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May 27, 2008 by dandelionsalad
Will We See the End of Empire in Our Time? by Richard C. Cook
by Richard C. Cook
richardccook.com
The following is based on a talk given by the author at the "End of Empire" session of the "Building a New World" Conference of the Prout World Assembly at Radford University, Radford, Virginia, on May 22, 2008.
I believe we have had two Americas. One started with the imperialist state which Alexander Hamilton tried to put into place in the 1790s with the First Bank of the United States. Thomas Jefferson overthrew this early expression of empire in the Civic Revolution of 1800 and created a strong and free America which lasted until 1913 in spite of the convulsion of the Civil War.
In 1913 the empire came back through the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment to the Constitution authorizing the income tax. Franklin Roosevelt dealt it a blow during the New Deal, but now it has taken over again, starting with the Vietnam War, continuing with the Reagan Revolution, and ending with the catastrophe of Bush II.
Though the America we know and love is in agony, I believe the 'real' America is still there, somewhere, among the people, particularly those who remain true to the teaching of the Master, "to love your neighbor as yourself." Whether and how that America will now come to the fore is, for me, the next big question.
A few weeks after I retired from the government in January 2007, I published a book entitled Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.
I had gone to work at NASA in the summer of 1985 as the lead resource analyst for the space shuttle solid rocket boosters.
My first major assignment was to talk with the solid rocket booster engineers and find out about the problems they were having with the O-ring joints. They told me that these joints, located between rocket segments, were being eroded by flame leaks almost every time the shuttle was launched.
The engineers said that if the flame leaks burned all the way through the joints, then the shuttle would blow up. Documents showed that if this happened the astronauts all would die. The engineers said they were trying to redesign the joints but that for now they "held their breath" each time there was a launch.
On January 26, 1986, space shuttle Challenger did blow up for the reason the engineers had described. Among the seven astronauts who died was Christa McAuliffe, the Teacher-in-Space and the first civilian shuttle passenger. I became the only NASA official to testify publicly to the Rogers Commission that NASA had known for a long time this could happen. For my testimony I later received the Cavallo Foundation Award given to whistleblowers for moral courage in business and industry.
After my testimony, the engineers for Morton Thiokol came forward and told how they had tried to stop the launch the night before, because they feared the unusually cold temperatures would prevent the O-ring joints from sealing. NASA refused to accept the engineers' recommendation for a delay, and their own company managers approved the launch in writing.
This was as far as the Rogers Commission went with its investigation. After four more years of personal investigation, I was able to determine that NASA approved the launch against all expert opinion in connection with the TV publicity for the Teacher-in-Space mission and under pressure from the Reagan White House.
I was also able to show that the reason NASA kept flying, despite the knowledge that the O-ring joints were flawed and that their performance was further compromised by cold temperatures, was so as not to interfere with military launches the shuttle was going to be making in support of President Reagan's Star Wars weapons-in-space system.
I tell you this story because it is a concrete example of what happens when a nation goes from being a democracy to an empire. For one thing, human life no longer matters. They don't care if people live or die. They'll kill millions, whole nations, entire cultures, to get what they covet. And they will give it fancy names, like "The War on Terror." Or they'll tell you the earth is overpopulated so hundreds of millions must starve, which is starting to happen even as we speak.
Also, there is always a great leader whose image and prestige matters more than common sense and the truth—a Great Communicator, a Decider, a Unitary Executive. And that leader is going to be good at scaring you and making you do things out of fear you would never do in your right mind.
Finally, under an empire, ideas of science and knowledge—which is to say, Truth—are sacrificed to the imperatives of militarism and national security. What was happening at the time of the Challenger disaster was that the manned space program, which had given mankind some of its greatest triumphs during the Apollo moon landing program, was now being subverted to begin launching weapons into space. Today, no nation in history has been as proficient as ours at inventing things to kill their fellow human beings.
Returning to my personal circumstances, I left NASA a few days after my testimony and spent the next twenty-one years working for the U.S. Treasury Department. There I learned more about what it has meant for us to become an empire, because it has affected public finance as much as space science. And I have studied this topic seriously for years. I publish articles regularly on Global Research and other websites and have a new book coming out this fall entitled, We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform.
The issue of whether we in the U.S. want to be an empire or a democracy goes back to the founding of the nation. In the 1790s, our first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, got Congress, with President George Washington's approval, to pass legislation setting up the First Bank of the United States. Hamilton was frank at the time in telling people that the purpose of the Bank was to allow the creation of what he than called an "American empire" in order to compete with the European nations in controlling the world.
The Bank would do the same for the U.S. as the Bank of England did for Great Britain. It would buy government debt and use it as collateral for private lending. The debt would then be used to fund a large standing army and navy, even though in the long run, this could bankrupt the nation. The army and navy began to be built through the 1790s, until Thomas Jefferson and his followers stood up and said this is not the kind of nation we fought to create during the Revolutionary War.
Hamilton and Jefferson split, and that split has defined U.S. politics ever since. Hamilton became the de facto head of the Federalist Party, the ancestor first of the Whigs and then of the Republicans. Jefferson called himself a Republican at first, then a Democratic-Republican, then finally his party became the Democratic Party that has lasted until today. Of course we know that the two parties have come more and more to resemble each other in recent decades in supporting policies of imperialism.
Jefferson was elected president in what was called the Civic Revolution of 1800. The first thing he did was cut military spending. He did what no one has done since, which was to balance the federal budget for eight consecutive years. Then he took an action which defined our nation to a considerable extent all the way into the 20th century. In 1803 he doubled the size of the nation overnight through the Louisiana Purchase.
So for the next century, instead of competing with the European nations for overseas colonies, our energies were devoted to settling the North American continent, to the detriment, of course, of the Native American peoples. We became, as did Russia in Eurasia and Brazil in South America, a continental land power. And we stayed that way for over a century.
But empire finally caught up with us. Across the sea in South Africa a man named Cecil Rhodes was devising a plan to make the British Empire the ruler of the globe. He created a secret society to accomplish this, called the Round Table, using money provided by the Rothschild family, who had controlled the British economy since the Napoleonic wars.
The U.S. was integral to their plans. Following is the relevant passage from Cecil Rhodes' will of 1877. His aims, he wrote in the will, were:
…The extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom and of colonization by British subjects of all lands wherein the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour, and enterprise,…the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of a British Empire, the consolidation of the whole Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial Representation in the Imperial Parliament which may to tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire, and finally the production of so great a power as to hereafter render wars impossible and promote the best interests of humanity.
Think about that: "the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire." In fact, as Professor Carroll Quigley made clear in his celebrated book, The Anglo-American Establishment, the British planners, whose descendants still rule that nation, acknowledged that a time would come when the U.S. would be the senior partner in the empire, which is exactly what happened over the century that lay ahead.
The Russian writer P.D. Ouspensky said all the history you read about in the history books is "the history of crime." This is what he was talking about.
The takeover of America was accomplished when the British, European, and American bankers created the Federal Reserve System in 1913. That year our nation was hijacked. Congressman Charles Lindbergh, father of the future aviator, called it "the legislative crime of the ages."
The Federal Reserve is a privately-owned central banking system modeled on the Bank of England. From that day onward we got all the accoutrements of empire which have burdened our nation ever since: an enormous national debt, a crushing tax burden, permanent inflation, constant warfare, a gigantic and overweening military-industrial complex, a national character marked by arrogance and violence, and today, the enmity of the world.
Our wealth has been based, first, of course, on our own industriousness and natural resources—a positive—but, when that has proved insufficient, on taking it from others. Until recently our businesses and industry have dominated the globe—ever since World War II. The American dollar has been the world's reserve currency and the denominator of trade in the "black gold" known as oil.
Through the neocolonialist institution known as the International Monetary Fund, we dominated the economies of the developing world. And we backed up our hegemony with military might. Since the start of World War II in 1941 we have been at war with somebody, either overtly or covertly, continuously. This pattern of warfare accelerated with the Reagan Doctrine of fighting proxy wars starting in the 1980s.
Today our military is based in 166 nations. Our economy is dominated by two industries—banking and armaments. Egged on by Israel and the U.S.-based neocons, we are engaged in the military conquest of the Middle East. This began after the 9/11 attacks through use of off-the-shelf plans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. We are also seeking "full-spectrum dominance" by planning, once again, to put weapons into space.
And we are bankrupt—morally and financially. We gave away our manufacturing industries to the operators of overseas sweatshops and have tried to live on our investments and the inflation of our homes and paper assets. Our secret intelligence agencies are heavily involved in the illicit drug trade, and we carry out our foreign policy with assassinations, subversion, and torture.
Yet we have a national debt approaching $10 trillion and a total societal debt of $50 trillion, neither of which can ever be paid off. Meanwhile the world's financial controllers, still mainly based in London along with Wall Street, have gotten unbelievably rich from the proceeds of empire over the decades and are probably laughing up their sleeves as they watch us inch toward the next world war.
Because it's a fact that the threat of nuclear war which we thought had been dispelled by the end of the Cold War today has come back. Remember talk of the "peace dividend"? What a joke! In our name, and with our money, the U.S. military-industrial complex is seriously preparing for a world war that would be fought with nuclear weapons against Russia and China.
The trigger could be a U.S. attack on Iran, which seems to be in the works and may take place before the November presidential election. Disgusting and corrupt corporate media outlets like the Washington Post are again beating the drums for war on behalf of the financiers and Israel as they did in the run-up to the war against Iraq.
Is there still a chance for us to step back and become the nation we once were, the home of liberty and the hope of mankind? Although I have tried to address these and many other issues in my writings, I honestly do not have the answer to that very pertinent question.
Copyright 2008 by Richard C. Cook
Richard C. Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on economics, politics, and space policy have appeared on numerous websites. His book on monetary reform entitled We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform will be published soon by Tendril Press. He is also the author of Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age, called by one reviewer, "the most important spaceflight book of the last twenty years." His Challenger website is at www.richardccook.com. A new economics website at www.RealSustainableLiving.com is upcoming with partner/author Susan Boskey. To get on his mailing list, for questions and comments, or to pre-purchase copies of his new book, please write EconomicSanity@gmail.com.
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17 thoughts on "Will We See the End of Empire in Our Time? by Richard C. Cook"
yenor galazio | June 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM
Why United States use to spend yearly trillons of dolars in guns instead of
pay their debts?
Thats madnes! Insanity!
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walter libby | June 27, 2008 at 5:11 PM
If we don't act soon, we may see the collapse sooner than we think.
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GeoMark | May 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM
"The problem is America has legislated out checks and balances in dealing with economics, trading and currency with no moral leadership …"
Well, it seems Lame Cherry got one point reasonably accurate if one gives it the benefit of the doubt with regard to coherency.
dandelionsalad | May 28, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Thanks everyone for your comments/opinions.
Thanks Richard for replying to Lame Cherry's comments.
Richard C. Cook | May 28, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Dear Lame Cherry:
I disagree with your reading of history on every point. I believe that Thomas Jefferson was a great president whose wisdom and restraint gave us a century of freedom before we lost it to the power of international finance through the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. You say that "George W. Bush is a decade ahead of those people deeming him a failure." Well, I happen to believe that the presidency of George W. Bush has been the greatest catastrophe in U.S. history. But everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, and I thank you for your comments.
Richard C. Cook
Lame Cherry | May 28, 2008 at 8:05 PM
Mr. Cook, your comprehension of history is completely flawed and reveals you "read" your history formulated from the leftist opinions of the globalists you claim to expose.
First, Alexander Hamilton was not an imperialist. He was a Federalist. His implementation of the Bank of America was based upon the national need for governments to make war when attacked and to fund them along with national projects like canals.
You will be surprised that Mr. Hamilton was abhored by the speculators after the war and sought to make the American economy debt free which he did.
His bank was a charter bank which was operated by Americans and checked and balanced by Congress.
To malign the greatest of Americans whom George Washington relied on completely to deal with the mob rule of Thomas Jefferson is reprehensible.
As for Mr. Jefferson, he stopped nothing of Federalism. He was instead a whisperer who sought to destroy many Americans including Hamilton and John Adams. Jefferson's policies got 11 million French slaughtered and America invaded during his accomplice's administration during the war of 1812.
The strong and free America was created by several noted Americans in Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Jefferson's only claim was setting up an agrarian culture while he gutted national defense with the Louisiana Purchase. He is the greatest dichotomy of greatness and pithiness in America.
1913 signaled the need for America to grow as Theodore Roosevelt noted it must or become a vassal state and that growth required funding as he overzealously sought to undo the utter failures of Jefferson as he wrote about in his many books.
The fact is FDR is the complete pipe dream of the left. He ended nothing, but built upon the foundations of communistic trends Woodrow Wilson was blackmailed into.
FDR's tax hikes and communist policies of citizens employed by government kept the Great Depression alive at least a lustrom longer than necessary. His policies and lust to supplant Great Britain as world leader started the Pacific war and led America into the European theater when Republican isolationists wanted no part of another leftist Wilson war.
The Vietnam War was but a continuation of Truman policy of interference which was FDR policy which was Wilson policy.
Richard Nixon and the noted Henry Kissinger tossed South Vietnam to the wolves as it was deemed expendable for the bigger picture of Eurasia.
Jimmy Cater sowed the seeds of the entire modern dilemma in Afghanistan, Palestinians, Iranians and Russian Bolsehviks.
Reagan's Revolution was the first real return to American principles in economics and foreign policy highlighted by Milton Friedman. The same Friedman who ended the draft and who all of eastern Europe is now prospering under.
Reagan did not foresee his free trading partners would be plundered by the Soros speculators. The same speculators Hamilton railed against and the same speculators gobbling up dollars which President Bush printed to save the world from a global depression after 911.
Your assessment of Bush 43 a catastrophe is pure ignorance of foresight. Is New York not a nuclear crater with a trillion dollar clean up with millions dying of cancer for a generation a mistake in it not happening?
Check the facts on nuclear bombs found in America after 9 11 and the thwarting of bin Laden's operational nuclear war chest for the facts in America free of WMD attacks.
If you require a 3rd gambit, realize that other leftists have finally come on to the commentaries posted that Eurasia is about to have another world war. You might at that point with other detractors conclude that holding places like Iraq might be a strategic beach head in this war. Perhaps if you are still unconvinced, buy a nice home in Prague and just sit and wait for eastern invasion of a world war fought there and then ask, "Would I like that war fought in Asia in the "stans" or in the gut of Europe where 300 million people live?"
Shortsightedness makes profits in books and garners support from those anarchists who hate whatever current administration is place, but knowing George W. Bush is a decade ahead of those people deeming him a failure is going to make a great many people look foolish.
The problem for America is not empire. It is not Federalism. The problem is America has legislated out checks and balances in dealing with economics, trading and currency with no moral leadership in the majority looking toward God in securing policies which would benefit all as the the wealthy are inclined to do through ridicule.
Facts are required in every posting and these are the facts gleaned through actual historical papers and not digested histories placed out as propaganda to be repeated to sway the masses.
America was a Constitutional Republic. It was bastardized under FDR and has become a mob rule socialist democracy. It is close to being a full fledged communist state with a showcase elected group and a oligarch cartel directing the entire American sphere.
You need in your extended writings to slow down as your assumptions are like a Vulgate Bible in being based upon skewed texts.
God bless one and all.
sharpinchitown | May 28, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Outstanding once again Richard. Kudos to you.
There are plenty of morally sound people in this nation and we're getting them on the train day by day.
As scared as I was just a couple months ago, I have a renewed hope and belief (along with waking up a couple weeks ago with a thought in my head that was, "it'll all be OK.") that light will trump darkness.
Every day it seems some new scandal is hitting the press (of course, if the press is corrupt is that a part of the deal?).
What we've been seeing over the last 60 years sounds A LOT that "forged" document the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. EVERYONE should read it with a mind open enough to replace the words GOY and GOYIM with sheep or ignorant public and replace the words JEW and JEWISH with elite because it's what I call a double fake – release it, say it's a fake but it's really not, at least not the content (who they say is in control of things may in fact be a fake however).
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john cameron Australia | May 28, 2008 at 6:16 AM
Richard Cook does not suffer fools gladly.Concise detailed & informative writings that comes directly to the point ,right on the chin.Keep up the good work Richard about time someone is prepared to speak up against endemic corruption in governance USA
They who lead us lead us astray..
Thanks, Nick, DK and Shelia for your comments.
Shelia, check out these archive of posts: Cook-Richard C.
Hirschhorn-Joel S.
Roberts-Paul Craig
Sheila Casey | May 27, 2008 at 11:30 PM
I just discovered Richard C. Cook yesterday and am incredibly impressed by him. So far I have only read his last 3 essays (end of empire, battle for america and intentional collapse) but am thrilled to have discovered such a clear, compelling and knowledgeable voice re. the mess we find ourselves in.
I discovered last August that 9/11 was done by our govt and Israel, and since then have been furiously researching to get to the bottom of how such a thing could have been possible. Now I understand. Our media is completely controlled, our candidates are pre-picked before they become serious contenders, and our elected officers are taking orders from the banking elite who run this world. Nothing makes sense unti you figure this out.
They needed 9/11 to justify invading the middle east and destroying the Constitution in the name of national security. It hardly matters that the official conspiracy theory is riddled with holes, since the media is controlled, no one finds out about the inconsistencies unless they take the initiative to do the research, as I did. It's like we are sleep-walking towards a cliff.
I look forward to reading more of Cook's articles. Two other great writer/thinkers are Paul Craig Roberts and Joel Hirschhorn. I'm glad there are stil a few left to tell the truth. Thank you Richard C. Cook!
Sheila Casey
dk | May 27, 2008 at 10:12 PM
I agree with Nick. Excellent!
I love Richard Cooks work and his moral courage to speak truth to power.
nick | May 27, 2008 at 5:36 PM
excellent. thank you for sharing it.
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Mexico City's Rey Pila new LP 'Velox Veritas' produced by Dave Sitek (TV On the Radio) out 8/21 via Arts & Crafts.
Since forming in 2010, Rey Pila have perfected their unique blend of dark synth popand gloomy dance rock from their hometown of Mexico City to New York City's legendary studios and hallowed halls, plus countless other stages around the world.
Citing inspiration from the fusion of synthesizers and guitars embraced by acts like The Cars, Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin, and Boards of Canada, the band have filtered those influences through their own musical worldview and embellished that with their knack for writing catchy, danceable tunes.
With two full-length albums and multiple other releases as well as tours supporting luminaries like Interpol & Brandon Flowers under their belt, and having had their work produced, promoted, and put out by A-list flag-wavers Julian Casablancas (The Strokes, Cult Records) and David Sitek (TV On TheRadio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), the four-piece—whose name means "King Battery" in Spanish—are fully charged to release a new LP in autumn 2020.
In 2012 the band—Diego Solórzano, Andrés Velasco, Rodrigo Blanco and Miguel Hernández—entered New York's DFA studio with producer CChris Coady to record their sophomore album.
After accidentally coming across the band's song "Alexander", Julian Casablancas recognized the unique personality of Rey Pila's sound and courted them to his label, Cult Records, releasing the album (The Future Sugar (2015)) as well as the Casablancas/Shawn Everett-produced Wall of Goth EP (2017).
The subsequent time spent honing their live show on tours helped increase Rey Pila's profile as well as their prowess, enabling them to learn more about what makes them tick while focusing on both sharpening and evolving their sound.
The band went on to tour South America with The Voidz, and were later invited to support their heroes Depeche Mode and The Cure on each of their Mexico City stadium shows, as well as Phoenix's Ti Amo Mexico residency.
In 2019, Rey Pila self-produced and released another EP Lucky No.7.
The five songs on this EP were written and recorded in the same sessions as the forthcoming LP, and were specifically picked to serve as a transition between the sound of their previous releases and a new Rey Pila sound.
The eleven songs collected on the new LP Velox Veritas were recorded in Diego's Mexico City home studio and Sonic Ranch Studios in Texas.
After hearing the recordings, producer David Sitek stepped in for final production and mix from his Los Angeles quarters.
The album signals a bigger, more stylistically varied sound for Rey Pila, who find themselves pushing the boundaries of the synth-and-guitar dance rock for which they have become known and exploring new genre-bending styles and influences.
The beats are more adventurous, touching on rock, electro, trap and dancehall. It's also the most direct Solórzano has sounded.
First single of Velox Veritas, "Let It Burn" came out on May, and it features a lacerating synth over a filtered dancehall beat, with vocals that feel like they were forebodingly intended for the current state of the world. It's a first taste of an evolved Rey Pila, who are able to strike a balance in their art and culture to head for the bright lights.
Velox Veritas is set to release on 8/21 via-Arts & Crafts.
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Time to build a bunker
I find this story to be incredibly disturbing… anytime folks talk about over-throwing the government and creating a new rule of law, I get a bit nervous. Maybe I'm overreacting…
City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away
by Shelby Endman / CNN
(CNN) — A floating city off the coast of San Francisco may sound like science fiction, but it could be reality in the not-too-distant future.
The Seasteading Institute has drawn up plans for a floating city off the coast of San Francisco.
The Seasteading Institute already has drawn up plans for the construction of a homestead on the Pacific Ocean.
One project engineer described the prototype as similar to a cruise ship, but from a distance the cities might look like oil-drilling platforms.
According to the plans, the floating cities would not only look different from their land-based counterparts, but they might operate differently, too.
Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who now works for the Seasteading Institute, said floating cities are the perfect places to experiment with new forms of government.
Some of the new political ideas the group is tossing around include legalizing marijuana and making intellectual property communal — so that everyone would take ownership in art produced on the city at sea.
"The idea isn't just about getting away from rules or getting rid of rules. It's about a system that encourages experimentation with different political systems," he said.
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Friedman said the floating city may be built in modular pieces so that city blocks and neighborhoods can be recombined to create new urban layouts.
The idea of building cities on the sea is not new, he said, but the Seasteading Institute has come closer to realizing the goal than others.
"A lot of people over the past hundred plus years have had this idea and even specifically building cities on the ocean to try out new forms of government," he said. "But they've pretty much been totally imagined and if they did try, they totally failed."
There are several unknowns about future attempts to create floating cities, said Christian Cermelli, an engineer and architect with Marine Innovation and Technology, based in San Francisco.
Cermelli, who is part of a team of designers creating a blueprint for the first seastead, said it's unclear if construction is possible — or what it would cost.
Still, a prototype for the idea may be finished in as little as three years, he said.
Friedman said seasteads are loosely based on oil rigs, but with important modifications.
"We care more about sunlight and open space, so the specifications are different," he said. "Also, oil platforms are fixed in place. We think it's important to have more modular cities. So you would build a city out of buildings that can actually be separated and rearranged."
Cermelli said the ocean cities may use technology from suspension bridges "to expand the space at sea and basically get a roomier platform."
Friedman says the idea of seasteading has met a range of reactions.
"Some people think we're crazy. A lot of people think we're crazy," he said. "Some people think terrible things could happen, others think it would be great."
About 600 people have joined the Seasteading Institute.
Some of them, like Gayle Young, say the idea is exciting partly because it's so different.
"I love the idea because it's audacious. It's big," she said. "It's about pushing frontiers."
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FILE – In this Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, Megan Murphy, right in hat, embraces Cara Knoedler as Kenneth Wright wipes his eyes on the first anniversary of the mass shooting in Las Vegas. In the two years since the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the federal government and states have taken some action to tighten gun regulations. But advocates say they're frustrated more hasn't been done since the attack in Las Vegas killed 58 people on Oct. 1, 2017, and that mass shootings keep happening across the country. less
FILE – In this Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, Megan Murphy, right in hat, embraces Cara Knoedler as Kenneth Wright wipes his eyes on the first anniversary of the mass shooting in Las Vegas. In the two years since … more
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the two years since the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the federal government and states have tightened some gun regulations.
But advocates say they're frustrated that more hasn't been done since 58 people died at a concert on the Las Vegas Strip, and that mass shootings keep happening nationwide.
"People are genuinely afraid of going places," Nevada Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui said.
The Democratic lawmaker and her now-husband were among the 22,000 country music fans that fled as gunfire rained down from a high-rise hotel into an outdoor venue on Oct. 1, 2017. Neither was wounded.
"You cannot go to the grocery store. You cannot go to your place of worship. You can't even go to school and feel safe," said Jauregui, an advocate for gun control in Nevada. "I think people are tired of that."
The U.S. government this year banned a device that helped the Las Vegas gunman shoot more rapidly. Nevada and some other states also have tightened gun laws, including passing "red flag" measures that allow a judge to order weapons be taken from someone who is deemed a threat.
Those and other efforts to combat gun violence follow mass shootings in the two years since the Vegas massacre, including an attack on a Florida high school last year that killed 17 and attacks in Texas and Ohio that killed 31 people in one weekend this summer.
"It's a shame that it takes more and more of these shootings to bring attention to a topic," said Liz Becker, a volunteer with the gun control advocacy group Moms Demand Action.
But "I do think that the tide is turning on these issues," Becker said. The Las Vegas shooting "really galvanized people who, not that they didn't feel a connection to gun violence survivors, but they just never thought it would be them and their community."
During memorials Tuesday for the second anniversary of the Las Vegas attack, some will cite other recent mass shootings, including in the Texas towns of Midland and Odessa that left seven dead; at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11; and at a city government building in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that killed 12.
Two prominent gun control organizations also will host a forum Wednesday in Las Vegas for 10 leading Democratic presidential candidates focusing on gun control issues.
At least two candidates, California Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, plan to meet nurses and doctors who cared for Vegas shooting victims.
Lacey Newman, who was shot in the leg but managed to keep running, was among the hundreds injured at the music festival two years ago. She's now an advocate for a company called citizenAID that offers a cellphone app, online training and a bandage kit to help people injured in shootings or accidents.
"Our mass shooting was the beginning of change in how a lot of us see the world," said Newman, a 35-year-old mother of a fourth-grader who lives in Huntington Beach, California. "That's a powerful thing. You just never know when something bad is going to happen."
Police and the FBI found that gunman Stephen Paddock meticulously planned the attack and theorized that he may have sought notoriety. But they found no clear motive.
The 64-year-old retired accountant and high-stakes video poker player killed himself before police reached him in a 32nd floor suite at the Mandalay Bay resort.
Police found 23 assault-style weapons in the room, including 14 fitted with bump stock devices, which the Trump administration banned in March. Several gun rights groups have filed legal challenges to the prohibition, which also requires owners to turn in the devices to be destroyed.
In Nevada, lawmakers passed a measure that ended a two-year legal battle over a voter-approved initiative to expand gun buyer background checks to private gun sales and transfers.
In addition to the "red flag" law, the Legislature also made it a crime to leave an unsecured a gun in a place where a child can reach it.
Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak called the measures a memorial to the victims, even though they would not have made a difference for the Vegas shooter, who obtained his guns legally.
Lawsuits over the massacre are still winding their way through courts.
A U.S. judge last week refused to dismiss victims' negligence lawsuit against bump stock maker Slide Fire Solutions.
MGM Resorts International — corporate owner of the Mandalay Bay, where Paddock opened fire, and the concert venue where people were killed — is defending itself against hundreds of liability lawsuits.
The company told federal regulators in May it is in mediation with attorneys for plaintiffs and that it might pay up to $800 million to settle claims.
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Condition which you are imagining the receipt of these things that you've asked. Receipts are legal proof to show that a trade occurred and a payment has been made in trade to get a commodity. An acknowledgment receipt isn't any different as it helps affirm and affirm the gratification of an arrangement for a certain trade. The label Acknowledgment Receipt must be based a few spaces under the company letterhead.
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The correspondence will not have an superb impact if you handle it straight in the name of a company or a company. Or perhaps you say you'll be going through those things, and you'll be sending another letter to offer a few remarks. Letters to business partners should be published on the provider's letterhead. The letter has to be formal and will need to incorporate the partnership arrangement, names of each the business partners, in addition to the stipulations of the venture. Letters of recognition have been usually employed for all those involved with a legal strategy.
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The Acknowledgement is merely the approval of something. The Official acknowledgement is made up of advice that will assist the IRS representative identify the proper return and supply much better support.
Receipts have come quite a lengthy way. They're legal evidence to Show that a transaction took place along with a payment has been made in exchange for a commodity. There are a few important and often used official types of acknowledgement receipts. Hence, the acknowledgement receipt could be a really simple letter confirming the receipt of product delivered. A receipt acts as a record that offers confirmation a payment was made from the customer to the little organization. State that you're acknowledging the receipt of all of the things you have requested.
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Emails are usually acknowledged, as an instance, however they Are recognized via email, for the huge part, rather than by means of an official correspondence. Instantly notify partners and customers that you have seen their email for a way to allow them to continue every other essential undertaking. Instantly notify partners and customers which you've seen their email in order to permit them survive any other crucial undertaking. To make sure it's personal, they'd still must check all my previous mails to know Love it!
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The correspondence is not going to have a really fantastic Impact if you tackle it directly in the name of a business or a provider. Or perhaps you say that you are likely to be moving through the matters, and you'll be sending another letter to provide a few remarks. Letters to business partners should be printed on the business's letterhead. The correspondence needs to be formal and will need to incorporate the partnership arrangement, names of each the company partners, as well as the stipulations of this partnership. The letter has to be sent whenever possible as soon as you have the item, include the files, since the situation may be. Letters of recognition have been often employed for all those involved with a legal strategy.
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Obtained the amendment. There are many different sorts of currency. Receipt forms are extremely beneficial for assorted business in many different businesses. For example, to acknowledge deliveries, a shipping receipt form is usually utilized. You are in a position to abide by the 3 simple steps we've got for you in producing your own reception form. If you want to produce your own reception form, a choice of samples is easily available for you as plans for composing a receipt form for specific purposes.
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Have received particular documents or a specific kind of petition. Listed below Are the many possible approaches to find the affliction of the tax return. Inform your customer or partner, if you would like to make modifications in any Type of record or arrangement. Thus, It Might Take much time to Find the Revenue Tax e-filing status. In addition you supply the opportunity for those Employees to express any issues they may have with the coverage.


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Naduvalur (West) is a village in the Udayarpalayam taluk of Ariyalur district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Naduvalur (West) had a total population of 1633 with 823 males and 810 females.

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Villages in Ariyalur district

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Man Allegedly Confronts Deputies With Sawed-Off Shotgun
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SPRINGVILLE – An unnamed man allegedly confronted multiple deputies with a sawed-off shotgun during an incident Sunday evening at the Country Fair convenience store and gas station at Route 39 and South Cascade, according to the Erie County Sheriff's office.
The man entered the store, and when he exited, he allegedly confronted the deputies with the gun. The deputies reportedly gave multiple police commands to drop the gun, but the alleged assailant refused and kept advancing toward the deputies. At this time, the deputies discharged their service pistols striking the armed subject.
The alleged assailant was taken to Erie County Medical Center where medical staff performed surgery. The Sheriff's Office does not have an official medical status of the subject, but medical professionals stated he is expected to survive.
Sheriff Detectives, as well as members of the Crime Scene Unit and the Professional Standards Division are investigating the incident, and the Deputies who responded to the call are cooperating with investigators.
When the gunman arrived and entered the store, there were approximately twelve customers and employees at the establishment. The Sheriff's Office said no bystanders were injured despite the man discharging his weapon.
The gunman's name and the identity of the Deputies are being withheld at this time as investigators continue interviewing individuals.


Remember the TV show Ally McBeal? I used to crack up at those moments when she would fantasize about doing something crazy or something harmful to one of the other characters. Ally would be all cool and calm on the outside, but on the inside she would be going F%$%^&# nuts! In my quest to control my impulsive behaviors lately, I've had numerous "Ally McBeal" moments. I find myself resisting the urge to do something crazy or cut up on those who upset or offend me. Unfortunately, I'm not always successful, I'm a fire sign, so by nature I'm prone to acting a damn fool when something doesn't go my way. But as I'm getting older, I'm trying to bring my biological, mental and emotional ages in sync. This is a continual work in progress; daily I am tested with others' nonsense.
After a weekend of being home with my kids and then having to deal with a poor customer service experience from Sprint, I am on the verge of having another Ally McBeal moment where I want to strangle some folks who I love very dearly…..However my sistah circle girlfriend, Keisha reminded me that I need to Relax Relate Release. I've used this phrase myself many times; it sounds great and I know that it's possible, but the hurdles that I have to jump in order to be able to Relax, Relate, and then Release are seemingly insurmountable. True to myself, I'm not giving up, I'm not going to get in my car and drive far far far away from everyone and everything–yet. One day I'll be able to Relax Relate Release without so many damn hurdles, one day….


• Tryouts for the Carolina Angels 12U softball team will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. today at Harris Street Park in Fort Mill. For more information, call (803) 487-2564.
• A football scrimmage between Rock Hill and Sumter will be at 6 p.m. today at Castle Heights Middle School. A $2 admission will be charged.
• The Rosewood Lions are hosting a free football camp for youth ages 7-10 from 5-7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Rosewood Elementary School. Wear shorts and tennis shoes. For any information, contact Terry Arrants at (803) 366-7201.
• York Comprehensive High School girls' basketball players in 8th-12th grade are invited to attend the South Carolina position camp on Aug. 25. Cost is $85 and a bus will leave from the York District Office at 7 a.m., returning around 8 p.m. Applications can be picked up at the YCHS front office or from uscsports.com. Reply to coach Paula Blackwell by Aug. 17 with a check, cash or money order made payable to YCHS Girls' Basketball. Campers will receive instruction from the USC coaching staff and players.
Both Fort Mill lacrosse teams go for 2019 state titles on Saturday. The boys' team, led by Parker Thomas, faces juggernaut Wando in the final. Thomas played on the Yellow Jackets' 2014 title team that beat Wando.


Happy New Year! Spillwords, a publication where I have three stories, and in the process of moving another, interviewed me as part of their "Spotlight on Authors" feature, something they do a couple of times a month. Weird questions, but I think that's the nature of the beast when it comes to interviews. The post will go up February 2nd.


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The Strategy Was Approved by the People
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Dzmitry Savich About Authorities: Guilty Conscience Gives Itself Away
The campaign of collecting signatures has shown that the authorities are nervous and engaged in self-reflection.
Dzmitry Savich, an activist of the European Belarus civil campaign, told the press service of the campaign about the collection of signatures in Svetlahorsk:
"On October 7th, the collection of signatures for nominating the candidates for the European Belarus civil campaign came to an end. On the territory of the Svetlahorsk constituency No. 46, where my initiative group was collecting signatures, the voters were most concerned about the opening of the bleached cellulose plant in the territory of the Svetlahorsk Pulp and Cardboard Mill.
People are outraged that the constructed production facility poses a real threat to their lives and health, the environment and the region as a whole. It is said that the residents of the district have been cynically deceived. The authorities promised to build an ultramodern enterprise based on the most reliable Austrian technologies. And in fact, it turned out to be a Chinese factory with a huge number of violations at the stage of constructing and it's equipped with the Chinese equipment of the notorious quality.
For almost two years, the adjacent residential districts and the countryside have been covered with nauseous smoke from the factory's pipes, which not only irritates the olfactory receptors, but also poses a real threat caused by the concentration of dangerous substances - highly toxic compounds of chlorine, with the help of which cellulose is bleached, and of methylmercaptan. According to local environmental activists, including those who used to work directly in the chemical industry and in town's chemical laboratories, there are still no effective ways to measure the concentration of these substances in the atmosphere.
There has also been some nastiness on the part of the authorities. Special provocateurs from the district executive committee and police used to come to the pickets. The administrations of the trade and entertainment facilities, near which our pickets were held, were turning on the music and advertisements louder than usual to prevent people from talking to us. Utility workers were unexpectedly organizing repair works with a lot of construction equipment and workers in the immediate vicinity of our activists' tents and stands.
That's what makes us feel like we're on the right track. The authorities are nervous and engaged in self-reflection. As the famous proverb goes, "guilty conscience gives itself away". At the pickets people were expressing their opinion about the political and economic processes in the country, discussing the state system, disadvantages of the Belarusian economic model.
They were talking about the arbitrariness of the local authorities, poor salaries and pensions, excessive prices for consumer goods and public utilities, lack of freedom of speech, normal parliament and an independent court, and the inefficiency of our model of public administration, which cannot provide a decent life for the majority of citizens. But people have hopes for change for the better. And they are connected, first of all, with the advent of new politicians not connected with the current government. The change of power is a key issue.
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Undergraduate students must enroll in HADM 3135. Elective. Co-meets with HADM 3135.
This course is intended to add value to the journey of students who have entrepreneurial aspirations. Guest speakers from a variety of backgrounds share their own entrepreneurial stories to highlight the challenges and benefits of entrepreneurship. The course illustrates the importance of the entrepreneurial mind and entrepreneurial thinking for professional career development for both students who plan to pursue a career in corporations or start their own ventures. The objectives of the course are achieved through a combination of networking activities, entrepreneurial pitching activities, alumni interviews, reflective assignments, entrepreneurial career planning assignments, and an entrepreneurial journey project.


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Inspiration for SoaringStars: Paul Steven Miller was my best friend from college and he became my chosen brother. The Torah says "words from the heart, enter the heart." Everyone who has ever spoken with Paul has been enhanced by this experience. Paul spent his whole career being a champion of disability rights and fighting for equality for people of all races, religions and abilities. Although he was born a dwarf, he never lived small or felt sorry for himself. He enjoyed life in a big way and loved to spend time with his family, his friends, and helping people with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else. He was incredibly smart and he worked harder than anyone else just to prove that he was capable. And he was very capable. Paul Steven Miller worked for three Presidents: President Clinton, President George W. Bush, and President Obama. President Clinton appointed him to become a Commissioner of the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Council). For President Obama he managed appointments in the Department of Justice and positions relating to Disability Programs. What an impact he's had on thousands of people's lives.
Meet Gabby our SoaringStar and spokesgirl:
SoaringStars Questions for Ill/ Special Needs Children:
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Tell us your full name, address, age, and phone number. Please note: we will only include your first name and age in your profile on the website. We need this other information to send you the Soaringwords Youth Leadership Certificate. We are also profiling siblings, parents, caregivers, nurses, doctors, child life specialists, teachers and volunteers.
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Orbit determination and control for the European Student Moon Orbiter
Federico Zuiani, Alison Gibbings, Massimo Vetrisano, Francesco Rizzi, Cesar Martinez, Massimiliano Vasile
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This paper presents the preliminary navigation and orbit determination analyses for the European Student Moon Orbiter. The severe constraint on the total mission Delta nu and the all-day piggy-back launch requirement imposed by the limited available budget, led to the choice of using a low-energy transfer, more specifically a Weak Stability Boundary one, with a capture into an elliptic orbit around the Moon. A particular navigation strategy was devised to ensure capture and fulfil the requirement for the uncontrolled orbit stability at the Moon. This paper presents a simulation of the orbit determination process, based on an extended Kalman filter, and the navigation strategy applied to the baseline transfer of the 2011-2012 window. The navigation strategy optimally allocates multiple Trajectory Correction Manoeuvres to target a so-called capture corridor. The capture corridor is defined, at each point along the transfer, by back-propagating the set of perturbed states at the Moon that provides an acceptable lifetime of the lunar orbit. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Acta Astronautica
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2012.03.031
Extended Kalman filters
weak stability boundary transfer
mission analysis
Zuiani, F., Gibbings, A., Vetrisano, M., Rizzi, F., Martinez, C., & Vasile, M. (2012). Orbit determination and control for the European Student Moon Orbiter. Acta Astronautica, 79, 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2012.03.031
Zuiani, Federico ; Gibbings, Alison ; Vetrisano, Massimo ; Rizzi, Francesco ; Martinez, Cesar ; Vasile, Massimiliano. / Orbit determination and control for the European Student Moon Orbiter. In: Acta Astronautica. 2012 ; Vol. 79. pp. 67-78.
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