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Rusty chair in the ashy remains of the fire.
Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum was a great, kid friendly attraction. It had a giant snake on the roof, and was full of old-school scares, like air blowing on your legs, a rotating tunnel to run through, and a levitating table during a seance. Earlier this year, arsonists burned it down. This is the second attraction to be burned down of his in the area, the locals seem to hate good, creative, fun. I went here several times when it was open, including on Halloween. In the woods there were life size fiberglass dinosaurs. Today, all that remains is the shell of the house, ashes, melted glass, burnt trees, and rusted, twisted metal. Very sad.
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Renewing and Reviewing the PATRIOT Act
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“The expiration this year of several provisions of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act…has prompted fresh debate in Congress over the appropriate balance of counterterrorism authorities for U.S. law enforcement agencies and the need to preserve American civil liberties and privacy,” said Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event last Tuesday.
In light of the PATRIOT Act debate the Action Fund hosted a discussion with Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) and Ken Gude, Associate Director of CAP Action’s International Rights and Responsibility program, about how the government could ensure national security without compromising civil liberties.
Controversial items in the PATRIOT Act up for debate this year include the ease of access to business records, roving wire tapping provisions applicable to today’s digital technology, and surveillance of individual or “lone wolf” suspects who are unconnected to any terrorist organization. The panelists discussed the effectiveness of these provisions and whether they violated an individual’s right to privacy.
Rep. Harman has served as a member of the House Intelligence Committee for eight years and is currently chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment. She explained that a strong national security system could not come at the expense of civil liberties. “Security and liberty are reinforcing values…it’s not more of one and less at the other—it’s more of both or less of both.”
Rep. Harman lauded the Obama administration for its national security policies, but she said further steps are necessary. She praised President Barack Obama’s commitment to closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp, too, and his limiting the overclassification of material by the Homeland Security department. But she called for more debates over State Secrets Privilege—a legal precedent under which a court is asked to omit evidence based on government affidavit stating that court proceedings might release information that could jeopardize national security.
Harman commended the current House version of PATRIOT Act revisions because it would prohibit a person’s reading habits from being used as evidence of terrorist activity or intent.The bill would also change the target of a roving wiretap to a single individual rather than a single phone. Rep. Harman pointed out that the current rules are incongruent with new technology that allows a person to use disposable cell phones. New technology has made the need for a court order on every tapped phone inefficient.
Gude supported the expiration of the Lone Wolf Provision, which allows Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigations of lone terrorists that are not connected to a specific organization. He explained that FISA was created to monitor people connected to foreign powers or terrorist groups and therefore the threshold for obtaining a surveillance warrant was lower. He and Rep. Harman agreed that the Lone Wolf Provision leaves individuals vulnerable to a violation of privacy by the government.
Gude explained that his objection to the Lone Wolf Provision isn’t that the government should be prohibited from conducting surveillance on individuals. However, he thought traditional criminal wiretaps were more appropriate when no evidence links the person to a foreign terrorist group.
Harman said that now “we have the opportunity to debate new rules in a new environment” since after 9/11, legislators did not take time to “get [counterterrorism] laws right.” She spoke about to the “authorization to use military force” on groups connected to 9/11 that “gave the president the right to act unilaterally.” She called for a new balance of power between branches of government regarding national security issues, and said that the laws after 9/11 gave the president too much power to make counterterrorism decisions without congressional or public debate.
In the spirit of checks and balances, Gude said there was hope for bipartisan consensus on counterterrorism reforms. “On an issue like this there is probably more room for bipartisan commitment than on almost any other issue on the Hill right now,” he said. Gude and Rep. Harman recognized a need for robust debate and strong cooperation on national security reform. Rep. Harman noted that “the terrorists are not going to check our party registration before they blow us up, so we really better be in this together.”
Rusty, melted, and warped drink machine in the ashy remains of the fire.
Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum was a great, kid friendly attraction. It had a giant snake on the roof, and was full of old-school scares, like air blowing on your legs, a rotating tunnel to run through, and a levitating table during a seance. Earlier this year, arsonists burned it down. This is the second attraction to be burned down of his in the area, the locals seem to hate good, creative, fun. I went here several times when it was open, including on Halloween. In the woods there were life size fiberglass dinosaurs. Today, all that remains is the shell of the house, ashes, melted glass, burnt trees, and rusted, twisted metal. Very sad.
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Hear my cries
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See my fall
See my error
Know my faults
Time halts
See my loss
Know I'm lacking
Backtracking
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The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company building on West Seventh Street in Cincinnati, Ohio was completed in 1931. The Art Deco-style building was designed by Harry Hake, a Cincinnati architect.
The 12-story builidng was designed with floor heights of at least 12 feet to house the new telephone equipment.
A decorative border above the second story is lined with niches in which cut-stone French telephones alternate with headphones. Communication is further symbolized by several reliefs showing the ancient runner, Alexander Bells's first telephone effort, flag signaling from a ship, and conventional representations of a woman with a hare, swan, and hawk. In the ornate marble lobby are gold-and-silver metal reliefs of figures symbolizing man's art, industry, and conquest of space.
The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
www.cincinnatibell.com/aboutus/history/
The City and Suburban Telegraph Company, later Cincinnati Bell Telephone, was officially incorporated on July 5, 1873, becoming the first company in the city to provide direct communication between the city`s homes and businesses. Manufacturer and philanthropist Andrew Erkenbrecher became the company`s first president in 1874. Rates were fixed at $300 a year for one line.
By mid-1877, when the telephone was first demonstrated in Cincinnati, the Association was maintaining about 50 private telegraph lines between offices and plants or residences. Customers were equipped with a simple telegraph instrument and a code book, and young men who pedaled foot treadles served as operators and powered the call bells.
In September 1878, the City and Suburban Association signed a contract with the Bell Telephone Company of Boston (the nation`s first telephone service and manufacturing company) for a license to furnish Bell telephone service in the Queen City area. The Association then became the exclusive agent for Bell telephones within a 25-mile radius of Cincinnati.
Located at the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets downtown, Bell Telephonic Exchange was the first telephonic exchange in Ohio and the 10th in the nation. In 1879, the first telephone directory was published and the first line extended across the Suspension Bridge to Covington, Ky. Women, or "hello girls" who had to memorize all callers` names, took the place of men as operators, and 25 employees served more than 1,000 customers. A total of 145,392 calls had been recorded for the year.
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Cincinnati Bell is one of only two American companies that continue to actively promote itself under the "Bell" name. As of August 2006, Cincinnati Bell has ceased all public usage of the last Bell logo, designed in 1969 by Saul Bass, simply opting to use a stylized, shadowed version of its corporate name on its website. The company had already removed the Bell logo from its telephone directories' covers for some time.
The newsmagazine 60 Minutes reported in 1989 that Cincinnati Bell cooperated with local police to wiretap local residents in search of alleged communist or criminal activity from 1972 to 1984.
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The Watergate complex is an office-apartment-hotel complex built in 1967 in northwest Washington, D.C., best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon
Location
The Watergate complex is a superblock bounded on the north by Virginia Avenue, on the east by New Hampshire Avenue, on the south by F Street, and on the west by the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. It is in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood overlooking the Potomac River, adjacent to the Kennedy Center and the embassy of Saudi Arabia. The nearest Metro station is Foggy Bottom-GWU.
History
The Watergate complex was developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres which constitute the plot of land on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for 10 million US Dollars. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center.
Individual buildings at the Watergate
The Watergate Hotel is located at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW. It has 250 guest rooms and 146 suites. In 2004, the hotel was purchased by a company planning to turn it into luxury co-ops.
The two Watergate Office Buildings are at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW.
In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story 2600 Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. The wiretaps were monitored from Room 723 of the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel across the street at 2601 Virginia Avenue NW. (The hotel is now owned by the George Washington University, although no longer used as a undergraduate dormitory.) During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
The Watergate Office Building was sold in 2005 by Trizec Properties to Bentley Forbes, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm run by Fred Wehba, for $86.5 million. The complex, consisting of the buildings at 2500, 2600, and 2650 Virginia Ave. NW and 600 and 700 New Hampshire Ave. NW, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 2005.
The three Watergate Apartment buildings total some 600 residential units. Past occupants have included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bob and Elizabeth Dole, Monica Lewinsky, Betty Currie, and Paul O'Neill. Current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now lives in the Watergate.
There is a small (63,000 sq. ft. / 5900 m²) retail center which offers a Safeway supermarket in the basement level and several upscale shops and restaurants at street level.
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Monica Lewinsky moves out of Watergate
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, October 14, 1998)
Monica Lewinsky is moving out of her Watergate residence and apologizing to neighbors for any trouble her newfound media attention may have caused them.
Lewinsky placed a printed note under the doors of fellow residents of the Watergate South this week informing them of her departure.
The location of her new residence, which has not been confirmed, is believed to be away from the Washington area.
The posh downtown condominium complex has several other well-known tenants, including former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole and his wife.
"As I depart 700 New Hampshire, I wanted to apologize for the inconveniences of the past nine months. To those of you who have passed along your kind words, I greatly appreciated your support during this difficult time; and I thank you. I hope you all know how very sorry I am that so much attention was brought to the building," she wrote.
Lewinsky signed the notes "Monica" by hand, her spokeswoman Judy Smith said.
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Watergate: The name that branded more than a building
Washington Business Journal -
June 14, 2002
by Mike Livingston Contributing Writer
Some buildings in Washington earn a place in history by housing future presidents, some by reflecting influential architects and the growth of a world capital, and some just by standing there as governments, industries, even centuries come and go.
The mixed-use complex next to the old canal "water gate" at the mouth of Rock Creek owes its place in history to a little piece of masking tape that sealed, 30 years ago this month, the lock on a door and the fate of a president.
It was Suite 600 of the Watergate Hotel that burglars on the White House payroll entered around 2 a.m. June 17, 1972, to gather information about President Nixon's opponents. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) had leased the suite.
The ensuing scandal led to the imprisonment of top West Wingers and the only presidential resignation -- and it made the name "Watergate" synonymous with political scandal and investigative journalism.
Despite what "Watergate" has come to mean in the popular mind, it remains for many others what its developers intended it to be: a prestigious address for offices, shops, restaurants, residents and hotel guests.
Watergate Towne
The five curving towers of "Watergate Towne" were the city's first major international real estate development -- the vision of Hungarian-born developer Nicholas Salgo and his Italian firm, Societa Generale Immobiliare (SGI), based in Rome and owned in part by the Vatican.
The Italian Count di Carpegna was a project architect on SGI's staff, and the Countess de Rochefort was a sales representative for the Watergate East apartment cooperative. (The countess once commissioned Avignon Frères, the now-defunct French bakery in Adams Morgan, to make a 50-pound cake with 13 layers in the likeness of the 13-story building.)
SGI bought the 10-acre site from Washington Gas for $7 million, thinking it would soon be served by a freeway. The Washington Star, whose archives provided much of the information for this article, noted in 1962 the plans called for "curvilinear buildings designed to conform with the curving Inner Loop Expressway at this point."
When models of the futuristic high-rises were unveiled by 1961, critics and zoning commissioners said the complex would ruin the waterfront and overshadow the performing arts center nearby, which was then on the drawing boards and would later be named after President Kennedy. The National Capital Planning Commission, according to a 1961 report in the Star, questioned "whether the site should be developed at all."
The Star thought so. A May 1962 editorial stated: "It is true that the so-called `curvilinear' design is at variance with most commercial architecture in Washington. But in our opinion the result, which places a premium on public open space and garden-like surroundings, and which proposes a quality of housing that would rank with the finest in the city, would be a distinct asset."
Later that month, the White House urged the developer to accept a 90-foot height limit instead of the planned 130 feet.
Salgo and SGI's chief architect, Gabor Acs, flew to New York City with professor Luigi Moretti of the University of Rome to defend their designs in a special meeting with the federal Commission of Fine Arts, whose approval is required for any construction in the "Monumental Core." In the end, SGI was allowed to build 25 percent of the complex to 13 stories.
Moretti, who had designed the Montreal Stock Exchange and Rome's Olympic Village for the 1960 Games, served as a consulting architect. The Washington architecture firm of Corning, Moore, Elmore & Fisher also worked with the SGI staff architects. The builder was Magazine Bros. Construction.
'White House West'
Work began in August 1963 with the groundbreaking for the headquarters of Riverview Realty, the leasing agent for the 200,000 square feet of office space planned in the complex.
The first tower, Watergate East, was believed to be the first major construction job to make significant use of computers. A forerunner of modern computer-aided drafting (CAD) technology was employed in plans for 8,000 square feet of irregular windows and 2,200 irregular wall panels.
In 1964, Jim Roberts of Magazine Bros. told the Star: "We had to face the fact that there are no continuous straight lines anywhere -- horizontally on the floors or vertically on the facade. Not only were there many different curves on every floor, but no two floors had a facade exactly alike."
Watergate East was dedicated in October 1965.
Earlier that year, the Star told future owners of tower's 238 co-ops that the complex "will feature an elaborate electronic security system" including closed-circuit televisions, two-way radios and a 24-hour security staff. "What all of this means," the paper noted, "is that intruders will have difficulty getting onto the grounds undetected."
Peoples Drug (now CVS) and Safeway opened stores in the courtyard in 1965 that are still there today, along with a bakery, liquor store and other courtyard shops.
Watergate West, the second residential building, was started in June 1967 and completed within two years.
Landscape architect Boris Timchenko planted flowering trees and filled 150 planters. Tiers of fountains in the courtyard provide the sound of waterfalls. Townhouse-style units line the first two floors; top-floor units feature private rooftop terraces and fireplaces.
In June 1969, the Star reported the co-ops were especially popular with high-ranking members of the new administration: "Watergate's two completed apartment buildings have become widely known as a magnet that pulls many Nixon aides home."
With a quarter of the Cabinet -- Attorney General John Mitchell, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans and Transportation Secretary John Volpe -- living at Watergate, along with dozens of White House staffers including presidential secretary Rose Mary Woods, the complex was nicknamed "Administration Arms" and "White House West."
Showcase for a Scandal
The hotel opened in 1967 and featured an upscale restaurant, the Roman Terrace. The DNC and other office tenants leased space in the hotel as early as April 1967.
The Watergate 600 office tower, specially zoned for nonprofit and professional occupancy, signed its first tenant, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in February 1971, and its first "major" tenant soon afterward: the Manpower Evaluation & Development Institute, which leased the whole eighth floor.
In October 1972, a strip of fashion boutiques and jewelers opened under the name Les Champs. The 13,000 square feet of retail drew tenants such as Gucci, Yves St. Laurent and, according to the Star, "the only boutique in this country which exclusively features Soviet-made goods."
Manager Henry Winston warned Les Champs retailers not to exploit the scandal that had erupted from the DNC break-in; however, by the fall of 1973, the shops drew heavy traffic from curious tourists and scandal buffs. Winston asked five shops to leave within their first year, he told the paper, because "the appearance and type of their merchandise was not up to standards or their volume was too low, and none of them seemed improvable."
Other break-ins, other scandals
The first Watergate break-in was a residential burglary, in 1969, in which jewelry and a papal medal were stolen from an apartment. Ironically, the victim was Woods, the Nixon secretary who would later be accused of erasing 18 and a half minutes of incriminating evidence from one of the president's secret tapes.
In 1973, burglars stole $950 from an office suite leased by the Italian Embassy.
And in 1975, perhaps the nation's most influential jurist below the Supreme Court -- Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- and his wife returned from Christmas vacation to find $16,000 worth of jewelry missing from their apartment.
For many residents, the real Watergate scandal was the allegedly shoddy construction of the 143-unit Watergate West apartment building. In 1972, residents sued SGI for $1.5 million, citing water damage in 40 percent of the units, plumbing problems in 22 percent, malfunctioning kitchen appliances in 45 percent, and inadequate air conditioning.
SGI filed a counterclaim of $4 million for "malicious embarrassment" and, after five years of litigation, paid $600,000 in a settlement.
Toward the end of the century, Watergate showed up again in stories about a scandal-ridden presidency: It was the home of Clinton White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
'A delicious irony'
The Watergate's original developer, Salgo, partnered with Chicago-based Continental Illinois Properties to buy SGI's stake for $49 million in 1977. Two years later, the company sold its interest to subsidiaries of the British Coal Board Pension Fund; Salgo kept his own shares until 1986 and then sold to the coal board.
In what The Washington Post called "a delicious irony for the father of the Watergate," in 1989 the Bush administration tapped Salgo, a former diplomat, for a task force to dispose of the U.S. embassy in Moscow because it was infested with electronic bugs.
Several real estate transfers in recent years have resulted in new, multiple owners of the buildings in the Watergate complex. The hotel now bears a Swissotel flag.
The apartments still attract VIP residents, notably Bob and Elizabeth Dole and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
The Watergate's most historically significant office tenant, however, moved out long ago. The DNC, within weeks after the break-in, transferred the bulk of its staff and files to George McGovern's presidential campaign headquarters at 19th and K streets NW. The committee kept a minimal presence in the infamous suite -- which was allegedly bugged again four months later -- until its lease expired in January 1973. The 16,000 square feet of history were leased to the National Academy of Sciences in August 1974.
Mike Livingston is a Washington-based freelance writer.
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I thought that I'd bring the saga that is my towbar to a final close by wiring up the electrics today.
Depending on the car, this can be complex or easy, and my car is blessed with conventional wiring rather than multiplexed bus systems.
The thing is, I've connected with Scotchloks (well, actually they're a cheap cloned version that Maplin call 'snap lock connectors' for copyright reasons I've no doubt). These clever little things are IDC connectors (that's insulation displacement connector I think) which like a computer ribbon cable or ethernet plug 'bites' into the cable to access conductivity. This means that you can tap into an existing wire without cutting it.
The drawback is that they're not great at high currents, and they're sometimes unreliable. Enthusiastic hobbyists swear by them - automotive electricians swear at them.
My old man blames all the world's ills on these things, from poverty, through terrorism to famine.
If he caught me using them on my own car I'd get a well earned tongue lashing, so shhhhhh. If you don't tell him, and he doesn't check my flickr page, then if I destroy these two we should be home and dry. ;)
Via TPM Election Central: tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/obama_te...
Note: Things are changing fast even as you're browsing from page to page, so the numbers below are likely never 100% accurate.
As of a few minutes ago, the top 30 questions accounted for 10.5% of all 119,230 votes (somehow the table below is missing one line).
Still early, but might look like we're observing the same pattern we saw earlier where a voting system preferred those entries that had been submitted early and attracted an early lead in votes.
Also, at a guestimated 15 words per question (and a reading speed of 250 words per minute), it would take about 100 minutes to consume all 1,606 questions. Not as bad as what we saw here, but still quite a challenge once we hit several thousand questions.
No. / Votes / Running total / Percent of total
1 / 1128 / 1128 / 0.9%
2 / 938 / 2066 / 1.7%
3 / 743 / 2809 / 2.4%
4 / 679 / 3488 / 2.9%
5 / 647 / 4135 / 3.5%
6 / 646 / 4781 / 4.0%
7 / 580 / 5361 / 4.5%
8 / 543 / 5904 / 5.0%
9 / 495 / 6399 / 5.4%
10 / 400 / 6799 / 5.7%
11 / 369 / 7168 / 6.0%
12 / 390 / 7558 / 6.3%
13 / 357 / 7915 / 6.6%
14 / 351 / 8266 / 6.9%
15 / 322 / 8588 / 7.2%
16 / 314 / 8902 / 7.5%
17 / 326 / 9228 / 7.7%
18 / 325 / 9553 / 8.0%
19 / 311 / 9864 / 8.3%
20 / 312 / 10176 / 8.5%
21 / 286 / 10462 / 8.8%
22 / 275 / 10737 / 9.0%
23 / 275 / 11012 / 9.2%
24 / 265 / 11277 / 9.5%
25 / 271 / 11548 / 9.7%
26 / 247 / 11795 / 9.9%
27 / 230 / 12025 / 10.1%
28 / 235 / 12260 / 10.3%
29 / 209 / 12469 / 10.5%
For future reference, the current list of top 30 questions:
1 / "What will you do to establish transparency and safeguards against waste with the rest of the Wall Street bailout money?"
2 / "What will you do as President to restore the Constitutional protections that have been subverted by the Bush Administration and how will you ensure that our system of checks and balances is renewed?"
3 / "Will you lift the ban on Stem Cell research in your first 100 days in office?"
4 / "What will you do first to reduce pollution/waste and incentivize greener behavior across the country?"
5 / "Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor - ideally Patrick Fitzgerald - to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?"
6 / "What will you do to end the use of mercenary forces (ie Blackwater) by our military?"
7 / "What do you plan to do to our food industry to make it more sustainable? Will there be changes to our farming policies?"
8 / "What will you do to promote science and mathematics education to Elementary and Middle School students?"
9 / "How long will it take for you to implement your healthcare policy to insure those who do not have any insurance at all?"
10 / "What will be done to make the banking industry accountable when there are so many substantiated stories about their mismangement in relationship to selling bank owned properties and managing potential foreclosures?"
11 / "Solar energy is in use throughout the world on an individual household basis for water and facility heating, as well as electricity generation. Will your admin. attempt to utilize the millions of acres available for solar energy collection?"
12 / "What will be done about the FDA and its cozy relationship with the Pharmaceutical industry? Will the protective legislation for the Pharm be reversed? Will the FDA pre-emption policy protecting the Pharm from liability be addressed?"
13 / "Will you introduce legislation to enable refinancing of older student loans with high interest rates (8.5% and more) into the lower rates currently available? You can refinance any other kind of loan except student loans and that's not fair."
14 / "Our agricultural policy, formed by Pres. Nixon, has resulted in our being both overfed and undernourished. Will you appoint a Secretary of Agriculture who understands that we have been operating using unsustainable/unhealthy farming practices?"
15 / "Will you increase tax incentives or refunds to individuals for installing energy efficient products in their homes - such as solar water and electric, wind energy, electric/hybrid cars, etc?"
16 / "Given the energy challenges we're facing, what are your plans to improve public transportation in this country, and to encourage ridership?"
17 / "What legislation will you introduce to preserve Net Neutrality and stop the telecom industry from eviscerating the greatest communication medium of all time?"
18 / "You do not support gay marriage, but you do support civil unions. How and when will all american gay and lesbian citizens will be granted the more than 1,000 rights and responsibilities as married couples?"
19 / "What is your view on a unitary executive branch? Will you work to restore checks and balances to the office of the President and Vice-President?"
20 / "How will you deal with members of the Bush administration for things like warrant-less wiretapping, approving the use of torture, and the abuse of executive power?"
21 / "Is there a way to provide *healthcare for everyone* without enriching only insurance companies the way providing "insurance for everyone" does? This would help stimulate a larger part of the economy than just enriching a few insurance corporations."
22 / "Why are we rebuilding our national highway system instead of building high-speed passenger rail and revitalizing our cities and towns through the development of mass transit? Is this not key to our long-term economic and environmental well being?"
23 / "There has been a lot of talk about rebuilding infrastructure. How much consideration is being given to building a high speed rail system, like those in Europe?"
24 / "Executive Order 13233 from President Bush nullifies the lawful release of presidential records. What will you do to keep the Bush/Cheney administration from exploiting this to keep their secrets safe, contrary to national security?"
25 / "The Bush administration has rationalized some vile acts (torture, wiretapping) with questionable legal opinions written by the OLC and the DoJ. How will you close the loophole that implies any act is lawful if it's permitted by such a legal opinion?"
26 / "How cangovernment incentivize people and corporations to support sustainable energy and reduced petroleum dependency at a scale to impact global warming adequately? We need more than slogans. This change has significant impact and real costs."
27 / "Will you commit to unequivocally ending torture by US intelligence and military organizations, and will you support legislation to categorically prohibit this practice in the future?"
28 / "Will you consider a Doctors For America, sort of like a Teach For America, program as part of your health care reform? It would be a way to pay for students to become GP (we need more) as well as providing health care to poor Americans."
29 / "In developing a power grid for the 21st century, will you require utility companies to make whatever changes are necessary to allow individual homeowners to install solar panels and sell excess power back to the utility companies?"
30 / "Will you ban companies from using bailout money for lobbying?"
The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company building on West Seventh Street in Cincinnati, Ohio was completed in 1931. The Art Deco-style building was designed by Harry Hake, a Cincinnati architect.
The 12-story builidng was designed with floor heights of at least 12 feet to house the new telephone equipment.
A decorative border above the second story is lined with niches in which cut-stone French telephones alternate with headphones. Communication is further symbolized by several reliefs showing the ancient runner, Alexander Bells's first telephone effort, flag signaling from a ship, and conventional representations of a woman with a hare, swan, and hawk. In the ornate marble lobby are gold-and-silver metal reliefs of figures symbolizing man's art, industry, and conquest of space.
The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
www.cincinnatibell.com/aboutus/history/
The City and Suburban Telegraph Company, later Cincinnati Bell Telephone, was officially incorporated on July 5, 1873, becoming the first company in the city to provide direct communication between the city`s homes and businesses. Manufacturer and philanthropist Andrew Erkenbrecher became the company`s first president in 1874. Rates were fixed at $300 a year for one line.
By mid-1877, when the telephone was first demonstrated in Cincinnati, the Association was maintaining about 50 private telegraph lines between offices and plants or residences. Customers were equipped with a simple telegraph instrument and a code book, and young men who pedaled foot treadles served as operators and powered the call bells.
In September 1878, the City and Suburban Association signed a contract with the Bell Telephone Company of Boston (the nation`s first telephone service and manufacturing company) for a license to furnish Bell telephone service in the Queen City area. The Association then became the exclusive agent for Bell telephones within a 25-mile radius of Cincinnati.
Located at the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets downtown, Bell Telephonic Exchange was the first telephonic exchange in Ohio and the 10th in the nation. In 1879, the first telephone directory was published and the first line extended across the Suspension Bridge to Covington, Ky. Women, or "hello girls" who had to memorize all callers` names, took the place of men as operators, and 25 employees served more than 1,000 customers. A total of 145,392 calls had been recorded for the year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Bell
Cincinnati Bell is one of only two American companies that continue to actively promote itself under the "Bell" name. As of August 2006, Cincinnati Bell has ceased all public usage of the last Bell logo, designed in 1969 by Saul Bass, simply opting to use a stylized, shadowed version of its corporate name on its website. The company had already removed the Bell logo from its telephone directories' covers for some time.
The newsmagazine 60 Minutes reported in 1989 that Cincinnati Bell cooperated with local police to wiretap local residents in search of alleged communist or criminal activity from 1972 to 1984.
www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/CINCINNATI-BELL...
The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company building on West Seventh Street in Cincinnati, Ohio was completed in 1931. The Art Deco-style building was designed by Harry Hake, a Cincinnati architect.
The 12-story builidng was designed with floor heights of at least 12 feet to house the new telephone equipment.
A decorative border above the second story is lined with niches in which cut-stone French telephones alternate with headphones. Communication is further symbolized by several reliefs showing the ancient runner, Alexander Bells's first telephone effort, flag signaling from a ship, and conventional representations of a woman with a hare, swan, and hawk. In the ornate marble lobby are gold-and-silver metal reliefs of figures symbolizing man's art, industry, and conquest of space.
The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
www.cincinnatibell.com/aboutus/history/
The City and Suburban Telegraph Company, later Cincinnati Bell Telephone, was officially incorporated on July 5, 1873, becoming the first company in the city to provide direct communication between the city`s homes and businesses. Manufacturer and philanthropist Andrew Erkenbrecher became the company`s first president in 1874. Rates were fixed at $300 a year for one line.
By mid-1877, when the telephone was first demonstrated in Cincinnati, the Association was maintaining about 50 private telegraph lines between offices and plants or residences. Customers were equipped with a simple telegraph instrument and a code book, and young men who pedaled foot treadles served as operators and powered the call bells.
In September 1878, the City and Suburban Association signed a contract with the Bell Telephone Company of Boston (the nation`s first telephone service and manufacturing company) for a license to furnish Bell telephone service in the Queen City area. The Association then became the exclusive agent for Bell telephones within a 25-mile radius of Cincinnati.
Located at the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets downtown, Bell Telephonic Exchange was the first telephonic exchange in Ohio and the 10th in the nation. In 1879, the first telephone directory was published and the first line extended across the Suspension Bridge to Covington, Ky. Women, or "hello girls" who had to memorize all callers` names, took the place of men as operators, and 25 employees served more than 1,000 customers. A total of 145,392 calls had been recorded for the year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Bell
Cincinnati Bell is one of only two American companies that continue to actively promote itself under the "Bell" name. As of August 2006, Cincinnati Bell has ceased all public usage of the last Bell logo, designed in 1969 by Saul Bass, simply opting to use a stylized, shadowed version of its corporate name on its website. The company had already removed the Bell logo from its telephone directories' covers for some time.
The newsmagazine 60 Minutes reported in 1989 that Cincinnati Bell cooperated with local police to wiretap local residents in search of alleged communist or criminal activity from 1972 to 1984.
www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/CINCINNATI-BELL...
Striking a New Balance
Renewing and Reviewing the PATRIOT Act
Full Event Video:
www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2009/10/PatriotAct....
“The expiration this year of several provisions of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act…has prompted fresh debate in Congress over the appropriate balance of counterterrorism authorities for U.S. law enforcement agencies and the need to preserve American civil liberties and privacy,” said Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event last Tuesday.
In light of the PATRIOT Act debate the Action Fund hosted a discussion with Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) and Ken Gude, Associate Director of CAP Action’s International Rights and Responsibility program, about how the government could ensure national security without compromising civil liberties.
Controversial items in the PATRIOT Act up for debate this year include the ease of access to business records, roving wire tapping provisions applicable to today’s digital technology, and surveillance of individual or “lone wolf” suspects who are unconnected to any terrorist organization. The panelists discussed the effectiveness of these provisions and whether they violated an individual’s right to privacy.
Rep. Harman has served as a member of the House Intelligence Committee for eight years and is currently chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment. She explained that a strong national security system could not come at the expense of civil liberties. “Security and liberty are reinforcing values…it’s not more of one and less at the other—it’s more of both or less of both.”
Rep. Harman lauded the Obama administration for its national security policies, but she said further steps are necessary. She praised President Barack Obama’s commitment to closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp, too, and his limiting the overclassification of material by the Homeland Security department. But she called for more debates over State Secrets Privilege—a legal precedent under which a court is asked to omit evidence based on government affidavit stating that court proceedings might release information that could jeopardize national security.
Harman commended the current House version of PATRIOT Act revisions because it would prohibit a person’s reading habits from being used as evidence of terrorist activity or intent.The bill would also change the target of a roving wiretap to a single individual rather than a single phone. Rep. Harman pointed out that the current rules are incongruent with new technology that allows a person to use disposable cell phones. New technology has made the need for a court order on every tapped phone inefficient.
Gude supported the expiration of the Lone Wolf Provision, which allows Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigations of lone terrorists that are not connected to a specific organization. He explained that FISA was created to monitor people connected to foreign powers or terrorist groups and therefore the threshold for obtaining a surveillance warrant was lower. He and Rep. Harman agreed that the Lone Wolf Provision leaves individuals vulnerable to a violation of privacy by the government.
Gude explained that his objection to the Lone Wolf Provision isn’t that the government should be prohibited from conducting surveillance on individuals. However, he thought traditional criminal wiretaps were more appropriate when no evidence links the person to a foreign terrorist group.
Harman said that now “we have the opportunity to debate new rules in a new environment” since after 9/11, legislators did not take time to “get [counterterrorism] laws right.” She spoke about to the “authorization to use military force” on groups connected to 9/11 that “gave the president the right to act unilaterally.” She called for a new balance of power between branches of government regarding national security issues, and said that the laws after 9/11 gave the president too much power to make counterterrorism decisions without congressional or public debate.
In the spirit of checks and balances, Gude said there was hope for bipartisan consensus on counterterrorism reforms. “On an issue like this there is probably more room for bipartisan commitment than on almost any other issue on the Hill right now,” he said. Gude and Rep. Harman recognized a need for robust debate and strong cooperation on national security reform. Rep. Harman noted that “the terrorists are not going to check our party registration before they blow us up, so we really better be in this together.”
...and takes a big old step to the center, Clinton-style. Yuck. As a big fan of the separation of church and state, his proposal to expand Bush's government funding for faith-based programs has me particularly pissed off.
Obama does say he won't allow govt-funded religious groups to discriminate based on religion in hiring, but he said nothing about sexual orientation--so does that mean he's ok with funding organizations like the Salvation Army that outright refuse to hire gay folks?
Dialogue: Government funding for faith-based programs is awesome! Wiretapping is awesome! I'm a patriot! John McCain's a patriot! Have I mentioned that I support the death penalty? I like guns!
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The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company building on West Seventh Street in Cincinnati, Ohio was completed in 1931. The Art Deco-style building was designed by Harry Hake, a Cincinnati architect.
The 12-story builidng was designed with floor heights of at least 12 feet to house the new telephone equipment.
A decorative border above the second story is lined with niches in which cut-stone French telephones alternate with headphones. Communication is further symbolized by several reliefs showing the ancient runner, Alexander Bells's first telephone effort, flag signaling from a ship, and conventional representations of a woman with a hare, swan, and hawk. In the ornate marble lobby are gold-and-silver metal reliefs of figures symbolizing man's art, industry, and conquest of space.
The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
www.cincinnatibell.com/aboutus/history/
The City and Suburban Telegraph Company, later Cincinnati Bell Telephone, was officially incorporated on July 5, 1873, becoming the first company in the city to provide direct communication between the city`s homes and businesses. Manufacturer and philanthropist Andrew Erkenbrecher became the company`s first president in 1874. Rates were fixed at $300 a year for one line.
By mid-1877, when the telephone was first demonstrated in Cincinnati, the Association was maintaining about 50 private telegraph lines between offices and plants or residences. Customers were equipped with a simple telegraph instrument and a code book, and young men who pedaled foot treadles served as operators and powered the call bells.
In September 1878, the City and Suburban Association signed a contract with the Bell Telephone Company of Boston (the nation`s first telephone service and manufacturing company) for a license to furnish Bell telephone service in the Queen City area. The Association then became the exclusive agent for Bell telephones within a 25-mile radius of Cincinnati.
Located at the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets downtown, Bell Telephonic Exchange was the first telephonic exchange in Ohio and the 10th in the nation. In 1879, the first telephone directory was published and the first line extended across the Suspension Bridge to Covington, Ky. Women, or "hello girls" who had to memorize all callers` names, took the place of men as operators, and 25 employees served more than 1,000 customers. A total of 145,392 calls had been recorded for the year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Bell
Cincinnati Bell is one of only two American companies that continue to actively promote itself under the "Bell" name. As of August 2006, Cincinnati Bell has ceased all public usage of the last Bell logo, designed in 1969 by Saul Bass, simply opting to use a stylized, shadowed version of its corporate name on its website. The company had already removed the Bell logo from its telephone directories' covers for some time.
The newsmagazine 60 Minutes reported in 1989 that Cincinnati Bell cooperated with local police to wiretap local residents in search of alleged communist or criminal activity from 1972 to 1984.
www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/CINCINNATI-BELL...
Striking a New Balance
Renewing and Reviewing the PATRIOT Act
Full Event Video:
www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2009/10/PatriotAct....
“The expiration this year of several provisions of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act…has prompted fresh debate in Congress over the appropriate balance of counterterrorism authorities for U.S. law enforcement agencies and the need to preserve American civil liberties and privacy,” said Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event last Tuesday.
In light of the PATRIOT Act debate the Action Fund hosted a discussion with Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) and Ken Gude, Associate Director of CAP Action’s International Rights and Responsibility program, about how the government could ensure national security without compromising civil liberties.
Controversial items in the PATRIOT Act up for debate this year include the ease of access to business records, roving wire tapping provisions applicable to today’s digital technology, and surveillance of individual or “lone wolf” suspects who are unconnected to any terrorist organization. The panelists discussed the effectiveness of these provisions and whether they violated an individual’s right to privacy.
Rep. Harman has served as a member of the House Intelligence Committee for eight years and is currently chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment. She explained that a strong national security system could not come at the expense of civil liberties. “Security and liberty are reinforcing values…it’s not more of one and less at the other—it’s more of both or less of both.”
Rep. Harman lauded the Obama administration for its national security policies, but she said further steps are necessary. She praised President Barack Obama’s commitment to closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp, too, and his limiting the overclassification of material by the Homeland Security department. But she called for more debates over State Secrets Privilege—a legal precedent under which a court is asked to omit evidence based on government affidavit stating that court proceedings might release information that could jeopardize national security.
Harman commended the current House version of PATRIOT Act revisions because it would prohibit a person’s reading habits from being used as evidence of terrorist activity or intent.The bill would also change the target of a roving wiretap to a single individual rather than a single phone. Rep. Harman pointed out that the current rules are incongruent with new technology that allows a person to use disposable cell phones. New technology has made the need for a court order on every tapped phone inefficient.
Gude supported the expiration of the Lone Wolf Provision, which allows Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigations of lone terrorists that are not connected to a specific organization. He explained that FISA was created to monitor people connected to foreign powers or terrorist groups and therefore the threshold for obtaining a surveillance warrant was lower. He and Rep. Harman agreed that the Lone Wolf Provision leaves individuals vulnerable to a violation of privacy by the government.
Gude explained that his objection to the Lone Wolf Provision isn’t that the government should be prohibited from conducting surveillance on individuals. However, he thought traditional criminal wiretaps were more appropriate when no evidence links the person to a foreign terrorist group.
Harman said that now “we have the opportunity to debate new rules in a new environment” since after 9/11, legislators did not take time to “get [counterterrorism] laws right.” She spoke about to the “authorization to use military force” on groups connected to 9/11 that “gave the president the right to act unilaterally.” She called for a new balance of power between branches of government regarding national security issues, and said that the laws after 9/11 gave the president too much power to make counterterrorism decisions without congressional or public debate.
In the spirit of checks and balances, Gude said there was hope for bipartisan consensus on counterterrorism reforms. “On an issue like this there is probably more room for bipartisan commitment than on almost any other issue on the Hill right now,” he said. Gude and Rep. Harman recognized a need for robust debate and strong cooperation on national security reform. Rep. Harman noted that “the terrorists are not going to check our party registration before they blow us up, so we really better be in this together.”
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Damage can be seen from an explosion in fourth floor ladies restroom of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. May 19, 1972
Shortly before the blast, the Washington Post and New York Times received a call from a man identifying himself as a “Weatherman” and warning of the bomb at the Pentagon.
A later communiqué from the group noted the date was the birthday of the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and declared resistance to the war in Vietnam.
The investigation and pending charges were later dropped against Weather Underground members due to the U.S. refusal to disclose wiretapping sources. Bill Ayers, a fugitive at the time of the bombing, later claimed he was a participant in the Pentagon bombing.
The blast destroyed the women’s restroom and caused water damage to computers and property in the rooms below.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/2Mq65M
The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photo housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
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Controversial items in the PATRIOT Act up for debate this year include the ease of access to business records, roving wire tapping provisions applicable to today’s digital technology, and surveillance of individual or “lone wolf” suspects who are unconnected to any terrorist organization. The panelists discussed the effectiveness of these provisions and whether they violated an individual’s right to privacy.
Rep. Harman has served as a member of the House Intelligence Committee for eight years and is currently chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment. She explained that a strong national security system could not come at the expense of civil liberties. “Security and liberty are reinforcing values…it’s not more of one and less at the other—it’s more of both or less of both.”
Rep. Harman lauded the Obama administration for its national security policies, but she said further steps are necessary. She praised President Barack Obama’s commitment to closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp, too, and his limiting the overclassification of material by the Homeland Security department. But she called for more debates over State Secrets Privilege—a legal precedent under which a court is asked to omit evidence based on government affidavit stating that court proceedings might release information that could jeopardize national security.
Harman commended the current House version of PATRIOT Act revisions because it would prohibit a person’s reading habits from being used as evidence of terrorist activity or intent.The bill would also change the target of a roving wiretap to a single individual rather than a single phone. Rep. Harman pointed out that the current rules are incongruent with new technology that allows a person to use disposable cell phones. New technology has made the need for a court order on every tapped phone inefficient.
Gude supported the expiration of the Lone Wolf Provision, which allows Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigations of lone terrorists that are not connected to a specific organization. He explained that FISA was created to monitor people connected to foreign powers or terrorist groups and therefore the threshold for obtaining a surveillance warrant was lower. He and Rep. Harman agreed that the Lone Wolf Provision leaves individuals vulnerable to a violation of privacy by the government.
Gude explained that his objection to the Lone Wolf Provision isn’t that the government should be prohibited from conducting surveillance on individuals. However, he thought traditional criminal wiretaps were more appropriate when no evidence links the person to a foreign terrorist group.
Harman said that now “we have the opportunity to debate new rules in a new environment” since after 9/11, legislators did not take time to “get [counterterrorism] laws right.” She spoke about to the “authorization to use military force” on groups connected to 9/11 that “gave the president the right to act unilaterally.” She called for a new balance of power between branches of government regarding national security issues, and said that the laws after 9/11 gave the president too much power to make counterterrorism decisions without congressional or public debate.
In the spirit of checks and balances, Gude said there was hope for bipartisan consensus on counterterrorism reforms. “On an issue like this there is probably more room for bipartisan commitment than on almost any other issue on the Hill right now,” he said. Gude and Rep. Harman recognized a need for robust debate and strong cooperation on national security reform. Rep. Harman noted that “the terrorists are not going to check our party registration before they blow us up, so we really better be in this together.”
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Il degrado di Roma sul New York Times: Marino più interessato ai ricchi stranieri che ai cittadini, THE NEW YORK TIMES (22|07|2015), p. A4; LA REPUBBLICA & Forexinfo.it (23|07|2015).
1). ROMA, LA REP (23|07|2015) - Il degrado di Roma finisce sul New York Times: "Marino onesto, ma è anche capace?"
La foto apparsa sul New York Times.
Un reportage sull'incuria e l'abbandono della capitale sul quotidiano americano che sull'edizione newyorkese di oggi titola: "Il sindaco è senza macchia, ma questo è sufficiente per fermare il declino della città eterna?"
"Il declino di Roma, di nuovo?". Se lo chiede il New York Times che pubblica sulla prima pagina della versione internazionale del quotidiano americano un servizio, poi ripreso anche dall'edizione newyorkese, sulla capitale e il suo degrado. Accanto, la grande foto di un vicolo del rione Trastevere, in pieno centro, sommerso dai cartoni e dall'immondizia non raccolta. Più sotto due "pescatori" tra l'erba alta delle banchine del Tevere.
L'incuria e l'abbandono della città eterna rimbalzano dunque Oltreoceano. "Le sterpaglie in alcuni parchi sfiorano le ginocchia, i lavoratori della metropolitana, scontenti, hanno rallentano il servizio a passo d'uomo, un incendio ha reso il più importante scalo della città (Fiumicino), caotico e affollato, gli arresti di funzionari pubblici si accumulano rendendo evidenti le infiltrazioni criminali nel governo della città" scrive nella sua corrispondenza da Roma il Nyt che ricostruisce anche i passaggi principali dell'inchiesta di "Mafia Capitale". "Tutto questo - prosegue il reportage - si aggiunge a quello che i romani chiamano "degrado " - il degrado dei servizi, degli edifici, della qualità della vita - e alla sensazione generale che la loro antica città, ancora più del solito, stia cadendo a pezzi".
Tra i sentimenti diffusi tra i cittadini - racconta l'articolo - anche quello che il sindaco di Roma Ignazio Marino non sia la causa di tutti i mali che affliggono la città e sia, anzi, una persona senza macchia. Anche se, ricorda il quotidiano, un recente sondaggio di "Repubblica" ha rivelato che la maggioranza dei romani lo considera troppo debole e il 73% di coloro che lo hanno votato alle ultime elezioni non lo farebbe di nuovo. Interpellato, il primo cittadino si difende: "Sono stato aggressivo fin dall'inizio, in modo clinico. Abbiamo portato le regole: la cosa più importante per me a amministrare la città in modo trasparente". Ma, si chiede il New York Times, "il sindaco è onesto, lo sarà abbastanza per fermare il declino della città eterna?"
Il primo cittadino non ci sta: "E' un titolo tradotto male, io leggo: 'Un sindaco virtuoso contro i vizi di Roma'". L'intestazione, come la racconta Marino, campeggia infatti sull'edizione internazionale del Nyt. Nella versione online è scritto anche però che una versione dell'articolo sul degrado romano è apparsa nella stampa newyorkese di oggi sotto al titolo: "The Mayor’s honest, but is that enough to halt the eternal city’s decline?".
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-- LA REPUBBLICA (23|07|2015).
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2). ROMA - Forexinfo.it (23|07|2015). Il degrado di Roma sul New York Times: Marino più interessato ai ricchi stranieri che ai cittadini.
In un articolo del New York Times, il sindaco di Roma Ignazio Marino è sotto accusa per il continuo degrado e corruzione nella Capitale.
Roma è abituata al degrado. Dalla sua fondazione ad oggi la ‘città eterna’ ha assistito ad un continuo andirivieni di disastri ed abbandono. La capitale italiana ha sopportato invasioni, inondazioni, incendi, terremoti, bombardamenti, battaglie e di recente anche la paralisi politica del sindaco Marino.
Le iniquità del sindaco sono delineate in un articolo di ieri del New York Times, che ripercorre i fallimenti di Marino e lo scontento crescente nella Capitale.
L’articolo inizia parlando di ‘degrado’; un degrado a cui i romani sono fin troppo abituati.
È ironico che proprio il sindaco “Made in USA” - Marino ha infatti avuto la sua formazione negli States – sia ora l’oggetto della critica del giornale più popolare del Nord America.
“I media romani hanno spesso criticato il sindaco di essere più interessato in una audience straniera – corteggiando ricchi patroni per restaurare le antichità cittadine – piuttosto che ai problemi municipali”.
Lo scrive Gaia Pianigiani, nel suo articolo nel NYT e procede con l’analizzare il malcontento dei cittadini romani nei confronti della palesata mancanza di know how di Marino.
I romani avevano infatti sperato che la qualità ‘straniera’ del nuovo sindaco gli permettesse di non essere corrotto dal sistema politico romano e allo stesso tempo di mettere in atto rapidamente delle riforme per rimediare il declino cittadino.
Il NYT riporta un’intervista con Carlo Bonini de La Repubblica:
“La sua (di Marino) virtù è anche il suo principale difetto: non è legato a tutte le relazioni corrotte di Roma. Conosce troppo poco il mondo in cui opera”.
Infatti, dopo due anni dalla nomina di Marino, il comune di Roma rischia il default, il debito del trasporto pubblico aumenta vertiginosamente e la polizia arranca senza una guida precisa, senza fondi e con una criminalità in aumento.
Il New York Times cita dunque i giornali italiani che hanno definito il sindaco un ‘marziano’ e addirittura ‘Forrest Gump’.
Ma le critiche non sono finite qui, il colpo di grazia lo fornisce il disastro di “Mafia Capitale” di cui l’articolo offre un breve e schematico sommario.
“Anche per un paese abituato a scandali del genere, le rivelazioni sono arrivate come uno shock”.
I continui arresti e le rivelazioni riguardanti la vasta rete di corruzione e criminalità a Roma non hanno fatto altro che aumentare la frustrazione dei 2.8 milioni di abitanti romani.
Marino, che prima di cimentarsi nella politica faceva il chirurgo, si difende dalle accuse di inerzia affermando di essere stato “aggressivo in modo chirurgico fin dall’inizio”.
Sembrerebbe che il sindaco non ne combini una giusta. Anche la sua tanto pubblicizzata promessa di rendere i fori imperiali un’area pedonale gli si è ritorta contro causando le lamentele dei venditori, mercanti, autisti e anche di coloro che vanno in bicicletta.
L’articolo del New York Times continua riportando i dati rilevati da La Repubblica che rilevano che il 70% di coloro che hanno eletto Marino non lo voteranno alle prossime elezioni.
Ma non c’è da preoccuparsi. Roma è sopravvissuta a disastri ben peggiori di Marino.
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-- ROMA - Forexinfo.it (23|07|2015).
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3). ROME - Romans Put Little Faith in Mayor as Their Ancient City Degrades, THE NEW YORK TIMES (22|07|2015), p. A4.
ROME — The grass in some public parks sways knee high. Disgruntled subway workers have slowed service to a crawl. Fire has rendered the city’s largest airport crammed and chaotic. The arrests of public officials pile up, revealing mob infiltration of the city government.
It all adds up to what Romans call “degrado” — the degradation of services, buildings and their standard of living — and the general sense that their ancient city, even more than usual, is falling apart.
Not all those troubles are necessarily the fault of Mayor Ignazio Marino, a former surgeon whose own integrity remains unblemished. But, strangely enough, in Rome, his decency is not necessarily seen as part of the solution, either.
Today, Mr. Marino finds himself under political siege in the city he vowed to save from itself. Italy’s news media lampoons him as an honest man in over his head, or as one newspaper called him, a Forrest Gump.
“His virtue is also his main problem: He is not connected to all the rotten Roman relationships,” said Carlo Bonini, an investigative journalist with La Repubblica, a daily newspaper. “He knows the world he operates in too little.”
Romans are notorious for their cynicism about politics, their resignation in the face of antiquated services and sprawling bureaucracy, and their abundance of ways to complain about it. As the problems mount, residents are voicing more frustration with services inadequate to serve the city’s roughly 2.8 million people.
“At times I do wonder whether this is a first- or third-world service,” said Liliana Marelli, 64. She was sweating as she rode a city bus with no air-conditioning during a recent heat wave.
In recent months, the situation in the capital has grown so dire that Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, himself a reformer, has expressed concern, fueling speculation that the city cabinet will be disbanded or that the mayor might be prodded to step down.
Perhaps most damning for the mayor has been the slow-bleeding “Mafia Capitale” investigation, which has exposed tainted bidding for city contracts on a number of services, including refugee centers and sanitation. Even for a country more than accustomed to such scandal, the revelations have come as a shock.
In the south, as well as in some northern regions, investigations have revealed that organized crime groups such as the Camorra, the ’Ndrangheta and the Mafia still exert surreptitious influence and dominate public bidding.
But Rome was supposed to be different. The seat of power of the national government, it was believed to be free of mafia tentacles.
While the corruption revealed by the scandal predated Mr. Marino’s arrival in office, the mayor has been criticized as responding slowly and indecisively. “He has always been a step behind,” Mr. Bonini of La Repubblica said.
Police raids have set off a torrent of bad publicity as one powerful figure after another has been taken down. They include the former president of the City Council and top municipal officials responsible for housing and social policy.
It has not helped that some are former members of Mr. Marino’s own Democratic Party. In wiretaps, publicized in the national news media, calls for obedience can be heard.
“These city councilmen have to be at our orders,” Salvatore Buzzi, who ran a social cooperative that provided housing services for migrants, is heard telling a mob suspect, Massimo Carminati.
Both were jailed last year when the corruption revelations first emerged, and most of the public figures linked to the scandal are now under house arrest.
Facing fierce criticism, Mr. Marino published a response in a national newspaper last week and then sat down for an interview last Friday in his office in Rome’s City Hall to defend himself.
“I was surgically aggressive from the very beginning,” he said. “I am the first mayor that called the investigators of our I.R.S. inside our offices to check what had been done in the years before.”
“We bring rules here,” he added.
For the time being, though, his good intention to instill order has, it seems, ushered in still more disorder.
The corruption investigation of park maintenance contractors led the mayor to suspend their work, leaving public spaces overgrown. His order to stop sidewalk vendors from peddling near historical sites prompted protests from merchants.
Rome’s news media outlets have often criticized the mayor for being more interested in a foreign audience — courting wealthy patrons to restore the city’s antiquities — than in municipal troubles. As the crime scandal erupted, his popularity was already sinking as a result of problems more commonly encountered by mayors of larger cities.
A recent survey published in La Repubblica found that a majority of Romans consider the mayor to be too weak, while more than 70 percent of those who supported him in the last election said they would not do so again.
Once the scandal broke, critics said Mr. Marino was too naïve to grasp the vast illegal network that has long surrounded Rome’s administration, and too weak to respond.
“He personally remains honest, but that’s it, as the world around him falls apart,” Ernesto Galli della Loggia, columnist for the daily Corriere della Sera, wrote in a front-page editorial last week.
Mr. Marino argues that he has successfully shaken up the city’s entrenched networks, and that doing so has provoked much animosity. A few envelopes delivered in his mail contained spent bullets.
“I don’t give a damn about what the political agreements were before I arrived,” he said, adding that previous mayors made decisions in closed circles, often during lunches and dinners with famed entrepreneurs.
“The most important thing to me is to run the city in an honest and transparent way,” he added.
Others are backing his efforts. “Marino might be an earthenware vase among iron vases,” said Alfonso Sabella, a Sicilian anti-mafia magistrate whom the mayor brought to Rome’s administration last December, after the scandal broke. “But he has proved to be persistent and honest.”
He added: “I wonder where all those who are criticizing him were as the crimes were committed. He needs more time.”
The mayor notched a victory last week when a report by a government delegate exonerated him of any corruption.
And he maintains that he has started substituting cronyism with merit in Rome, as the rules for public bidding are streamlined and a website has been set up to allow whistle-blowers to report problems.
Many residents credit Mr. Marino for his honesty but are frustrated that he is not getting more done.
“Marino is a Martian in Rome, which is fascinating, but tiring,” said Marco Damilano, a political commentator and city resident.
“Rome is in ruins. If he starts acting, he and the city can come out of this stronger.”
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C’è un filo rosso che unisce la legge sull’editoria del 2001 alle parole del presidente dell’Antitrust Pitruzzella quindici anni dopo: l’idea che la Rete rappresenti una minaccia. Dall’istituzione del ROC nel 2007 fino ad oggi, si è assistito a una strisciante retorica da parte dei dirigenti politici, spesso ospiti sulla carta stampata e in trasmissioni televisive, che addita il web come luogo di ”prostituzione e auto distruttività”, “aggravante” per la mancanza di sicurezza dei cittadini; dal famigerato emendamento D’Alia , i j’accuse di Gabriella Carlucci, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, Angelino Alfano, e poi Laura Boldrini, il ministro Andrea Orlando in tempi più recenti, passando da lunghe serie di disegni di legge sulle intercettazioni che hanno scatenato contro-manifestazioni con tanto di bavaglio riverberate nel resto del mondo: l’Italia è un paese laboratorio di discussioni colpevoliste a proposito di Internet già prima dei social network. Poi è arrivata la post-verità, un termine che sembra aver convinto la classe dirigente ad accelerare: bisogna metter mano con un intervento pubblico alla “eccessiva libertà” con la quale la gente comune condivide contenuti, si informa, finisce per credere alle bufale che circolano in questi habitat online e che condizionerebbe il corretto svolgersi democratico. Ma è davvero così? E sono migliori le democrazie a basso rumore di fondo di Internet? Ma soprattutto: fra tutte queste proposte ce n’è qualcuna davvero applicabile? Organizzato in collaborazione con Webnews.it.
There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since the establishment of the ROC in 2007, a creeping rhetoric has been pursued by political leaders which targets the web as a place of “prostitution and self-destructiveness,” aggravating the lack of citizens’ security; from the notorious D’Alia Amendment to a long series of draft laws on wiretapping. Then came so-called post-truth, a notion that seems to have convinced the establishment of the need to speed up: with a new law, they want to tackle the “excessive freedom” with which citizens share content and inform themselves, and in consequence end up believing hoaxes circulating online. But this proposed law would affect the proper conduct of democratic processes. Furthermore, are democracies really better off when the Internet noise is left low in the background? And above all, are the proposed measures really the right ones?
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I am not saying this lamp, produced by this company, is currently eavesdropping on you. But it would not take much to make it do so. The U.S. government has already mandated all bulbs sold in the future convert to this technology. These lamps can become an intelligent device without too much R&D. In fact, much of the technology was developed during the Cold War. Each lamp is connected to a mass integrated circuit called the electrical grid. Zeros and ones can be transmitted over the grid. That is an irrefutable fact. Just ask the NSA. How long before we learn that scientists have converted these energy savers to liberty depleters? How hard will it be to make them video and audio processors? Learn about what is legal in the U.S. already. Read what the government already collects legally every time you make a phone call. Each day, each hour, each minute, we are falling asleep at the switch. Protect Liberty. Protect Sovereignty. Read George Orwell. Read Aldous Huxley. Wake up. It would certainly make for an interesting political science movie script, right?
UPDATE: spybusters.blogspot.com/2012/10/future-room-lighting-to-d...
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Residential building on Kudrinskaya square (Building on Uprising square) - a high-rise building in Moscow, one of the «Stalin's skyscrapers» («Seven Sisters»)
Built in 1948-1954 years. designed by architects MV Posokhin, AA Mndoyants and designer MN Vohomskogo.
The building consists of a central (24 floors, the height of the tower and spire - 156 meters) and side buildings (18 residential floors) constituting a single structural array, based on the total ground floor.
On the first and ground floors of the building were originally shops and a cinema "Flame" (currently not working), in the basement - underground garages.
Skyscraper popularly called the «House of aviators», because the apartment was given to the workers the aviation industry (in particular, employees of the Tupolev design Bureau) and the test pilot, but, of course, among the tenants there were many party activists.
Said that, when opened near the US Embassy, the top two floors were settled. There KGB installed equipment for wiretapping, and from there to "watch" for Americans.
Sculptures on the facade of the building symbolize creativity, defense, and labor of the Soviet citizens.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Rome on ‘verge of collapse’ due to advanced ‘state of decay', THE DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK CITY (15 JULY 2015) & THE NEW YORK TIMES (22 JULY 2015), p. A4;
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s.v., Il degrado di Roma sul New York Times: Marino più interessato ai ricchi stranieri che ai cittadini, THE NEW YORK TIMES (22|07|2015), p. A4; LA REPUBBLICA & Forexinfo.it (23|07|2015).
“Il declino di Roma, di nuovo?”. Se lo chiede il New York Times che pubblica sulla prima pagina della versione internazionale del quotidiano americano un servizio, poi ripreso anche dall’edizione newyorkese, sulla capitale e il suo degrado. Accanto, la grande foto di un vicolo del rione Trastevere, in pieno centro, sommerso dai cartoni e dall’immondizia non raccolta. Più sotto due “pescatori” tra l’erba alta delle banchine del Tevere.
Fonte: ROMA, LA REP (23|07|2015) | NEW YORK TIMES (22|07|2015) - Il degrado di Roma finisce sul New York Times: "Marino onesto, ma è anche capace?"Il degrado di Roma finisce sul New York Times: "Marino onesto, ma è anche capace?"
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THE DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK CITY (15 JULY 2015) - Dirty and disorganized, Rome is once more in decline. City hall is paralyzed by allegations of Mafia infiltration, basic services are in tatters, the main airport is partially closed, and wild cat strikes have frayed an already ropey public transport network.
For generations, the Italian capital has rested on past glories rather than built on them. The years of neglect, corruption and bureaucratic bungling have taken a fierce toll, reflecting a wider malaise that afflicts Italy as a whole.
"Rome is on the verge of collapse," Giancarlo Cremonesi, the president of the Rome Chamber of Commerce, told Reuters. "It is unacceptable that a major city which calls itself developed can find itself in such a state of decay."
One of the 10 biggest cities in Europe, with a population of 2.8 million, Rome boasts some of the most spectacular squares, fountains, museums and churches in the world.
But like its ancient monuments, its problems are plain for all to see, starting at the main international gateway into the city, Fiumicino, Italy's largest airport, which is struggling to bounce back from a fire that broke out on May 7.
Although the blaze was confined to just part of one of its three terminals, more than two months later, 40 percent of all flights still have to be canceled each day because of a dispute over the danger posed by contaminants
unleashed by the flames. Magistrates sealed the site for weeks to gauge the air quality, while various public bodies argued over how airports should be classified when it came to measuring pollution.
"In this case you see many things that are typically Italian. For example the role of the magistrates," Vito Riggio, the head of the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, told Reuters. All the fire damaged material should have been immediately removed to speed up the rebuilding, he said.
"Instead the place was officially sealed. Nobody could enter and the source of the (contaminants) continued to pollute. It is not hard to grasp, but no one said anything, not even the government. I don't believe other countries are like that."
The prosecutors' office dealing with the case said the sequestration order was lifted on June 24 and there was no legal impediment preventing a return to normal operations, although its investigation continues.
No date has been set for a full reopening and the smell of burnt plastics lingers in the departures halls.
MAFIA MESS
A much larger investigation has engulfed Rome city hall, housed in a Renaissance palace designed by Michelangelo and gazes out across the ruins of the ancient Roman forum.
The "Mafia Capital" probe, which hit the headlines last December following a first wave of arrests, has rattled Italy, suggesting that organized crime was flourishing far beyond its traditional southern bastions. Buried under 14 billion euros ($15.5 billion) of debt, Rome was saved from bankruptcy last year by emergency state funds. The mafia scandal has helped explain the financial mess, with wiretap transcripts suggesting mobsters had siphoned off millions of euros from a string of lucrative contracts, covering everything from recycling paper to sheltering immigrants.
Italy is struggling to shake off its worst post World War Two slump, a three year slide that has driven unemployment up to 1970s levels. While the real economy plunged, the illegal one, such as that unmasked in Rome, has spread
and thrived. Much of the alleged corruption dates back to the time of the previous mayor, Gianni Alemanno, a former rightwing minister who is under investigation. He denies any wrongdoing. However, magistrates say the mobsters' tentacles have also delved into the current administration, run by Ignazio Marino, a liver transplant surgeon and an ally of centerleft Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
While Marino is not implicated, a number of his staff have come under scrutiny, leading to a stream of resignations. A city source says an official review has recommended that around 30 major public contracts be annulled and reoffered for tender.
In a letter to Corriere della Sera newspaper, published on Monday, mayor Marino conceded that much of Rome's public administration was "substantially rotten".
But, in the same way that Renzi was trying to change Italy with a battery of reforms, so he was looking to shake up sclerotic Rome, he said. "There is strenuous resistance to any type of change (here) ... but I will never give up,"
he wrote. With grass running wild by the kerbsides and graffiti spreading like garish vines along buildings, Marino this month put together a 500 strong taskforce of employees and volunteers to help clean up Rome's neglected green spaces. "Rome is falling apart at the seams," the city's main newspaper, Il Messaggero, lamented on its frontpage last week. On an inside page it reported a rat infestation in the center.
A 2013 European Commission survey placed Rome last out of 28 EU capitals in the rankings for the efficiency of city services. Despite its fine cuisine and sunny climate, Rome came second to last for quality of life satisfaction. Athens
was bottom.
Rome also came last when it came to satisfaction with public transport. This summer's chaos will not have
improved sentiment.
RUBBISH AND PICKPOCKETS
Metro drivers have staged a series of go slows to protest at a new norm requiring them to clock into work. The
mayor says this is needed to boost productivity, arguing that while drivers in Milan work 1,200 hours a year, in Rome they put in 730 hours.
The dispute has led to delays of up to 25 minutes between trains, leaving stranded passengers sweltering in the hottest July for more than a decade and fuelling anger on Internet protest sites like 'Rome Sucks' (Roma Fa Schifo).
Rome is the most popular tourist destination in the country, attracting some 10.61 million foreign visitors in 2014. This was down from more than 11 million the year before and locals say the poor state of infrastructure is hurting.
"All my clients say Rome is beautiful, but all of them, without fail, complain about the services," said Marcello Lazazzera, who owns a small bed and breakfast, Domus Cornelia.
"The metros never arrive on time, the stations are full of pickpockets, the streets are full of rubbish. Instead of getting better, the situation is getting worse."
It could get worse still in 2016, when 25 million pilgrims are expected to flow into the Eternal City in response to Pope Francis's call for an extraordinary Holy Year one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important events.
The mayor's office has yet to layout its strategy for coping with the influx, or earmark any funds to cover the cost.
"The prayers of the pope will not be enough. Here we need a miracle from the lord above for Rome to emerge in good shape," said Chamber of Commerce chief, Cremonesi.
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-- THE DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK CITY (15 JULY 2015).
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Rusty object in the ashy remains of the fire.
Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum was a great, kid friendly attraction. It had a giant snake on the roof, and was full of old-school scares, like air blowing on your legs, a rotating tunnel to run through, and a levitating table during a seance. Earlier this year, arsonists burned it down. This is the second attraction to be burned down of his in the area, the locals seem to hate good, creative, fun. I went here several times when it was open, including on Halloween. In the woods there were life size fiberglass dinosaurs. Today, all that remains is the shell of the house, ashes, melted glass, burnt trees, and rusted, twisted metal. Very sad.
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A Thompson Sub Machine Gun. Nicknamed a “Tommy Gun,” this firearm became very popular among law enforcement and the Mob during the prohibition era and came to be one of the most iconic symbols of that time period. The Mob Museum is a modern-day museum and offers highly experiential and interactive experiences. Fascinating stories are brought to life through one-of-a-kind artifacts, interactive touch screens and multi-media presentations. Visitors can not only see an authentic Tommy Gun, but also “shoot” a simulated version, listen to real FBI surveillance tapes on wiretapping equipment and take part in FBI weapons training.
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"Jet Fuel" and "Office fires" did not bring the towers and building 7 down. Stop believing the lies of the media.
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Yet This Just Flies over The Head of The Masses as so much as if Canell Thornton was To Take off her Bra in broad Daylight on a Public Sidewalk (A First Amendment Protected area) at Sonic Foods in North Tyler Because There was a Rock in Her Bra which Hurt like Hell !! with her Breasts All exposed for the World To See A Bakers' Dozen of Rocks fell out of her Bra making a Loud Noise onto the sidewalk and All the General Practice Atty's in Smith County Texas Didn't See a Thing Dumber than a Box of Rocks- Obscure Eye Problems in The First Amendment and The Laws Governing Permissible Subjects in Photography and Obscure Ear Problems What The Ear Can hear First Amendment Laws Concerning Wiretapping and Audio Recording. Then Canell Placed her Bra back on, then Put her Top back on and Started walking Down The sidewalk as if Nothing Had happened with No General Practice Atty’s in Smith County Tyler Texas Haven’t Seen or Heard a Single Thing !!
CHICAGO – Federal authorities arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday on charges that he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder.
Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field, according to a federal criminal complaint. In return for state assistance, Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired.
A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti.
Otherwise, Blagojevich considered appointing himself. The affidavit said that as late as Nov. 3, he told his deputy governor that if "they're not going to offer me anything of value I might as well take it."
"I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain," Blagojevich allegedly said later that day, according to the affidavit, which also quoted him as saying in a remark punctuated by profanity that the seat was "a valuable thing — you just don't give it away for nothing."
The affidavit said Blagojevich also discussed getting a substantial salary for himself at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions.
It said Blagojevich also talked about getting his wife placed on corporate boards where she might get $150,000 a year in director's fees.
He also allegedly discussed getting campaign funds for himself or possibly a post in the president's cabinet or an ambassadorship once he left the governor's office. He noted becoming a U.S. senator might remake his image for a possible presidential run in 2016, according to the affidavit. And he allegedly said a Senate seat would also provide him with corporate contacts if he needed a job and present an opportunity for his wife to work as a lobbyist.
"I want to make money," the affidavit quotes him as saying in one conversation.
The affidavit said Blagojevich expressed frustration at being "stuck" as governor and that he would have access to greater resources if he were indicted while in the U.S. Senate than while sitting as governor.
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement that "the breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering."
"They allege that Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States senator," Fitzgerald said."
Among those being considered for the post include U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Jesse Jackson Jr.
Blagojevich also was charged with using his authority as governor in an attempt to squeeze out campaign contributions.
His chief of staff, John Harris, also was arrested.
Corruption in the Blagojevich administration has been the focus of a federal investigation involving an alleged $7 million scheme aimed at squeezing kickbacks out of companies seeking business from the state. Federal prosecutors have acknowledged they're also investigating "serious allegations of endemic hiring fraud" under Blagojevich.
Political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko who raised money for the campaigns of both Blagojevich and Obama is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of fraud and other charges. Blagojevich's chief fundraiser, Christopher G. Kelly, is due to stand trial early next year on charges of obstructing the Internal Revenue Service.
According to Tuesday's complaint, Blagojevich schemed with Rezko, millionaire-fundraiser turned federal witness Stuart Levine and others to get financial benefits for himself and his campaign committee.
Federal prosecutors said Blagojevich and the chairman of his campaign committee have been speeding up corrupt fundraising activities in the last month to get as much money as possible before the end of the year when a new law would curtail his ability to raise contributions from companies with state contracts worth more than $50,000.
According to the affidavit, agents learned Blagojevich was seeking $2.5 million in campaign contributions by the end of the year, with a large part allegedly to come from companies and individuals who have gotten state contracts or appointments.
Blagojevich took the chief executive's office in 2003 as a reformer promising to clean up former Gov. George Ryan's mess.
Ryan, a Republican, is serving a 6-year prison sentence after being convicted on racketeering and fraud charges. A decade-long investigation began with the sale of driver's licenses for bribes and led to the conviction of dozens of people who worked for Ryan when he was secretary of state and governor.
FBI spokesman Frank Bochte said federal agents arrested the governor and Harris simultaneously at their homes at 6:15 a.m. and took them to the Chicago FBI headquarters.
Bochte said he did not know if either man was handcuffed or if the governor's family was their North Side home at the time of his arrest. He did say Blagojevich and Harris both were given time to get dressed before being taken to the headquarters.
He also did not have any details about Blagojevich's arrest, only that he was cooperative with federal agents.
"It was a very calm setting," he said.
The governor was to appear later Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan to answer the charges. The time was not immediately set.
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Seven of the Harrisburg 8 bomb/kidnap conspiracy defendants pose outside during a rally in Harrisburg January 23, 1972. The rally was held the day before their trial was scheduled to start.
From left to right: Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, John “Ted” Glick, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, Dr. Eqbal Ahmad,, Mary Scoblick, and John Scoblick. Phillip Berrigan, jailed for destroying draft records in Catonsville, Md., is not shown.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glickl.
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