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WHITE LIES – The health consequences of consuming cow’s milk. Campaigns Safeguarding Children’s Health Obesity: Hampering the Global Epidemic White Lies Campaign resources Report FAQ Download the report (pdf) Download the leaflet (pdf) Download "It's easy to be dairy free" guide (pdf) Fishing for Facts On Wednesday, 24 May 2006, the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) launched the ground-breaking campaign, White Lies, to raise awareness about the enormous health consequences of consuming dairy products. On the same day, the VVF held a public talk – Why You Don’t Need Dairy – with speakers: Professor T. Colin Campbell: For more than 40 years Colin has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. He is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and Project Director of the China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project. Juliet Gellatley: founder and director of the largest vegetarian and vegan organisation in Europe, Viva!, and of the health charity, the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation. Dr Justine Butler: health campaigner of the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation and author of the White Lies report. Professor Jane Plant CBE: top scientist and author of best sellers ‘Your Life in Your Hands – Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer’ and ‘Prostate Cancer’. The VVF have produced an extensive report called White Lies investigating the links between the consumption of cow’s milk and dairy products and health. White Lies includes forewords by Professor T. Colin Campbell PhD, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and Professor Jane Plant CBE, (DSc, CEng), Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Professor of Applied Geochemistry at Imperial College in London. The VVF’s 40,000-word report includes over 200 references from the peer-reviewed scientific literature. The report describes the evidence linking a diverse range of health problems and diseases to dairy including some of the UK’s biggest killers such as heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer and prostate cancer as well as osteoporosis, eczema, asthma, Crohn’s disease, colic, constipation and even teenage acne. The White Lies campaign is supported by…. Professor T. Colin Campbell PhD, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York…  “More recently, much more evidence on the adverse health effects of cow’s milk have accumulated, and much of it has been ably reviewed in this excellent report which is timely, broad in scope and profound in its consistency” Professor Jane Plant CBE (DSc, CEng), Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine Professor and Professor of Applied Geochemistry at Imperial College in London…“This report exposes the nature of the modern industrialised dairy industry and the serious implications that this has for our health. I do hope that White Lies receives the recognition it deserves and that this will embolden politicians to take a stand against the dairy industry”. Heather Mills McCartney is a patron of the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation and supported us in the launch of White Lies on May 24, 2006. Quotes from Heather include: White Lies is the first review of its kind. The evidence is overwhelming – cow’s milk and dairy products are neither natural nor healthy, in fact they are harmful to health and have been linked to a wide range of illnesses and diseases. Many of the key findings were discussed at the public talk on May 24 2006. Hot topics that the campaign and report cover include: Heart disease – What it is in milk and dairy products that can cause heart disease and how following a plant-based diet can reduce cholesterol and even reverse heart disease. Diabetes – Research shows that drinking cow’s milk at an early age is strongly linked to an increased risk of type 1 diabetes in genetically susceptible people. Several different theories have been suggested that attempt to unravel the actual mechanism by which cow’s milk causes diabetes; they all share a common theme. Cancer – Nutrition plays a major role in cancer; a poor diet is the second largest preventable risk factor for cancer (coming close behind smoking) and an increasing body of evidence now links the consumption of cow’s milk to certain cancers. What it is about modern dairy farming practices that concerns scientists studying certain cancers including cancers of the breast, ovaries, colon and prostate? And which types of food can protect against these, and other, diseases? Obesity In 2004 the UK Foods Standards Agency reported that 25 per cent of men and 20 per cent of women were classified as obese. The British Medical Association warns that childhood obesity levels have soared in the UK. Part of the problem is the increasing lack of physical activity but diet plays a major role in the obesity epidemic. The World Health Organisation blames the rise in obesity on a shift away from diets high in complex carbohydrates towards diets high in saturated fats and sugars. How do dairy foods contribute to the rising levels of obesity and what is the difference between ‘good’ fats and ‘bad’ fats? Osteoporosis and the calcium myth Osteoporosis is a growing problem in the UK; one in two women and one in five men will suffer a fracture after the age of 50! The science shows that shows that dairy is part of the problem rather than the solution, White Lies reveals why it is not the best source of calcium and describes how best to promote bone health in the young and old. Pinta pus Milk containing up to 400 million pus cells per litre may be legally sold for human consumption! That means that one teaspoon of milk could contain 2 million pus cells! Find out why. Campaign resources Read what the science says and find out how you can protect your health. More. 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By Gustavo Arellano  http://www.ocweekly.com/columns/ask-a-mexican/ask-a-mexican/26518/ Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 3:00 pm Illustration by Mark Dancey Dear Mexican: Why do non-Mexicans consider it a compliment when they tell Mexicans they don’t look Mexican? I am 100 percent Mexican—5’7”, with black hair, brown eyes and olive skin—and ever since I left my hometown of El Paso, I’ve been subjected to this backhanded compliment. No Soy Italiana, Pendejo Dear I’m Not an Italian Chick, Asshole: Don’t be too upset—anyone who commits that phenotypical faux pas is actually trying to be nice. The veins of nearly all Mexicans pulse with the blood of America’s most-loathed foreign enemies, Spaniards and Indians. And ever since the first conquistador bedded an Aztec maiden, gabachos have viewed Mexicans as only slightly more respectable than a taco. Mexicans, along with other groups (Irish, blacks, Jews) are the darker angels of America’s psyche, the part of its Puritan subconscious it yearns for but won’t acknowledge and thus hates: miscegenation, Catholicism, fiestas. To cope with the trauma of this unrequited lust, the gabacho mind relegates Mexicans to two culturo-sexual stereotypes that vary with the times. When relations between Mexico and the U.S. are good, we’re Latin lovers and spicy señoritas; when bad, we’re no better than greasers and spicy señoritas. Today, relations between Mexico and the United States are at the lowest point since Taco Bell introduced its Value Meals, so anyone assuming you’re anything but a Mexican is merely being polite. Look at the compliment from a different perspective: imagine if people called you Mexican. Then gabachos would suspect you are a maid or                                                                                  an illegal and probably call la migra to deport your sweet ass. Hey, Mexican Dipshit: While driving in your ancient, unsafe lowriders, why do you spics almost always come to a stop in the middle of the street, open all four doors so your kids, moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas all pop out, then walk slowly to opposite curbs while giving hate stares to us gringo drivers trying to get around you? Are you wetbacks just jealous of us gringos because of our beauty and brains? Do you drive this way in Turd World Mexico, too? Bull “We need some attack dogs to keep you beaners off the streets” Connor Dear Gabacho: Not sure what you’re talking about, Bull. The automobile follies you refer to sound like variations of the Chinese Fire Drill, but that prank is more characteristic of gabacho frat boys than Mexicans. Not only that, but no Mexican would ever stop in the middle of the street without turning on his emergency flashers and turning up the radio a couple thousand decibels until Los Horóscopos de Durango sound like Blue Cheer. The only thing ancient about lowriders is their chassis: everything else is top-of-the-line technology like hydraulics, LCD televisions mounted in the trunk, and sound systems that can produce a tsunami. Mad-dogging a gabacho is pointless to Mexicans—what good is a silent stare when a well-timed “¡Pinche gabacho!” communicates the hate so much better? And I can’t imagine too many wetbacks being jealous of someone who chooses as his pseudonym a fat, shade-wearing, Stetson-sporting pendejo who hated blacks and stubbornly clung to his culture’s old, chauvinistic ways—in other words, a Mexican-in-training. And attack dogs to keep beaners off the streets? You’re better than that, Bull. Everyone knows the best way to keep Mexicans off the streets is amnesty for all—or Sábado Gigante. Got a spicy question about Mexicans? Ask the Mexican at garellano@ocweekly.com. Those of you who do submit questions: they will be edited for clarity, cabrones. And include a hilarious pseudonym, por favor, or we’ll make one up for you! Contact us about this article.

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Theater   THEATER REVIEW   MORE ON 'Desert Sunrise' In 'Desert Sunrise,' a West Bank 'Godot' Itai Erdal Alice Borman, Haythem Noor and Jared Miller in "Desert Sunrise." By GEORGE HUNKA Published: April 18, 2006 Two men spend several hours as the only figures in a vast, empty landscape. To kill the time, they bicker, tell jokes and stories and express affection for each other. But  this isn't a country road, and there's no tree. Instead, it's a desert wadi, or valley, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank; the two men are an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian shepherd; and the person for whom they are waiting may or may not be a suicide bomber. Skip to next paragraph Readers’ Opinions Forum: Theater Now in an all-too-brief encore engagement at the Theater for the New City, Misha Shulman's elegant and affecting "Desert Sunrise" makes the most of its modest and familiar narrative, and like Samuel Beckett's classic, elicits a tragicomic resonance. Fear drives the initial confrontation between the Israeli, Tsahi (a bright, driven Jared Miller), and the Palestinian, Ismail (a haunting, caustic Haythem Noor), but as the night deepens, they begin to share their very pedestrian concerns: Tsahi has just broken up with his girlfriend; Ismail is waiting for his. When the girlfriend, Layla (performed with passionate self-possession by Alice Borman), does arrive, she introduces an unpredictable element into the relationship between the two men, though eventually she, too, finds herself drawn into mourning the mutual fear and terror that characterize their everyday lives. The production is completed with the addition of a chorus; the Israeli musician Yoel Ben-Simhon, who accompanies the action with a continuous underscore for voice, piano, oud, guitar and percussion; and dances by Dalia Carella. Ms. Carella's sinuous, sensuous movements, performed in silhouette, provide Mr. Shulman's language with a poetic visual correlate.

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3 egg white lightly whipped to a froth ad corn starch.
2 teaspoon minced fresh ginger mashed into a past added to 3 or 4
2 garlic cloves, minced mashed into a past using a fork or back of blade.

Add the 2 or 3 4 pound peeled, de-veined butterfly ed (almost split in two)
fresh shrimp. (medium to large size)

allow to marinade 20 min + 1 teaspoon hot or mild sesame oil 2 or 3 cups vegetable oil
heated for poaching the shrimp drop them 1 or two at a time to not cool the oil down cook
in batches the shrimp will float when cooked remove with wire strainer to paper towels
and a rack to remove the oil 1 scallion, green and white parts minced light soy sauce ginger
etc as a dipping sauce the shrimp will have a light crunchy egg white "skin" and will be very
juicy.
Serve with simalar bite sized marinated lobster, scallops, beef, chicken & or pork ect.,
with rice & or noddles Ster-fried mushrooms chopped vegetables fresh green peas snow
peas pan fried grape tomatoes,tomateo Edamomi and or sprouts....
Contrast texturs and colors.

My habit is to cook lots of fun looking stuff the Habanero are used very speringly
by sliting one with a sharp knife and bioling it with the noodels or rice water
boit 3 or 4 min. then remove it, the longer you cook the pepper the hotter the food
will be perhaps experament with a thin cut off sliver before you reck yourself on one
of these little besties!!!

Try my other spicy favorite poachiing the pepers very slowly (low Flame,) in Canola oil
with a whole Lime or 3.cut in small peaces (16 th's) cool and save the resulting hot Lime
oil seperatly as a hot oil.cool and add celantro choped onion to the cookec peper lime
leftover and some fresh garlic and chopped or whole olives and olive oil and capers and
even oil cured anchovies as a base for a HOT dressing a little goes a long way. cut it with
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Shrimp and Yam Get Married THIS HOLE-IN-THE-WALL LIFE By GUSTAVO ARELLANO Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 3:00 pm Shot outside 'cause they won't let us inside, photo by Jen X Some meals defy translation, and among these is banh cuon, a Vietnamese meal that’s little more than stuffed, steamed layers of rice-flour sheets—the quesadilla meets the pancake. It’s not the prettiest of dishes, and even the most experienced chopstick users will find the banh cuon slipping and splattering onto their plates. Banh cuon is a Vietnamese obsession, and probably the most popular Vietnamese entrée that hasn’t followed pho into the mainstream American diet. Just check the crowds at BANH CUON TAY HO 2, a tiny diner in the shadows of Little Saigon’s Asian Garden Mall. No reservations accepted—to get a table, sign your name on the clipboard outside the restaurant and then wait. But it’s not for long, thankfully: people go in, scarf down their food, and get the hell out. Do anything here but eat (talk with the help, pause thoughtfully with chopsticks poised over plate, pause between bites) and expectant diners will kill you a thousand times with their eyes. Banh Cuon Tay Ho 2 (número uno is in San Gabriel) sells eight types of the dish, but you can enjoy almost all of them by ordering the mammoth banh cuon dac biet Tay Ho. The meal contains various elements of other banh cuons. One is earthy ground pork and mushroom stuffed into the rice-flour layers. Another is fluffy, fried shrimp cake studded with green beans placed on the side. Still another comprises slices of cold pork with the texture of bologna but more sour. My favorite part of the banh cuon dac biet Tay Ho is the golden-brown snack that looks something like Carl’s Jr.’s criss-cut fries. This deep-fried marriage of shrimp and yam yields one of the best appetizers in Orange County. Don’t forget to add nuoc mam, the fermented fish sauce you’ll find in carafes on each table. Banh Cuon Tay Ho offers other meals—large bowls of the vermicelli salad bún, as well as soup and rice dishes. But if you take only one thing from this review, take this: when visiting a Vietnamese restaurant with a particular dish in its name, order that dish—the restaurant owners named their business after a meal for a reason. And one more thing: the banh cuon dac biet Tay Ho feeds four for just $5.10—a feat even Jesus (with his loaves and fishes) would admire. BANH CUON TAY HO 2, 9242 BOLSA AVE., #F, WESTMINSTER, (714) 895-4796. Contact us about this article.

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Velvet Shrimp Recipe#3

VELVET SHRIMP

MAKES 4 SERVINGS

3 tablespoons unsalted butter

½ cup finely chopped green onion tops

1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Chef Paul Prudhomme's Seafood Magic

½ teaspoon minced garlic

1 pound peeled, deveined fresh shrimp (medium to large size)

2 cups heavy cream

2 tablespoons seafood stock or water, optional

1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Muenster cheese

Hot cooked pasta or rice (preferably converted)

Heat a 10-inch skillet over high heat about 1 minute.
 
Add butter. When butter comes to a hard sizzle,
 
stir in green onions and 1 tablespoon of the Seafood Magic.

Cook about 1½ minutes and add garlic and shrimp.
 
Stir to combine. Cook about 2 minutes, stirring occasionally,
 
then add 1 cup of the cream and the remaining Seafood Magic.
 
Stir and scrape any browned bits off sides and bottom of skillet.

Cook about 1 minute and stir in remaining cream.

Cook 1 minute, or just until shrimp are plump and pink.

Remove shrimp with slotted spoon.
Set shrimp aside.

Still over high heat, whisk cream mixture frequently as it comes to a boil,
then whisk Cook 1 more minute or until cheese has melted and is incorporated.
Return shrimp to skillet. Stir to coat shrimp with sauce and remove from heat.
Serve immediately over pasta or rice.

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2ndTop Story (forward)  Subject:  baker 1 _______________ FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Baker accused of skirting U.S. sanctions on Saddam Businessman charges ex-secretary of state used middleman to 'sell out' Israel for profit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53421 Posted: December 18, 2006 5:00 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com James Baker RAMAT HASHARON, Israel - The law firm at which former Secretary of State James Baker is a senior partner used an Israeli middleman to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iraq and push through a multimillion-dollar collection effort involving the regime of Saddam Hussein, according to a businessman here who said he mediated the deal. Nir Gouaz, president of Caesar Global Securities in Israel, told WND that Baker's firm, Houston-based Baker Botts, made about $30 million collecting funds owed to a South Korean company by the Iraqi government at the peak of American sanctions imposed against Baghdad. He claimed Baker was directly involved in the deal. Gouaz told WND he decided to come forward with details of the alleged transactions after the release earlier this month of a report by the Iraq Study Group, a commission headed by Baker that recommended an eventual U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and dialogue with Iran and Syria. (Story continues below) The report also urged Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem, and to sign a deal with Syria in which the Jewish state would vacate the Golan Heights, strategic mountainous territory twice used by Damascus to launch ground invasions into Israel. "As a citizen of Israel I cannot just sit by and watch the hypocrisy being spewed by Baker," said Gouaz. "If Baker was still a private citizen I could keep his business dealings private, but now he is involved in diplomacy that sells out Israel. People need to understand he is acting out of economic considerations." Gouaz provided WND with documentation indicating he mediated the Iraqi debt deal. He first spoke out this weekend in an interview with Israel's Maariv daily newspaper during which he passed a polygraph lie detector test. Gouaz said he was tapped in 1998 by Jeffrey Stonerock, a senior partner at Baker Botts, to serve as a middleman in the collection of $1.65 billion in debt owned to Korea's Hyundai Engineering by the Iraqi government. Hyundai had completed a series of major infrastructure projects in Iraq, including the construction of roads, railways and power plants and was supposed to be paid in Iraqi government bonds, but in the wake of the Gulf War, Saddam suspended payments to suppliers. Gouaz said Iraq's failure to pay threatened the future of Hyundai. Gouaz said he was asked to mediate the collection efforts to evade sanctions on Iraq, which did not apply to Israelis. He said he met initially with Baker and that the former secretary of state was involved in the collection deal. Gouaz said he was asked by Baker's firm to meet with Shaiker Tawfik Fakoury, the president of the Bank of Jordan, which agreed to purchase the Iraqi government bonds from Hyundai at a lowered rate and resell them to the Iraqis at a profit in exchange for oil. He said the Jordanian bank in July 2000 bought the Iraqi bonds from Hyundai using the services of Baker's firm at the price of $272 million. The Bank of Jordan, he claimed, then resold the bonds to Iraq for about $450 million in oil. Gouaz said he estimated the Baker Botts law firm made about $33 million in fees for its services in the transactions. He said it was "clear" from his communications with all parties involved that Baker's firm established the bonds exchange through Jordan using an Israeli middleman to bypass sanctions on Iraq. "The point of involving me and setting up the collection as it was done was to get around the sanctions," Gouaz said. Gouaz would not disclose how much money he personally made in the deal. Gouaz provided WND with a copy of a letter dated July 11, 2000, from Hyundai executives thanking him for his efforts in mediating the collection deal. He also gave WND a copy of an Iraqi government bond from 1989 for $11 million he said was part of Hyundai's collection efforts. Baker Botts released a statement to WND saying the firm has "no knowledge" of whether the purported transaction described by Gouaz ever occurred. The statement said Baker Botts' role in the supposed transactions as described by Gouaz and the payment Gouaz said the firm received are inaccurate. Mike Cinelli, a public relations manager at Baker Botts, denied Baker was involved in the purported transactions Gouaz described. Cinelli pointed to a press release on Hyundai's website from 2005 stating the company did not yet receive funds owed by the Iraqi government. But Gouaz supplied WND with pictures of what he said was the signing ceremony in 2000 in which Hyundai's Iraqi government bonds were sold. Baker's envoy role conflict of interest? In 2003, President Bush appointed Baker as special envoy to aid in the recovery of debt from Iraq. He was specifically tasked with trying to persuade the international community to forgive large sums of debt. A number of media reports pointed out Baker simultaneously was working with commercial companies trying to recover money from Iraq and that the former secretary of state might have conflicts of interest with his role as envoy. Baker's firm represents the government of Saudi Arabia, the country claiming the largest amount of debt from Iraq. Also according to London's Guardian newspaper and the Nation magazine in New York, the Carlyle Group is involved in efforts to recover nearly $27 billion on behalf of the Kuwaiti government. Baker was a partner at Carlyle until last year. Baker has publicly brushed aside the criticism, saying he has agreed to forego earnings from clients with obvious connections to the Iraqi debt. ----------------------------(forward)  Subject:  baker 2  _______________  FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Baker case documents saved from shred order Businessman says they outline sanction-avoiding transactions http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53437 Posted: December 20, 2006 5:00 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM - An Israeli businessman who says he served as a broker in a multimillion-dollar Iraqi collection deal by the law firm of former Secretary of State James Baker now charges in a WND interview Baker's firm tried to cover up the alleged transactions, concerned about exposure after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The deal was structured to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iraq, according to the middleman, Nir Gouaz, president of Caesar Global Securities in Israel. Gouaz claimed Houston-based Baker Botts made about $30 million collecting funds owed to a South Korean company by the Iraqi government at the peak of American sanctions imposed against Baghdad. He claimed Baker was directly involved in the deal. Gouaz told WND today Jeffrey Stonerock, a senior partner at Baker's firm, contacted him in November 2001 inquiring whether he had any documents related to the purported Iraqi deal. (Story continues below) Gouaz said he told Stonerock he still had a few papers. He said Stonerock asked him to destroy all remaining documents related to the matter and sign a nondisclosure form pledging not to discuss the alleged deal. "He told me to just sign the nondisclosure and forget about what happened," Gouaz told WND. Gouaz said he refused to sign the nondisclosure agreement. He said he decided to retain all documents in his possession he said were related to the deal. The documents were obtained by WND yesterday. "When they asked me to destroy the papers I became a bit skeptical," said Gouaz. "They were clearly worried about exposure after the 9-11 terror attacks." Baker Botts today refused to comment on Gouaz's latest allegations. As WND reported yesterday, Gouaz said he was tapped in 1998 by Baker Botts senior partner Stonerock to serve as a middleman in the collection of $1.65 billion in debt owned to Korea's Hyundai Engineering by the Iraqi government. Hyundai had completed a series of major infrastructure projects in Iraq, including the construction of roads, railways and power plants and was supposed to be paid in Iraqi government bonds, but in the wake of the Gulf War, Saddam suspended payments to suppliers. Gouaz said Iraq's failure to pay threatened the future of Hyundai. Gouaz said he was asked to mediate the collection efforts to evade American sanctions on Iraq, which did not apply to Israelis. He said he met initially with Baker and that the former secretary of state was involved in the collection deal. Gouaz said he was asked by Baker's firm to meet with Shaiker Tawfik Fakoury, the president of the Bank of Jordan, which agreed to purchase the Iraqi government bonds from Hyundai at a lowered rate and resell them to the Iraqis at a profit in exchange for oil. He said the Jordanian bank in July 2000 bought the Iraqi bonds from Hyundai using the services of Baker's firm at the price of $272 million. The Bank of Jordan, he claimed, then resold the bonds to Iraq for about $450 million in oil. Gouaz said he estimated the Baker Botts law firm made about $33 million in fees for its services in the transactions. He said it was "clear" from his communications with all parties involved that Baker's firm established the bonds exchange through Jordan using an Israeli middleman to bypass sanctions on Iraq. "The point of involving me and setting up the collection as it was done was to get around the sanctions," Gouaz said. Gouaz would not disclose how much money he personally made in the deal. He first spoke out last weekend in an interview with Israel's Maariv daily newspaper during which he passed a polygraph lie detector test. Gouaz provided WND with a copy of a letter dated July 11, 2000, from Hyundai executives thanking him for his efforts in mediating the collection deal. He also gave WND a copy of an Iraqi government bond from 1989 for $11 million he said was part of Hyundai's collection efforts. Gouaz told WND he decided to come forward with details of the alleged transactions after the release earlier this month of a report by the Iraq Study Group, a commission headed by Baker that recommended an eventual U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and dialogue with Iran and Syria. The report also urged Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem, and to sign a deal with Syria in which the Jewish state would vacate the Golan Heights, strategic mountainous territory twice used by Damascus to launch ground invasions into Israel. "As a citizen of Israel I cannot just sit by and watch the hypocrisy being spewed by Baker," said Gouaz. "If Baker was still a private citizen I could keep his business dealings private, but now he is involved in diplomacy that sells out Israel. People need to understand he is acting out of economic considerations." Baker Botts released a statement to WND yesterday saying the firm has "no knowledge" of whether the purported transaction described by Gouaz ever occurred. The statement said Baker Botts' role in the supposed transactions as described by Gouaz and the payment Gouaz said the firm received are inaccurate. Mike Cinelli, a public relations manager at Baker Botts, denied Baker was involved in the purported transactions Gouaz described. Cinelli pointed to a press release on Hyundai's website from 2005 stating the company did not yet receive funds owed by the Iraqi government. But Gouaz supplied WND with pictures of what he said was the signing ceremony in 2000 in which Hyundai's Iraqi government bonds were sold. Baker's envoy role conflict of interest? In 2003, President Bush appointed Baker as special envoy to aid in the recovery of debt from Iraq. He was specifically tasked with trying to persuade the international community to forgive large sums of debt. A number of media reports pointed out Baker simultaneously was working with commercial companies trying to recover money from Iraq and that the former secretary of state might have conflicts of interest with his role as envoy. Baker's firm represents the government of Saudi Arabia, the country claiming the largest amount of debt from Iraq. Also according to London's Guardian newspaper and the Nation magazine in New York, the Carlyle Group is involved in efforts to recover nearly $27 billion on behalf of the Kuwaiti government. Baker was a partner at Carlyle until last year. Baker has publicly brushed aside the criticism, saying he has agreed to forego earnings from clients with obvious connections to the Iraqi debt.

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Psychological Operations/Warfare "Capture their minds and their hearts and souls will follow" by Major Ed Rouse (Ret) Welcome to the Home of the Psywarrior Psychological Operations "Capture their minds and their hearts and souls will follow" Psychological Operations (PSYOP) and Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR), these words generate thoughts of North Vietnam's "Hanoi Hanna", Japan's "Tokyo Rose" and more recently the Iraq's infamous "Baghdad Betty" of Desert Storm. To others the words psychological operations and psychological warfare conjure up images of our military playing mind games with the enemy. PSYOP is all this and much more, for you see there are essentially two great forces in warfare:-the physical and the moral. These two forces suggest two distinct approaches to warfare. One a "direct" approach, concentrating on the opponent's physical forces, and the other an "indirect" approach, focusing on moral forces. Both of these approaches have been tried throughout history, with a noted lack of emphasis on the indirect approach until more recent times. This website will attempt to give new emphasis to the indirect approach by conveying a better appreciation for the application of psychological operations. So sit back and join me on a tour of the history of Psychological Operations, and what PSYOP is today.               - The Life and Times of the "Psywarrior" A Brief History of Psychological Operations Links on the use of psychological operations/warfare during World Wars I and II, Korean War, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama (Operation Just Cause) Gulf War (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Haiti (Operation Uphold Democracy), Somalia (Operation Restore Hope), Bosnia &  Kosovo (Operation Allied Force), Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom).  Also samples of leaflets and unusual PSYOP themes used by both sides in conflicts from World War I to the present, information on the 4th Psychological Operations Group, the Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (USACAPOC), the Psychological Operations Veterans Association (POVA), the PSYWAR Society, a Gulf War Photo Gallery, the Son Tay POW Rescue Raid, plus stories about two of our nation's heroes, and much more.

Extra Armor Could Have Saved Many Lives, Study Shows By MICHAEL MOSS Published: January 6, 2006 A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body  could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials. Skip to next paragraph Preliminary Findings: Marine Lethal Torso Injuries (pdf) Armoring Humvees for Safety The Saga of Echo Company Missing in Action: The Supply Gap in Iraq: Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq (March 7, 2005) The Company Six Months in Ramadi: Bloodied Marines Sound Off About Want of Armor and Men (April 25, 2005) Safer Vehicles for Soldiers: A Tale of Delays and Glitches (June 26, 2005) U.S. Struggling to Get Soldiers Updated Armor (August 14, 2005) U.S. Tries to Secure Iraqi Town, and Rebels Respond (September 6, 2005) Lack of Armor Proves Deadly for Iraqi Army (October 30, 2005) Stretching and Straining for Numbers That Uplift (December 1, 2005) Fatally Exposed: A Mission That Ended in Inferno for 3 Women (December 20, 2005) The Saga of Echo Company Armoring Humvees for Safety Missing in Action: The Supply Gap in Iraq: Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq (March 7, 2005)  Preliminary Findings: Marine Lethal Torso Injuries (pdf) The New York Times The New York Times The New York Times Armoring Humvees for Safety Missing in Action: The Supply Gap in Iraq: Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq (March 7, 2005)  Preliminary Findings: Marine Lethal Torso Injuries (pdf) The New York Times The New York Times The New York Times Armoring Humvees for Safety Missing in Action: The Supply Gap in Iraq: Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq (March 7, 2005)  Preliminary Findings: Marine Lethal Torso Injuries (pdf) The New York Times The New York Times The New York Times Preliminary Findings: Marine Lethal Torso Injuries (pdf) The New York Times The New York Times The New York Times The ceramic plates in vests now worn by the majority of troops in Iraq cover only some of the chest and back. In at least 74 of the 93 fatal wounds that were analyzed in the Pentagon study of marines from March 2003 through June 2005, bullets and shrapnel struck the marines' shoulders, sides or areas of the torso where the plates do not reach. Thirty-one of the deadly wounds struck the chest or back so close to the plates that simply enlarging the existing shields "would have had the potential to alter the fatal outcome," according to the study, which was obtained by The New York Times. For the first time, the study by the military's medical examiner shows the cost in lives from inadequate armor, even as the Pentagon continues to publicly defend its protection of the troops. Officials have said they are shipping the best armour to Iraq as quickly as possible. At the same time, they have maintained that it is impossible to shield forces from the increasingly powerful improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Iraq. Yet the Pentagon's own study reveals the equally lethal threat of bullets. The vulnerability of the military's body armor has been known since the start of the war, and is part of a series of problems that have surrounded the protection of American troops. Still, the Marine Corps did not begin buying additional plates to cover the sides of their troops until September, when it ordered 28,800 sets, Marine officials acknowledge. The Army, which has the largest force in Iraq, is still deciding what to purchase, according to Army procurement officials. They said the Army was deciding among various sizes of plates to give its 130,000 soldiers, adding that they hoped to issue contracts this month. Additional forensic studies by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner's unit that were obtained by The Times indicate that about 340 American troops have died solely from torso wounds. Military officials said they had originally decided against using the extra plates because they were concerned they added too much weight to the vests or constricted the movement of soldiers. Marine Corps officials said the findings of the Pentagon study caused field commanders to override those concerns in the interest of greater protection. "As the information became more prevalent and aware to everybody that in fact these were casualty sites that they needed to be worried about, then people were much more willing to accept that weight on their body," said Maj. Wendell Leimbach, a body armor specialist with Marine Corps Systems Command, the corps procurement unit. The Pentagon has been collecting the data on wounds since the beginning of the war in March 2003 in part to determine the effectiveness of body armor. The military's medical examiner, Dr. Craig T. Mallak, told a military panel in 2003 that the information "screams to be published." But it would take nearly two years. The Marine Corps said it asked for the data in August 2004; but it needed to pay the medical examiner $107,000 to have the data analyzed. Marine officials said financing and other delays had resulted in the study's not starting until December 2004. It finally began receiving the information by June 2005. The shortfalls in bulletproof vests are just one of the armor problems the Pentagon continues to struggle with as the war in Iraq approaches the three-year mark, The Times has found in a continuing examination of the military procurement system. The production of a new armored truck called the Cougar, which military officials said had so far withstood every insurgent attack, has fallen three months behind schedule. The small company making the truck has been beset by a host of production and legal problems. Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor Published: January 7, 2006 (Page 2 of 3) Meanwhile, the Pentagon is still relying on another small factory in Ohio to armor all of the military's principal transport trucks, the Humvee, and it remains backlogged with orders. The factory, owned by Armor Holdings, increased production in December after reports in The Times about delays drew criticism from Congress. But the Marine Corps said it was still waiting for about 2,000 of these vehicles to replace other Humvees in Iraq that are more lightly armored, and did not expect final delivery until June.

Psychological Operations/Warfare?                        Tuesday, January 10, 2006 This Is How the New York Times Supports Our Troops? Once again an article in the New York Times has put our troops at risk and potentially damaged their morale. In an article published on January 6, 2005, called Extra Armor Could Have Saved Many Lives, Study Shows reporter Michael Moss reveals a secret Pentagon study shows that "at least 80 percent of the marines who have been killed  in Iraq from wounds to their upper body could have survived if they had extra body armor." If the study was secret, why is the New York Times publishing the results? The real story here is that there are traitors in our government leaking top secret documents to the press. The article goes into great detail about the inadequacy of the armor available to soldiers and what parts of their bodies are vulnerable. Now any terrorist with a subscription to the New York Times will know where to shoot. And how do you think soldiers who read this article are going to feel? At a time when the conduct of the  war is coming under increasing criticism, our brave soldiers don't need their morale further damaged by reporters with 20/20 hindsight. Is the phrase "Support Our Troops" just empty words to liberals in the media? The article seems to imply that because it took a year for the Pentagon to pay for the data to be analyzed because  of funding problems that somehow the government is to blame for the armor not being up to par. The article also says there is a backlog in production of humvees with special armor, which are also expensive to make. Of course, no one could have predicted that the war would last more than a few weeks so the idea that the Pentagon should pay for a lot of expensive armor and humvees that might never be needed is absurd. Instead of whining, many soldiers and their families have simply paid for the armor themselves instead of waiting for a government handout. Wal-Mart employees pay for their uniforms so what could be more American than soldiers paying for theirs? I don't suppose liberals would give up some of their precious social programs to pay for them. I suppose liberals think we should rescind the tax cuts to pay for armor but it makes no sense to cripple our economy and destroy our way of life when that is what our soldiers are dying for in the first place. All this quibbling and second-guessing is damaging our ability to fight the war in Iraq. If liberals really want to support our troops they should shut up and get behind our President. Jon Swift I am a reasonable conservative who likes to write about politics and culture. Since the media is biased I get all my news from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Jay Leno monologues. About Me                 Name:Jon Swift I am a reasonable conservative who likes to write about politics and culture. Since the media is biased I get all my news from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Jay Leno monologues. View my complete profile Jon Swift, Iraq, New York Times, Politics            Is this Psychological Operations/Warfare?                      http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2006/01/this-is-how-new-york-times-supports.html                                FOOD DOES NOT LIE

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to  stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else" -  Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.

The American flag, the U.S. Constitution          and the Bill of Rights have now been           torn to shreads. “http://www.wolfbritain.com/" Rest In Peace (RIP)”, Freedom and Liberty. RIP, “the experiment in democracy”. We have watched in dumb amazement (those of us who have realized what is really going on, that is) as for the past five years the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, liberty, and freedom have been step by step, systematically eviscerated, first with the so-called “USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act (those who criticize it supposedly aren’t patriots)”, and then with the latest afront on domestic freedom and liberty, the “Military Commissions Act of 2006,” also known among other names as the “Detainee Bill”, passed by an almost completely cowed Senate in the dead of night on Friday, the 29th day of September, 2006. Now NONE OF US is safe. Not civil libertarians, not dissenters, not protesters of even the mildest variety (as virtually everything is now considered “terrorism”), and not even those blind worshippers of the U.S. government or its agents; because, if someone decides they don’t like you, or gets jealous or resentful of you, all they need do is CLAIM you criticized the government, defended “rights”, felt that certain force used against someone was excessive, or committed some other equally innocent “perceived threatening conduct” (some of the federal government’s favorite wording that they now use for those who exercise their inalienable, immutable, inviolable First Amendment rights of Freedom of Speech, Belief and Dissent to disagree with their government), and you will very likely be “disappeared” into custody, stripped of U.S. citizenship, and be interro(r)gated, intimidated, humiliated, terrorized, tortured, and/or very possibly murdered, all without “Due Process of Law” under the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, or a fair, unbiased hearing, access to an impartial lawyer, court, judge, or jury; and, if you live through this process, you could be kept secretly imprisoned forever without access to ANYONE important to you. This is NO exageration WHATSOVER; and, if “We, The People” don’t repeal this horrific law, or the U.S. Supreme court doesn’t overturn it, this is the END of our Republic, of Democracy, and of ALL Liberty and Freedom in “the land of the free, and the home of the brave”, and THE END OF ALL protection(s) from a capricious, out of control, dictatorial government.                    Read the full post

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When In Hanoi http://stickyrice.typepad.com/my_weblog/one_dish_wonders/index.html Third Time Lucky Seeking out new eateries in Hanoi should be straightforward. It's possible to pull up almost anywhere in this city, reach out and snatch a handful of snack, whether it be a piece of fruit, a steamed bun, a sugary donut thingie on a stick, a bread roll stuffed with pork, herbs and chili or a duck's fetus for that matter. The problem is that, after almost five years of such excessive choice, one gets picky. What happens is the snack one most feels like is suddenly elusive. It might be off the menu, out of season or bad luck to eat when the moon is waxing. Maybe the vendor, who's been on the hustings every day of my 1500 day stay in Hanoi suddenly has one off. Or perhaps the joint being eyed is packed to the rafters, an under the table payment not even ensuring a pew. At such moments, a mild hissy fit ensues and the motorbike wheel is turned in the direction of an old favourite. I do persevere, though. On the third Saturday morning attempt, I happened to time my run on this old quarter banh cuon eathouse to perfection. The group seated outside on the footpath were downing chopsticks and inserting toothpicks. They were on the way out and I was in. But this was one crowded shack. Banh cuon is a bit of a process which I've documented before and won't describe again, save to say that in a popular joint like this one, the scooping, smothering, steaming, peeling, rolling, cutting, scattering and garnishing routine takes forever when one is down the queue a bit. More perseverence is required. It is worth it, though. Banh cuon is steamed rice pancake, in which is rolled a tasty mixture of minced pork and tree-ear mushroom. On top, the crunch of dried shallots and the zing of mint and coriander and, for dipping, a golden nuoc cham. An egg is slapped in pancake for a bit of variation. A new favourite is added to my list of Hanoi food gold. I may never get a berth again, though! Pancake Hike Two serves of banh cuon, two egg numbers, one iced tea - 42,000VND (USD$2.60, AUD$3.40) Thanh Van Banh Cuon 14 Hang Ga Old Quarter, Hanoi Posted by stickyrice on 06 November 2006 Permalink Comments (9) TrackBack (0) Barbeque Soup Even though I've been somewhat tangled up with pho lately, I have been shoving some other Hanoi staples in my eating orifice. Bun cha is popular lunch fare in the capital and this fine specimen above is amongst the best you'll find anywhere in town. For the uninitiated, I'm talking about what sounds like a mismatch from hell: barbequed meat in soup. What the....!? Let me explain. A fan waving matron fires up the hot coals, over which she grills pork patties and pork belly in grates made of chicken wire. She chars them good. If bun cha doesn't have that slightly blackened crispy carcinogenic look, it's underdone in my books. And pink pork can equal crook guts which one definitely doesn't want. The bun cha grilling process spews smoke and soot all over the show, greasy smoke and soot onto one's clothes and hair and into the atmosphere, thus rivalling motorbike emissions and slash and burn agriculture as the major contributor to global warming. You heard it first at stickyrice. More environmental pontification later. Give me a bloody serve first. The meat is submerged in a liquid of fish sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, lime juice and water, which should be warm. At the table, garlic, chilli and pepper can be added to taste. Served with an astronomical heap of bun (vermicelli rice noodles) and a basket of lettuce and herbery, bun cha is quite the balanced meal. Pity about the huge serve of gloriously deep fried spring rolls with crab (nem cua be) and the lung full of noxious fumes. Lunch Money One serve of bun cha, two spring rolls - 18,000VND (USD$1.10, AUD$1.45) Thanh Huong Bun Cha 61b Lo Su (cnr. of Ly Thai To) Old Quarter Posted by stickyrice on 06 November 2006  http://stickyrice.typepad.com/my_weblog/one_dish_wonders/index.html

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