tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378530982024-03-05T00:07:46.461-08:00VisibiliumUncommon, but OrthodoxVisibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.comBlogger507125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-73134439056461102382015-04-12T19:25:00.001-07:002015-04-12T19:25:56.889-07:00Christ Is Risen!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-42498110293270693702014-05-05T13:29:00.000-07:002014-05-05T13:36:55.679-07:00Psalm 51, Catholic Style<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This wonderful tune was composed by Gregory Allegri, about 400 years ago. The piece was composed for the Pope. The Pope was so impressed that he considered the music sacred. He kept it locked in a vault and would listen to it only on Ash Wednesday. Examining the manuscript was strictly forbidden.<br />
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Mozart went to Rome to listen to it, and he was able to copy the work from memory. That's why we can listen to it now.<br />
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I first heard Miserere at the Anglican Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York City, where it was performed only on Ash Wednesday and the Wednesday during Holy Week.<br />
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-54162595631608510192014-04-20T13:31:00.000-07:002014-04-20T13:34:36.591-07:00Christos Anesti!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-49681523414354132402014-03-03T02:09:00.002-08:002014-03-03T02:11:06.436-08:00Happy Lent!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I won't be posting or commenting during Great Lent.</div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-40995671049362973862014-02-11T09:07:00.001-08:002014-02-11T09:07:44.992-08:00Glock 27 Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Even though I have been in rehab for over six months, I have still been alert to opportunities.<br />
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My Glock 27, which I featured earlier, fires the wide and short .40 S&W round. This combination allows the shooter to carry a subcompact 9mm sized gun with ammo trending in the.45 ACP direction.<br />
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Here's even more good news. The Glock 27 will fire .357 Sig rounds after substituting a .357 Sig barrel. If you're wanting to hose something down, you must substitute a .357 Sig magazine as well.<br />
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Why is this good news? Some of us want the flexibility of shooting a high-velocity, slim bullet over long distances because of its flatter trajectory. Also, the .357 Sig hits HARD. Expect a loud blast and a bright flash, but no mechanical problems. The .357 Sig round hits just as HARD as the legendary .357 Magnum 125 grain hollow point. I'm used to shooting the .357 Mag round from a 2" snubbie, and I'm used to the flash and blast.</div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-91193345024530839602013-12-02T20:18:00.001-08:002013-12-02T20:18:28.796-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-77914049035121505112013-05-05T13:20:00.002-07:002013-05-05T13:20:48.930-07:00Christ Is Risen!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-80176584977905520982013-03-17T18:48:00.001-07:002013-03-17T18:48:24.693-07:00Happy Lent!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-69-9" id="en-RSV-14944"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>For zeal for thy house has consumed me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-69-9">and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-69-10" id="en-RSV-14945"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>When I humbled my soul with fasting,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-69-10">it became my reproach.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-69-11" id="en-RSV-14946"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>When I made sackcloth my clothing,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-69-11">I became a byword to them.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-69-12" id="en-RSV-14947"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>I am the talk of those who sit in the gate,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-69-12">and the drunkards make songs about me.</span></span></span></i></div>
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-72024525753682593142013-03-14T19:15:00.000-07:002013-03-14T19:15:31.893-07:00...Plus C'est La Meme Chose<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><a href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10335"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Moscow, March 14, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate has not ruled out a
possible meeting of the new Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of the
Russian Orthodox Church, but said that disputes between the two Churches
should be settled first.</span></a></i>
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'In my opinion, such a meeting is possible, but its time and place will
depend primarily on how fast we will be able to resolve the conflicts
dating back to the 1980s-90s,' head of the Department for External
Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, said at a press
briefing in Moscow on Thursday, answering a question from </span></a></i><a href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10335"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interfax</span></a><i><a href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10335"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span></a></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10335"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These conflicts 'caused a major setback in the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue,' he said. </span></a></i></div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-8735974500526112322013-02-20T19:16:00.000-08:002013-02-20T19:16:54.629-08:00Stretching The Consitutional Privilege<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Searching for relevance and an competitive advantage among consumers aged 18 to 44, the United States Postal Service is <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/desperate-postal-tries-cool-factor-220301707--sector.html">taking requests for celebrity stamps and rolling out postal fashions</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Post Office has outlived its usefulness and should be shuttered. A view on the unconstitutionality of the Service is found here:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-post-office-as-a-violation-of-constitutional-rights#axzz2LUzwmsXR"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In his pamphlet, ;The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress
Prohibiting Private Mails,' [Lysander] Spooner highlighted the inefficiency
guaranteed by the act of banning competition in postal service. Once
there was an enforced monopoly, he stated, postal officials would 'feel
few quickening impulses to labor' or 'to move at the speed that
commercial interests require.' The consequence would be 'a cumbrous,
clumsy, expensive and dilatory government system' that would be 'nearly
impossible to modify or materially improve' except by opening it up once
more to 'rivalry and free competition.'</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-post-office-as-a-violation-of-constitutional-rights#axzz2LUzwmsXR"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-post-office-as-a-violation-of-constitutional-rights#axzz2LUzwmsXR"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But Spooner objected to a postal monopoly not merely or primarily
because it cheated the public by requiring an extravagant fee for an
inadequate service. His main objection lay in the argument that the
monopoly violated individual and constitutional rights in at least three
ways. First, Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution authorized
Congress 'to establish post offices and post roads,' but it didn’t bar
others from doing so as well. The power to create was not a power to
prohibit. The Ninth Amendment states, 'The enumeration in the
Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or
disparage others retained by the people.'</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-post-office-as-a-violation-of-constitutional-rights#axzz2LUzwmsXR"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-post-office-as-a-violation-of-constitutional-rights#axzz2LUzwmsXR"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Second, freedom of the press included—and, indeed, required—the right
to privately distribute material to whoever wished to read it. A
government postal monopoly would be able to ban periodicals from using
virtually the only legal channels of distribution. This control
constituted a direct affront to the First Amendment.</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-post-office-as-a-violation-of-constitutional-rights#axzz2LUzwmsXR"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-post-office-as-a-violation-of-constitutional-rights#axzz2LUzwmsXR"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Third, a monopoly post office that can control the flow of information inevitably would be used to political advantage by those in authority. In 'Private Mails,' Spooner argued, 'Its immense patronage and power, used, as they always will be, corruptly, make it [the monopoly post office] also a very great political evil.'</span></i></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ecrasez l'infame!</span><br />
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-28778875512069956452013-02-20T18:50:00.002-08:002013-02-20T18:50:37.043-08:00"Fire Two Blasts Outside The House"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Joe Biden becomes even more bizarre in his love affair with double-barreled shotguns:</span><br />
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<i><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bidens-advice-home-defense-buy-shotgun-233655238--abc-news-politics.html">Biden, the owner of two shotguns, has often used his firearm ownership
in debates of the practicality of assault weapons. In a particularly
offbeat moment today, he explained an imaginary scenario where trouble
would come to his Delaware home:</a></i></span><br />
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'I said, "Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony
here, walk out and put that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts
outside the house."'</span></a></i><br />
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Continuing the trope, Biden stated a shotgun would be easier to fend off
an intruder than the civilian variant of an M-16 assault rifle.</span></a></i><br />
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'You don't need an AR-15,' he said. 'It's harder to aim, it's harder to
use, and in fact you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself,' he said.</span></a></i><br />
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'Buy a shotgun,' he concluded.</span></a></i><br />
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-3967916727068185932013-02-20T18:43:00.000-08:002013-02-20T18:43:08.740-08:00Luby's Massacre Survivor Testifies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-6573616232563731042013-02-18T16:30:00.000-08:002013-02-18T16:30:05.094-08:00Size And Republicanism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578300083639729180.html"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, one could hypothesize, as Joe Biden
does, a shooter, forced to reload after seven shots rather than 13,
being tackled by a bystander. One could equally hypothesize a citizen
with a seven-round clip running out of ammunition before stopping a mass
shooter. This is why Congress, for good reason, usually prefers to pass
laws in response to systematic evidence rather than hypothetical
anecdotes.</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578300083639729180.html"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Sandy Hook problem is the suicidal,
disturbed young male looking for a large number of defenseless
civilians to mow down. The Chicago problem is crime-ridden neighborhoods
in which gangs murder each other and anybody who gets in their way.
These aren't the same problem, and possibly gun control offers no
practical handle on either. But if you accept the unlikelihood of
ridding America of its guns, as the gun-control movement now says it
does, then one systematic proposition links the two.</span></i></a><br />
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578300083639729180.html"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></a>
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578300083639729180.html"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That proposition can be stated as a question: In an America where at least 43 states now let a law-abiding citizen carry a concealed weapon, how should we protect ourselves in the fewer and fewer places where we are required to be unarmed?</span></i></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is from Holman Jenkins' latest opinion piece in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>. He repeats what everyone else knows: Enforcing gun laws against bad guys keeps unarmed good guys safe.</span></div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-86274159691694993422013-01-31T18:09:00.002-08:002013-01-31T18:09:37.195-08:00Quoting Jim Grant Is Always Worthwhile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/fed-actions-counterproductive-jim-grant-150817263.html">'I think the Fed's actions are counterproductive,' he says. The Fed's
intentions to jump start growth are actually working against the
economy, Grant argues.</a></span></i><br />
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</a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/fed-actions-counterproductive-jim-grant-150817263.html">'If it were as easy as printing money or creating credit to levitate
an economy or to reactivate business activity the world would have been
richer many generations ago,' he says...</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/fed-actions-counterproductive-jim-grant-150817263.html">'It is not a characteristic American economy,' he explains. 'What we are
missing is a dynamism, the entrepreneurial zest and vigor that has
characterized this country'...</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/fed-actions-counterproductive-jim-grant-150817263.html">In fact, Grant believes the Fed's perpetual low-interest rate policy will lead to the next big economic crisis in this country: the bursting of the bond bubble. </a></span></i><br />
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-8501784198407139802013-01-24T17:48:00.003-08:002013-01-24T17:48:57.900-08:00Joe Biden, Self-Defense Expert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/biden-self-defense-yourself-shotgun-201933598--politics.html">'Guess what? A shotgun will keep you a lot safer, a double-barreled shotgun, than the assault weapon in somebody’s hands [who] doesn’t know how to use it, even one who does know how to use it,' the outspoken vice president, a shotgun owner himself, replied. 'It’s harder to use an assault weapon to hit something than it is a shotgun. You want to keep people away in an earthquake? Buy some shotgun shells.'</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maybe someone should refresh Joe's memory about his double-barreled's manual of arms after the second round's been fired. </span></div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-74074836720261845732013-01-24T17:39:00.000-08:002013-01-24T17:39:00.070-08:00Sheriff Joe Rides To The Rescue, Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-controversial-sheriffs-posse-watches-over-schools-004556312.html"><span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1358988971969_20">CAVE CREEK, Arizona</span> (Reuters) - Retired salesman <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1358988971969_19">David Bennett</span>
sits in a patrol car, armed with a semi-automatic Glock pistol and a
shotgun, watching as parents drop off their children at a kindergarten
in a desert community a few miles north of Phoenix.</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-controversial-sheriffs-posse-watches-over-schools-004556312.html"> Bennett is volunteering his time to join a posse organized by controversial lawman <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1358988971969_1">Joe Arpaio</span>, who styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff."</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-controversial-sheriffs-posse-watches-over-schools-004556312.html"> The mission: to deter a repeat of last month's school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-controversial-sheriffs-posse-watches-over-schools-004556312.html"> 'Hopefully we are
letting the bad guy know that this school is being watched,' said
Bennett, peering through the windshield as a mother led her daughter by
the hand through the school gate.</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-controversial-sheriffs-posse-watches-over-schools-004556312.html"><span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1358988971969_10">Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio</span>, who is best known nationally for targeting <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1358988971969_11">illegal immigrants</span>, started school patrols earlier this month in the wake of the rampage that killed 20 children and six adults in Connecticut.</a></span></i></div>
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-52341080794568210402013-01-24T17:24:00.000-08:002013-01-24T17:24:09.279-08:00Michael Bloomberg's Radiation State<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mayor Michael Bloomberg is defending the NYPD's testing of a
high tech device capable of detecting concealed guns at a distance. </span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speaking Wednesday morning at the Urban Assembly School for
Applied Math and Science in the Bronx, the mayor compared the scanners
to the metal detectors that people have to walk through every day to get
into buildings or board airplanes.</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'That's something we just have to live with,' Bloomberg said. 'The
alternative is intolerable. You cannot let people walk in and
potentially carry weapons or bombs into buildings or on an airplane, and
we've got to get guns off the streets.'</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Tuesday, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the NYPD is
working with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop the device that
reads a form of natural energy akin to radiation. If something is
obstructing the flow of that energy, like a weapon, the device will
highlight the object on a person's body.</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Civil liberties advocates counter the technology would subject anyone on the street to a virtual pat-down.</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/18/bloomberg-supports-testing-gun-scanners/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So far the technology utilizing terra-hertz imaging can detect weapons from about 13 feet away. Police want to put the device in a vehicle and scan an area for weapons as far as 80 feet away.</span></i></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Water absorbs the terahertz radiation, and metal reflects it. Concealing a gun behind Granny's hot-water bottle or a piece of mylar painted with metallic pigment would defeat Bloomberg's plan. Short of total concealment, one could break up a gun's outline. Please keep in mind that I'm not suggesting that anyone illegally conceal firearms, yadda, yadda, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's my burst of creativity. I'll be fashioning a sheet of aluminum foil into an extremely artistic representation of commonly-used hand gesture that displays a single finger. I'll wear the foil somewhere on my upper abdomen and beneath my outer garments for the benefit of Bloomberg's minions. I hope that Hizzoner will enjoy viewing my artistry as much as I'll enjoy expressing my delight with the inefficacy of his Radiation State.</span></div>
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-48630778382305944422013-01-20T17:00:00.002-08:002013-01-20T17:00:38.460-08:00An Orthodox View<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The findings of two criminologists – Prof. Don Kates and Prof. Gary
Mauser – in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and
violence rates, are telling:</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not.</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates
of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a
combined murder rate <em>three times higher</em> than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population).</span></i></a><br />
<a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example, Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership in Western
Europe, yet possesses the lowest murder rate. In contrast, Holland’s
murder rate is nearly the worst, despite having the lowest gun ownership
rate in Western Europe. Sweden and Denmark are two more examples of
nations with high murder rates but few guns. As the study’s authors
write in the report:</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If the mantra <span style="color: black;">'</span>more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less
death' were true, broad cross-national comparisons should show that
nations with higher gun ownership per capita consistently have more
death. Nations with higher gun ownership rates, however, do not have
higher murder or suicide rates than those with lower gun ownership.
Indeed many high gun ownership nations have much lower murder rates. (p.
661)</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></i></a><a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, and as if to prove the bumper sticker correct – that 'gun
don’t kill people, people do' – the study also shows that Russia’s
murder rate is <em>four times higher than the U.S.</em> and more than 20
times higher than Norway. This, in a country that practically
eradicated private gun ownership over the course of decades of
totalitarian rule and police state methods of suppression. Needless to
say, very few Russian murders involve guns.</span></i></a><br />
<a href="http://frjohnpeck.com/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The important thing to keep in mind is not the rate of deaths by gun – a statistic that anti-gun advocates are quick to recite – but the overall murder rate, regardless of means. </span></i></a><br />
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-90435488875054475522013-01-20T16:55:00.000-08:002013-01-21T08:31:42.845-08:00The Vatican Speaks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/vatican-praises-obamas-gun-control-plan-as-step-in-right-direction-backs-firearm-limits/2013/01/19/ff0d6c9e-6238-11e2-81ef-a2249c1e5b3d_story.html">VATICAN CITY — The
Vatican praised President Barack Obama’s proposals for curbing gun
violence, saying they are a “step in a right direction.”</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/vatican-praises-obamas-gun-control-plan-as-step-in-right-direction-backs-firearm-limits/2013/01/19/ff0d6c9e-6238-11e2-81ef-a2249c1e5b3d_story.html">The Vatican’s chief spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said
Saturday that 47 religious leaders have appealed to members of the U.S.
Congress “to limit firearms that are making society pay an unacceptable
price in terms of massacres and senseless deaths.”</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/vatican-praises-obamas-gun-control-plan-as-step-in-right-direction-backs-firearm-limits/2013/01/19/ff0d6c9e-6238-11e2-81ef-a2249c1e5b3d_story.html">“I am with them,” Lombardi said, in an editorial carried on
Vatican Radio, lining up the Vatican’s moral support in favor of firearm
limits.</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/vatican-praises-obamas-gun-control-plan-as-step-in-right-direction-backs-firearm-limits/2013/01/19/ff0d6c9e-6238-11e2-81ef-a2249c1e5b3d_story.html"> “The initiatives announced by the American administration for limiting and controlling the spread and use of weapons are certainly a step in the right direction,” Lombardi said.</a></span></i></div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-38443510274421578872013-01-19T10:24:00.000-08:002013-01-19T10:24:03.869-08:00Commish On Crime<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The <i>Wall Street Journal</i> published an interview with William Bratton, former NYC Police Commissioner. He spoke about decreasing firearms' magazine capacities and enforcing background checks for firearms purchases. He spoke also about enforcing laws against minor crimes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The most important feature of his NYPD anti-crime program could have been his "stop and frisk" program:</span><br />
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<i><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323968304578246721614388346.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...the 1968 Supreme Court ruling <em>Terry v. Ohio</em>, which held that
a police officer is allowed to stop, question and frisk a person on the
street if the officer has 'reasonable suspicion' that the person has
committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. 'Stop-and-frisk' became a central feature of policing—and now, in a
transformed New York two decades later, it has become a matter of
controversy. Liberals want it banned. </span></a></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=37853098" name="U904491390162KD"></a></span></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323968304578246721614388346.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critics of stop-and-frisk argue that it
discriminates against blacks and Hispanics, who are the subjects of a
majority of stops. Proponents say this simply reflects the demographic
realities of crime. Although blacks make up only 23% of New York's
population, for example, they accounted for more than 60% of all murder
victims in 2011 and committed some 80% of all shootings. The issue is
now in the federal courts, where for the first time a judge last week
ruled a part of the program unconstitutional.</span></a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323968304578246721614388346.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=37853098" name="U90449139016CR"></a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323968304578246721614388346.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing,' Mr. Bratton says. 'It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope.' Critics, he complains, 'always leave out the middle term—stop, question and frisk. About 60 to 70 percent of the stops don't result in a frisk in New York.' As for Judge Shira Scheindlin's recent ruling, he predicts a reversal 'when it goes to the Supreme Court.'</span></a></i></div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-29589163100846678612013-01-18T21:29:00.001-08:002013-01-18T21:31:00.399-08:00It's Called The Market, Father<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10185">Moscow, January 9, Interfax - Officials and businessmen need to win
people's confidence back, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the head of the
Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations, said.</a></span></i>
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<span style="color: black;">'</span>Many people now feel alienation from decisions made in the economic
sphere. Decisions are made by a limited circle of people. Our president
has called the privatization unfair. This doesn't mean that everything
should be taken away and divided. We don't need new year 1917 in the
form in which it happened almost 100 years ago,' Father Vsevolod told a
press conference at the </a></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10185">Interfax</a></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10185"> central office on Wednesday.</a></span></i>
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However, he said it is important that people who make economic decisions should feel the feedback from the people.</a></span></i>
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The priest said it is important to win back officials' and the business
community's trust, and in order for that to happen people should be
involved 'in the decision-making process in the economic sphere and
national economic processes.'</a></span></i>
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Fr. Vsevolod said the World Russian People's Council, of which he is
deputy chairman, has voiced the idea of increasing people's involvement
in the resource economy management and the idea of giving people
specific guarantees that they will get their portion of revenues from
the resource production and processing.</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10185">'These ideas need to be seriously discussed because there is a problem: the divide between the elite and the people,' he said.</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This particular priest never connects the dots between his praise of the State's control of the economy and the ordinary folks' "alienation from decisions made in the economic sphere". Rather, he's proposing an increase in State management. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the economic sphere, in the absence of <i>S</i>tate corporativist crony capitalism, producers face demand curves that reflect the choices of ordinary consumers. Let's let consumers decide how resources are allocated. </span></div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-83233686376081647032013-01-18T21:03:00.000-08:002013-01-18T21:03:11.145-08:00Smith And Wesson Is An Instructive Example<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-backers-aim-outflank-nra-gun-control-222329607--politics.html">WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1358547967_0">President Barack Obama</span>'s
gun-control proposals are planning a methodical, state-by-state
campaign to try to persuade key lawmakers that it's in their political
interest to back his sweeping effort to crack down on firearms and
ammunition sales and expand criminal <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1358547967_8">background checks</span>.</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-backers-aim-outflank-nra-gun-control-222329607--politics.html">To succeed will require overturning two decades of conventional wisdom that gun control is bad politics.</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-backers-aim-outflank-nra-gun-control-222329607--politics.html">The National Rifle Association is confident that argument won't sell. But with polls showing majorities supporting new gun laws a month after the Connecticut shooting deaths of 20 schoolchildren and six adults, gun-control activists say the political calculus has changed. Their goal in coming weeks is to convince lawmakers of that, too, and to counter the NRA's proven ability to mobilize voters against any proposals limiting access to guns.</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Back in 2000, Smith and Wesson made an expedient deal with the Clinton Administration to get out from under lawsuits seeking to tap gun manufacturers' deep pockets. S&W's status as a producer of "bread and butter" gun store products didn't protect it from gun owners' severe financial punishment for its betrayal. I fully support the NRA's long reach and longer memory in dealing with politicians who sell out gun owners.</span></div>
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Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-21812572285508926532013-01-18T08:07:00.002-08:002013-01-18T08:07:49.028-08:00Non-Islamic Finance Is The Key<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/turkey-could-become-china-europe-124344590.html;_ylt=AiCYj9t7km230IKCQFrDvQeiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4YnB0aGY3BG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwMxNTRiNDhmZS1kYWZmLTM2ODMtODE1ZS1lZTJkYjY2NGU4MWMEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgMwNmI5NjhjYS02MTZkLTExZTItYWZlYi0wYzM5YzA1NDE0NmU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Turkey's ambitions to be among the top
ten global economies by 2023 could mean that the rising star of the
emerging market economies becomes 'the China of Europe', according to an
economist and a prominent Turkish business woman.</span></i></a><br />
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/turkey-could-become-china-europe-124344590.html;_ylt=AiCYj9t7km230IKCQFrDvQeiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4YnB0aGY3BG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwMxNTRiNDhmZS1kYWZmLTM2ODMtODE1ZS1lZTJkYjY2NGU4MWMEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgMwNmI5NjhjYS02MTZkLTExZTItYWZlYi0wYzM5YzA1NDE0NmU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"><br /></a>
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/turkey-could-become-china-europe-124344590.html;_ylt=AiCYj9t7km230IKCQFrDvQeiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4YnB0aGY3BG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwMxNTRiNDhmZS1kYWZmLTM2ODMtODE1ZS1lZTJkYjY2NGU4MWMEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgMwNmI5NjhjYS02MTZkLTExZTItYWZlYi0wYzM5YzA1NDE0NmU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Turkey's economy was the fastest growing in Europe in 2011, growing 8.5 percent (the second fastest after China
among major emerging market economies). But in 2012 Turkey, like China,
experienced a slump in growth as the global economic slowdown adversely
affected its exports and capital inflows.</span></i></a><br />
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/turkey-could-become-china-europe-124344590.html;_ylt=AiCYj9t7km230IKCQFrDvQeiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4YnB0aGY3BG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwMxNTRiNDhmZS1kYWZmLTM2ODMtODE1ZS1lZTJkYjY2NGU4MWMEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgMwNmI5NjhjYS02MTZkLTExZTItYWZlYi0wYzM5YzA1NDE0NmU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"><br /></a>
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/turkey-could-become-china-europe-124344590.html;_ylt=AiCYj9t7km230IKCQFrDvQeiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4YnB0aGY3BG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwMxNTRiNDhmZS1kYWZmLTM2ODMtODE1ZS1lZTJkYjY2NGU4MWMEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgMwNmI5NjhjYS02MTZkLTExZTItYWZlYi0wYzM5YzA1NDE0NmU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After what has been seen as a <em>'</em>soft landing' for Turkey,
growth is seen picking up in 2013 with the latest HSBC manufacturing
PMI reaching a 14-month high in December as new orders and exports
rebounded. </span></i></a><br />
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/turkey-could-become-china-europe-124344590.html;_ylt=AiCYj9t7km230IKCQFrDvQeiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4YnB0aGY3BG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwMxNTRiNDhmZS1kYWZmLTM2ODMtODE1ZS1lZTJkYjY2NGU4MWMEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgMwNmI5NjhjYS02MTZkLTExZTItYWZlYi0wYzM5YzA1NDE0NmU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></a>
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/turkey-could-become-china-europe-124344590.html;_ylt=AiCYj9t7km230IKCQFrDvQeiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4YnB0aGY3BG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwMxNTRiNDhmZS1kYWZmLTM2ODMtODE1ZS1lZTJkYjY2NGU4MWMEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgMwNmI5NjhjYS02MTZkLTExZTItYWZlYi0wYzM5YzA1NDE0NmU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"> <i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Indeed, while most of Europe struggles to achieve 1 percent growth, Turkey is expected to have 3.5 percent growth in 2013, the IMF said in recent forecasts. </span></i></a></div>
Visibiliumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00069726201789314963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37853098.post-39084061911108946412013-01-18T08:00:00.000-08:002013-01-18T08:00:48.531-08:00You Must Be Kidding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/small-cyprus-may-trigger-big-115015238.html;_ylt=AgDqneGBjpTWGLYeDLlpvXSiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4cDNyY3BhBG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwNiZGMzOWE0Yy02MWNkLTMxY2EtYTk2Zi1kOGQxNWRkYTY5MjkEcG9zAzUEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgNjMTlkMTg0Mi02MTY3LTExZTItYmRmZi1jMDFlMWQ4ZTRkOWM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3">Cyprus may seem too small for markets to care. But UBS has warned
that the Mediterranean island is big enough to cause trouble in the euro
zone after seeking a bailout from the troika, made up of the
International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European
Central Bank.</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/small-cyprus-may-trigger-big-115015238.html;_ylt=AgDqneGBjpTWGLYeDLlpvXSiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4cDNyY3BhBG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwNiZGMzOWE0Yy02MWNkLTMxY2EtYTk2Zi1kOGQxNWRkYTY5MjkEcG9zAzUEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgNjMTlkMTg0Mi02MTY3LTExZTItYmRmZi1jMDFlMWQ4ZTRkOWM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"> </a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/small-cyprus-may-trigger-big-115015238.html;_ylt=AgDqneGBjpTWGLYeDLlpvXSiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4cDNyY3BhBG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwNiZGMzOWE0Yy02MWNkLTMxY2EtYTk2Zi1kOGQxNWRkYTY5MjkEcG9zAzUEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgNjMTlkMTg0Mi02MTY3LTExZTItYmRmZi1jMDFlMWQ4ZTRkOWM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3">After all, this is not the first time a relatively
small economy has threatened to trigger a pan-European domino effect
ranging from Ireland, to Greece and Portugal.</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/small-cyprus-may-trigger-big-115015238.html;_ylt=AgDqneGBjpTWGLYeDLlpvXSiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4cDNyY3BhBG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwNiZGMzOWE0Yy02MWNkLTMxY2EtYTk2Zi1kOGQxNWRkYTY5MjkEcG9zAzUEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgNjMTlkMTg0Mi02MTY3LTExZTItYmRmZi1jMDFlMWQ4ZTRkOWM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"> </a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/small-cyprus-may-trigger-big-115015238.html;_ylt=AgDqneGBjpTWGLYeDLlpvXSiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4cDNyY3BhBG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwNiZGMzOWE0Yy02MWNkLTMxY2EtYTk2Zi1kOGQxNWRkYTY5MjkEcG9zAzUEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgNjMTlkMTg0Mi02MTY3LTExZTItYmRmZi1jMDFlMWQ4ZTRkOWM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3">'The Cypriot case has all the ingredients to raise questions about the consistency of the euro project again, comparable to -albeit possibly less dangerous than - the Grexit hysteria less than a year ago,' said economist Martin Lueck from UBS.<span style="color: black;">..</span></a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/small-cyprus-may-trigger-big-115015238.html;_ylt=AgDqneGBjpTWGLYeDLlpvXSiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4cDNyY3BhBG1pdANDTkJDIFRvcCBTdG9yaWVzBHBrZwNiZGMzOWE0Yy02MWNkLTMxY2EtYTk2Zi1kOGQxNWRkYTY5MjkEcG9zAzUEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgNjMTlkMTg0Mi02MTY3LTExZTItYmRmZi1jMDFlMWQ4ZTRkOWM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3"><span style="color: black;">...</span>So far, it seems that the Troika bailout won't come easily as European authorities have already voiced their concerns over money laundering and tax evasion in the island. European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn told the Cypriot authorities that it must take a strong stance against money laundering if it wants aid. Cyprus has denied the allegations and seems reluctant to accept the conditionality attached to the bailout package. </a></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cyprus' banking secrecy makes her a target of her high-tax neighbors. Good luck.</span></div>
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