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India’s victory against England at the ICC Champions Trophy has absorbed the entire nation in a moment of celebration. But is Indian Cricket worthy of  this glory? Or has the IPL match fixing  left it blotched forever?

This past Sunday Team India’s brilliant performances in the ICC Champions Trophy culminated to a memorable triumph against England at Edgbaston in the final, which sparked nationwide euphoria. That was aided and abetted by no small measure by the mainstream media outlets who went on a PR rampage in order to cash in on this hysteria and painted a picture of robust health that is not the case with Indian cricket- at least not if you have followed the developments over the weeks leading up to the Champions Trophy. Now, this is not an attempt to belittle the achievements of the team under Dhoni who played brilliantly throughout the tournament but the powers that be at the BCCI seem to have ducked under the radar due to the joy and wonder that the Indian team has conjured up with their win.

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The Match Fixing Saga Seems to Have Been Forgotten and Forgiven

The crux of the matter is this- Indian cricket still remains mired in deep rooted corruption, infighting, administrative incompetence and conflicts of interest. The Champions Trophy has been used as the proverbial carpet under which the dirt has been shoved and hopefully it would not be long before the lid is blown again on the unfortunate happenings surrounding Indian cricket.

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Let us consider for a moment why the Indian cricket fan should not forget the events of the past few months because of India’s remarkable triumph in the Champions Trophy. Most of the players who played in the tournament had been a part of the tainted IPL and so is it not unfathomable that the ICC Champions Trophy was not completely clean? You might call it a cynical point of view but after the revelations of the IPL it is not exactly impossible for the punters to chase the players who are on their books. On a side note, it is the Indian cricket fan’s responsibility to not forget the way he was conned into watching a tournament for over two months in which the majority of the games were allegedly stage managed by corrupt cricketers, crooked go betweens and team owners.

Everything Is Good With Indian Cricket

As a result it is immeasurably naive to think that everything is good with Indian cricket, when you look at some of the things that have been swiftly shoved under the carpet. What is the update with the enquiry that the BCCI set up with such publicity to look into the charges of betting against N. Srinivasan’s son-in-law and CSK owner Gurunath Meriyappan? Has the BCCI come to a decision regarding the proposed suspension of Raj Kundra as a team owner? Lamentably, we have not been provided with any answers because the BCCI is now happily busy announcing cash awards for the members of the Indian cricket team and the support staff. On the other hand, the mainstream media has also allowed the BCCI the breathing space by not going after them hammer and tongs like it was doing a few months back.

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No one knows whether it is simply the outcome of an uneasy collusion between the different media houses and the BCCI or a tale of forgotten perspectives. At the end of the day it is necessary that the one who runs the whole cricket economy-the fan- does not allow himself to be fooled anymore with the deceptive picture that is being painted. It is time the Indian cricket fan jogs his memory a bit and does not forget the BCCI’s con operation.

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Also See:
ICC Champions Trophy 2013 – India vs Sri Lanka Cricket – Let’s Hope the Ghost of Year 2000 is Buried
Champions Trophy 2013 – An Unending Rivalry In Cricket

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One had high hopes from One By Two a film starring Abhay Deol and Preeti Desai – alas it turned out that the ‘rom-com’ was neither romantic nor very funny. Read the review of One By Two, watch the trailer and poster and hear the songs

Of all the Deols in Bollywood, Abhay Deol can be relied on to bring us a movie that is not infantile, implausible or utterly moronic. So I had high expectations of One By Two. Alas my expectations were doomed to disappointment. I had expectations of a film that was both funny and romantic – One By Two was neither; not really. Though funny in parts, calling the film a comedy would be a bit of a stretch. As for being a romance; well there isn’t much of a romance happening either considering how hard the film contrived to keep the two protagonists apart.

Rating – **1/2

One by Two –  (Release date – 31 January 2014)

Starring –  Abhay Deol, Peeti Desai, Rati Agnihotri, Lillete Dubey, Jayant Kriplani, Darshan Jariwala, Peetika Chawla, Geetika Tyagi,

Producer – Abhay Deol

Director – Devika Bhagat

Story/Screenplay – Devika Bhagat, Manoj Tapadia

Music – Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

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Abhay Deol & Preeti Desai

The story is about two individuals Amit Sharma and Samara Patel whose lives run on parallel tracks – those tracks very occasionally and very briefly connect but quickly diverge, without the two protagonists actually even meeting. The two have been in an accident together where he breaks his arm but she doesn’t know it. They are in adjoining cubicles in the Men’s Loo at one point. And they don’t know it. He manipulates computer programs and she ends up losing a reality show. And they don’t know it. She becomes famous using his song – and they’ve still not met!

Where One By Two works is in the well etched, likeable, identifiable characters in the film. Abhay Deol as Amit the angst ridden jilted lover and the professional who doesn’t know where his career is going is likeable, but, well… boring as we are repeatedly told in the film.

Preeti Desai does an accurate British-Gujarati accent – but then she should considering that she is British Indian (also having been the first woman of Indian origin to become Miss Great Britain). She plays an aspiring dancer – it must be said that calling her a ‘dancer’ is something of a stretch – mostly she just flings her hair around in lieu of actual dancing.  Her character is that of the conflicted daughter of an alcoholic mother and a father who doesn’t acknowledge her as his daughter; she is the modern woman who lives life on her own terms, refusing to let any man string her along.

The other characters in the film, such as Rati Agnihotri and Jayant Kriplani, the table tennis playing parents of Amit Sharma are very likeable. Lillete Dubey’s character is well etched and sympathetic, and as usual the veteran actor does an good job playing a nuanced role.

Other interesting characters in the film are Amit Sharma’s closest friends and co-workers played by Preetika Chawla and Tahir Bhasin who secretly have a thing for each other – they are responsible for most of the laugh out loud moments in the film. Yudhishtir Urs as the dancer Jonathan Rebello, who appears in the film mostly without his shirt is rather hamstrung by the limitations of his character.

Darshan Jariwala plays the shayari-spouting mama – a Mumbai cop of all things – he is delightful. The whole movie has a very urban, modern feel. There are some moments of real hilarity such as the song pakaoed and when Abhay’s friends get to work on him.

Where the films doesn’t work is the meandering and confused story line. More than once, one had that ‘lets-just-get-on-with-the-film’ feeling. The conflict seemed contrived and the resolution was far from satisfying.  The scatological jokes and the farting were plain incongruous; not funny.

One by two’s music is nice enough but it is far from the best work of the hugely talented trio of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.

Perhaps I expected too much of the movie or perhaps the movie really is simply a case of wasted opportunity, but I just felt that it could have been so much better! The movie is not bad – but given the cast and the premise, one just felt it was a letdown.

By – Reena Daruwalla

See also

Jai Ho Review – It’s a Salman Khan Film – Res Ipsa Loquitor

Dedh Ishqiya – Movie Review – One and a Half Times as Enjoyable

The New Mahabharat (2013 TV Serial) – Review

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El-P posts a quick teaser of new music

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Malioboro, Nostalgia in Souvenirs Paradise

Stretching on imaginary poles connecting Yogyakarta Sultan Palace, Tugu and the peak of Merapi Mountain, this street forms trading locality after Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono I developed means of trading through traditional market since 1758. After 248 years, the place still persists as a trading area; it even becomes the icon of Yogyakarta, known as Malioboro.

Located around 800 meters from Yogyakarta Sultan Palace, this place was always crowded with flowers each time the Palace held ceremonies. Malioboro that in Sanskrit means bouquet serves as a basis for naming this street.

Framed by shops, offices, restaurants, star hotels and historical buildings, the street that once functioned as struggling center during the second Dutch military aggression in 1948 was once a place of wandering for the artists joining together in Persada Studi Klub (PSK) community led by Umbul Landu Paranggi since 1970s to around the end of 1990s.
Souvenirs Paradise

Enjoying shopping experience, hunting exclusive souvenirs of Jogja, tourists may walk on foot along the arcades of Malioboro Street. There are many vendors selling their merchandises, ranging from such local handicrafts as batik, rattan ornament, leather puppet, bamboo handicrafts (key holder, ornament lamp, and others) as well as blangkon (Javanese / Jogjanese traditional cap) and silver goods to general little things that you may find in other trading places. Along the arcade, tourists will not only enjoy shopping peacefully on sunny or rainy days but they also enjoy bargaining prices. If they are good at bargaining and have good luck, they will end up buying at third quarter or even half of the prices offered.

Do not forget to save energy. There is still one big traditional market tourists must visit. Well known as Pasar Beringharjo, this market provides complete traditional products in addition to similar goods sold along the arcade of Malioboro Street. In addition to local products of Jogja, products from neighboring areas such as Pekalongan batik and Solo batik are available. There are many choices of hand made batik, printed batik, window curtain with unique motifs and batik bed sheet. This place will satisfy the desire of buying unique goods at reasonable price.

Please make sure that you are not cheated by the offered prices. Usually, the vendors will increase the prices for tourists.

Vredeburg Fort and Gedung Agung

At the end of this "bouquet" street, tourists can drop by at Vredeburg Fort that is located across Gedung Agung. This fort was the Dutch protection basis from possible attacks by Yogyakarta Kingdom troops. Similar to other forts, this place built in 1765 is high, square walls confining the area inside with one monitoring tower in each of the four corners for patrolling purpose. From the tower at the southern part, YogYES took the opportunity to enjoy sceneries of the Sultan Palace and other historical buildings.
Malioboro Cross-Legged Food Vendors (Lesehan, Javanese Language)

When the sun sets in the west and at the same time the lights along the street and the arcade add more beauty to Malioboro, food sellers begin to set the cross-legged eating place. Special menu of Jogja such as Gudeg and Pecel Lele are served in addition to oriental cuisines and sea food as well as Padang cuisine of West Sumatra. The street singers will sing hit songs and memory songs for some small change.

For tourists who are going to try menus served along Malioboro Street, please do not hesitate to check the price list and confirm it to the seller to prevent illogical charge.

Visiting Yogyakarta, the city known as "The Javanese Culture Living Museum" will not be complete unless you pay a visit to the street that keeps various stories of Indonesian Nation struggle and crowded with various souvenirs. It is paradise for history lovers and souvenirs hunters.

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There seems to be little doubt that Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is making his mark.

His bulldog nature and savvy political instincts have combined to make Mike Duggan a force to be reckoned with, even as he serves under a state-appointed emergency manager.

Detroit News Business Columnist Daniel Howes reviewed Duggan's progress in his first six months. He said that people should not expect that he change the world in 6 months. What’s important here is the process and the direction.

“The direction is positive and bipartisan, and he’s clearly repaired relationships with city council,” he said.

It’s been almost six months since Mike Duggan took over as mayor of Detroit. He took over a city however, run by someone else: state-appointed Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr.

But, that doesn’t mean Duggan has been denied all the rites of passage of the job including the schlep to Lansing to ask the state Legislature for something. Every mayor has to do it. And Duggan had to go to Lansing with a really big ‘ask.’ We’re talking about the $195 million dollar rescue package for his city (that’s right, ‘rescue,’ ‘settlement.’ Just don’t call it a ‘bailout.’)

Getting the Republican-led state House and Senate to go along with sending almost $200 million dollars to a Democratically-controlled city was not an easy task.

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All week long, the Detroit Journalism Cooperative is examining how Detroit is doing under bankruptcy and the leadership of Mayor Mike Duggan.

We've looked at the mayor himself. We've also looked at blight, transportation, and the bus system.

Now we turn to a challenge that seemed to have caught the collective attention of writers and reporters around the world as they talk about Detroit's bankruptcy: the streetlights.

The fact that almost half the streetlights in Detroit didn't work became a sort of symbol of how "broken" the city had become.

Let's find out if things are looking brighter in the neighborhoods and streets of Detroit.

We were joined by Lester Graham of Michigan Watch.

*Listen to full interview above.

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The city of Detroit continues to work through bankruptcy, at the same time Mayor Mike Duggan, now six months into his term, has been working to return basic city services to residents in the city.

Joining us today were Ken Sikkema, Former Senate Majority Leader and Senior Policy Fellow at Public Sector Consultants and Susan Demas, publisher of Inside Michigan Politics.

Detroit remains under the emergency management of Kevyn Orr, but Duggan really positioned himself as more of a chief operating officer when he was running for mayor. How much of what we see happening in the city is the result of efforts by Orr and how much of it is Duggan?

Listen to the full interview above.

Lester Graham / Michigan Radio

This week the Detroit Journalism Cooperative is looking at how the city is functioning under bankruptcy. Mayor Mike Duggan suggested he’d get a lot done in six months. We’re nearly there and took a look at progress with mass transportation in Detroit.

One out of every three Detroit households doesn’t have a car. They rely on the bus system. But it’s broken.

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This week Michigan Radio and the Detroit Journalism Cooperative are looking at how the city is functioning under bankruptcy. One of the biggest problems facing Detroit is the huge number of abandoned houses, buildings, and vacant lots. Here's a look at what’s changed in the six months since Mayor Mike Duggan took office.

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“Six months from now, you are going to be able to judge for yourself whether the leadership of this city has a sound plan and is achieving it.”

Those were the words of Mayor Mike Duggan when he was sworn in.

His six-month challenge is coming to an end. All this week, The Detroit Journalism Cooperative will look at the changes in Detroit over the past six months and how the city is functioning under bankruptcy.

Michigan Radio’s Detroit reporter, Sarah Cwiek, and investigative reporter Lester Graham spoke with Cynthia Canty on Stateside about Duggan's efforts.

Though emergency manager Kevyn Orr is still running the show, Duggan has shown potential.

“He’s showing some real leadership skills for a guy who has been elected to serve a city with no power,” Graham says.

During Duggan’s campaign, he talked a lot about being involved in the bankruptcy progress and being aggressive with Kevyn Orr. They signed a power-sharing agreement after the election. While Orr continues to manage the bankruptcy, Duggan is focusing on the day-to-day operations of the city.

So far, Duggan has been focusing on blight, public lighting, and putting city buses on the roads. Cwiek says Duggan is building a good reputation with most of the city.

When judging Duggan’s efforts, he has no control over the bankruptcy, police department, or school district.

Duggan has said that he wants to bring in more residents, and he has made a bit of progress. His effort to rehabilitate vacant homes and sell them on online auctions helps a little. But crime and schools remain a key issue for potential residents.

“He really does have a knack for actually interacting with and talking to people,” Cwiek said. “I think while there may remain a few people in the communities who are a little suspicious of him, I think he’s managed to build a pretty good rapport with his constituents.”

Graham says as a white mayor in a city that is 80% African American, Duggan knows that he has to be seen as one of the people to make connections.

“He doesn’t dress like our past mayors; he’s a little more casual about his dress,” Graham said. “He drives himself around, he stops in the neighborhoods, he talks with people because he wants to be seen as a regular guy. And he’s not running around, like in the past, with five bodyguards and an entourage.”

The Detroit Journalism Cooperative will be looking at Duggan’s efforts on blight, mass transit, and lighting. Michigan Radio's Sarah Hulett will have a report on crime and Sarah Cwiek will look at the city's schools. Those reports will air on Morning Edition and All Things Considered on Michigan Radio.

*Listen to full story above.

–Bre’Anna Tinsley, Michigan Radio Newsroom.

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This week Michigan Radio and our media partners in the Detroit Journalism Cooperative are looking at how the city is functioning under bankruptcy and the leadership of Mayor Mike Duggan.

At the beginning of the year, Mayor Duggan said to watch what happens in six months. We’ll review the changes throughout this week, but we thought we’d start with a look at the mayor himself.

Detroit is now home to a designated “innovation district.”

Mayor Mike Duggan and other officials announced Thursday that Detroit was joining the Brookings Institution national initiative to recharge metropolitan economies.

Backers say those districts are a way to “supercharge the innovation economy.”

Helping Detroit teens get summer jobs could change their lives forever, and benefit whole communities.

That was Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s pitch for his new “TeenWork Initiative” at the Mackinac Island Policy Conference.

Duggan said too many Detroit teens feel like they’ve been “discarded” by society and the economy.

But he thinks that could change if they heard a different message.

“How powerful would it be if hundreds of companies came together and said, ‘We believe in you; we believe in your potential?” Duggan said.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says he “completely supports” the Detroit aid package being debated in Lansing, despite the conditions attached to it.

The 11-bill package would put $195 million in state funds toward the $816 million “grand bargain:” a deal to smooth Detroit’s trip through bankruptcy by minimizing cuts to retiree pensions, and shielding the Detroit Institute of Arts’ assets from city creditors.

Global financial giant JPMorgan Chase is bringing Wall Street money to the Motor City.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon formally unveiled his company’s plans to put $100 million into a range of targeted initiatives at a Detroit luncheon Wednesday.

Dimon called the effort a “long term investment” in a rebounding city.

“We believe in Detroit’s future, and we want to see the city recover its economic strength,” said Dimon.

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There could be a first vote tomorrow in the Legislature on an almost $200 million deal to aid the city of Detroit. Mayor Mike Duggan was one of those who testified prior to the historic vote. Duggan says, overall, he supports the plan.

“I want you to be comfortable we’re not going to be coming back in two years, four years, six years – that we’re going to solve this once and when we do solve it once, you’re going to be proud of how progress is made,” Duggan told the House Committee on Detroit’s Restructuring and Michigan’s Future.

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Workers removed some of the plywood covering up a house in the Osborn neighborhood on Sunday to allow potential buyers to check out one of the houses the city will put up for auction.

Saturday, people visited available houses in the Boston-Edison neighborhood.

Detroit owns 16,000 properties. Some of them are houses in good enough condition to sell.

Bidding starts at $1,000, but the buyers have to bring the property up to code and either live in it or rent it to someone.

Sarah Cwiek / Michigan Radio

The Detroit City Council has agreed to transfer more than 16,000 city owned properties to Detroit’s land bank authority.

The transfer allows Mayor Mike Duggan’s ambitious blight eradication efforts to move forward.

Duggan wants to use the non-profit land bank as a key tool in the fight against blight.

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The city of Detroit has launched an effort to fill some of its vacant homes with new residents – an online auction site for city-owned properties.

There are 15 houses listed on the site now. The plan is for the Detroit Land Bank Authority to start auctioning off one home a day, starting May 5.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says this is part of the city “moving aggressively” to deal with blight.

Duggan says the idea is to get the homes fixed up, and people living in them, as soon as possible.

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The city of Detroit has started posting legal notices on 79 abandoned homes in one city neighborhood, warning homeowners to clean up the property--or risk a lawsuit, and the city seizing the home.

The effort in the west side neighborhood near Marygrove College was announced Wednesday afternoon by Mayor Mike Duggan, in what he called a "bold experiment" to fight blight.

It will work like this: once a notice is posted, homeowners have 72 hours to contact the city and arrange to sign a consent agreement. It will stipulate that the homeowner clean up the property, and move someone into the house within 60 days.

If that doesn't happen, the city can sue to have the Detroit Land Bank Authority seize the house. The Land Bank will then re-sell properties it deems "salvageable" at auction.

“When you leave your house abandoned, it is a nuisance to the neighborhood," Duggan said. "And you cannot legally leave your property in a way that’s a nuisance.

"I'm going to give every single person when we sue them the choice—either sign the court order to get it fixed up and occupied, or we’re going to take title.”

Duggan said it will be "fascinating" to see how the program plays out in the Marygrove neighborhood effort plays out over the next 90 days--but that plans are already in the works to expand it to other neighborhoods.

Duggan said represents a shift away from the "mindless demolition" approach to blight eradication--though many homes that are simply unsalvageable will have to be demolished. “If we take down the houses that can’t be saved, and we sell what’s left…I think people will value that," Duggan said.

Lola Holton, a 39-year resident of the neighborhood, said she's ready to see "results."

"I'm very, very excited about having community back," Holton said. "That's what we need. We've lost that.

"Not only the restoration and taking boards down, but putting families in these houses. To build community."

Lester Graham / Michigan Radio

Detroit's municipal bankruptcy has made the world aware of what Michigan already knew. Detroit is broke. No matter how it turns out, bankruptcy is not going to change things very quickly. Detroit will still be broke. That’s going to force the city to get creative.

Let’s get one thing out of the way: the state of Michigan is not going to bail out Detroit.

And the state of Michigan is not going fully restore revenue sharing from the sales tax with cities such as Detroit.

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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan hopes to renew state lawmakers’ interest in curbing scrap metal theft across the state. Duggan met with Democrats and Republicans in the state House on Wednesday.

He wants to make sure the House does not approve a Senate version of legislation that he says does not go far enough to crack down on illegal scrap metal sales.

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As Mayor Duggan does the heavy lifting to get Detroit actually up on its physical "feet," the other part of its rehab is, of course, the historic bankruptcy.

So many pieces, so many players.

Detroit News Business Columnist Daniel Howes has been keeping a close eye on all of it, and he joined us today for our weekly check-in.

Listen to the full interview above.

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Detroit Mayor Michael Duggan delivered his first State of the City speech last night before a packed, invitation-only crowd. And his message was clear: We are going to change what it means to live in Detroit.

Even among those who have a "wait-and-see" attitude, the mayor's speech is being praised for what many believe is a refreshing attention to detail and the sense that a team is at work.

Detroit Free Press columnist Nancy Kaffer joined us today.

Listen to the full interview above.

You’ve heard it before, folks, time and time again. In today's economy, the more education one attains after high school, the better, right? But what if some students might be better served in other settings, academic or otherwise? Is it time for Michigan to develop some credible alternatives for high school grads? We’ll find out more on today’s show.

Then, we spoke to Daniel Howes about his reporting on Detroit's historic bankruptcy.

And, Fifth Third Ballpark wants to expand its concessions menu. We took a look at some of the food options fans can vote for, including deep-fried lasagna and a bacon-and-chocolate taco.

Also, how can we keep young entrepreneurs fresh out of college in Michigan? The Michigan Collegiate Innovation Prize awards them for launching their start-ups in state.

And, a new fee system for hunting and fishing goes into effect soon, and it’s the first significant raise in over 15 years. We spoke with Ed Golder of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources about what’s behind this increase.

First on the show, Detroit Mayor Michael Duggan delivered his first State of the City speech last night before a packed, invitation-only crowd. And his message was clear: We are going to change what it means to live in Detroit.

Even among those who have a "wait-and-see" attitude, the mayor's speech is being praised for what many believe is a refreshing attention to detail and the sense that a team is at work.

Detroit Free Press columnist Nancy Kaffer joined us today.

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Detroit buses are being outfitted with new security cameras.

Mayor Mike Duggan says the intent is to deter crime against passengers and drivers.

“For far too long, our drivers have not been safe driving the buses. And at times our passengers have not been safe riding the buses,” says Duggan.

Duggan says city bus drivers particularly don’t deserve some of the treatment they’ve been getting.

They used to say that the definition of chutzpah was the boy who killed his parents and then asked the court for mercy since he was an orphan. But that was improved on twice this week.

First, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan began talking about making a bid for the Democratic National Convention two years from now.

That’s a nice “comeback kid” idea, but there are two major problems.

The entire metro area probably doesn’t have enough hotel space. Detroit could barely host the Republican Convention in 1980, and Democratic conventions have more delegates.

Plus, conventions are expensive.

Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio

President Obama was doing more today in Michigan than talking about farm policy.

The president also met with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.

Over a lunch of salmon and rice, Duggan says the two men talked about improving Detroit’s economy.

“The conversation was very fast-paced. We exchanged a number of ideas on a number of strategies,” says Duggan. “You are going to see a continued partnership between the Obama administration and the city of Detroit.”

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Gov. Rick Snyder and Detroit leaders announced their immigration reform plan this morning at the Hispanic-owned Ideal Group in Detroit.

The plan calls for federal changes that would allow immigrants to live, work, and hopefully create jobs in the city of Detroit.

More from Gov. Snyder’s press release:

Detroit must harness the power of skilled immigrants to grow its economy, increase its tax base and reverse its population decline, Gov. Rick Snyder said today as he urged federal action on his proposal that increases employment-based visas for immigrants.

“We want the world to know that Detroit is open for business,” Snyder said. “Legal immigration helped to build this great city and is just as critical to its comeback. Immigrants create jobs and Detroit is a great value opportunity in terms of business costs and overall quality of life.

The plan calls for the federal government to secure 50,000 employment-based visas for skilled immigrants (employment-based second preference visas, or EB-2 visas).

The visas would require that the visa holders reside and work in the city of Detroit.

Gov. Snyder's office cited the following statistics in support of the plan:

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DETROIT (AP) - Gov. Rick Snyder says he's launching an initiative to encourage immigration as a way of fostering Detroit's economic development.

Snyder's office says the governor will join Mayor Mike Duggan at a Thursday morning news conference. It says City Council members and business and community leaders also will participate.

The 10 a.m. event is at the offices of the IDEAL Group, a family-owned manufacturing and construction company.

Snyder has promoted immigrant entrepreneurs as a resource for Detroit's economic development. He said in last Thursday's State of the State address that he wants to make Michigan more immigrant-friendly and more attractive for foreign investment.

Snyder has applied for Michigan to join Vermont as states that run a regional center for the EB-5 visa program targeting immigrant entrepreneurs.

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DETROIT (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden plans to attend a working dinner with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan during a visit to the city.

The White House says Biden will travel Wednesday to Detroit and attend the dinner Wednesday evening.

On Thursday, Biden is scheduled to attend the North American International Auto Show. The White House has said that Biden will discuss the future of the U.S. auto industry and "highlight its strong recovery following the tough restructuring and shared sacrifice" under the 2009 federal bailout.

News media, industry and other previews for the show began Monday, and the show is open to the public Saturday though Jan. 26 at Cobo Center.

Sarah Cwiek / Michigan Radio

Wasting no time, Mike Duggan was officially sworn in as Detroit’s 75th mayor on New Year’s Day.

Duggan took the oath in a small interoffice ceremony, surrounded by his family.

He comes into office as Detroit’s fate hangs in the balance in bankruptcy cout, with his mayoral powers limited by emergency manager Kevyn Orr.

Orr and Duggan have a power-sharing agreement that gives the mayor control of most day-to-day city operations. Duggan says he’ll do what he can with that.

Kate Davidson / Michigan Radio

In less than two weeks, Detroit will have a new mayor.

Mike Duggan's term begins January first. Outgoing Mayor Dave Bing has been making his "farewell tour" around Detroit.

What is the Bing legacy? And what might we expect from his successor?

We turned to Detroit News business columnist Daniel Howes for some perspective.

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Ben McLemore, Nerlens Noel and Trey Burke all rank among the best prospects for the 2013 draft. Getty Images

Every year, I put together a "Best Available List" for ESPN's coverage of the NBA draft. For the past 11 years, this list has been based not upon a player's expected draft position, but on which players are the best prospects and project to be the best NBA pros.

For this year's Top 30 best available players, I have broken down each player with his "Success Piece" (the attributes the player exhibits that will most likely lead him to success in the NBA), his "Fail Piece" (the things that could hold the player back from having success in the NBA), his projected fit in the league, and a brief overview.

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Success Piece: Elite shooter and transition athlete.

Fail Piece: Assertiveness, overall toughness and maturity, ability to defend in isolation.

Projected Fit: Starter to All-Star

Overview: McLemore is the player in this draft who is most likely to mature into an All-Star. His talents are considerable. The only question is whether he has the temperament and assertiveness to be a star performer on the NBA level. If selected by a team with an established star, McLemore can have the room to mature into one himself.

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TheWanderer • 5 hrs ago Report Abuse

Another fine job by our media of editing to suit their story. Play the full tapes and learn the truth.

Jon • 6 hrs ago Report Abuse

I guess the media didn’t learn anything from the Trayvon case about editing video and audio to influence public opinion.

irish2 • 4 hrs ago Report Abuse

I remember the George Zimmerman edit also. It is about time they get fined and maybe boycoted

Dan from Ohio • 6 hrs ago Report Abuse

a good propagandist always uses EMOTIONS to influence the masses,forget history or the facts

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Jay81 • 2 hrs 29 mins ago Report Abuse

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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Tom • 3 hrs ago Report Abuse

MSNBC has been caught making stuff up before so why should I believe them now?

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Josef Goebbels would be so proud of his fellow progressives in the media carrying on the lies and propaganda.

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He asked a question to the people in the gallery behind him and then some people started to answer him. He wasn’t heckled at all and this is propaganda from the gun-grabbers. You have to watch the entire video to see this and not just the edited one.

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Leggett & Platt Inc. (NYSE:LEG)Dividend Yield: 3.7%

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That doesn’t sound exciting, but Leggett’s product lines put it in a great space as the economy (and importantly, the housing market) continues to show signs of recovery. Its trajectory is already attractive — revenues increased by 21% from 2009 to 2012, with earnings more than doubling over that same period.

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There was never anything quite like a field trip with Ms. Frizzle: blasting off into space, driving through Arnold's body, traveling back to the days of the dinosaurs. But this imaginary trailer for a Magic School Bus movie trades science lessons for magic as Ms. Frizzle's class reunites for one last trip—to rescue their beloved teacher from Hell.

This fan trailer, made by the Moving Mind Studio team of Sam Brisson, Ryan George, and Brandon Calder captures many of the characters: Arnold's stick-in-the-mud reluctance, Carlos' terrible puns, even Liz the lizard makes an appearance. But it needs some of that classic Magic School Bus edutainment. Maybe Hell is actually located at the Earth's core? Then again, we probably would have noticed it there during The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth.

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Semdex, the main index of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM), dipped by 0.4% to close at 2,067.21 points, according to market highlights published by Anglo-Mauritius Stockbrokers for the week ending March 14, 2014.

On the other hand, the Sem-7 index is estimated to have closed at 402.70 points, representing an increase of 0.7%, spurred on by the Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB), State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) and Altea. MCB, SBM and Altea improved by 0.9%, 1.9%, and 0.4% respectively. It may be noted that the SEM-7 comprises the seven largest eligible shares of the Official Market, measured in terms of average market capitalisation, liquidity and investibility criteria.

The banking sector saw MCB end the week at Rs 215 with 107.7 thousand shares traded at a volume-weighted average price (VWAP) of Rs 213.58. SBM closed the week at Rs 1.06 with17.8million shares exchanged and a VWAP of Rs 1.05. In contrast, Bramer Banking stagnated at Rs 7.10 with 37.3 thousand shares traded.

In the insurance space, Swan is the only company which bettered share prices, increasing by 2.0% to reach Rs 296.00 on a traded volume of 2.3 thousand shares. On the other hand, CFS dipped by 0.7% to Rs 8.00 with 141.8 thousand shares exchanged.

All hotel stocks ended the week in red. Industry bellwether New Mauritius Hotels (which owns the Beachcomber brand) saw a dip of 0.6% to Rs 80.00 with 103.1 thousand shares traded while Lux* Island Resorts lost 0.3% to reach Rs 37.30 with 124.1 thousand shares. Sun Resorts maintained a downward trend to finish at Rs 38.50, representing a decrease of 3.8% week-on-week.

In addition, property companies suffered a decline with BlueLife and Le Meritt losing 5.0% and 4.6% respectively. Sugar major Omnicane also dipped 1.1% to Rs 87.00 with 24,000 shares traded.

ENL commercial gave up 3.9% to Rs 22.00 on 2,600 shares. Over the three trading sessions, Innodis traded at Rs 55.00 while Thursday saw its traded volume cross 30,000 shares but the stock dropped to Rs 54.50 and only 100 traded shares at week-close, marking a loss of 0.9% week-on-week.

The construction sector had a poor run last week with a dip of 6.5% in Gamma Civic to Rs 43.00 on 9,500 shares. UBP was not spared the downward spiral in construction either, with a decline of 1.1% to Rs 86.50 on 36,000 shares.

In the industrial space, Moroil was the only gainer with a growth of 1.8% to Rs 28.00 on 9,500 shares.

Over the short week, with a mid-week break to mark Independence Day, a notable volume of 1.0 million shares was exchanged on conglomerate CIEL Limited but the stock hit a weekly low of Rs 6.32 before closing at Rs 6.50, representing a drop of 6.6% week-on-week.

As for Alteo, the conglomerate gained 0.4% to reach Rs 34.00 with 68,200 shares traded, whilst Terra dropped by 0.5% to Rs 38.30 with 68.4 thousand shares. On the other hand, ENL Land fell to Rs 45.45 on Monday to trade at that price over the next sessions before closing last week’s session at Rs 49.50 with 50.9 thousand shares traded.

Other movers on the investment counter were Belle Mare Holding which rose 3.7%, National Investment Trust with a jump of 2.7%, while United Dock suffered a dip of 2.8%, POLICY decreased 1.5% and Promotion & Development had a 1.2% fall. ASL fell by 6.6% to Rs 110.25 on 8.3 thousand shares traded.

Overall, market turnover amounted to Rs 109.3 million and foreign investors were net buyers to the tune of Rs 10.7 million.

Image (The Alternative): The banking sector had a good run, with MCB and SBM rising 0.9% and 1.9% respectively while Bramer Banking stayed steady at Rs 7.10 per share.

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 Saddam Hussein refuses to sell out Iraq.

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مُساهمةموضوع: Saddam Hussein refuses to sell out Iraq.   الأربعاء 29 ديسمبر 2010, 6:36 pm

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Saddam Hussein refuses to sell out Iraq.

Egyptian Magazine publishes transcript of meeting in prison between Saddam Hussein and

Donald Rumsfeld.

(Translated from Arabic by Muhammad Abu Nasr)

The Egyptian magazine al-Usbu‘ on Monday, 2 May 2005, published what it said was the text of a con-versation between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on his latest trip to Baghdad during which he visited the imprisoned Iraqi leader. Al-Usbu‘ reports that informed political sources had disclosed the details of the meeting.

Al-Usbu‘ reports that the meeting took place after an escalation of Iraqi Resistance attacks against US occupation forces and their allies and stooges in Iraq. The sources indicated that the US had lost more than 1,600 men killed and wounded in the last three months, only a fraction of which they officially admitted. The available information indicates that US President George W. Bush held a meeting with his staff in which they discussed ways to stop the Resistance violence in Iraq in order to save US lives and stop the continued deterioration of relations between the US and its allies and other countries that sent forces to occupied Iraq. The US leadership arrived at a decision to offer to release the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and take him to his preferred place of exile outside Iraq in return for his appearing on television to demand that the Iraqi Resistance halt its armed operations and form a political party to take part in the political process set up by the US occupation forces in Iraq.

Bush entrusted his Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld, with the task of going to Iraq immediately to urge the quick formation of a new Iraqi puppet “government” and to meet with the Iraqi “leaders” who have emerged from the 30 January “election” results held under the threat of US weapons in occupied Iraq. At the same time, however, Rumsfeld was to meet with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in his American prison near Saddam International Airport west of Baghdad.

The Saddam Hussein-Rumsfeld meeting reportedly lasted nearly an hour and took place in the presence of the commander of US occupation forces in Iraq. Rumsfeld followed up on his meeting by sending a report to President Bush in which he enclosed minutes of his meeting with the Iraqi President and offered outlines for how the US should deal with future developments in Iraq. He is said to have stressed the need for pursuing various ways to hold political dialogue with the Resistance and with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

In his report, al-Usbu‘ said, Rumsfeld emphasized that the situation in Iraq was increasingly dangerous. He said that the Arab Resistance looked like an organized army in the making and that it was training well and had been provided with important support in weapons and other material back up. Rumsfeld said that the number of Resistance fighters in Iraq had now reached 400,000 active fighters and that around them were more than five million people providing the Resistance with support.

Rumsfeld said that what took place in al-Fallujah had a negative impact on the security situation and that the Resistance had succeeded in reaping the fruits of the “war on terror” being waged by the United States to use them for its benefit. He said that Iraqi youths were now vying with one another in volunteering to fight in the ranks of the Resistance.

Rumsfeld confirmed that the names of many of the Resistance organizations that declare themselves here and there are nothing but fronts for organizations of the Arab Baath Party under the leadership currently of Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri, the Vice President of Iraq.

Rumsfeld expressed the expectation that the situation would become much more difficult in the coming period since the pace of armed operations against the US forces had greatly accelerated, and now stands at more than 200 attacks every day, making dozens of casualties in the “coalition”and puppet “national guard” ranks likely.

Rumsfeld said that he had reviewed numerous American and Iraqi reports that reveal a deterioration in the security situation in Iraq and a fall in the morale level of the troops as casualties and material losses increase.

Rumsfeld indicated that there have also been serious material losses in US ranks, and that the Americans are now loosing an average of at least 30 military vehicles every week, something that is continually depleting American power.

Rumsfeld also disclosed that the Resistance had just recently seized stockpiles of advanced American weaponry including artillery and rocket launchers as well as anti-aircraft launchers and that the US command expressed the fear that these arms would soon have their effect in escalating the movements of violence and Resistance operations.

At the end of his report, al-Usbu‘ reports, Rumsfeld urged the continuation of the dialogue with Saddam Hussein and his supporters until they can arrive at a formula for bringing about a temporary truce to facilitate a discussion of both sides’ proposals.

Al-Usbu‘ obtained the minutes of the conversation between Saddam Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld from a reliable American source. The following are the minutes of the meeting:

Minutes of the meeting between President Saddam Hussein and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

At the beginning of the meeting President Saddam appeared extremely calm, perhaps he was surprised that his visitor was Rumsfeld, but he did not show any nervous tension. Rumsfeld began the discussion:

Rumsfeld: I have come to meet you to talk with you about the situation in Iraq. We have been in communication with some of your supporters inside and outside Iraq and they advised us to listen to you.

Saddam Hussein: And what is it that you want? Your forces have occupied the territory of noble Iraq; you brought down the ruling regime without any legal basis; you attacked the sovereignty of an independent, free, sovereign country; and you committed crimes that history will record as testimony against your bloodstained civilization. So what more do you want after all that?

Rumsfeld (trying to conceal his anger): there is no call for going into the past. I’ve come specially to present you a clear and specific offer and I want to hear from you a clear and specific answer.

Saddam Hussein (mockingly): I suppose you’ve come to apologize and return authority to the Iraqis.

Rumsfeld: We have nothing to apologize for. You were a danger to your neighbors. You were trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and you practiced dictatorship over your people. So it was natural for us to extend our hands to help the people of Iraq to rid themselves of the perils they faced for more than thirty years.

Saddam Hussein: I know that you’re ignorant of history and I know that your president is no less ignorant. But it seems that you’ve been telling lies for so long that you have come to believe them yourselves. If you mean by “our neighbors” the Zionist Entity, then, yes, we really were posing a danger to it and preparing to liberate our plundered land in Palestine. This is the trust of every Arab person, not just Iraqis, for that land is Arab and its people are Arab and the Zionists have done nothing but occupy the land. They came to us from every corner of the world with your help and that of the old colonial powers. But if you mean Kuwait, I would like to ask you: Have you withdrawn from Kuwait or not?

Rumsfeld: These are security issues. Besides, between us and Kuwait and the other Gulf States there are security agreements. We came in based on their request to defend them from your threats.

Saddam Hussein: Isn’t it funny to entrust the wolf to guard the sheep? The Kuwaiti people are an Arab people, and Kuwait is Iraqi territory. So I would ask you to go and read up on history well, except that I am sure that you will never be able to grasp it.

Rumsfeld: Enough of this chatter. I am offering you . . .

Saddam Hussein (cuts him off): Before you offer me your rotten goods, I want to ask you: did you find any weapons of mass destruction or not?

Rumsfeld (confused): we haven’t found any so far. But we definitely will find them one day. Do you deny that you had the intention of making a nuclear bomb?

Saddam Hussein: We had no weapons of mass destruction since 1991. We were truthful when we spoke to the International Inspection Team and we were truthful in our letters to Kofi Annan. And you knew those facts, but you were looking for any false excuse to occupy Iraq and overthrow the legal authorities.

Rumsfeld: The Iraqis greeted us happily and welcomed us and the reason was the bloody practices of your regime for all the years in which you ruled Iraq.

Saddam Hussein: I ask you, Mr. Rumsfeld . . . Enough lying. You are the ones who opened up cascades of blood on the land of Iraq. You plotted against us and you came with some traitors to take over rule of the great land of Iraq.

Rumsfeld: The ones you call traitors were chosen as their leaders by the Iraqi people by democratic means and clean elections, such as never took place while you ruled the country.

Saddam Hussein: I knew that you came with a band of traitors with [Jalal] at-Talibani in their front ranks (laughs mockingly). Great Iraq being ruled by at-Talibani and al-Ja‘fari, isn’t that ridiculous? And what kind of elections are you talking about? Is it possible to hold free elections, as you call them, when our country is occupied? Mr. Rumsfeld, we have learned from history that occupiers come only with their lackeys and agents, then you want after all that to convince me that the people of Iraq are enjoying freedom and democracy? You must really be delirious.

Rumsfeld (trying very hard to control his anger): You are in isolation and don’t know the facts of what is going on outside. The Iraqi people have been freed from your oppression. If they saw you or any of you men in the street, they would destroy you !!

Saddam Hussein: And I bet you that if you were able to announce where you are in Iraq, if the Iraqi Resistance learned where you were, you wouldn’t be able to get out alive. I want to pass on some advice that you must convey to your stupid president: you must tell him to save what remains of his troops. Death is stalking them in every place and history will not forgive him.

Rumsfeld: I came to talk with you about the ‘terrorist’ operations that your men are inciting and carrying out. Your men recently carried out a foul attack against Abu Ghurayb prison where more than 50 Americans were killed or wounded, and they killed a number of those in custody on various charges as well. Your men are getting help ‘terrorists’ from every corner of the world and they are threatening the democratic experiment in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein: What exactly is it that you want?

Rumsfeld: I’m making you one offer and that is that you will be released and can chose for yourself a place of exile freely, in any country you like, on condition that you go on television and issue a condemnation of ‘terrorism’ and order your men to stop these acts.

Saddam Hussein: Have you obtained the agreement of your president to this offer?

Rumsfeld: Yes, this offer has been agreed on in a meeting in which the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Chief of Intelligence took part. And I have been authorized to inform you of this offer.

Saddam Hussein: It’s a trifling offer.

Rumsfeld (with a sigh): We’re also ready to bring elements close to you into the government.

Saddam Hussein: And what else?

Rumsfeld: You will be given generous financial assistance and security protection for you and your family in the country of your choice.

Saddam Hussein: Do you want to hear my conditions?

Rumsfeld: I would love to.

Saddam Hussein (with an air of superciliousness and superiority) I want first from you that you set a time table for your withdrawal from Iraq and that your government commit itself to it before the world and that you begin the withdrawal immediately.

Secondly, I ask you to release immediately all the Iraqi and Arab prisoners in the prisons you have set up or in which you have taken the freedom of tens of thousands of honorable people of Iraq.

Thirdly, I ask from you to pledge to grant full compensation for the material losses that afflicted the Iraqi people as a result of your aggression against our country since the Mother of Battles in 1991 and until today. And I accept the assistance of an Arab and International Committee in estimating the extent of those losses.

Fourth, I ask that you return the money that you and your men plundered from the treasuries of Iraq, and its oil, in particular that criminal [L. Paul] Bremer and his gang of traitors and renegades.

Fifth, the return of the artifacts that you stole and gave to the archaeological artifact mafia. These are treasures that are beyond all the monetary value in the world, because they carry the history of Iraq and its civilization. It’s true that you don’t have any civilization or history and that the lifespan of your country is no more than a few hundred years, but all that must not serve to justify your theft and your hatred for the civilization of Iraq and the wealth of Iraq.

And sixth, you must hand over the weapons of mass destruction if you have found any and return to us the lives of all the martyrs whose lives you took and to return the honor of the noble women of Iraq whom you dishonored.

Rumsfeld: Is this some kind of joke?

Saddam Hussein: No! This is the bitter reality. . . which you know, Mr. Rumsfeld. You have committed the greatest crime in history against a peaceful Arab country. We met together in the 1980s. Do you remember your offers?

Rumsfeld: Enough of the past. We are reassessing our positions towards you and towards a number of powers that have been hostile to us in the past. We have decided to hold dialogue with moderate Islamicists and we have no objection to their coming to power through the ballot box. More important than that we have decided to open channels for dialogue with ‘terrorist’ organizations like Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Hizb Allah, which is pro-Iranian, and also with other fundamentalist organizations in the whole world. We even have a plan for contacting the Taliban movement in Afghanistan to study the possibility of their participation in power, in exchange for their giving up arms.

Saddam Hussein: So you have begun to rethink your erroneous course?

Rumsfeld: It is a natural development of events. We are striving to spread democracy in all countries and movements subject to tyranny.

Saddam Hussein: May you prosper if you are truthful. I know your real aim, though. If you were really truthful, then you and your allies must begin immediately by withdrawing from Iraq. And you would also have to depart from your position of support for ‘Israel’. But I know that your president is stubborn and arrogant and is not telling the truth.

Rumsfeld: He is a democratically elected president, not a bloody ruler like you.

Saddam Hussein: Terror is your product and lying is your method.

Rumsfeld: This offer is a historic opportunity for you. You will be released and we will consult with you in everything related to the running of Iraq. If you refuse this offer, the opportunity will not be fulfilled.

Saddam Hussein: I am not looking for opportunities. I am not looking for a way to save my neck from the gallows that you have set up for all of Iraq. If I wanted that, I would have accepted the Russian offer and saved my sons and grandson from martyrdom. I don’t know what has become of my family and my daughters and grandchildren. But believe me: I am concerned with every Iraqi citizen and with the future of great Iraq more than I am concerned with myself and my family.

Through your men, you previously made an offer that if I declare that weapons of mass destruction were muggled to Syria, you said that in return you would release me. I rejected that then and I reject it again now.

Rumsfeld: I don’t want a rejection from you. I want you to think about it. We are continuing our reassessment of our stances at the present time. We want to stop the bloodshed on both sides. And therefore we have made this offer out of the logic of power and not the logic of weakness.

We asked Jalal at-Talibani to make a statement denying any intention of executing you as a sign of good intentions on our part. We are ready to reassess our whole position on the political arrangement in Iraq as a whole and to discuss this matter with you and with your men.

Saddam Hussein: Are you ready to withdraw or not?

Rumsfeld: We can possibly discuss redeployment. Our forces have prepared bases for a long stay. We can possibly withdraw from streets and cities, but we will remain in the bases for some time.

Saddam Hussein: then you want a new stooge to add to that line of stooges. No Mr. Rumsfeld. Don’t forget that you are talking with Saddam Hussein, the President of the Republic of Iraq.

Rumsfeld: But you lost power.

Saddam Hussein: I have nothing left but honor and honor cannot be bought and sold.

Rumsfeld: But life is priceless.

Saddam Hussein: There is no value to life without honor. You robbed Iraq of its honor when you trampled on its land and we will regain our honor whether Saddam Hussein remains or dies a martyr.

Rumsfeld: Your supporters with whom we have been discussing told us that you were the first and last decision maker. Were they expecting this reaction from you?

Saddam Hussein: Definitely; they know that Saddam Hussein cannot back away at the expense of his homeland and honor.

Rumsfeld: History will hold you responsible for the blood that is being shed in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein: Rather history will judge you for your crimes. I warned you before, saying that you would commit suicide on the walls of Baghdad. And here you are paying the price. I want you to go to London and read the records of the British Foreign Office and learn something about the struggle of the Iraqi people against your British friends who are now repeating their mistakes and fighting with you. The Iraqi people are a stubborn people who do not fear death. The Resistance is stronger than you imagine. So I promise you that you will have even more.

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The Federal Communications Commission is seeking ideas for changes in the fund that subsidizes rural telephone services, because its cost is rising as rural wireless companies expand service and get subsidies, reports Amy Schatz of The Wall Street Journal.

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