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PROCUREMENT FRAUD AND BRIBERY

4/6/2022

The MIMF Unit plays a crucial role in prosecuting fraud related to government contracts. The MIMF Unit specializes in fraud and corruption related to Department of Defense and other agency contracting, as well as corporate accounting fraud among defense contractors and bribery of U.S. contracting officials.

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Capital Gains Tax Ruled Out

There were good reasons for ruling out Capital Gains Tax. Let’s have a look at some arguments for and against.

Whenever we look at improving our tax system it is predictable that capital gains tax will be raised as an option. It has been examined in 1967, 1978, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 2001, and 2009, 2014 and by the recent Tax Working Group.

One reason we keep returning to capital gains tax is that the exemption for capital gains is the one, large, glaring exception to New Zealand’s “broad base” approach to taxation and, of course, expanding the tax base is necessary unless we are happy with increased indebtedness to foreign nations.

A big portion of the Tax Working Group’s final report is focused on the question of whether New Zealand should adopt a capital gains tax.

Some argue a capital gains tax on investment properties would be fairer and ease inter-generational tensions. A question often raised is whether it is fair to tax money earned from a bank deposit, but not from capital gains on an investment property.

At present, interest from term deposits is taxed, but the capital gain on the sale of an investment property is not. But should this differing treatment exist? In a policy report, ‘Benefits and Drawbacks of a Capital Gains Tax’ prepared in February 2014 for the then Minister of Revenue Todd McClay, Inland Revenue noted:

“There is no obvious reason why a person who derives $100,000 in interest income should be taxed differently to a person who derives $100,000 in capital gains.”

The argument that a “buck is a buck” and everyone should therefore bear the same tax burden on every dollar earned is attractive.

So, why are we reluctant to tax capital gains from investment property? I do not think it is about fairness.

Many commentators have come out against recommendations to impose a capital gains tax because they are all concerned it will have a crippling effect on businesses and farmers.

While capital gains taxes raise revenues for government they do so with considerable economic harm.

Capital gains taxes reduce the return that entrepreneurs and investors receive from the sale of their investments. This diminishes the reward for entrepreneurial risk-taking and reduces the number of entrepreneurs and the investors that support them. The result is lower levels of economic growth and job creation.

One of the most significant economic effects is the incentive it creates for owners of capital to retain their current investments even if more profitable and productive opportunities are available.

Economists refer to this result as the “lock-in” effect. Capital that is locked into sub-optimal investments and not reallocated to more profitable opportunities hinders economic output.

Also, we should not ignore the fact that one of the principles of good tax policy is that there should be no double taxation of income that is saved and invested. Such a policy promotes current consumption at the expense of future consumption, which is simply an econo-geek way of saying that it penalises capital formation.

Every economic theory agrees that capital formation is key to long-run growth and higher living standards. Even Marxist and socialist theories are based on this notion (they want government to be in charge of investing, so they want to do the right thing but in a very wrong way). Many economists believe that the economically optimal tax on capital gains is zero.

President Obama’s first chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, wrote in the American Economic Review in 1981 that the elimination of capital income taxation “would have very substantial economic effects” and “might raise steady-state output by as much as 18 percent, and consumption by 16 percent.”

Whatever else might be said either for or against it, the introduction of capital gains tax would entail significant change for lawyers, accountants, valuers, businesspeople and investors generally; and the transition period – from the government’s announcement of the tax until several years after its introduction – would be likely to be particularly challenging.

Introduction of capital gains tax in New Zealand would add huge complexity to what is currently one of the world’s simplest tax systems and would result in a massive industry – as happens elsewhere in the world.

Ismail Rasheed is specialist tax lawyer with 19 years’ experience.

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Star Technologist Who Crossed Google Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

What would you do if you were an Uber executive developing a self-driving car and Anthony Levandowski, a pioneer of self-driving car technology in Silicon Valley, informed you that he was leaving Google and could give you confidential information if you hired him. Would you hire him: (1) Yes, (2) No. Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

Anthony Levandowski, a pioneer of self-driving car technology in Silicon Valley, had once been feted by companies such as Google and Uber for his engineering expertise.

But on Tuesday, Mr. Levandowski’s fall from grace was capped when he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing self-driving car trade secrets from Google. He will not be required to serve his sentence until the coronavirus pandemic subsides, a federal judge ordered.

Mr. Levandowski, 40, also agreed to pay $756,499 to Waymo, a self-driving business spun out of Google, as restitution. He had filed for bankruptcy in March, saying he had $50 million to $100 million in personal assets. He will also be required to pay a fine of $95,000.

“Today marks the end of three and a half long years and the beginning of another long road ahead,” Mr. Levandowski said in a statement. “I’m thankful to my family and friends for their continued love and support during this difficult time.”

Over the past few years, Mr. Levandowski had become a Silicon Valley cautionary tale. He had initially earned millions of dollars for his work at Google and had a close relationship with Larry Page, a Google founder, but that changed when Mr. Levandowski left the search giant. As part of his departure, he took some of Google’s self-driving talent with him to found Otto, a self-driving truck start-up.

Mr. Levandowski sold Otto to Uber for more than $600 million in 2016. At Uber, Mr. Levandowski was highly valued by the ride-hailing giant’s chief executive at the time, Travis Kalanick, who also wanted to develop a fleet of self-driving cars.

But in 2017, Waymo — newly spun out of Google — sued Uber for theft of trade secrets and identified Mr. Levandowski for taking years of autonomous vehicle research to bolster Uber’s self-driving program. Uber and Waymo eventually settled, with Uber handing Waymo roughly $245 million in Uber stock. Uber also agreed not to infringe upon Waymo’s intellectual property.

The settlement between the companies did not mean Mr. Levandowski’s troubles were over.

Last August, federal prosecutors charged him with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Google. Before resigning from his job at the search giant, Mr. Levandowski had downloaded thousands of files related to the company��s development of self-driving cars, the Justice Department said.

In March, Mr. Levandowski pleaded guilty to one count of trade secret theft in an agreement with federal prosecutors to drop the remaining charges, according to a court filing at the time. The plea carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.

In a legal filing last week, lawyers for Mr. Levandowski said he was willing to take on community service by educating other tech company employees and encouraging them not to take files from their workplaces.

“He proposes to offer himself as an object lesson in ‘what not to do,’ by candidly sharing the story of his misdeeds,” Mr. Levandowski’s lawyers wrote in the filing. “His message is clear: taking a trade secret to the next venture is a ‘life-altering terrible decision,’ never worth it.”

But Waymo argued that Mr. Levandowski had still not taken responsibility for his actions and had not returned the stolen files. In a victim statement, the company asked that Mr. Levandowski face a “substantial period of incarceration.”

“His misconduct was enormously disruptive and harmful to Waymo, constituted a betrayal, and the financial effects would likely have been even more severe had it gone undetected,” wrote Leo Cunningham, a lawyer representing Waymo.

Ismail Ramsey and Miles Ehrlich, lawyers for Mr. Levandowski, thanked the judge in the case for allowing Mr. Levandowski to stay out of prison during the pandemic.

“Anthony deeply regrets his past decisions and, while we are saddened that he will to have to spend time in prison, Anthony remains committed to his life’s mission of building innovative technologies to improve people’s lives,” they said in a statement.

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Star Technologist Who Crossed Google Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

OAKLAND, Calif. — Anthony Levandowski, a pioneer of self-driving car technology in Silicon Valley, had once been feted by companies such as Google and Uber for his engineering expertise.

The settlement between the companies did not mean Mr. Levandowski’s troubles were over.

Last August, federal prosecutors charged him with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Google. Before resigning from his job at the search giant, Mr. Levandowski had downloaded thousands of files related to the company’s development of self-driving cars, the Justice Department said.

Ismail Ramsey and Miles Ehrlich, lawyers for Mr. Levandowski, thanked the judge in the case for allowing Mr. Levandowski to stay out of prison during the pandemic.

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Colleges Face Growing International Student-Visa Issues

The Trump administration’s immigration policies are beginning to be felt acutely by universities, as international students struggle to get the visas they need to study in the United States. Representatives from 10 schools recently told The Atlantic that they are facing an increasing workload as they try to help students navigate bureaucracy and advocate on their behalf—a sentiment echoed by various college presidents at a dinner with reporters last night. Several of those presidents said some enrolled international students never made it onto campus for the start of the current semester.

After steadily climbing for more than a decade, the number of new international students enrolled at U.S. colleges has declined in recent years. According to survey data collected by the Institute of International Education during the 2016–17 school year, enrollment of these students fell by 3 percent from the previous year. Results from the institute’s 2017–18 survey, the most recent data available, show that it fell again—this time by close to 7 percent.

“I think that both [the Trump administration’s] immigration policy and the messaging of the day are literally turning [international] students away … and making them less inclined to want to study in the United States,” said Brian Rosenberg, the president of Macalester College, a liberal-arts institution in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the dinner. (The dinner, held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., was hosted by the Pennsylvania college Bucknell University and convened the heads of several schools, mostly liberal-arts colleges, to discuss challenges facing higher education.)

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It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work After Graduation AMY MERRICK RCMP officer looks on as a woman carrying a child waits to cross the U.S.-Canada border. Canada Has Its Own Ways of Keeping Out Unwanted Immigrants TONY KELLER Peruvian citizens applying for U.S. visas wait in line at the American embassy in Lima. The Real Illegal Immigration Crisis Isn’t on the Southern Border KRISHNADEV CALAMUR A major source of this international-student trend appears to be something over which campus administrators have little control. The majority of institutions—83 percent—that participated in the Institute of International Education’s 2017–18 survey cited the delay or denial of student visas as a factor contributing to the decline.

Another president at the dinner, Philip A. Glotzbach of Skidmore College, said that while his liberal-arts school in Saratoga Springs, New York, hasn’t yet experienced a decline in international students, it has had to “work a lot harder” to recruit and retain them. Barbara K. Altmann, the president of Franklin & Marshall College, said that the “latest diplomatic skirmish about visas”—combined with political tensions abroad—has compelled her school, too, to “take extraordinary measures … so international students know [they’re welcome here].” One in five students at the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, liberal-arts institution comes from outside the U.S.—most of them from China. So over the summer, Franklin & Marshall “activated a network” of Chinese nationals affiliated with the college, including upperclassmen, asking them to send reassuring messages to incoming students and their families via social media and other platforms.

Read: Should America’s universities stop taking so many international students?

Many of these visa obstacles, according to NAFSA: Association of International Educators, in part trace back to a memorandum issued in 2017 by President Donald Trump that called for the “heightened screening and vetting of applications for visas and other immigration benefits” as well as new or updated requirements for visa holders studying or working at U.S. colleges. For instance, changes implemented by the Trump administration last year made it more difficult for recent graduates with student visas to continue living in the country legally. Since then, international students’ visa issues have created unprecedented workloads for many institutions, whose international-services offices traditionally focused on supporting students with, say, workshops about setting up American bank accounts, English-tutoring services, and basic visa-application guidance.

Before the presidents’ dinner, The Atlantic reached out to numerous schools—including several members of the Ivy League and an assortment of colleges with large populations of non-Americans—to learn what it’s like behind the scenes of their international-students offices. How, if at all, have these offices’ responsibilities evolved in recent years? The 10 that responded described an increase in visa holdups for their international students since the Trump administration issued its directives, and a corresponding increase in work for schools.

“I’ve been in the field for almost 20 years,” Kristy Magner, who oversees Tulane University’s Office of International Students and Scholars, said in an email, “and the amount of immigration changes during the last three years has been exponential.” (Non-Americans make up 6 percent of incoming freshmen this fall at Tulane, a highly selective research university in New Orleans.)

A recent high-profile example of the sort of issues students are facing was the fiasco involving Ismail B. Ajjawi, a Palestinian refugee and incoming freshman at Harvard who, upon landing in Boston late last month, was allegedly detained and interrogated by a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer for hours.

In a letter sent to Harvard’s student newspaper The Crimson shortly after the alleged incident, Ajjawi said that the agent found “people posting political points of view that oppose the U.S. on my friend list” and used this as grounds to cancel his visa. Being detained at an international airport spares a person from being officially deported, the CBP spokesman Michael McCarthy told The Atlantic in a phone interview, meaning Ajjawi could immediately reapply for a visa rather than remain blacklisted from travel to the U.S. for years. Still, once the CBP had deemed him “inadmissible” to the U.S., Ajjawi had to return home and face the daunting task of convincing the U.S. government to change its mind. After a “difficult and anxiety filled 10 days,” Ajjawi managed to make it back to Boston, according to a statement released on behalf of his family.

While the situation Ajjawi allegedly faced is extreme, it offers a peek into the kinds of headaches immigration can cause not only for students but also for colleges like Harvard—which, by sponsoring students’ (and visiting scholars’) visas, are on the hook for ensuring that those visa holders fulfill their paperwork requirements.

The priorities of colleges’ international-services offices shift in response to policy developments—from legislation targeting undocumented immigrants in the mid-1990s to the flood of homeland-security restrictions following 9/11—according to William Stock, an immigration lawyer who works with universities. But he says colleges have never before contended with the kinds of demands with which they’re currently grappling: the growing suite of clerical requirements for the alphabet soup of visas and related authorizations ( F-1s, J-1s, OPTs, H-1Bs) their students and scholars hold; the varying degrees of scrutiny of international visas that can evolve with the changing winds of White House immigration policy and rhetoric.

Several college administrators said students are experiencing lengthier processing times for visa applications in recent years than they have in the past; Josh Taylor, who oversees global programs for NYU, said in an email that in the past couple of school years he has seen more students denied travel in advance of their trips.

Stock, who formerly presided over the American Immigration Lawyers Association, described in a phone interview the Trump administration’s approach to immigration as a “cramped view on the world.” By deterring international students from attending U.S. colleges, the administration’s stance, Stock argued, is hindering schools’ ability to build diverse student bodies—and depleting their budgets. International students, who typically pay full tuition, bring significant revenue to colleges.

Read: The globalization of America’s colleges

In a June 2019 letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, Harvard President Larry Bacow described his institution as a “vibrant, free, and open community that develops talent, produces leaders, and creates new knowledge.” He conveyed his “deep concern over growing uncertainty and anxiety around issues involving international students and scholars,” and pleaded for policy makers to help streamline the student-immigration process on behalf of higher education as a whole.

Some schools are being especially proactive in their efforts to assist international students. In January 2017, just days after Trump’s inauguration, NYU created (in partnership with its law school)—the Immigrant Defense Initiative, which offers “free, confidential advice and representation” to students and staff who may be at risk for deportation.

Other schools, including Columbia University, the California State University system, and George Washington University, have also established free immigration-related legal services for students. In the aftermath of the Trump administration’s executive order in 2017 barring travel for individuals coming from certain countries, 30 colleges and universities signed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn the legislation, taking particular issue with the ban’s focus on six Muslim-majority countries. The executive order, they wrote, would “threaten [their] ability to attract persons not only from the specified countries, but from around the world.”

The advocacy, however, has done little to offset the uncertainty and anxiety that permeates colleges’ international-services offices these days. Much of the feedback The Atlantic received from college administrators was tinged with apprehension—and, a sense of fatigue: These staff members not only help students and scholars navigate paperwork headaches; they also provide those individuals emotional support as they juggle bureaucracy with the everyday stressors of college life.

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Joann Ng Hartmann, who oversees NAFSA: Association of International Educators’ work on international-student enrollment, attributed the visa triage taking place on campuses to the Trump administration’s posture of treating all immigrants as “guilty until proven innocent.” The “complicated visa applications and adjudications and misunderstandings,” she argued in an email, almost always trace back to the administration’s new stipulations. A feeling of helplessness can be inevitable, she suggested; a visa process can, as Ajjawi’s case demonstrated, go awry at the very last minute, and “it is very difficult for school officials to assist when problems arise.”

Still, schools hope these challenges are only temporary. “The openness of [the U.S.] higher-education system has traditionally generated enormous good will around the world,” NYU’s Taylor said. “Hopefully we, as a nation, have stored up enough of it to make it through what has clearly been a reputation rough patch.

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As Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime Announces Retirement, Games Industry Says GoodbyeAs Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime Announces Retirement, Games Industry Says Goodbyevideo games

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Reggie Fils-Aime, the affable president of Nintendo of America, announced that he’ll be retiring in April. The shadow of Fils-Aime looms large–in part because he is just very physically large–but mostly because he was well-known as an friendly figure and public face, not just for Nintendo but for the video games industry as a whole.

As a result, his retirement is bittersweet, and the industry is gathering to let him know he’ll be missed. Several industry leaders have stepped forward to issue congratulations and thanks on Twitter, including his ostensible competitors like Phil Spencer from Microsoft.

“All the best to Reggie Fils-Aime on the next phase of his life and career,” said Spencer. “Great leader, industry partner and friend.”

Others have thanked him for his contributions, shared endearing anecdotes, or otherwise wished him well. As of April 15, the role of Nintendo of America president will go to current sales VP Doug Bowser, who definitely hasn’t heard anyone else tell him your very creative “Bowser” joke yet. Fils-Aime has also released a heartwarming message of his own on Twitter.

Check below for a sampling of reactions from around the industry.

I’ll miss seeing you at all of the industry events Reggie. Thanks for all you’ve done over the years. Congrats on the new gig @thetruebowser https://t.co/Rb1do2NAJ2

— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) February 21, 2019

Here’s a picture of Reggie playing Super Meat Boy on Wii. He said “I’m buying this with my own Wii points, I’m serious guys”. Pretty sure he ended up with it on WiiU and Switch. Happy retirement my dude! @NintendoAmerica pic.twitter.com/O3DaAc0WuY

— Team Meat (@SuperMeatBoy) February 21, 2019

Enjoy a well deserved rest, my friend. Thanks for everything you did for gaming. I am super jealous. Please sleep in and do as little as possible so I can live vicariously through your retirement. ❤️ https://t.co/vhXMVqGSas

— Cory Barlog 🎮 (@corybarlog) February 21, 2019

Can’t believe I’m writing this: Reggie Fils-Aime is retiring from Nintendo. One of our industry’s finest leaders and a dear friend. He’s always believed in me. Thank you Reggie.

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) February 21, 2019

One time I was backstage of an awards show about to present and Reggie looked at me and said, “You look uncomfortable.” I was. I was uncomfortable. Have fun in retirement Reggie! May you never be uncomfortable. pic.twitter.com/tcXs7OP4Pk

— Robert Bowling (@fourzerotwo) February 21, 2019

If Reggie ran for President of the US, I’d vote for him. https://t.co/rOxs4awT9v

— Dalibor 🍔 (@DaliDimovski) February 21, 2019

Thanks for everything, Reggie!

— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) February 21, 2019

Many of you know I am a huge fan of Nintendo (since a kid!). Over the last 15 years Reggie Fils-Aime has done a great job. I’m sad to see him retire, but also happy for him to spend more time with his family. Thank you for great entertainment. https://t.co/BJaHDdfSdx

— Mike Ybarra (@XboxQwik) February 21, 2019

Didn’t see this coming, but glad that Nintendo is in good hands! @thetruebowser I hope you’re ready for even more memes! https://t.co/ctiWMQ6tEM

— Matt (@mattmagician) February 21, 2019

I am going to miss this person as one of the faces of our industry https://t.co/aMBjPW2cpH

— Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) February 21, 2019

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Portland Timbers vs. Real Salt Lake | 2018 MLS Match Preview

October 19, 201812:38PM EDT

Portland Timbers vs. Real Salt Lake 2018 MLS Regular Season — Week 34 Providence Park — Portland October 21 — 5 pm ET WATCH: ESPN+, MLS LIVE on DAZN (Canada)

Real Salt Lake close out the regular season with a pivotal showdown against the Portland Timbers Sunday at Providence Park in a match with major playoff implications for both Western Conference foes.

RSL are heading to Portland on a high note, blasting the New England Revolution, 4-1, Thursday night at Rio Tinto Stadium to create a four-point gap above the playoff line, while the fifth-place Timbers are looking to make it consecutive victories over Real Salt Lake.

Sebastian Blanco struck for a brace and Jeremy Ebobisse and Lucas Melano added a goal apiece for the Timbers in the 4-1 win on Oct. 6, while Jefferson Savarino scored the lone goal for RSL.

Portland Timbers

After handing RSL just their second home loss of the season, Portland (14-9-9) is seeking a season sweep and a spot in the Audi 2018 MLS Cup playoffs when the sides meet again at Providence Park.

“They have a good team, good players, they are a difficult team and they’re going to be tough to play against at home,” head coach Giovanni Savarese said. “Petke, I played with him, I know him well, he’s a good coach, he’s done well and he’s going to prepare for the match to try to bring the best that he can. It’s going to be a tough game. It’s going to be competitive.”

Suspended: None

Suspended after next caution: M – Diego Chara, M – David Guzman

International duty: None

Injury Report: OUT: D – Roy Miller (right thigh injury), GK – Jake Gleeson (bilateral tibial stress fracture); QUESTIONABLE: GK – Jeff Attinella (shoulder injury), D – Alvas Powell (head injury)

Projected Starting XI (4-2-3-1, right to left) GK: Jeff Attinella — Zarek Valentin, Larrys Mabiala, Julio Cascante, Jorge Villafana — Diego Chara, David Guzman — Andy Polo, Diego Valeri, Sebastian Blanco — Jeremy Ebobisse

Real Salt Lake

Desperate for a win after four consecutive matches without one, Real Salt Lake (14-12-7) delivered in a big way on Thursday night, routing the Revs, 4-1, in their final regular season home game.

Nick Besler and Sebastian Saucedo scored 10 minutes apart to give RSL an early 2-0 lead, Corey Baird made it 3-0 before the half-hour mark and Damir Kreilach made it 4-0 just five minutes into the second half. The win was especially impressive given RSL were without midfielders Kyle Beckerman and Sunny (due to yellow card accumulation) and three other starters in Albert Rusnak, Joao Plata and Savarino (returning from international duty).

“I knew they were hungry; the pairing of Marcelo (Silva) and Nedum (Onuoha), we knew we were facing a team that was extremely athletic, extremely strong, extremely fast and aggressive and if you look at those two that’s a big part of their game,” head coach Mike Petke said. “Overall, these guys stepped up for us, and now it’s all about Sunday.”

Suspended: None

Suspended after next caution: D – Marcelo Silva, D – Brooks Lennon

International duty: None

Injury Report: OUT: D – Tony Beltran (right knee surgery), M – Jordan Allen (knee surgery), GK – Alex Horwath (Achilles surgery), D – David Horst (Achilles surgery)

Projected Starting XI (4-2-3-1, right to left) GK: Nick Rimando — Brooks Lennon, Nick Besler, Justen Glad, Aaron Herrera — Kyle Beckerman, Damir Kreilach — Jefferson Savarino, Albert Rusnak, Joao Plata — Corey Baird

All-Time Series

Overall: Portland Timbers 6 wins, 26 goals … Real Salt Lake 7 wins, 29 goals … 7 draws

At Portland: Timbers 2 wins, 10 goals … Real Salt Lake 2 wins, 12 goals … 5 draws

Last meeting at Portland: Portland Timbers 1, Real Salt Lake 4 (July 19, 2017)

Officials

Referee: Ismail Elfath Assistant Referees: Ian Anderson, Chris Wattam 4th Official: Alejandro Mariscal VAR: Edvin Jurisevic

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The Preservation of Peace in Syria Is of Paramount Importance

The Disastrous Consequences of

a U.S. Military Attack on Syria

by Pastor Paul J. Bern

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Lately I have been seeing or hearing the Trump administration telling the world that the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Assad government must be answered by other worse weapons, even though the results of satellite surveillance has not proven this allegation – just as the Bush administration refused to wait for the 2013 UN report by the inspectors who had been looking for WMD in Iraq. Secretary of State John Kerry claimed back in 2013 that the UN inspectors “can’t tell us anything that we don’t already know.” President Trump has said that any U.S. attack on the Assad government will be as punishment, not regime change. The strike will be “limited” — but tell that to the civilians who will inevitably die when military attacks take place. President Bush and his advisers either didn’t know or didn’t care about the probable consequences of their decision to invade and occupy Iraq in March of 2003:

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and over 4,000 Americans dead;

Millions of Iraqis and Americans wounded physically and psychologically;

Legions of young men of the region now experienced in warfare and for hire moving from Iraq to Libya to Syria;

And, the Iraqi “democratic” government unable to control the whirlwind of sectarian violence that now is killing hundreds each week.

Although the U.S. invaded and occupied Afghanistan under a different rationale, I also want to acknowledge and empathize with the Afghan citizens who have been killed or wounded in the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

President Trump has not spelled out the possible consequences of a military attack on Syria, but U.S. military leaders are warning about the risks. In a letter to the Senate Armed Services committee, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey wrote last month said, “As we weigh our options, we should be able to conclude with some confidence that use of force will move us toward the intended outcome. Once we take action, we should be prepared for what comes next. Deeper involvement is hard to avoid.”

General James Mattis, who is the retired head of the U.S. Central Command and Trump's Secretary of State, said last month at a security conference that the United States has “no moral obligation to do the impossible” in Syria. “If Americans take ownership of this, this is going to be a full-throated, very, very serious war.” As U.S. warships gather off the shores of Lebanon to launch Tomahawk Cruise missiles at targets in Syria, we can make some educated guesses of what the “unintended consequences” could be:

Syrian anti-aircraft batteries will fire their rockets at incoming U.S. missiles.

Many Syrians on the ground will die and both the U.S. and Syrian governments will say the deaths are the fault of the other.

The U.S. Embassy in Damascus will be attacked and burned, as may other U.S. Embassies and businesses in the Middle East.

Syria might also launch rockets toward the U.S. ally in the region —Israel.

Israel would launch bombing missions on Syria as it has three times in the past two years and perhaps take the opportunity to launch an attack on Syria’s strongest ally in the region, Iran.

Iran, a country with a population of 80 million, has the largest military in the region untouched by war in the past 25 years. Iran might retaliate with missiles aimed toward Israel and toward nearby U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, Turkey, Bahrain and Qatar.

Iran could block the Straits of Hormuz and impede the transport of oil out of the Persian Gulf.

At this time of crisis, it is worth remembering another time, 35 years ago in October, 1983 when U.S. warships bombarded Lebanon, the country located next to Syria. Within weeks, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by a massive truck bomb that killed 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. The truck driver- suicide bomber was an Iranian national named Ismail Ascari, whose truck contained explosives that were the equivalent of 21,000 pounds of TNT. Two minutes later a second suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives into the French military compound in Beirut killing 58 French paratroopers.

The U.S. and French military were in Lebanon as a part of a Multi-National force after the PLO left Lebanon following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, ostensibly to create a 40 km buffer zone between the PLO and Syrian forces in Lebanon and Israel. The Israeli invasion was tacitly approved by the U.S., and the U.S. provided overt military support to Israel in the form of arms and material. Colonel Timothy J. Geraghty, the commander of the U.S. 24th Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) deployed as peacekeepers in Beirut, said that the American and the French headquarters were targeted primarily because of "who we were and what we represented…” American support removed any lingering doubts of our neutrality, and I stated to my staff at the time that we were going to pay in blood for this decision.”

Some of the circumstances around the incidents in Lebanon in 1983 and now 35 years later in Syria are familiar. U.S. intelligence agencies were aware of potential trouble but did not report the problems in sufficient time for actions to be taken. Former President Obama said at the time that the U.S. had intercepted signals indicating the Syrian government was moving equipment into place for an attack, but the U.S. did not warn the Syrian government that the U.S. knew what was happening and did not bother warning civilians that a chemical attack was imminent.

On August 31, 2013, 13 former officials of the U.S. government, including Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Dan Ellsberg, retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, retired US Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson and former Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, wrote an open letter to General Martin Dempsey, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, asking him to resign rather than follow an illegal order to attack Syria. “We refer to your acknowledgment.... that a decision to use force is not one that any of us takes lightly. It is no less than an act of war.... It appears that the President may order such an act of war without proper Congressional authorization. Seasoned veteran intelligence and military professionals solemnly sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States have long been aware that it is one’s duty to never obey an illegal order. If such were given, the honorable thing would be to resign, rather than be complicit.”

Those words were written five years ago, and the situation in Syria continues to escalate. As I write this, the Syrian government under Bashar Al-Assad has largely prevailed against the various parties of militants, some of whom are backed by the US. and still others by Iran. Syria and Iran are allied with Russia, with the ever-present potential for a clash between Russian and American military forces. A disquieting thought, to say the least. But it was Jesus himself who said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the 'sons of God'.” The flip side of that coin is that those who wage war are cursed. Meaning, if America doesn't cease and desist from her warlike ways, a military disaster will surely befall her. America's violence, killing and destruction overseas will come home to roost. Just let that sink in for a minute, and I'll see you all next week.

#conflict in syria #Lebanon #Iran #Russia #the US military #the middle east #world peace #antiwar

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Egypt, Ethiopia agree to settle differences over Nile mega-dam

CAIRO (Reuters) – The leaders of Ethiopia and Egypt vowed on Sunday to iron out their differences over a dam Addis Ababa is building on the Nile River that Cairo fears threatens its water supplies.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, June 10, 2018. in this handout picture courtesy of the Egyptian Presidency. The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

Talks over the Grand Renaissance Dam, Ethiopia’s $4 billion hydroelectric project, have been deadlocked for months. But at a press conferee in Cairo, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signaled they had made a breakthrough.

“We have come a long way in building confidence and strengthening bilateral cooperation,” Sisi said.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and delegations of the two governments at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, June 10, 2018. in this handout picture courtesy of the Egyptian Presidency. The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

Ahmed, speaking in his native Amharic language, said Ethiopia was committed to ensuring Egypt’s share of Nile water.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) shakes hands with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, June 10, 2018. in this handout picture courtesy of the Egyptian Presidency. The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

“We will take care of the Nile and we will preserve your share and we will work to increase this quota and President Sisi and I will work on this,” Ahmed said, addressing Egyptians.

Safeguarding Egypt’s share of the Nile, its main source of drinking water and water for industry and farming, is at the top of Sisi’s agenda as he begins his second term in office.

The two sides agreed to take steps to put into effect an agreement – which also includes Sudan – to set up a fund for investing in infrastructure in the three countries.

Toward the end of their news conference, Sisi asked Ahmed to swear to God before the Egyptian people that he will not hurt Egypt’s share of the Nile.

“I swear to God, we will never harm you,” Ahmed repeated the words in Arabic after Sisi, who thanked him for releasing jailed Ethiopians.

Reporting by Omar Fahmy, writing by Amina Ismail, editing by Larry King

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