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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Making Money With Youtube

Ryan Gavin and Dean Hachamovitch, Marketing Guy and Engineer, respectively, for Internet Explorer, have announced that the final build and release of Internet Explorer 9 will indeed be at the party they’re throwing at South by Southwest in Texas on March 14th, 2011. They’ve decided to first announce this to their very favorite community at Channel9, a bunch of developers who are in love with the internet platform, and they’ve spoken here in a video at length what the browser will be able to do.

This browser has been in production for approximately a year, and now they’re going to release it, thanking profusely the community of developers who have stepped up to help them in making this a platform that has a chance at competing with the rest of the powerhouse browsers out in the market today. As you know, Internet Explorer

Hachamovitch will be doing a keynote at MIX 10 as well, showing off how the platform is rolling out, as a sort of “look what we did in a year” sort of thing. These two fellas sitting on the couch are super excited about this rollout and after saying what they came to say, they made sure to prompt Channel9 for what they call an “uncomfortable question.” What Channel9 decided to ask about was HTML5, to which they reply “WE’RE FOR IT!”

Of course the developer community knows this already, so the question is pressed, beyond what HTML5 can do for the everyday user, what does IE9 offer the fringe users who want features that not everyone will use? Hachamovitch replies with a sort of well, we DO do that, we’ve implemented things like Navigation Timing which “got 0% usage on the web,” he then going on to say that they’ve added items that don’t just come from developers who request things, they’ve essentially come up with elements that they and people at Yahoo, Google, and etc have spoken about behind the scenes, bringing these “fringe” features into IE9 at launch.

Essentially what they’re speaking about in this video and what will be coming with Internet Explorer 9 is depth as well as quality implementation of features. We’re hoping for the best!

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4000 bodies still remain unidentified following quake | Kyodo News

The identities of around 4000 bodies collected following the March 11 mega earthquake and ensuing tsunami still remain unconfirmed in severely-damaged Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, a local police tally showed Tuesday. ...

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With the company’s future already clouded by Steve Jobs’ latest medical leave, the possibility of the iPad’s chief designer, Jonathan Ive, cashing out ups the uncertainty, Dan Lyons writes.

Is Apple losing its design guru?

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced in January that he would take a third medical leave, the biggest concern was the cloud of uncertainty that hovered over the company. Now that uncertainty has become an issue again, as rumors have started swirling that Apple might lose its chief designer, Jonathan Ive.

Apple's head designer Jonathan Ive poses for a portrait on January 27, 2010 in Cupertino, California. (Photo by Paul Harris / Newscom)

Reports in Ive’s native England suggest that the man who oversaw the design of the iPhone and iPad wants to spend more time in the U.K., putting him at odds with Apple’s board enough that he would consider leaving the company. Although Ive and Apple won’t comment, the scenario is plausible for two reasons: First, Ive is about to cash in options valued at $30 million that he was granted in 2008; and second, Ive has an especially close relationship with Jobs.

Whether Ive stays or goes, the brouhaha shows the challenges that Apple is increasingly likely to face given the questions about Jobs’ role in the coming months. One scenario being bandied about by Apple-watchers suggests Ive is making a power play to succeed Jobs; it seems just as likely, however, that he simply may not want to work at Apple if Jobs isn’t there.

Still others think the entire notion that Ive might leave is completely unfounded. But either way, the whole incident shows how the Jobs health situation is bringing more drama to a company that, until now, has been a model of tight-lipped discipline.

Apple’s products are famous for their sleek designs, and conventional wisdom holds that losing Ive would be a terrible blow to Apple—“Apple’s worst nightmare,” Britain’s Guardian called it. But the truth is, losing Ive may not be as big a deal as some Apple watchers think.

For one thing, Apple has loads of bench strength in every department, and because of its success it can attract just about anyone it wants.

“How much of this is Steve, how much is Jon, how much someone else? Steve always had an eye for design. The designer is only as good as the client,” says Jean-Louis Gassée.

For another, the real genius behind Apple’s designs might not be Ive—but rather Jobs.

That’s the educated guess of Jean-Louis Gassée, a former top executive at Apple and a longtime close watcher of the company who still has many connections there.

Gassée points out that Ive was already working at Apple when Jobs returned to the company in 1996. Ive joined the company in 1992, when Jobs was gone from the company, having been ousted by the board in 1985.

And before Jobs returned to Apple, Ive wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire. The first products that Ive designed under Jobs were the “Bondi Blue” iMac and the somewhat ugly iBook. Ive’s next products, the "desk lamp" Mac and the early metal laptops, were better looking, Gassée says.

For Apple, the mobile market is a cash cow. The company’s iPhone and iPad are proving to be the top mobile companions for people around the globe. Apple has sold over 100 million iPhones. Its iPad sales have hit 15 million. The company understands the mobile market and it knows how to capitalize on it.

But what about the living room? It has the Apple TV, sure, and the Mac mini is often times connected to an HDTV, but what else has Apple done to push the envelope in the living room? It still hasn’t launched the long-rumored television we keep hearing about, and it seems that offering a game console — a hope for many Apple fans over the past few years — won’t happen.

I fully realize that Apple can’t be everything to every customer. It delivers computers, smartphones, tablets, personal media players, two operating systems, wireless routers, and much more. But I also realize that Apple is an entertainment company. It’s about trying to give people more opportunity to enjoy their lives through technology. And it would only make sense if it doubled down on the living room.

Let’s turn our attention to the Apple TV for a minute.

Prior to its announcement in September, rumors were running rampant over what the former “hobby” would offer. Folks thought it would deliver gaming, interface with DVRs, include Apple’s App Store, and much more. They thought it would be a sizable update over its predecessor.

Instead, Apple offered a stripped-down alternative.

The second-generation Apple TV comes with the ability for users to stream Netflix content. It has Flickr and Internet radio. And it allows users to stream their music over their home network to their televisions. It offers movies and television shows, as well, but most would agree that it’s slim pickings for now.

At that event in September, Steve Jobs said that Apple’s research showed customers didn’t want everything a company could pile into a device. They simply want the ability to consume the content they enjoy without the fuss that might come along with something like Google TV-based devices.

But by delivering the bare minimum, Apple did itself no favors. The company took the easy way out and pretended like it no longer views the living room as a hobby. The only issue is, the Apple TV is still a hobby. It’s a device that lacks all the functionality we’ve come to expect from Apple — a company that typically prides itself on offering the best value for the cash. And at least so far, it leaves me wanting more.

So, what am I looking for? I want to see Apple improve the Apple TV by bringing its App Store to the platform. I’d also like to see some kind of gaming component come to the device, either through the App Store or as part of a more-capable platform.

And perhaps most importantly, I’d like to see Apple think beyond its set-top box and deliver products that try something new. I’m not sold on the possibility of Apple offering a groundbreaking television, but if it can surprise me, I’m all for it.

Simply put, I’m looking for Apple to be Apple. Right now, it’s just like every other company in the living room; it’s content to have a presence but not dominate.

That needs to end.

No single company can stake claim to the living room right now. Steve Jobs just needs to take advantage of that void and do something special.

But first, he needs to take the living room — and its revenue potential — seriously.

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The major legislative item on the agenda in the Senate this week will be The Small Business Reauthorization Act (S. 493). Republicans plan to use this bill as a platform to promote critical pieces of legislation through the process of non-germane amendments to the bill. Here are some vital amendments that will be debated and voted on throughout the week:

Senator Mitch McConnell is offering an amendment (S. AMDT 183) to prohibit the EPA from promulgating any regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. There is perhaps no force that is more destructive to our prosperity, consumer freedom of choice, and job creation than onerous cap and trade schemes. There are many red state Democrats who are up for reelection in 2012 and will be hard pressed to go on record as supporting policies that are an imprecation to the interests of their states. Make sure to call Senators Claire McCaskill, Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and Jon Tester in particular.

Senator David Vitter is offering an amendment (S.AMDT. 178) forcing the federal government to sell off unused and underused property. This is a serious issue. The federal government owns over half of the land in some western states and has been using it to stifle energy development. Selling unused federal lands would also serve as a prudent means of generating revenue without raising taxes.

Senator Rand Paul is using the SBA bill as a platform to offer his signature budget bill (S.AMDT 199) which would slash $200 billion in spending for fiscal 2011. Paul’s plan slashes funding by 50% to the Departments of Energy, Education, and HUD. This amendment represents real limited government and budget austerity and will separate the men among the boys in the ranks of the Republican Conference.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is forcing a vote (S. AMDT 197) to delay the implementation of ObamaCare until a final resolution is reached in pending lawsuits. Unlike other bills that are designed to merely ameliorate ObamaCare, this amendment would completely halt it during the ensuing legal battles.

Senator Tom Coburn has filed an amendment (S.AMDT.184) to force federal agencies to compile comprehensive lists of all of their programs

Make sure that all of your Republican senators are on record supporting these amendments, especially Rand Paul’s budget proposal. Also, let’s see which faux moderate Democrats will commit to supporting anyone of these commonsense initiatives. Needless to say, I didn’t waste time calling my senators; Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin!

What is your social media brand? Do you have one? Sure, many small business owners and entrepreneurs are coming around to the enormous importance of social media as a marketing, customer service, and, yes, even sales tool. But if you haven’t thought about how social media can define your brand, you are probably missing a HUGE part of what social media tools can do for your business. Here’s more…

Tools & Techniques

Creating a great brand with these blog tools. Tools that improve the look and functionality of your blog also improve your brand. A well-maintained small business blog is one of the most obvious and least expensive branding tools at the entrepreneur’s disposal even more so than social media channels like Facebook and Twitter because of how a blog can be customized to fit your needs and personality. This list of tools is a great way to start. EpicLaunch

What Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi can teach you about social media. One of the stars of the hit reality show “Jersey Shore”, “Snooki” is a perfect example of personal brand, but social media entrepreneurs could also learn much about building their own online presence from Snooki. Being yourself and using a simple, short tag to indelibly brand your identity are also great techniques in social media. One site is already trying to apply the starlets techniques in the social media space. Brand-Yourself

Tito Philips doesn’t want your comments on his blog! At least, not if they’re the wrong kind. And the wrong kind would be comments left for no other purpose than to get the blogger and his/her readers to visit your blog and perhaps comment on it in return. Why is comment trading bad? Don’t get Tito started! There are many ways to engage in social media marketing. Be sure you understand and respect some of the attitudes you may face. Blogging Bookshelf

News & Trends

The best of the best. Want to get a look at arguably the 20 best Facebook fan pages for business on the planet? By now you should know the value of a Facebook fan page to your branding efforts. What’s also true, however, is that not all Facebook sites are created equal. If you want to take your social media marketing to the next level, have a look at this list of cream of the crop sites. Inc.com

Even churches use social media marketing! In this article on the growing market for tech services among religious organizations, we learn that many churches have also already entered into the social media space. As houses of worship, particularly huge mega-churches, expand and build congregations, it’s easy to see how social media can work as a marketing tool here as well. Is your religious organization using social media for branding? WSJ

Tips & Tricks

20 tips that will make you a Twitter star. Among the tools popular in the new digital space is Twitter. The microblogging platform can be used for business or non-business purposes and it can be the key to your small business’s success. Learn how to use Twitter like a pro and you may be surprised at the benefits your small business gains as a result. Global Copywriting

Valuable lessons in social media. Gary Vaynerchuk, author of The Thank You Economy and a successful social media entrepreneur in his own right, has many insights to share with small business leaders seeking a new way to define their brands in an age of social communications. Read some of the takeaways Vaynerchuk shares with those trying to define their businesses with social media. E-Marketing Associates

Success Stories

Doubt the power of FB to create brand for almost anyone? You won’t after you read the story of Princeton English Professor Jeff Nunokawa and “Jeffbook”, a collection of 3,221 brief literary essays on Facebook, that have created an incredible cult status for Nunokawa in the process. His motivation? Not too different from those of most marketers. Nunokawa simply started sharing where he knew his audience already spent lots of their time. The results speak for themselves. Fast Company

Increase exposure with niche social media. Blogger Mavis Nong talks about the importance of niche social media sites including social bookmarking sites as a key method of creating exposure for your online business. Mavis talks about her experience with our sister site BizSugar.com (thanks for the shout out! ) and explains how smaller more focused social sites can sometimes have a surprising impact even larger than the big guys. Attraction Marketing Online

Opportunities

Sponsors wanted for new SugarTone Sweet Business Blogging Contest. Put the power of social media to work for your brand. We’re looking for sponsors to help with a brand new blogging contest involving two of the fastest growing small business communities on the Web, BizSugar.com and Bloggertone.com. Learn more about the contest by reading the full announcement and get in touch today! BizSugar Blog

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Donald Trump Will Win News Cycles With Birtherism [UPDATED]

The big 2012 news today is, naturally, pure malarkey from Donald Trump, who has inexplicably decided to base his reality-teevee campaign solely on birtherism. Here's Politico's Andy Barr:

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Monday, March 28, 2011

Making Money Cash

Sports labor squabbles often are described as billionaires arguing with millionaires over money.

While that's a catchy rhyme that sums up fan frustration, the phrase is not entirely true.

Inspired by a blog entry from the minister of all things AFC South, Paul Kuharsky, I looked at NFL Players Association files to count up the number of AFC East players scheduled for $1 million base salaries in 2011.

Granted, up-front bonuses and incentives can make base salaries misleading. But base salaries are the only figures that create a common ground, player for player.

You'll see a vast majority of NFL players make much less than $1 million a year. Although many will make seven figures before they walk away from the game, careers are short and treacherous. They'll never see that kind of cash again for the rest of their lives.

That's why they're fighting for every dollar now.

Of the 226 players under contract in the AFC East, only 62 of them (27.4 percent) will make base salaries of $1 million or more.

The NFLPA hasn't acknowledged any franchise tags that have been signed. Those players are marked with an asterisk and not factored into the totals.

Buffalo Bills

Receiver Lee Evans, $3.275 million

Cornerback Terrence McGee, $3.2 million

Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, $3.195 million

Defensive end Spencer Johnson, $3 million

Outside linebacker Shawne Merriman, $2.75 million

Defensive end Dwan Edwards, $2.6 million

Center Geoff Hangartner, $2.55 million

Outside linebacker Chris Kelsay, $2 million

Running back Fred Jackson, $1.75 million

Defensive lineman Kyle Williams, $1.75 million

Kicker Rian Lindell, $1.45 million

Punter Brian Moorman, $1.425 million

Cornerback Reggie Corner, $1.2 million

Receiver Steve Johnson, $1.2 million

Safety Bryan Scott, $1.15 million

Linebacker Andra Davis, $1.1 million

Receiver Roscoe Parrish, $1.025 million

Safety George Wilson, $1.025 million

Cornerback Leodis McKelvin, $1 million

Base salaries of $1 million or more: 19

Players under contract: 54

Percentage of roster making $1 million or more: 35.2

Miami Dolphins

Nose tackle Paul Soliai, $12.47 million*

Tackle Jake Long, $11.2 million

Receiver Brandon Marshall, $6.5 million

Tackle Vernon Carey, $4.15 million

Safety Yeremiah Bell, $3.7 million

Defensive end Randy Starks, $3.625 million

Inside linebacker Karlos Dansby, $2.7 million

Inside linebacker Channing Crowder, $2.5 million

Tight end Anthony Fasano, $1.9 million

Cornerback Benny Sapp, $1.9 million

Inside linebacker Tim Dobbins, $1.7 million

Cornerback Will Allen, $1.5 million

Safety Tyrone Culver, $1.25 million

Fullback Lousaka Polite, $1.25 million

Receiver Davone Bess, $1.013 million

Kicker Dan Carpenter, $1.005 million

Base salaries of $1 million or more: 15

Players under contract: 55

Percentage of roster making $1 million or more: 27.3

New England Patriots

Quarterback Tom Brady, $5.75 million

Cornerback Leigh Bodden, $3.9 million

Tackle Nick Kaczur, $3.4 million

Defensive end Ty Warren, $3.1 million

Center Dan Koppen, $2.9 million

Safety James Sanders, $2.8 million

Tight end Alge Crumpler, $2.4 million

Outside linebacker Tully Banta-Cain, $2.3 million

Receiver Deion Branch, $2.2 million

Receiver Wes Welker, $2.15 million

Kicker Stephen Gostkowski, $1.7 million

Cornerback Jonathan Wilhite, $1.2 million

Offensive lineman Dan Connolly, $1.025 million

Inside linebacker Gary Guyton, $1 million

Base salaries of $1 million or more: 14

Players under contract: 60

Percentage of roster making $1 million or more: 23.3

New York Jets

Quarterback Mark Sanchez, $14.75 million

Inside linebacker David Harris, $10.1 million*

Cornerback Darrelle Revis, $6 million

Tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson, $5.615 million

Inside linebacker Bart Scott, $4.9 million

Outside linebacker Calvin Pace, $3.855 million

Outside linebacker Bryan Thomas, $3.2 million

Guard Brandon Moore, $2.75 million

Running back LaDainian Tomlinson, $2.425 million

Center Nick Mangold, $2.26 million

Defensive end Mike DeVito, $2.125 million

Safety Jim Leonhard, $1.95 million

Receiver Jerricho Cotchery, $1.8 million

Defensive tackle Sione Pouha, $1.28 million

Quarterback Mark Brunell, $1.25 million

Base salaries of $1 million or more: 14

Players under contract: 57

Percentage of roster making $1 million or more: 24.6

Zecco iPhone app. Zecco recently released their free iPhone app, Zecco Mobile Lite, which is already among the highest rated investment apps in the iTunes store. The iPhone app also works on the iPod Touch and iPad. The good news is that anyone can use it for stock research, updates, tracking your portfolio, maintaining a watchlist, real time streaming quotes, and free push alerts. The downside to the app is that you can’t make trades from it at this time. And if you’re like me and have an Android based phone, then don’t worry – the Android app is currently in development, but the Zecco rep I recently spoke with wasn’t allowed to give me a launch date at this time.

Zap Trade. This is a truly unique feature which Zecco holds a patent to, so you won’t see it elsewhere. Zap Trade is a FireFox browser plugin which gives you the power to make trades from any web page once you are signed in. Zap Trade will automatically scan the website you are visiting and highlight any ticker symbols to give you easy access to more in-depth research on that stock, or the ability to trade that stock from that page. It’s a powerful tool for traders who know what they want.

Premium investing tools. If you are a day trader, you will want a tax planning tool to help you make the best decisions regarding which shares to sell for the highest tax efficiency. Zecco offers a free integrated cost basis tool for all shares purchased in 2011 and going forward. Zecco also offers Gainskeeper, which is an industry recognized tool for tracking cost basis. There is an associate fee with the latter tool.

Account records. Zecco keeps their costs down by automatically enrolling you in e-statements. You can receive paper statements for a fee.

Zecco Customer Service

Zecco offers e-mail, live chat, and telephone support through a free customer service number – 1.877.700.7862. Zecco’s FAQ section can take care of many questions, but if you need immediate assistance, you will need to call between the hours of 9am-6pm est, Mon-Fri.

Security and insurance

Your money is safe with Zecco. Zecco is a member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. Zecco is covered by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which is an organization that acts as insurance against your broker filing for bankruptcy or otherwise going under. Funds are available to meet customer claims up to a maximum of $500,000 in cash and securities with a $100,000 cash maximum. Zecco has additional coverage from Lloyds of London insurance and is secured through a VeriSign SSL Certificate to assure your confidential information remains secure.

Trading Key. Before making a trade, Zecco members must enter a trading key – this is a separate step that occurs after logging in to their account. This prevents unauthorized users from causing some major damage to your account.

My overall opinion of Zecco

I think Zecco is a quality trading platform, which certainly can’t be beat for the price. Zecco is a flexible brokerage and will meet the needs of many different types of investors – from the investor who buys and holds ETFs (such as myself) to the day trader who makes dozens of trades in a month. The biggest complaint that some people have is the additional expense of certain premium tools. But in my opinion, if you are trading often enough to need those tools, you are most likely saving a lot more money based on the average trade commission with Zecco compared to the average trade at another brokerage. You can learn more about Zecco at: https://www.zecco.com/

Other brokerage reviews: How to choose and online brokerage, Sharebuilder review, TradeKing review, Zecco, ShareBuilder, and TradeKing comparison, Free Stock Trading and Investing Tools.

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Republican Tim Pawlenty's exploratory committee has announced the key players who will make up Pawlenty's national finance team. The announcement comes as Pawlenty's team gears up for a major-donor fundraising effort.

SEO Services Vancouver For any Better Marketing Solution

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It's a popular fact that if you are planning to really make it within the offline world you need to have an online presence. This really is something which all people are learning hard way. Something that you ought to also know is the fact that it is not as easy as just setting up the web site and leaving it to do its things.

This can be done in all types of ways, but these companies usually make use of multiple methods to create the perfect marketing technique online. You will be able to hire them to write articles for you personally, post on forums and blogs, create meta tags and meta descriptions, clean up the code, add alt tags to the images plus much more.

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If you wish to make use of the Search engine optimization Vancouver then all you have to do is find the top companies. It is through these how the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to select from you have to be sure that the one you're going for is reliable. You ought to be able to request a failure of what you need, and also the company also needs to be able to let you know know long they've been operating for. This can narrow down the list to reveal the very best ones.

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The Vancouver SEO company services are very good for business growth as they provide quality services. If you're planning to produce a website for the internet business, then you've arrived at right article as I is going to be explaining below how Web optimization Vancouver company services can increase your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you should know what Search Engine Optimization is. It is not that complicated and i am sure you're going to get a grasp of it reading my article. The primary goal of SEO is to have increased traffic to your website and audience. It's a good decision to select a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this kind of work, which means that your website can be listed in search engines like google.

There is no point in you using a website with no website ranking whatsoever as you won't get any business and profits to survive. It is a very tough atmosphere available because there are so many online business people just like you, who desire their share of pie. You must be aware of the truth that nearly 85% of online traffic could be got from internet websites.

When a user types inside a keyword or keywords for which he/she wants to know in different sites, these use crawlers to obtain web-sites using the relevant content and index them based on algorithms. It's not necessary to be worried about the algorithms which these sites use as that is not important.

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What to Expect Whenever Hiring a Roofer

When the time comes to correct or replace your roof, it's really a challenging job to locate somebody that is actually qualified for the job. There are many roofing contractors out there, however the types who will do a congrats for a reasonable price aren't often simple to find. If you're in the market for a contractor, use the tips below for interviewing as well as employing the correct one.

Interview and Consultation

The majority of roofing companies offer free consultations. This is particularly important, since it provides them an opportunity to evaluate exactly what your roof needs, also it provides you with a chance to assess them. As with all companies, believe in instincts about the people you let upward on your roofing. No matter how good the contractor's status or suggestion, he or she ought to begin by showing a person with a company greeting card. If the service provider arrives searching and speaking in an unprofessional manner, most likely the job he is going to do may also be less than professional. This isn't to say that you ought to expect contractors to reach within suits. They will be hiking on your roofing, therefore the majority of is going to be dressed in jeans and work boots or even sneakers. If the actual service provider seems to be more interested in speaking upon his cell phone during your homes roof compared to he is within analyzing your own roof's needs, which may be another sign that he is not really the one to do the job. For your lawful protection, make sure that the service provider offers sufficient legal responsibility insurance coverage.

Roofing Evaluation

Expect the service provider will be rising in your roof. Actually, any service provider who not need to increase in your roofing to evaluate the issue ought to be immediately discounted. Those who are serious about their own function may either make a sketching of the roof's surface area and mark problem areas onto it because they undergo their evaluation, or they will consider photos or video of the surface while they're up there. This is a very important action, because it allows you to see just what the problems are and understand how they'll be set.

Estimation

The next phase will be the written estimation. The service provider will require out his loan calculator and are available up with an itemized estimate. Some companies goes to their own truck or even truck as well as write down the actual proposal, while some may crunch the amounts for the job prior to you. Once you're because of the proposal, ensure that you comprehend which products is going to be used, just how long the job will take and when you will find any additional or concealed expenses that could occur during the repair of the roofing. The service provider should be able to solution all of these concerns with ease and forewarn you of any extra expenses that might be sustained if the roof's integrity end up being broken inside.

After you have received several created estimates from roofing contractors, assess exactly what every company or even service provider would like to provide for the cost. Do not necessarily low cost the highest bid, simply because occasionally the greatest bet will actually function as the contractor who the job correctly. Also, be skeptical of bids that are not nearly as expensive others. They might be utilizing inferior products or be untruthful about the possibility of concealed expenses. Most importantly, believe in intuition and go with the actual contractor who makes you feel quite comfy about handing more than your money.

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

AFP

A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

'Strike hard' campaign

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

Earlier cases

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

New training scheme

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

through holly on Dec 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been ever in doubt, info acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese federal government fears over its ongoing control of the location it calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as East Turkestan. The leaked wires from U.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the extent to which Chinese government bodies attempt to convince governments worldwide to adopt its stance upon issues impacting Uyghurs. The actual cables additionally display the actual U . s . States' concerns as well as views regarding the ongoing repressive measures in the area.

Most illuminating associated with Chinese government stress are the wires directed in order to Chinese language anger, or the specter of Chinese language ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd countries. A December Twenty nine, 2008 cable relates how Chinese language Helper Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi met with the U.S. Ambassador in order to China to voice Beijing's powerful competitors of launch to any country other than China, and that when the U.S. did indeed accede for this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the February '09 cable television explains the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act toward us" and a "slap within the face". The U.Utes. government stood company within not really liberating the actual detainees to China illustrates the actual extent of the politicized character of the Chinese language judicial program. Legitimate issues more than terrorism are understandable, however in the actual U.S. government's view the detainees might most likely encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as delivery when they came back to China

Chinese language federal government stress in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only applied to the U.Utes. government, but additionally to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of European government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to European Union fellow member says all have the symptoms of borne the impact associated with Chinese language government disappointment. Regarding Indonesia, that was at first willing to consider 2 Uyghurs upon solely humanitarian reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were less better than additional detainees due to the negative effects taking Uyghurs would have on relationships along with The far east. The Might 8, '09 cable relates exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented that Germany had knowledgeable China from the U.S. ask for to simply accept some Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo and had already been consequently cautioned by China of ‘a large burden upon bilateral relations' if Indonesia were to accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally discuss the actual unrest within Urumchi, the local capital, in July 2009. The July Thirteen, '09 cable talking about mass occurrences within China states:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 of 08 vary substantially within origin and nature through mass occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each existing serious trouble for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Party leadership would not hesitate to open fireplace upon Uighurs or Tibetans when they deemed this essential to recover purchase. Bulk occurrences present another type of risk, he said, since the management is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters for anxiety about sparking massive public outrage that would turn from the Celebration."

This can be a relaxing opinion, particularly when 1 views evidence offered by 50 percent reports released this season through the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that detail eyewitness company accounts of the use of deadly live fireplace against Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. In addition, the declaration which fire wouldn't be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for that different strategy taken through Chinese security causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese language protests within September 2009. During individuals direct orders, then Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, that had demanded he let them know regarding federal government reactions in order to protection issues. A similar ask for to satisfy using the Party Assistant through Uyghur protesters in This summer wasn't met.

The broader consequences from the unrest additionally noticed a short dialogue on the effect it would possess upon Iran-China relations, as well as on relations along with Australia after Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the Nationwide Press Club within Canberra within July 2009. Within the latter case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie bank that sponsors the nation's Press Membership to use its impact to block a Kadeer speech there".

The actual United States' concerns about the scenario in the Uyghur area are available via in the wires. In a dialogue upon policy path in Tibet, U.Utes. officials explain that it will be not possible with regard to Chinese language leaders to adopt the much softer line "if they look like they are doing this below international pressure". The actual cable dated April Sixteen, 08, 30 days following the outbreak of unrest within Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual observation "that household balance continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest of the present difficult line on Tibet or perhaps in places like Xinjiang." The information included in the cable television additionally storage sheds gentle about the extreme level of sensitivity that china government views territorial ethics, and the feasible spill over of unrest through Tibet.

The chance of solutions to stress within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of municipal society tend to be discussed inside a February Twenty-four, 2008 cable. While recommending which China's financial success will increase it's resistance to democratic change, the actual cable television also talks about exactly how Chinese language frontrunners see the effectiveness associated with "a limited expansion associated with civil society, including improvements within the guideline associated with regulation along with a more powerful part with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other stars within areas which bring about social balance and do not problem Communist Celebration guideline." This is a significant alternation in considering, which has observed U.S. officials market the notion that Chinese financial improvement, as well as economic relations with China will bring about a steadily democratic society; however, more belief seems to be placed in a grassroots movement than one which starts from the top quantity of a Chinese language government. Nonetheless, the actual cable television proves that "[i]n places such as Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism results in tighter restrictions about the growth of municipal society." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the official, who suggests that the actual U.S. government "should still express...serious concerns more than Beijing's individual privileges report and appeal to China's developing awareness which higher respect with regard to human rights, religious independence and the rule associated with regulation will serve to promote the very development as well as social stability which China seeks in addition to to enhance China's worldwide picture." Such a technique might consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird fear the Usa secretly promotes routine change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual cables provide insight into the actual every day business associated with diplomacy that is hardly ever afforded to the general public, and it is fascinating to note the amount of work done nowadays upon Uyghur issues. The importance of the role of the United States as a monitor associated with Uyghur individual rights problems in personal conversations is made clear, as well as contrasts with its sensible public stance. The staff from the Uyghur Human Privileges Task is comfortable with pressure china government puts on Uyghur activists; still, the facts of Chinese language government stress upon its alternatives is actually illustrative of the diploma that Chinese authorities attempt to suppress contradictory narratives. With more revelations in the future from Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs might not grab the headlines, but the cables have shed new light on the documentation associated with human privileges problems in the Uyghur region.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Wikileaks and the Uyghurs

by holly on December Twenty, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it had been actually in doubt, info acquired by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese government worries over it's continued control of the region it calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked out cables through Ough.S. diplomats demonstrate the degree that Chinese government bodies make an effort to persuade governments worldwide to consider it's stance upon issues impacting Uyghurs. The cables additionally show the actual U . s . States' concerns and sights concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the area.

Most lighting of Chinese federal government stress would be the wires pointing in order to Chinese frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third nations. The December Twenty nine, 2008 cable television relates how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled using the Ough.S. Ambassador to China in order to voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with launch to any nation other than The far east, and that when the Ough.S. did certainly accede to this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, the Feb 2009 cable explains how the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable behave towards us" and a "slap within the face". The U.Utes. federal government stood company within not really releasing the detainees to China demonstrates the degree from the politicized character of the Chinese language judicial program. Legitimate issues more than terrorism are understandable, however in the actual Ough.Utes. government's view the detainees would probably face do-it-yourself torture and execution if they came back to The far east

Chinese language federal government stress in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just applied to the U.Utes. government, but also to Brand new Zealand along with a number of Western governments that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, in addition to Eu member states just about all have the symptoms of paid for the impact of Chinese government unhappiness. In the case of Germany, which was at first willing to think about 2 Uyghurs upon solely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been less better than other detainees due to the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs might have upon relationships along with China. A Might Eight, 2009 cable applies how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported that Indonesia experienced informed The far east of the U.S. request to accept a few Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo and had been consequently cautioned by China associated with ‘a large load on bilateral relations' if Germany were to simply accept any detainees".

The diplomatic cables also talk about the unrest in Urumchi, the actual regional funds, in This summer '09. The This summer 13, 2009 cable television talking about mass occurrences within The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet within 03 associated with 2008 vary markedly in source and character from bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present serious problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Party leadership wouldn't hesitate to open fireplace on Uighurs or Tibetans when they deemed it essential to restore purchase. Mass incidents pose a different type of risk, he explained, as the management is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters with regard to anxiety about sparking huge public outrage that will change against the Party."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one views evidence presented in two reviews launched this year through the Uyghur Individual Rights Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty Worldwide that fine detail eyewitness company accounts from the utilization of lethal reside fire towards Uyghur protestors within July '09. Additionally, the declaration which fire would not be deployed against Han Chinese protestors has resonances for that different strategy taken by Chinese protection causes in Urumchi to Han Chinese language protests in September '09. Throughout those direct orders, after that Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, who experienced required that he let them know regarding federal government reactions in order to protection concerns. An identical request to satisfy with the Party Secretary through Uyghur protesters within July wasn't fulfilled.

The actual wider consequences from the unrest also noticed a brief discussion on the impact it might have on Iran-China relationships, and on relations with Australia after Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives President, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the Nationwide Push Club in Canberra in August '09. In the latter case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian bank that vendors the nation's Press Membership to make use of its influence to bar a Kadeer talk there".

The United States' issues about the situation within the Uyghur area also come via within the wires. In a discussion on policy direction within Tibet, Ough.S. authorities clarify that it'll end up being impossible for Chinese language frontrunners to adopt the much softer collection "if they look like they are doing this below international pressure". The cable dated April Sixteen, 2008, 30 days following the episode of unrest within Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the declaration "that household stability continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, meaning there will ‘almost surely' be no relaxation from the present hard line on Tibet or in locations like Xinjiang." The info included in the cable television also storage sheds gentle on the extreme level of sensitivity that the Chinese federal government sights territorial integrity, and also the feasible drip over of unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to tensions in Tibet as well as Xinjiang as a result of civil society tend to be debated in a Feb 24, 08 cable. While suggesting that China's financial success increases its resistance to democratic reform, the cable also discusses how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted expansion associated with municipal society, including improvements in the guideline associated with regulation and a more powerful role with regard to authorized beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other actors within areas which contribute to social stability and don't challenge Communist Party guideline." This can be a notable alternation in considering, that has seen Ough.Utes. authorities promote the notion that Chinese economic improvement, as well as economic relations with China will bring in regards to a progressively democratic society; however, more belief appears to be placed in the grassroots movement than one which begins in the best levels of the Chinese language government. Nonetheless, the actual cable proves that "[i]n areas for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism leads to tight restrictions on the growth of civil culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the actual U.Utes. government "should continue to express...serious concerns over Beijing's human rights report and attract China's growing awareness that greater regard with regard to human rights, spiritual independence and also the guideline associated with regulation will serve to promote the very improvement and sociable balance which China looks for as well as to enhance China's international picture." Such a technique might consider substantial diplomatic skills considering "China's paranoid fear the Usa privately promotes routine alter as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires provide understanding of the actual daily company associated with diplomacy that is hardly ever owned by the general public, and it is interesting to notice the amount of work done nowadays on Uyghur issues. The importance of the actual role of the us as a monitor of Uyghur individual rights conditions within personal conversations is made obvious, and contrasts using its sensible public stance. Employees from the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is actually well aware of the pressure the Chinese government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts associated with Chinese government pressure on it's counterparts is illustrative from the diploma that Chinese officials attempt to suppress contradictory stories. With increased revelations to come from Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs might not grab the headlines, however the wires possess shed brand new light about the documentation associated with human privileges problems in the Uyghur region.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Portraits of Uyghur People

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-west part of China, the land of Xinjiang is a very least populated province while it covers near to a sixth from the country's area. Having resisted during hundreds of years the chinese control, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Turkestan, fell into within the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghurs and Turkic - speaking System.

Muslim mainly, the Uyghurs have a solid religious identity that, in specific, permitted them to protect a solid big difference towards the Chinese invader. Really, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a excellent civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their background, the Uyghur People successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally moving to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., as a result starting the way to the Islamization of the whole Central Asia.

Under the effect of the religions which they taken on, Uyghur People used successively, and sometimes in a competing way, a large number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own unique graphic system.

The arrival of Islam was a great change mainly because it was supported by the assimilation of the Uyghur areas in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Muslim Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used nowadays.

If their own writing, their own language and their religion mark a real difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, Uyghur People also differ from their characteristic, so characteristic of Central Asia's people. A matt skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features pointing out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek roots of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only eight million inhabitants - a little for this kind of immense land. Thus, the Uyghurs are now part of the fifty six racial minority groups having been recognized in an official way by China.

This particular law will allow these people a few privileges in a land exactly where their difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is known as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in China, however, looks really illusory. The presence of all natural resources in Xinjiang, and its area with countries acknowledged as very sensitive, clearly motivated the government to increase the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the higher responsibility job opportunities.

In response to this true will to assimilate the Uyghur people into the Chinese culture, an independent party like East Turkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM) was born in the early 1990.

Asserting more freedom, but mainly the recognition of their true identity, this movement was seriously repressed by the power authorities in area Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The events of September 11, 2001, were the perfect occasion for the Chinese government to justify true reprisals: they declared the "Uyghur freedom fighters" as dangerous terrorists linked to Al Quaida because of their Muslim origins and their proximity with Pakistan and Afghanistan... However, the terrible repression which followed did not calm down the anger. The Uyghurs population continues today to proudly keep their identity and their ethnic heritage , even though they become a minority on their own territory.

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Talking about secretaries of defense...

Oh, we weren’t?

Well, let’s. After all, they’re in the news.

Take former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who, on leaving government service -- and I hope you don’t mind if I mangle a quote from General Douglas MacArthur here -- refused to die, or even fade away. Instead, he penned Known and Unknown, a memoir almost as big as his ego and almost as long -- 832 pages -- as the occupation of Iraq, which promptly hit the bestseller lists (making the American reader a Known Unknown).

Now, Mr. Known Knowns, etc., is duking it out on Facebook, Sarah-Palin-style, with “the chief gossip-monger of the governing class,” the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward. Amusingly enough, Woodward has just savaged Rumsfeld for pulling a Woodward in his memoir by playing fast and loose with reality. He posted his review at the Best Defense (as in, you know, a good offense), the war fightin’ blog of former Washington Post reporter and bestselling author Tom Ricks. Small world down there in Washington!

It’s enough to make you nostalgic for... well, I have no idea what.

Meanwhile, present Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, officially preparing to fade away later this year, hit the news as well. His much-hinted-at retirement now seems like the Titanic looming on the military-industrial horizon. (Take note, New York publishers and literary agents: Gates wrote a memoir the last time he faded away as CIA Director. That was back in the Neolithic Age of the elder Bush. It came out in 1996 and was titled From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War. Still, chalk that effort up to another century and start preparing the contracts for Into the Shadows, The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Two More Presidents and How They Didn’t Win Much of Anything.)

To be exact, Gates made news by going to West Point to speak to the cadets in what was plugged as the first of a number of “farewell” addresses. (The second came a week later at the Air Force Academy.) In the process, he made the headlines for quoting -- somewhat oddly -- General Douglas (the original fader) MacArthur.

Now, give Gates credit. The man has superb speechwriters who channel both his obvious intelligence and his sometimes-mordant sense of humor. (Hint for Hillary: When he leaves the scene, you should grab any wordsmiths he lets loose. It would help if you laced some self-deprecating humor, however borrowed, into those statements of yours that blank [fill in the country, tyrant, or protest movement] must do what you say and then that you just repeat when whoever or whatever predictably doesn’t...)

Examined Heads

...Oh sorry, I dozed off. What was I saying?

Something about old soldiers?

Anyway, here was the eye-popping quote that everyone picked up and highlighted from Gates’s address: “But in my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it.”

“Have his head examined”: strong words indeed, not to say strong advice for his successor! As quoted, it did sound like a late-in-term awakening on America’s wars. After all, the Secretary of Defense had to know that it would be the money paragraph, the one reporters would carry off, in a speech significantly about other matters.

Quoted by itself, it also had to seem like a mix of a mea culpa, a j’accuse aimed at his former boss, President George W. Bush, and his predecessor Rumsfeld, and a never-again statement about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan he’s been overseeing since 2006 and, in the case of Afghanistan, expanding since 2008.

Those four words from MacArthur seem to tell the only tale worth telling. Supreme Commander, southwest Pacific area, during World War II, “emperor” of occupied Japan, and commander of United Nations forces in the Korean War until cashiered by President Harry Truman, MacArthur later urged President John F. Kennedy not to get involved in a “land war on mainland Asia” -- that is, in Vietnam.

As Christian Science Monitor reporter Brad Knickerbocker typically wrote, Gates’s “recollection of Gen. MacArthur’s famous warning -- given to President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as the U.S. buildup in Vietnam was beginning -- was a sober message for the young men and women about to become the next generation of U.S. military commanders.” Gates, in other words, was citing a “famous” example of how MacArthur used his hard-won experience in a terrible, stalemated war in Asia to try to stop another disastrous war a decade later. A flattering analogy, one might say.

There's only one problem: it just wasn’t so. MacArthur’s “famous warning” came not in 1961, but in 1950. As Michael D. Pearlman explains in his book Truman & MacArthur: Politics, Policy, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown, MacArthur made that comment soon after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea. He believed they were only conducting a “reconnaissance-in-force.” On June 26th, 1950, MacArthur, writes Pearlman, “was ‘astonished’ to receive directions to resist the invader. ‘I don’t believe it. I can’t understand it.’ John Foster Dulles, who favored a prompt military response, recorded him saying that anyone thinking of throwing American forces into the breech ‘ought to have his head examined.’”

MacArthur’s urge, then, was prospective, not retrospective -- a gut reaction that has, in the last decades, Gates’s decades, been notably absent in Washington. There’s no way of knowing whether this was clear to Gates or his speechwriter, but under the circumstances it was an odder phrase to quote than the reporters covering his address imagined, for it highlighted an essential problem with Gates and the rest of Washington’s global wrecking crew. For them, the idea of going in has seldom been an alien one. It’s going in the wrong way that bothers them -- and the problem (as Gates essentially admitted in his speech) is that you only know it’s the wrong way afterwards.

That striking quote of his, read in the context of his full speech, leaves a somewhat different taste behind. Even the assumed prohibition against future Iraq- and Afghan-style wars is more cryptic than you might imagine. The best Gates can do is this: “The odds of repeating another Afghanistan or Iraq -- invading, pacifying, and administering a large third world country -- may be low.” Low, but not evidently nil in a world where all options always remain “on the table.”

Of course, his real focus at West Point was on quite a different kind of conflict. He was there, in a sense, on a business trip to the future as the deliverer of prospective bad news to the future officers of the U.S. Army. Their leaders, he wanted to tell them, were about to lose an intra-service struggle for the fruits of the still-growing but increasingly embattled Pentagon budget in economically fierce times.

In terms of future funding, and so future war-fighting, their service, he was there to tell them, was not well positioned. “The Army,” he said, “also must confront the reality that the most plausible, high-end scenarios for the U.S. military are primarily naval and air engagements -- whether in Asia, the Persian Gulf, or elsewhere.”

(Note to journalists in a collapsing industry: it’s not often that a long-gone beat comes back, but that’s the case here. In the 1950s, the services fought bitterly for shares of a far more limited military budget. In fact, for a funds-starved Army in the early 1960s, Vietnam was, in budgetary terms, its breakout moment. Now, budgetary war in Washington, missing-in-action for decades, is back, so the Secretary of Defense insisted.)

At West Point, but not at the Air Force Academy, think of Gates, then, as the Grim Reaper of military careers, telling the cadets that their future wouldn’t be in giant, never-to-be-used tank forces and that he was worried about just how they would indeed be employed. As if to emphasize his point, on the very same day, another fading warrior, retiring Army Chief of Staff General George W. Casey, Jr., was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, even though dreaming of a future “sipping Coronas [and] watching sunsets on the beach in Scituate [Massachusetts].” There, he was to give his own valedictory to the Association of the U.S. Army and the “Defense Industry,” while making a most un-Gatesian plea for that same pot of gold.

Wielding an infamous Vietnam-era phrase, the general worried that unnamed government types already “think they see the light at the end of the Afghanistan tunnel” and so were clamoring to cut the Army’s budget, even though the U.S. remains in an “era of persistent conflict.” He then issued this warning:

A Nation weary of war, struggling to get its domestic economy going again, looks to cash in on a ‘Peace Dividend’ and drastically cut back on defense. But, we've seen time and again that a ‘Peace Dividend’ is, at best, a mirage and, at worst, a danger to the long-term security of our Country, our allies and our interests... [W]e simply cannot afford to dismantle this incredible Army that we have so painstakingly built over the past decade.

“We Have Never Once Gotten It Right”

Let’s assume that, after so many years overseeing the Afghan War, Gates may, in fact, be a somewhat chastened man. Perhaps there is evidence of this in his carefully articulated reluctance (as well as that of Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen) to do the American thing and throw the U.S. military at any problem -- in this case, a no-fly-zone over Libya. It’s certainly evidence that General Casey and the Secretary of Defense agree on one thing: They are dealing with a “stressed and tired” force. After two wars in a single decade, with a Global War on Terror thrown in, the thought of launching yet another campaign “in another country in the Middle East” might well leave any Secretary of Defense feeling sour.

Of course, given the twin disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan, who on Earth would want to repeat them? Gates does seem, however provisionally, to be sidelining the recent Holy Grail of the U.S. Army and its key commander, General David Petraeus: counterinsurgency, or COIN. If there are to be no more major land wars in Asia, then evidently U.S. soldiers won’t be spending much time “protecting the people” and “nation-building” either.

However briefly, Gates offered the cadets a glimpse of a different war-fighting future (one that sounded eerily reminiscent of Donald Rumsfeld’s once bright and shiny vision of a faster-than-lightning, “net-centric” Army lite). “The strategic rationale for swift-moving expeditionary forces, be they Army or Marines, airborne infantry or special operations,” Gates said, “is self-evident given the likelihood of counterterrorism, rapid reaction, disaster response, or stability or security force assistance missions.”

In other words, instead of “shock and awe,” “regime change,” and long-term occupations, he now imagines “counterterror” as well as air force and naval operations against “terrorists, insurgents, militia groups, rogue states, or emerging powers” that would be so decisive and effective as to “to prevent festering problems from growing into full-blown crises which require costly -- and controversial -- large-scale American military intervention.”

It sounds brilliantly un-Afghan, doesn’t it?

In other words, Gates seems to have a better idea of how, in the future, to go in. What his speech lacked was any suggestion, no less analysis, of how to get out of the war that remains, for the months to come, his responsibility.

Recently, journalist Dexter Filkins wrote a review of Bing West’s new book, The Wrong War, in the New York Times. As much as anything else, it offered a devastating portrait of counterinsurgency (“a new kind of religion”) in Afghanistan as a failed faith. Filkins, who covered both Iraq and Afghanistan for the Times, concludes that counterinsurgency has failed big time in the Afghan context, creating only a “vast culture of dependency: Americans are fighting and dying, while the Afghans by and large stand by and do nothing to help them.” Gates may well agree.

Filkins also seems unconvinced that slipping more COINs in the Afghan slot machine will improve the situation significantly. (“[N]othing short of a miracle will give [Americans] much in return.”) For all we know, Gates may agree with this, too.

Here’s the catch: Nearly 10 years into our second Afghan War, Filkins simply can’t seem to imagine a way out of the failed effort, or much else but more of the same. It’s there that the discussion simply ends for him, as it does for the Secretary of Defense, as it does, generally speaking, for Washington.

Gates himself is now preparing to depart (some might say jump ship) with his war still at a boil. At West Point, he had advice galore for the next Secretary of Defense, and yet it’s striking that his speech avoided a serious look at Afghanistan and how to end his war. He was perfectly willing to offer the cadets a window into the future on a range of subjects -- on almost anything, in fact, but that war.

When it came to his primary responsibility, however, all he offered was this fragment of a sentence, a reference assumedly to American contingency-based drawdown plans to remove “combat troops,” but not tens of thousands of trainers and other forces by the end of 2014: “...after large U.S. combat units are substantially drawn down in Afghanistan...” (In his subsequent address to the Air Force Academy, he denied that anything he said at West Point was an attack on "the wisdom of our involvement in Afghanistan.")

The Secretary of Defense was clear on one thing: it's a joke to imagine that you can predict the future trajectory of war, American-style. “And I must tell you,” he said in his second most quotable set of lines, “when it comes to predicting the nature and location of our next military engagements, since Vietnam, our record has been perfect. We have never once gotten it right, from the Mayaguez to Grenada, Panama, Somalia, the Balkans, Haiti, Kuwait, Iraq, and more -- we had no idea a year before any of these missions that we would be so engaged.”

And yet he still dreams of those future “swift-moving expeditionary forces” heading towards places which will surely maintain that “perfect record.”

Of course, it’s worth remembering that not everybody got everything wrong. In response to most of those wars, there were antiwar movements, large or small, that said: wrong place, wrong time, wrong idea, get out. And not all of this happened retrospectively either. In the specific case of Iraq, for instance, an enormous antiwar movement preceded the war and offered this piece of clear advice in no uncertain terms: don’t do it!

That movement was right. The war-makers were wrong. Yet no one from that movement is taken seriously in the mainstream media or in Washington to this day.

Here’s something important to remember: Vietnam did not start out as “Vietnam,” nor Iraq as “Iraq,” nor Afghanistan as “Afghanistan.” The fabulous dreams of doing it right always precede the horrific wars and, time after time, those in power never seem to feel MacArthur’s urge not to do it. Somehow, they never imagine that, sooner or later, disaster and blowback will be in the offing, though based on recent history that’s the only reasonable prediction to make in such circumstances.

Almost a decade after we invaded Afghanistan and “triumphed,” our latest “wise men” -- in Washington and in the media -- are still at a loss. The inability to win or be reasonably successful over so many years has, by now, penetrated almost, but not quite, never quite, to the core, leaving them bereft of solutions, except for continuing without serious hope. And when it comes to this, too, for those who remember Vietnam, there’s nothing new under the sun.

Unexamined Heads

The problem isn’t that no one can predict the next war. It’s that so many heads in Washington go unexamined. As a result, our leaders are desperately behind the learning curve of Americans generally.

Perhaps this is the moment to offer a simple future lesson for the Secretary of Defense -- if not the one who will leave office in 2011 with the Afghan War still roaring along, then the next one -- and here it is: it doesn’t really matter whether you go in big with tanks and counterinsurgency-style nation-building on the brain or small with a counterterror-lite footprint backed by air power.

The issue Gates, like his peers, still focuses on is how to go in better. The issue that needs to be focused on isn’t the “how to” but the going in.

The lesson that Washington still seems incapable of drawing from its endless experience of such wars in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is this: don’t go in, because the Age of Intervention is over.

It really doesn’t matter whether ours is “the finest military in the world,” as Gates assured the cadets, or "the finest fighting force that the world has ever known" as our presidents have taken to saying. It doesn’t matter that the U.S. Army is battle-hardened and that it has years of counterinsurgency experience under its belt. It doesn’t matter whether we favor the Navy and the Air Force over the Army in our future wars. What matters is going to war. What matters is the illusion that military power is our key problem-solver, our go-to position of choice.

It’s time, once and for all, to lock the gates. It’s time to use the U.S. military only in the genuine defense of this country.

It doesn’t seem like the hardest lesson in human history to grasp, but it has been: don’t go in. This isn’t a utopian’s recipe, but a realist’s. You just have to remind yourself that your intervention will never turn out the way you fantasize or plan, no matter what your fantasies or plans may be.

Let me say it one more time because I know no one’s listening: don’t do it.

Afterward, write your 832-page books, enjoy your honors, duke it out with journalists, but when you’re Secretary of Defense, your job is to defend America against the urge to intervene. Intervention doesn’t work. Not in the long run, often not in the short one either. Not these days. Not at all.

Your job is somehow, in a Washington that can’t imagine such a thing, to turn ever again into never again.

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His latest book is The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s (Haymarket Books). To listen to a TomCast audio version of this post, read by Ralph Pochoda, click here or download it to your iPod, here.

[Note of thanks to: Jim Peck for helping spark this one, Ralph Pochoda for reading the TomCast audio version so sonorously, and the indispensible Christopher Holmes for applying his remarkable proofreading eye not just to this piece but to every TomDispatch piece. A deep bow to all three. In addition, for those of you eager to keep up on American war and fast-moving events in the Middle East, be sure to check out three sites that I find invaluable and visit daily: Juan Cole’s Informed Comment website, Paul Woodward’s War in Context website, and of course Antiwar.com.]

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