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Bellett, Gerald. Age of Secrets: The Conspiracy that Toppled Richard Nixon and the Hidden Death of Howard Hughes. Ogdensburg NY: Voyageur North America, 1995. 320 pages.Gerald Bellett is a reporter for the Vancouver Sun in British Columbia. When John Meier, a former aide to Howard Hughes, moved there from the U.S. in the early 1970s, Bellett began writing about Meier's struggle with the White House, the CIA, and the Howard Hughes organization. This is an authorized biography, and while it helps fill in some historical gaps about Watergate and the Hughes-CIA connection, it is still history as told by yet another insider-victim, with possible axes to grind. It's a bit suspicious. Even though he was wheeling and dealing with the spookiest and most duplicitous people on the planet, it seems that for Meier, these were the good old days. There is not a single mea culpa in this entire book.
But another grinding fact is that Meier was a victim of CIA and Canadian collusion to put him behind bars. This included charges of tax evasion, obstruction of justice, and ultimately a charge of murder. He spent five years in prison before prosecutors emptied out their bag of tricks. Meier argues that Watergate was a classic set-up, and it appears that the CIA thought he had a stash of Hughes documents that might prove his point. According to Meier, when he refused to cut a deal with the CIA to produce the documents and keep his mouth shut, his legal problems began.
Burleigh, Nina. A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. 356 pages.Mary Pinchot Meyer (1920-1964) was from a well-connected family. After Vassar she married Cord Meyer, Jr., who became a top CIA official. Mary's sister married Ben Bradlee in 1955; another classmate from Vassar was Cicely d'Autremont, who married James Angleton. An attractive, free-spirited artist, Mary Meyer was sampling mushrooms with Timothy Leary at Harvard by 1962, and told him that the CIA was interested the potential of LSD for mind control. That year Mary smoked pot with JFK. Then in 1964, she was murdered while walking along the Georgetown towpath. The evidence against the accused was strong but circumstantial, and attorney Dovey Roundtree managed to get Ray Crump acquitted. After the murder Bradlee and Angleton found Mary's diary in her house, whereupon Angleton slithered off into the night with it.
The White House mind-control connection, the unsolved murder, and the diary caper have earned Mary Meyer a solid place in conspiracy folklore. Some aspects of the murder suggest that Crump may have been a fall guy, although this in turn suggests a plot that would have been both elaborate and risky. Crump was involved in a few violent incidents in the years after his acquittal, but knowing this isn't particularly helpful either. In 1997 he wrote the author that he remembered nothing of that day on the towpath, and didn't want to talk about it.
Bird, Kai. The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 496 pages.The Bundy brothers were born to rule, and they knew it. From the Boston elite, through Groton, Yale's Skull and Bones, and Harvard, their superiority was widely acknowledged. William Bundy joined the CIA in 1951, worked in senior positions in the Pentagon and State Department during the Vietnam War, and was editor of "Foreign Affairs" at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1972-1984. McGeorge Bundy was a Harvard dean from 1953-1961, a national security advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1966, and head of the Ford Foundation from 1966-1979. He died in 1996.
Both brothers were cold war liberals, which meant that their foreign policy tended toward imperialism. They knew that it was never a question of dominoes falling, yet the lure of hegemony led them to share much of the responsibility for the Vietnam War. McGeorge also shares responsibility for nearly starting World War III during the Cuban missile crisis. Later, at the Ford Foundation, a limo would pick McGeorge up in the morning, and he'd spend his days giving millions to minority activism centers, women's studies programs, and writing essays in defense of affirmative action, presumably to balkanize and destroy the New Left. When Henry Ford II naively objected and left the board in 1976, Mac Bundy defended himself by telling reporters that the Foundation was "making the world safe for capitalism." He wasn't kidding.
Bird, Kai. The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 800 pages.John McCloy (1895-1989) is the archetype of twentieth-century power and influence; his wide-ranging activities offer ample evidence for anyone who has ever felt that U.S. policies are designed by and for a tiny Yankee aristocracy. A sampling of his career: assistant secretary of war (1941- 1945), high commissioner of Germany (1949-1952), president of the World Bank (1947-1949), chairman of Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank (1953- 1960), chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (1953-1970), chairman of the Ford Foundation (1953-1965), disarmament advisor (1961-1974), Warren Commission appointee, Wall Street attorney for the seven sister big oil companies, and director of numerous corporations. It's almost redundant to add that McCloy was also well-connected to U.S. intelligence agencies.
This first major biography of McCloy was written over a ten-year period. Special emphasis is given to several controversies in his career: the internment of the Japanese in WW2, the decision not to bomb Auschwitz, his clemency for Nazi war criminals, the use of Nazis by U.S. intelligence, and the Warren Commission (nothing new on the WC). The book is based on over a hundred interviews (including nine with McCloy), several hundred Freedom of Information Act requests, McCloy's private papers, and material in numerous archives and libraries.
Cooney, John. The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal Spellman. New York: Times Books, 1984. 364 pages.Author John Cooney interviewed dozens of priests who worked with Cardinal Spellman, many of whom would only speak on background. He also filed the usual FOIA requests with the FBI and State Department. The records of the Archdiocese of New York, where Spellman reigned for 28 years, are closed to researchers, but one priest slipped Cooney a copy of Spellman's diary. This is the first major biography of Spellman (1889-1967), who was a major figure in American politics during the first half of the Cold War.
A consummate politician, Spellman laid low at first and cultivated key people in Rome. After his friend Cardinal Pacelli became Pope Pius XII in 1939, Spellman was appointed an archbishop. During the war, he travelled to war zones and acted as FDR's secret agent. After the war he allied himself with Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn, and became a kingmaker in New York City politics. He continued to support U.S. military adventures by visiting the troops, attending Pentagon briefings, discussing strategy with generals, and gathering intelligence for the CIA and State Department. Were it not for Spellman's early (beginning in 1950) efforts to support Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam's puppet government might not have emerged. Ultimately the Vatican became wary of Spellman's power. So did antiwar activists, who demonstrated against "Spellman's War" outside his residence and cathedral.
Cummings, Richard. The Pied Piper: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream. New York: Grove Press, 1985. 569 pages.Until his tragic death in 1980, Allard Lowenstein was an ex-congressman from New York who was best known as a pro-civil rights and anti-war "dump Johnson" activist. He gave charismatic speeches to legions of well-scrubbed idealistic white students during the mid-1960s; his basic message was to work within the system rather than subscribe to the politics of alienation and confrontation. This was fine as far as it went. But the evidence shows that until the 1967 National Student Association scandal, which revealed a long history of CIA funding and put Lowenstein on the defensive, he was working for what he might have called the "good-wing" of the CIA. This "good-wing" funded culturally-diverse (and divisive) democratic left movements in the Third World in order to present an alternative to Communist organizing and a politics based on class analysis. Lowenstein spent time in Africa, Spain, and Portugal meeting with various left-wing reformers. Ironically, by 1974 he had become interested in the RFK assassination.
Cummings' biography will be regarded as the seminal work on Lowenstein for years to come. He had access to Lowenstein's papers, spent hundreds of hours in interviews, and demonstrates a broad familiarity with the literature on the CIA. Further revelations that might outdate this monumental effort could come from the CIA's files, but that isn't likely anytime soon.
Drosnin, Michael. Citizen Hughes. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. 532 pages.On June 5, 1974, Howard Hughes' Hollywood headquarters was burglarized. Over $60,000 and some souvenirs were missing, but the press didn't mention that boxes of secret papers were also taken. It looked like an inside job. A large team of FBI men, CIA agents, and LAPD detectives made no headway in solving the case, and soon it began to look like they preferred to leave it unsolved. Two years later Michael Drosnin, a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporter, found the person who stole the papers and gained his confidence. Drosnin was given access to 10,000 documents, including more than 3,000 in Hughes' own handwriting. Then he spent seven years authenticating these documents and interviewing hundreds of people.
The result is this highly-credible description of the Hughes empire and its role in American politics. With Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey both accepting money from Hughes, and DNC chairman Larry O'Brien on the Hughes payroll at the time of the Watergate break-in, and the CIA using Hughes for top-secret projects such as the Glomar Explorer, this role was significant. But if it was decisive, it was probably due to serendipity. Hughes was a manipulative megalomaniac, and also a drug addict with a phobia of germs and radiation. It appears, however, that his goals were modest: Howard Hughes desperately wanted the AEC to stop underground nuclear testing in Nevada.
Epstein, Edward Jay. Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. New York: Random House, 1996. 418 pages.The dust cover shows Edward Jay Epstein sitting at a table with reels of tape in front of him. Like Nixon, Armand Hammer felt the need to secretly chronicle his wheeling and dealing, much of it illegal. But he was rich, and and spent plenty on public relations and self-aggrandizing philanthropy. The obituaries in 1990 spoke of him as a crusader for peace and someone who financed cancer research, even though enough information about Hammer's thuggery was already on the record by then. No question about it, Hammer was ruthless and deceptive. Those who knew lacked the guts to say so until after Hammer's death (except for biographer Steve Weinberg).
Epstein's access to Hammer's tapes, some Soviet intelligence files, and interviews with family and friends, make this biography fairly impressive. The only criticism is that Epstein is still fighting the Cold War, and concentrates too much on Hammer's role as an agent of influence for the Soviets. There were other capitalists, such as Ford and the Rockefellers, who were just as willing to cut deals with bad guys. Rather than concluding that Hammer hoodwinked the West by helping the East, it makes more sense to conclude that the stinking rich are always able transcend international conflicts when it suits their interests. This ought to put a whole new slant on Epstein's politics, but it doesn't.
Finder, Joseph. Red Carpet. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (A New Republic Book), 1983. 372 pages.This book began in 1981, when author Joseph Finder, a graduate student at Harvard's Russian Research Center, interviewed Armand Hammer, who was then 83 years old. After failing to bribe Finder's faculty advisor at Harvard to stop the project, Hammer tried to buy up as many copies as he could find. After this book was published, two biographies appeared on Hammer that are even more devastating (by Steve Weinberg and Edward Jay Epstein). Since both of these were already indexed in NameBase, this book was mainly of interest for the other aristocrats profiled by the author: W. Averell Harriman, Cyrus Eaton, Donald Kendall, and David Rockefeller.
Finder's point is that when big money was involved, both the U.S. and Russia overlooked their ideological differences, even at the height of the Cold War, and cooperated in the interests of higher profits. The Kremlin has always given distinguished U.S. millionaires access to the inner sanctum. From the other end, no one in Washington tells a Rockefeller or a Harriman what they can and cannot do. (Apparently the Cold War wasn't really a war at all. Sure, the little guy was expected to kill and be killed in Vietnam, and World War III nearly started more than once. And yes, the taxes we paid for all this excitement made the folks behind the U.S. defense industry richer, as the middle class went into decline. But it kept us busy and distracted.)
Harris, David. Dreams Die Hard. New York: St.Martin's/Marek, 1982. 341 pages.David Harris's affecting memoir of the 60s and their aftermath tracks the lives of three men: Allard Lowenstein, promo man for inside-the-system social change; his protege Dennis Sweeney, who became a civil rights hero, a draft resister, and finally a casualty of the times; and Harris himself, another Lowenstein protege turned charismatic, high-profile resister, jail- bird, and finally disabused mainstream journalist. The human drama centers on Sweeney, who got "freedom burned" in Mississippi, declined from isolation into paranoid schizophrenia -- and in 1980 assassinated his former mentor Lowenstein. By that date, Harris was divorced from Joan Baez ("the first family of the Resistance," they had once styled themselves) and writing for the New York Times Magazine.
Harris's political revelations concern Lowenstein, remembered today (if at all) for starting 1968's "Dump Johnson" movement. But before that, Lowenstein channeled innumerable young men into the civil rights movement and into the liberal National Student Association -- later revealed to be CIA-funded. Harris makes a persuasive case that the complex, brilliant Lowenstein, despite his repeated denials, knew the score. A later book on Lowenstein (The Pied Piper by Richard Cummings) confirms the Harris thesis with solid research. -- Steve Badrich
Hatfield, J.H. Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2000. 375 pages.When this book was published by St.Martin's Press in October 1999, mistakes were made by both St.Martin's and the author. The afterword of this book includes circumstantial evidence, confirmed to the author by three unnamed sources, about Bush's arrest for cocaine possession in 1972, and how daddy got the record expunged after Junior performed community service. St.Martin's chose to sensationalize this tiny portion of an otherwise solid book, and found itself under tremendous pressure as one interview after another was cancelled. Then the author falsely denied to a Dallas reporter that he was the same as one James H. Hatfield, a convicted felon. With Hatfield's continued refusal to name his sources for the Bush cocaine story, this false denial was just the excuse that St.Martin's needed. They promptly took their cue from the other rats in our major media, and abandoned ship. All copies were recalled and burned.
The book itself, however, is responsible, thoroughly-researched, and well-documented, and nothing about the author can change this simple fact. The pressure that St.Martin's felt was entirely political, not legal; their own lawyer, plus an outside firm, had already scrutinized everything. So a "punk" alternative publisher, Soft Skull Press, reprinted it in full with additional material. Sometimes it helps to be too small to crush.
Hersh, Seymour M. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. New York: Summit Books, 1983. 698 pages.Until this book came out, the only people who had critical words for Henry Kissinger were the right, what was left of the left, and an occasional author such as William Shawcross in 1979 (Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia). Hersh's work is the standard for mainstream Kissinger criticism, against which all other efforts are measured. It includes an entire hamper of laundry: his stranglehold on foreign policy, the wiretaps on reporters, and his policies on Southeast Asia, China, and SALT. Two of the best chapters are on the coup in Chile, which NameBase indexed from their appearance in The Atlantic Monthly in December, 1982.
Hersh has over a dozen journalism prizes and numerous scoops to his credit: the My Lai massacre (1969), the secret bombing of Cambodia (1973), CIA domestic spying (1974), Edwin Wilson and Libya (1981), and Manuel Noriega (1986). In 1972 he began working for the New York Times from Washington. On rare occasions his byline still appears on their front page or in their Sunday magazine, but these days he mostly free-lances.
Hitchens, Christopher. The Trial of Henry Kissinger. London: Verso, 2001. 159 pages.Fifteen years ago, before the end of the Cold War and the erosion of national sovereignty, the title of this book would have seemed strange. Then a funny thing happened on the way to globalization -- an emerging international consensus began holding individuals accountable for gross violations of human rights. A judge in Spain goes after Augusto Pinochet in Britain, as Yugoslavians stand trial at a U.N. tribunal in The Hague. Though Kissinger is in little danger, perhaps he thinks twice now about traveling. Soon after this book was published, a French judge sent officials to the Ritz hotel in Paris, where Kissinger was staying, and invited him to appear and answer questions about U.S. involvement in the coup in Chile. Kissinger declined and went on his merry way. But the next time something like this happens, the judge may be even bolder.
Hitchens is an excellent writer and researcher. Various chapters discuss aspects of Kissinger's career in light of commonly-accepted criteria for judging culpability. The book begins in Indochina, and continues with Bangladesh in 1971, Chile in the 1970s, Cyprus in 1974, East Timor in 1975, and the Greek junta that targeted a U.S. activist for assassination. The next time Ted Koppel brown-noses for the good Doctor, remind yourself that the jury is still out on Kissinger's place in history.
Judis, John B. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. 528 pages.When William F. Buckley, Jr., founded The National Review in 1955, U.S. conservatives were our "stupid party" (as J.S. Mill called England's Tories). Real intellectuals, it seemed then, derived from the New Deal -- or the left. Conservative thinking, such as it was, had mixed and mostly dubious antecedents: e.g., American nativism; pre-"Vatican II" Catholicism; the mystical anticommunism of Whittaker Chambers; or the cultish (as it seemed then) laissez-faire of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek.
Buckley and his magazine changed all that. John Judis's massive biography details how Buckley helped create conservative readers and institutions (e.g., Young Americans for Freedom) that made politicians like Goldwater and Reagan possible. As a Yalie and a CIA agent, and as the dutiful son of a rich oil wildcatter who was also a devout Catholic, Buckley's own life bridged many of the varieties of conservatism that later would fuse in the Reagan 80s -- and which now may once again be coming apart. Judis's account also suggests (to me, at least) that politics remains for Buckley the intellectual game he first practiced as a brilliant, devout, eager-to-please child on his father's estate.
-- Steve Badrich
Kessler, Ronald. The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi. New York: Warner Books, 1986. 274 pages.One example of wretched excess in the twentieth century is wheeler- dealer Adnan Khashoggi. He liked to throw extravagant parties for beautiful people and classy prostitutes at one of his twelve fully-staffed residences, on his $70 million yacht, or on one of his three commercial-size airplanes. His wealth, estimated at $4 billion in 1986, came from hefty commissions for arranging deals between U.S. defense contractors and the Saudi royal family. For years our mass media favored him with fawning reports on his lifestyle. Author Ronald Kessler does some of this, but fortunately this book is redeemed with a significant amount of investigative material.
Kessler wrote this at the peak of Khashoggi's career. Soon Khashoggi found himself in the middle of the Iran-contra scandal because of his work with Manucher Ghorbanifar in setting up several of the arms-for-hostages deals. Some of these deals were connected with BCCI, where Khashoggi was a major client. In 1988 he and Imelda Marcos were indicted in Manhattan for helping her late husband hide assets that belonged to the Philippine people. Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland and extradited, but he and Imelda were acquitted in 1990. At last report (March 1992), Khashoggi sold his yacht and creditors impounded his jet. He lives mostly in Spain, is still fighting his legal battles, and was down to his last $54 million.
Kessler, Ronald. The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded. New York: Warner Books, 1997. 463 pages.Joseph Patrick Kennedy (1888-1969) made big money by running booze during Prohibition with Frank Costello and other Mafia heavies, and by manipulating Wall Street with insider trading that would be illegal today. Next came $5 million from the movie business, using equally dubious methods, and a new girlfriend, Gloria Swanson. When the 1929 crash arrived, Joe made more money -- he had already sold off most of his holdings, and was selling short on the Street.
His political career began in 1934, when Roosevelt appointed him to head the SEC on the theory that it takes a thief to catch one. In 1938 Joe became U.S. ambassador to Britain, but resigned in 1940 due to his Cliveden Set sympathies for a policy of appeasement toward Hitler. After the war, Joseph Kennedy arranged favorable publicity and purchased votes for his son John. After JFK won in 1960, Joe instructed him to appoint Bobby as attorney general. Judging from this excellent biography, throughout his life Joseph Kennedy was a philanderer, an unprincipled manipulator, and a power-hungry wheeler-dealer, who supervised and financed the careers of his compliant sons. In 1961 he suffered a stroke. For the next eight years, he watched speechlessly from a wheelchair, with questionable comprehension, as one tragedy after another destroyed the dynasty he had created.
Schwarz, Ted. Joseph P. Kennedy: The Mogul, the Mob, the Statesman, and the Making of an American Myth. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. 472 pages.Ted Schwarz is the author or coauthor of more than 100 books, including "The Peter Lawford Story," "The Kennedys: The Third Generation," and "Rose Kennedy and Her Family." This biography, in other words, probably includes most of the juicy details that can possibly be found about the exploits of Joseph P. Kennedy. For example, the extent to which he and Rose aggressively ran JFK's political campaigns causes one to entertain second thoughts about the Camelot years. Was JFK as independent and high-minded as we assume?
Joe Kennedy was a bank president, he helped run a shipyard, he was appointed to the Maritime Commission, he was the first commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and he was ambassador to England from 1938-1940. He also did business with the mob, had an affair with actress Gloria Swanson, made big money as a Hollywood insider and stock manipulator, occasionally laundered money and evaded taxes, and helped Rose raise nine children in an atmosphere of privilege and luxury, as well as strict discipline, high-pressure expectations, and competitiveness. Joe's wealth was acquired with a self-serving eye toward power and influence, and he had no interest in philanthropy. He suffered a stroke in 1961 and died in 1969.
Maheu, Robert (with Richard Hack). Next to Hughes. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993. 358 pages.There are two reactions when people think of Howard Hughes. The average person thinks of Hollywood, the Spruce Goose, Las Vegas, and an old man who wasted away in a well-guarded suite somewhere, paranoid of germs, who for decades did not show himself to even his closest aides. Others react by thinking of the CIA, Mafia, and Watergate connections, and those spooky Intertel agents. These people tend to be suspicious of all the news stories. Robert Maheu wrote this book for the average person; either he doesn't know all that much or he's still not willing to tell. Maheu, who never saw Hughes, was his Number One wheeler-dealer from the late 1950s until 1970. By that time Hughes' paranoia played into the hands of other aides, who used his isolation to manage the information he received and the documents he signed. They took him out of the country and effectively captured his empire.
Maheu tells about his work for the CIA (he was the CIA-Mafia liaison for the assassination attempts on Castro), and mentions the Hughes cash contributions to Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon. His narrative also paints a fascinating picture of how the powerful get things done by dropping a word to various well-placed elites. But in the end Maheu sees himself as just another nice guy who got taken for a ride, and many of his readers will feel that there's still plenty he'd prefer not to share with commoners like us.
Tarpley, Webster Griffin and Chaitkin, Anton. George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. Washington DC: Executive Intelligence Review, 1992. 659 pages.The Lyndon LaRouche organization has a thing about George Bush. One reason is that Bush personifies the sort of Anglo-American, Ivy League elitism -- from "old boy" family connections to "old boy" spook connections -- that has occupied LaRouche for the past two decades. Another is that LaRouche was a federal political prisoner during Bush's tenure, after having been targeted by the feds and railroaded on flimsy evidence. This book, published just before the 1992 election, gets weird at the end (LaRouche claims that Bush's hyperactive thyroid led us into Panama and the Gulf). But the previous 600 pages are a massive compendium of elitist connections not found elsewhere. Though a bit wobbly, perhaps, the book manages to stand on its own, if mainly by default.
It's also fair to ask what makes LaRouche tick. One theory is that he may be secretly sponsored by the Vatican. How else does one explain the tantrums against Freemasonry and secret societies (such as Bush's Skull and Bones), against Anglican apostasy (dope-pushing British imperialism), and against anything that smacks of planned parenthood or population control (the Malthusian activism of the Rockefellers)? When these tirades are occasionally juxtaposed with respectful quotations from His Holiness, it makes us wonder.
Thomas, Evan. The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams -- Ultimate Insider; Legendary Trial Lawyer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 587 pages.Edward Bennett Williams (1920-1988) was often described as "the consummate Washington insider who played to win." After battling cancer for eleven years, the obituaries began on page one and his funeral was attended by 2000 mourners. Williams declined invitations from two presidents (Ford and Reagan) to become CIA director, and Lyndon Johnson once asked him to be the mayor of Washington. He was the owner of the Baltimore Orioles, controlled the Washington Redskins for years, sat on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and was national president of the Knights of Malta since 1984. Williams was best known for his skill as a trial lawyer. His clients included Senator Joseph McCarthy, Jimmy Hoffa, Adam Clayton Powell, mobster Frank Costello, Sugar Ray Robinson, LBJ aide Bobby Baker, John Connally, the Democratic National Committee, and the Washington Post. Frequently Williams picked up the phone solved his client's problems before they went to trial, and sometimes an exasperated judge would discover that his far-flung law firm represented interests on both sides of a civil case.
Biographer Evan Thomas is the assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief at Newsweek magazine. Thomas had access to Williams's papers and the cooperation of his widow.
Wallace, Max. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. New York: St.Martin's Press, 2003. 465 pages.Holocaust researcher Max Wallace takes on American anti-Semitism and the 1930s isolationist movement in this dual biography of Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, and concludes that these two "actively chose to impair the Allied war effort, jeopardizing the survival of democratic Europe." The most valuable contribution of this book is its treatment of the role Ford Motor Company played in Germany in the 1930s. In this sense, it follows a line of inquiry that began with "IBM and the Holocaust" (2001) by Edwin Black. The history of Ford Motor Company and IBM in Nazi Germany remains instructive for today's debate over globalization issues.
It is less useful to look at Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh as individuals. Ford was anti-Semitic, mostly during the 1920s and early 1930s, while Lindbergh was isolationist and mildly pro-Nazi until the U.S. declared war on Germany. Isolationism was not extremist -- a Gallup poll conducted on April 26, 1941 found that only 19 percent of Americans supported U.S. entry into the war against Germany and Italy. Until Pearl Harbor, even Roosevelt had never advocated direct intervention in Europe. Lindbergh may have been naive in retrospect, but all he ever did was some public speaking. It seems a bit unfair to lump him in with Henry Ford, whose factories in Germany were churning out troop carriers for the Nazis as late as 1941.
Weinberg, Steve. Armand Hammer: The Untold Story. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. 501 pages.This biography of Armand Hammer is one of five, but the first that is unauthorized. Reviewer Anthony Sampson thought even this one was overly kind, but that was before the ever-litigious Hammer filed a nuisance suit in England alleging 173 instances of defamation. Until Hammer died in December 1990, Steve Weinberg -- a journalism professor at the University of Missouri and director of Investigative Reporters and Editors -- was looking at what could have been the most expensive defamation trial in British history.
Hammer's self-celebrated career began at a meeting with Lenin, and blossomed into a long series of insider business deals in the USSR. Soviet documents reveal that he ferried $34,000 from the Soviets to the American Communist Party in 1921. But Hammer wasn't one to let ideology get in the way of business -- in 1976 he pleaded guilty to charges of trying to conceal a $54,000 contribution to Nixon's reelection campaign, and received a tiny fine (and eventually a pardon from George Bush). Hammer's control over his $20 billion Occidental Petroleum was so firm that stockholders complained about picking up the tab for his art collections. Although he was frequently under SEC investigation, his lawyers and connections always came through. Before the "Teflon tycoon" died at age 92, many were beginning to worry that the hyperactive Hammer was not only untouchable, but might even be immortal.
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NEALE Cooper has likened Jack Baldwin to a young Alan Hansen – and now the teenage starlet is set for an extended run at the heart of the Hartlepool United backline.
The 18-year-old appeared at centre-half for the first time at senior level during Saturday’s goalless draw at Walsall following a pre-match calf injury to Sam Collins, a problem likely to keep him sidelined for several weeks.
And Baldwin was that impressive his manager thought it apt to draw comparison with Liverpool and Scotland legend Hansen, a defender renowned for his unflappable persona and cultured playing style.
“To me he’s like a young Alan Hansen type of player,” Cooper told SportMail.
“It’s just the way he reads the game and everything looks so composed – headers, clearances, the lot.
“He just makes time for himself and that is a good ability to have. He’s got good energy and is comfortable on the ball so can play in midfield.
“But to come in like he did at the weekend and play a different position which just 20 minutes’ notice, I thought he was tremendous for his age.
“I feel that will be the position he ends up playing for the club and he was immense on Saturday.”
Cooper himself was a player who made the reverse transition from centre-back to defensive midfielder under the guidance of Sir Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen.
And he observed: “I used to be a cultured centre-back until Fergie turned me into a destroyer.
“I couldn’t get a game at centre-half – Alex McLeish and Willie Miller were playing there – so I became an assassin in midfield.
“But from what I’ve seen of Jack I think he’s a very good centre-half and that will be his position.”
He went on: “When I first came back here in December people told me a lot about him.
“He found it a bit hard when I first came in but that’s okay because that’s the sort of age group he is.
“You play a few games then you have to be taken out – that’s not a punishment, it’s about learning.”
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Reflections on Fashion is a series about the positive power of nonconformity, with a new story about style and acceptance each day, for five days, this week.
When I saw the shoes at Foot Locker on Deer Park Avenue, I saw myself, saved from my life as it was and borne along into my life as it would be; I saw myself clearly for the first time.
On prominent display were the shoes all my schoolmates were wearing. At that time, seventh grade, fitting in was paramount, and one could only distinguish oneself paradoxically by being the most invisible. You wore Reeboks, the kind with little air pumps on the tongue, or Nike Airs, with a little expensive air bubble visible in the sole. Though none of us played basketball particularly well or wished to, air was the note you had to strike that year. I don’t know if this style extended to schools across America, or if it was just the arbitrary choice of our own particular junior high school’s aristocrats, the popular kids the rest of us so desperately tried to follow. Whatever the case, in 1990 it had been decreed—the pants were Cavaricci; the T-shirt white with a print of Looney Tunes; and the shoes one or the other.
The Reebok wall lay on one side, the Nike opposite. And there, in the middle, on a short table were the green shoes. No air in their sole. No pump on their tongue. Some kind of mountain or Moon Boot hybrid, with a green suede upper where smooth white leather was the standard. My eyes, then hands, fell upon them—these were my shoes. They were a bit more expensive than what my parents had planned to spend, but then, swayed by my enthusiasm, they bought them for me. In the car on the way home, I rhapsodized about how great they were, how special. I kicked around the house and wore them to sleep.
Eighth-period band practice, second row, third chair alto sax, the upperclassmen behind me whispering loudly so that I could hear them, but not addressing me so that I could respond—“It looks like somebody puked on her feet.” “Like she killed and skinned Kermit the frog.” “Why did you kill Kermit? What’s the matter with you?” one finally asked me, egged on by the others. My face burned. My feet grew, were impossible to hide. I pretended not to hear them as the sheet music blurred. Did I hate my new shoes? Did I hate myself?
Teenagers, like dogs, can smell fear, and mine, way before I even got the shoes, was beginning to fill the halls and classrooms of my junior high. “Just be yourself,” knowing adults advise kids who have trouble making friends, but what if you don’t yet know who that is? And even if you did, what if your “self” is someone no one else likes?
I was teased and bullied every day for the rest of that year. The kids moved on from my shoes to other things, all the things about me they called “weird.” The shoes, unimportant in themselves, were just an easy thing to point to when calling me a “freak!” An easy way, perhaps, to distract from their own vulnerabilities—bark first and loudest at any perceived threat. Did I scare them? Was it my fear they smelled or some incipient power that I didn’t yet know myself I possessed?
A few weeks later, I performed a solo dance in the school variety show. Smiling ecstatically, sure that everyone would love me when they saw how well I could pirouette, sure again that this would change everything—as sure as I had been when I tied the green laces on the green shoes for the first time, I entered stage left. Kicking, spinning, panting before the school in a gold sequined leotard, I auditioned for their approval and was surprised, wounded when my final pose was met with laughter instead of applause.
Another bid for acceptance, another failure. I changed out of my costume and walked home alone, wishing it were possible to rise out of my body, to abandon the “weird” girl in green shoes, to stand with everyone else and point and laugh.
Things got worse, but I didn’t take off the shoes. Miserably I put them on every morning; miserably I listened to the kids jeer as I walked down the hall. Miserably I realized I’d never be able to fit in. And miserably, at least at first, it dawned on me, why would I want to?
“I have no friends,” I had written in my diary many times that year. “Dear diary, I have no one but you . . . ” Rereading these lines now, I think of Rick and Louis on the tarmac at the end of Casablanca, the airplane gone, the two of them, reluctantly acquainted, now stuck with each other. So begins many “a beautiful friendship.”
I wrote in my diary every day throughout my teens and 20s, and eventually I became a novelist. This year I published my second novel about a character named Iris who, guess what, doesn’t quite fit in. “Iris in all her weirdness,” one critic described her affectionately. I laughed upon reading that line and thought, How wonderful to stick out.
And how funny, too, that since the publication of my first book, I have a few times been interviewed about my distinctive fashion sense, that my “quirky” sense of style—my turbans, my anachronisms, my polar bear earrings, the sequined gowns I wear sometimes in the middle of the day (with sneakers; I’m nothing if not practical), my theatricality—should become something for which I’m known. Recently, on Facebook (the virtual hallway where we cross paths with nearly everyone we went to school with), a few of the kids who’d teased me in the seventh grade—adults now with children of their own—saw my new author photo beside an announcement of my latest book. My agent and editor had pushed for a close-cropped head shot, but I wanted to show off my outfit.
In the photo, I’m wearing a vintage 1940s mink swing coat I fell in love with on eBay, a tweed skirtsuit, and a silk scarf that makes me feel like Ingrid Bergman saying goodbye; I am leaning on a gentleman’s walking stick (stylish and useful, it’s the perfect accessory, I’ve decided, for women who like to wear heels). A roster of names I hadn’t much thought of since junior high school appeared below the photo beside the word like. I smiled—the tender irony of any search for approval is that by the time one earns it, one no longer needs it—and thought: They were great shoes.
Inspired by the new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
Iris Smyles is the author of Iris Has Free Time and Dating Tips for the Unemployed_._

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Used 2000 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Consumer Reviews
I purchased a 2002 E320 over 2 years ago. I have owned a lot of cars in my 60 years. This is my first Mercedes. Purchased with 161k miles. Now over 202k. This is the best car I have ever owned. I love driving it. I love the body style. the reliability. the comfort. Some repairs but nothing major. so impressed I found 2 more. a 2001 for my wife and by accident came across a 2000. My wife loves hers. the 2000 will be for my daughter when she gets her license.
I bought this vehicle with 132K miles on it from a mechanic that had owned it for 5 years. I had it in my possession for a little over a year. The main reason I bought the car was for transporting my road bike. In terms of functionality, it performs admirably, the wagon bodystyle is very good at hauling around the road bike and makes Costco trips a breeze. Performance - The engine power is adequate and the transmission shifts smoothly. Fuel Economy - On the highway you can achieve near 30MPG with cruise control; however, city mileage is near not so pleasant, 12 or 14 MPG. Handling/Ride Quality - Handling is okay and ride quality was a bit floaty.
Bought my 2000 E-320 with 150K miles on it..and it was virtually perfect in all respects. Ran and rode great from day one. Paid $7K "out-the-door" and Edmunds says a dealer "should" charge about $5000 for a similar car, but I have seen most, in very good condition, upwards of $9K, so I feel what I paid was a moderate "deal". Car run very well...Zero service issues excepting a driving light wiring harness, $150 repair by MB. When I purchased had three outstanding recalls...all fairly "cosmetic" (rubber door seal replacement, etc.) and MB dealer did without any cost. "Problems" with paint chips, CD changer, air flow sensors, ac failures others have reported are non-existant on this car.
Quality, all the way around. No complaints. However, I do have a problem with the CD changer in the trunk. The radio shows there is no CD in the changer when there is. Can't get it to work. Mercedes say's it will be hefty charge to fix! Other than that the car is unbeatable. I have only had oil changes and routine mait. done in 6 years. Mercedes knows how to build a quality automobile without question. This is my 4th Mercedes and without question not my last!
I bought this Mercedes used. It has a moonroof, leather, 12 power seats, heated seats, all one touch windows, and shiftronic. It does everything right. Its been on one long trip so far and has excellent comfort and features. I love the car and plan to keep it for many years to come

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As concerned citizens, we must inject our voices into the National Conversation.
Help create a clearing house of ideas for a just and free society.
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First Amendment be damned. Something must be done to stop the carnage, not just the mass shootings, but the day to day killings also, that goes on in every city across this nation.

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Galileo is emerging from stealth with a machine learning (ML) data intelligence platform for unstructured data that gives data scientists the ability to inspect, discover, and fix critical ML data errors fast across the entire ML lifecycle. The platform is currently in private beta with the Fortune 500 and startups across multiple industries.
“The motivation for Galileo came from our personal experiences at Apple, Google, and Uber AI and from conversations with hundreds of ML teams working with unstructured data where we noticed that, while they have a long list of model-focused MLOps tools to choose from, the biggest bottleneck and time sink for high quality ML is always around fixing the data they work with. This is critical, but prohibitively manual, ad-hoc and slow, leading to poor model predictions and avoidable model biases creeping into production for the business,” said Vikram Chatterji, co-founder and CEO of Galileo. “With unstructured data across the enterprise being generated at an unprecedented scale and now rapidly leveraged for ML, we are building Galileo with the goal of being the intelligent data bench for data scientists to systematically and quickly inspect, fix and track their ML data in one place.”
It is common for data scientists to use spreadsheets and Python scripts to inspect and fix their training unstructured data. Doing this ‘data detective work’ consumes more than 50% of a data scientist’s time, is ad-hoc, manual, error prone and leads to poor data transparency across the organization, causing avoidable mispredictions and biases in production models.
Galileo takes a unique approach to this problem – with just a few lines of code added by the data scientist while training a model, Galileo auto-logs the data, leverages some advanced statistical algorithms the team has created and then intelligently surfaces the model’s failure points with actions and integrations to immediately fix them, all within one platform, according to the vendor. This short circuits the time taken to proactively find critical errors in ML data across training and production models from weeks today to minutes with Galileo.
Galileo goes a step further by acting as a collaborative system of record for the data scientist's training runs, bringing transparency towards how specific data and model parameter changes impact overall performance – this is key for ML teams to truly be data-driven.
Half of the Galileo team comprises researchers from Apple, Google and Stanford AI who are focused on pushing the envelope of data-centric research that is then baked into the Galileo platform for any ML team to leverage.
The other half of the team is focused on building novel systems that can perform extremely low latency in-memory computations on millions of data points using minimal system resources. This combination allows Galileo customers to get quick, intelligent data insights throughout the entire ML workflow.
In addition from emerging from stealth, the company also announced that it has raised $5.1 million in seed funding. The Factory led the round and Anthony Goldbloom (co-founder and CEO at Kaggle) and other angel investors also participated. Company advisers include Amy Chang (Disney, P&G board member), and Pete Warden (one of the creators of TensorFlow).
The company plans to use the funding to hire across all departments and accelerate research and development to meet the demand of the industry for a purpose-built product to find and fix ML data blind spots across the workflow while working with unstructured data.
For more information about this news, visit www.rungalileo.io.

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text: One of the biggest hurdles buyers have faced over the past few years has been a lack of homes available for sale. But that’s starting to change. Context is important. On the one hand, inventory is up over the past few years. That means you’ll likely have more options to choose from as you search for your next home. But, at the same time, the graph above also shows there are still significantly fewer homes for sale than there would usually be in a more normal, pre-pandemic market. And that deficit isn’t going to be reversed overnight.

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The Marshall Electronics V-BR5-PM Battery Adapter allows you to attach the Panasonic CGA-D54 battery to the rear of your V-LCD50 5" field monitor. It mounts to the monitor's 1/4"-20 bottom thread, and provides a female 1/4" thread that allows for connection to supports such as tripods, brackets, or rigs.
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Writing since childhood, but published in 2014, Mati spent her life watching, listening, and journaling those moments that mattered. Raised in the small town of Anderson, California, Mati shares her heartfelt adventures with us. An advocate for those suffereing from emotional abuse, Mati dives deep striving to touch your soul with truth and reality, with a flare of love for the romantics at heart.
Although raised in a small town, Mati, the daughter of a retired Naval Officer, she finally settled for nearly 30 years in San Diego before finally following her dream to live near siblings in Arizona, where she resides happily.
Mati is an animal lover who loves to kayak, swim, and spend time with her family. Professionally, Mati had the privilege to be mentored by Susan Vreeland, Author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, among other works. She was also mentored by Kathy Ver Eecke, as well as, Eva Shaw, a past college Professor who loved her work and encouraged her to never give up on her gift of writing.
Mati's favorite authors are: Judy Blume, Susan Vreeland, and Nicholas Sparks, but her favorite author of all time is Terri Blackstock, who she claims has inspired her to write with boldness.
"Writing is a vulnerable and humbling act of art." Mati shares. "Rejection is not always a reflection on the talent, it is merely a redirection. Write because it is your passion and allow your work to become uninhibited."


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When most people think of Patagonia, their minds immediately go to the region’s iconic mountains like Mount Fitz Roy and the Torres del Paine; the creeping glaciers that loom over lakes of pristine water; and the allure of wide-open spaces at the end of the world, where mankind has no real foothold and exists at […]
Mythology fans visiting Chile should make a point to visit the legend-strewn islands of Chiloé, a haven for fresh seafood, gorgeous wooden churches, rolling hills dotted with sheep…and timeless legends of trolls, mermaids, and ghost ships. Chiloé: Land of Myths and Sea A short ferry ride from the mainland, Chiloé’s isolation has given rise to […]
A hiking holiday in Patagonia, the remote expanse of wilderness at the end of the world, used to be a means of leaving all modern technology behind. However, with the advent of smartphones, there is an increasing understanding of how technology can now enhance our enjoyment of our natural surroundings. Well, we’ve yet to come across an app dedicated to hiking in Patagonia, but in the meantime, here is our pick of best apps for this unique environment.
The jaw-dropping landscape of Chilean Patagonia is the ideal location for all kinds of outdoor pursuits including trekking and hiking. While they are often used interchangeably, the terms ‘trekking’ and ‘hiking’ are distinct but it can be hard to pin down exactly what the difference is. To help you choose the right activity for you, Cascada defines the terms.

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CHICAGO — During the Big Ten Media Day Conference, BTN President Francois McGillicuddy announced that the network will broadcast a documentary focusing on the MSU and U-M rivalry.
The film called “Divided We Stand” will focus on both the football and men’s basketball programs while the rivalry continues to increase on the national level.
There has been no confirmed air date on the new program, but it will be streamed on both BTN and Fox Sports 1.
The Spartans and Wolverines will play on Nov. 16 in Ann Arbor with game time still to be determined.
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GW Tops Temple
Colonials pick up first Atlantic 10 win with 78-60 victory over Owls.
Jan. 7, 2004
WASHINGTON - Two Colonials posted double-doubles and T.J. Thompson scored a team-high 21 points and handed out six assists to lead GW to an 18-point rout over Temple Wednesday night at Smith Center.
Both Mike Hall (12 points, 12 rebounds) and Omar Williams (10 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists) were on top of their games as was Greg Collucci (4 three-pointers, 14 points) as GW snapped a four-game skid and seven-game losing streak to the Owls. It marked GW's largest margin of victory over Temple since 1960.
Trailing 34-29 at halftime, GW outscored Temple 25-8 to begin the second half including five three-pointers to take a 54-42 lead at the 13:02 mark. Temple's David Hawkins converted a three-point play to close to within seven (63-56) at the 6:35 mark before Thompson buried another three-pointer as the Colonials closed out the game with a 15-4 run.
It was GW's first victory over Temple at Smith Center since Feb. 3, 1996 and only the second home win over the Owls in 19 games at Smith Center.
Cavanaugh Named A-10 Co-Player of the Week
George Washington men's basketball forward Tyler Cavanaugh has been named the Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Week, the league announced Monday.
Men's Basketball Bounces Back vs. Bonnies
On the heels of a heartbreaker against conference front-runner VCU on Wednesday night, the GW men's basketball team needed to bounce quickly with Saint...
Men's Basketball Hosts St. Bonaventure for Homecoming on Saturday
As part of Homecoming Weekend, the GW men’s basketball team plays host to St. Bonaventure on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. in a nationally-televised game on...
Men's Basketball Stunned by VCU, 54-53
Yuta Watanabe and GW men's basketball were denied what would have been a game-winning three-pointer with .4 seconds on the clock after a foul was called on...
Men's Basketball to Whiteout VCU
The GW men’s basketball team looks to get back in the win column in front of its home fans on Wednesday evening vs. VCU in the Charles E. Smith Center,...
Men's Basketball Falls at Richmond, 84-75
On Saturday afternoon at Richmond's Robins Center, the George Washington men's basketball team battled back again and again over the game's final 20 minutes,...
Men's Basketball Returns to the Road to Face Richmond
After seeing its three-game winning streak end at the hands of Rhode Island on Tuesday, the GW men’s basketball team returns to the road on Saturday to...
Men's Basketball Falls Short at Rhode Island, 82-70
The George Washington men's basketball team entered Rhode Island's Ryan Center on Tuesday night as the winners of three straight to pull even at 4-4 in the...


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Handmade Egypt Rings and Pendants - Fashion Jewelry
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- Justin Bieber ditches his shirt at the gym - TMZ
- Elton John is NOT retiring - Gossip Cop
- Yara Shahidi started a fun new project - Just Jared Jr
- Selena Gomez wears pajamas and heels while shopping- Radar
- Milo Ventimiglia opens up about working with Will Smith - Lainey Gossip
- Moana hits big at the box offices for the second weekend - The Hollywood Reporter
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is Red Carpet Ready for the Met Ball 2014 - Find Out How!
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Gurney Drive Hawker Center, Persiaran Gurney, Penang
As typical of most hawker centres Gurney Drive Hawker Center is perfect spot for your dinner, browsing through the different food stalls and marvelling at the wonderful variety of delicious-looking food.
It’s about 20 minute walk from The Northam All Suite Hotel Penang.
It may be advisable to sit close to the food your are ordering, which is easier said than done, as the hawker centre often gets quite crowded.
Although the parking at Gurney Plaza is more expensive, it saves you the hassle of finding a non-existing street parking lot.

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Why hello, internet. I really didn’t mean to abandon you for, oh, a year and a half. I had this baby, see, and he took up a lot of my time. After a year I am slowwwwly making my way back to my old self. And I made this salad today and thought the internet might like it.
There’s only one picture, because that’s all I have time for these days. And only 5 ingredients. It’s inspired by this orangette salad which used to be my favourite thing to pack for lunch. It’s quick, so if you give yourself 15 minutes the evening before, you can have a filling tasty salad the next day.
Chickpea and Carrot Salad
- 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 2 large carrots, peeled and shredded
- 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
- pinch of salt and pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients and chill until ready to eat!

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Speaking in Berlin, Chief Executive Peter Loescher said the downturn was one "not seen before in our generation," but said the Munich-based company was still poised to get new business in 2009.
"Stronger companies will get stronger and the weaker ones weaker" as a result of the crisis, he said, adding the company would do more research and development inside Germany but move production jobs abroad to benefit from cheaper labor costs.
Siemens currently employs some 430,000 workers worldwide, with 130,000 in Germany. It has this year added more positions in its energy sector, as well as in Brazil and China.
Siemens, which makes everything from wind turbines to trams, won't suffer from the current shortage of credit and would have no refinancing costs in 2010, said Loescher.
As for the ongoing corruption case — earlier this week, Siemens agreed to pay more than $1 billion in fines in Germany and the U.S. — Loescher said that internal policing and investigation, along with an emphasis on integrity had been established.


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Whistleblower campaign – U.S. and Canada authorities search for Cartu Brothers!
The Israeli-Canadian Cartu Brothers - David Cartu, Joshua Cartu, and Jonathan Cartu - are notorious binary options scammers and are in big trouble with regulators and law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Canada. In Toronto, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has brought a fraud complaint against the brothers. The U.S.CFCT has also sued the brothers for alleged binary options fraud in Texas. David Cartu is also notorious for his proximity to Wirecard. Insiders claim he was a major Wirecard shareholder.

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Basically, they work in totally various methods and are used for various purposes. For usage in treating facial wrinkles it lasts 3-4 months in about 85% of clients.
g. hands, feet, foreheads, or under arms) it will last an average of 8-9 months. In our country, and our Medical Medical spa, the answer to this concern is "No." We do have now readily available to us 4 branded FDA authorized BTA products. In order of length of time each has been available to us for use (longest to shortest) they are Botox (Allergan), Dysport (Galderma), Xeomin (Merz Aesthetic), and most just recently Jeuveau (Evolus).
Each 100 system vial of Botox (enough to deal with 2-5 patients) includes less than 1 billionth of a gram of BTA. At that point the injected liquid is noticeable, and the presumption is that the Botox is then dissolved within the liquid saline.
Achieving this precision is pricey and can only be done in an expert medical day spa. How long a provided filler lasts also has to do with the exact location of the face at which it is positioned.
This is a carbohydrate substance that is already present in our skin and serves as among the parts that assists to hold our skin together. There is one filler offered that consists of calcium hydroxylapetite. The other unique filler that we use in our Medical Medical spa is made from poly-L lactic acid (PLLA) and the produces brand name brand-new collagen within and under the skin over months to re-volumize the face (Tips For Choosing A Hydrafacial Kansas City MO).
There is one filler that has FDA clearance for usage in the United States that we will never ever utilize at our Medical Medical Spa in Lancaster, PA. That specific filler consists of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) - 10 Quick Tips For Finding The Best Hydrafacial Kansas City MO. This is the exact same substance that makes up Super Glue. The body can never ever break it down, and this frightens us.
First off, a laser by meaning has simply one pure wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. This refers a restricted number of substances or colors which will be able to absorb that particular wavelength (How To Find The Best Hydrafacial Kansas City MO). Some lasers will mix two various wavelengths into the same delivery device in order to target two compounds at the same time.
If 2 or more wavelengths are delivered at the same time, then the energy for each must be limited otherwise the skin itself will be heated beyond a bearable level and irreversible injury to the skin might take place. Surprisingly, an IPL (intense pulsed light) or BBL (broad band light) device makes use of a gated series of adjoining wavelengths that are provided at the same time to the target skin.
If, however, just one target is the goal, in numerous cases a specific laser might accomplish the objective with less overall heat accumulation in the skin. Botox is provided by a terrific lots of injectors, experience and training vary widely.
Many of these BTA ranges have associated with their active BTA some biologically non-active aggregating proteins. It is not felt by the experts that the inactive aggregating proteins have anything to do with how each product's active BTA performs.
We don't understand why there would be a distinction, but our company believe these patients personal observations. There are simply three manner ins which we can assist you accomplish this. The most obvious is to place on additional weight. Obviously, there is a downside to this, and most of us want to prevent all of the associated problems that come with weight gain.
These folks can gather fat from one location and move it to another place! The beauty of using one's own fat for this function is that the fat cells that are able to develop their own blood supply in the brand-new location will then live for as long as the individual does.
It can vary from a low of about 20% to a high of about 80%. Really thin people may not have appropriate fat situated in other locations to have enough to harvest in order to transplant it to the brand-new desired location.
It has actually been around for about 15 years and it works by growing collagen in and under the skin. Sometimes one treatment is enough but more typically 2-4 treatments will be needed over a number of months.
One might either tighten up the envelope of the balloon or increase the volume inside the balloon (put more "air" into it). Tightening up of the skin nearly constantly involves heating it up.
A variety of modalities can be utilized to warm up the skin. Numerous lasers, ultrasound, and radio frequency energy are the most typically used strategies to attain the most reliable skin tightening. These techniques can be utilized either on the face or almost anywhere else on the body.
The Medical Health club at Kiawah looks and feels like a spa, all services are administered under the direction of our Medical Director Dr. Rodney Young. Treatments consist of medical-grade items and are administered by licensed professionals.
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It is crucial that you do not have unprotected sun exposure to the area being treated at least 2 weeks prior to your treatment to prevent blister or long-term hyperpigmentation (Advice On Choosing A Hydrafacial Kansas City MO). Shaving is required prior to carrying out laser hair elimination. In order for the laser to penatrate down into the hair follicle and bulb, the hair should be shaven at the base of the skin (epidermis layer) We suggest at least six treatments.
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Read full description of the books number9dream:Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams.
David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name.
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Read information about the authorDavid Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I'd spent the last 6 years in London, or Cape Town, or Moose Jaw, on an oil rig or in the circus? This is my answer to myself." Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Mitchell's American editor at Random House is novelist David Ebershoff.
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The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on 25th May 2018, which seeks to protect the personal data of all EU citizens. The regulations will give EU citizens new rights including the “right to be forgotten” or “how their data can be processed”.
It is fair to say that the importance of GDPR is only beginning to be understood by organisations. But with less than one year before GDPR becomes law a recent online survey conducted by YouGov in the UK discovered that 71% of UK organisations have still not started to prepare or consider its impact on their business.
Let’s start by reminding you that any breach of GDPR can expose an organisation to fines of up to €20m or 4% of their global annual turnover. History shows that for any new legislation to be taken seriously the regulator, in this instance Elizabeth Denham – Information Commissioner, will surely focus her activities on industry verticals where abundant personal data needs better governance.
Once such sector is human resources and the recruitment industry. Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?
- After posting a vacancy on LinkedIn within days numerous CV’s were emailed to me from multiple recruiters
- I have just received an unsolicited approach by a company who had my CV on their file
- A candidate hire via a recruitment firm has now being re-approached by the same recruitment offering them a new role with another company
- I received an unsolicited email from directly from a candidate attaching their CV.
- I have been asked to record a video answering questions raised and been told to upload so it can be sent to potential employers.
- I want to make an offer to a candidate please can you email me his full name, address date of birth and email.
- The recruiter has asked me to cc them on the offer letter and contract of employment
Let’s explore the impact of GDPR on scenarios such as those above and look at what companies need to start doing now to drive compliance and reduce the regulatory risk on human resources and the overall recruitment process.
1. Data protection beyond GDPR
Forty-four percent of UK businesses surveyed by Crown Records Management cancelled their GDPR preparations when the UK voted for Brexit. Not only is GDPR going ahead, but the government is planning additional data protection measures to data held by social media platforms, as it announced in the Queen’s Speech.
Recruitment is an integral part of all organisations and companies, large and small, must take notice of this regulation and start preparing for its enforcement. Anybody involved in the recruitment process should now be assessing what personal data is captured, how is it collected, where is it stored and how is it used throughout the recruitment process. Existing workflows were never designed to be compliant with GDPR and now the simple act of sending a CV to a third party without the candidate’s consent could be deemed a data breach.
2. Informed consent
The common practice of maintaining unsuccessful CV’s on file for future roles will need to be reconsidered under GDPR. Recruiters and HR departments will now need to prove the specific consents the candidate has given. It will no longer be sufficient just sending them an email saying you planned to keep a copy of their CV on file or asking them to sign up to terms and conditions before you would engage. Every recruiter, online job board etc. will need to re-visit their consent process to ensure it is compliant with GDPR. Recruiters won’t be able to use personal data of anyone who hasn’t given consent. They will only be able to contact candidates who have opted-in.
How many years of CV’s does your business have on file? Is this data being used for anything? How much of it can be deleted before the deadline? How much of it needs consent? These are all questions that recruiters must find the answers to before May 2018.
3. An individual’s right to access their data
The driving force behind GDPR is to protect individual’s personal data and give individuals greater, and more powerful rights in how their data is collected and used. Employers need to be far more transparent in how personal data relating to an individual is sourced, why it is collected and how it will be used.
Recruiters, not only need to implement informed consent but will need to provide employees with access to their personal data so that they can ensure that it is accurate and updated as necessary. Individuals also have the right to access all the data that is held on them and to know where that data has been distributed and used.
4. The Right to be Forgotten
The Queen’s Speech reinforces GDPR’s stance on the Right to be Forgotten. Candidates will be able to request the deletion of their data, and barring exceptional circumstances, recruiters will need to comply.
For example, a candidate that gets a job through the agency can then request data deletion, the business would then need to prove that retaining the data is a business necessity or would delete the data as requested. However, picture the scenario where a recruitment agency has sent a candidate’s CV to 5 different companies, within that company the CV has then being sent to the relevant heads of business which has now resulted in multiple copies of the CV – how can the recruitment agency be certain that ALL copies of that CV are now deleted within the organisations that received the CV? This will be a key challenge and will need a shift change in how content is shared both from a technology and a human behaviour perspective.
5. Assessment of automated processes
Many recruiters rely on automated processes to make their jobs easier, but how much do candidates know about them?
For example, a person may apply for a vacancy that says ‘2:1 degree preferred’ because they have great work experience in a similar role, but they got a 2:2. Yet the application goes into a programme that filters out anything below a 2:1. Are candidates aware of this process? Do they know that they aren’t being assessed as a person, but on individual data points?
Under GDPR, recruiters will need to practice informed consent by being transparent about their workflow processes and how personal data is impacted.
6. Changes to business management
Recruitment agencies will need to maintain an audit trail to prove how CV’s have been sourced and exactly what permissions were obtained in relation to that CV.
All applications of data will require approval from the individual. If consent is denied, the data cannot be used. Candidates will also have the right to access and remove the data any organisation holds on them, if that data isn’t protected by another law.
Recruiters will need to carry out a full assessment of their current processes, systems and procedures, and plan what changes will be needed before GDPR comes into force.


As the new announcement by the administration was made Thursday, a senior administration official told reporters there’ll be “limited” exemptions for federal workers for religious reasons. Do you know what that means or could you give an example of what that might be?
I think every agency is going to have to figure out exactly how to interpret that. I would say if people are going to say there’s something special about COVID-19 vaccinations that require even more religious exemptions than you would have for a flu vaccine, they’re going to have to explain why that is. Somehow COVID-19 has taken on this big concern, this cloud of uncertainty, that it doesn’t deserve. And it’s been approved now by the FDA in full approval. If people are planning to do the religious exemption, (they’re) gonna have to really come through with a coherent argument about why that applies in this place.
Religious organizations that have more than 100 employees — I would imagine they would generally be expected to follow this mandate and have people vaccinated or have a weekly negative COVID test. Could an organization like that get a wholesale exemption for all of their employees?
I would have a very hard time imagining how that could be justified, given the importance of getting everybody protected against this. And to do this wholesale, it’d be hard for me to understand how that would apply. What would be the basis of that? I can’t really come up with a good example of how that fits.
For months, you and other people in the administration have talked about faith leaders of various perspectives as being “trusted partners” in the efforts to get people vaccinated against COVID-19. Has that approach shifted, or do you think those efforts haven’t worked as well as you had hoped?
Oh, I think they have worked in many individual circumstances. I do think faith leaders have been in a tough spot. And some of them, even though they’ve come around, personally, to the view that the vaccine is something they want for themselves and their families, they’ve been reluctant to raise it amongst their parishioners because of the fear this might be divisive. I’m hoping we’ve now reached the point where the evidence is so strong — where we see people dying around us — that those faith leaders will decide it’s worth taking the risk to get some pushback. To basically say, folks, let’s look at the truth of this. The truth will set you free.
And what role in general, other than what you’ve said, do you see ahead for the involvement of faith leaders, with the new rules the president has announced?
Well, no doubt they will be asked whether this is a violation of personal freedom. And I hope pastors listening to that will listen carefully, but also remind us as Americans freedom is about rights but it’s also about responsibilities. I cherish my freedom as an American. I’m proud of my country. But I know I’m not free to go out and get drunk and get behind the wheel of an automobile. There are limits here, in terms of what that freedom implies and those responsibilities, for a pandemic, kind of kick in and they have for decades. Go back to when we had smallpox that was killing people across this country more than 100 years ago, or polio. When you have those circumstances where it’s not just about a person, it’s about the whole community, then we all have a shared responsibility. And I hope pastors will feel comfortable reminding people of that, and Christians especially ought to resonate with that, since we’re all known for our ability to reach out, our determination to take risks to help other people. Here’s a chance to do exactly that.
Circling back to the question about evangelicals and hesitancy, or resistance. Are there misconceptions about white evangelicals and the COVID vaccine and shifts, perhaps, in their attitudes about them that people may not realize?
Well, it’s certainly a mistake to try to imagine white evangelicals are this highly homogeneous group. There’s lots of different people who fit into that particular description of a faith tradition. I’m one of them, but I’m probably a little different than somebody you might meet in a typical white evangelical church in Mississippi. But I think what we share as believers is this commitment as followers of Jesus that we want to share that good news with other people. And here’s a chance to share the good news in a different way. I don’t know that it would be fair, though, for me to try to generalize whether white evangelicals, as a group, have come around. Some certainly have. Some are still pretty resistant.


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I don’t want my karma to be the curse of repetition. For the world to teach me real loneliness, to rival what I’ve whined about, to rival the darkness I fear. I don’t want my curse to be the devotion I had and lost. To be replaced with the mirror of my worst fear. I love that I love you and that scares me. I love that I’m in love with you the limits I know not of. It is dangerous. I want to try for you. I need you to know what I cry for. I want to breathe in your passion even if I have to imagine it there. Why won’t you glow for me? What about me doesn’t inspire effort? Doesn’t inspire what I feel I do, and feel and give to you? To us! Why do you allow me to be a one woman relay? Passing a baton of hope and of happiness to myself and begging for you to pick up the anchor leg of this race. Panting for you to meet me half way, and sweating out bits of myself, as I run to you. When will my smile be enough for you to run to me again? When will my need for you be enough again? I miss you when you are physically here and it’s heartbreaking. I’d expect a longing in distance, but not emptiness in close proximity. Where are you? Where is the man that worked tirelessly to ensure that I knew you were here for me. Where is he? I need the warmth of him, the embrace that taught me the special of my being. Where are you love? I miss you. Am I still visible enough to be missed too? Am I still tangible enough to your being, to still be important enough to your world?


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Part of being a locavore is knowing what kind of foods grow where you live and when they are in season. When you start looking into the wild you can see what is thriving around you. These ingredients, when left up to nature, don’t need any help from us at all.
This month’s Pupus With A Purpose event will focus on ingredients that are Wild, Invasive and Delicious. Author, speaker and expert on wild edibles––Sunny Savage will be our special guest for the evening. You will learn which species of plants and animals are invasive to Hawaii and why it is important for us to reshape our relationship with them.
Sunny will provide many of the wild ingredients that you will find on your plate. You will get to hear the stories of how they got there and learn more about urban foraging. Sunny is currently working on a new app (slated to launch in 2020) that will enable you to find wild edible ingredients no matter where you are in Hawaii. You too can forage your own food and help manage invasive species!
Chef Sarah Burchard will work her magic with the ingredients Sunny forages along with wild and/or invasive meats provided by Jessica Rohr of Forage Hawaii. Her intention with the menu is to make these ingredients so enticing, that you are inspired to use them in your own cooking. Each pupu will comprise several wild ingredients combined with local ingredients grown on island by organic farms, and everything from the wild yeast fermented sourdough to hand cracked inamona will be made in house.
As always the purpose of this event is to support local, inspire you to think differently about where you source your food and encourage you to make choices from a conscious place in your heart, so that positive change can happen in our food system. Hope to see you there!
5:00 – Check in
5:15-6:30 – Talk Story with Sunny Savage + Pupus by Sarah Burchard
6:30-7:00 – Q&A with Sunny Savage and Jessica Rohr
About the guest speaker:
Sunny Savage is the author of Wild Food Plants of Hawai’i and the host of the show “Hot On The Trail with Sunny Savage.” Her TED talk “You can eat that — The gift of wild foods” has received over 9,000 views on YouTube. She is currently working on a new app called, “Savage Kitchen Edible Invasive Species,” a statewide mapping program for 5 edible plants that grow invasively in Hawaii. As a seasoned traveler, having made it to all 7 continents, she has learned of the power of collaborative efforts to save our remaining biodiversity and to follow the lines of abundance that the earth still gives so freely when you know where to look. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Dietetics and a Master’s of Science in Nutrition Education, but has found that the education gleaned from listening to the plants and the people who love them to be her greatest teachers. Learn more about her at www.sunnysavage.com and follow her @sunnysavage on Instagram and Facebook.
About your hosts:
Jessica Rohr, founder of Forage Hawaii distributes high quality meats from local Hawaiian farms strait to the consumer through farmer’s markets and direct ordering. She partners with farms that use sustainable, humane and natural farming practices. Her mission is to make local meats more accessible to Hawaii residents and tell the story of their food sources. Jessica is an avid fisherman and slow-food lover with an endless curiosity about everything food related. Learn more about how you can purchase local meats at www.foragehawaii.com and follow her @foragehawaii on Instagram and Facebook.
Sarah Burchard, A.K.A. The Healthy Locavore, has been cooking professionally for almost 20 years. She is an advocate for family farms and embodies the phrase: support local. Her unwavering commitment to sourcing the highest quality ingredients, grown as nearby as possible, are only outshined by her attention to detail and dedication to providing an “under promise, overdeliver” approach to hospitality. Sarah’s respect for ingredients and the people who grow them, paired with her locavore sensibilities, inspires diners to connect with their community and environment. Sarah is also a writer, marketer and event coordinator active in both the yoga and farmers market communities on Oahu. In addition to supporting small businesses and hosting farm-to-table events she leads a regular farmers market tour in Kaka’ako to educate consumers about sustainable agriculture and the food security issues of Hawaii. Visit her blog The Healthy Locavore and follow her on Facebook @healthylocavore and on Instagram @healthylocavore & @yearofingredients to learn more about local food.
Pupus With A Purpose
Date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Location: Moku Kitchen – 660 Ala Moana Blvd. No. 145, Honolulu, HI 96813
Ticket Price: $49/person (+cash bar)
Sarah Burchard is the author of The Healthy Locavore, a natural foods chef and experience host whose writing focuses on cooking, holistic health, supporting community and eating locally grown and made foods.


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America’s Unfinished Prison in Afghanistan Is a Filthy Nightmare
Renovations incomplete after five years and $20 million
Pul E Charkhi Prison, on the eastern outskirts of Kabul, is a place you don’t want to be. Once a notorious dungeon during the Soviet occupation, the prison emerged as one of the principal jails for Taliban prisoners captured by the United States.
The State Department attempted to renovate the prison, but it’s still monumentally terrible. Corruption involving the contractors is the chief culprit for the prison’s problems, according to a recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction—a congressionally-mandated watchdog agency. Worse, graft became such a problem, the department halted work in 2010.
The result is a prison that has improved in some areas, but remains overcrowded and lacking basic infrastructure.
SIGAR also released photographs showing the bleak, filthy and crowded conditions. There’s also moments of the darkly absurd—such as a sign illustrated in comic style instructing illiterate guards not to beat their prisoners.
The Soviet Union funded Pul E Charkhi in 1973. It was—and still is—the largest prison in Afghanistan. Originally built to hold 5,000 inmates, today it houses 7,400. Space is so limited that prisoners sleep in the halls.
The State Department identified it as a problem site and hired Al Watan Construction Company—an Afghan firm—to renovate the prison in June 2009. After some negotiations, AWCC agreed fix up the dilapidated prison for $20.2 million.
Less than a year later, State canceled the contract. Officials worried that AWCC wasn’t doing its job. They were right. The Afghan construction company cut every corner they thought they could get away with.
Under the terms of the cancellation, State still had to pay AWCC for all its costs up until the date of cancellation—$18 million of the original $20 million. State then paid an independent contractor nearly $1 million to assess the damage.
So how far did the $18 million go? According to SIGAR’s report, “AWCC completed approximately 50 percent of the required renovation work.” So half. AWCC spent most of their budget and did half the job.
At that pace, AWCC would have had to ask for more money to finish the work. Money they’d spend doing a half-ass job. It wasn’t just that AWCC’s construction was too expensive and time consuming … it was awful.
The company failed to complete the backfill trenches, leaving gaping wounds in the land next to mounds of dirt.
Broken and defective fixtures littered the halls. Roofs and gutters weren’t properly installed, resulting in water damage to the paint and walls.
AWCC installed six generators, but never plugged them in. The contract required the company to repair the facilities many roofs using metal trusses. They cheaped out and used wood instead.
Sometimes, AWCC didn’t even bother to replace faulty portions of the roof. They just slathered new roofing material over the rotten old wood.
There are several overriding reasons why this happened.
One troubling cause—especially troubling as U.S. forces are in the process of withdrawing from Afghanistan—is the “fluctuating security conditions” that prevent State Department overseers “from conducting regular, direct oversight at Pol E Charkhi prison,” the department stated in a response to SIGAR’s report.
But the main reason is corruption.
The State Department found out the U.S.’s liaison to the project “accepted money from Basirat to promote the company’s interests.” The liaison was later convicted in a U.S. court “for accepting illegal gratuities from Basirat,” the report added.
Al Watan also got into trouble involving insider trading of government contracts. The U.S. found out the company received “confidential proposal information from Basirat concerned State solicitations,” the report added.
That could give Al Watan an unfair advantage when bidding for future U.S. government contracts.
To be fair, it’s not like the State Department’s contractors did nothing. Approximately $5.3 million went towards the construction of a water tower, staff barracks and an upgrade to the prison’s electrical transformer station and connecting power line.
The first two projects went generally well, except the contractor neglected to add air conditioning to the barracks bathroom. But “the power line … could not be connected to the electrical grid,” the report stated.
Finishing the electrical work will cost another $11 million in a “follow-on renovation contract,” SIGAR stated.
The almost $20 million blown on a bad construction project may seem like a small sum of money. The Afghanistan war has cost American trillions of dollars. But the prison project’s lack of oversight, corrupt officials and wasted cash is indicative of Afghanistan’s reconstruction.
The U.S. wasted $7.6 billion fighting a war against opium it could never win. The State Department paid $3.6 million for fancy television production trucks it never used. The Air Force bought a half-billion dollars worth of planes from Italy, then scrapped them for six cents a pound.
Add to the list one big, filthy ex-Soviet prison.


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SCCPDH (Saccharopine Dehydrogenase (Putative)) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with SCCPDH include hyperlysinemia and cystinuria. Among its related pathways are lysine degradation II. GO annotations related to this gene include oxidoreductase activity.

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