The Obamas are keeping the Bush's White House executive chef, but will also have a friend from Chicago in the kitchen — Sam Kass, who has previously cooked for the family. TIME offers an inside look at the presidential kitchen over the years
By Scott Horton
Yesterday Dick Cheney, doing his best Dr. Phibes, gave an interview in Politico. The United States, he said, faced the prospect of another attack along the lines of 9/11, though perhaps even more catastrophic. Whether we could avert this, he said, “depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts.” Meaning that Obama’s decision to ban torture means that the United States will suffer another catastrophic terrorist attack. He also said that the new president and his team were more concerned about reading Al Qaeda prisoners their Miranda rights than defending the country. Odd, as the Obama view is the same as the Bush view: the detainees don’t have Miranda rights.
Ex-Vice Presidents are usually off somewhere sunny, golfing, by now. So what’s got Cheney down? It’s probably a combination of the back injury that put him into a wheelchair at the inauguration and the fact that he was recently snubbed by the star of his favorite television program, Fox’s 24. That show’s gloomy hero, Jack Bauer, is widely viewed as a vindication of the world according to Cheney. But in an interview this week, Kiefer Sutherland, who plays Jack Bauer and claims authorship of the character, made clear that he found Cheney’s attitudes loathsome. To the suggestion that Bauer would vote Republican he responds “not a chance.” That must have hurt. If Jack Bauer’s not a Cheney man, who is?
Joe Klein at Time sums up the general opinion on Cheney’s continual hectoring: “Please go away.”
Let’s leave aside the fact that if Dick Cheney and his alleged boss had been more vigilant–if they had listened to the Clinton appointees like Sandy Berger who warned about Al Qaeda, if they had paid attention to their own intelligence reports (notably the one on August 6, 2001)—the September 11 attacks might never have happened. Actually, I can’t leave that aside… but in any case, it is sleazy in the extreme for Cheney to predict another terrorist attack. For several reasons:
Some sort of terrorist attack is likely, eventually, no matter who is President.
Cheney has done here what the Bush Administration did throughout: he has politicized terror. If another attack happens, it’s Obama’s fault. Disgraceful… and ungrateful, since it’s only Obama’s mercy that stands between Cheney and a really serious war crimes investigation.
Which explains of course why Dick and Lynne can’t take that European vacation they’ve been dreaming of for so long.
Sul caso Eluana, il governo potrebbe varare un decreto legge volto ad impedire l'esecuzione della sentenza della Corte d'appello di Milano, a sua volta giudicata corretta dalla Cassazione. Il provvedimento, secondo quanto sostiene l'Ansa, contiene un solo articolo dal titolo: «Disposizioni urgenti in materia di alimentazione ed idratazione». Il premier Berlusconi (Ansa)
Questo è il testo: «In attesa dell'approvazione di una completa e organica disciplina legislativa in materia di fine vita l'alimentazione e l'idratazione, in quanto forme di sostegno vitale e fisiologicamente finalizzate ad alleviare le sofferenze, non possono in alcun caso essere rifiutate dai soggetti interessati o sospese da chi assiste soggetti non in grado di provvedere a se stessi».
05 febbraio 2009
Documents used by officials in the search for Aribert Ferdinand Heim. More Photos >
CAIRO — Even in old age the imposingly tall, athletic German known to locals as Tarek Hussein Farid maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt’s capital. He walked to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque here, where he converted to Islam, and to the ornate J. Groppi Cafe downtown, where he ordered the chocolate cakes he sent to friends and bought the bonbons he gave to their children, who called him Uncle Tarek.
The Kasr el Madina Hotel in Cairo, where Aribert Ferdinand Heim lived under the name of Tarek Hussein Farid. More Photos »
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Friends and acquaintances here in Egypt also remember him as an avid amateur photographer who almost always wore a camera around his neck, but never allowed himself to be photographed. And with good reason: Uncle Tarek was born Aribert Ferdinand Heim, a member of Hitler’s elite Waffen-SS and a medical doctor at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps.
It was behind the gray stone walls of Mauthausen, in his native Austria, that Dr. Heim committed the atrocities against hundreds of Jews and others that earned him the nickname Dr. Death and his status as the most wanted Nazi war criminal still believed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to be at large.
Dr. Heim was accused of performing operations on prisoners without anesthesia; removing organs from healthy inmates, then leaving them to die on the operating table; injecting poison, including gasoline, into the hearts of others; and taking the skull of at least one victim as a souvenir. After living below the radar of Nazi hunters for more than a decade after World War II — much of it in the German spa town of Baden-Baden where he had a wife, two sons and a medical practice as a gynecologist — he escaped capture just as investigators closed in on him in 1962.
His hiding place, as well as his death in 1992, have remained unknown until now.
Investigators in Israel and Germany have repeatedly said that they believed Dr. Heim was alive and hiding in Latin America, near where a woman alleged to be his illegitimate daughter lived in Chile. Witnesses from Finland to Vietnam and from Saudi Arabia to Argentina have sent tips and reported sightings to investigators.
A dusty briefcase with rusted buckles, sitting nearly forgotten in storage here in Cairo, hid the truth behind Dr. Heim’s flight to the Middle East. Obtained by The New York Times and the German television station ZDF from members of the Doma family, proprietors of the hotel here where Dr. Heim resided, the files in the briefcase tell the story of his life, and death, in Egypt.
The briefcase contains an archive of yellowed pages, some in envelopes that were still sealed, of Dr. Heim’s letters and medical test results, his financial records and an underlined, annotated article from a German magazine about his own manhunt and trial in absentia, even drawings of soldiers and trains by the children he left behind in Germany. Some documents are in the name Heim, others Farid, but many of the latter, like an application for Egyptian residency under the name Tarek Hussein Farid, have the same birthday, June 28, 1914, and the same place of birth, Radkersburg, Austria, as Dr. Heim.
Although none of the 10 friends and acquaintances in Cairo who identified a photograph of Dr. Heim knew his real identity, they described signs that he might have been on the run. “My idea, which I’ve taken from my father at that time, is that he was in dispute with maybe the Jews, but he took refuge in Cairo at that time,” said Tarek Abdelmoneim el Rifai, the son of Abdelmoneim el Rifai, 88, Dr. Heim’s dentist in Cairo and close friend.
A certified copy of a death certificate obtained from Egyptian authorities confirmed witness accounts that the man called Tarek Hussein Farid died in 1992. “Tarek Hussein Farid is the name my father took when he converted to Islam,” said his son Rüdiger Heim. In an interview in the family’s villa in Baden-Baden, Mr. Heim, 53, admitted publicly for the first time that he was with his father in Egypt at the time of his death from rectal cancer.
“It was during the Olympics. There was a television in the room, and he was watching the Olympics. It distracted him. He must have been suffering from serious pain,” said Mr. Heim, who is tall, like his father, with a long mournful face and speaks softly and carefully. Dr. Aribert Heim died the day after the Games ended, on Aug. 10, 1992, according to his son and the death certificate.
Mr. Heim said he learned of his father’s whereabouts through his aunt, who has since died. He said he did not come forward because he did not wish to bring trouble to any of his father’s friends in Egypt. As the number of surviving Nazi war criminals has dwindled, his father’s case has grown in prominence.
Shelter in the Middle East
Despite the newly uncovered evidence of Dr. Heim’s time in Egypt, it is impossible to definitively close his case, with the location of his burial site still a mystery.
His death would be a significant but hitherto unknown milestone in the winding up of the passionate and at times controversial hunt for Nazi war criminals that led to the trial and execution of the Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann but never managed to catch up with Josef Mengele, the most famous of the Nazi doctors, who died in Brazil in 1979, as forensic tests later proved.
(AOL Autos) -- Ever get the feeling the cops are driving a much cooler car than you?
Peter Falk's Liutenant Columbo drove a Peugeot 403 to match his famously disheveled detective persona.
For decades drivers have seen police officers cruise past in supremely cool cars from supercharged Mustangs to upgraded AMC Javelins and beyond, while modern police units often consist of high-powered Dodge Hemis and, in one incredible instance, a Lamborghini.
Cops or detectives portrayed on TV and in the movies are no different, often driving fatter rides than the drug-dealers they pursue. But which are the coolest cop rides of all time, real or fictional? Let's take a look.
Dodge Charger Hemi
One of the original muscle cars favored by Blue Mountain moonshine and marijuana smugglers to outrun the boys in blue in the 1970s got a swift turnaround a couple years ago with Dodge's earth-shattering introduction of the new Charger, its Hemi engine and its use by police forces across the nation.
Officers generally compare it favorably with standard Crown Victoria vehicles and laud its performance and versatility (which I can vouch for having tested the stock R/T last year); upgrades for police use one include steering, brakes and idle-time chip.
Almost all are 5.7-liter Hemi variants, which put out a whopping 368hp and top out at 170 mph. AOL Autos: Dodge Charger
'Knight Rider's' Ford Mustang GT500KR
Forget David Hasselhof's Speak-n-Spell-voiced Trans-Am, we're talking serious muscle with Ford's monstrous Ford Mustang GT500KR that featured in last year's ill-fated reworking of "Knight Rider," a model I also ragged around Los Angeles port about this time last year (and was very careful not to attract the attention of harbor authorities).
The most powerful stock car Ford has built, the Shelby variant seethes and stomps its way to a mile a minute in about the same time as a Corvette but shades it for fun thanks to its astonishing 480lb-ft of torque at 4500rpm and solid-axle rear suspension that allows the back end to fly out on fantastic cop-car action sequences.
Trivia: K.I.T.T., the 1980s original smartcar, stands for Knight Industries Two-Thousand. AOL Autos: Ford Shelby GT500
Italian Police Lamborghini Gallardo
Want to make the 424 miles from Turin to Rome in under three hours? Italian police long ago caught on to the race-driver fanaticism of its citizenry thanks in large part to Ferrari -- and perhaps less so to Fiat -- and its polizia made sure they could keep up earlier this year by springing for a Lambo, perhaps the most incredible police vehicle on the planet.
Alongside undeniable performance, this specially equipped supercar offers real-time wireless image-and-voice transmitting equipment and a natty cooler for storing crime scene evidence.
Initial reports suggest the Gallardo's reliability stands up to punishing police driving habits on Italian autostradas surprisingly well. AOL Autos: Lamborghini Gallardo
Steve McQueen 'Bullitt' Ford Mustang GT
Long before the Cooler King was the main man to seek out at tailgate parties, Steve McQueen took the nickname and turned on a whole generation to the muscle of the Mustang in his 1968 GT 390 Fastback that bounced and careened around the streets of San Francisco, California, in perhaps the era's coolest film, and one which regularly tops the charts of best car chase captured on celluloid.
The film pioneered cutaway shots of McQueen, an avid rally driver, as he put the big-block pony through its paces in the 10-minute scene but, unusually for the King of Cool, the main star here was his car. Ford released a limited-edition Bullitt commemorative model in 2008. AOL Autos: Ford Mustang
Green Hornet 1966 Chrysler Crown Imperial
With some suggesting a movie remake of the 1960s cult series is in the works, attention now focuses on what will take the place of the "Green Hornet's" 1966 Chrysler Crown Imperial, famously driven by Bruce Lee (in his role of Kato).
While the angular and rectangular Black Beauty pioneered gizmos like infrared lights, rocket launchers and flipper license plate more associated with Bond's Aston Martin, it was always Lee and not Van Williams, the Hornet, who got the pleasure of tilting the car onto two wheels to get through narrow alleyways and other criminal hang-outs.
Keep your eyes out for the latest movie developments, which may or may not -- but should -- include the famous line: "Let's roll, Kato!"
1970s Pony Cars
Judging by the huge rims and lowered suspensions on the Chevy Tahoes currently patrolling Santa Monica beachfront, police departments often like to drop a hint of style and attitude in their rides, too.
In the 1970s, decade of Aviator sunglasses and massive sideburns, it was no different. Officers to this day talk about the series of high-performance police vehicles that includes Chevrolet Camaros, Ford Mustangs and the legendary AMC Javelin, all stock V8 power with upgraded brakes and steering that packed more muscles than Bubba in Cell Block D.
Most of these specially built units topped out near 150 mph and were especially prized for their straight-line capabilities while an officer in pursuit bumped and nudged his target vehicle in a bid to force them off the road. AOL Autos: Chevy Camaro
"Miami Vice" Ferrari Testarossa
The ultimate in machismo cool in its day, though now considered slightly cheeseball, Crockett and Tubbs defined 1980s New Wave slick with their boss combo of boats, 'Bans and Miami Beach swagger.
Though the Daytona Spyder 365 driven by the dynamic detectives in the first two series was a kit car replica of various Ferrari panels and equipment bolted onto a Corvette chassis, the twin Testarossas that feature in the later series were donated by Enzo Ferrari, a fan of the show (with an obvious gift for marketing).
The Testarossa would go on to define the Ferrari brand in United States in the 1980s, while a strange breed of setose men in linen suits with no socks can still be spotted in corners of Ford Lauderdale to this day. In director Michael Mann's 2006 movie, the Testarossa morphs into a suitably stylish F430.
Magnum PI 308GTS
As if Don Johnson wasn't enough 1980s for one list, we add Tom Selleck to the mix in his role as "Magnum P.I." without forgetting how much Selleck's silky mustache and coiff did for sales of his trademark targa Ferrari 308GTS in the States.
Mid-engined and with the smaller wheelbase common to Ferrari's of the period, 308s sold in record numbers for Ferraris and can still be seen on roads today, indicating that Scaglietti build quality can withstand some serious highway pounding that belies its lightweight fiberglass frame.
Selleck steered his on the mean streets of Hawaii, tracking criminals in his role as a private investigator. Not a police vehicle, you say? Selleck's mustache qualifies him as an honorary police officer in my book any day.
Columbo's Peugeot 403
"And one more thing..." wraps up our list with Peter Falk's Liutenant Columbo reveling in a dilapidated Peugeot banger to match his famously disheveled detective persona. France's finest prancing lion, a 1.5 liter four-cylinder that put out a mere 68hp, was a perfect fit with Falk's seemingly slow-witted persona that ultimately always got his man in the end.
Similarly, the 403, which Columbo delighted in driving the drop-top variant, was a vital cog in Peugeot's dominance of its domestic and European market with a series of idiosyncratic cars beloved by their followers but which remained a Columbo-esque mystery to their detractors.
I had the pleasure of driving an excellent Peugeot 307 cabriolet next to a vintage 403 at a motor show in Europe a couple years back, and felt a slight pang that I wasn't wearing a shabby raincoat to match.
Blues Brothers Interceptor Mashup
Everyone knows the Blues Mobile -- Jake and Elwood's 1974 Dodge Monaco in "The Blues Brothers" movie -- but few know where all the cop cars famously smashed to pieces in the film came from.
Paul Anderson, a journalist in Los Angeles, says it was his dad, also Paul, a Chicago, Illinois, police radio engineer who was tasked with fixing up the Dodge Polaras and Monacos wrecked in the film (with the Chicago city council spurred into action by the possibility of Steven Spielberg and John Landis coming to their city to make a big-budget movie).
He once recounted to Paul: "I just remember one day my boss, the lieutenant who always gave me a hard time, came to me and pointed to the auto graveyard where all the out-of-service squad cars were and said, 'See all those cars? Your job is to get them started.'
I said, 'Are you kidding?'" Paul adds: "[My Dad] had a savant-like ability to rescue beaters from near-death experiences. When the movie came out, he went to see it like everyone else and he could remember each and every one of those cars."
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Así, Aznar -considerado un referente del conservadurismo internacional, reconocido por respaldar la intervención militar estadounidense en Irak y defensor del despliegue israelí en la Franja de Gaza- se la jugó por la opción presidencial del millonario inversionista, Sebastián Piñera, con quien se reunió ayer en la Fundación Futuro y a quien conminó la noche del lunes, en una cena de camaradería, a triunfar en las elecciones de diciembre. Las actividades que desplegó Aznar en el país fueron coordinadas por el líder de la derechista Unión de Partidos Latinoamericanos (UPLA), el senador UDI Jovino Novoa. De ahí que, en todos los eventos, la asistencia de dirigentes de la oposición chilena fuera la tónica, ello a pesar de que el ex jefe del Gobierno español fue líder del Partido Popular, tienda que integra la Internacional Demócrata Cristiana (IDC), de la que también forma parte la falange chilena. Sin embargo, la DC nacional es un caso extraño en el mundo, donde el partido humanista cristiano se asocia con coaliciones de centro derecha, por ende, el que Aznar tenga mayor sintonía con la Alianza y con el postulante de este bloque, no causó asombro en la colectividad oficialista. Desde la DC, el timonel Juan Carlos Latorre aseveró que para su conglomerado "es absolutamente indiferente la visita del señor Aznar a nuestro país. Nosotros nunca tuvimos conciencia de una agenda del señor Aznar en Chile, no es un tema para nosotros". En contraste, en la oposición el sumar a Aznar -que perdió el poder tras los atentados del 11 de marzo de 2004 en Atocha- es considerado un logro, en especial porque el establecer nexos con el PP español ha sido un objetivo permanente del gremialismo, que incluso adoptó su eslogan teniendo como paradigma a este conglomerado, "UDI, el partido popular". La historia también une a ambos partidos, dado que el PP es considerado el heredero natural del franquismo mientras que la UDI nació al alero de la dictadura pinochetista. | ||||||||||||||||
Explicació: Tot vé d'un article previ de Hildebrant (periodista peruà) al que li publiquen a un blog que no controla ell, els articles que presenta a diferents mitjans, en và publicar un sobre el posible candidat de la dreta xilena a les properes eleccions (jo no vaig dir res), i quan li contestava a un article sobre "privacitat i fama" que tractava de com van respondre premsa i sponsors a la noticia de que al nedador Phelps l'havien "caçat" amb una pipa de marihuana, em trobo amb aquesta resposta de un xilenito que em titlla de vell i de cholo de mierda, a part de auquenido: la familia dels remugants entre les que es calssifica a les llames...Hola Cesar!!!
Regrese de mis vacaciones y realmente me di cuanta que si bien seguiste mis indicaciones y pauteos, lo hiciste a la ligera y/o sin mucha prolijidad!!!!
Te aconsejo que en tus coments, efectúes la corrección necesaria y presentes las disculpas por los datos incorrectos (casi todos) al respecto de Mr. Piñera y Mr. Pinochet, NO ES POSIBLE ALGUIEN TAN FAMOSO COMO TU MIENTA DE ESA MANERA!!!! , mas que mentira parece simple y vil IGNORANCIA!!!
Estimado Cesario, favor recapitula solicita disculpas publicas y corrije reparando tus terribles errores.... como HELPS!!!!
El pedir Perdón te hará Grande... JUA JUA JUA, Ups sorry..Se me escapo!!
Mira chico, tal vez puedo entender que te hallas chupeteado un faso a lo PELPS, o tomado una piscolita de mas, pero recuerda...Chile es la Suiza de América... y LAN Chile tiene grandes inversiones en Medios de Publicidad, canales de televisión.... etc.., (miles de miles de USD en toda América, es mas grande que el carrito sanguchero típica Empresa peruana) , te lo aconsejo con cariño, si no después no podrás encontrar trabajo, en ninguna parte, sobretodo a tu edad!!!
Ojo, puede ser que cuando mi GRAN AMIGO SEBASTIÁN sea al fin investido como presidente de CHILE, no tengas mas auspiciadores para tus pequeños vicios burgueses!!! Sabemos como vive el red set!!! jejejeje.
Cesario, arrodillarse no es de almas pequeñas...solo el no poder ver sobre la mesa lo es... pide perdón pequeño enanito es lo mas sano para ti.... si no nunca podrás siquiera entrar otra vez a CHILE!!!! a menos que seas disfrazado de bebe de llama en algún avión de tu amigo Zevallos de Aereocontinente!!!!
Jua jua jua.
Abrazos y saludos a todos... especialmente a Humano 666 el de las múltiples personalidades!!!
Martincito
PD: Tienes algunos dias para corregirlo Sebastian acaba de volver de Davos (En un pueblo de los Alpes suizos, donde todos los años se reúnen presidentes, jefes de estado, premios nobeles y lideres del mundo religioso, económico, cultural, científico y ecológico) y ahora esta en Viña descanzando..aprovecha ahora y PASA PIOLA TU INGNORANCIA RESENTIDA DE PERUCHOLO ROJELIO...
pratinsky dijo...Hola Cesar, si no recuerdo mal este verano (boreal - te hablo desde Europa) y coincidiendo con los records y medallas de Phelps se publicó lo que suele ser su desayuno "base" y no hace falta ser endocrinólogo para detectar que lo de este muchacho NO ES NORMAL: docenas de huevos con bacon, salchochas... en fin una verdadera explosión de colesterol (que probablemente ha degradado al poco rato de estar en la piscina, pero que para cualquier ciudadano "normal" le supone una garantía de ataque coronario en tiempo record. Entiendo que a su edad cualquier muchacho pueda tener una excursión hacia substancias dopantes, y que no tenga la perspicacia de que ese desliz pase desapercibido para cualquier desaprensivo...
¿Es que tú no has tenido veinte años?
pratinsky dijo...Este Martincito del carajo, ¿quien coño se cree o resulta que es?
¿Como se atreve a pedirte que te disculpes por hablar de una dinastia de hijos de puta como los Pinochet?.
TODO EL MUNDO sabe que herencia han dejado al mundo mundial, a la politica en general, y a Sudamerica en particular...
Ánimos Cesar, a estos vendidos hay que alimentarles con su propia mierda, que por cierto es inmensa.
Martincito Vargas dijo...Quien será ese vejestorio de Pratinsky que me insulta a mi, a mi!!! al Bueno de Martincito?
Sera Acaso un Cholo de aquellos?... que por haber visto una foto de España cuando cuidaban sus llamas desnutridas en el cerro, se hacen los españoles!!!!
O será de esos deportados "Cholos de Mundo" que vemos en cualquier parte del mundo, para vergüenza de todos los latinoamericanos....
(lamentablemente como bien saben tenemos 200.000 euquenidos similares en CHilito Lindo)
O será uno de esos Cholos de Genero Indefinido, tan fáciles de encontrar en la fauna "periodística peruAsna", hay muchos, desde la reina Baily hasta el trasngenero de Laura Gozzo.-
Yo mas bien por lo vejestorio creo que es un compañero de curso del Vetusto Orbegoso... ósea otro Cholito acomplejado mas, nada especial.
Ósea un Cholosauro resentido mas... que le hubiera encantado siquiera poder oler los pantalones (pero bien usados) de Pinochet.-
Bueno, en todo caso, que importa quien eres, pero espero ojala te mejores algún dia...como todos tus compatriotas!!!
jejejeje,
Saludos,
Martincito
