Into the Heart of Dryness

Into the Heart of Dryness

As the communications officer of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, I often give presentations about the institution to students and the public. I like to start with something general, something pithy, such as “Everyone, everywhere, must contend with the climate they live in, and the risks that it poses.” I go on to say that the IRI works in places in the world where people are exceedingly susceptible to droughts, floods, fires, epidemics and other climate-related disasters. But I generally speak these words in pleasant settings — an auditorium, perhaps, or a lecture room — where the temperature is comfortable, the air is clean, the power stays on, the bandwidth is high.

It isn’t until I travel to a place like Niger, in the heart of the Sahel, at the height of the dry season, that I experience the real meaning of my own words. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world. Life expectancy there is 54 years, and it has an infant mortality rate higher than any other country except Afghanistan.

Niger is also, undoubtedly, extremely climate vulnerable. The livelihoods of four out of five people in Niger depend on rainfed agriculture. In other words, crops get their water only when it rains, which isn’t a given in this part of the world. The Sahel has one rainy season, from June to October, and the amount of precipitation can vary considerably from one year to the next. In some years, the start of the rainy season comes weeks later than normal. Sometimes the rainfall is bunched at the beginning of the season or at its end. Sometimes most of it falls during the middle months. All this causes undue hardships on farming communities already living in poverty. Last year, for example, the rainy season in Niger and its neighboring countries was both shorter and weaker than normal, and crops suffered as a result. So right now, an estimated 18 million people in the Sahel are at risk of going hungry and becoming malnourished.

Under these circumstances, I accompanied IRI scientists Andrew Robertson and Alessandra Giannini to the Centre Regional de Formation et d’Application en Agrométéorologie et Hydrologie Opérationnelle, or Agrhymet for short, based in Niamey, Niger. Robertson and Giannini took part in a regional workshop focused on the predictability and variability of the West African rainy season. Staff from the national meteorological and hydrological services of nearly a dozen countries across the region attended the three-week workshop, sponsored by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, the United States Agency for International Development, the African Development Bank and others. The participants received training on the latest methods and tools for generating more accurate seasonal forecasts for farmers, water-resource managers and other users in their home countries. They also learned how to tease more information about rainfall characteristics out of a forecast.

“If you ask the farmers what they want to know about the upcoming season, it isn’t necessarily the amount of rainfall that will fall over the the entire season, but rather when it’s likely to start,” says Robertson. “The onset of the rainy season, which happens usually sometime in June, is a critical time for farmers because that’s when they plant their crops.”

Robertson says that the ability to predict seasonal changes in rainfall and temperatures, if effectively applied, could be one of the best adaptation strategies to climate variability and climate change in the Sahel and across sub-Saharan Africa. Mali, for example, has led the way in providing weather and climate information services to farmers in some rural communities, with positive results.

Read more about this over at the CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security blog, and while you’re there, be sure to follow its coverage of the Rio+20 conference.

The photos included here offer a visual recap of the trip, with an introduction to Sahel and the climate issues that confront it, as well as more details on the workshop and its participants. To see a version with video interviews, visit this visual essay

Follow @climatesociety and @fiondella on Twitter to get additional updates on the Sahel in the coming weeks.

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In Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, author James Workman tells the story of the Kalahari Bushmen’s struggle to stay on their homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana and the Botswana government’s efforts to drive them from those lands. Workman focuses on the role of water in that struggle, starting with the government’s 2002 decision to turn off the reserve’s water supply. This controversial action forced Bushmen to choose either resettlement in government camps outside the reserve or life on the reserve with no reliable supply of water. Even in the face of drought, part of the Tribe chose to remain on the reserve. This book tells their story and argues that their methods for survival should inform water policy in the coming age of what Workman calls “permanent drought”. For tens of thousands of years, the Bushmen and their ancestors lived in what local languages translate as “the Always Dry” or the “the Great Thirstland,” better known as the Kalahari Desert. The tribe once thrived across Southern Africa but perished as development and disease were brought to the African continent over time. As the Bushmen tribes continued to disappear, the British colonial government established the reserve in 1961 “for traditional land use by hunter-gatherer communities of the Central Kgalagardi where the last surviving bands could develop on their own terms, free from relentless persecution to near extinction.” Numbering about a thousand people at the time, the remaining band established itself in autonomous communities inside the reserve. Years later, for reasons explained in detail in Heart of Dryness, the Government of Botswana decided that the Bushmen were no longer welcome on the Reserve. Instead, the lands and limited water would be devoted to more “progressive” uses, such as diamond mining and tourism. A programme of “voluntary” government resettlement began, but the Bushmen did not give up their homeland easily. Eventually, the conflict led to Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought the water shutoff in 2002 and later to a case before the Botswana High Court. The book offers a surprisingly personal and often touching account of the Bushmen’s struggles. An American journalist turned water policy expert, Workman was drawn to the Bushmen’s story while living in Africa, where he worked on the World Commission on Dams Report and other water-related issues. He went into the Reserve several times, learning firsthand the story of the Bushmen and their fight to stay at home and to preserve their culture and ways on the land the government had promised them. Witnessing how the Bushmen’s lives, customs, and traditions were built largely around conservation and use of water, Workman “began to absorb the larger context and deeper meaning” of the story from a water policy perspective: “By managing to cope without government water while drought crippled the surrounding state,” Workman writes, “the dissident Bushmen revealed the inherent fallacy of centralised water control. … In the face of scarcity all water, like all politics, becomes emphatically local.” From that realisation, Heart of Dryness uses the Bushmen story as a launching pad to discuss many of the most contentious issues in water policy today, from privatization of water supplies and delivery systems to water as a human right. Focusing primarily on water management in the United States, the book also emphasises that, as we struggle to manage decreasing water supplies in the face of global warming and increasing demand, there is much that modern water managers should learn from the Bushmen. Further, Workman warns, a water crisis is looming – the “time of permanent drought” referenced in the title of the book. Permanent drought is defined in the book as follows: Set against the background equilibrium patterns of previous decades or centuries, measurable drought occurs whenever mean temperatures escalate hotter, water tables sink deeper, evaporation rates accelerate faster, runoff shrinks lower, reservoirs vanish sooner, dry seasons last longer, or economic thirst of more people Photo: Håkan Tropp, SIWI 21 demands more water from re activity than ever before. Of course, nothing prevents all these unpleasant forces from compounding at once, and the consensus of scientists suggests that in the United States we are now entering precisely that convergence. This scenario is known as a perfect, perpetual, or permanent drought. It means that in spite of unprecedented prosperity and freedom in most other sectors, and in spite of the undeniable convenience of cheap running taps and usd 8 billion worth of bottled water on supermarket shelves, Americans enjoy less absolute access to water than ever before. So, while the United States managed its highly technical water systems into a system of profligate waste, the Bushmen of the Kalahari, says Heart of Dryness, managed to “get it exactly right.” What are typically viewed as sacrifices or extreme conservation measures outside the Reserve are a way of life for the Bushmen. Bushmen practices could inform effective, modern water use methods and conservation. As outlined in the book these include, among other things: using less water, treating water as a precious necessity, cultivating arid-adapted indigenous plants, recycling gray water, and converting to low- or no-flush toilets. Of course, there is no easy ending, either for the Bushmen or for future water policy makers. Eventually, the Bushmen brought their case before Botswana’s High Court, seeking justice in a courtroom when none could be found in the desert. Even those who know the outcome of the Court’s decision will find a page-turner within Heart of Dryness, as it builds the case and describes the courtroom saga leading up to the long-awaited decision, which was issued in 2006. As for the policymakers, the book’s final chapter offers a proposed approach to a solution and hope for the future. “If our competitive demand for scarce water drives us apart and escalates tensions,” Workman writes, “this same finite supply of freshwater is also itself what ultimately drags us back and binds us together. We may not like the rule of increasingly scarce water, but at the same time, we cannot escape it. And [the Bushmen] band demonstrated how to embrace that reality. [Their] fundamental rule of adaptation was not to organise and mobilize physical resources to meet expanding human wants, but rather to organise human behaviour and society around constraints imposed by diminishing physical resources. To reiterate this book’s theses: We don’t govern water; water governs us.” Megan Walline, Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Researcher, SIWI About James Workman James G. Workman began his career as a journalist in Washington, D.C., for the New Republic, Washington Monthly, Utne Reader, Orion, and other publications. He helped edit and launch the report of the World Commission on Dams, and spent two years filing monthly dispatches on water scarcity in Africa, work which formed the basis of a National Public Radio show and documentary. Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought ISBN: 9780802715586 Published: Walker & Company, 08/01/2009 Pages: 323 Photo: James Workman Photo: James Workman Wild tsama melons are gathered into a secure Kalahari equivalent of a water tower. For tens of thousands of years, the Bushmen and their ancestors lived in what local languages translate as “the Always Dry” or the “the Great Thirstland,” better known as the Kalahari Desert

Europe With or Without Muslims: Deadline: 1 July 2012

Call for Papers for a special issue for the Journal of Muslims in Europe: “Europe with or without Muslims – narratives of Europe”

GUEST EDITORS:
Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg
Riem Spielhaus, University of Copenhagen

We are seeking papers for a special issue of the new double blind-peer reviewed Journal by BRILL on Muslims in Europe to come out in Spring 2013. This special issue seeks to take up tensions in conflicting stories about and different perspectives on Europe’s history and identity that present Europe without Muslims or contrastingly portray Muslims as part of Europe’s past and present.

Under the headline “Europe with or without Muslims – narratives of Europe” we aim to bring together a number of perspectives from multiple disciplinary fields such as history, religious studies, cultural anthropology, political science and sociology in an analysis of diverging accounts and notions of Europe over time and places throughout the continent, open as well to external perspectives. The initial question thereby is, what role Islam and Muslims have played and still play in the imagining of what Europe means.

This way we aim to direct our view at the nexus between constructions of Europe and developments within contemporary European Islam providing space both for a critical review of academic approaches and the development of new impulses for future research.

Besides empirical papers we strongly encourage theoretical papers that challenge current research on Islam and Muslims in Europe and reflect on the own position of the researchers and his or her contributions to the construction of Europe and the role and function of Islam and Muslims.

We invite papers that address one of the topics of two sessions described below. Deadline for sending your abstracts: July the 1st, 2012. Accepted participants will be notified by July 20, 2012. If your paper is accepted, you must submit the final paper (max 10,000 words inclusive of footnotes) by 20 October 2012.

Applications to submit a short paper should include: 1. Proposer’s name and affiliation, 2. a title for the paper, 3. a ca. 500 word abstract.

All abstracts and paper should be written in English.

TIME FRAME:
Deadline for abstracts (ca. 500 words) 1.July 2012
Deadline for sending final papers 20.October 2012
Publication 15.March 2013

For this special issue we invite papers on the narratives imagining Europe with and without Muslims analyzing contents, actors and setting of those narratives that relate to one or several of the following questions:

1. LOCALIZING DEBATES CONNECTING EUROPE AND ISLAM:

In what way are debates about Europe and its identity mentioning the European past with reference to Muslim’s presence in Europe on the local, regional, national or European Union level? How do these different levels (local, regional, national, transnational) intersect?

2. IMAGINING EUROPE WITHOUT MUSLIMS:

What are the main patterns of the dominant constructions of Europe’s heritage like notions of a Judaeo-Christian heritage? Where and by whom are these narratives told? To what extent are they embedded in European integration or projects of community or nation-building?

3. NARRATIVES OF EUROPE INCLUSIVE OF MUSLIMS:

In what cases is the Muslim history of Europe used as counter narrative to question the construction of Europe as a Christian continent? What groups of people insist on an imagination of Europe with Muslims? How are these narratives used to strengthen a feeling of belonging and responsibility of current Muslims?

4. CONTEXTUALIZING ISLAM DEBATES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY OF THOUGHT:

Is it possible to make any comparison between current debates about Islam and Muslims and previous debates about ties between religions and national identities e.g. different Christian denominations in early modern Europe?

5. IMAGINING EUROPE FROM OUTSIDE:

How is the relationship between Europe and its Muslim inhabitants viewed beyond the Mediterranean? Do accounts of European history and presentations of the contemporary Europe from within and without bear considerable differences?

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For submissions: paper proposals should be send electronically in Microsoft Word formats to Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg: goran.larsson@religion.gu.se and Riem Spielhaus, University of Copenhagen: rsp@teol.ku.dk.

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RAND PAUL PERVERT DO-NOTHING DUMBASS STUNNING HYPOCRISY FUCKING STRAYED TEEEBAAGERZZ IN THE ASS. I REALLY MISS JIM BUNNING.

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Here’s Rand’s Perversity on Huffington
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Here is something true from The Perversity of Conservatism:
Kentucky curently has Mitch McConnell, was of the most do nothing and dumb senators to ever hold office. Rand Paul seems like he will fellow in Mitch’s footsteps, RAND PAUL, NOT EXACTLY ‘FORTHRIGHT’…. Kentucky’s Senate hopeful, right-wing ophthalmologist Rand Paul (R), used to be quite candid about his radical political beliefs. Social Security? It’s a Ponzi scheme. Medicare? Obviously socialism. The Civil Right Act and Fair Housing Act? Both are examples of abusive government intervention. But as the Senate election draws closer, Paul’s extremism has been muted. Talking to National Review, the Republican candidate effectively conceded he’s trying to keep the truth from the public in order to get votes. “No one [in the Republican Party] is forcing me to do anything. I do exactly what I want, but I am also realistic about what it takes to run a campaign and get elected.” For instance, instead of calling for the elimination of many federal departments — as his father, Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican congressman and former presidential candidate, regularly does — Paul says he is trying to “nibble around the edges,” to “not be the person who says he will eliminate every department in the federal government. My dad freely will say that, that he would eliminate at least half of the departments, but he is just more forthright.” As a rule, candidates for statewide office don’t admit to being less forthright, but Rand Paul is special. He could talk about his actual beliefs during the campaign, and try to persuade the public that he’s correct, but the far-right Kentuckian has decided it’s much easier to hide his principles to win votes. Of course, Rand Paul wasn’t always a Senate candidate. Back in the 1990s, he appeared on several episodes of “Kentucky Tonight,” a state-based public affairs show, and “talked about the elderly dying at the hands of Medicare rationing; the need to privatize Social Security, which he called ‘a Ponzi scheme;’ and the rights of the government to invest in racist companies.” In one episode, he even equated Medicare with the Soviet Union. Voters won’t hear much about this during the election — Paul just isn’t “forthright” enough. On a related note, Paul also insisted recently that he’s running to help Kentucky get a better return on its federal tax dollars. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, “When tax money flows to the nation’s capitol, half stays there, half is wasted and half of it goes to political cronyism, Paul said.” Putting aside the fact that a dollar can’t have three halves, Alan Pyke reminds the right-wing candidate, “When Kentucky sends a tax dollar to Washington, it does miraculously turn into three-halves of a dollar. Kentucky gets at least $1.51 back from the federal government for every $1.00 that it contributes to the nation, placing it near the top of state rankings. Paul is in effect saying that if he is Kentucky’s next Senator, he will work to reduce his state’s share of federal spending, thus hurting his own constituents.” Government should be whatever size -small or big, often the subject of debate – but whatever size it is should be effective. Paul, like Mitch wants to make sure it is not effective in between wacko political theories.

In order to be allowed to turn Iraq to Khomeini Pig Farm. Shiite Lured Bush to Iraqi Oil, Boys & Women. The Trio turned Ugly. Obama got Pissed and Ditched them to Iran to be Bombed in every Pagan Festival. در كربلاء اّب نبود پيپسي كولا بود خميني و احمدينجاد گوه كراز بود

In order to be allowed to turn Iraq to Khomeini Pig Farm. Shiite Lured Bush to Iraqi Oil, Boys & Women. The Trio turned Ugly. Obama got Pissed and Ditched them to Iran to be Bombed in every Pagan Festival.
در كربلاء اّب نبود پيپسي كولا بود
خميني و احمدينجاد گوه كراز بود
Here is some Deutsche Welle Whoresmanure Worth-Loathed:
Two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims have killed at least 30 people in the Iraqi capital. The attacks in Baghdad came as more than a million devotees were taking part in commemorations for an eighth-century imam. The final day of an annual pilgrimage by Shiite pilgrims to the Imam Kadhim shrine was marred on Saturday by two car bombs that killed more than 30 people and wounded dozens more. “The terrorists will not discourage us,” promised a song played over mosque loudspeakers after the attack. An interior ministry official said a car bomb exploded at about 12:15 p.m. local time on a highway near Shuala in north Baghdad, and a second one exploded at an intersection near Kadhimiyah two hours later. Reports indicate that at least 30 people have died, and possibly several more.
Violence is on the rise
Saturday’s blasts were the latest in a wave of recent terror attacks on the annual pilgrimage to honor the eighth century Imam Musa Kadhim. On Wednesday, 72 people were killed in nearly two dozen coordinated bombings targeting pilgrims across the country. Al Qaeda affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack. The pilgrimage, which Shiites were forbidden from participating in under the late former President Saddam Hussein, has drawn nearly six million people in the past week, according to the shrine’s secretary general, Fadhel al-Anbari. The Shiite majority has been a main target of Sunni Arab armed groups since the fall of Saddam’s Sunni-dominated regime. Al Qaeda has been attacking every few weeks in an apparent effort to weaken the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and spark more sectarian violence that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war a few years ago.
Pilgrims carry on
Despite the latest attacks, Saturday’s commemorations continued as planned for Kadhim, the great grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and the pilgrims vowed to keep the centuries-old pilgrimage alive. Crowds carried symbolic coffins through the streets as pilgrims beat theirs chests in mourning as they made their way toward the mosque’s two gold domes.

Shiite Promised Bush Iraqi Oil & Women in order to be allowed to turn Iraq to Khomeini Pig Farm. Obama Ditched them for Iran to be Bombed in every Pagan Festivals. Here is some Deutsche Welle Whoresmanure Worth-Loathed:

Shiite Promised Bush Iraqi Oil & Women in order to be allowed to turn Iraq to Khomeini Pig Farm. Obama Ditched them for Iran to be Bombed in every Pagan Festivals.
Here is some Deutsche Welle Whoresmanure Worth-Loathed:
Two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims have killed at least 30 people in the Iraqi capital. The attacks in Baghdad came as more than a million devotees were taking part in commemorations for an eighth-century imam. The final day of an annual pilgrimage by Shiite pilgrims to the Imam Kadhim shrine was marred on Saturday by two car bombs that killed more than 30 people and wounded dozens more. “The terrorists will not discourage us,” promised a song played over mosque loudspeakers after the attack. An interior ministry official said a car bomb exploded at about 12:15 p.m. local time on a highway near Shuala in north Baghdad, and a second one exploded at an intersection near Kadhimiyah two hours later. Reports indicate that at least 30 people have died, and possibly several more.
Violence is on the rise
Saturday’s blasts were the latest in a wave of recent terror attacks on the annual pilgrimage to honor the eighth century Imam Musa Kadhim. On Wednesday, 72 people were killed in nearly two dozen coordinated bombings targeting pilgrims across the country. Al Qaeda affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack. The pilgrimage, which Shiites were forbidden from participating in under the late former President Saddam Hussein, has drawn nearly six million people in the past week, according to the shrine’s secretary general, Fadhel al-Anbari. The Shiite majority has been a main target of Sunni Arab armed groups since the fall of Saddam’s Sunni-dominated regime. Al Qaeda has been attacking every few weeks in an apparent effort to weaken the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and spark more sectarian violence that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war a few years ago.
Pilgrims carry on
Despite the latest attacks, Saturday’s commemorations continued as planned for Kadhim, the great grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and the pilgrims vowed to keep the centuries-old pilgrimage alive. Crowds carried symbolic coffins through the streets as pilgrims beat theirs chests in mourning as they made their way toward the mosque’s two gold domes.

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GOP always moaned in bed that Dick Lugar is Dems SLEEPERCELL at the Senate and Whitehouse Bo. They Exploited the teebagarr Richard Mourdock to do the dirty job to Wallop Lugar Outta his 35 Years Senator Monarchy. That’s what teebagarrzz good at. Fuckn’ Mercenary Spoilers across the Aisle

Here is Some Disney for you from Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times:
After more than 35 years in the Senate, Richard G. Lugarof Indiana was ousted Tuesday by a tea party challenger in a Republican primary that showed how hard it is for a veteran lawmaker known for his ability to compromise to win reelection in the current political environment. The 80-year-old senator, a leading voice for his party on foreign policy, was pummeled for weeks by Republican rival Richard Mourdock for his breaches with conservative orthodoxy. Among them: Lugar’s support of citizenship for some illegal immigrants and his votes to confirm President Obama’s Supreme Court nominees, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Lugar’s loss marks a triumph for the tea party in a campaign season otherwise shaping up as less favorable to a conservative insurgency than the 2010 election that swept many of the movement’s candidates into office and fueled a Republican takeover of the House. defeat, Lugar told supporters Tuesday night that he hoped Mourdock would win November’s general election. But in a written statement lamenting the decline of bipartisanship, Lugar warned that Mourdock would achieve little in the Senate if he failed to seek common ground with Democrats. “In effect, what he has promised in this campaign is reflexive votes for a rejectionist orthodoxy and rigid opposition to the actions and proposals of the other party,” Lugar said. The Republican Party, he warned, risks being relegated to minority status if it continues to discourage its representatives from holding independent views or engaging in constructive compromise. “Parties don’t succeed for long if they stop appealing to voters who may disagree with them on some issues,” he said. For his part, Mourdock told supporters that Republicans in Indiana were sending a message that they want the party’s senators “to take a more conservative track.” “It’s about ideas,” he said. “It’s about the direction of the Republican Party” and of the country. Lugar’s lopsided defeat affirms the downside of Senate longevity at a time when voters, in Indiana as elsewhere, are in a surly mood over prolonged economic hardship. A fixture of the Republican establishment in Washington since the 1970s, Lugar lives in McLean, Va., but was recently forced to explain why his voter registration listed his residence as an Indianapolis house that he no longer owned. Lugar was also poorly prepared to fight for survival. “Lugar hasn’t had a race in decades,” said Jennifer Duffy, senior editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. “Not years. Decades.” Indiana was one of four states holding elections Tuesday. In Wisconsin, voters picked Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett as the Democrat to challenge Gov. Scott Walker next month in a recall spurred by the Republican incumbent’s fight with organized labor. Walker defeated Barrett in the 2010 governor’s race. In presidential primaries, Mitt Romney coasted to victory in Indiana, North Carolina and West Virginia. Even with most of the combined 107 delegates at stake Tuesday, Romney remained short of the 1,144 needed to clinch the nomination, but is likely to hit that milestone this month. For Lugar, the challenge mounted by Mourdock came as a rude surprise. A former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar is one of the nation’s most prominent advocates of arms control treaties. With former Sen. Sam Nunn, a Democrat, Lugar helped set up a program to secure and dismantle nuclear weapons in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other nations that were once part of the Soviet Union. When he ran for president in 1996, Lugar stressed nuclear security. He quit the race after finishing seventh in the Iowa caucuses and fifth in the New Hampshire primary. By and large, Lugar’s voting record has been conservative, but he has often worked with Democrats — a major liability this year in his reelection campaign. In 2005, Lugar and Obama, then a freshman senator, traveled together to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan to inspect nuclear facilities. He and Obama later cosponsored a measure expanding the Lugar-Nunn program to deactivate weapons and keep terrorists from acquiring them. In a statement released Tuesday night by the White House, Obama praised Lugar for working with Democrats to get things done. “Sen. Lugar comes from a tradition of strong, bipartisan leadership on national security that helped us prevail in the Cold War and sustain American leadership ever since,” Obama said. Another Democrat, Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, called Lugar’s defeat a tragedy. “This is a tough period in American politics, but I’d like to think that we’ll again see a United States Senate where Dick Lugar’s brand of thoughtful, mature and bipartisan work is respected and rewarded,” Kerry said. In his campaign, Mourdock, 60, branded Lugar “Obama’s favorite Republican.” A two-term Indiana state treasurer, Mourdock attacked Lugar for supporting a 2006 bill that offered a path to legalization for undocumented workers. He also faulted Lugar for backing a more recent measure that would have provided citizenship to some children of illegal immigrants if they served in the military or attended college. Mourdock’s campaign won the support of FreedomWorks, Washington’s main tea party group, along with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. But one of the biggest blows to Lugar was a major advertising campaign run against him by the Club for Growth, a Washington organization that seeks to shrink government. In his own campaign ads, Mourdock portrayed Lugar as a Washington insider who had grown out of touch with Indiana. “When Dick Lugar moved to Washington, he left behind more than his house,” an announcer said in a Mourdock TV ad. “He left behind his conservative Hoosier values.” In November, Mourdock’s Democratic opponent will be Joe Donnelly, a congressman who would have faced a tougher challenger in Lugar. For Republicans, said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, “I think it’s harder to hold the seat with Mourdock, but I think they will hold the seat.” Republicans are hoping to win control of the Senate in November by maintaining control of the party’s 47 seats and gaining four more.

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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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