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Historicist: A Scar on Civic Pride
By Kevin Plummer
Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today.
Victory Building, November 6, 1936. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1231, Item 3.
Henry Falk is an enigma. The New York entrepreneur and builder doesn't appear in the pages of any of the Who's Who publications of his day. His background isn't clear, nor is his date of arrival in Toronto. But his big ambitions garnered him plenty of press in the city's late-1920s building boom, when a spate of skyscrapers—including the Royal York, Sterling Tower, the Toronto Star Building, the Canada Permanent Trust Building, and Falk's own Central Building—rapidly transformed the skyline.
Falk had already built a number of buildings, including the Clarendon Apartments and Lawrence Park Manor, when he began working with architect Martin Baldwin, of Baldwin and Greene, on the Claridge Apartments. It's difficult to be certain which of the two was the visionary. Baldwin was connected to the thriving local arts community and Falk was inspired by and wanted to emulate the new breed of skyscrapers being erected in New York. But both embraced the Art Deco aesthetic and collaborated to build the sixteen-storey Concourse Building, one of the city's most distinctive, at Adelaide and Sheppard in 1928.
Construction commenced on an even more ambitious project, the Victory Building on the old Gaiety Theatre site at 80 Richmond Street, in May 1929. Falk and Baldwin had "investigated the most recent advances in engineering and architectural design," according to The Star, "with a view to making the Victory building the last word in beauty and efficiency." Designed to rise twenty-six storeys with stepped-back floors near the apex, it was to be the tallest all-concrete structure in the Empire. With Art Deco's emphasis on mass and contour, rather than distracting decoration, all its lines were meant to draw the eye upwards. The Victory Building would revel in its own strength and height and reflect the confidence and exuberance of the era. The skyscraper was to be, Falk said, "as much the triumph of the engineers as of the architects."
The Victory Building became a symbol of its age, though not as Falk anticipated. After the stock market crash in the autumn of 1929, construction halted. For the next eight years, The Globe said, the ghost tower stood "on the city's skyline as a none too pleasant reminder of boom days, depression and broken hopes." Like Casa Loma and the Park Plaza Hotel at Avenue and Bloor, the Victory Building was "a scar on civic pride."
Rendering of the original design from The Star on July 5, 1929.
For each of his buildings, Falk wanted—and was willing to pay for—the finest designers and artists available. When he had a particular artist in mind, he'd simply ask, "How much do you want?" And he'd pay the asking price. As a result, he'd been able to recruit Group of Seven artist J.E.H. MacDonald for the Claridge and the Concourse. To ensure the Victory Building likewise brightened the commercial district with artistry, he enlisted sculptor Aaron Goodelman, a Russian émigré from New York City, then ensconced him in a fourteenth-floor studio in the Concourse Building.
Unlike that earlier tower, the Victory Building would not feature any topmost decoration on the tower since, as Falk said, it wouldn't be visible to those on the sidewalk. Goodelman's work, announced in The Star on December 27, 1929, would sit at street level with a great stone marquise, twenty-feet long, that would extend ten feet over the sidewalk. Made of the same stone as the building and supported by hidden steel girders, the marquise would appear, as Falk desired, like "it were actually pinched out of the building." The sculptoral elements of the marquise, inspired "by the advent of the skyscraper and the era of the machine age," depicted electric flashes and elements of engineering like derricks, chains, and rivetted plates. In the lobby would stand an eight-foot statue of white metal and marble depicting man's power and strength over the globe. As a whole, Goodelman said, the artistic scheme would "convey an impression of security to the passer-by."
Construction of the Victory Building progressed rapidly through the summer of 1929, with the superstructure completed to about the twentieth floor and the brickwork to the seventeenth, by late October. Then, with the crash, construction ground to a halt. And, leaving tools and building supplies where they fell, workers abandoned the site almost overnight. All the scaffolding, wooden forms and other woodwork were left in place. Rumours swirled through real-estate circles that the foundations were slipping or worse. Falk fervently denied the rumours, and claimed to be redesigning certain elements of the top six storeys. By the end of November, he admitted that there'd been financial difficulties—on the part of the underwriter, not him—but he remained optimistic that work would soon resume and the building would be complete on schedule.
Despite his bravado, the Victory Building eventually went into liquidation, with the Royal Trust Company acting as trustees, and Falk disappeared from the public eye. Last heard from building model homes showcasing General Electric's modern household conveniences, Falk's ultimate destiny in Toronto or New York is as obscure as his origins. Baldwin became curator—and later a director—of the Art Gallery of Toronto in December 1932.
Victory Building—19th floor, October 28, 1932. City of Toronto Archives, Series 372, Subseries 1, Item 1176.
Sitting untouched for two and a half years, the Victory Building was more than just a blight on the streetscape hiding behind construction hoardings. The empty hulk was viewed by City Hall as a menace to public safety. The Board of Control had long tried fruitlessly to petition the building's owners to clean up the job site. In May 1932, councillors decided to take action themselves and sent J.J. Woolnough, the City Architect and Superintendent of Building, to inspect the building and take photos. He would return numerous times over the course of the year.
He reported that on the upper floors, large numbers of wood forms remained still waiting to receive concrete. Reinforcing steel rods were piled here and there, while a wooden chute and a hoist were deteriorating on the west side of the building. "As the building now stands," he continued, it is "in an unsafe condition, and should any person or property be injured by reason of falling of the wood from the building, the city might be liable." The two-thousand-dollar bill for putting the structure in a safe condition, council decided, would be assessed to the property's tax bill—which, by 1936, owed thirty-thousand dollars in arrears.
According to Annual Reports of the Department of Buildings, commercial buildings accounted for $21 million worth of construction in 1928. That number had dropped to $8.6 million in 1930, to $2.7 million in 1931, and again and again throughout much of the 1930s. Nevertheless, realtors and contractors remained hopeful that successful completion of long-proposed buildings, like the designed but unbuilt Bank of Nova Scotia Building, or suspended projects could provide jobs for thousands of Torontonians. Of them all, the Victory Building was considered to have the best prospect for prompt completion. Every year, newspapers carried optimistic accounts of its potential sale or refinancing. Each time, the arrangements were hailed as a symbolic return to prosperity. And each time, when the arrangements inevitably fell through, no reasons were ever reported.
General Electric Ad from The Globe on April 2, 1937.
Relief for the bondholders finally arrived in June 1936 when the sale of the Victory Building to ship-owner and financier Alfred R. Roberts for only $110,000—plus $5,000 for mechanics lien holders—was approved by Osgoode Hall. Construction resumed that September with a compromised design—scaled back to only twenty-one storeys, removing the set-back pinnacle, and with a much more modest decorative scheme.
Instead of Goodelman's ornamentation, the lower portion of the building was faced in green bowacord granite with Briarhill sandstone trim. While Roberts didn't rechristen the tower, he decided the name was better as a reference to Lord Nelson's famous flagship than to the Great War. So instead of Goodelman's imposing statue, the lobby had a nautical motif. A model of the H.M.S. Victory was cut into the marble floor; anchors, ship's wheels, and compass points graced the ornamental ceilings; and ship-inspired radiator grilles adorned the main vestibule.
While Roberts altered Falk's intended artistic theme, he certainly didn't change his intentions for the skyscraper. A thoroughly modern office tower—purported to be the first such building in Canada to be air conditioned throughout—the Victory Building also featured open-concept floors, special acoustical treatment of the ceilings to reduce noise, and four high-speed, automatic elevators.
Surpassing all expectations in the middle of the Great Depression, nearly 80% of the office space had already been leased by the time the first tenants moved in on April 1, 1937. Locals were also attracted—motivated in part by curiosity to see inside the building that had stood vacant for so many years and by the novelty of air conditioning during that summer's heat wave. "These are signs of returning prosperity," The Star proclaimed of the first large office building completed in the city since the onset of the Depression before dryly adding, "But what can be done with the city's Casa Loma?"
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Balfour Beatty turnaround continues as losses narrow
Losses have narrowed at Balfour Beatty as the infrastructure giant continues to make progress with its turnaround plan under chief executive Leo Quinn.
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Balfour Beatty narrowed its first-half losses. Picture: Balfour Beatty/PA Wire
Pre-tax losses for the first half ending 1 July in at £21 million, down from £150m in the same period last year. Balfour has been held back by onerous construction contracts that delivered poor returns.
Quinn, who has been cutting costs under his "build to last" turnaround programme, said: "We are now starting to see tangible benefits from the transformation of Balfour Beatty. Eighteen months into the first phase of Build To Last we have delivered our second successive half of underlying profitability and remain on track to achieve our initial targets of £200m cash in, £100m cost out.
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Revenues were broadly flat at £4.1 billion and the firm reinstated its dividend – to be paid on 5 December – at 0.9p a share.
Balfour yesterday announced that it has secured its biggest US contract to date after signing a £524m deal to electrify 52 miles of California's railway. It will lay the infrastructure for new high-speed trains along the Caltrain rail corridor, which runs across 17 cities between San Francisco and San Jose.
Balfour will build the overhead power systems and substations to support the new high-speed carriages for the network, which currently has 92 trains and shuttles 65,000 commuters daily. The deal is being hailed for opening the door to the US market just as the UK industry starts to falter.
In the UK, Balfour said its investment business continued to make "substantial" deals during the first half, including raising development finance with Investec Bank for the Kennedy Street student accommodation project in Glasgow. Targeted for completion in July 2017, the scheme will feature 536 bedrooms, split across two blocks.
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Elle est principalement connue à la télévision pour ses rôles dans Fargo, Preacher, Better Call Saul.

Biographie

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Elle étudie le théâtre à l'Université de Webster à Saint-Louis, Missouri.

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 2005 : Hitch, expert en séduction (Hitch) d' Andy Tennant  : Casey
 2008 : Le Prix du silence (Nothing But the Truth) de Rod Lurie : Agent Boyd
 2008 : The Rainbow Tribe de Christopher R. Watson : Lauren
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 2011 : The A Plate de Terre Weisman : Andrea Stevens
 2012 : The History of Future Folk de John Mitchell et Jeremy Kipp Walker : Holly
 2012 : The Letter de Jay Anania :  Lewis
 2013 : My Movie Project (Movie 43) de Will Graham : Clare (segment Homeschooled)
 2014 : Rodeo Princess 2 : L'Eté de Dakota (Dakota's Summer) de Timothy Armstrong : Annie
 2017 : Mary (Gifted) de Marc Webb : Pat Golding
 2019 : I Hate Kids de John Mallory Asher : Joanna
 2019 : 3 Days with Dad de Larry Clarke : Susan
 2020 : Walkaway Joe de Tom Wright : Gina McCarthy
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 2006 : Gillery's Little Secret de T.M. Scorzafava : Abbie
 2008 : The Beneficiary de Theodore Melfi : La bénéficiaire
 2009 : Redemption de Bruce McAlester : Alexis
 2016 : Falling Slowly de Tiffany Wu : Maggie

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 2003 - 2005 : Line of Fire : Jennifer Sampso
 2005 : The Inside : Dans la tête des tueurs (The Inside) : Betty Scarwid
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 2006 : Bones : Janine O'Connell
 2006 : Ghost Whisperer :  Penn Gorgan
 2007 : American Wives : Sarah Belgrad
 2007 - 2008 : October Road : Christine Cataldo
 2007 - 2008 : The Riches : Gi Gi Panetta
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 2009 : Terminator : Les Chroniques de Sarah Connor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) : Infirmière Hobson
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 2009 - 2011 : Then We Got Help! : Emily
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 2013 : Perception : Susan Vetter
 2014 : NCIS : Enquêtes spéciales (NCIS) : Erin Pace
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 2014 : Unforgettable : Shelby Delson
 2015 - 2022 : Better Call Saul : Betsy Kettleman
 2015 : Following (The Following) : Nancy
 2015 : Masters of Sex : Jo
 2016 : Major Crimes : Détective Stephanie Dunn
 2016 : NCIS : Nouvelle-Orléans (NCIS : New Orleans) : Agent Karen Hardy
 2016 : Code Black : Debbie Kobling
 2016 : Notorious : Laurie Parker
 2017 : Very Bad Nanny (The Mick) : Karen
 2017 - 2019 : Preacher : Lara Featherstone
 2018 : The Rookie : Le Flic de Los Angeles (The Rookie) : Stacy
 2019 : Catch 22 : Marion Scheisskopf
 2020 - 2021 : Harry Bosch (Bosch) : Agent Sylvia Reece
 2021 : Claws : Kim
 2022 : Five Days At Memorial : Diane Robichaux

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 2005 : Passions sous la neige (Snow Wonder) de Peter Werner : Stacey
 2007 : Dessine-moi une famille (Pictures of Hollis Woods) de Tony Bill : Izzy Regan
 2017 : Un Noël de roman (Christmas on the Coast) de Gary Wheeler : Drucinda Cassadine

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The introduction of the iPhone SE 4, which was planned for the spring of 2024, was predicted to happen by renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo a few weeks ago. However, Kuo, who is well aware of the projects Apple is working on, issued a warning. The new iPhone SE won't be released, at least not in 2019. This much is now definite.
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Apple would be dissatisfied with the sales of its entry-level iPhone models, according to Kuo. Furthermore, the iPhones from the main series that is not a part of the Pro range are also impacted by this low level of consumer interest, not just the iPhone SE. Because of this, the iPhone Mini was dropped from the iPhone 14 series and replaced by the iPhone 14 Plus, which has also been a dud.
Additionally, Apple intended to update the iPhone SE's look for the current generation, finally moving away from the iPhone 8 chassis used in the iPhone SE 2 and iPhone SE 3 in favor of a style that is similar to the iPhone XR. A change that would have led to a price increase, further decreasing the device's appeal to the market segment that such a model was intended to reach.
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— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) January 6, 2023
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The decision to discontinue the iPhone SE 4, which would have already been shared with Apple's suppliers, will directly affect the American group's primary line. Indeed, the goal was to include the first modem created by Apple in this new iPhone SE. The corporation allegedly has concerns regarding the functioning of its internal modem; the iPhone SE 4 was intended to act as a life-size test before the modem's adoption for the iPhone 16 series was decided upon.
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Since June 1957 passed approximately Seven Hundred and Fourty-Six months (745.6). This June started with Saturday (22. week) and ended with Sunday (26. week). This June had 30 days and 5 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for June 1957.
Events occurred in June 1957
We found 69 events occured in June month in 1957.
• 1957. June 1 (Category: Births), Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish director
• 1957. June 2 (Category: Births), Jonathan Stack, American filmmaker
• 1957. June 2 (Category: Births), Mark Lawrenson, English footballer
• 1957. June 3 (Category: Births), Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1957. June 4 (Category: Births), John Treacy, Irish athlete
• 1957. June 4 (Category: Births), Yoon Suk-ho, South Korean director
• 1957. June 4 (Category: Events), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
• 1957. June 6 (Category: Births), Christian Rach, German chef
• 1957. June 6 (Category: Births), Fred Arbinger, German footballer
• 1957. June 6 (Category: Births), Mike Gatting, English cricketer
• 1957. June 7 (Category: Births), Howard Finkel, American ring announcer
• 1957. June 7 (Category: Births), Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1957. June 7 (Category: Births), Paddy McAloon, English singer-songwriter (Prefab Sprout)
• 1957. June 8 (Category: Births), Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
• 1957. June 8 (Category: Births), Don Robinson, American baseball player
• 1957. June 8 (Category: Births), Scott Adams, American cartoonist
• 1957. June 10 (Category: Births), Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
• 1957. June 10 (Category: Births), Lindsay Hoyle, English politician
• 1957. June 10 (Category: Events), John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
• 1957. June 11 (Category: Births), Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American bassist and bandleader
• 1957. June 12 (Category: Births), Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1957. June 12 (Category: Births), Timothy Busfield, American actor
• 1957. June 12 (Category: Deaths), Jimmy Dorsey, American musician, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
• 1957. June 13 (Category: Deaths), Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1957. June 14 (Category: Births), Maxi Jazz, English rapper, songwriter, and race car driver (Faithless)
• 1957. June 14 (Category: Births), Suzanne Nora Johnson, American lawyer
• 1957. June 15 (Category: Births), Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
• 1957. June 16 (Category: Births), Ian Buchanan, Scottish actor
• 1957. June 17 (Category: Births), Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor
• 1957. June 17 (Category: Births), Jon Gries, American actor
• 1957. June 17 (Category: Births), Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (d. 2005)
• 1957. June 17 (Category: Births), Phil Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer (The Pogues and The Radiators From Space)
• 1957. June 17 (Category: Deaths), Dorothy Richardson, English writer (b. 1873)
• 1957. June 18 (Category: Births), Andrea Evans, American actress
• 1957. June 18 (Category: Births), Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1957. June 19 (Category: Births), Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
• 1957. June 20 (Category: Births), Koko B. Ware, American wrestler
• 1957. June 21 (Category: Births), Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author
• 1957. June 21 (Category: Births), Lucien DeBlois, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957. June 21 (Category: Births), Luís Antonio Tagle, Filipino archbishop
• 1957. June 21 (Category: Deaths), Claude Farrère, French writer (b. 1876)
• 1957. June 21 (Category: Deaths), Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1957. June 21 (Category: Events), Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
• 1957. June 22 (Category: Births), Danny Baker, English writer, journalist, and screenwriter
• 1957. June 22 (Category: Births), Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist, songwriter, and producer (INXS and Absent Friends)
• 1957. June 22 (Category: Births), Kevin Bond, Former English footballer and manager
• 1957. June 22 (Category: Events), The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
• 1957. June 23 (Category: Births), Frances McDormand, American actress
• 1957. June 24 (Category: Births), Astro, English rapper and musician (UB40)
• 1957. June 24 (Category: Births), Mark Parkinson, American politician
• 1957. June 24 (Category: Events), In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• 1957. June 26 (Category: Births), Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter (Scandal)
• 1957. June 26 (Category: Births), Philippe Couillard, Canadian surgeon and politician
• 1957. June 26 (Category: Deaths), Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
• 1957. June 27 (Category: Births), John Bolaris, American meteorologist
• 1957. June 27 (Category: Deaths), Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
• 1957. June 27 (Category: Events), Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
• 1957. June 28 (Category: Births), Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian historian and politician, 4th President of Bulgaria
• 1957. June 28 (Category: Births), Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player
• 1957. June 28 (Category: Births), Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
• 1957. June 28 (Category: Births), Mike Skinner, American race car driver
• 1957. June 29 (Category: Births), Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
• 1957. June 29 (Category: Births), María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957. June 29 (Category: Births), Michael Nutter, American politician
• 1957. June 29 (Category: Births), Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens)
• 1957. June 29 (Category: Deaths), Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
• 1957. June 30 (Category: Births), Bud Black, American baseball player
• 1957. June 30 (Category: Births), Rich Vos, American comedian
• 1957. June 30 (Category: Births), Sterling Marlin, American race car driver
Calendar June 1957.


1. Put the saffron in a small bowl, cover with 60ml (4tbsp) boiling water and leave to stand.
2. Thinly slice the leeks. Melt the margarine in a large frying pan. Add the leeks and cook, stirring, over a medium heat for 7-8 minutes to soften. Add the peas and continue cooking for a further 3 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large pain of boiling salted water until al dente.
4. Add the saffron liquid and soya cream to the leeks and peas. Heat gently until simmering. Stir in half of the vegan parmesan and remove from the heat. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Drain the pasta thoroughly and return to the pan. Add the sauce and toss lightly to mix. Add the remaining vegan parmesan and toss again. Serve at once, garnished with chervil or parsley if desired.


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Libyan Investment Authority
The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) is the sovereign wealth fund (SWF) of Libya. It is established on 28 August 2006 to manage the surplus of the Libyan oil revenues. This is to be accomplished through investing this surplus in a diversified portfolio of domestic and international investments in various fields such as areas of agriculture, real estate, oil and gas and other prospective financial derivatives. The aim is to protect and develop the value of Libya's oil revenue reserves, as well as to diversify the resources of the Libyan national income away from the dependence on these reserves.
To achieve its mandate, LIA has been given independence and full responsibility to oversee the funds, portfolios and investment companies that were in the past under the various entities of the Libyan National Government. The purpose is to facilitate for LIA to effectively manage these funds by taking proper and sound investment and financial decisions to invest such funds on the local and international levels.
With assets surpassing $67 billion, LIA has intended to establish itself as a sustainable entity based on the internationally applied best practices. while supervising its subsidiaries' investment funds that are also founded on robust professional bases.
Since its launch of operations in mid-2007, LIA has endeavoured effectively to develop all its work aspects to support the preparation and launching of the newly established sovereign fund.
Currently, LIA is working on improving multiple aspects conducive to success, including the best organization structuring, the best model of governance, all in addition to various policies and measures with the view to enhance the Fund performance and to sustain smoothly its operation.
To achieve this target, LIA undertook to establish these various initiatives and the commencement of implementation of a strategic plan that reinforces the main objectives thereof, whereby LIA targeted all legal, governance and operational aspects with reforms. In order to realize that, an executive program and steps to bring about these reforms were put in place.
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It sounded really awkward, but it stuck in my mind and I figured it wouldn't hurt to experiment. So I did it this morning and while it felt a little nuts, it did feel good (and still does). What do you think? Insane? Awesome? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
P.S. Mindy Kaling's friendship tip, and how to look confident.
I think that's the type of thing I'd have to build up to.
I tell myself daily that if the boy loves me as much as he tells me then I'm doing okay- so I guess that's a start.
Thank you for sharing. I am a worrier too; this trick seems like a great, simple idea. I try exercising without music so I can repeat uplifting mantras to myself. It really works!
I appreciate your openness about your worrying – and subsequent posting of tips on the matter! I have rediscovered the "Grand Canyon visualization" trick you had previously posted and really respond to that one. I turned 26 in January and there's something about 2014 that has caused me to be more anxious than usual. Stress at work, desperate for summer and lighter evenings, failing on New Year resolutions (exactly why I hate New Years resolutions.) Also, while I don't *invent* medical symptoms, I make any issues I may have way worse in my mind than they are. Anyway – it's nice to know that it's not unusual to feel worries from time to time and that I'm not the only one!
I'm sure it will feel less crazy in time. I feel like I need to forgive myself more. As a one-woman studio I can take it quite personally when something doesn't work out (I mean, who doesn't?), when what I should really be thinking about is how much it has helped me grow.
This sounds weird but since I heard it before maybe it's time I tried it myself. Thanks for sharing and the illustration is so nice.
This is cool, but I am SUCH a worrier, that I worried when I read this if my husband would overhear me and think I was on a secret bathroom phone call with someone! Sheesh!!!
I love this! I usually do take a moment to look at and appreciate myself – pushing down whatever self-criticism comes up when I get in front of a mirror – but I've never actually said anything out loud. I'm going to try it tomorrow and see how it goes!!
Actually, I say it to myself before I go to sleep at night and then kiss my shoulder. It's a tender way for me to end my day and show myself some kindness. Also, When I need to calm down and de-stress I close my eyes and visualize giving myself a hug. We have to love ourselves first, that is the only way we will have the capability to love others.
I often think about " the i love you" you mentioned when in the middle of and argument with your spouse. Both my husband and i have put it to practice.
one. go outside for fresh air even if it is for five minutes or do twenty jumping jacks, or pretend to start morning again by washing face and brushing teeth and applying mild scented face cream.
three call mom. no one can remind me about all that is good in my life than my mom she is amazing at getting me out of it, just with the sound of her voice.
I love this tip. My mom would always tell us to smile, even when we were in a bad mood. It's counter-intuitive, but the very act of turning up the corners of your mouth and crinkling your eyes has a positive effect. It really does work!
This year, besides finding balance, I'm focusing on self-love, so this is awesome! I would feel weird doing it too, but I want to try it!
This totally worked for me. A little awkward I must admit, but extremely rewarding.
The mirrors in Sketch in London read "You look beautiful. And remember, I can't lie, I'm just a mirror" or "looking good. feeling good". I loved that.
I feel like telling myself "I love you" is a bit too hockey, but that's probably because I like being "positively critical" of myself, where I do a mental check list of everything, and if something is not up to par (like I'm being cranky to my kids) I adjust it and then pat myself on the back for catching a problem without judging the problem.
However, my secret to happiness is to smile. I remember reading somewhere when I was a teen that there was a study that found that people who smiled (and held the smile for something like 15 seconds) reported improvement in their mood regardless of how they felt before. I thought, "How weird!" and tried it. And it totally worked! You feel like a dork for the first few seconds, and then you just really feel cheerier and more buoyant.
GREAT idea! It does sound odd, but I think you should do whatever works. I just wrote about having an attitude of gratitude on my blog. I write (or think of) 10 things I'm grateful for on a daily basis. That never fails to get my mind on track. It has vastly improved my life. Sometimes the little things make the biggest difference.
haha, maxx, you're so right.
I think it's very sweet. I often feel semi guilty for saying I love myself (and find it's really rare to find people who feel the same about themselves..or at least who are willing to admit it) but I really do! Happy thursday…. WE love you!
This is excellent! I was just reflecting how in many ways blogs can be a chance to be friends to ourselves when we read them back. Does that make sense? This would be a good one to revisit.
I wrote a post after a trip to NYC last month and it has been a great reminder already.
I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And dog gone it, people like me.
I do this! Except I do it in yoga class. There is a pose at the end of class where you curl up in a ball and hug yourself. I take this time to remind myself that I am awesome and I love myself and I smile! It's so cheesy and feels weird at first but it seriously works! I think how I would tell someone that I really loved how I felt in that moment and I tell it to myself instead!
I like it! We can be our own biggest fans or worst enemies. I've heard of people putting post-its on their mirrors as well.
I am heading to my mirror right now!
Jo, I hear this! Since college I have been saying, "looking good, feelin better!" and while it started out as a joke to my friends, I say this before leaving the house no matter where I'm going!
I love the advice to "talk to yourself like you talk to a friend." Therefore you're kind and level-headed.
mackenzie, TOTALLY. i really agree with that.
sara, i LOVE the idea of hugging yourself!
I think it is a great idea! Another way I try to treat myself better, is to pretend that I am talking to one of my best friends. I would never be as mean or hard on my friends as I am on myself so it helps me keep things in perspective!
One of the tips you posted that stuck with me was the one about imagining you toss your seemingly huge problem into the grand canyon and then you can see how small that issue really is. I think of that one often and it helps! I may even try this I Love You idea, too.
I'm just writing a set of posts about self care and the next one has to do with this. We all need to give ourselves a little more love!!
I love this – definitely going to try it this week! I also find that if I force myself to smile, even when I don't feel like it, I actually do start to feel more positive. It's funny how those little things work.
I think it's a great idea to give youself some love…I a going to try it out.
i always need a little pick me up first thing in the morning, i'll give this a try!
My mom taught me to do that (also to hug myself?), and it does have an effect! I also like to calm my mind down (it likes to race) with this guided meditation from the Brahma Kumari spiritual group: http://www.brahmakumaris.org/interactive/audiovideo/MultimediaItem.html?site=iwebsite&fileRef=workspace://SpacesStore/f22b5163-9c0f-4f00-9b94-052b33bc408c&type=All&qry=silence .. it takes an hour, but it's worth the investment!
Try reading Louise Hay's book – You Can Heal Your Life! Really helped me get over negative thoughts about myself, my past and move forward. It was cheesy at first.
I love this! I've never said I love you but I do look in the mirror and tell myself to let go of the things I can't control. I am a huge worrier and I found that for me, the root was control. Reminding myself that I can't control most things in life and that trying to is not a fun way to live is helpful for me.
I don't think you can really go wrong saying this to yourself. I also like the idea of telling yourself that you are loveable. I think I am a worrier and don't really know it, is that possible??


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Purdue men's basketball pregame at Wisconsin
Links to our preview coverage and the "Starting Five" pregame thoughts for the Boilermakers' trip to Madison.
Purdue men's basketball travels to Wisconsin for its second road trip of the week. FS1 will broadcast the 9 p.m. tipoff.
For updates and analysis during the game, follow Journal & Courier Purdue insider Nathan Baird on Twitter: @nbairdjc
Purdue is coming off a 77-59 loss at Michigan State. The Boilermakers have lost six straight games away from Mackey Arena.
Wisconsin snapped a two-game losing skid with a 71-52 victory at Penn State last Sunday. The Badgers are 3-1 in Big Ten Conference play.
PREVIEW LINKS
Scouting report:Purdue men's basketball at Wisconsin
Three's company:Purdue basketball's depth and versatility at center growing at the right time
Looking back:Purdue basketball again unsatisfied by incomplete performance at Michigan State
Wisconsin view:A bulkier, stronger Nate Reuvers is becoming a handful for UW opponents
1-This is not the team Purdue faced in Madison last February, mostly because of the presence of D'Mitrik Trice. He's averaging 14.3 points with a 2-to-1 assist-turnover ratio. Nate Reuvers has also emerged as a more consistent frontcourt presence. I would be surprised if 57 points wins this matchup again.
2-Matt Painter and Carsen Edwards exchanged some animated in-game conversations at Michigan State on Tuesday. Painter didn't mix words after the game in his criticism of Edwards' regression to a shoot-first approach. Edwards' next 30-point performance could come as early as tonight. But if that isn't open, can he create for the rest of the lineup?
3-I'm intrigued as to what Painter decides to do with the starting lineup. Haarms has been better off the bench, but he's also the best matchup against Happ. What if Williams starts and slips into early foul trouble? His improving stamina also probably still makes him a better choice in short bursts. But on Thursday Painter also seemed to see the merits of keeping Haarms in that role.
4-The good news for Purdue: Ethan Happ is as much a liability at the free throw line as he always was. The bad news: With Evan Bodureaux out, the Boilermakers have five fewer fouls in their rotation to use against the All-Big Ten power forward.
5-Purdue enters the night with a 1-5 record in Quadrant 1 games. Here's why the road games matter more. An opponent must be ranked in the top 30 of the NCAA's NET to qualify as a Quadrant 1 win when it comes at home. On the road, opponents must be ranked in the top 75. So the home win against Iowa (34) does not currently qualify. Wisconsin (15) will certainly remain in the top 75 all season. With a win tonight Purdue can write down a Quadrant 1 victory in ink.


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AIIMS, UCL in pact for joint research
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and University College London (UCL) on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding to explore potential areas of collaboration, including research-oriented activities, staff and student exchange programmes, research fellowship programmes, workshops and other events related to medical science.
They will be conducting research-based study, focusing on environment and its effect on Indians, for which the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi has also been roped in, Randeep Guleria, Director of AIIMS told IANS.
"Pollution is a rising concern in India. The research will focus on impact of environment, particularly pollution, on the health of pregnant women, lungs and maternal health," Professor Michael Arthur, UCL President, said.
As part of the ongoing research collaborations, the AIIMS has joined the International Centre for Genomic Medicine in Neuromuscular Diseases (ICGMN), which is led by the UCL.
ALSO READ: AIIMS resident doctor manhandled, 2 detained
The ICGMN brings together skills and resources from five countries (India, the UK, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey) and aims to advance the genetic diagnosis and therapy for patients with muscle wasting neuromuscular diseases, including motor neurone disease and muscular dystrophy.
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Marquette Theatre to produce "How I Became a Pirate"
Eva Rodrigues|January 15, 2015
MU Theatre continues its run of "How I Became A Pirate" this weekend. Photo via static.arvada.org
Who knew pirates would ever come close to all the snow in Milwaukee? In fact, Marquette Theatre is currently presenting the musical play, "How I Became a Pirate." The musical, written by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, is an adaptation of a children's book bearing the same name by author Melinda Long.
The story tells the amusing tale of the unlikely encounter between a young boy and a group of pirates. Braidbeard and his crew are looking for a digger to help them bury their treasure chest. Little Jeremy then joins the clan of goofy pirates and sets sail on a new adventure. Between musical pieces, sharks and jokes, the pirates and Jeremy get to know more about each other and young Jeremy even attempts to teach the pirates a thing or two about soccer.
Young Jeremy soon learns that although pirates lead a life full of adventures, there is no place like home.
Peter Sisto, a senior in the College of Education, plays the lead in the production. He is excited for the opportunity to play Jeremy Jacob .
"This has to be my favorite kids show that I have been apart of in the past three years," Sisto said.
Sisto added that because it's a kids show, the show has a message children can take away from it.
"Jeremy Jacob begins to miss his home and longs to be reunited with his family," he said. "I guess if (the show) has a message, it would be to never forget your roots. It's exciting to learn new things and to travel different places, but you can never replace the ones you love."
Katie Shanahan, who plays the lovable French cook on the ship named Pierre the Pirate, said the chance to play the role fulfills a childhood want.
"The very understandable humor makes the show enjoyable from the one- liners to jokes with deeper meanings," Shanahan, a junior in the College of Communication, said. "Let's face it, everyone at one point has wanted to be a pirate."
The Marquette Theatre adaptation, directed by Todd Denning, presents sweet musical pieces and a funny script people of all ages can enjoy. Denning also played the character Braidbeard in the original production of the show, which premiered at First Stage Children's Theatre in Milwaukee in 2009.
"It was cool to work on the show with Todd since he was in it, as well as directed it,"said Dan Callahan, who is also in the production as Sharktooth. "He has experienced the show from both sides of the spectrum." Callahan, a senior in the College of Communication, said Sharktooth is actually a sensitive guy, despite his reputation as the scariest pirate in the seven seas. "The physical humor from the characters appeals to children, while the deeper humor, such as Sharktooth singing about his sensitivity, appeals to adults," he said. The numerous dance numbers and active environment of the show have the ability to charm theatergoers of all ages.
The audience itself adds meaning to the musical, with many small children who dress up as pirates and wave around foam swords. The set contributes to the show with a giant pirate ship and sail that drop from above. "We added paintings and extra pieces to fulfill the illusion of an actual pirate ship on a semi-low budget," Shanahan said.
The entire show only lasts 50 minutes. "The short show is perfect for students who want to enjoy theatre and want to see their classmates perform, but are on a tight schedule," Callahan said.
The musical premiered at the Helfaer Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 10. Two more showings will take place this Saturday, Jan. 17 and Sunday, Jan. 18 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets cost $12 and can be purchased online or by calling the theatre box office at (414) 288-7504.
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Municipality delivers 400 homes in the urbanization "Flor de Pino"
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Turning the dreams of families into reality, once again the Mayor's Office of the Citizen Power of Managua, through the Bismarck Martínez Program, delivered 400 homes in the Flor de Pino urbanization, located on the North highway.
This Bismarck Martínez housing program is the result of the work articulated between the Good Government and the Municipality, which with this delivery reaches 2,050 homes built throughout the municipality of Managua, as part of the commitment to guarantee housing solutions to the people Nicaraguan.
The inauguration act of the social interest housing was presided over by the Mayor of Managua, Reyna Rueda Alvarado, who handed over the keys to each protagonist family, who will no longer have to rent or stay with their relatives, because they already have with their own home. The protagonists were happy with their homes, as expressed by Mrs. Josefa Meneses, 54 years old, who for more than 30 years had to rent and now feels very grateful to this housing program.
In the same way, the young Ángel García manifested himself, who said that now he will live in his own roof with his wife, a dream that has come true.
This is the seventeenth delivery of homes under the Bismarck Martínez Program and the first to be carried out in the Flor de Pino urbanization, located in District VI, which will have 817 homes and will have all the necessary urban conditions, such as water services drinking water, sanitary sewage, public lighting, recreation areas; in addition, complementary infrastructure areas essential for life, such as preschools, health posts and schools.
Managua authorities visit road improvement project in District VINovember 3, 2021
Lomas de Guadalupe neighborhood receives Streets for the People projectNovember 4, 2021
La Divina Misericordia natural park inauguration
Mayor's Office of Managua and China (Taiwan) build a house for Juanita Juárez
Residents of the Carlos Núñez neighborhood celebrate its paved streets
Communications Department March 4, 2022
Discounts and promotions on fruits and vegetables in the Roberto Huembes market
Communications Department February 18, 2022
Residents of the Socrates Sandino neighborhood celebrate their new streets
Boxing Academies start their practices


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Category Archives: United States of America
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, Canada, Caribbean Basin, Central America, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, North America, United States of America
arms smuggling, iron river, Latin America, mass migration, narcotics, North America, transnational crime, violence
This post continues my practice of trying to make accessible and somewhat permanent useful observation composed in passing elsewhere online or in correspondence. In short Twitterese, I've diagrammed the argument as, approximately, "NA cash->LA narcotics->NA; NA arms->LA carte & gang violence->migrants->NA." Close enough. "NA"="North America", of course, and "LA"="Latin America".
Here follows an online comment already made plus short associated and supporting reference.
Our narcotics habits, ______, fuel the cartels and gangs of Latin America, and those are not known for healthy governing practices. The abused, impoverished, terrified, and threatened migrate to El Norte where they believe there will be at least better security, order, and rule-of-law.
We Americans (and Canadians) are not only a powerful market for everything that may be obtained only through smuggling, we've had a business going in running arms into Latin America (along with all the outlaws of the world). Term for exploration on the web: "America, arms, iron river". I have collected articles on the subject dating back to 2007.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-guns/iron-river-of-guns-flows-from-u-s-to-mexico-idUSN1223853620070713 (2007)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/opinion/international-world/guns-mexico.html (2021)
The sad truth about my Fellow Americans is that we're greedy as sin, –or desperate and both–and we pay a high price for it x addictions x homelessness x social failures x social pathologies. Neither our Far Out Left nor Rabid Reactionary Right seems to have a clue as regards the full ecology of corruption, crime, narcotics, trafficked labor (2nd largest abuse of all), and above all our most prized possession: money–would that our ethics, principles, values, and general American spirit modify the national appetite for good times and loot.
Abbany, Zulfikar. "Report: EU spends 31 billion on illicit drugs." DW, April 5, 2016.
Cheatham, Amelia and Diana Roy. "Central America's Turbulent Northern Triangle." Council on Foreign Relations, last updated June 22, 2022.
Gaynor, Tim. "'Iron river of guns' flows from U.S. to Mexico." Reuters, July 13, 2007.
Grillo, Loan. "Slow the Iron River of Guns to Mexico." The New York Times, February 26, 2021.
Kilmer, Beau. "Americans' Spending on Illicit Drugs Nears $150 Billion Annually; Appears to Rival What is Spent on Alcohol." RAND, August 20, 2019.
Krauze, Leon. "Biden must stop the 'iron river' of U.S. weapons devastating Mexico." The Washington Post, March 10, 2021.
Llana, Sara Miller. "US guns fuel Mexico drug war? The politics behind the issue." The Christian Science Monitor, June 15, 2011.
Mallene, Laura. "Europeans Spend $30 Billion A Year On Drugs." Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, November 28, 2019.
Martinez, Gabriela. "The flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico is getting lost in the border debate." PBS New Hour, June 12, 2019, updated July 2, 2019.
Mathema, Silva. "They Are (Still) Refugees: People Continue to Flee Violence in Latin American Countries." Center for American Progress, June 1, 2018.
Morris, Nathaniel and Gema Kloppe-Santamaria. "The Many, Varied Violences Behind the Central American Exodus." IPI Global Observatory, November 15, 2022.
Pendergast, Curt. "Arizona guns quietly smuggled across border as bullets fly in Mexico." Tuscon Arizona Daily Star, November 25, 2019, updated June 26, 2020.
Rubio, Yury. "Twenty-first Century Slavery: How to Stop Human Trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico Border." The International Affairs Review, December 15, 2022.
Seelke, Clare Ribando. "Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean." PDF. Congressional Research Service, October 13, 2016.
VICE News. "How the US Fuels Mexican Cartel Violence." Video. YouTube, August 22, 2021.
Zelensky's Speech Before Congress, December 21, 2022: Near Quotes
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Russia, Ukraine, United States of America
Russia v. Ukraine, Russia-Ukraine War, Slava Ukraine, Ukraine for Democracy, Ukraine for Freedom, Volodymyr Zelenski, Zelensky's Address to Congress
BackChannels hasn't yet seen a transcript, but from scribbles come the following "near quotes"–>
"We have defeated Russia in the battle of minds for the world."
"Americans gained this victory, and that is why you have succeeded in uniting the global community to protect freedom and international law."
"Europeans gained this victory, and that's why Europe is now stronger and more independent than ever."
"The Russian tyranny has lost control over us."
"The Russians will only have a chance to be free when they defeat the Kremlin in their minds."
"This battle cannot be frozen or ignored. the world is too interconnected . . . . Our two nations are allies in this battle."
"Russia has been taking Bakhmut since May, but Bakhmut stands."
"The Russian tactics are primitive."
"Ukraine holds its lines and will never surrender."
Zelensky compared the battle for Bakhmut with the American Revolution's experience at Saratoga, New York, making Ukraine's war one of similar liberation from absolute power.
"Your well being is the product of your security. We Ukrainians will also go through our war of independence with dignity…. We wish for the same victory. Only victory."
I'm going to feel guilty about this–C-Span coverage features transcripts: C-Span. "Ukrainian President Zelensky Address to Congress: Ukrainian President addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress." December 21, 2022.–but no longer young, perhaps not that guilty.
I've earned my laziness.
#DJT on BackChannels: A Dozen Posts, January 6, 2021 – November 5, 2022
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Notes On Reading BackChannels, Political Psychology, United States of America
#DJT, #MaligNarcs, #PolitCrims, #TrumpRussia, American Reactionary Conservatism, authoritarianism, Donald John Trump, Fascist Nationalist America, Rule of the Rich and Ruthless, Trump and Russia, Trumpolini
This list is neither comprehensive nor fully representative of related content on this blog, but each post also conveys three computer-generated suggestions for related reading, not that anyone suffers for lack of reportage obsessed with Donald John Trump. Still, as I've repeatedly relayed some of these via Facebook and Twitter (welcome back, Don, you should see yourself in the mirror that is the World Wide Web), I thought to put a dozen blogs from January 6 to this November on one page as a potential and helpful (I hope) contribution to what lies ahead.
Failing President Donald John Trump's Medieval Mob Invades Capitol, January 6, 2021
Short Comment on Trump's Mob and the Abuse of Language, February 11, 2021
Marie Yovanovitch – The Kind of Person President Trump Fires From His Administration, November 17, 2021
FTAC on Trump, the Show Business President, and the Assault on the Capitol Building, January 9, 2021
Trump and the Question of Insurrection, January 9, 2021
FNS: Trump's Riven Republican Party; Donbass–Bear Squats with Radar, February 2021
FTAC Verbatim: After Trump, A 'Radical Middle', Modern and Moderate, Against the Ends, March 3, 2021
A Comment on 'Trump Facebook Ban Upheld', March 6, 2021
Trump's America in Retrospect: Russian Real Estate Entanglements, October 9, 2021
Trump Lawyer Christopher M. Kise, Registered Foreign Agent, September 19, 2022
Trump, Corruption, Narcotics, Russia-A Glance, October 10, 2022
Trump Hires the Best People (and Two Other Comments Over Coffee), November 5, 2022
Trump, Corruption, Narcotics, Russia-A Glance
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Epistemology, Extreme Brown vs Red-Green, Political Psychology, United States of America
corruption, DJT, Donald Trump, Mafia Style, Russian Money
Either Donald Trump's associates and followers aren't readers, or at least not discerning ones, or they're as greedy and lusting for power as he has been, or, rather like him, they're equally damaged narcissists with Narcissistic Personality Disorder's (NPD's) standard "messianic delusions of grandeur". Also, I suppose one might suggest that some have been compromised (and blackmailed) or leveraged for want of some aspiration or dream that the Don might make come true through his legion of intimidating and obfuscating lawyers.
Approach the followers (carefully) in any manner that suits, but "missing data" upstairs–alternatively brazen disinformation, innuendo, and rumor–would seem a part of that now benighted bought or weakening, small, and violent constellation of Americans too easily led astray.
America's moderate Democrats and Republicans have turned against Donald Trump as a candidate for the 2024 elections and beyond as they have perceived his character issues as deep and lifelong, which they are, but what remains with avaricious associates, lesser politicians perhaps hooked on his indulgence with "endorsements" (kiss of death from the inside out for those with integrity) and funding, would seem a profound denial as regards not only the common wisdom but also wisdom questioned and repeatedly corroborated. What follows in addition to telling quotations is a short list of reference associated with the former American president's autocratic, vicious, and unscrupulous character.
More than 18 months into his presidency, Donald Trump's modus operandi – and the danger it represents – is clear. His working method is that of the mafia boss and gangland chieftain, daily wielding his power to settle scores, teach lessons and crush dissent. Anyone who's seen The Sopranos will know the routine: the casual intimidation, the obsession with loyalty, the brutal ostracism meted out to those who dare defy the man at the top.
Freedland, Jonathan. "This mafia style of government makes Trump a role model for all autocrats." The Guardian, August 18, 2018.
"My name is Carmine. I don't know why you're fucking with Mr. Trump but if you keep fucking with Mr. Trump, we know where you live and we're going to your house for your wife and kids," the caller said, according to the account that the attorney, Kristopher Hansen, gave to the Holmdel police department in New Jersey. Hansen speculated that the caller was Trump's bodyguard.
Leopold, Jason. "'If You Keep Fucking With Mr. Trump, We Know Where You Live. '". BuzzFeed News, August 5, 2017.
Many of those who bought the condos, it turns out, did so not to live there but allegedly to launder illicit money – Russian gangster money, drug cartel money, people-smuggling money.
A joint Reuters-NBC News investigation published on Friday alongside a report by the non-profit Global Witness said the skyscraper with Trump's name had ties to international organised crime.
The reports detailed how the future president gave the project to his daughter Ivanka as a "baby" effort to gain real estate experience, and said it ended up drawing a cast of characters accused of fraud, corruption and kidnapping.
Carroll, Rory. "Trump's Panama tower used for money laundering by condo owners, reports say." The Guardian, November 18, 2017.
The meeting came just days after Kilimnik met in Moscow with Oleg Deripaska, a powerful oligarch and close ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Deripaska had been a major client of Manafort but had sued him over a failed business deal in Ukraine and was seeking to recoup almost $25m.
The Trump administration announced late last year it intended to lift sanctions on Deripaska's companies, despite strong opposition from Democrats and some Republicans in Congress. The treasury department had imposed the sanctions on Deripaska and several of his companies in tandem with seven Russian oligarchs, 12 companies they owned or controlled, and 17 Russian government officials, for "malign activity" which included "attempting to subvert western democracies, and malicious cyber-activities".
Stone, Peter. "Is Oleg Deripaska the missing link in the Trump-Russia investigation?" The Guardian, January 29, 2019.
Baker, Peter, J. David Goodman, Michael Rothfeld, Elizabeth Williamson. "The 11 Criminals Granted Clemency by Trump Had One Thing in Common: Connections." The New York Times, February 19, 2020.
Barber, C. Ryan. "Paul Manafort just put a very favorable gloss over his work for a pro-Russia leader of Ukraine in a rare radio interview." Business Insider, March 18, 2022. For a look at Yanukovych's Ukrainian kleptocracy, see Yanukovych Leaks. (For a look at how little Donald Trump cared about democracy in post-revolutionary Ukraine, see Smith, Jeffrey R. "Timeline: How Trump withheld Ukraine aid." The Center for Public Integrity, December 13, 2019).
Burleigh, Nina. "Donald Trump Is a 'Russian Asset' Owned by the Mafia, Author Claims in New Book." Newsweek, August 17, 2018.
Crowley, Michael. "All of Trump's Russia Ties, in 7 Charts." Politico, March/April 2017.
CNN. "Rauch: Trump has mastered the 'firehose of falsehood'."
Entous, Adam, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller. "Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House." The Washington Post, December 9, 2016.
Gessen, Masha. "The Trump-Russia Investigation and the Mafia State." The New Yorker, January 31, 2019.
Glaser, April. "Investors in the Panama Trump Tower Included a Notorious Criminal Who Laundered Drug Money: The close ties between Colombian cartels and the Trump Ocean Club." November 17, 2017.
Global Witness. "How Trump made millions licensing his name to a development used to launder drug money." YouTube Video with associated link to a report. November 17, 2017.
Hirsh, Michael. "How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business." Foreign Policy, December 21, 2018.
Illing, Sean. "Trump's ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades." Vox, January 12, 2019.
Johnson, Kevin. "FBI surges on DC home of Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch from Paul Manafort trial." USA Today, October 19, 2021.
Lind, Dara. "Stormy Daniels's story of intimidation from a Trump associate fits a 20-year pattern." Vox, March 26, 2018.
Onion, Rebecca. "'Just Remember: Roy Cohn Taught Him His ABCs'". Slate, September 27, 2019.
Oppenheim, James S. "Trump and the Question of Insurrection." BackChannels, January 9, 2021.
Oppenheim, James S. "Trump's America in Retrospect: Russian Real Estate Entanglements." BackChannels, October 9, 2021.
Parker, Ned, Stephen Grey, Stefanie Eschenbacher, Roman Anin, Brad Brooks, and Christine Murray. "Ivanka and the fugitive from Panama." Reuters Investigates, November 17, 2017. Teaser: "Exclusive: How an alleged fraudster in Panama, working with Donald Trump's daughter, helped make Trump's first international hotel venture a success. The broker was in business with a money-launderer and two criminals from the former Soviet Union. Then he fled."
Rauch, Jonathan. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2021.
Rauch, Jonathan. "The Real Hoax." Persuasion. December 13, 2021.
Smith, David. "'The perfect target': Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy." The Guardian, January 29, 2021.
Stedman, Scott. "Decorated Russian Naval Veteran Funneled Thousands to Trump, RNC." Forensic News, September 21, 2021.
Unger, Craig. "Donald Trump Was Everything Vladimir Putin Could Have Wished For: From the days when the KGB sought to cultivate him 40 years ago to his term as president, Trump was a useful stooge. And if he gets another term, he still can be." The New Republic, March 2, 2022.
Unger, Craig. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia. New York: Dutton, 2018.
Unger, Craig. American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery. New York: Dutton, 2021.
Unger, Craig. "Trump's businesses are full of dirty Russian money. The scandal is that it's legal." The Washington Post, March 29, 2019.
Unger, Craig. "Trump's Russian Laundromat." The New Republic. July 13, 2017.
Weiss, Michael and Casey Michel. "The Alleged Russian Mobsters in Trump World's Orbit: A Dirty Dozen." The Daily Beast, November 16, 2019; updated December 6, 2019.
Bloomberg Quicktake, June 28, 2022.
Addendum, from November 11, 2022 Forward
I've added to the above reference section articles published before the publication date of this post, Oct. 10, 2022, but thought here to add #DJT pieces bearing down on about the same themes involving the former American President, foremost treason abetted by questionable character and an altogether malign narcissistic psychology.
Olear, Greg. "Trump vs. the CIA (with Kristin Wood): The USIC warned us. We didn't listen." PREVAIL by Greg Olear, November 18, 2022.
Weiner, Rachel. "GOP operative found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump." The Washington Post, November 17, 2022.
The Teflon Don's Company
08 Saturday Oct 2022
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Political Spychology, United States of America
corruption, DJT, Donald Trump, Espionage, foreign influence, malignarcs, Political Criminals, Questionable Character, Trump's Rogues
Published 9/19/2022-https://t.co/Qd3E38yCvZ Another Trump lawyer.
Allen Weisselberg
George Papadopoulos
Roger Stone
George Nader
At least Michael Cohen turned around 180-degrees, served his time, and has regained his integrity.
— J. S. Oppenheim (@JS_Oppenheim) October 8, 2022
I know this blog seldom presents first-hand (primary) reporting and that the reference lists I create (drudgery!) hardly represent "writing", but having gone to the very minor bother of looking up and thinking up names as well as coming up with related articles, what's an old blogger to do?
Chris Zillizza's piece for The Point (July 21, 2021) provided some helpful reminders, but I didn't simply copy and list for not recognizing the names Tom Barrack or Elliott Broidy. I've added reference for each. I was also sorry about having to list Michael Cohen in the gallery of rogues although as Trump's fixer I'm sure he was no picnic either. Nonetheless, as an instantly transformed witness and apparently recovered Trump goon, mention feels like throwing a perfectly good carrot back into a festering stew of rotten vegetables.
If the "festering stew" of Don's rogues were to take hold and one were to ask about the gelatinous substance holding all of them in the same pot, there might be just the two ingredients: greed and a most American vainglory that would bring all back to the here familiar "Malignant Narcissism".
I've remained loose with BackChannels as regards discipline and style . . . perhaps it's been an old hippy's blog…. Nonetheless, the entries are alpha but from time tot time I present one or two (or more) as a quotation with reference. Among the enduring themes to be associated with Donald John Trump in history will be those pertaining to character, criminality, errant political psychology, integrity, loyalty, and trust both in relation to himself and in relation to his country and America's national character.
Cillizza, Chris. "11 Trump associates have now been charged with crimes. 11!" The Point, CNN Politics, July 21, 2021.
Clark, Dartunorro, Michael Kosnar, Dareh Gregorian, and Tom Winter. "All four Roger Stone prosecutors resign from case after DOJ backpedals on sentencing recommendation." NBC News, February 11, 2020.
Hoffman, David. "Paul Manafort: Handmaiden to dictators." Op-ed. The Hill, December 24, 2020.
Millhiser, Ian. "The 4 major criminal probes into Donald Trump, explained." Vox, September 21, 2022.
O'Brien Rebecca Davis. "Trump Adviser's Trial May Shed Light on Foreign Influence Campaigns." The New York Times, September 19, 2022.
Oppenheim, James S. "Trump Lawyer Christopher M. Kise, Registered Foreign Agent." BackChannels, September 19, 2022.
Shamsian, Jacob. "Rober Stone and his wife are trying to settle the Justice Department's lawsuit over $2 million in unpaid taxes." Business Insider, July 12, 2022.
Schmidt, Michael S., Maggie Haberman, and Katie Benner. "Justice Dept Is Said to Believe Trump Has More Documents." The New York Times, October 6, 2022.
Shaw, Conor. "President Trump's staggering record of uncharged crimes." Crew, September 27, 2022.
U. S. Department of Justice. "Elliott Broidy Pleads Guilty for Back-Channel Lobbying Campaign to Drop 1MDB Investigation and Remove a Chinese Foreign National." October 20, 2020.
Defendants PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR., (MANAFORT) and RICHARD W. GATES Ill
(GA TES) served for years as political consultants and lobbyist'i. Between at least 2006 and 2015,MANAFORT and GATES acted as unregistered agents of the Government of Ukraine, the Party of Regions (a Ukrainian political party whose leader Victor Yanukovych was President from 2010 to 2014), Yanukovych, and the Opposition Bloc (a successor to the Party of Regions that formed in 2014 when Yanukovych fled to Russia). MANAFORT and GATES generated tens of millions of dollars in income as a result of their Ukraine work. 111 order to hide Ukraine payments from United States authorities, from approximately 2006 through at least 2016, MANAFORT and GATES laundered the money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts.
U.S. Department of Justice. PDF. "United State of America v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr. and Richard W. Gates III." Case 1:17-cr-00201-ABJ Document 13, October 30, 2017.
Nader has had several run-ins with the law over the years related to sexual abuse of children. He was convicted in the 1990s of transporting child pornography publications, and imprisoned in 2003 for sexually abusing ten boys in the Czech Republic.[6] He pleaded guilty in early 2020 to flying a 14-year-old boy from Europe to the US for sex, and transporting pornography depicting child sexual abuse and bestiality.
Wikipedia. "George Nader".
Wikipedia. "George Papadopoulos".
Wikipedia. "Michael Flynn".
Wikipedia. "Paul Manafort".
Trump Lawyer Christopher M. Kise, Registered Foreign Agent
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Political Psychology, Political Spychology, United States of America, Venezuela
American Political Absolutism, Democracy in Peril, DJT, Donald John Trump, Donald Trump, Kise, medieval v modern, Trump and Dictatorship
On January 24, 2020, the Foreign Agents Registration Act unit of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice received from Christopher M. Kise, now the lawyer representing Donald John Trump in his defense in relation to the FBI's investigation of Trump's holding documents stamped as Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI), FARA registration #6787. In the form, Kise had listed as his principle Reinaldo Munoz Pedroza, the Attorney General of Venezuela appointed by the dictator Nicolas Maduro. At that time, Pedrozo had been sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for undermining democracy in Venezuela and related election interference.
News of Kise's registration as a foreign agent broke two days ago, and as interesting as that may be, the development of public and official interest in both the Conflict of Interest implied and the breathtaking scope of potential national security compromises–all those boxes of TS/SCI data!–appears slow. However, this by Ben Meiselas showed up on YouTube this morning:
Posted by MeidasTouch to YouTube, September 19, 2022.
For Trump's base, the idea of achieving patriotic honor in association with his support appears belied and eroded by not only the former president's authoritarian, belligerent, and obstreperous character but his connections–and one step removed is not far enough–to the tools, literally, so it would seem in the case of Mr. Kise, of at least one dictatorship. While it would seem fair for President (for Life) Maduro to have representation in the United States, the same would seem more than heinous for Trump to share with him the same lawyer.
Should the Kise-Trump story take down almost-candidate-(again) Trump, it would make a nice bookend for Trump's first big yellow caution flag: Paul Manafort.
To make sense of the president's pardon of Paul Manafort, it helps to understand the man Trump selected to run his 2016 campaign. On one hand, it seems inconceivable that an American presidential candidate would choose as his campaign manager someone whose last job was political strategist to a dictator in Ukraine who had recently been overthrown in a popular revolution. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense. Paul Manafort made a fortune helping tyrants and would-be tyrants appear legitimate. He was the ultimate symbol of the corruption of democratic political systems. His evolution from establishment wonderkid to handmaiden to dictators is a story of how corruption perverts democracies.
Hoffman, David. "Paul Manafort: Handmaiden to dictators." The Hill, December 24, 2020.
With his latest hire in lawyers, Trump has only confirmed what all Americans, much including his base, must now see, i.e., the darkest of fallen real princes by contemporary business and class standards, a man who cannot keep himself separate from America's enemies, Russian criminals, and assorted (other) dictators.
Note: since publishing this post, Trump has been reported as removing Christopher M. Kise from the leading role in Trump's defense before related Federal investigation:
Kise is expected to remain on Trump's legal team but is not leading the work related to the federal government's investigation into how the former President handled 11,000 documents seized from his Florida home in August following a lengthy effort by the government to retrieve them. The reason for the shift in Kise's role remains unclear and he may instead focus his efforts on the other investigations Trump is facing, which range from his business practices to the January 6 insurrection.
Collins, Kaitlan. "Newest addition to Trump's legal team sidelined in Mar-a-Lago search case." CNN Politics, September 27, 2022.
Cohen, Marshall, Oliver Carcy, and Zachary Cohen. "How Team Trump used Fox News as a laundromat for unverified Russian information about top Democrats." CNN Politics, October 12, 2020.
Davis, Wynne. "TS/SCI: What an abbreviation reveals about the files seized from Mar-a-Lago." NPR, August 16, 2022.
Gans, Jared. "Save America PAC advances $3M to Trump lawyer to cover legal fees." The Hill, September 16, 2022.
Myers, Steven Lee and Andrew E. Kramer. "How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump." The New York Times, July 31, 2016.
Nicol, Ryan. "Attorney Christ Kise to help Nicolas Maduro administration fight U.S. sanctions." Florida Politics, January 28, 2020.
U.S. Department of the Treasury. "Treasury Sanctions Maduro Regime Officials for Undermining Democratic Order in Venezuela." September 4, 2020.
Wikipedia. "Reinaldo Munoz Pedroza".
Putin the Pirate
Posted by commart in 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Europe, Great Britain and United Kingdom, Political Psychology, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, United States of America
EU/NATO, New Nationalism, New Russian Imperialism, Putin the Pirate, Russia v NATO, Russia v Ukraine, Ukraine's Frozen Conflict, Vladimir Putin
Well, he stole Robert Kraft's Sacred Superbowl Ring, so what wouldn't he steal?
Kraft's ring now appears on display in the Kremlin's library, quite a trophy brought home to Moscow by Russia's Boss of Bosses.
From CNN:
The 4.94-carat ring is in the Kremlin's library, where all official state gifts are kept, he said. It is worth more than $25,000, according to multiple reports from 2005.
A Kraft spokesman said Sunday the story is a humorous anecdote that Kraft "retells for laughs."
"He loves that the ring is at the Kremlin and, as he stated back in 2005, he continues to have great respect for Russia and the leadership of President Putin," said Stacey James, a spokesman for The Kraft Group.
Eshchenko, Alla and Faith Karimi. "Russian president: I did not steal Super Bowl ring." CNN, June 17, 2013.
No. Putin didn't steal it. It was a gift!
Will Ukraine be a gift too?
Putin the Pirate has done a few things under the table upside-down and sideways over decades to weaken western political coherence, cohesion, and resolve. Start with the KGB's handling of Zawahiri over the winter of 1996/7. In connect-the-dots fashion, I believe that stay led to the attack by jet hijacking Islamists on 9/11 that in turn goosed the pride of western states in their Christian and independent political cultures and led to what has been referred to as the "New Nationalism".
When bees sting and flesh swells, the response has not been called "proud flesh" for nothing.
The popular western response in enmity and fear regarding Islam has not been misplaced in relation to Islamic Extremism and related Islamist Terror, but the same has given rise to blood-and-soil nationalism, authoritarianism, and actual autocracy in some EU/NATO states. Hungary, Italy, Poland, Turkey, and the United States (one nation under Trump for a while) have each seen their open democracies challenged by demagoguery or political perversion.
We may also take note of the "01s" in dates: 1991-dissolve of the Soviet Union in bankruptcy following American intercession opposite the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (from which Russia was forced to retreat in 1989); 2001-the September 11 attacks took place on Felix Dzerzhinsky's birthday, quite a gift for a Moscow bent on revenge for its losses in Afghanistan-and, no, Putin didn't do it–it was obviously radical Muslims assembled and deployed by Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama Bin Laden; 2011-The Horror taking off in Syria that would send millions of refugees into NATO (Turkey, which today hosts about 3.68 million Syrian refugees), the European Union (0.7 million-Germany), and Scandinavia (0.3 million), another goad for the defense of the rightly ethnolinguistic state cultures settled and enjoying the benefits of, well, being themselves, the only problem being a concomitant drift toward the same feudal-medieval worldviews and fascination with authority held by Bashar al-Assad, Ali Khamenei, and Vladimir Putin; 2021-Russia's repeated threats by military feint against Ukraine, a young democratic state seeking NATO accession, and, by extension, NATO itself, but not quite as Ukraine remains without accession.
So hey, Bob (Kraft), George and George, Jr. (Bush), where are you today with Putin (the thief)?
Where and when are dictatorships to be stopped?
Is it when one or another has engaged in political repression and breathtaking plunder at home?
Should it be when the security service agents and agent provocateur show up within the borders of one's democratic state?
Should it be when the tanks roll into a neighboring state struggling for its own sovereignty against barbaric force and the possibility of a return to corrupt, kleptocratic, and tyrannical governance?
Amante, Angelo and Crispian Balmer. "Analysis: Italy's Salvini struggles as rightist ally grows stronger." Reuters, May 10, 2021.
Bertrand, Natasha and Devan Cole. "Blinken says 'a single additional Russian force' entering Ukraine would trigger US response." CNN, January 23, 2022.
Christophersen, Erik. "These 10 countries receive the most refugees." Norwegian Refugee Council.
Cummings, William. "'I am a nationalist': Trump's embrace of controversial label sparks uproar." USA Today, October 24, 2018.
Duffin, Erin. "Nationalism in the U.S. – Statistics & Facts." Statista, March 11, 2021.
Ellyatt, Holly. "If war is coming, the West must decide how far it will go to defend Ukraine against Russia." CNBC, January 24, 2022.
Fearnow, Benjamin. "Donald Trump Urges Americans to Bring 'Nationalism' Back Into the Mainstream." Newsweek, November 19, 2019.
Gross, Terry. "Manafort's Guilty Plea Details His Entanglement with Russian-Backed Oligarchs." NPR, September 19, 2018.
Harding, Luke. "Former Trump aide approved 'black ops' to help Ukraine president." The Guardian, April 5, 2018.
Hemon, Aleksandar. "Trump's Nationalism Advances on a Predictable Trajectory to Violence. His Supporters Will Kill When They're Told To." The Intercept, May 2, 2020.
Kajta, Justyna. "From street to state: How radical nationalists gained power in Poland." Open Democracy, April 1, 2021.
Musharbash, Yassin. "The Globalization of Far-Right Extremism: An Investigative Report." CTC Sentinel, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, 14:6, July/August 2021.
Oppenheim, James S. "Ukraine: A Reminder." BackChannels, December 7, 2021.
Schuster, Simon. "How Paul Manafort Helped Elect Russia's Man in Ukraine." Time, October 31, 2017.
Smith, Deyscha. "New details shed light on the Robert Kraft-Vladimir Putin Super Bowl ring controversy." Boston, September 10, 2020.
Statista. "Ranking of the largest Syria refugee-hosting countries in 2020".
Stewart, Katherine. "Christian Nationalism Is One of Trump's Most Powerful Weapons." The New York Times, January 6, 2022.
The New York Times. "Gerald L. K. Smith Dead; Anti-Communist Crusader." April 16, 1976.
Troaianovski, Anton and David E. Sanger. "Russia Issues Subtle Threats More Far-Reaching Than a Ukraine Invasion." The New York Times, January 16, 2022.
Turner, Lauren. "Ukraine: Boris Johnson warns Russian invasion would be disastrous." BBC, January 24, 2022.
UNHCR. "Syria Refugee Crisis–Globally, in Europe and in Cyprus." March 18, 2021.
VOA. "Russia Threatens to Deploy Tactical Nuclear Weapons." December 14, 2021.
Wikipedia. "America First Party (1943)".
Wikipedia. "Ayman al-Zawahiri".
Wikipedia. "Felix Dzerzhinsky".
Wikipedia. "Gerald L. K. Smith".
Wikipedia. "Osama bin Laden".
Wikipedia. "Putin's Kleptocracy".
Wikipedia. "Russo-Ukrainian War".
Posted to YouTube by WGN News, January 24, 2022.


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