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This threat obviously implicates Reuters and the role it has come to play for the UN and some Permanent Missions like those of the UK and France. But did Charbonneau tell his boss about the threat and do they stand behind it?
Those asked include, so far, Stephen J. Adler, Editor in Chief, Paul Ingrassia, Deputy Editor in Chief, Walden Siew, Top News Editor, Greg McCune, “Ethics,” and one other. But despite the issues raised, twice now, this mega corporation will not respond or more importantly reform. Hip or a kingdom of trolls?
To continue with the contrast to Bloomberg -- documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that faced with the same inquiries as Inner City Press sent in June 2012 to the Reuters quartet, Bloomberg's John Walcott, if not Matt Winkler to whom the inquiries were directed, made a decision.
The Bloomberg correspondent who signed a letter starting the kangaroo court proceeding of the UN Correspondents Association should thereafter not participate in it, or in the campaign. While this has not entirely been carried out, it still show a difference between Bloomberg and Reuters.
Bloomberg for whatever reason realized that attacking free press may not be a good idea, perhaps or probably only for business reasons. Reuters, the hipster wannabe, still doesn't seem to “get” this. Calling Antonio Gramsci. Watch this site.
Japanese stocks rose, led by lenders, after UFJ Holdings Inc said it may accelerate the sale of its trust bank to Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co, which would raise at least US$2.8 billion.
The Topix index climbed 1.1 percent to 1146.92 at the 3pm close in Tokyo on Friday, with a measure tracking the performance of lenders rising for the first day in seven. The Topix ended a six-day decline, its longest losing streak in 16 months. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average added 0.9 percent to 11,423.53 on Friday.
"The merger is good for UFJ Holdings in that it will profit from the sale of its unit," said Hideaki Kurimoto, who helps manage US$2.8 billion, including shares of Sumitomo Trust, at Meiji Dresdner Asset Management Co in Tokyo. That "prompted some short-term investors to scoop up recently battered bank stocks." The Morgan Stanley Capital International Asia-Pacific Index, which tracks more than 900 stocks, added 0.9 percent to 90.26.
The index posted its second weekly decline. South Korea's Kospi index also dropped for a second week.
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc gained after its LG Philips LCD Co venture had an almost fourfold jump in quarterly profit, lifted by demand for its liquid-crystal displays. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp (奇美電子) advanced in Taipei after they reported sales surged last month.
Benchmarks in Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka gained.
UFJ Holdings, Japan's fourth-largest bank, climbed 7.2 percent to ¥462,000, its biggest jump since May 19. Sumitomo Trust, the country's sixth-largest lender by assets, advanced 4.7 percent to ¥752.
In May, Sumitomo Trust said it will buy UFJ Trust for at least ¥300 billion (US$2.7 billion), making it Japan's biggest provider of custodial and corporate-pension services.
"We are working towards deciding on the details and the timing of the merger by the end of this month," the two banks said in a statement. "Nothing has been decided at this point."
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said that the two banks may complete the transaction this year, earlier than they planned.
Accelerating the trust bank takeover will provide UFJ Holdings with funds it needs to meet a government target of disposing of ¥2.35 trillion of bad loans by March 31, Jason Rogers, a credit analyst at Barclays Capital, said in a report.
The Topix Bank index rose 3.3 percent, ending a six-day, 9.3 percent decline. The losses had been fueled by speculation Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will lose seats in an election this weekend.
Voters are almost evenly divided in their preference for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's LDP and the opposition Democratic Party of Japan in advance of today's upper-house election, the Asahi Shimbun said, citing a poll taken on Tuesday and Wednesday.
LG Electronics, South Korea's No. 2 electronics maker, advanced 3.6 percent to 52,400 won. LG.Philips, a venture between LG Electronics and Royal Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands, said net income rose to 701 billion won (US$609 million) from a year earlier.
LG Philips, the world's second-largest maker of liquid crystal displays, plans to sell shares to the public in Seoul and New York next week.
LG Electronics and other television-set makers also advanced on optimism sales will rise as South Korea picked a standard for digital television broadcasts after a four-year debate.
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What are parent and teacher expectations of the kindergarten program now and in the future?
Niess, Ann Louise Becker, "What are parent and teacher expectations of the kindergarten program now and in the future?" (1987). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 4693.
Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air, the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary." The film deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill Clinton's handling of the Al Qaeda threat.
Now, ABC claims to be is editing those false sequences to satisfy critics so the show can go on -- even if it still remains a gross distortion of history. And as it does so, ABC advances the illusion that the deceptive nature of "The Path to 9/11" is an honest mistake committed by a hardworking but admittedly fumbling team of well-intentioned Hollywood professionals who wanted nothing less than to entertain America. But this is another Big Lie.
In fact, "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.
Before The Path to 9/11 entered the production stage, Disney/ABC contracted David Cunningham as the film's director. Cunningham is no ordinary Hollywood journeyman. He is in fact the son of Loren Cunningham, founder of the right-wing evangelical group Youth With A Mission (YWAM). The young Cunningham helped found an auxiliary of his father's group called The Film Institute (TFI), which, according to its mission statement, is "dedicated to a Godly transformation and revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Televisionindustry." As part of TFI's long-term strategy, Cunningham helped place interns from Youth With A Mission's "global training network" in film industry jobs "so that they can begin to impact and transform Hollywood from the inside out," according to a YWAM report.
Last June, Cunningham's TFI announced it was producing its first film, mysteriously titled "Untitled History Project." "TFI's first project is a doozy," a newsletter to YWAM members read. "Simply being referred to as: The Untitled History Project, it is already being called the television event of the decade and not one second has been put to film yet. Talk about great expectations!" (A web edition of the newsletter was mysteriously deleted yesterday but has been cached on Google at the link above).
The following month, on July 28, the New York Post reported that ABC was filming a mini-series "under a shroud of secrecy" about the 9/11 attacks. "At the moment, ABC officials are calling the miniseries 'Untitled Commission Report' and producers refer to it as the 'Untitled History Project,'" the Post noted.
write the script of his secretive "Untitled" film. Not only is Nowrasteh an outspoken conservative, he is also a fervent member of the emerging network of right-wing people burrowing into the film industry with ulterior sectarian political and religious agendas, like Cunningham.
Nowrasteh's conservatism was on display when he appeared as a featured speaker at the Liberty Film Festival (LFF), an annual event founded in 2004 to premier and promote conservative-themed films supposedly too "politically incorrect" to gain acceptance at mainstream film festivals. This June, while The Path to 9/11 was being filmed, LFF founders Govindini Murty and Jason Apuzzo -- both friends of Nowrasteh -- announced they were "partnering" with right-wing activist David Horowitz. Indeed, the 2006 LFF is listed as "A Program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center."
With the LFF now under Horowitz's control, his political machine began drumming up support for Cunningham and Nowrasteh's "Untitled" project, which finally was revealed in late summer as "The Path to 9/11." Horowitz's PR blitz began with an August 16 interview with Nowrasteh on his FrontPageMag webzine. In the interview, Nowrasteh foreshadowed the film's assault on Clinton's record on fighting terror. "The 9/11 report details the Clinton's administration's response -- or lack of response -- to Al Qaeda and how this emboldened Bin Laden to keep attacking American interests," Nowrasteh told FrontPageMag's Jamie Glazov. "There simply was no response. Nothing."
A week later, ABC hosted LFF co-founder Murty and several other conservative operatives at an advance screening of The Path to 9/11. (While ABC provided 900 DVDs of the film to conservatives, Clinton administration officials and objective reviewers from mainstream outlets were denied them.) Murty returned with a glowing review for FrontPageMag that emphasized the film's partisan nature. "'The Path to 9/11' is one of the best, most intelligent, most pro-American miniseries I've ever seen on TV, and conservatives should support it and promote it as vigorously as possible," Murty wrote. As a result of the special access granted by ABC, Murty's article was the first published review of The Path to 9/11, preceding those by the New York Times and LA Times by more than a week.
Murty followed her review with a blast email to conservative websites such as Liberty Post and Free Republic on September 1 urging their readers to throw their weight behind ABC's mini-series. "Please do everything you can to spread the word about this excellent miniseries," Murty wrote, "so that 'The Path to 9/11' gets the highest ratings possible when it airs on September 10 & 11! If this show gets huge ratings, then ABC will be more likely to produce pro-American movies and TV shows in the future!"
Murty's efforts were supported by Appuzo, who handles LFF's heavily-trafficked blog, Libertas. Appuzo was instrumental in marketing The Path to 9/11 to conservatives, writing in a blog post on September 2, "Make no mistake about what this film does, among other things: it places the question of the Clinton Administration's culpability for the 9/11 attacks front and center... Bravo to Cyrus Nowrasteh and David Cunningham for creating this gritty, stylish and gripping piece of entertainment."
When a group of leading Senate Democrats sent a letter to ABC CEO Robert Iger urging him to cancel The Path to 9/11 because of its glaring factual errors and distortions, Apuzzo launched a retaliatory campaign to paint the Democrats as foes of free speech. "Here at LIBERTAS we urge the public to make noise over this, and to demand that Democrats back down," he wrote on September 7th. "What is at stake is nothing short of the 1st Amendment."
At FrontPageMag, Horowitz singled out Nowrasteh as the victim. "The attacks by former president Bill Clinton, former Clinton Administration officials and Democratic US senators on Cyrus Nowrasteh's ABC mini-series "The Path to 9/11" are easily the gravest and most brazen and damaging governmental attacks on the civil liberties of ordinary Americans since 9/11," Horowitz declared.
Now, as discussion grows over the false character of The Path to 9/11, the right-wing network that brought it to fruition is ratcheting up its PR efforts. Murty will appear tonight on CNN's Glenn Beck show and The Situation Room, according to Libertas in order to respond to "the major disinformation campaign now being run by Democrats to block the truth about what actually happened during the Clinton years."
While this network claims its success and postures as the true victims, the ABC network suffers a PR catastrophe. It's almost as though it was complacent about an attack on its reputation by a band of political terrorists.
I think this documentary should not be shown because it is not accurate and gives false information about the realities of 9/11. I will think very poorly of any Network that perpetuates such lies.
I also want you to know that I was two blocks away from the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Friends died. Personal Friends. I saw things that day I will never forget. Horrible things.
What you are doing by perpetuating a lie about this day and the deaths of so many Americans and my friends is something I will never forget of forgive. Trust me, I am not alone in this Belief!
FP: Tell us how you came to write and produce this miniseries.
Nowrasteh: Early last year (2005) I was approached by ABC and asked if I'd be interested in writing/producing a miniseries based on the 9/11 Commission Report. I met with executive producer Marc Platt and Governor Kean, Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, who agreed to serve as a consultant on the project. I was provided an incredible amount of research materials and high-level advisors from the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Diiplomatic Security, etc......more"
Would it be unfair to speculate that this could be a WH/RNC initiated project through Disney?
They have been buying commentary both in Iraq and in the US, most recently in Miami, so why wouldn't they initiate a project for the 9-11 anniversary?
"He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."
So, in an attempt to toss a grappling hook onto a tad of reality - I have gathered some of the ways Bush blew 911 in one place for your reference and perusal - and to refresh your memories.
Not a complete list by any means, but it does show how the Bush administration failed - particularly with regard to Hart Rudman and the bills congress presented to the administration in March of 2001, efforts which actually begged Bush to act - and he didn't.
In May of 2001, while announcing he was telling Hart Rudman and the congressional proposals to pound sand, Bush actually said the threat was: "not immediate."
"I congratulate the President for his bold and innovative proposal. ... President Bush is an agent for change and this is a great step in the right direction."
Downtown Inc. will host a ribbon-cutting at 5:30 p.m. Friday for The Rooted Artist Collective's new store at 101 N.
Downtown Inc. will host a ribbon-cutting at 5:30 p.m. Friday for The Rooted Artist Collective's new store at 101 N. Newberry St., according to a news release from Downtown Inc.
The Collective is organized by Jessica Flynn, Dustin Nispel, Carrie Peck, Meghan Weaver and Bobby Yagodich. The Collective's store in York's WeCo district features handmade jewelry and crafts, as well as a variety of different types of artworks including paintings and photography.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh talks to a man who, at age 16, watched the first bombs fall in Afghanistan 10 years ago.
It's not a war anymore; it's the Americans helping the Afghans create a democracy and it's the Taliban killing innocent Muslims so they can sell their opium.
The so-called "War on Terror" by any name-has failed for a simple reason. It is because there is NO SUCH A THING as war on terror. Come on people! Terrorism is a technique, a method, a weapon, a means to an end. Terrorism is not an enemy that can be named or identified, much less fought effectively.
A "War on Terror" is a war on shadows, a war on nothing and on no one. It is a fool's errand. Terrorism is the “How”, the “WHO” are true and devoted MUSLIMS and the “WHY” is the cult ideology called ISLAM!
Until you can understand WHO and WHY we are fighting, our self deception will DEFEAT us!
Boston Bruins winger Milan Lucic, who allegedly threatened to kill the Montreal Canadiens Dale Weise during the handshake line following the Habs’ win in their thrilling 7-game series, is the author of an anti-bullying children’s book published two months ago titled “Not Cool To Bully In School”.
Who wrote the foreword – Vladimir Putin?
It’s unclear how the book is selling: a search for “Milan Lucic” in Amazon Books brings up the “Encyclopedia of Sports Idiocy”, a March 2013 title by William Russo.
No Oprah sticker for Lucic yet, but I hear it’s a Duck Dynasty Book Club pick-of-the-month.
Thankfully, the daytime talk-show host will not invite the president to dance in her studio anytime soon.
Despite her general resistance to getting political on her show, Ellen DeGeneres took a firm stance against Donald Trump on Friday, when she told Matt Lauer that she would not, hypothetically, invite the president on as a guest. She’d said the same thing to Alec Baldwin just days before, but Lauer, unlike Baldwin, also hit her with a follow-up: Why? That’s when DeGeneres, a genial comedian known for keeping things light, took her firmest anti-Trump stance.
DeGeneres has spoken out against Trump before on Ellen, though in the past she’s done so more obliquely: in January following the Trump administration’s Muslim ban, DeGeneres used her most recent film to critique the president.
“Over the weekend, on Friday, the president gave an order banning people from seven countries from entering the United States, including people with green cards,” she told her audience. “And then on Saturday, the president screened Finding Dory at the White House. I don’t get political, but I will say that I am against one of those two things,” DeGeneres said to thunderous applause.
It was a clear message—but by saying outright that she has no intention of inviting Trump onto her show, DeGeneres has stepped up the game. It makes sense that she would avoid politics generally: like Jimmy Fallon, her audience is likely not as firmly dominated by liberals as, say, that of Seth Meyers. And despite a few exceptions like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, DeGeneres doesn’t usually welcome politicians to her daytime show; it’s just not that kind of a program. But, as has been said before and bears repeating, our current political situation is unprecedented—and given the times, even apolitical programs like Ellen have been thrust into a position where simple booking decisions and breezy interviews become a statement of their own. Looks as though DeGeneres just made hers.
A Coquille couple whose antigovernment views highlighted a tax evasion case in which both were convicted and sentenced to prison pleaded guilty on Thursday to filing bogus and vindictive liens against federal officials involved in the tax case.
Ronald Joling, 72, entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to file false retaliatory liens against District Judge Ann Aiken, Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin, Clerk of the Court Mary Moran and Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Bradford.
Joling�s 73-year-old wife, Dorothea, pleaded guilty to a charge of filing a false retaliatory lien against Aiken, who handled the couple�s tax evasion trial in 2014.
The Jolings are scheduled to return to U.S. District Court in Eugene for sentencing in June.
Any prison sentence imposed in the false liens case will be added to the terms the couple already are serving in the tax case.
Aiken in December sentenced Ronald Joling to eight years in prison and his wife to four years behind bars.
Eight months before that, the Jolings had failed to appear for their original sentencing date in the tax case and remained fugitives until U.S. marshals arrested them in Arizona in October.
A grand jury last year returned an indictment in the false liens case, alleging that the Jolings illegally filed public documents that wrongly accused the four federal officials of owing them more than $100 million.
The Jolings long have been associated with an antigovernment �sovereign citizen� movement that does not recognize federal authority.
Dorothea Joling�s trial defense was that she had no say in her husband�s decision to stop paying taxes and supported him as an obedient wife.
Name a more iconic duo, we'll wait.
He even offered to FaceTime Steve Carell.
"I can't do photoshop for sh**"
Where do we get one?
"For people my age this was a dialogue that was somewhat already happening."
Two more savings and loans on Tuesday were given conditional approval for federal deposit insurance, while customers of the lone financial institution still closed said they were stepping up efforts to get it reopened.
Lisa Neidich, one of the locked-out Home State Savings Bank depositors, said she and half a dozen others have formed committees planning letter-writing and petition campaigns to pressure Gov. Richard F. Celeste and other state officials to get it quickly sold and reopened.
Home State, based in Cincinnati, closed March 9 after massive withdrawals by depositors alarmed by the court-ordered closing of a Florida securities dealer. A week after Home State's closing, Celeste declared a banking emergency, closing Ohio's 69 other thrift institutions whose deposits were insured by the state rather than the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp.
In Washington, meanwhile, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board approved membership in the Federal Home Loan Bank system to Addison Savings & Loan Co. of North College Hill and to Oakley Improved Building & Loan Co. of Cincinnati, allowing them to reopen for unlimited business, said Bob Moore, a board spokesman.
That brings to 22 the number of thrifts that have been granted such approval, according to the state. Another 32 requests for federal insurance are pending, Moore said.
The other 15 are in various stages, including being under consideration for mergers with other institutions that already have FSLIC coverage.
All of the closed institutions except Home State have since been given permission to reopen for at least limited business, allowing customers to make unlimited deposits but withdrawals of only $750 per month.
While some institutions have reported heavier-than-normal transactions, the increased demand has been attributed to customers' needs for cash--not panic about the safety of their deposits.
In another development, the FBI subpoenaed state Department of Commerce records in its probe of the collapse of Home State Savings Bank, Ohio Savings and Loans Superintendent Robert McAlister said Tuesday.
He told a news conference that the subpoena had been served to the department when he took over his new post March 22, and the FBI is asking that the records be delivered no later than April 4.
At his daily briefing on the numbers of state-chartered S&Ls; that have reopened under emergency legislation enacted March 20, McAlister also said he has received inquiries for information from the Securities and Exchange Commission and from at least one congressional committee.
The records being sought were not specified, but McAlister said, "I understand they (the FBI) are investigating everything."
The southern Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung is traditionally considered to be the home of the island's democratic movement, but it is far from certain that the city's vote will swing the close-run presidential race in Saturday's ballot, RFA's Mandarin service reports.
"The city has a special position in the history of Taiwan's democratic development," incumbent vice-president Annette Lu told RFA in a recent interview. "Perhaps democracy is not yet fully achieved in Taiwan today, but it is not far from the last step."
Lu, who is also the vice-presidential running mate of incumbent president Chen Shui-bian, was arrested for her role in human rights demonstrations in Kaohsiung in December 1979 by the ruling Kuomintang National Party (KMT), which brooked no challenge to its power at that time. She was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment.

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