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 Combat deaths US General David Petraeus acknowledged Tuesday that the Taliban were expanding their footprint across the country even as foreign forces close in on their traditional southern strongholds.
Petraeus acknowledged the spread of Taliban influence, especially to parts of the formerly peaceful north, but said the campaign to counter the insurgency was nearing its final stages. Really?
“I don’t think anyone disagrees that the footprint of the Taliban has spread,” he said, adding the insurgents had “reconnected in various safe havens and sanctuaries outside and inside the country,” a reference to Pakistan.
However, Petraeus said a sharp rise in attacks on international troops showed that the hardline Islamist militia were feeling threatened in their safe havens after almost nine years of war.
The number of American troops killed fighting the Taliban hit 21 on in the last 48 hours.
“Levels of attacks have gone up and that’s a manifestation of us increasing our resources substantially and taking away safe havens that the Taliban have been able to establish over the course of the last several years,” Patraeus said.
Continuing his excuse, Patraeus stated “I said in testimony last year several times… that indeed it would become harder before it got easier. That’s the nature of these endeavors.”
In other words, Patraeus is saying that America’s success in Afghanistan is resulting in more American combat deaths.
This misleading and self-serving logic is Petraeus’ attempt to excuse his failure and to deceive the American people.
 USAID boss Rajiv Shah on his way to visit terrorists August 25, 2010, ISLAMABAD: As voices are being raised against extremist groups using flood assistance to lure recruits for militancy, the US overseas aid chief, Rajiv Shah, created a storm on Wednesday by visiting a Sukkur relief camp run by the banned terrorist organization al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba (The Army of the Pure).
Shah, a former Gates Foundation employee, is known for using USAID to outsource computer jobs to Sri Lanka and Armenia—for the benefit of his former boss, Bill Gates, and Microsoft—not exactly helpful with the growing unemployment in the U.S.
After Shah’s visit, al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba said in a statement reported by Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper that it was in charge of the camp and that Shah was endorsing its activities.
 Hafiz Saeed, head of al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba Osama bin Laden encouraged Hafiz Saeed to form Lashkar-e-Taiba in the late 1980s, and helped fund the establishment of the terror outfit.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, like al Qaeda, practices the Wahabi strain of Islam, and receives funding from Saudis and other wealthy individuals throughout the Middle East—and now from USAID’s Rajiv Shah.
Lashkar-e-Taiba is an ally of al Qaeda; the two groups provide support for each other, and their operatives train in each other’s camps. Lashkar-e-Taiba has established training camps in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and the tribal areas.
A senior US military intelligence official described the group Shah visited as “al Qaeda junior,” as it has vast resources and is able to carry out complex attacks throughout its area of operations. “If by some stroke of luck al Qaeda collapsed, Lashkar-e-Taiba could step in and essentially take its place,” the official told The Long War Journal in November 2008.
 Lashkar-e-Taiba attack on Mumbai, in 2008 Senior military officials have claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba has expanded to the West since its bloody attack on Mumbai on Nov 26, 2008 and posed a serious threat to world peace.
Attempting to justify USAID’s visit by Mr. Shah to the camp and his donation, US Embassy spokesman Richard Snelsire said people in the camp needed food and Mr. Shah did what he thought should have been done.
USAID’s Rajiv Shah is not only sleeping with the enemy, but supporting them with American taxpayer dollars.
 Pew Research Center A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, many of the public say they do not know what religion Obama follows.
A new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that close to one-in-five Americans (18%) now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009.
The Rev. Franklin Graham made his own controversial explanation of why people wrongly believe the president is a Muslim. Graham was asked whether he has any doubts about Obama’s Christian faith. “I think the president’s problem is that he was born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a Muslim, his father gave him an Islamic name,” Graham told CNN.
In September 2008, The Democratic presidential candidate appeared on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, which aired Sunday morning. Obama was addressing the rumors that he is Muslim. He suggested that Republican rival John McCain was behind them, according to ABC News. Obama was reminded that McCain denied spreading the rumors. “You’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith,” Obama said, before being corrected by Stephanopoulos.
Did Obama blurt out the truth, or was this a Freudian slip?
 U. S. Stamp celebrating the Muslim Eid Clearly Obama is the first president of the United States with Muslim roots, or who was born a Muslim.
Obama’s Kenyan birth father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982) was a Muslim who named his boy Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. In Islam, if your father is a Muslim, you are a Muslim.
Given the fact that “Hussein” is Obama’s middle name, he was most likely born as a Shia Muslim. Hussein was one of the original Shiites and was killed in 680 CE at the Battle of Karbala.
Obama’s Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was also a Muslim. In fact, as Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kantor of the New York Times: “My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.” Maybe she misspoke?
During an interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” I, myself, have lived nine years in Saudi Arabia, and can vouch that the call to prayer being a bit mesmerizing, but would not describe it as “”one of the prettiest sounds on Earth,” as many Muslims would.
The Times’ Nicholos Kristof wrote Obama recited, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent,” the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer.
Certainly, anyone who has a lot of exposure to Muslims, either by living in a Muslim country, or by having Muslim relatives is apt to feel comfortable with the religion as it is a known quantity.
In Sharia law, the consensus view is that if a Muslim gives up his or her religion, the penalty is death. This, however, is not the only interpretation of Sharia law as it pertains to apostasy.
Colin Powell made a memorable interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, prior to the presidential election in 2008, regarding questions about Obama’s religious beliefs.
I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America.
 Unemployment claims soaring! Click for larger picture. Claims for U.S. jobless benefits jumped to the highest level since last year. This shows that no progress has been made putting Americans back to work- in fact employment is increasing – and rapidly.
This is a result of federal stimulus TARP money is wasted on large corporations and foreign banks along with sending American jobs offshore.
The chart shows that unemployment claims shot up by 12,000 to 500,000 in the week ended Aug. 14, according to the Labor Department figures.
In addition the economic indicators of the the Federal Reserve Bank turned negative in August, signaling economic contraction.
“There’s a red flag being waved right now that says ‘Danger,’” said Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Growth is going to slow in the second half and we might face something a little more ominous than that.”
It looks as though it is going to be a lot more “ominous than that.”
As a bonus for their poor performance and growing private-sector unemployment, federal workers now earn double that of people in the private sector.
Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row.
The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.
Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The average federal salary has grown 33% faster than inflation since 2000. Federal compensation has grown 36.9% since 2000 after adjusting for inflation, compared with 8.8% for private workers.
The rape and pillage of our federal government and the sending American jobs offshore by agencies such as USAID is rapidly destroying the U.S. economy.
 The old-style revolution On August 16, 2010, Paul Craig Roberts wrote, “How Close is America’s Demise? The Ecstasy of Empire.”
Mr. Roberts puts forth a number of true and correct statements, begging the question, “Without revolution, the Americans are history.”
He comes up with the wrong answer by not realizing the fact that American has already had its revolution – game over.
Modern revolutions do not involve tanks, troops, and people battling in the streets. It is nothing like the revolutionary cartoon which accompanies Mr. Roberts’ article. No modern revolutions are far more sophisticated than that. They take place quietly, surreptitiously, and pass virtually unnoticed.
 Revolutionary Cartoon The most recent American Revolution was over, done with, and won during the reign of George W. Bush.
Instead of mobs in the streets, the most recent American revolution was won by bureaucrats, lobbyists, and our elected officials. The winner was the American military-industrial complex.
Game over.
Below, as a memorial to the defeated, are some of the astute observations made by Mr. Roberts.
The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery. As recently as August 2 Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner penned a New York Times column, “Welcome to the Recovery.”
US military spending reflects the unaffordable and unattainable crazed neoconservative goal of US Empire and world hegemony. What fool in Washington thinks that China is going to finance US hegemony over China?
The only way that the US will again have an economy is by bringing back the offshored jobs. The loss of these jobs impoverished Americans while producing oversized gains for Wall Street, shareholders, and corporate executives…
Obviously, the corporations and Wall Street would use their financial power and campaign contributions to block any legislation that would reduce short-term earnings and bonuses by bringing jobs back to America. Americans have no greater enemies than Wall Street and the corporations and their prostitutes in Congress and the White House.
Without a revolution, Americans are history.
 U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner The $700 billion U.S. bailout program launched in response to the global economic meltdown had a far greater impact overseas than other countries’ financial rescue plans did on the U.S., according to a new report from a congressional watchdog.
Apparently, tax cheat and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has caused billions of dollars in U.S. rescue funds (TARP) to wind up in big banks in France, Germany and other nations.
Whereas Geithner failed to keep the TARP funds from foreigners, most of our foreign friens cleverly focused their efforts on banks in their nations that lacked major U.S. operations.
Major French and German banks were among the biggest beneficiaries of the U.S. rescue of American International Group Inc. (AIG).
Much of the $182 billion in federal aid to AIG flowed through to its partners, including French banks Societe Generale, which received $11.9 billion in AIG money, and BNP Paribas, which got $4.9 billion, and Germany’s Deutsche Bank, $11.8 billion.
That’s a $28 billion gift of America’s funds from Timothy Geithner to the three European banks. In all 43 foreign banks benefited the AID bonanza including also banks in Canada, Britain and Switzerland.
Geithner’s TARP funds wound up injecting capital into around 700 banks, while foreign governments combined aided fewer than 50.
Unlike Geithner, foreign governments watched where their funds were going.
In addition to AIG, many of the U.S. banks and automakers that received billions in bailout aid passed through a large proportion of their TARP funds to operations outside the U.S., especially in Japan and Europe.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that taxpayers will lose $36 billion, thanks to Geithner’s “negligence.”
But was Geithner really negligent?
Maybe there will be a cushy job waiting for him after he leaves the U.S. Treasury Department.
To be continued…
In our exposé of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Free trade = Unemployment we pointed out this agency’s shameless outsourcing of American jobs.
 Rajiv Shah - USAID Director and former Gates Foundation employee Under director Rajiv Shah, USAID will partner with private outsourcers in Sri Lanka to teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support—so they can replace American workers.
USAID will also partner with Armenia—a nation anxious to lure computer work from American workers—to promote the development of the country’s information technology industry.
Prior to taking over as head of USAID, Rajiv Shah was was employed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for seven long years! This reveals how the Gates Foundation really uses the U.S. government to promote Microsoft, and the outsourcing of American jobs.
Microsoft was recently in the news for paying 27¢ an hour to Chinese workers.
Now, at the request and sponsorship of Microsoft, USAID chief, Rajiv Shah has scheduled a seminar with Microsoft, near Bill Gate’s home and foundation in Seattle, Washington.
One might suspect that Rajiv Shah is on Microsoft’s payroll, or be rewarded with a cushy job at Microsoft or the Foundation, when he leaves USAID. After all, what Rajiv Shah is outsourcing are American computer jobs, and for Microsoft—which is worth a lot to Microsoft.
Here is your invitation to the seminar (all are invited and the price is free):
A Discussion with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah
Global Washington is pleased to host an event with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah in Seattle on Friday, August 13. Following remarks from Administrator Shah, a panel discussion will feature thought leaders from the public and private sectors. They will address technology’s impact on global development, with a specific focus on food security, foreign aid effectiveness, global health and entrepreneurship.
This event is co-sponsored by Washington State University and Microsoft.
In addition to Rajiv Shah, in attendance will be Dr. Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Microsoft and Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—all in the Microsoft family.
So what can Americans do about this? If you are unemployed or not, and are in the Seattle area, you should do your best to attend the seminar. Seriously, any concerned American who can show up, and protest should do so.
The event takes place Friday, August 13, 2010; 8:30am – 10:00am; Registration from 8:00am – 8:30am
Location: Saint Mark’s Cathedral
1245 10th Ave East
Seattle, WA 98102
Free parking available at venue, along with free admission, and free refreshments.
Hopefully, they will be serving tea, so you can make a Tea Party out of the seminar (as in let’s get ready to rumble).
 The seminar will be held not far from the Gates Foundation - how convenient!
Just to show how the media twists the truth, here are two news alerts—one from the Washington Post, and the other, only 16 minutes later, from The New York Times.
Washington Post News Alert: Employers add 71,000 jobs in July; unemployment rate unchanged 9.5 percent, 08:21 AM EDT Friday, August 6, 2010.
Breaking News Alert, The New York Times, Fri, August 06, 2010, 8:37 AM ET U.S. Shed 131,000 Jobs in July, but Private Payrolls Grew; Jobless Rate Steady at 9.5%
 Duration of unemployment Neither one of these alerts is correct, but the media knows that “unemployment” is a keyword and will draw in readers and sell newspapers.
Here’s what the media should be telling us.
Approximately 15 million Americans are still searching for work—and an even greater number is unemployed.
The government counts only those who are seeking employment, not those who have given up—more deception.
Let’s forget about statistics and diagnose the cause of unemployment.
Free trade = Unemployment
Multinational corporations can reap larger profits by hiring foreign labor. Microsoft is an example—in China, Microsoft is paying 27 cents an hour for production work.
What the multinationals fail to see, however, is that if Americans are unemployed, how can they buy what cheap foreign labor can produce?
On Fox News, Donald Trump said, “I’d rather have no trade than the trade we are doing.”
Meanwhile a federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language. (Information Week August 3, 2010)
 Rajiv Shah - U.S. Dept. of State photo Under director Rajiv Shah, the United States Agency for International Development will partner with private outsourcers in Sri Lanka to teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support.
USAID will also help the trainees brush up on their English language proficiency—so they can better replace American workers.
Even as controversy mounts over its funding of IT outsourcers in South Asia, the U.S. Agency for International Development has announced a program under which it will partner with the government of Armenia—a nation anxious to lure computer work from American workers—to promote the development of the country’s information technology industry.
Jonathan Hale, USAID deputy assistant administrator for Europe & Eurasia, is on a four-day trip to Armenia to meet with Armenian economic minister Nerses Yeritsyan.
“We look forward to partnering with USAID on the IT sector, which has great potential as Armenia has an advantage in this sector,” Yeritsyan said in a statement released by USAID. “We want companies to come to Armenia and create their innovative environments,” Yeritsyan said. Among other things, Armenia is looking to establish itself as a center for low-cost IT and engineering work outsourced from the U.S. and to replace American workers.
And so it goes—guys like Nerses Yeritsyan are out for our American jobs, and our government is aiding and abetting them.
Free trade = Unemployment.
 On July 19th, the US Senate passed a bill to shield US journalists, authors, and publishers from “libel tourists” who file suit in countries where they expect to get the most favorable ruling. The Senate approved the measure in a “unanimous consent” voice vote.
The popular legislation headed to the House of Representatives, which was expected to approve it and send the measure to US President Barack Obama to sign into law.
Backers of the bill have cited Singapore as the major country where weak libel safeguards attract lawsuits that unfairly harm US journalists, writers and publishers.
The measure would prevent US federal courts from recognizing or enforcing a foreign judgment for defamation that is inconsistent with the first amendment of the US Constitution and would bar foreign parties in such cases from targeting the US assets of an American author, journalist, or publisher as part of any damages.
Defamation is both a criminal offence and a civil action in Singapore. Singapore’s Defamation Act 1957, which covers defamation from a civil perspective, broadly defines defamation and covers libel and slander. Section 499 of Singapore’s Penal Code makes defamation a criminal offence. It should be noted that Singapore’s Defamation Act provides for very substantial damages to be awarded to ‘vindicate the reputation of the plaintiff’.
Singapore has long used defamation cases to stifle comment, taking major international and Asian newspapers (Asian Wall Street Journal and International Herald Tribune) and weeklies (Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek and The Economist) to court over defamation suits and in some cases has restricted their circulation in Singapore.
In October 2007, the Financial Times avoided a costly law suit by paying unspecified damages and publishing a humiliating apology that accepted its claims of nepotism were groundless. These lawsuits have caused the media to remain silent for fear of extensive and expensive lawsuits and have created an atmosphere of self-censorship amongst journalists where Singapore is involved.
Helen Yeo a Singapore lawyer threatened to sue us for libel over our book, Escape from Paradise. Helen Yeo’s husband, Yeo Cheow Tong, was at that time a Singapore cabinet minister.
 Admiral and Minister Lui Tuck Yew The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), was formed to promote the arts in Singapore. Its main function, however, is one of censorship. MDA keeps its list of banned books, websites, etc., confidential. MDA falls under Singapore’s Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, headed by Rear-Admiral and Acting Minister Lui Tuck Yew (yes, they have admirals in Singapore).
Escape from Paradise did not appear on any list of banned books, but all twenty-five copies were removed from Singapore’s National Library – save one, which was put on “restricted distribution.” (Sign out a copy, and Singapore has your name.)
In addition, bookstores were warned not to carry the book. The largest Singapore bookstore, Kinokuniya, was warned personally by lawyer from Helen Yeo’s law firm.
 Helen Yeo There was nothing in our book that defamed Helen Yeo. She was mentioned only in passing regarding the sale of a property. We avoided any mention of irregularities concerning this sale, but the mention of her name was enough for Helen Yeo to have our book banned.
Several days ago, Singapore arrested Alan Shadrake, a British national and author of Once a Jolly Hangman criticizing Singapore’s death penalty. Shadrake, now out on bail, has been charged with criminal defamation, a crime which carries a prison sentence and a heavy fine. Shadrake, 75, could spend the rest of his life in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison.
 Alan Shadrake, arrested author British author, Alan Shadrake, 75, has been arrested in Singapore because his book, Once a Jolly Hangman – Singapore Justice in the Dock, exposed the unfairness of Singapore’s death penalty. The 219-page book is filled with accounts of high-profile cases in Singapore involving the death penalty and includes interviews with the country’s former executioner Darshan Singh.
Mr. Shadrake, who divides his time between Britain and Malaysia, was in Singapore last Saturday for a private book launch at the Post Museum in Little India. He was arrested by the police at his hotel at 8.20am the next day.
Police said the arrest was made pursuant to a complaint lodged on July 16th by the Media Development Authority (MDA) the government body responsible for censoring publications and broadcasts. According its website, the MDA is “developing Singapore into a vibrant global media city.”
Mr. Shadrake is being investigated for the alleged offense of criminal defamation. This crime in Singapore carries a sentence of up to two years in prison plus unlimited fines.
He has also been served with an order by the Attorney-General to attend court for contempt of court, based on the contents of the book. A spokesman for the Attorney-General said there were statements in the book which are believed “impugn the impartiality, integrity and independence of the Singapore judiciary.”
 Darshan Singh, Singapore's hangman Mr. Shadrake’s book covers Singapore capital punishment cases from the early 1990s to the recent past. Many of these cases ended with the accused meeting Darshan Singh, Singapore’s hangman for the last half-century.
The book demonstrates that the application of capital punishment in Singapore is not a matter of justice. The decision as to whether someone is to be hanged is really a political one: the government, not the court, determines who can be hanged and who cannot be hanged.
In Singapore there are no trials by jury, so the judge is free to take orders from the government and to impose the sentence accordingly.
Among other cases, Mr. Shadrake’s book recounts that, in October 2004, sixteen Singaporeans and seven foreigners were arrested and faced charges ranging from consumption to dealing.
 Dinesh Bhatia One of those accused was Dinesh Bhatia, the son of former judicial commissioner Amarjeet Singh. Bhatia faced 10 years behind bars for consumption.
 Shanmugam His defense lawyer, K. Shanmugam (now the Minister for Law) stated at trial that Bhatia did not know it was cocaine that he was snorting. In the end, after appeal, Bhatia’s sentence was reduced to eight months, but less than three months after that, he was reported by the Straits Times to be at home, albeit wearing an electronic tag.
The drug supplier to Bhatia and the others was Ben Laroussi, himself a high-ranking executive. Laroussi was arrested on the capital charge of trafficking, but when the drugs were tested a second time, the quantity he diminished miraculously below the mandatory hanging threshold.
This tactic of “short weighing” is frequently used by the Singapore police to save the favored few from the hangman’s noose.
Laroussi was given bail on his own recognition, upon which he disappeared from Singapore.
Our book, Escape from Paradise, was also banned in Singapore. We, however, did not make the mistake of getting caught in Singapore, or we would have been arrested like Mr. Shadrake. In spite of the ban on Escape from Paradise, it still sells quite well in Singapore through Amazon.
As we wrote in Escape from Paradise:
In Singapore, a mere 15 grams of heroin, 500 grams of cannabis, 30 grams of cocaine, or 250 grams of methamphetamine will get you the hangman’s noose. There are no jury trials in Singapore, as juries had been abolished by Lee Kuan Yew.
The defendant, who is not entitled to a public trial, faces a lone judge, a government appointee, who hands down his sentence quickly. The system is very efficient, no waiting around for an appeal, no hanging out on death row for years.
Singapore does everything with excellence, and the pre-dawn Friday morning hangings are no exception. Mercifully, our high tech gallows use the “long drop,” so, the prisoner, hooded, and with arms and legs bound, dies instantly, in a snap.
The gallows can accommodate up to seven people at a drop, a great convenience when you are hanging fifty or more people every year.
Ironically, drugs are readily available in Singapore. A favorite place for “scoring” drugs is the Newton Circus Hawker Centre, a favorite late night haunt of open-air food stalls popular with young Singaporeans and foreigners, alike.
More importantly, Singapore, boasting the world’s largest port for shipping tonnage, and the most Asia-Pacific air-links, is a major transit point for drugs.
The bulk business of drug distribution is not done by small-time couriers, but by the big boys, who never touch the drugs, and are never touched by them.
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Japan’s health-insurance system covers everybody, including illegal aliens. It pays for physical, mental, dental, and long-term care.
Japanese are the world’s most prodigious consumers of medical care; they see the doctor about 15 times per year, three times the U.S. norm. They get twice as many prescriptions per capita and three times as many MRI scans. The average hospital stay is 20 nights—four times the U.S. average.
Cost: And yet Japan produces all that high-quality care at bargain-basement prices. The aging nation spends about $3,500 per person on health care each year; America burns through $7,400 per person and still leaves millions without coverage.
Canadians live three years longer and are healthier than Americans, and the lack of universal health care in the United States may be a factor, researchers say.
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Goodyear's "being considered as the next head of British Petroleum" didn't materialize. Goodyear sightings are becoming like Elvis sightings.
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