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The Appeal Court in Milan had confirmed the first grade sentence of four years and six month for the English lawyer David Mills. He lied to help premier Silvio Berlusconi.The Appeal Court in Milan had confirmed the first grade sentence of four years and six... more
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Cole Bros. Circus has failed to meet minimal federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established by the Animal Welfare Act.
The USDA has repeatedly cited Cole Bros. for failure to provide veterinary care to animals, including elephants who have shown extreme weight loss, and failure to provide adequate space to animals.
The USDA filed formal charges of AWA violations against Cole Bros. because the elephants showed signs of being abused with sharp metal bull-hooks, a New Jersey humane society charged the circus with cruelty to animals for overloading and overworking an elephant, and two elephants—who were described as malnourished and neglected—died suddenly within a two-week period.
In five separate incidents, Cole Bros. elephants have killed two members of the public, injured more than a dozen others, and rampaged during performances, which caused tens of thousands of dollars in property damage.
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OK... VAN JONES check ACORN check NEA check ..good work Brierbart I wonder when the other Media will go back to work being the check and Ballence people...Naaa that Aint going to happen ...Obama has that Nose Ring in good! ..Go ahead you keep leading those Sheeple around and soon the old Media will be no more!
September 24, 2009
Categories: White House
NEA communications director resigns
The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that its communications director, Yosi Sergant, has resigned.
"This afternoon Yosi Sergant submitted his resignation from the National Endowment for the Arts. His resignation has been accepted and is effective immediately," said a spokeswoman, Sally Gifford, in a statement.
Sergant, who helped make artist Shepard Fairey's "Hope" image ubiquitous as an organizer of Obama campaign support from artists, had seemed to mix the NEA's work -- essentially non-partisan politics -- with the administration's legislative agenda on a conference call reported on by Andrew Breitbart's new conservative site, Big Government.
"I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service," Sergant told artists on the call, which he reportedly invited some of them to attend. "My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table," he said.
Texas Senator John Cornyn, among critics, complained that the call politicized subjected the agency to "political manipulation, though the NEA initially defended the call. NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman later said the call "inappropriate" and that Sergant had acted "unilaterally" in helping to organize it.
"This call was completely unrelated to NEA’s grantmaking, which is highly regarded for its independence and integrity," Landesman said.
The White House has sought to downplay the story, which has gotten little mainstream media attention, despite heavy coverage on the right. But it did issue new guidelines aimed at preventing politics from mixing with agency business.OK... VAN JONES check ACORN check NEA check ..good work Brierbart I wonder when the... more
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Big Hollywood: Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, clearly identifies this arts group as a pro-Obama collective and warns them of some “specific asks” that will be delivered later in the meeting.
Editor's note: Big Hollywood contributer Patrick Courrielche sets up the additional clips.
Clip Two: Later in the call, “specific asks” were delivered by Yosi Sergant, then Communications Director of the National Endowment for the Arts. What were the “asks”? They were for this pro-Obama arts group to create art on several hotly debated political issues, including health care.
Clip three: Nell Abernathy of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency, and Michael Skolnik, the third party moderator, the meeting seemed designed to deflect any questionable conversations to the “third party”, while keeping the issue of health care top-of-mind with the precision of a well positioned product placement.
Clip Four: Michael Skolnik, the person asked by the NEA and the White House to help bring together this arts collective, defined the group and its goal in his opening statement. I think it is made pretty clear how this pro-Obama group would react to losing the healthcare debate if prodded to speak to that very issue.Big Hollywood: Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public... more
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The corruption of governments, the brutal force and unjust decisions by leaders that employ these people to take such actions against their own. Really good video just wanted to share.The corruption of governments, the brutal force and unjust decisions by leaders that... more
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Five months ago, investigators with the Arizona Attorney General's Office raided the home of one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's favored commanders — seizing computers, cell phones, bank records, and other documents.
This week, thanks to the work of this newspaper's attorneys, information about that raid has finally been revealed. That information includes the evidence that investigators presented to Pinal County Judge Robert Carter Olson in order to get a search warrant. It contains some stunning new details, including the hitherto undisclosed role of a campaign consultant in connecting high-ranking sheriff's officers to the Arizona Republican Party.
Follow link for the rest of the story By Sarah Fenske at The Phoenix New Times.Five months ago, investigators with the Arizona Attorney General's Office raided the... more
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This short documentary explores the life of a 26 year old drug addicted male who has infiltrated the system of Social Security. His government granted health care allows him to receive an absurd amount of schedule 2 narcotics for ultra cheap, in which he sells on a street level to support himself.This short documentary explores the life of a 26 year old drug addicted male who has... more
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Afghan journalists on Wednesday rejected a demand by the Foreign Ministry not to broadcast information about attacks or violence on election day, charging it violated their constitutional right to cover the news.
The Taliban have ramped up attacks ahead of Thursday's vote, including two suicide bombings against NATO troops, rocket fire on the presidential compound and an armed assault on a bank in recent days. The militant group has also threatened to attack polling stations on Thursday.
Fearing that violence could dampen turnout, the Foreign Ministry issued a statement Tuesday saying that news organizations should avoid "broadcasting any incidence of violence" between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. on election day "to ensure the wide participation of the Afghan people."
Afghanistan's active local media - the country has a host of newspapers, radio stations and television news outlets - condemned the statement as stifling freedom of the press that was supposed to have returned after the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.Afghan journalists on Wednesday rejected a demand by the Foreign Ministry not to... more
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In 'The Cove', a team of activists and filmmakers infiltrate a heavily-guarded cove in Taiji, Japan.
In this remote village they witness and document activities deliberately being hidden from the public.
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as "whale meat".
The majority of the world is not aware this is happening.
The Taiji cove is blocked off from the public. Cameras are not allowed inside and the media does not cover the story. It's critical that we get the word out in Japan. Once the Japanese people know we believe they will demand change.In 'The Cove', a team of activists and filmmakers infiltrate a heavily-guarded cove in... more
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It happens with regularity: a smoked-out resident pens a letter to the local newspaper, chastising Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (HC&S) for persisting with the archaic practice of burning sugar cane fields before harvesting. The writer cites air quality degradation and health risks, lack of regulatory oversight, messy black ash or “Hawaiian snow,” and calls for alternatives, such as growing food for local consumption.
Then the fun begins. Inevitably, other letter-writers quickly come to the defense of the plantation, with a nostalgic posture that often defies reason. Sugar may not be perfect, they opine, but it provides jobs and keeps Central Maui green. Make HC&S stop burning, the authors say, and they’ll go under. Then the isthmus will revert to a dustbowl, or worse yet, it will all become urbanized.
Finally, someone will take the debate to the lowest common denominator: thinly veiled racism or provincialism. “How dare you newcomers tell us how to live our lives? If you didn’t like cane burning, why did you move here? And maybe you should move back.”
Twelve years ago this month, in 1997, Kihei resident Susan Douglas wrote a letter to the editor concerning cane burning, and left her voicemail number. Over 50 people called wanting to do something about the situation, and the Maui Clean Air Coalition (MCAC) was born. Meetings were held; more than 250 people showed up at a public hearing in Kihei attended by a representative from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 9 San Francisco officeIt happens with regularity: a smoked-out resident pens a letter to the local... more
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It doesn't take much to get Shane Victorino to bounce around the ballpark.
But Victorino had a little more hop in his step Thursday when he learned he had won the National League's Final Vote completion, which put him on the National League All-Star team. He will join teammates Chase Utley, Raul Ibanez and Ryan Howard on Tuesday at the All-Star Game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
"I was surprised a little, but I knew this was an opportunity for me to really see and understand what it's really like to be a Phillie," Victorino said. "It really showed by what has happened. I'm very appreciative."
Victorino picked up a Final Vote record 15.6 million votes. He finished ahead of Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval, who traded the top spot with Victorino throughout the week. Both finished well ahead of D-backs third baseman Mark Reynolds, Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp and Nationals shortstop Crisitian Guzman.
"To be the guy that comes out of the pack is an honor," Victorino said. "Again, playing in a city like Philly and coming up with a championship in a city that's hungry shows us again what Phillies fans are about."
Victorino had a big week to win. He campaigned throughout Philadelphia, even knocking on doors with Mayor Michael Nutter in South Philadelphia. He appeared on local and national TV and radio. He appeared in commercials. The Phillies promoted him heavily throughout the ballpark, including having ballgirls wear Hawaiian shirts.
Governors Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) and Linda Lingle (R-Hawaii) entered into a friendly wager to see which state can produce more support for the 28-year-old. If Pennsylvania has more votes for Victorino, Lingle will send eight cases of pineapples to Rendell. If Hawaii has more votes, Rendell will send cheesesteaks.
I thought gambiling in Hawai'i is illegal?? Or evidently this is not considered gambling?It doesn't take much to get Shane Victorino to bounce around the ballpark.
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This is story is about the American Government pushing our illegal Government of Hawai'i to pass laws and are in the interest of the Bush Administration's to the earth. I must say that even though it is protected monuments how can you allow something that is against Hawai'i Law and allow it a different part of our same home? Other forms of deterrents must exists, but Bush must have been another must haves. No Respect to our Ancestors and the natural course of nature thanks to the intervention of these governments who. Unreal.
A policy specialist who was laid off from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources last month maintains he was illegally fired because he repeatedly raised concerns about the agency not complying with the same environmental law that sank Hawaii Superferry.
David Weingartner says, in a whistleblower lawsuit filed yesterday, that the department's Division of Aquatic Resources failed to comply with the Hawai'i Environmental Policy Act as it approved nearly 100 permits since December 2006 for research and other work in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
That's the same law the Hawai'i Supreme Court said the Lingle administration misapplied in the Superferry case, eventually leading to the interisland carrier shutting down in March.
The approved permits for the marine sanctuary covered a wide range of proposed activities, including the use of so-called bang sticks, a type of firearm, to kill Galapagos sharks preying on monk seal pups, according to Marti Townsend of Kahea, an environmental group that has raised concerns about the lack of state environmental reviews for monument work.
Department officials have "dismissed our concerns repeatedly with no regard for their obligation to protect the public trust," Townsend said. "They aren't even doing the bare minimum."
No legal challenges to the lack of state review have surfaced.
Weingartner, who was hired in February to review permit requests, said in his complaint that he repeatedly told his supervisor and the division's administrator that the requirements of HEPA were not being met and expressed concern that the problem could lead to the shutdown of the entire monument permit process.
Instead of correcting the violations, Weingartner said, his bosses retaliated against him, leading to his dismissal at the end of June.
A DLNR spokeswoman said she could not comment because the agency had not seen the lawsuit, which was filed mid-afternoon.
One of Weingartner's bosses wrote in an April e-mail to him that the department considered the Hawai'i law duplicative if the permit review already included an assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act, according to the lawsuit. The Hawai'i law would be used only "when absolutely required," the e-mail said.
Three agencies jointly oversee the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands monument, one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world. Two of those agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have been doing their job ensuring that the permitted activities comply with NEPA, Weingartner said through his attorney, Dennis King.
But for DLNR "to basically just do a tag-along (with the federal agencies) doesn't meet the state's obligations," King said.
Hawai'i's law differs from the national one in some key ways, including a requirement that the proposed work be assessed for possible impact on Native Hawaiian cultural practices, Townsend said.
Weingartner said he was told in early June that he was being laid off for "cash flow" reasons, even though his position was paid for with federal funds and he volunteered to be furloughed to keep his job, according to the lawsuit.
Some of the monument permits that were approved last year included authorization to use electromagnetic devices, magnets and underwater speaker systems to keep Galapagos sharks from monk seals and to anchor steel rods onto the oceanThis is story is about the American Government pushing our illegal Government of... more
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Chevron (formorly 'Texaco') deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxin-laden water of formation into Amazon waterways.
For over three decades, Chevron chose profit over people in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
The cold and calculated decision to save $3 per barrel and yet poison entire communities is compounded daily as Chevron continues its PR campaign to suppress the truth and barrage the media with lies about its actions and responsibility.
This blog is part of an ever-growing campaign to counter Chevron's misinformation tactics and speak frankly about their attempts to hide their role in the world's worst oil-related disaster.
This is the first in a series of reports from the field in Ecuador's northern rainforests, site of perhaps the largest oil related disaster in the world and ground zero of Chevron's $27 billion liability in the ongoing Aguinda v. Chevron lawsuit.Chevron (formorly 'Texaco') deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of... more
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For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off.
Dr. Gary D. Kao is responsible for most of the errors, investigators say.
Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient’s healthy bladder, not the prostate.
It was a serious mistake, and under federal rules, regulators investigated. But Dr. Kao, with their consent, made his mistake all but disappear.
He simply rewrote his surgical plan to match the number of seeds in the prostate, investigators said.
The revision may have made Dr. Kao look better, but it did nothing for the patient, who had to undergo a second implant. It failed, too, resulting in an unintended dose to the rectum. Regulators knew nothing of this second mistake because no one reported it.
Two years later, in 2005, Dr. Kao rewrote another surgical plan after putting half the seeds in the wrong organ. Once again, regulators did not object.
Had the government responded more aggressively, it might have uncovered a rogue cancer unit at the hospital, one that operated with virtually no outside scrutiny and botched 92 of 116 cancer treatments over a span of more than six years — and then kept quiet about it, according to interviews with investigators, government officials and public records.
The team continued implants for a year even though the equipment that measured whether patients received the proper radiation dose was broken. The radiation safety committee at the Veterans Affairs hospital knew of this problem but took no action, records show.For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor... more
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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is due to give a nationally televised sermon Friday, one week after a disputed election triggered the worst unrest in Iran in three decades.
While leading Friday prayers at Tehran University, Ayatollah Khamenei is expected to show support for re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and to suppress calls for a new election. Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's most powerful figure, called for national unity after the election.
In a sixth day of protests Thursday, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Tehran to support defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and mourn those who have died in post-election violence.
Mr. Mousavi joined the demonstrators at Tehran's Imam Khomeini square. Most in the crowd were dressed in black, in accordance with Mr. Mousavi's directions to wear the color of mourning, rather than his standard campaign color green.
There have been daily mass demonstrations since Iranian authorities declared Mr. Ahmadinejad the landslide winner of the June 12 election with 63 percent of the vote. Mr. Mousavi wants the vote annulled and held again.Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is due to give a nationally televised... more
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15 years after the brutal and unlawful killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 by the Nigerian Military Regime in cahoots with Shell, the battle for justice continues in New York City where Shell is to be tried for complicity in Human Rights abuses. Will justice finally prevail as Ken Saro Wiwa promised, or will the struggle continue for the people of Ogoni? Find out what happened here....15 years after the brutal and unlawful killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 by the... more
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WHEN a Fox News anchor, reacting to his own network’s surging e-mail traffic, warns urgently on-camera of a rise in hate-filled, “amped up” Americans who are “taking the extra step and getting the gun out,” maybe we should listen. He has better sources in that underground than most.
The anchor was Shepard Smith, speaking after Wednesday’s mayhem at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Unlike the bloviators at his network and elsewhere on cable, Smith is famous for his highly caffeinated news-reading, not any political agenda. But very occasionally — notably during Hurricane Katrina — he hits the Howard Beale mad-as-hell wall. Joining those at Fox who routinely disregard the network’s “We report, you decide” mantra, he both reported and decided, loudly.
What he reported was this: his e-mail from viewers had “become more and more frightening” in recent months, dating back to the election season. From Wednesday alone, he “could read a hundred” messages spewing “hate that’s not based in fact,” much of it about Barack Obama and some of it sharing the museum gunman’s canard that the president was not a naturally born citizen. These are Americans “out there in a scary place,” Smith said.
Then he brought up another recent gunman: “If you’re one who believes that abortion is murder, at what point do you go out and kill someone who’s performing abortions?” An answer, he said, was provided by Dr. George Tiller’s killer. He went on: “If you are one who believes these sorts of things about the president of the United States ...” He left the rest of that chilling sentence unsaid.WHEN a Fox News anchor, reacting to his own network’s surging e-mail traffic, warns... more
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Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle is announcing the sale of more than $725 million in general obligation bonds to fund various state capital projects.
Most of the money will finance public school and University of Hawaii facilities, and other construction projects around the state.
The bond sale included $500 million for capital projects and $225.3 million of refunding bonds to refinance outstanding debt.
The refinancing of existing debt will result in a reduction in debt payments by approximately $100 million per year in fiscal years 2010, which begins July 1, and 2011.
That will assist a state government trying to close an estimated budget shortfall of $730 million over the next two fiscal years.
The overall interest rate for the bonds was 4.12 percent.Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle is announcing the sale of more than $725 million in general... more
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Sahara Reporters interviews Wole Soyinka at the Nigerian Liberty Forum in London. Soyinka speaks about the state of Nigeria and its government.
Credits: Filmed and Produced by Yemisi Ogunleye, IQ4News. Sound by Sukanya BorthakurSahara Reporters interviews Wole Soyinka at the Nigerian Liberty Forum in London.... more
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says former Vice President Dick Cheney's claims -- that classified CIA memos show enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding worked -- are wrong.
The Michigan Democrat told the crowd that the two CIA documents that Cheney wants released "say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of abusive techniques."
"I hope that the documents are declassified, so that people can judge for themselves what is fact, and what is fiction," he added.
Justice Department documents released in April showed that Bush administration lawyers authorized the use of techniques such as sleep deprivation, slapping, stress positions and waterboarding, which produces the sensation of drowning.WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,... more
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