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 ( FMA Act) framework.
8.2 As a consequence of the enactment of the GRI Act, the specific accounting and auditing standards functions given to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) under paragraphs 225(2)(i) and (j) and 225A(2)(i) and (j) of the ASIC Act are now obsolete and unnecessary. These provisions require the FRC to:
- seek contributions towards the costs of the Australian accounting standard and auditing standard setting processes; and
- monitor the level of funding, and the funding arrangements, for those processes.
Summary of new law
8.3 The Bill repeals paragraphs 225(2)(i) and (j) and 225(2A)(2)(i) and (j) of the ASIC Act.
Comparison of key features of new law and current law
|New law||Current law|
|Paragraphs 225(2)(i) and (j) and 225(2A)(i) and (j) will be repealed.||Paragraphs 225(2)(i) and (j) and 225(2A)(i) and (j) set out the FRC's functions in relation to the funding arrangements for the AASB and the AUASB.|
Detailed explanation of new law
8.4 Paragraphs 225(2)(i) and (j) and 225(2A)(2)(i) and(j) of the ASIC Act will be repealed as they are no longer necessary or appropriate having regard to the fact that the AASB and the AUASB are now financial management and accountability agencies for purpose of the FMA Act . [Schedule 2, Part 1, items 9 to 12]


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Inhaltsangabe: In this novel first appears Patricia Highsmith's intriguing fictional character, Tom Ripley, an amoral young wastrel, who, when given the assignment of travelling to Italy to persuade a son and heir to return home, murders him instead and contrives to inherit his fortune.
Rezension: One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction, Ripley works on two levels. First, it is the story of a young man, Tom Ripley, whose nihilistic tendencies lead him on a deadly passage across Europe. On another level, the novel is a commentary on fictionmaking and techniques of narrative persuasion. Like Humbert Humbert, Tom Ripley seduces readers into empathizing with him even as his actions defy all moral standards.
The novel begins with a play on James's The Ambassadors. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but Mr. Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie's world and soon finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication transcends moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf--at all costs.
Unlike many modernist experiments, The Talented Mr. Ripley is eminently readable and is driven by a gripping chase narrative that chronicles each of Tom's calculated maneuvers of self-preservation. Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lecter. --Patrick O'Kelley
Titel: The Talented Mr.Ripley
Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd
Zustand: very good
Buchbeschreibung William Heinemann Ltd, 1966. Hardcover. Buchzustand: Used; Acceptable. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. The book is perfectly readable and fit for use, although it shows signs of previous ownership. The spine is likely creased and the cover scuffed or slightly torn. Textbooks will typically have an amount of underlining and/or highlighting, as well as notes. If this book is over 5 years old, then please expect the pages to be yellowing or to have age spots. Buchnummer des Verkäufers CHL2012020
Buchbeschreibung William Heinemann Ltd, 1966. Buchzustand: Very Good. N/A. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Buchnummer des Verkäufers GRP88101566
Buchbeschreibung Apr 01, 1966. Buchzustand: Used: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller. Buchnummer des Verkäufers P06_4736_BD_08/15
Buchbeschreibung William Heinemann Ltd. Hardcover. Buchzustand: VERY GOOD. Very Good copy, cover and pages show some wear from reading and storage. Binding may have light creases. Lots of life left in these pages. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 2713381527