High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Obesity are the equity that United Nations enjoyed capitalizing now its Public: WHO warns of high blood pressure, diabetes, Obesity Health data released on Wednesday provided the clearest evidence to date of the spread of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease from developed nations to poorer regions such as Africa, as lifestyles and diets there change. The United Nations data showed one in three adults worldwide has raised blood pressure – the cause of around half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease – and the condition affects almost half the adult population in some countries in Africa. In its annual report on global health, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) also said one in 10 adults worldwide has diabetes, an illness that costs billions of dollars to treat and puts sufferers at risk of heart disease, kidney failure and blindness. While the average global prevalence of diabetes is around 10 percent, the report said, up to a third of the population in some Pacific Island countries have the condition.
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High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Obesity are the equity that United Nations enjoyed capitalizing now its Public: WHO warns of high blood pressure, diabetes, Obesity Health data released on Wednesday provided the clearest evidence to date of the spread of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease from developed nations to poorer regions such as Africa, as lifestyles and diets there change. The United Nations data showed one in three adults worldwide has raised blood pressure – the cause of around half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease – and the condition affects almost half the adult population in some countries in Africa. In its annual report on global health, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) also said one in 10 adults worldwide has diabetes, an illness that costs billions of dollars to treat and puts sufferers at risk of heart disease, kidney failure and blindness. While the average global prevalence of diabetes is around 10 percent, the report said, up to a third of the population in some Pacific Island countries have the condition.
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أرسل هذا الدعاء إلى أحد عشر من أصدقائك وسترى أن أكبر مشكلة عندك ستنحل بإذن
الله تعالى جربها حتى لو لم تكن مقتنعا بها :
يا الله يا كريم يا أول يا آخر يا مجيب يافارج الهمّ، ويا كاشف الغمّ، فرّج همي ويسّر أمري وارحم ضعفي وقلة حيلتي وارزقني من حيث… لا …أحتسب يا ربّ العالمين قال …صلّى الله عليه وسلّم: “من قرأ هذا الدعاء وأخبر الناس به فرّج الله همّه
لا تلغي هذه الرسالة جرب حتى لو لم تكن مصدق
Ron Paul Ain’t Quitn But Stopped Burnin’ Money Hauntn’ Primaries and focus on Huntn’ Delegates
“Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Mr. Paul said in a statement from his campaign. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.” Mr. Paul said he will still to win over delegates in states where voting is done but where state conventions are still picking representatives to Republican nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. But Texas congressman, three-time presidential hopeful said he’s done actively to win over voters themselves in 11 primaries still ahead.
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Ron Paul ends his hunt for votes from primaries
By Stephen Dinan-The Washington Times Monday, May 14, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul speaks Feb. 11, 2012, to his supporters following his loss in the Maine caucus to Mitt Romney, in Portland, Maine. (Associated Press)
Rep. Ron Paul said Monday he will not compete in Republican primaries in any of the states that have not yet voted — essentially ending the 2012 primary season and leaving the path open for Mitt Romney to win the GOP presidential nomination. Mr. Paul said he will still try to win over delegates in states where the voting is done but where state conventions are still picking representatives to the Republican nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. But the Texas congressman and three-time presidential hopeful said he’s done actively trying to win over voters themselves in the 11 primaries still ahead. “Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Mr. Paul said in a statement from his campaign. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.” That move leaves Mr. Romney as the only man actively seeking the Republican nomination, having outlasted a half-dozen opponents over the last four months of voting. The former Massachusetts governor is still shy of the number of delegates needed to win the nomination, but is expected to easily collect those in upcoming votes in Texas, California and nine other states still to hold primaries. Mr. Romney’s campaign did not return a message seeking comment, but the push to win over Paul supporters is already under way in other circles. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, said he’ll pick up Mr. Paul’s torch heading into the election. “You can’t suspend liberty,” said Mr. Johnson, who had initially tried to win the Republican nomination before dropping out to join the Libertarians. “The Ron Paul revolution must continue, whether he is actively campaigning or not. His message must be a part of the conversation leading to November.” Mr. Paul is retiring at the end of this term in the House. But he has already bequeathed his political movement to his son, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, who rode voter dissatisfaction to victory in a Republican primary and then in the general election in Kentucky in 2010. The 2012 campaign marked Mr. Paul’s third run for the White House, following a 1988 campaign as the Libertarian Party’s nominee and then his 2008 bid for the Republican nomination. That unorthodox 2008 campaign rewrote the manual on Internet fundraising and attracted Americans who had been alienated by much of the political process but were attracted to Mr. Paul’s message of limited government bound more strictly to original constitutional intent. His rallies attracted supporters dressed as Colonial According to the latest tally by the Associated Press, Mr. Romney has 966 delegates of the 1,144 needed to win the nomination. Mr. Paul has 104 delegates. More than 700 delegates are still available across the 11 states still to hold primaries, and Mr. Romney is now virtually assured of collecting the bulk of them and clinching the nomination. Throughout the campaign, Mr. Paul has said his lower vote totals would be countered by his supporters’ enthusiasm, particularly in states that hold caucuses. In many of those states, the initial caucuses amounted to nonbinding straw polls, with the real delegate-selection process for the Tampa convention happening at regional and state meetings. Mr. Paul’s supporters have been more likely to show up at those meetings and win the delegate slots. Now Mr. Paul will rely on trying to maximize delegates at the few states that have yet to choose their final delegates to the national convention, such as Washington and Missouri. He can also try to win over support of delegates who were bound to Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — two former candidates who have suspended their campaigns. “Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that liberty is the way of the future,” Mr. Paul said. Many of Mr. Paul’s supporters argue he can still win the nomination, pointing to his success in having his supporters elected as delegates to the convention. But most of those delegates are actually bound by the results of the primaries and conventions to vote for another candidate in the first round of voting. Most delegates’ personal views won’t come into play unless no candidate wins on the first ballot. soldiers, and “Don’t tread on me” flags became staples of his appearances, well before they would become a part of the anti-Washington tea party movement in the 2010 elections. “Ron Paul presaged the tea party movement, and many of his supporters fueled the tea party and its 2010 victories, not least that of his own son. That is one major impact. Another is Paul’s ability to attract young people, a feat few in the GOP have been able to duplicate in recent years,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato. Still, Mr. Sabato said, Mr. Paul’s stances on foreign policy and on drug legalization were unacceptable to too many Republican voters for him to have gone further within the party. Mr. Paul briefly surged late last year, topping the polls in Iowa ahead of that state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. His third-place showing also seemed to leave him poised to make a run. But that never materialized.
He ends his active campaigning without having won the popular vote in any state — though he did end up with the most bound delegates in Maine, thanks to his delegate-maximizing strategy.
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25 years ago while was setting my office. Two thugs popped in without any further notice or an appointment. I recognized the first man. He was all over the news; he was Vigilante Ambassador Mr. Hussain Al Sayegh who was fired for misusing his country legation in the west to provide arms to Iran. Another thug is Hani Tarazi Owner of Saba & Partners a Palestinian freemason Black Jesuit (I apologize for Palestinians & whoever offended. It’s a moment of truth. I don’t mean to defame no one here). The meeting took about 3 hours. The ambassador said that he has to go to entertain his Boss’s jockey who won the derby that time. While seeing them off the elevators. Both of them in all disrespect whispered to me “you are doing very well with Government of Dubai; your business will never grow unless you agree to give us a cut out of your business.” As naïve patriot citizen and lawful kid just come out of college replied: “go away. My business is legitimate of cut throat profit. I trust my government”.
I underestimated the influence of these thugs in Dubai. I was an idiot. I should taken them more seriously. In less than a year:
·All my business stopped.
·Receivable payment stopped.
·1200 agencies taken away.
·Fired disgracefully from federal government.
·My skilled Staff taken away and reemployed in the government and forced to testify against me.
·Spend 25 years to settle debts.
·Government bank auctioned my family building for $3,000,000.00 to settle $500,000.00 loan interest.
They falsified facts in the statement of accounts pending for payment and convinced some one up there. That Obaid Karki trading with the government is overprized. So he ordered to stop Obaid Karki payment. Take away all his agencies. Accuse Obaid Karki of theft. Fire Obaid Karki from the Federal Government and destroy his good reputation. Until today for the past 25 years unemployed Obaid Karki is paying debts and yet $10 Millions dues are in government of Dubai custody. ADCB bank just auctioned Obaid Karki family building to collect $3,000,000.00 for a loan of $500,000.00 only.
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Ron Paul Ain’t Quitn But Stopped Burnin’ Money Hauntn’ Primaries and focus on Huntn’ Delegates
“Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Mr. Paul said in a statement from his campaign. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.” Mr. Paul said he will still to win over delegates in states where voting is done but where state conventions are still picking representatives to Republican nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. But Texas congressman, three-time presidential hopeful said he’s done actively to win over voters themselves in 11 primaries still ahead.
Here is some Try-To-Get-Noticed Horsemanure from Zionazi Whores at Washington times.
Ron Paul ends his hunt for votes from primaries
By Stephen Dinan-The Washington Times Monday, May 14, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul speaks Feb. 11, 2012, to his supporters following his loss in the Maine caucus to Mitt Romney, in Portland, Maine. (Associated Press)
Rep. Ron Paul said Monday he will not compete in Republican primaries in any of the states that have not yet voted — essentially ending the 2012 primary season and leaving the path open for Mitt Romney to win the GOP presidential nomination. Mr. Paul said he will still try to win over delegates in states where the voting is done but where state conventions are still picking representatives to the Republican nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. But the Texas congressman and three-time presidential hopeful said he’s done actively trying to win over voters themselves in the 11 primaries still ahead. “Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Mr. Paul said in a statement from his campaign. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.” That move leaves Mr. Romney as the only man actively seeking the Republican nomination, having outlasted a half-dozen opponents over the last four months of voting. The former Massachusetts governor is still shy of the number of delegates needed to win the nomination, but is expected to easily collect those in upcoming votes in Texas, California and nine other states still to hold primaries. Mr. Romney’s campaign did not return a message seeking comment, but the push to win over Paul supporters is already under way in other circles. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, said he’ll pick up Mr. Paul’s torch heading into the election. “You can’t suspend liberty,” said Mr. Johnson, who had initially tried to win the Republican nomination before dropping out to join the Libertarians. “The Ron Paul revolution must continue, whether he is actively campaigning or not. His message must be a part of the conversation leading to November.” Mr. Paul is retiring at the end of this term in the House. But he has already bequeathed his political movement to his son, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, who rode voter dissatisfaction to victory in a Republican primary and then in the general election in Kentucky in 2010. The 2012 campaign marked Mr. Paul’s third run for the White House, following a 1988 campaign as the Libertarian Party’s nominee and then his 2008 bid for the Republican nomination. That unorthodox 2008 campaign rewrote the manual on Internet fundraising and attracted Americans who had been alienated by much of the political process but were attracted to Mr. Paul’s message of limited government bound more strictly to original constitutional intent. His rallies attracted supporters dressed as Colonial According to the latest tally by the Associated Press, Mr. Romney has 966 delegates of the 1,144 needed to win the nomination. Mr. Paul has 104 delegates. More than 700 delegates are still available across the 11 states still to hold primaries, and Mr. Romney is now virtually assured of collecting the bulk of them and clinching the nomination. Throughout the campaign, Mr. Paul has said his lower vote totals would be countered by his supporters’ enthusiasm, particularly in states that hold caucuses. In many of those states, the initial caucuses amounted to nonbinding straw polls, with the real delegate-selection process for the Tampa convention happening at regional and state meetings. Mr. Paul’s supporters have been more likely to show up at those meetings and win the delegate slots. Now Mr. Paul will rely on trying to maximize delegates at the few states that have yet to choose their final delegates to the national convention, such as Washington and Missouri. He can also try to win over support of delegates who were bound to Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — two former candidates who have suspended their campaigns. “Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that liberty is the way of the future,” Mr. Paul said. Many of Mr. Paul’s supporters argue he can still win the nomination, pointing to his success in having his supporters elected as delegates to the convention. But most of those delegates are actually bound by the results of the primaries and conventions to vote for another candidate in the first round of voting. Most delegates’ personal views won’t come into play unless no candidate wins on the first ballot. soldiers, and “Don’t tread on me” flags became staples of his appearances, well before they would become a part of the anti-Washington tea party movement in the 2010 elections. “Ron Paul presaged the tea party movement, and many of his supporters fueled the tea party and its 2010 victories, not least that of his own son. That is one major impact. Another is Paul’s ability to attract young people, a feat few in the GOP have been able to duplicate in recent years,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato. Still, Mr. Sabato said, Mr. Paul’s stances on foreign policy and on drug legalization were unacceptable to too many Republican voters for him to have gone further within the party. Mr. Paul briefly surged late last year, topping the polls in Iowa ahead of that state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. His third-place showing also seemed to leave him poised to make a run. But that never materialized.
He ends his active campaigning without having won the popular vote in any state — though he did end up with the most bound delegates in Maine, thanks to his delegate-maximizing strategy.
please follow these links that influenced this video hereinbelow:
25 years ago while was setting my office. Two thugs popped in without any further notice or an appointment. I recognized the first man. He was all over the news; he was Vigilante Ambassador Mr. Hussain Al Sayegh who was fired for misusing his country legation in the west to provide arms to Iran. Another thug is Hani Tarazi Owner of Saba & Partners a Palestinian freemason Black Jesuit (I apologize for Palestinians & whoever offended. It’s a moment of truth. I don’t mean to defame no one here). The meeting took about 3 hours. The ambassador said that he has to go to entertain his Boss’s jockey who won the derby that time. While seeing them off the elevators. Both of them in all disrespect whispered to me “you are doing very well with Government of Dubai; your business will never grow unless you agree to give us a cut out of your business.” As naïve patriot citizen and lawful kid just come out of college replied: “go away. My business is legitimate of cut throat profit. I trust my government”.
I underestimated the influence of these thugs in Dubai. I was an idiot. I should taken them more seriously. In less than a year:
·All my business stopped.
·Receivable payment stopped.
·1200 agencies taken away.
·Fired disgracefully from federal government.
·My skilled Staff taken away and reemployed in the government and forced to testify against me.
·Spend 25 years to settle debts.
·Government bank auctioned my family building for $3,000,000.00 to settle $500,000.00 loan interest.
They falsified facts in the statement of accounts pending for payment and convinced some one up there. That Obaid Karki trading with the government is overprized. So he ordered to stop Obaid Karki payment. Take away all his agencies. Accuse Obaid Karki of theft. Fire Obaid Karki from the Federal Government and destroy his good reputation. Until today for the past 25 years unemployed Obaid Karki is paying debts and yet $10 Millions dues are in government of Dubai custody. ADCB bank just auctioned Obaid Karki family building to collect $3,000,000.00 for a loan of $500,000.00 only.
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Jamie Dimon & Ina Drew “the CHOSEN ones” Fired for Evaporating JPMorgan’s $2Billions
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As you might expect, none of the resignations this week are likely to include failed CEO Jamie Dimon. The biggest name in the resignations this week is Ina Drew, the “trader at heart” who was managing risk for JPMorgan. Whoever thought hiring a “trader” to manage a growing and now large risk team ought to be sent packing this week, but that’s not likely to happen. CNBC: According to the report, the departures involve three of the highest-ranking executives with direct connections to the losses, these people say. Separately, the Financial Times reported, also citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, that JPMorgan Chase is investigating whether London-based traders hid the extent of losses on credit derivatives positions. The paper also reported resignations were expected within the next 24 hours. The Wall Street Journal listed those leaving as: Ina Drew, who since 2005 has run the risk-management unit that is responsible for the losses; Achilles Macris, who is in charge of the London-based desk that placed the trades; and trader Javier Martin-Artajo, a managing director on Mr. Macris’s team. There has to come a time though when investors realize that Dimon’s big mouth will cost the bank even more money so he may also be on borrowed time. He’s not there yet and for the moment, there are plenty of fools (including the retired GE CEO Jack Welch who squeezed GE for a lavish retirement plan) who lapped up Dimon’s TV appearance yesterday. As more losses emerge – and they almost certainly will be coming – Dimon’s PR offensive will not be enough to save his job.
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25 years ago while was setting my office. Two thugs popped in without any further notice or an appointment. I recognized the first man. He was all over the news; he was Vigilante Ambassador Mr. Hussain Al Sayegh who was fired for misusing his country legation in the west to provide arms to Iran. Another thug is Hani Tarazi Owner of Saba & Partners a Palestinian freemason Black Jesuit (I apologize for Palestinians & whoever offended. It’s a moment of truth. I don’t mean to defame no one here). The meeting took about 3 hours. The ambassador said that he has to go to entertain his Boss’s jockey who won the derby that time. While seeing them off the elevators. Both of them in all disrespect whispered to me “you are doing very well with Government of Dubai; your business will never grow unless you agree to give us a cut out of your business.” As naïve patriot citizen and lawful kid just come out of college replied: “go away. My business is legitimate of cut throat profit. I trust my government”.
I underestimated the influence of these thugs in Dubai. I was an idiot. I should taken them more seriously. In less than a year:
·All my business stopped.
·Receivable payment stopped.
·1200 agencies taken away.
·Fired disgracefully from federal government.
·My skilled Staff taken away and reemployed in the government and forced to testify against me.
·Spend 25 years to settle debts.
·Government bank auctioned my family building for $3,000,000.00 to settle $500,000.00 loan interest.
They falsified facts in the statement of accounts pending for payment and convinced some one up there. That Obaid Karki trading with the government is overprized. So he ordered to stop Obaid Karki payment. Take away all his agencies. Accuse Obaid Karki of theft. Fire Obaid Karki from the Federal Government and destroy his good reputation. Until today for the past 25 years unemployed Obaid Karki is paying debts and yet $10 Millions dues are in government of Dubai custody. ADCB bank just auctioned Obaid Karki family building to collect $3,000,000.00 for a loan of $500,000.00 only.
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CHUCK FROM BEAST TO EVANGELICAL PRIEST: Charles W. Colson, the Republican political operative who boasted he would “walk over my own grandmother” to ensure the reelection of President Richard M. Nixon and went on to found a worldwide prison fellowship ministry, Died April 21 in a Northern Virginia hospital. He was 80.
Charles W. Colson, the Republican political operative who boasted he would “walk over my own grandmother” to ensure the reelection of President Richard M. Nixon and went on to found a worldwide prison fellowship ministry after his conversion to evangelical Christianity, died April 21 Inova Fairfax Hospital. He was 80.
The death, after a brain hemorrhage earlier this month, was confirmed by a family spokeswoman, Michelle Farmer. Mr. Colson was a resident of Naples, Fla., but maintained an apartment in the Leesburg area.
Charles Colson was the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case, and became a evangelical Christian helping inmates.
Mr. Colson’s reputation as a “dirty tricks artist” overshadowed his achievements as a darkly brilliant political strategist. He had helped lay the groundwork for the Nixon landslide of November 1972 by appealing to disgruntled Democrats and blue-collar minority voters.
A self-described “hatchet man” for Nixon, Mr. Colson compiled the notorious “enemies list” of politicians, journalists and activists perceived as threats to the White House. And most fatefully, he helped orchestrate illegal activities to discredit former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who was suspected of leaking a top-secret history of the Vietnam War to the New York Times and The Washington Post.
It was the targeting of Ellsberg — rather than Mr. Colson’s peripheral involvement in the growing Watergate break-in scandal — that eventually led to his conviction for obstruction of justice. In the midst of this crisis, Mr. Colson said he underwent a profound religious transformation in August 1973.
Acting against the advice of his lawyers, Mr. Colson pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, a step that he depicted as “a price I had to pay to complete the shedding of my old life and to be free to live the new.”
Released from prison on parole in January 1975, after seven months in a minimum-security facility, Mr. Colson became a leading voice in the evangelical movement and advocate for prison reform.
The need for such work, he said, was drawn from what he called his frightening experience in confinement. Prison, he said, was filled with embittered inmates who contemplated escape and revenge at every turn.
“He transferred his huge drive, intellect and maniacal energy from the service of Richard Nixon to the service of Jesus Christ,” said his biographer, Jonathan Aitken, a former British government minister who endured a similar journey of political disgrace and personal redemption following a 1999 conviction for perjury.
Mr. Colson’s autobiography, “Born Again,” first published in 1976, sold millions of copies over the years. In 1993, he was awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize, worth more than $1 million, which is given each year to the person who has done the most to advance the cause of religion.
Outwardly, Mr. Colson remained recognizably the same person before and after his conversion. Even toward the end of his life, he retained the same amused expression in his heavily wrinkled face.
His crumpled look, fondness for blazers and striped ties, and talent for incisive repartee gave him the appearance of an overgrown New England prep-school boy, but also masked one of the traits he shared with Nixon: an outsider self-image.
Delighted in defying convention
Born Oct. 16, 1931, in Boston, Charles Wendell Colson was the only child of Wendell Colson and Inez “Dizzy” Colson.
Charles Colson was the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case, and became a evangelical Christian helping inmates.
Hard work and upward striving were central to the family ethic. His father got a job at the Securities and Exchange Commission by attending law school at night, which in turn made it possible to send their son Chuck to attend the Browne & Nichols prep school in Cambridge.
Although he was educated alongside the children of the New England elite, the young Charles Colson took delight in defying convention. He claimed he refused a full scholarship to Harvard, a decision an admissions officer told him no one had ever made before.
He went to Brown University, where he became a champion debater and leader of the Young Republicans, and later earned a law degree from George Washington University.
In June 1953, immediately after graduating with distinction from Brown, Mr. Colson joined the Marine Corps and married Nancy Billings. They divorced in 1963, leaving her with custody of the two younger children, Christian and Emily. The eldest child, Wendell, stayed with Mr. Colson.
In 1964, Mr. Colson married Patricia Ann Hughes, a secretary on the staff of Leverett Saltonstall, the senior senator for Massachusetts. There were no children from this marriage, which lasted until Mr. Colson’s death. Besides his wife, survivors include his three children and five grandchildren.
A moderate Republican, Saltonstall gave Mr. Colson his first big break in politics, hiring the young lawyer as his administrative assistant in 1956. Working for Saltonstall provided Mr. Colson with opportunities to meet then-Vice President Nixon.
In an oral history interview for the Nixon library, Mr. Colson said he was impressed by Nixon’s conservative ideals and “wonderful mind.”
“I was dazzled by the man,” he said.
The rising political operative was also in regular touch with the Massachusetts junior senator, John F. Kennedy, who “showed me some of the tricks of the trade.” During the 1960 election, Mr. Colson set up a bogus committee that urged voters to elect “Kennedy and Saltonstall,” rather than the Republican ticket of “Nixon and Saltonstall.”
It proved to be an effective strategy: After starting way behind, Saltonstall was reelected.
“We mailed every Irish name we could find in the phone book,” Mr. Colson recalled. “That was my introduction to politics. It was baptism by fire.”
He switched his allegiance back to Nixon in 1964, writing a long memo that described how the defeated Republican candidate of 1960 could make a political comeback. Nixon responded by inviting Mr. Colson to New York for a strategy session. Although he eventually decided not to run in 1964, he viewed Mr. Colson as “fresh blood” and invited him to join the 1968 campaign.
‘I was the loose cannon’
Mr. Colson moved to the White House after Nixon’s election victory as special counsel to the president and a counterweight to the “Berlin Wall” of H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
Mr. Colson’s primary job was to form ties with outside groups, going around the mainstream media to assemble a “new populist majority,” but Nixon came to rely on the former Marine captain to cut through the bureaucracy and get things done.
“I was the loose cannon,” Mr. Colson recalled, adding that the president “would give me things to do, and Haldeman would never know it. He was threatened.”
In his autobiography, “The Ends of Power,” Haldeman wrote that Mr. Colson “encouraged the dark impulses in Nixon’s mind and acted on those impulses instead of ignoring them and letting them die.” Former press secretary Ron Ziegler complained that Mr. Colson “would take an off-the-cuff Nixon instruction literally and implement it.”
Charles Colson was the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case, and became a evangelical Christian helping inmates.
Mr. Colson was proud of his reputation for political ruthlessness, summed up by a Green Beret slogan that he affixed to the den of his McLean house: “When you’ve got ’em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
Eager to demonstrate his loyalty to Nixon, he confirmed the accuracy of the “walk over my grandmother” quote in an August 1972 memo to his staff that was quickly leaked to the press.
In his August 2007 Nixon library interview, Mr. Colson recalled that Nixon once described him as the son he never had, and added, “I felt the same emotional bond with him.”
“There were other times I brought out the dark side of Nixon,” he acknowledged. “You did not have to work very hard to bring it out. It was always close to the surface. . . . His first reaction was to fight back, to get even with people.” But he insisted that Haldeman and others shared the blame. “What [Nixon] needed was people who would give him a more measured reaction.”
Missions that Mr. Colson undertook for the president ranged from leaking damaging and untrue rumors about Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns to tracking down a photograph of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) dancing with a starlet in Paris.
Most fatefully of all, he eagerly agreed to Nixon’s order to blacken the reputation of former Pentagon official Ellsberg, who was suspected of the Pentagon Papers leak.
“Get Colson in,” Nixon instructed his chief of staff in a taped meeting in the Oval Office on June 17, 1971. “He’s the best. It’s the Colson type of man that you need.”
To assist him in the job of “nailing” Ellsberg, Mr. Colson recruited a retired CIA operative and novelist named E. Howard Hunt, a former Brown University classmate. Hunt teamed up with former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy and a group of right-wing Cuban emigres to burglarize the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist and plan a fire at the Brookings Institution in Washington as a decoy for recovering leaked government documents.
The same team broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate building in Washington in June 1972, triggering the scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation two years later.
On this occasion, however, Mr. Colson’s involvement was tangential. He had phoned the Committee to Re-elect the President in February 1972, urging approval for an unspecified “intelligence program” proposed by Liddy and Hunt but did not have an operational role in the Watergate break-in.
“He was too smart to do anything as silly as Watergate, although he was responsible for the initial hiring of Hunt,” said Aitken. Nevertheless, Mr. Colson’s reputation as a “dirty tricks” specialist led to his resignation from the White House staff in March 1973.
Conversion to evangelical Christianity
In June 1974, Mr. Colson pled guilty to a single charge of “disseminating derogatory information to the press” about Ellsberg while he was a criminal defendant. He was sentenced to one to three years imprisonment.
Charles Colson was the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case, and became a evangelical Christian helping inmates.
Mr. Colson attributed his guilty plea to his conversion to evangelical Christianity on the night of Aug. 12, 1973, by a close friend, Thomas L. Phillips, then-chairman of the defense contractor Raytheon, and the powerful influence of a book by C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity.”
Mr. Colson said another turning point in his faith was a probing interview in May 1974 conducted by Mike Wallace of the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” Wallace asked about the “morality” of working for a White House engaged in intimidation and smear campaigns and asked whether Mr. Colson was truly living up his Christian beliefs.
Mr. Colson later described feeling gradually “stripped and broken” of his old combative habits and decided not to fight the criminal charges any longer, despite urging by his family to beat the lawsuit and return to a “normal” life.
“Hubris became the mark of the Nixon man because hubris was the quality Nixon admired most,” Mr. Colson wrote in “Born Again.” He added that he “was willing at times to blink at certain ethical standards” because “ ‘Chuck will get it done’ was the phrase I so loved to hear in the White House.”
News of his rebirth was greeted with skepticism and even hilarity by many columnists, including the humorist Art Buchwald, who imagined a prayer session between Mr. Colson and the grandmother he once vowed to run over in the process of helping Nixon.
“Shall we kneel together?” Mr. Colson asked.
“Not me,” his grandmother replied. “I haven’t been able to kneel since you screamed at me, ‘Four more years’ and then put your Oldsmobile into drive.”
According to Aitken, doubts about the sincerity of Mr. Colson’s conversion were put to rest by his subsequent actions on behalf of prisoners around the world. The Prison Fellowship Ministries founded by Mr. Colson in the United States in 1976 grew into a worldwide movement with branches in more than 110 different countries. It is now based in the Loudoun County community of Lansdowne.
“Look at the incredible good he has done,” said Aitken. “He completely changed the face of faith-based caring for prisoners and offenders, not just in America, but across the world.”
In addition to befriending prisoners and converting them to Christianity, Mr. Colson established a rehabilitation program that aimed to cut the recidivism rate. He publicly opposed the death penalty and called for alternatives to incarceration, particularly for non-violent offenders, who make up a significant portion of the prison population.
Leading Republican politicians including President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain of Arizona cited Mr. Colson’s work with prisoners as evidence that faith-based initiatives can help to solve America’s most intractable problems.
Bush invited Mr. Colson to the White House in June 2003 to present the results of a scientific study by a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Byron Johnson, that concluded that participants in Prison Fellowship programs were much less likely to return to prison than other former inmates.
Other experts have questioned the validity of such studies and caution against drawing sweeping conclusions.
“There is a self-selection problem,” said Allen Beck, a criminologist who has served as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice and several state prison systems. “The inmates who sign up for such programs tend to people who are a relatively good risk in the first place. Trying to ascertain cause and effect is very difficult.”
Mr. Colson remained on good terms with Nixon and visited him at the president’s home in San Clemente, Calif., following his release from prison. He recalled that Nixon seemed unaware why he had gone to prison. When Mr. Colson explained that he had been convicted for distributing derogatory information about Ellsberg, Nixon interjected, “but I told you to do that.” Both men roared with laughter.
Asked whether he felt “disappointment” with Nixon, Mr. Colson replied: “Sure, of course, but I also understood the man. Families disappoint one another sometimes, but you are still family.”
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Austerity talks between the minority coalition and anti-immigration PVV collapsed on Saturday afternoon, when PVV leader Geert Wilders walked out. New elections are now on the cards, prime minister Mark Rutte told reporters.
In a news conference shortly after Wilders pulled out, both prime minister Mark Rutte and CDA leader blamed the collapse on the PVV leader.
‘At the last moment, the PVV was shocked about the impact about the consequences of previously made agreements,’ Rutte said.
Verhagen said all hopes of an agreement had been dashed. The PVV leader has ‘left 16 million Dutch people in the lurch,’ he said.
PVV position
The Telegraaf reports that Wilders felt he had to withdraw from the negotiations after discussing the package of measures with other PVV officials.
The talks between the coalition and its alliance partner resumed on Saturday to assess the results of a financial analysis of the austerity measures. One source told the Telegraaf economists were positive about the likely impact of the plans, and that the effect on spending power would be limited.
However, in a short statement Wilders said he could not accept that pensioners would have to pay for ‘useless’ demands from Brussels. Agreeing with the measures is ‘not in the interest of our PVV voters,’ he said.
No concrete details have yet emerged of what the three parties had agreed during their seven weeks of talks. The aim of the negotiations is to reduce the budget deficit to below 3%, in line with monetary union rules.
Elections
Labour leader Diederick Samsom said new elections are now inevitable. ‘Everyone will have to share in the paid of the crisis,’ he said.
However, if there is an election, it is unlikely to take place before September. This means the minority government will continue in a caretaker function until then, but will be unable to take significant steps to revitalise the economy without parliamentary approval.
In particular, it is unclear what the implications are for the 2013 budget – which coalition alliance has spent the past seven weeks working towards. The budget is always presented on the third Tuesday in September.
After weeks of discussions on austerity measures, the Dutch prime minister has said government talks have fallen through and new elections are the “next logical step.”
The Dutch government appeared close to collapse on Saturday after budget talks between the minority government parties and its opposition support collapsed.
The talks were aimed at cutting up to 16 billion euros ($21 billion) from the annual budget. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told reporters he would hold a crisis meeting on Monday to assess the situation.
“Elections are the logical next step,” Rutte said. He added that he wants to work with parliament to finalize austerity measures before the poll takes place.
The talks among Rutte’s Liberal Party, his coalition partners the Christian Democrats and the anti-Islam Freedom Party headed by Geert Wilders started in March as the Dutch economy sank into recession. Forecasts showed the 2012 budget deficit would reach 4.6 percent of gross domestic product when the EU deficit ceiling is 3 percent.
Rutte blamed Wilders for the collapse. He said that on Friday a “balanced package” of cuts had been agreed only for Wilders to come back on Saturday after talking to his party colleagues and rejecting the plan.
Wilders said he “would not accept that the elderly in the Netherlands have to pay for nonsensical demands from Brussels.”
AAA-rating in jeopardy
Last week, ratings agency Fitch warned that the Netherlands might loose its AAA credit score if action to cut the deficit and stop debt from rising was not taken.
The Dutch also have huge levels of personal debt, mostly mortgage-related. One of the highest in the EU, the debt has become a major concern as house prices started to fall in 2008.
Only Germany, Finland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands still hold AAA rating in the eurozone. The Dutch government has been one of Germany’s strongest supporters for a new pact on fiscal responsibility in the eurozone.
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Leno
Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen has been suspended for five games because of his comments praising Fidel Castro. Now he’s apologizing after talking it over with his good friend Hugo Chavez.
Today was opening day at Dodger Stadium. Actually it was a little different this year. Instead of throwing out the first pitch, they threw out the last owner.
President Obama’s popularity is starting to dwindle among well-known liberals like Matt Damon and Gene Simmons. In fact, you know the number one liberal to turn against President Obama? Mitt Romney.
Today is National Be Kind to Lawyers Day. This is a day celebrated by no one.
Conan
Today’s the opening day for the Dodgers. There was an awkward moment during new owner Magic Johnson’s pep talk when he told the players to get out there and beat the Celtics.
In Maryland three teachers came forward to claim the Mega Millions lottery prize. They all said they would remain at their jobs. They want to keep teaching kids that if you work hard and study, it won’t mean crap unless you win the lottery.
American universities are being infiltrated by foreign spies. In other words, Iran may have the technology to build their own beer bong.
Last night Melissa Gilbert suffered a concussion on “Dancing With the Stars.” It’s the first time anyone connected with that show has actually seen stars.
Letterman
A hundred years ago the Titanic sank. It was supposed to be unsinkable. If they were going to make that same cruise again today, thanks to global warming they would not have to worry about icebergs.
Because Mitt Romney is a Mormon he can actually have several vice presidents. Did you know that?
I signed up to do this show for two more years here at CBS. My goal is to be pushed out like Regis was.
Ferguson
It is a tough day for Rick Santorum, who suspended his presidential campaign. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that he dropped out the day hot dog pizza was announced. Seeing this abomination, Rick realized that humanity has veered just too far off the path of moral righteousness.
Hot dog pizza raises two important questions. Who came up with this monstrosity? And how quickly can it be delivered to my house?
Hot dogs and pizza don’t go together. It’s like Rush Limbaugh and skinny jeans — it just shouldn’t happen.
Hot dogs and pizza — it’s like monogamy in a Kardashian. It’s like a dog show and Michael Vick. It’s like dancing and stars.
Kimmel
We had a new “Dancing With the Stars” tonight, an elimination night and Sherri Shepherd was evicted. I feel bad for her because not only is she off “Dancing With the Stars,” but she has to go back to “The View.”
I hate to see people get kicked off. Just for once I’d like to see someone get kicked onto a reality show.
Facebook is buying the photo-sharing service Instagram for a billion dollars. Instagram is an app that makes your photographs look like vintage Polaroids. Meanwhile, poor Tom from MySpace just announced he’s selling his mom’s Polaroid camera on eBay for $5.
A billion dollars — I don’t know. Unless they have some faded, washed-out photos of Mark Zuckerberg killing a hooker, it doesn’t make sense.
Fallon
Today in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum officially dropped out of the Republican race. Gettysburg was a great choice because he should’ve dropped out four score and seven years ago.
The New York Mets have started the season with four straight wins. I don’t want to say it’s surprising, but today the Mets tested themselves for steroids.
There’s apparently a 102-year-old man in New York who still works as a valet parking attendant. It’s not easy for him. Every time he parks a car, he has to pull over three times for a bathroom break.
You can tell he’s old. When you tip him a five, he’s like, “Hey, it’s my old roommate, Abe Lincoln.”
Here is Some Mindsteroid Must-Read from David Crossland SPIEGEL The clock is ticking on a UN-mediated ceasefire deadline on Thursday that no one expects the Syrian regime to respect. German commentators say Bashar Assad’s military power won’t prevent his downfall, and see rays of hope in China’s and Russia’s cooling stance towards him. United Nations peace envoy Kofi Annan said on Wednesday that Syria had assured the world body that it will respect a ceasefire with rebels due to take effect in fewer than 24 hours. But President Bashar Assad’s forces is keeping up attacks in several cities, and few believe he is serious about stopping the bloodshed. The West remains opposed to military intervention, though, and action by the UN Security Council has been thwarted by resistance from Russia and China. German media commentators see a ray of hope in growing signs that China and Russia are starting to turn their backs on Assad — and in Turkey considering setting up a buffer zone in Syria to protect Assad’s opponents. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Syrian troops were “mercilessly” shooting fleeing women and children in the back. Speaking during a visit to China, Erdogan said he would take unspecified steps after Syrian troops shot at refugees inside Turkey on Monday. Editorials say Annan’s fall from power is only a matter of time but fear that many more Syrians will die before he is finally ousted. Exile, some say, is likely to be Assad’s only option to save his own life. CONSERVATIVE DIE WELT WRITES: “It looks as if the repressive Syrian regime will let its last opportunity for a negotiated solution pass. It is doing so in a complete misjudgement of the situation in which dictator Bashar Assad finds himself. There cannot and won’t be a political future for him in his country which he has betrayed, destroyed and divided. Homs, Hama or Deraa are filled with the rubble of his presidency and with a people filled with hate for the ruler it once so feted.” “He is completely discredited. That is gradually dawning on the few remaining friends the lonely man in Damascus still has: Russia and China.” “Militarily, the international community has exhausted itself in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. No one wants another adventure given the well-equipped Syrian army and an uncertain outcome. Turkey seems prepared to set up a security zone in the north of the country which could serve as a basis for the Syrian rebels to conquer the country. That would be the Libyan model.” “Assad should enquire in Moscow about a ‘Yemeni solution’: exile and freedom from prosecution in return for peace and reconstruction. That is maybe the only chance for the eye doctor to save his life.” LEFT-WING DIE TAGESZEITUNG WRITES: “The Assad regime still believes its military superiority will bring it victory. That is a huge mistake. The Syrian population will initially pay the price with many, many further deaths. But the Assad clan will also pay it, with its political downfall and probably its physical destruction as well. That is almost certain to happen. The timeframe remains unclear, as does the number of people who will have to die until the time comes.” “Now, after the failure of the Annan plan, the civil war will flare up with even greater brutality. All the neighboring states, from Iran and Iraq and Saudi Arabia to Lebanon and Turkey will get militarily involved, whether openly or covertly.” “Moscow will probably look for an alternative to the Assad clan among the ruling elites of Syria. In order to speed up this process, Moscow may back a UN Security Council Resolution that condemns the regime more sharply.”
“The fighting will drag on for months. The number of victims will rise enormously as will the number of refugees. Sanctions and moral appeals won’t have much impact. The danger that the country could turn into a bloody battlefield for years to come remains real.” CENTER-LEFT SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG WRITES: “Since the outbreak of the Arab popular uprisings, many ways have been found of undermining the success of the peaceful, freedom-loving, jubilant masses in the subsequent months. In Egypt, generals and Islamists are conducting the struggle for power largely among themselves. Militiamen rule Libya and Yemen is effectively ruled by the clan of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. But nowhere has the yearning for freedom been betryed as blatantly as in Syria. Many rebels continue to oppose the use of violence even after this dreadful year — but they are increasingly irrelevant for the future of their country.” “The fund of millions of dollars that Saudi Arabia and Qatar plan to provide to assist the uprising, and which American and dozens of other countries want to pay into, will be much more decisive for whether Assad falls and what happens after that. It is one of the blatant contradictions of this project that the Gulf kings want to use their petrodollars to finance an uprising that they have prevented in their own countries by flooding their subjects with far higher sums.” LEFT-WING BERLINER ZEITUNG WRITES: “There are growing calls for the opposition to be armed. But it is clear that a militarization of the conflict will primarily play into the hands of the Assad government because the army will stick with him in the face of an armed opposition. But if economic sanctions are imposed by a broad international alliance, and if Assad’s last remaining friends turn away from him, support for the dictator should evaporate. That is the goal.”
TOULOUSE EVOLUTION The first day Israel blamed Hezbollah The second day Israel blamed Neo-Nazi The third day Israel blamed them for being Jews. The fourth day Israel rob a Palestinian land to bury the corpse in Jerusalem The fifth day Israel found Merah (Hebrew name) The sixth day Israel had him shot in the head as Osama The seventh day Israel blamed Sarkozy BEING headlined instead. The eight is Sabbath Israel ordered everybody to insert cucumber and don't scat. Tomorrow the whole world will be looking for Next Jews attacked News. So shut up sit down and listen. Do you hear me?
