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HISTORIC FACTS ABOUT SYRIA

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<br /> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8p5fQ5hYGZ5OeB8RhrkBDqGjy4nYwwGCQXUl3AuuXXN5PYk0M540QPeLzTcyffU3xwN_O7Rz2W1gNPdrE7HZvuTO1lhtoas6gtGdTBaALUuMKbwtZf9gsOwHcyUtqA10N_biPpHxA9urx/s1600/1_4image-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8p5fQ5hYGZ5OeB8RhrkBDqGjy4nYwwGCQXUl3AuuXXN5PYk0M540QPeLzTcyffU3xwN_O7Rz2W1gNPdrE7HZvuTO1lhtoas6gtGdTBaALUuMKbwtZf9gsOwHcyUtqA10N_biPpHxA9urx/s320/1_4image-large.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">© MSNNews                        </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: #444444;">7 MOMENTS IN MODERN SYRIAN HISTORY YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO KNOW</span> </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The war has been going on for the past two years in SYRIA. According to the United Nations, over <a href="http://www.timesofoman.com/News/Article-20325.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">100,000 people have died</span></a> in the conflict up to this point. The war, which has reached a very large scale, is at the center of current regional and world affairs. Everyone seems to have an opinion on what to do about the situation and a very specific view of the SYRIAN regime. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, you can only have an informed view if you look back to what forces actually shaped SYRIA'S current position in the region. Here are some key historical moments in the modern history of the country that you simply <i>must</i> be aware of:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. 1916 — THE SYKES-PICOT AGREEMENT </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVt3cdTlvT7HOeFcksqmhzkkGRea7SIrvUsx-Lll2wqXc4ou9NRwCf3YneFnszZboUQYjEd4d0o0mmgMGy4QvKxgvc7Xhlnic4lhtaRX-Z8jb_9iPYBOZPRX-nAXk7frXShM37NBkBquw3/s1600/1_image-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVt3cdTlvT7HOeFcksqmhzkkGRea7SIrvUsx-Lll2wqXc4ou9NRwCf3YneFnszZboUQYjEd4d0o0mmgMGy4QvKxgvc7Xhlnic4lhtaRX-Z8jb_9iPYBOZPRX-nAXk7frXShM37NBkBquw3/s320/1_image-large.jpg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="attribution">Via:                                         <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Sykes-Picot.svg/533px-Sykes-Picot.svg.png" target="_blank">JewishVirtualLibrary</a>                                      </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">World powers do not usually talk about the division of conquered land until it's conquered. But when they do, they make a real mess.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Until the end of World War I, SYRIA, like most Middle Eastern and North African Arab countries, was under Ottoman rule. The BRITISH and FRENCH aligned themselves with ARAB nationalists in order to bring down the "Sick Man of EUROPE." Promises made to both <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/277478/Husayn-McMahon-correspondence" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Arab leaders</span></a> and the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/israel_and_the_palestinians/key_documents/1682961.stm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">World Zionist Organization</span></a> were overshadowed by a closed-door meeting between FRENCH and BRITISH diplomats Picot and Sykes, who actually partitioned the former Ottoman land between FRENCH and BRITISH influence before the conflict had even neared the end. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Modern SYRIA, as part of to-be-FRENCH-controlled territory (in blue), was created out of Greater SYRIA (the entirety of the Levant), and was to comprise a heterogeneous population within artificial boundaries.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Until this day, the same boundaries have grouped Alawites, Syrian Sunnis, Druze, Kurds, and Christians together, based on frontiers drafted decades ago at 10 Downing Street.</span><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FRENCH MANDATE AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE ALAWITES PETITIONED THE FRENCH FOR AN INDEPENDENT STATE</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/10/the-alawites-and-israel.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/10/the-alawites-and-israel.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FRANCE EAGER TO ENGAGE IN SYRIA. WHY? </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/france-eager-to-engage-in-syra-why.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/france-eager-to-engage-in-syra-why.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SYKES PICOT AGREEMENT</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FRANCES COLONIAL AMBITIONS IN SYRIA</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/12/frances-colonial-ambitions-in-syria.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/12/frances-colonial-ambitions-in-syria.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;">SECTARIAN EQUATION </span></b></span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/syria-and-dogs-of-war.html"><span lang="ES-AR" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/syria-and-dogs-of-war.html</span></a></span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. 1949 — USA-SPONSORED AL-ZAYIMY COUP </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqx00fVwlVnhPp3MmYRcLQ366bIaXxOLwJy1ugto4qzn0u1psZkeBvoIRkZA7yqRgz6epSG04AFOVlj5dafttg8y3r_2UWzXNtI7BFeIG3B6avt6ac0V8TYQKC0foUEYIpPWXRbrW2sj3G/s1600/1_2image-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqx00fVwlVnhPp3MmYRcLQ366bIaXxOLwJy1ugto4qzn0u1psZkeBvoIRkZA7yqRgz6epSG04AFOVlj5dafttg8y3r_2UWzXNtI7BFeIG3B6avt6ac0V8TYQKC0foUEYIpPWXRbrW2sj3G/s400/1_2image-large.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Via:                                         <a href="http://www.us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/index.php?id=323" target="_blank">US Foreign Policy in Perspective</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /><br />   <br /><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SYRIAN PARLIAMENTARY OBJECTIONS NECESSITATED THE ALLEGED CIA - AIDED 1949 COUP</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/syria-cause-and-effect.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/syria-cause-and-effect.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After having finally achieved actual independence from the FRENCH a few years before, SYRIA became a pioneer in the ARAB world by experiencing the first coup d'etat in its modern history. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since 1946 and the withdrawal of the FRENCH from SYRIAN shores, the army was slowly growing until it became the most prominent domestic institution. <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tahir-square-tales-egypt/2013/jul/30/egypt-nasser-el-sissi-coup-or-revolution/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">EGYPT would soon begin to follow</span></a>the same trend.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1949 Zaymiy, sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency, overthrew President Al-Quaatilii, who was exiled to EGYPT until his return later in the 50s. Al-Zaymiy's regime was to be short lived, leading to a constant and prolonged succession of regimes until the 1970s. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The coup, which failed to give the U.S. a stable ally in the Arab World, backfired, fueling anti-AMERICAN sentiment that lives on until today. Zayimy's coup is important as it ignited the eventual SYRIAN alignment with the SOVIET bloc, fostering a deep relationship with RUSSIA alive until today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. 1961 — THE FAILED PROJECT OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNlJQLwUaHYKSwiGz5B3HLiMGy6OprU_r9nr66bkRvCJqImt2_r1obOMkoLeeSIRaZcS-gsF0FFEtqw0dovc5rzHuRYkJLPz5ibG8nwlc8_RrZ2IQyIjkpRUOhkXMdgmxfIPhJivAU-ZiK/s1600/1_3image-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNlJQLwUaHYKSwiGz5B3HLiMGy6OprU_r9nr66bkRvCJqImt2_r1obOMkoLeeSIRaZcS-gsF0FFEtqw0dovc5rzHuRYkJLPz5ibG8nwlc8_RrZ2IQyIjkpRUOhkXMdgmxfIPhJivAU-ZiK/s400/1_3image-large.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="attribution">Via:                                         <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&docid=Lvfn_VoR9xplAM&tbnid=anYJWW_hTgdDyM:&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Di%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dimages%26cd%3D%26docid%3DLvfn_VoR9xplAM%26tbnid%3DanYJWW_" target="_blank">AlJazeera</a>                                      </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The 1950s marked the rise of <a href="http://www.netplaces.com/middle-east-guide/egypt-heart-of-the-arab-world/nassers-pan-arabism.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Arab nationalism and Pan-Arab</span></a>sentiments in the region, guided by Nasser's formidable charisma and consolidation of power in EGYPT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This regional movement affected much of SYRIA'S structure of government, solidifying the role of the army in daily affairs and emphasizing social cohesion among Arab neighbors.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This culminated in a three-year project in 1958, the UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC. Through a series of shuttle-diplomacy meetings between Nasser and Damascus' members of parliament, EGYPT and SYRIA became one country under Cairo's control. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This proved short-lived, and relations between SYRIA and its regional neighbors never returned to be the same, along with <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/30269/fouad-ajami/the-end-of-pan-arabism" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">PAN-ARAB ideology</span></a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. 1970 — HAFEZ AL-ASSAD'S TAKEOVER OF THE BA'ATH </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After the long succession of legislatures, Hafez Al-Asad, minister of defense, took over SYRIA'S civil government through a bloodless coup. The "Corrective Coup" was meant to reinvigorate the political momentum of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18582755" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ba'ath Party</span></a> in SYRIA.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Through a series of domestic structural and judicial reforms, Hafez Al-Asad consolidated power, made the party the sole de-facto political platform in the country, and expanded the party's base.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/jordan-civil.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Black September</span></a> soon followed a civil war between JORDAN'S Hashemite rulers and the PLO in an attempt to determine who would be the leader of the Palestinians in their struggle against ISRAEL. SYRIA aligned with Arafat's PLO, eventually leading to its expulsion from JORDAN and SYRIA'S complete isolation from its southern neighbor until these days.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. 1976 — CHANGING SIDES IN THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvyYjnm_Etc05-TyMsNs8YqCD4NX1Nw2IcstUwvCSjAGiCrY_yzJ3cKXAKgo3a8sAm3x_7JkCdY_4x-Y_ZDsf3tyxXFGyg0qMd11kHdqGumwfAUfHDvNOzAYttZfrolc19Pcf31DfkQu0h/s1600/1_5image-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvyYjnm_Etc05-TyMsNs8YqCD4NX1Nw2IcstUwvCSjAGiCrY_yzJ3cKXAKgo3a8sAm3x_7JkCdY_4x-Y_ZDsf3tyxXFGyg0qMd11kHdqGumwfAUfHDvNOzAYttZfrolc19Pcf31DfkQu0h/s400/1_5image-large.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Via:                                         <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Foxhole_-_Lebanon_-_Beirut_-_July_1958.jpg" target="_blank">WikiMedia</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Initially, in an effort to push down Islamist movements within and outside SYRIA, the Ba'ath allied with the Maronite Christian establishment in LEBANON. Originally, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/help/lebanon-constitutional-law.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">the French had established</span></a>a 6:5 Christian to Muslim and Druze ratio in LEBANON. The proportion did not reflect in any way the demographics and the constitution required the president to be Christian and the prime minister to be Muslim.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After Islamist threats to the Ba'ath were defeated within SYRIA, Assad switched camps in LEBANON, siding with Amal, the militia of the LEBANESE Shiites. They had lost faith in the head of the opposition, Jumblatt, and showed grave tensions with the <a href="http://prrn.mcgill.ca/research/papers/khashan_9404.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Palestinian community in Lebanon</span></a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By participating in the war, SYRIA established a prolonged relationship with militant Shiite groups in LEBANON that lives until these days, with Hezbollah. The war eventually ended with SYRIA'S occupation of LEBANON and the <a href="http://www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/lebanon/taif.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Taif agreement</span></a>, which changed the LEBANESE parliamentary ratio to 1:1 and enhanced Muslim prime ministerial powers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6. 1980 — SIDING WITH IRAN </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjkpliyNbu3db8lgvvlwuOLUxJ4VV9aam_NlTYRIS9O8KPoPe_R0vBt2G7gxcz-uqOFs-8UHRB0jWJIW3-EhDcVM4PUGEseJ170mJMTzOV675eAr7T-g8QaPjGcUEAi2O6bRfFfoHOB0C/s1600/1_6image-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjkpliyNbu3db8lgvvlwuOLUxJ4VV9aam_NlTYRIS9O8KPoPe_R0vBt2G7gxcz-uqOFs-8UHRB0jWJIW3-EhDcVM4PUGEseJ170mJMTzOV675eAr7T-g8QaPjGcUEAi2O6bRfFfoHOB0C/s400/1_6image-large.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="attribution">Via:                                         <a href="http://www.vosizneias.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/red41.jpg" target="_blank">vosizneias.com</a>                                      </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After a tumultuous decade in which Hafez Al-Assad had changed regional alignment with regards to the PLO, the Hashemites, and the Shiite political community, the Islamic Revolution took over IRAN and new internal Islamist movements began to rise within SYRIA.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Assads, a Alawi family, were now facing pressure to establish a stronger Shiite identity in government. While the government had previously responded with <a href="http://middleeast.about.com/od/syria/f/hama-rules.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a firm hand</span></a> to this type of influence, Assad decided to appease Shiite pressure, siding with IRAN against IRAQ'S Ba'ath in the IRAN-IRAQ war. In return, IRAN became a vehement supporter of a SYRIAN presence in Beirut, creating a Shiite crescent between Tehran, Damascus, and Hezbollah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7. 2005 — HARIRI'S DEATH AND SYRIA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM LEBANON </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrbl2UB_3TWPAFztyRZsQInRBGvxzQXOMBow7dAItD-2hBDVkCX1lZ8p607fO85aaiDT3DBrpY4lXJNR7a3HQsljayzZTpPSLVn1gue7tFUur08ZxHw704bMOnwJk8jwdXpkWnfv8P4FYl/s1600/1_8image-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrbl2UB_3TWPAFztyRZsQInRBGvxzQXOMBow7dAItD-2hBDVkCX1lZ8p607fO85aaiDT3DBrpY4lXJNR7a3HQsljayzZTpPSLVn1gue7tFUur08ZxHw704bMOnwJk8jwdXpkWnfv8P4FYl/s400/1_8image-large.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="attribution">Via:                                         <a href="http://s2.lemde.fr/image/2010/08/04/512x256/1395734_3_cf23_rafic-hariri-a-ete-assassine-en-fevrier-2005-a.jpg" target="_blank">Ya20.com</a>                                      </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2000, Bashar Al-Assad was literarily forced to take over the Ba'ath party, following his father Hafez Al Assad’s death. Originally Bashers’ older brother Basil Al Assad was groomed to step in the footsteps of Hafez Al Assad’s, but a fatal car accident forced Hafez Al Assad to recall Basher, the younger brother from the UK in order to prepare him for the presidency of SYRIA .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Initially, his advent was seen as a one-time possibility for domestic reform and overture. However, this soon was proved to not be true. The SYRIAN army in fact pushed for a prolonged stay in LEBANON.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Things culminated in 2005 with Rafik Hariri's assassination. Hariri had been the president of multiple legislatures in LEBANON. Western-educated and coming from the business world, Hariri was credited with much of the post-war reconstruction of Beirut.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hariri was <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4270601.stm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">killed by a bombing</span></a> in 2005. Allegedly, SYRIAN cells played a role in the assassination through Hezbollah. Following the bombing, international pressure for a SYRIAN withdrawal from LEBANON increased, ultimately leading to the long-awaited return of the army to Damascus' barracks. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This event, like the ones above, has been at the core of SYRIA'S long-term positioning in the region. As the current crisis in SYRIA unwinds, it is important to keep in mind why SYRIA has developed such relations with RUSSIA, IRAN, Hezbollah, LEBANON, and most of its neighboring countries. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via Policymic</span></div>

HISTORIC FACTS ABOUT SYRIA

"Quality" Job Growth (Musical Tribute)

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The following chart shows the annual growth in quality nonfarm employment. I am excluding retail trade and food services and drinking places jobs, as these are relatively low paying jobs (and generally do not require a college degree).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7k6xFqLKhjhKRed5wji-4WvkaEAxfDtIrrwjmQej17ay83Cyt9ecY3hZKhow3oj5mECcwgzFYMz4UPC80Z6Whn1q5ckEnX8xIUG2yLqxdIgyWXiDwnARI-KVf44pw5UDQlprpu-Dwwxc/s1600/Quality+Job+Growth.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7k6xFqLKhjhKRed5wji-4WvkaEAxfDtIrrwjmQej17ay83Cyt9ecY3hZKhow3oj5mECcwgzFYMz4UPC80Z6Whn1q5ckEnX8xIUG2yLqxdIgyWXiDwnARI-KVf44pw5UDQlprpu-Dwwxc/s320/Quality+Job+Growth.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />1. As seen in red, we're currently attempting to hug the high point long-term declining trend.<br />2. As seen in blue, the overall long-term declining trend has finally reached 0% growth.<br /><br />How can one not be optimistic when wearing the proper spectacles? Don't even look at the blue trend line. Just stare at where we are on the red trend line! It's still positive! The glasses are therefore still half full!<br /><br />Seriously, this economy is <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=to%20die%20for">to dye for</a>! There's no need to be chicken. Swing for the fences! The Fed has permanently put a stop to recessions! What's the worst that could happen?<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6FHpCo1bqwc" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_eyeglasses">Chicken Eyeglasses</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>The idea behind the glasses is to prevent chickens from attacking and cannibalizing one another. Red-tinted lenses, as opposed to other colors, are said to be effective in stopping the internecine pecking because they disguise the color of blood. As summed up in a 1953 article in Indiana's National Road Traveler newspaper, <span style="color: red;">"The deep rose-colored plastic lenses make it impossible for the cannibal [chicken] to see blood on the other chickens, although permitting it to see the grain on the ground."</span></i></div><br />Yes! More <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mpx">grain</a>! Less <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mpz">life blood</a>!<br /><br />This is not investment advice. Don't be a victim of <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sarchasm">sarchasm</a>!<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mpv">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

"Quality" Job Growth (Musical Tribute)

The following chart shows the annual growth in quality nonfarm employment. I am excluding retail trade and food services and drinking places...

Low Cost Smartphones from Samsung: Galaxy Ace 3 and Galaxy Express

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Samsung India is going to launch two new mid-range smartphones in September. Recently a news came out that Micromax and Karbon made a strong appearance in the mid-range segment, remember both companies </span><span style="text-align: justify;">are Indian and had a strong grip on mid-range section of smartphones.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DCipOjD1Fj4/UjW_6XTMg5I/AAAAAAAAAWY/JswxR4rsoB4/s1600/605x493xSamsung_GALAXY-Express-Ace-3_jpg_pagespeed_ic_U0dFzSUFCz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img alt="samsung galaxy ace3 and galaxy express" border="0" height="260" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DCipOjD1Fj4/UjW_6XTMg5I/AAAAAAAAAWY/JswxR4rsoB4/s1600/605x493xSamsung_GALAXY-Express-Ace-3_jpg_pagespeed_ic_U0dFzSUFCz.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">samsung.com</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Samsung India had not made any comment on the name of smartphones but according to rumor the name of devices are Galaxy Ace 3 and Galaxy Express. The smartphones will support nine Indian languages like Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Vineet Taneja, Country head of Samsung in India made a statement on the launching event of Samsung <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/09/new-features-samsung-galaxy-note-3.html" target="_blank">Galaxy Note 3</a></span> and <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/08/samsung-galaxy-gear-specification-leaked.html" target="_blank">Galaxy Gear</a></span> “We will be launching two new smartphones priced for the mid-segment market. Every phone from Samsung will have nine vernacular language options, Samsung India will provide dual-SIM support in all of its mid-range and high-end handsets.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><h4><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Technical specifications:</span></h4></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Galaxy Ace 3:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Processor: 1GHz dual-core</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Display: 4-inch WVGA</div><div style="text-align: justify;">OS: Android 4.2</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Camera: 5 megapixel rear with LED flash and VGA front facing camera</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Memory: 4 GB internal storage and 1 GB RAM</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Battery: 1500 mAh</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Galaxy Express:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Processor: 1.2GHz dual-core</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Display: 4.5-inch WVGA Super AMOLED</div><div style="text-align: justify;">OS: Android 4.1</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Camera: 5 megapixel rear with LED flash and 1.3 front facing camera</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Memory: 8 GB internal storage and 1 GB RAM</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Battery: 2000mAh.<br /><br />Price is not declared yet but according to rumors it will be under Rs. 15,000.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/100638775997274345522" rel="author">Anil Swami</a></div></div>

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Samsung India is going to launch two new mid-range smartphones in September. Recently a news came out that Micromax and Karbon made a strong...

Today's Teamster News 09.15.13

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<a href="http://mtstandard.com/news/opinion/point-counterpoint-teamsters-st-james-debate-labor-contract-snags/article_2c3d2a06-1daa-11e3-990b-0019bb2963f4.html">Point, counterpoint: Teamsters, St. James debate labor contract snags</a>  The Montana Standard   ...Some unionized employees have taken a strike vote against St. James Healthcare, but hope a Sept. 19 mediation session will deter such action...<br /><a href="http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/friday-movie-night-income-inequality-5368" rel="nofollow">Income Inequality</a>  Economic Populist   ...The top 1% income earners have captured 95% of the income growth from 2009 to 2012.  Folks, that's pretty much all of it...<br /><a href="http://www.tradereform.org/2013/09/stupid-trade-talk-process/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stupid-trade-talk-process" rel="nofollow">The Stupid Trade Talk Process</a>  Trade Reform   ...Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, wants cheaper chicken wings, rumps and other assorted poultry parts. Ocean Spray wants an easing of pesticide regulations. DuPont wants greater protection of trade secrets. Negotiations have barely begun for a potentially sweeping trade pact between the United States and Europe. But the lobbying is already well under way by corporations on both sides of the Atlantic...<br /><a href="http://americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=6577" rel="nofollow">Wynne Godley's Crucial Warnings About the Trade Deficit Still Ignored</a>  American Economic Alert   ...Godley was one of the few mainstream economists who warned that huge, ballooning trade deficits like those amassed by the United States since the mid-1990s would lead to major trouble.  Further, Godley’s model notably that reducing domestic budget deficits without addressing trade deficits would bring on a thoroughly unnecessary disaster on the home front – and in the rest of a world so heavily dependent on supplying American demand...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-b-gutman/mcviolation-how-american-_b_3890417.html?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer487ce&utm_medium=twitter" rel="nofollow">McViolation: How American Fast Food Operators Break the Law</a>  Huffington Post   ...Among the most common violations is wage theft, a term used to describe practices that deprive employees of wages to which they are legally entitled. Across all industries, American workers lose an estimated <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11798/a_victory_for_low_paid_workers_in_san_francisco/">$30 billion a year to wage theft.</a>..<br /><a href="http://www.nextnewdeal.net/wheres-beef-first-thing-obama-can-do-himself-create-good-jobs" rel="nofollow">Where's the Beef?: The First Thing Obama Can Do By Himself to Create Good Jobs</a>  Next New Deal   ...A presidential executive order could directly help Lucila and the millions like her who manufacture uniforms for our military, care for our elders under Medicare, work as security guards at federally leased buildings, or are laborers on federally funded construction projects. The order would require that jobs financed by federal funds require living wages (not just minimum wage or prevailing wage in a low-wage sector), paid sick days, and prohibitions against employers fighting unionization...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-13/factory-rebirth-fizzles-in-u-s-as-work-shipped-overseas.html" rel="nofollow">Factory Rebirth Fizzles in U.S. as Work Shipped Overseas</a>  Bloomberg   ...That left the factory workforce through August about 13 percent smaller than the 13.7 million when the U.S. fell into recession in December 2007. In 2000, the tally was 17 million...<br /><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/clifford-chance-trainee-lawyer-faces-sack-after-describing-his-work-as-fing-people-over-for-money-8814754.html" rel="nofollow">Clifford Chance trainee lawyer faces sack after describing his work as 'f***ing people over for money'</a> The Independent   ...Clifford Chance, an international firm based in London and part of the ‘Magic Circle’ group of the UK’s five leading law firms, is also one of the 10 largest in the world in terms of number of lawyers and revenues...<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/business/wall-st-exploits-ethanol-credits-and-prices-spike.html?_r=1&" rel="nofollow">Wall St. Exploits Ethanol Credits, and Prices Spike</a>  New York Times   ...Wall Street ... set out to exploit this young market ... that is what happened this year when the price of the ethanol credits skyrocketed 20-fold in just six months...<br /><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/09/_401_k_fees_ruin_your_retirement.html" rel="nofollow">How High 401(k) Fees Can Doom Your Retirement Plans</a>  Slate   ...One of several big problems with 401(k) plans—tax subsidies for retirement savings—is that while some of the subsidy accrues to savers, some of it accrues to fee collectors who you end of paying for managing the plan...<br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/12/1238359/-Mississippi-sitting-on-872-million-of-Katrina-funds#" rel="nofollow">Mississippi sitting on $872 million of Katrina funds </a> Daily Kos   ...More than half of the unspent money is tied up in a hotly debated plan to expand the state-owned Port of Gulfport, and millions more are allocated for projects that have yet to materialize. Critics also complain that some projects are far from the Katrina strike zone and don't seem to have a direct connection to recovery from the hurricane, while others have failed to take root or are not meeting promises of creating jobs...<br /><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12242/wisconsin-attorney-general-seeks-vitiate-open-records-law-protect-alec%E2%80%99s-national" rel="nofollow">Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Vitiate Open Records Law to Protect ALEC’s National Treasurer</a>  Center for Media and Democracy   ...Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has taken the unprecedented step of asserting that a state legislator cannot be held accountable for refusing to disclose public records in response to a lawful open records request by the Center for Media and Democracy...<br /><br /><div><br /></div>

Today's Teamster News 09.15.13

Point, counterpoint: Teamsters, St. James debate labor contract snags The Montana Standard ...Some unionized employees have taken a stri...

Chilly morning in Shenandoah Valley

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhULhuATQMP84cVSwTC-BvxwEQE_WPLmoWihj0Vmcm2hICI_lS7PmCikr3zph3wV6uOg-LSKZW-NAQ3J0shVCFLCxAASWXDqxfsrl_pl-D9kviplM2q7KVkYcapZ8BCr-sY1XDdLM0issfv/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhULhuATQMP84cVSwTC-BvxwEQE_WPLmoWihj0Vmcm2hICI_lS7PmCikr3zph3wV6uOg-LSKZW-NAQ3J0shVCFLCxAASWXDqxfsrl_pl-D9kviplM2q7KVkYcapZ8BCr-sY1XDdLM0issfv/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>View looking west from Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, near Big Meadows</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>September 12, 2013 </i></div><br />Thursday while visiting Shenandoah National Park, the temperature was 90 in the Valley and around 80 in the park -- unusually warm for mid-September. This morning, just three days later, it was 41 degrees at sunrise with heavy dew in my corner of Augusta County. <br /><br />We're one week away from the first day of fall on September 22 and the weather this weekend has certainly felt like we've slipped into the next season. Temperatures in the low 40s the past two mornings are preparing us for cooler temps, sweat shirts, sweaters, and brisk walks.<br /><br />One week left of summer with daytime highs predicted in the 70s. It's going to be a busy week so we'll get out and enjoy the waning days of summer. It's almost fall in the Shenandoah Valley....<br /><br /><i>Photo by Lynn R. Mitchell</i><br />September 12, 2013<br />

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View looking west from Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, near Big Meadows September 12, 2013 Thursday while visiting Shenandoah Natio...

NYT: 'An anchorless world'

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NYT: 'An anchorless world'

From Roger Cohen at the New York Times : BERLIN — At dinner the other night, perusing the debacle that is Syria, a German friend observed: ...

Happy First Anniversary, Katy and Colin!

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLV9LSQM8pf0zL6YvASRwlVj9W-gzKFeIBbvW46JCGlAlLo0zdcCufH8kfRleH_MJqhEz2Xc3nse3g9xvgN4QLluQlWoi-UO4mHaBSu07wp0oQ8CVefAnVPVODk-495BPDBgpbHnfAb7CF/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLV9LSQM8pf0zL6YvASRwlVj9W-gzKFeIBbvW46JCGlAlLo0zdcCufH8kfRleH_MJqhEz2Xc3nse3g9xvgN4QLluQlWoi-UO4mHaBSu07wp0oQ8CVefAnVPVODk-495BPDBgpbHnfAb7CF/s640/9.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">House Mountain Inn located in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia</div><div style="text-align: center;">September 15, 2012</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6dirBG6m3Ko4aP6SCLuQfaDb-lyYWKiat_aKGR40sgjTVmkesURNWjfnfUsgWGO-ltC8fBCslrZr_VaAATMT42T_TbY68LhiHFG6gFllUq1G0IHH_fqEe81LhPYLi5GphONWddyjsnvV/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6dirBG6m3Ko4aP6SCLuQfaDb-lyYWKiat_aKGR40sgjTVmkesURNWjfnfUsgWGO-ltC8fBCslrZr_VaAATMT42T_TbY68LhiHFG6gFllUq1G0IHH_fqEe81LhPYLi5GphONWddyjsnvV/s400/3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1v84WKC6Pg"><b>The Wedding Song</b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>by Paul Stookey</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />He is now to be among you at the calling of your hearts<br />Rest assured this troubador is acting on His part.<br />The union of your spirits, here, has caused Him to remain<br />For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name<br />There is Love. There is Love.<br /><br />Well a man shall leave his mother and a woman leave her home<br />And they shall travel on to where the two shall be as one.<br />As it was in the beginning is now and until the end<br />Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again.<br />And there is Love. There is Love.<br /><br />Well then what's to be the reason for becoming man and wife?<br />Is it Love that brings you here or Love that brings you life?<br />Or if loving is the answer, then who's the giving for?<br />Do you believe in something that you've never seen before?<br />Oh there's Love, there is Love.<br /><br />Oh the marriage of your spirits here has caused Him to remain<br />For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name<br />There is Love. Oh there's Love.</div>

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House Mountain Inn located in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia September 15, 2012 The Wedding Song by Paul Stookey He is now to be amon...

Skin Care: Citrus Clear Review

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When i started looking after my health, it only made sense to look after my skin too! I feel its very important to look after my body not only from the inside but also from the outside. Eating healthy is the best way to get clear skin but that's a topic for another post. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, i like experimenting with different products and today i will be reviewing two products i received from Citrus Clear. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoD1iY-pKwpxOyFXNUhlftMBs27Q1iaQ2Zy6A6ZxkHf2dj7DY2NMFV-QNxR9l1HG9_cYa3o6S1SDbIXpTnxelWjlKDdgx_RBZ7eXzY6Svwmh4IpuiQT2ZIm5z46D05YE0i14nn3rhq33C/s1600/photo+(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoD1iY-pKwpxOyFXNUhlftMBs27Q1iaQ2Zy6A6ZxkHf2dj7DY2NMFV-QNxR9l1HG9_cYa3o6S1SDbIXpTnxelWjlKDdgx_RBZ7eXzY6Svwmh4IpuiQT2ZIm5z46D05YE0i14nn3rhq33C/s400/photo+(2).JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Tangerine Tingle gentle face scrub/face mask and Control moisturizer lemon uplift </b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First things first. The packaging. YES! I have to admit, i am very much one of those people that judge a product based on its appearance. I am just drawn to good packaging, its something that's very important to me, as shallow as that may sound. My products are usually displayed in my room, so they automatically become part of the decor. Not to mention the amazing fragrance, they smell just as they are described. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, its whats on the inside that counts! and i was glad to find out that Citrus Clear uses no harmful ingredients in the their products such as: Color dyes, Silicone, Synthetic fragrance, Mineral oils, Sulfates, Parabens, Petrochemicals or Phthalates - They <i>never</i> use these. That's why this is an all natural skin care brand for acne. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the products were all wrong for my skin type as i do not have acne prone skin. So these products would be perfect for oily or acne prone skin but for combination to dry skin types like me, just didn't do well with these products. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you do have oily or acne prone skin, you should definitely check out the Citrus Clear products: <a href="http://goo.gl/8CrWnx">http://goo.gl/8CrWnx</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watch my full review here:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g5lSB54lMUU?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Disclaimer- All opinions are my own. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stay healthy</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">x</span>

Skin Care: Citrus Clear Review

When i started looking after my health, it only made sense to look after my skin too! I feel its very important to look after my body not on...

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/15/2013

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll">      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v4n1/marcon.html">ECRP. Vol 4 No 1. Moving up the Grades: Relationship between Preschool Model and Later School Success</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Interesting study of children, preschool and later school success. "Children's later school success appears to have been enhanced by more active, child-initiated early learning experiences. Their progress may have been slowed by overly academic preschool experiences that introduced formalized learning experiences too early for most children's developmental status."</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/research">research</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a></p>                                                  <ul class="diigo-annotations" >              <li>                      <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">This trend is especially prevalent in programs that serve low-income children. Compensatory early childhood programs such as Head Start and state-sponsored pre-kindergarten for low-income families and preschoolers with special needs are designed to help children acquire skills needed for later school success.</div></div>                              </li>              <li>                      <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">Beginning in the 1980s, leading early childhood experts expressed concern about the wisdom of overly didactic, formal instructional practices for young children (e.g., Elkind, 1986; Zigler, 1987). They feared that short-term academic gains would be offset by long-term stifling of children's motivation and self-initiated learning. Later research suggests that these early concerns were warranted</div></div>                              </li>              <li>                      <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">They cautioned that early academic gains in reading skills associated with didactic instruction of preschoolers "come with some costs" that could have long-term negative effects on achievement.</div></div>                              </li>              <li>                      <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">imilarly, when the highly didactic Direct Instructional System for the Teaching of Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR) was discontinued after third grade, children's previously high achievement in reading and mathematics declined</div></div>                              </li>          </ul>            </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12135939/5-Steps-to-Internet-Safety">5 Steps to Internet Safety</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Free poster I created to help students understand how to be safe online. Yes, there are 5 steps, not 4. Every student should know how to screenshot on every electronic device.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/digitalcitizenship">digitalcitizenship</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edtech">edtech</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/internet">internet</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/safety">safety</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/cybersafety">cybersafety</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/onlinesafety">onlinesafety</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llv1Nh4Om0c">Docs Voice Comments - YouTube</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Jen Roberts gives tips on how to add voice comments to Google Docs. If you're writing in Google Docs, this is a great technique as voice always gives you a closer connection, particularly for struggling readers. They can also hear your voice and know the intent of your words. </p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google">google</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/voice">voice</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/engchat">engchat</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/writing">writing</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google docs">google docs</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature">literature</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_newapp">edu_newapp</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/techintegrator">techintegrator</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/09/06/03marquezgreen.h33.html?tkn=VZTF3CYMOTTIb%2Bzy2iBQTvgKvVFKEdGpv3Vv&cmp=clp-edweek">Education Week: A Sandy Hook Parent's Letter to Teachers</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Must read letter over at Edweek from a mom of one child who died at Sandy Hook and one who survived... if you want to be affirmed and remember why you teach, this is the post you should share with everyone.  "Your courage will support students who are left out and overlooked, like the isolated young man who killed my daughter. At some point he was a young, impressionable student, often sitting all alone at school. You will have kids facing long odds for whom your smile, your encouraging word, and your willingness to go the extra mile will provide the comfort and security they need to try again tomorrow. When you Google “hero,” there should be a picture of a principal, a school lunch worker, a custodian, a reading specialist, a teacher, or a bus monitor. Real heroes don’t wear capes. They work in America’s schools. "When I asked my son’s teacher why she returned, she responded, 'Because they are my kids.' " Being courageous requires faith. It took faith to go back to work at Sandy Hook after the shooting. Nobody had the answers or knew what would come tomorrow, but they just kept going. Every opportunity you have to create welcoming environments in our schools where parents and students feel connected counts."</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/administrator">administrator</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p>                                        </li>  </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZm0H6Rlq2W2MP66rzNOMOynuzB1f2auUw7RftcNqxHFcrFkMQkzO5BfPIp4oUnOxJzCPqFj0T_aBwY_1EACoQJZgOkGzzJog3IWb46udoa73Qyw1TTf46n7d4Ih-QZKjFfJmF3rvB0rZ4/s640/blogger-image--1408164123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZm0H6Rlq2W2MP66rzNOMOynuzB1f2auUw7RftcNqxHFcrFkMQkzO5BfPIp4oUnOxJzCPqFj0T_aBwY_1EACoQJZgOkGzzJog3IWb46udoa73Qyw1TTf46n7d4Ih-QZKjFfJmF3rvB0rZ4/s640/blogger-image--1408164123.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Went to TEDx talks yesterday in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre.  Highlight of the event was hearing about Quantum Locking - it's worth googling!!  But overall I was underwhelmed by the event.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kG0S8vOvhAIhWhq0ABtXvwn-JlbR8rjPyVZYmrjuGUPOY8qYQG66LfY7WTc8Dvce2Mxq7kMjyyRTXlI1Thxg5Ie0fEazLIxdacQ2NmRvJq6Z4P4QPuvutmf8_CH1RRpKqNKxR1d3q2cI/s640/blogger-image--579826249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kG0S8vOvhAIhWhq0ABtXvwn-JlbR8rjPyVZYmrjuGUPOY8qYQG66LfY7WTc8Dvce2Mxq7kMjyyRTXlI1Thxg5Ie0fEazLIxdacQ2NmRvJq6Z4P4QPuvutmf8_CH1RRpKqNKxR1d3q2cI/s640/blogger-image--579826249.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fiona Newell spoke about beauty and perception.  All very predictable and didn't hear anything I didn't know.  She also put up the ugliest picture of Brad Pitt to illustrate beauty!!! Baffling!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMiPJOz-mb7ifIoNHNH7bi0v9jCQovKAdeIFKxGV4gfQk_Dw7m04C_OBht_Qgla1OOaErV1L4unPRalRh5vhCpBsG48uZRG6RQ5OuiDN7ONwRL4CJsWC9AB45jjUos9kQvt9CF7b61GavA/s640/blogger-image-203505140.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMiPJOz-mb7ifIoNHNH7bi0v9jCQovKAdeIFKxGV4gfQk_Dw7m04C_OBht_Qgla1OOaErV1L4unPRalRh5vhCpBsG48uZRG6RQ5OuiDN7ONwRL4CJsWC9AB45jjUos9kQvt9CF7b61GavA/s640/blogger-image-203505140.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I expected to enjoy Surfer Easkey Britton's talk but I found it bland and pointless.  It was wishy washy giving us no details about why or how she ended up doing what she has been up to - Surfing in Iran.  She did let us know (a few times) that she is at one with the ocean, however, and also how spiritual surfing is.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDIIU5M_kHt-lBDet9uqyHz41e3-nZz0-u7USi_iC8t9NrlHFYPg75z0IVI4YBJIYaThdCNbSQShOvdb6lTtViEiFSpNP2L_Ti8sVlxrZAlX2N-2yCODT7DV1OaF66R_CPBm1nCX_2n71/s640/blogger-image-182922568.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDIIU5M_kHt-lBDet9uqyHz41e3-nZz0-u7USi_iC8t9NrlHFYPg75z0IVI4YBJIYaThdCNbSQShOvdb6lTtViEiFSpNP2L_Ti8sVlxrZAlX2N-2yCODT7DV1OaF66R_CPBm1nCX_2n71/s640/blogger-image-182922568.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Constantin took to the stage the TEDx talks began to get better.....the Soviet Rockstar Evonomist spoke about Human Capital and I found it to be a very interesting and stimulating presentation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaEQeyyKCsSlVokPatd-hY1U0H1vUywsE5aOrLg2S5ejcC_hTLEnB99bSjqx5Gbwb56AgTw_s7oPw8lZ5-IzWL2WK7UjQF-ExOHQ1VIZOmAIwpkyoxmGc2Cb7LExq_ilnk_XVjZc9sApv/s640/blogger-image-708509880.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaEQeyyKCsSlVokPatd-hY1U0H1vUywsE5aOrLg2S5ejcC_hTLEnB99bSjqx5Gbwb56AgTw_s7oPw8lZ5-IzWL2WK7UjQF-ExOHQ1VIZOmAIwpkyoxmGc2Cb7LExq_ilnk_XVjZc9sApv/s640/blogger-image-708509880.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">To say I was wowed by Dave Smith was an understatement - listening to this guy makes you feel like you can do ANYTHING!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9UQlNBN64LViuj2YhObymPvnbY1R0tQUtW1Ca8t4JvkQpMW3yh7cE1ekFhqYNcoqlsrX5uGXsOmifuvhc-OXBx_TGS5OWeANGZkT_zDcIeJ7Ni02ZjPrFPyFFE0z74oo_2Cs0MYTtU-pS/s640/blogger-image--1982099368.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9UQlNBN64LViuj2YhObymPvnbY1R0tQUtW1Ca8t4JvkQpMW3yh7cE1ekFhqYNcoqlsrX5uGXsOmifuvhc-OXBx_TGS5OWeANGZkT_zDcIeJ7Ni02ZjPrFPyFFE0z74oo_2Cs0MYTtU-pS/s640/blogger-image--1982099368.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's not to love about the work of Sean Love......but is TEDxDublin the place to hear about it?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQ9_C9jpV3Ag7NbEjEhwAlpkcfUzLJvA9QTb35BSEd1A5nThBJqUK6Kz-gAacYQRoij4prv7TvZ2Fh6UPSld_3rx7cPhmhyDUoAcZk2RDmALe57wmS1IQbkj8obmef4i_mdmTaUBprOFO/s640/blogger-image-646557253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQ9_C9jpV3Ag7NbEjEhwAlpkcfUzLJvA9QTb35BSEd1A5nThBJqUK6Kz-gAacYQRoij4prv7TvZ2Fh6UPSld_3rx7cPhmhyDUoAcZk2RDmALe57wmS1IQbkj8obmef4i_mdmTaUBprOFO/s640/blogger-image-646557253.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hmmm this talk was a big miss for me.  The talk was very superficial, low on detail and the speaker lost her way a few times. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uzG5Y2K3x2nm6MAF_hhSmoINnv1hK58dsNuzb0RZyxqNdLbPkd_olUnDUUM-PQxWfQz9FiPKdMWkNzulktVtDHYKKeiYKl_XuSZ7UDixJRjAIQt5VXhLBLXvzxvX2fXSNhRLOvnXJSzR/s640/blogger-image--732347065.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uzG5Y2K3x2nm6MAF_hhSmoINnv1hK58dsNuzb0RZyxqNdLbPkd_olUnDUUM-PQxWfQz9FiPKdMWkNzulktVtDHYKKeiYKl_XuSZ7UDixJRjAIQt5VXhLBLXvzxvX2fXSNhRLOvnXJSzR/s640/blogger-image--732347065.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">A serious scientist who competently spoke about the work that he does. Very interesting and entertaining.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJQ6VM0mcQ3h0fNny5ZZz8rXJIEq4eeLczz5YUcBZO8pQyo62wAnGfrpmfNeEh3HKjIZd3t6SGDlW8S58Yfy7tFpTox0ZiCWQvHoiwfzAlV_ZIFyv0hG6BWphY8ebAIGUmqCZZyDpoeEl/s640/blogger-image-1616036743.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJQ6VM0mcQ3h0fNny5ZZz8rXJIEq4eeLczz5YUcBZO8pQyo62wAnGfrpmfNeEh3HKjIZd3t6SGDlW8S58Yfy7tFpTox0ZiCWQvHoiwfzAlV_ZIFyv0hG6BWphY8ebAIGUmqCZZyDpoeEl/s640/blogger-image-1616036743.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although not the best speaker in the world, I was pleasantly surprised by Chef Thornton's presentation. Insightful and thought provoking, his passion exuded through his dour accent.  He even told some funny anecdotes that got big laughs from the audience. Along with his stunning photographs, Thorntons presentation was one of the better speeches (this doesn't reflect well on some of the other speakers).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNXtT1OUEL5Ep_VpwzzJSYWzdLjuB7zToXoA1Uzz2vGUAS1w4JCg7CIdQegtZTC1mByn15YgVa4ZnNVUy17uGeDzonqQP4amJqIMxiSdCFMyZQjDhXiYIYsk-4XOFOQOdlgtSF5KNIVw-/s640/blogger-image--811420745.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNXtT1OUEL5Ep_VpwzzJSYWzdLjuB7zToXoA1Uzz2vGUAS1w4JCg7CIdQegtZTC1mByn15YgVa4ZnNVUy17uGeDzonqQP4amJqIMxiSdCFMyZQjDhXiYIYsk-4XOFOQOdlgtSF5KNIVw-/s640/blogger-image--811420745.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tongue in cheek talk about vampires - No Thank You.  Far too many "in jokes".  Is it wrong to expect serious speakers about serious topics at TEDx?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIa4N5Z50vmaoXB9eLdVts4GBybE707aRyqcFHDoZ_fNhaPste14uIozRDvwk0rGj9MhXiktftqjp_CF_ZtIdupJs13AbW-5ki6Uu1dnq3cqbMz-vV9bRcvdBYk6ttxvYL3__ARHzVFiAv/s640/blogger-image--325364706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIa4N5Z50vmaoXB9eLdVts4GBybE707aRyqcFHDoZ_fNhaPste14uIozRDvwk0rGj9MhXiktftqjp_CF_ZtIdupJs13AbW-5ki6Uu1dnq3cqbMz-vV9bRcvdBYk6ttxvYL3__ARHzVFiAv/s640/blogger-image--325364706.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Cathal's speech was one of the best at this event.  He is a very impressive guy and I love the fact that he freely shares the work he does - including the plans for a printable centrifuge.  </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">But it then begs the question why is he speaking at an event that has a cost of 30 odd euro attached to it?  Which further begs the question, should TEDx Dublin talks not be free for all to attend???</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivuvreP3ZaKs_VFlptqyfac3bTDKAAJP93yg9XMde89CLCxrAKal-qhAdntxEmMl-6YcIsIxXc3Qu1tNFjM8kRk-WOedFQQWN3Hjc_OGYVCEanEUlXIsC1zGBenkkW1wt5xDo4o00AwmH/s640/blogger-image--1342766952.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivuvreP3ZaKs_VFlptqyfac3bTDKAAJP93yg9XMde89CLCxrAKal-qhAdntxEmMl-6YcIsIxXc3Qu1tNFjM8kRk-WOedFQQWN3Hjc_OGYVCEanEUlXIsC1zGBenkkW1wt5xDo4o00AwmH/s640/blogger-image--1342766952.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Penultimate speaker - I was losing the will to live and unfortunately had lost interest at this point.  Mildly humorous and very loud, Robin Ince did little to draw me back.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lisa Domican developed an app to allow people with autism communicate. Ms. Domican seemed like a very driven person who you would not want to cross.  Australian by birth she now lives in Ireland with her husband and two children (both who have autism).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhccGvbpi16jzJQEIXlbpRb9DIxyPJafe7euXMJcwws4TWiZp-IL5qT_XMGFoTZH4UcBzK4tmuq7tL5cvGCjRzyykFqdcKP5wTr1Huu8suSM-2Te7_LG7wtEgUrPTHThOwPtqaqHgKkjLj5/s640/blogger-image-1111749358.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhccGvbpi16jzJQEIXlbpRb9DIxyPJafe7euXMJcwws4TWiZp-IL5qT_XMGFoTZH4UcBzK4tmuq7tL5cvGCjRzyykFqdcKP5wTr1Huu8suSM-2Te7_LG7wtEgUrPTHThOwPtqaqHgKkjLj5/s640/blogger-image-1111749358.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

TEDx Dublin

Went to TEDx talks yesterday in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre. Highlight of the event was hearing about Quantum Locking - it's worth goo...

POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF RELIGION IN EASTERN EUROPE

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwzgzK7AQ9BAxr6UtNnkTKnslboloaXy3hamPjJhgldZc6NemypzM4S7Cg-RAd4vmuyA31U6iullaGClyD4dGCABI4F4KwzjkTdS0qAvEsWIbZqti4QaAATmZqgcKawPYbtR9VyzsTIuqX/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwzgzK7AQ9BAxr6UtNnkTKnslboloaXy3hamPjJhgldZc6NemypzM4S7Cg-RAd4vmuyA31U6iullaGClyD4dGCABI4F4KwzjkTdS0qAvEsWIbZqti4QaAATmZqgcKawPYbtR9VyzsTIuqX/s320/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orthodox church next to Catholic church in Bosnia</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">RIFT DEEPENS BETWEEN ORTHODOX AND CATHOLIC</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>FAITH</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Ivan Verstyuk</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where the present offers few reasons for pride, golden days of yore are dusted off to fill the void. The 1025th anniversary of medieval state Kievan Rus' baptism fits the bill. Its pompous celebration in Kiev, the UKRAINIAN capital, took place in late July. Around the same time, Pope Francis was making his mission trip to BRAZIL. The two events vividly demonstrate how different from each other Orthodox and Catholic churches have become.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though their leaders regularly say that the two churches are truly one, the gap between Orthodoxy and Catholicism grows wider. While the Roman Catholic Church becomes more liberal over time, the Orthodox Church still applies rigid archaic models to complex to understand, ever-evolving issues of human nature, effectively turning more conservative. This happens at times when societies in the countries of Orthodox tradition lag behind in the modernization process and would benefit from changes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE ORTHODOX CHURCH</span></b></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNSjzieaEwFFpmz0TsS9scZRb9biQDpEYBe-80DYbRJgsgWlzOP3y5HYrxUCBxW9mV-he37AA_PMfz2LOTrTgnlcctt6IxZUJIXPLsHT2MlEHVWUUpoz3v458MrmVK08DXFgbFDJrCW-jE/s1600/ortodoxcross.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNSjzieaEwFFpmz0TsS9scZRb9biQDpEYBe-80DYbRJgsgWlzOP3y5HYrxUCBxW9mV-he37AA_PMfz2LOTrTgnlcctt6IxZUJIXPLsHT2MlEHVWUUpoz3v458MrmVK08DXFgbFDJrCW-jE/s1600/ortodoxcross.jpg" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The official celebration in Kiev on July 27 was intended as a major propaganda event both for the Church and for the politicians in power alike. Commemoration was arranged as a formal worship service led by Moscow Patriarch Kirill, who leads the largest Christian denomination in RUSSIA, UKRAINE and BELARUS. Even though it could have attracted many thousands of believers, ordinary people were explicitly asked not to show up, allegedly because large crowds might lead to accidents. Thus, only the top political and clerical circles with special invitations were expected at the ceremony, and the security regime was so strict that even some members of Parliament close to UKRAINIAN President Victor Yanukovych could not gain a smooth entry. Along with special VIP treatment of religious demands of rich followers, such precedents of exclusivity and elitism undermine social coherence in the society. It discourages progress on a number of levels.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elitism in the Orthodox Church is accompanied by the clerics' excessive material comfort. For instance, Patriarch Kirill traveled to Kiev in a luxurious "clerical train" with a "temple wagon" that some media reported to be armored. People giving money to the Church have little control over how these funds are spent, and it is too often the case that the Orthodox Church prefers to spend it on conspicuous luxury instead of helping the poor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Kiev, the head of the RUSSIAN Orthodox Church was joined by other Orthodox leaders as well as the presidents of UKRAINE, RUSSIA, MOLDOVA and SERBIA. It's not unusual that political leaders in RUSSIA and UKRAINE publicly show their support for the Orthodox Church. The custom of caesaropapism—the effective combination of spiritual authority and secular power—has had a lasting influence since it was inherited from Byzantium.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UKRAINIAN politicians across the ideological spectrum have received open and vocal endorsement of their electoral campaigns from intermediate-level Orthodox clerics, paying back the favor of arranging the transfer of public-owned real estate to the Church. Such a practice is even more prevalent in RUSSIA, where the RUSSIAN Orthodox Church vehemently backs President Vladimir Putin's rule, and where Putin is a public devotee of the Church. When the female punk band Pussy Riot organized an anti-Putin performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 2012, essentially protesting against the undemocratic and unconstitutional amalgamation of the two powers, both institutions reacted in unison, with the Church adding spiritual condemnation to the official court's verdict of a two-year jail sentence to the dissenters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Church legitimizes state power, at least in the eyes of its followers, thus abating demands for reform. Some Orthodox clerics even discourage believers from taking part in local political life, advising them to leave politics to the politicians. In turn, the government makes sure that the Church does not lose its status as a leading religious denomination, or the tax exemptions that come with it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Financial ramifications of state-church symbiosis were recently demonstrated in GREECE when Ephraim Kutsu, an abbot of Vatopedi monastery, was accused of real estate fraud that benefited his monastery at the expense of the state—to the tune of hundreds of millions of Euros. The court trial is ongoing, but the scandal caused such a public outrage that it was an important factor in bringing down the government of Kostas Karamanlis in 2009.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Orthodox Church's conservatism sometimes borders on obscurantism. Youth are encouraged to pursue "Orthodox occupations" such as medicine, teaching, and military or church service, while banking, law, sales or sports are considered not Orthodox enough. Both in RUSSIA and UKRAINE, many Orthodox clerics as well as ordinary believers resist the introduction of personal taxation codes, which hinders the operation of public government. All this diminishes the chances for economic success and efficient government. Members of the Church are also uncompromising in condemning homosexuals, sometimes to the extent of instigating outright violence. The attention of Orthodox societies is thus distracted from the issues of primary importance, focusing instead on various red herrings.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CATHOLIC CHURCH</span></b></span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZvFrJHaY_JimJ_03-lb0fBPdRcPGyFJAXs3HnQ9EaHYRisp65bE8YrFlG_2e7lXuDKXXtv6bL339ngIq3lSIb7Qi6bcQnSCutZ-_kw777Y-TMVDpN57-IZoe54vJSRx_UOEiK9_l-pj3x/s1600/topic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZvFrJHaY_JimJ_03-lb0fBPdRcPGyFJAXs3HnQ9EaHYRisp65bE8YrFlG_2e7lXuDKXXtv6bL339ngIq3lSIb7Qi6bcQnSCutZ-_kw777Y-TMVDpN57-IZoe54vJSRx_UOEiK9_l-pj3x/s320/topic.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two crosses, orthodox and catholic</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ten centuries ago the Orthodox and Catholic churches separated purely on formalistic rather than substantive grounds. Today the Catholic Church is responding to contemporary challenges in a way that will likely prove to be far more successful in the long run. July 28, Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, paid a visit to BRAZIL. Francis served Mass at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, which was free for everyone to attend and attracted as many as 3 million people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Francis saying "Who am I to judge a gay person?" seems to have paved a way for material liberalization in the Catholic Church's view of human sexuality. Francis was in BRAZIL at the same time that political protests were taking place on the streets of major cities, and he endorsed the protests in his address, urging BRAZILIAN leaders to "embrace dialogue." He also encouraged clerics to go to favelas—densely populated communities of the underprivileged—reiterating the principal challenge of his Papacy. No armored airplane for the trip. No special invitations to the Mass.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While Catholics seem to turn their faces toward the realities of modern society, Orthodox Christians prefer to stick to their Byzantine heritage and take the risk of becoming hostages of their history, taking pride in long beards and equally long rank titles. Orthodox Church leaders do not yet appreciate the drag their rigid outlook puts on the society. Eventually, this not only endangers the survival of Orthodox Christianity, but seriously undermines the chances of societies following its prescriptions to succeed in global competition.</span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ivan Verstyuk is a senior editor at RBC-Ukraine, a member of the RBC business news agency covering the Eastern European region. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>

POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF RELIGION IN EASTERN EUROPE

Orthodox church next to Catholic church in Bosnia RIFT DEEPENS BETWEEN ORTHODOX AND CATHOLIC FAITH By Ivan Verstyuk Where the present offe...

Fuck You Mr. Murphy, I Win Again

11:49 PM Tukiyooo 0

Oh yeah, I got an <i>extended </i> visit from that cocksucker today.<br /><br />My one day off, the weather is supposed to turn to shit tomorrow and I have some vehicle maintenance I want to get out of the way.<br /><br />I figured I would start out simple, a thermostat swap out on my GM product.<br /><br />The 83 GMC Caballero with the MONSTER 229 cubic inch V6 engine.<br /><br />Alias a 3.8 liter.<br /><br />Of course, I had to deal with this Murphy asshole a while back too.<br /><br />For reasons only known to God and the hopefully long dead motherfuckers at General Motors, the 1983 model year had a choice of <i>TWO </i>3.8 liter V6's. One, the 231 Cubic inch model, has the distributor in the front and mine, the distributor in the back.<br />Various other non interchangeable items like valve covers and shit also.<br /><br />Stupid sonsabitches anyway.<br /><br />The reason I know this is because Mr. Murphy was behind the counter at the local auto parts store a while back when I was trying to get some parts.<br /><br />Anyways, the thermostat on a Chevy is right up front, two fucking bolts, a couple of hose clamps, BOOM, yer done.<br /><br />Uhm, no.<br />Not today.<br /><br />This thing has smog equipment completely covering the engine.<br /><br />Hoses, vacuum switches , valves and wires everywhere.<br /><br />So I take a bunch of this shit off and there it is.<br />I had everything right there and realistically this should have taken about twenty minutes.<br /><br />Try eight motherfucking hours.<br /><br />Two bolts.<br /><br />The very first motherfucking bolt I laid a wrench on snapped off. An aluminum thermostat housing and intake manifold and steel bolts.<br /><br />Well Hello there Mr. Murphy, you dick head.<br /><br />Aluminum and steel when in close contact become a battery of sorts and electrolysis starts in.<br />I have no idea how long it's been since that thermostat was changed but those bolts were corroded so badly they were basically welded in.<br /><br />After a few good tugs with a normal ratchet and socket, Mr. Murphy whispers in my ear and tells me a bigger ratchet will give me more torque and those stubborn bolts will just break right loose then.<br /><br />Sure did, break that is.<br /><br />As I whipped around cussing I swear I heard some maniacal laughter fading off into the distance.<br /><br />I finally got the other one loose but now the fun starts.<br /><br />I had planned on doing a whole bunch of maintenance on my and my wifes car today and every bit of that flew right the fuck out the window.<br /><br />Of course I am out of penetrating oil too.<br />I used that up on my firearms last week.<br /><br />Back to the fucking parts house. Ran into a paving project about two miles long that wouldn't let me turn left where I wanted to and wound up going straight fucking past the joint on the other side for a fucking mile in bumper to bumper traffic.<br /><br />Finally got there and started ordering more parts while I was getting the penetrating oil.<br />Air filter, I found out the fuel filter was missing when I had to take the fuel line off the carb to get to one of the bolts so one of those, a motor mount for the wifes POS and a new temp sensor while I was doing the T-stat.<br /><br />This is when my worst suspicions were confirmed about my car.<br /><br /><i>The fucking cocksucker has a computer in it!!</i><br /><br />I almost cried.<br />It must have been the first year they came out with the damn things, clear back in '83.<br /><br />I had been thinking with all the weird shit I kept finding on that engine that it probably had one.<br /><br />Fuck.<br /><br />Back to the house.<br /><br />I soaked the bolt in penetrating oil and started in.<br /><br />For those who have never had the distinct pleasure of removing a broken bolt in an engine, there is an art/science to it and you learn cuss words that haven't even been invented yet.<br /><br />It didn't break off flush with the manifold, it is sticking up a good inch after I got the housing off.<br />I tried the vise grips, no luck. I tried the broken stud removers, no luck.<br />The fucking thing is right there in front of me but there are brackets and hoses kinda in the way and I don't feel like taking the front of the engine apart to get to this fucking thing. I tried every trick I know to get that bolt out but no.<br /><br />Out comes the drill.<br /><br />You would think it would be a fairly straight up task to just center punch the bolt in the middle and starting with a small drill bit, just work your way up until you can either get an easy out in it or far enough to just re tap the hole, wouldn't ya?<br /><br />You would be so, so, very wrong though.<br />I have been a mechanic for thirty odd years now and I have run across lots and lots of broken bolts in my day and each and every one of the motherfuckers presents it's own unique challenges.<br /><br />The very first and <b><i>MOST IMPORTANT THING</i></b> you do is make<i> ABSOLUTELY SURE</i> that when you center punch that bolt that you are <b>EXACTLY</b> in the center!<br /><br />If you are off by the distance of an electron orbiting the nucleus of a helium atom away from center and start drilling, you are completely fucked from there on out.<br /><br />I am not joking because that is exactly what happened to me today, again.<br />I drilled one bolt so perfectly a few years ago that when I was done, the only thing left were the threads.<br />It looked like a tiny, stretched out Slinky when I pulled the drill bit out.<br /><br />Today, no such luck.<br /><br />I started with a 1/16th drill bit, the smallest one in the index. I figured if it was off a little bit I could manipulate the hole with the next size up before I got real deep.<br />Fuck no.<br />The bigger the drill bits got the father away from one edge the hole got and the closer to the aluminum manifold it went.<br />I finally got a hole drilled all the way to the bottom, about a third of the diameter off.<br /><br />Did I mention it was hotter than a half fucked fox in a fire today?<br />The humidity was outrageous too and I had sweat running off my bald head right into my eyes and dripping off the end of my nose all fucking day.<br />It was flat out fucking miserable.<br /><br />As a parting shot, Mr. Murphy reminded me that I had told my daughter to bring her fucking car over today too.<br />She showed up right on schedule while I was in the middle of this fucking nightmare and I had to drop what I was doing and proceed to cuss her fucking car for an hour. The check engine light has been on and I hooked up my scanner and see that the oxygen sensor at the exhaust manifold isn't working at all.<br />That cost me a hundred and fifty bucks for a God Damn front oxygen sensor and of course I had to take a bunch of shit off to get to it.<br />Oh yeah, hers has all metric fasteners so out came a completely different set of tools .<br /><br /><b>FUCK ME!!</b><br /><br /><br />After I got done messing with her car I had to stop and BBQ some steaks for dinner and then went back to my car.<br />I ended up with a fucking die grinder and a burr bit to move the fucking hole sideways enough to get another shot at a bigger drill bit and finally got the sonofabitch centered again. That was like brain surgery because those damn burr bits like to grab and rattle around in the hole at high speed and make it way bigger than what you want, real fast.<br />They eat aluminum at an alarming rate.<br />Then I had to re tap the fucking hole before finally putting the new thermostat in and tightening it up with new bolts.<br />Oh, you damn well know I put Never Seize on those fucking things! I think I had most of a complete tool box scattered all over the ground before I was done though.<br /><br />But, Fuck You Murphy, ya fuckin' prick, I win.<br /><br />I can hardly wait for next Saturday and the rematch that is surely going to take place.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

Fuck You Mr. Murphy, I Win Again

Oh yeah, I got an extended visit from that cocksucker today. My one day off, the weather is supposed to turn to shit tomorrow and I have so...

Bank Credit vs. Retail Sales

11:24 PM Tukiyooo 0

Bank Credit vs. Retail Sales

Click to enlarge. It was such a well-behaved parabola; such a shame to see it fail. Source Data: St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart

IWS Person of the Week...Fox and Friends Elisabeth Hasselbeck

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If it's Sunday, it's the <i>IWS Person of the Week</i> and this week?  We have bittersweet news for all of you <i>Fox and Friends</i> followers.<br /><br />It seems that Gretchen Carlson died Friday and come Monday morning, one uber-licious right-winger Elisabeth Hasselbeck, will be replacing Gretch's ignorant fat ass on the F&F more than curvy couch alongside Steve "Einstein" Doocy, and Brian "My Smile Is Ten Times Larger Than My IQ" Kilmeade...<br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwseXCtaYhyP5f4lTWrgZaG8HQ9BrXnc578z2l3JBBC379U87bMNBcXbr3wGAUy-Up5NTLNw7loAhK0CH3X1vjcz9KT3ZDvYtNy2rpqEuk0e_Vqzcg-GV9XSKzpvA_9zAHVN0VWGuyXft1/s1600/Elisabeth++Hasselbeck+Brian+Kilmeade+Steve+Doocy+Fox+and+Friends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwseXCtaYhyP5f4lTWrgZaG8HQ9BrXnc578z2l3JBBC379U87bMNBcXbr3wGAUy-Up5NTLNw7loAhK0CH3X1vjcz9KT3ZDvYtNy2rpqEuk0e_Vqzcg-GV9XSKzpvA_9zAHVN0VWGuyXft1/s400/Elisabeth++Hasselbeck+Brian+Kilmeade+Steve+Doocy+Fox+and+Friends.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />We here at IWS Radio regret the passing of Gretchen Carlson, but eh...her lineage and tradition of hardcore, get to the facts journalism will live on in former reality TV star, Elisabeth Hasselbeck...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmwOFZtyPY0RDvXct_hZX_-Y0NRfAF3iGe_aGjHESwnRZRDc7-rweDvEPsMtPdn_0jrtt1qUX2UNCt5DT6MUnpG7-ar3ji_Fyfi5lqm4OuzuBlj0yjYOwiXdXLyM03FOhlw6KpQsSRut4/s1600/Elisabeth+Hasselbeck+Gretchen+Carlson+Fox+and+Friends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmwOFZtyPY0RDvXct_hZX_-Y0NRfAF3iGe_aGjHESwnRZRDc7-rweDvEPsMtPdn_0jrtt1qUX2UNCt5DT6MUnpG7-ar3ji_Fyfi5lqm4OuzuBlj0yjYOwiXdXLyM03FOhlw6KpQsSRut4/s400/Elisabeth+Hasselbeck+Gretchen+Carlson+Fox+and+Friends.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Elisabeth has cut her journalistic teeth on<i> The View</i>, and is now ready to enter the no-cleavage barred world of FOX News...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWFCn4XKYVxcLU1sWjEibcQoxgfEl06VE2V5_dmkUzXJrVIMJk6Fo5rv8A3HAwIRsZ8bpMI3ITsktjdoZC4pm7pT5j4opLCzsTiYiFAmR3MUFHBaPMb1_7Tw6pHmSJwlJUrgKZBbIdwpP/s1600/Elisabeth+Hasselbeck+Fox+and+Friends+Hot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWFCn4XKYVxcLU1sWjEibcQoxgfEl06VE2V5_dmkUzXJrVIMJk6Fo5rv8A3HAwIRsZ8bpMI3ITsktjdoZC4pm7pT5j4opLCzsTiYiFAmR3MUFHBaPMb1_7Tw6pHmSJwlJUrgKZBbIdwpP/s400/Elisabeth+Hasselbeck+Fox+and+Friends+Hot.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><br />Roger Ailes loves lonnnnnng legs at FOX News, and Lis-Has has plenty to spare...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59nPm1OMMirTUBcUhWDcLwMWKlNaXj2PjTha-ljv5m2s7OqI2MIhUR0eJQ3c3i_aKq-J7hIGDApc3dXy_wERXNDOAmpzYN8tMDbpy0NZ3bMHI_Vfx5XsQEQkIMsGTBdLcPlOI0DLo1Z6z/s1600/Elisabeth+Hasselbeck+Legs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59nPm1OMMirTUBcUhWDcLwMWKlNaXj2PjTha-ljv5m2s7OqI2MIhUR0eJQ3c3i_aKq-J7hIGDApc3dXy_wERXNDOAmpzYN8tMDbpy0NZ3bMHI_Vfx5XsQEQkIMsGTBdLcPlOI0DLo1Z6z/s400/Elisabeth+Hasselbeck+Legs.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><br />When Elisabeth Hasselbeck found out she would be sitting in between Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade every morning, her reaction was, "Really!?"...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTC-u_qChrFtF1IbmzJ6aAoDfTBwEw0kpl6K3YYNpT87W4XSwNTZBa12zAKnI5_8nBovtSVlUvRKuZLGucNRJfIn4GXUWFGlkWwg3Z5V0dEYiI5_vL70lUBrECwgEhd6j_8Fkvfojhdmd9/s1600/Elisabeth+Hasselbeck+Stupid+Fox+and+Friends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTC-u_qChrFtF1IbmzJ6aAoDfTBwEw0kpl6K3YYNpT87W4XSwNTZBa12zAKnI5_8nBovtSVlUvRKuZLGucNRJfIn4GXUWFGlkWwg3Z5V0dEYiI5_vL70lUBrECwgEhd6j_8Fkvfojhdmd9/s400/Elisabeth+Hasselbeck+Stupid+Fox+and+Friends.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And yet our golden-haired, deep-cleavaged, blonde, right wing adorable Kewpie Doll, Person of the Week, said...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>"My loser half-assed Ouarterback husband, Tim Hasselbeck is a sports pundit, and somebody has to make a splash, and pay the bills so here I am dong morning television and asking for Obama's birth certificate!!?"</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So here's to Elisabeth Hasselbeck.  If she tries really hard, or not even not all that hard...she could come off as looking smarter than the late, great Gretchen Carlson.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Annnnnnnnnd...To catch some really smart and funny radio tomorrow, join Jay and Matt on Blog Talk Radio LIVE from Noon-2 PM ET today as the celebrate<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/09/15/food-sex-and-farm-animals" target="_blank"> <span style="color: blue;">Food, Sex, and Farm Animals</span></a> on IWS Radio.  It is sure to be another Number One show as long as you help out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can catch all of IWS Radio's festivities  LIVE today by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/09/15/food-sex-and-farm-animals" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>.</div></div></div>

IWS Person of the Week...Fox and Friends Elisabeth Hasselbeck

If it's Sunday, it's the IWS Person of the Week and this week? We have bittersweet news for all of you Fox and Friends followers....

Two Virginians among richest members of Congress

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMSgngsTk1DcoBZsMJ-LEcsRHbA6jMLYuyC0dh3-NnNYacW4wsZT-f10ufuqjVNAvdmFLwHm5sdC-4cIxtd4aaMF21gkJ7da9ZsBQyFKGAQsMahBSdqoxq9YXYfBQwJU6PmXXjCqHROujX/s1600/Money.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMSgngsTk1DcoBZsMJ-LEcsRHbA6jMLYuyC0dh3-NnNYacW4wsZT-f10ufuqjVNAvdmFLwHm5sdC-4cIxtd4aaMF21gkJ7da9ZsBQyFKGAQsMahBSdqoxq9YXYfBQwJU6PmXXjCqHROujX/s200/Money.jpg" width="144" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://media.cq.com/50richest/the-50-richest-members-of-congress-113th-2013.html">Roll Call</a>'s annual list of the 50 richest members of Congress includes two Virginians -- U.S. Senator Mark Warner and Congressman Scott Rigell.<br /><br />Warner, a Democrat worth $96.3 million, was ranked #3 behind #1 Rep. Darrell Issa ($355 million), a Republican from California, and #2 Rep. Michael McCaul ($114 million), a Republican from Texas. Rigell was ranked #28 with $12.6 million.<br /><br />The list includes 29 Republicans and 21 Democrats. Roll Call provided brief bios including the source of their wealth ... makes for an interesting read.

Two Virginians among richest members of Congress

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Roll Call 's annual list of the 50 richest members of Congress includes two Virginians -- U.S. Senator Mark Warner and Congressman Scott...