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Samsung’s new 4K ultra HD Blu-ray player is now available for pre-order at a great price
by Stephen on January 7, 2016
Update: The pre-order link from Samsung is finally up so feel free to click here and check it out
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs aren’t quite yet here but Panasonic, Philips and Samsung most quickly of all are already lending a strong helping hand to the survival of the format and possibly its prolonged success.
Samsung in particular is getting the ball rolling nice and early with the impending release of their brand new UBD-K8500 4K ultra HD Blu-ray player with HDR and all the usual 4K connectivity specs by offering it on pre-order to those who want to be ready for the very moment 4K Blu-ray discs hit the shelves.
That’s right, as of the first day of CES 2016, January 5th, the Samsung Blu-ray UHD player has been available for pre-order from the manufacturer and given the number of studios which are pledging support for 4K discs in this new format, we think there might be some definite consumer interest in this device among those who already own or are thinking of buying a 4K TV some time soon.
In other words, whether you have 4K-ready 4K UHD internet connectivity for streaming content in the resolution, you can augment your list of 4K entertainment options as quickly as possible right now.
The new player and 4K Blu-ray discs in particular might be of particular interest to those owners of an UHD TV who don’t have the sort of internet bandwidth necessary for effectively and smoothly streaming the growing body of movies and programming available in the format by providers like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Vudu and Ultraflix among others. This quantity, about 15 to 20Mbps at a minimum for native streamed 4K UHD video at 3840 x 2160 pixels is currently available to only about 15% or so of U.S households.
Further enticement for the new player, even for owners of 4K TVs with enough internet bandwidth to their home, comes in the form of pledges by studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Sony and Warner Bros to release dozens of 4K Blu-ray discs in 2016 for leading Hollywood movies like The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, Hancock and numerous other titles from their libraries of content. This selection of disc movies will certainly only grow in the next 12 months but we know of at least 30 titles which can be expected in the first half of 2016 to start with.
The UBD-K8500 4K blu-ray player with HDR
Best of all, at least for some of these studios, many of the movies will also come with HDR contrast augmentation metadata programmed into them –something which will fit nicely with the HDR capabilities of all three new UHD Blu-ray players which we know are emerging soon from Philips, Panasonic and of course Samsung.
As for the Samsung player itself, it’s expected to start shipping out to buyers in the early spring, in March specifically and will is already retailing for a very attractive price of just $399.99, much lower than the first ever Panasonic 4K Blu-ray player which hit the Japanese market in November of 2015 for a whopping $3,300.
As a final enticement, even if the arrival of 4K UHD Blu-ray discs suffers some delays or a lack of cool content in the beginning, the new player can also upscale Full HD Blu-ray discs to 4K-like crispness, along with the upscaling done by any name brand 4K TV through its own internal upscaling engine.
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Will theses players be 10bit or 8 bit?
@Lee: 10-bit. The new UHD BD format is natively 10-bit.
Where is the link to the pre order?
Hello Robert and thanks for noting this and pointing it out. We were going to include the pre-order link but for some reason it was completely non-functional on Panasonic’s site, so we didn’t bother with it. However, we’ll post the link once it’s available, which for now at least doesn’t seem to be the case despite the claim by Panasonic and other sources of it being on pre-order.
The pre-order link is now up from Samsung and we’ve included it at the top of the article. Here it is as well.
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/home-audio/UBD-K8500/ZA
One thing you didn’t mention: the Japanese Panasonic $3,300 product is actually a recorder, not just a player, which will account for part of the higher price. And also why it launched ahead of there being any actual UHD BD software.
Hello David and thank you for pointing out this additional piece of information. Since we only briefly covered the device in a news piece, we didn’t have a chance to go into its functional details but the recording aspect would certainly explain a higher price. However, it still doesn’t fully justify $3,300, given that the players now emerging on the U.S market seem to all be going for around the $400 line. Thus, $2900 for recording capacity? Still seems steep. Then again, we stress that we haven’t reviewed the device for a more solid viewpoint.
I just have a question, since the 4k blu ray players and 4k blu rays are soon to be available to consumers, how come there are no reviews or “FIRST LOOK” on the blu rays, I mean, has anyone actually seen how the picture quality is on screen, have they tested an actual 4k movie? Do they look much better than 1080p. I’ve seen 4k footage like at Best Buy and stuff, but never seen or heard about an actual 4k Movie like supposedly “THE MARTIAN” inserted in a 4k blu ray player and been reviewed. Has anyone seen anything on the internet? thx
Hello Patricio. While we can’t speak for what other sites are doing, we ourselves haven’t quite yet gotten a chance to see these in action. We think that nobody has quite yet in a hands-on review. However, we’re working on doing so as soon as possible and if possible will have a first look review up before the release dates.
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Solar system Earth
What are Fast Facts?
How to use in the classroom
About the same age as the Sun: 4.5 billion years
Avg. distance from the Sun
149,600,000 km (92,960,000 miles)
12,760 km (7926 miles)
5.972 x 1024 kg
Orbital period around the Sun
1 year (365 days)
Number of moons
Earth is the only planet to have liquid water on its surface. Liquid water covers 71% of the surface. Its atmosphere is 77% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with traces of other gases. White clouds of water vapor hide much of Earth's surface.
The southern hemisphere of Earth (image courtesy of NASA)
"Fast Facts: Earth" is a table that lists Earth's age, location, average distance from the Sun, diameter, mass, orbital period around the Sun, number of moons, and distinguishing features. A picture of the planet is included.
FORMATS AVAILABLE:
Printer-friendly web page
Adaptable, at teacher's discretion
Use this resource as:
A source of information. Read the table to find out about this object.
A reading activity. Give each student a planet-themed Fast Facts table. Ask students to locate specific object characteristics, such as the number of moons or the diameters of their respective planets.
A large-number recognition and ordering activity. Have students review several planet Fast Fact tables, including this one. Have students read the tables to find each planet's distance from the Sun. Then ask them to arrange the planets according to their distance from the Sun, from closest to farthest. Students also can arrange the planets according to their mass and/or diameter, from smallest to largest.
A unit conversion activity. Have students change the distances in either kilometers or miles into astronomical units. One astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance from Earth to the Sun, which equals 149,600,000 km, or 92,960,000 miles.
A compare/contrast activity. Have students review several Fast Facts tables for planets. Students match the planets to statements that describe a unique feature of each planet, such as: This planet is closest to the sun, or this is the largest known dwarf planet. Either the teacher or the students can generate the statements using information from the Fast Facts. Students also can create graphic organizers comparing the features of planets and dwarf planets.
An inquiry tool. Have students write down questions they would like answered about the image and the information in the Fast Facts table.
An engagement tool. Involve students in a discussion.
A math activity. Students can use determine the relationship between a planet's distance from the Sun and its period of revolution around the Sun (Kepler's Third Law). (Recommended for grades 10-12).
Use graphing calculators to plot one variable against the other. For example, plot distance from the Sun along the x axis and period of revolution along the y axis (or vice versa). Note that since the relationship is not a straight line, the distance is not proportional to the period. Ask students what they might do to the variables to produce a straight line (or direct proportion).
Have students calculate the square and cube of the distance and the period. Then have students make three new graphs by plotting the square of the distance vs. the period, the period squared, and the period cubed. Follow this by three more graphs: the cube of the distance vs. the period, the period squared, and the period cubed. Ask students to identify which graph resulted in a straight line and what combination is a direct proportion. Answer: The relationship is that the period squared is proportional to the average distance cubed. Hint: To make the calculations a little easier, express the distances in terms of astronomical units (1 AU = 149,600,000 km = 92,960,000 miles), and use years for the periods.
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Rotational Grazing- Paddock Layout and Construction
From: Pasture Management Guide for Livestock Producers,
Iowa State University Extension
Once the decision has been made to develop a rotational grazing system and the preliminary calculations are made, you should have some idea of the basic plan- how many paddocks or pastures will be needed and their approximate size. The challenge now is how to best fit the basic plan to the conditions of the specific site. There are few hard rules for paddock layout, but there are some good guidelines. The most important consideration in layout and design is to design with flexibility in mind.
One guideline often suggested to maximize flexibility in your start-up year of a system is “don’t build or install anything that can’t be easily moved or shifted.” If the site has no preexisting fences or water sites, this ultra-flexible approach may be feasible. But many sites already have some preexisting permanent fencing, water sites, and handling facilities that may be suitable to include in the layout design. There is always the risk however, that too much of the existing fencing will be kept in an effort to economize at the sacrifice of a more flexible or efficient layout. Don’t be afraid to invest in some temporary fencing and water distribution materials in the early years of a rotational grazing system. Many producers are not really satisfied with their first design and are generally glad they did not install it permanently.
Other possibilities for flexibility that should be considered include laying out a few paddocks initially with the intent of further divisions in the future; installing some main fence lines and lanes with permanent fencing materials but using temporary or semi-permanent fencing for all other internal divisions to allow for more efficient hay harvest and fertilization; or using temporary fencing to create variable-sized paddocks as the season and regrowth characteristics dictate, an example being the daily or half-day strip grazing practiced by dairy graziers.
For every site there will likely be several good and workable layouts. Get a good to-scale map of the site, and walk across the site to get a good sense of the general lay-of-the-land, paying special attention to ditches, drainage areas, trees, existing livestock trails, and other features of the site that may influence or interfere with movement of livestock. Consider paddock and lane arrangements by using the list of guidelines.
Guidelines for Paddocks
Paddocks should be as square as possible (no more than 3:1 length:width).
To lessen erosion, avoid aligning paddocks from the top of a hill to the bottom. If possible, make hilltop paddocks, side hill paddocks, and bottomland paddocks.
If pasture forage types vary across the pasture, attempt to confine the different forage types to separate paddocks.
It is more important that paddocks be as equal as possible in forage productivity, than equal in area.
Forage on south-facing slopes grows at a different rate than that on north-facing slopes. If possible, fence slope orientations separately.
Guidelines for Lanes
Avoid orienting lanes up and down slopes. If possible, orient lanes on the contour.
Avoid directing lanes through wet or low areas.
Place paddock gates in the corner of the paddock and nearest the water source.
Make lanes wide enough for free movement of vehicular traffic and easy access to paddocks.
Make paddock gate widths equal to the width of the lane, so the open paddock gate can be used to block animals from unneeded parts of the lane.
It will not be possible to accommodate all of these guidelines in every design. Draw several alternative layouts on paper and select the two or three that require the least amount of fencing. View these in regard to their potential to add additional water sites in the paddocks. A goal should be to have a water site within 800 feet of all areas of the system; a water point in each paddock is considered the best.
Take two or three best designs to the field and view the areas again with the alternative designs in mind. Use flags or stakes on proposed fence lines. Have grazing advisors form Extension, NRCS, consultants, or other experienced rotational graziers visit the pasture to provide additional suggestions or comments. Visit other grazing systems for guidance about mistakes made, precautions, and features that others feel are desirable.
Once a design is chosen, begin assessing the suitability of existing fencing. Use what is still useful, but seriously consider the costs and benefits of new construction. There are many new fencing technologies available, whether permanent, semi-permanent, or temporary. All can be adapted to electrification. Begin to acquire fencing and water distribution materials, and begin installing the layout.
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September 29, 2018 /in News /by Mark
Mark has been hosting a series of monthly concerts Live at Zédel this summer and on the 16th September he presented The New Musical Theatre Showcase which featured new and re-arranged songs from ourselves and also material from Kansley & Lidert, Kate Marlais & Alex Young, Oliver Boito and Webborn & Finn.
The sensational Christina Bennington who is currently starring as Raven in Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical at The Dominion Theatre in London debuted our brand new female empowerment anthem Get Brave as well as the song All She Wants which we debuted back in June with Belinda Wollaston. The always amazing Nadim Naaman (Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera and also co-writer of the brand new musical Broken Wings) performed a re-worked version of the song Tell Me which we originally debuted on our first album You Are Home. The three songs followed each other and told the story of a woman at a crossroads in her life and the choices that she has to make. Check out the videos here:
Christina Bennington – All She Wants
Nadim Naaman – Tell Me
Christina Bennington – Get Brave
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ALL SHE WANTS (ft. Belinda Wollaston) You Are Home – Fifth Anniversary Re-Issue on iTunes and Spotify
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Few Words About AKTL
A.K Khan Telecom Ltd. (AKTL) is a fully owned subsidiary of A.K. Khan & Company Ltd (AKK). A.K Khan & Company Ltd. is one of the oldest and most renowned private sector organizations in Bangladesh established by Mr. A.K. Khan in 1945. AKK in the 1950s under the visionary leadership of its founder Mr. A.K. Khan established Insurance Company, Financial Institution as well as manufacturing industries in Textiles, Jute, Plywood, Tannery, Heavy Electrical Goods, Shipping, and Irrigation. In 1980s the Company started to grow through Joint Ventures (JV) with renowned Multinational Companies in Textile, Telecommunication and Deep Sea Fishing.
AKTL formerly known as AKTD, started its Telecom distribution and supply chain operations business as a SBU under A.K. Khan & Company Ltd. AKTD was converted as a separate entity named A.K. Khan Telecom Ltd. (AKTL) in 2012. Currently, AKTL is engaged in Telecom distribution, Network solution, ISP, ASP, IPBAX, Call Center solution, Security & Surveillance and other communication operations, AKTL received ISO 9001:2008 Certificate by Intertek on the 12th of August, 2014.
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AKTL is the largest distributor of the Robi Axiata Limited in Bangladesh. Operating exclusively in the Chittagong Region, AKTL has a setup of nearly 1,400 employees covering 50,000 point of sales (POS) with 66 offices, showrooms and customer care points... Read More
A. K. Khan & Company Ltd. (Telecom Division) started its operations in 1997 as the national distributor for AKTEL. In 2012 it was converted into a separate entity named A. K. Khan Telecom Ltd (AKTL) as a fully owned subsidiary of A. K. Khan & Company Ltd. (AKK) Today, AKTL is the largest distributor of the Robi Axiata Limited in Bangladesh. Operating exclusively in the Chittagong Region, AKTL has a setup of nearly 1,400 employees covering 50,000 point of sales (POS) with 66 offices, showrooms and customer care points. Its distribution coverage area expands from Mirasharai to Teknaf under Chittagong Region. AKTL is also operating bKash and other banking M-commerce services for Robi Axiata Limited.
A strategic business unit of AKTL, AKTouch is a retail chain of electronic goods in Chittagong. AKTouch provides the latest mobile devices, has great accessibility spread over its 30+ retail outlets with the aim of providing its customer with in depth product knowledge. Read More
A strategic business unit of AKTL, AKTouch is a retail chain of personal electronic goods in Chittagong. AKTouch provides comprehensive product lines of the latest mobile devices, has great accessibility spread over its 30+ retail outlets with the aim of providing its customer with in depth product knowledge, powering them to make the right decision for their mobile needs.
Our offering of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) solution architecture is designed for multimedia solution under a single platform allowing for flexible deployment...Read More
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AKTL places great emphasis on the quality, reliability and security of the services it offers. It does business in full compliance with the international standards on information quality and security. AKTL is the ISO 9001-2008 QMS certified distributor. The company was certified in 12th of August, 2014.
Security is of paramount importance to AKTL and its customers, and ISO 9001:2008 is the most widely-accepted certification available for supporting information and physical security and business continuity.
Audits are conducted regularly that include tests of security and of the CCTV system.
Access to physical facilities is restricted and physical security processes, such as restricted/named access (access control system) are enforced consistently.
Risks and threats to the business are assessed and managed.
Why Customers love AKTL
AKNET has undoubtedly proven their reliability and market competitiveness. We do appreciate the sincere efforts to develop NUK's website.
-Mashuda Khatun Shefali,
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Few Words From Our Management
“Proper utilization of technology can change the profitability of a business. We have seen its power, and also suffered when it is wrongly applied. Thus, our clients can add value from our expertise”
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About AKTL
A. K. Khan & Company Ltd. is operating it’s Telecom distribution and supply chain operations business since 1997 with SBU named A. K. Khan & Company Ltd. (Telecom Division) known as AKTD. In 2012 AKTD was converted into a separate entity named A. K. Khan Telecom Ltd (AKTL). Today, AKTL is the largest distributor of the Robi Axiata Limited in Bangladesh. Recently, AK Khan’s ISP concern AKNET, Infocom and Enterprise Solution Department has been merged with AKTL to run business operations on the same Enterprise and ISP solution.
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Sheryl Sandberg Says Facebook Totally Doesn’t Have a Teenager Problem
November 22, 2013 at 6:00 am PT
Perhaps you’ve heard: Facebook may — or may not — have a teen problem.
It’s been the talk of the town since Facebook’s last earnings call, when CFO David Ebersman admitted that in the past quarter, the company “did see a decrease in daily users, specifically among younger teens.”
And with twelve little words, the tech media world was sent into a tizzy. Couple that with the recent murmurings that Facebook desperately wants to buy Snapchat — a service popular with youngsters — and you’ve got all the trappings of a full-fledged Facebook teen flight crisis.
I caught up with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shortly after her recent discussion with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. She was willing to shed a little more light on Facebook’s supposed “teen problem,” along with a few other particular areas of interest for the company — including the Snapchat chatter, mobile ads and the company’s commerce initiatives.
Here’s an edited transcript of my conversation with Sandberg from Thursday:
AllThingsD: There has been quite a bit of chatter over the past few weeks about teens and declining teen usage of Facebook. On Facebook’s last earnings call, we heard [Facebook CFO] David Ebersman note some dropoff among the younger teen demographic, but he didn’t really say much else. Can you elucidate?
Sheryl Sandberg: So I think the reaction to that comment has been blown out of proportion. As we said on the earnings call, overall U.S. teen usage of Facebook remains stable.
The vast majority of U.S. teens are on Facebook. And the majority of U.S. teens use Facebook almost every day.
I feel like I’ve lived this before. When I was first at Facebook just a few years in, adults were getting into Facebook in larger numbers and there were all those memes that popped up — “Oh my God, my mom’s on Facebook!” and that sort of thing. I’m pretty sure “Saturday Night Live” even did a skit on it.
One of the challenges we face right now is that we’re a decade old. That means that we’re not the newest. And often, particularly in our space, newer things are shinier and cooler.
And what Mark [Zuckerberg] has said and what we all believe is that we’re not trying to be the coolest. And we’re not trying to be the newest. We’re trying to be the most useful.
I think if you look at the way teenagers continue to use Facebook, we are useful to them.
That’s the perfect lead-in to my next question on something “new and shiny” — Snapchat. Are you going to acquire the company? Is its rising success a threat to Facebook?
So, what I would say on this is that we are the leader in a growing space. Social sharing, personal sharing, using your mobile device to share is exploding. We and other services are continuing to grow because of it.
That’s what matters. If you are the leader in a growing market, other products grow as well. I’d personally rather be in a growing market — where there are more products and more services — than in a shrinking market.
And I think that we’ve shown that, even as new services come up, we can continue to grow.
So your stance is “maybe you buy them, maybe you don’t — but it’s a good thing that everyone is doing well?”
Well, people are doing more sharing. If they were doing less sharing, we’d be fighting for a piece of a smaller market. There’s a lot of competition out there, but it’s amid a growing market. That means there’s room for us to grow and others to grow as well.
So let’s shift a bit. On Facebook’s last earnings call, we heard David [Ebersman] mention that Facebook’s ad load inside the News Feed wouldn’t increase significantly. That spooked the Street, as shares plunged in after-hours trading. Should investors be worried?
We feel really great about how our business is performing now, and about opportunities for future growth.
Remember that, not so long ago, we had zero ads in the News Feed. And as we’ve made the shift to being a mobile-first company focusing on mobile revenue, we’ve put ads into the News Feed carefully, watching user sentiment all along the way. We’re pleased not just with how it’s driving the bottom line and giving us a strong mobile ads business, but on the impact on how users are continuing to use Facebook.
What David was saying was that our focus going forward was not on increasing the number of ads in the News Feed, but in increasing the quality of those ads. That’s where we think there’s still room to grow.
Including experimenting with new mediums, and working with advertisers to make their ads better?
Yeah, and even just targeting. We have really sophisticated targeting tools that we didn’t have even a year ago — everything from custom audiences to partner categories to lookalike audiences. And while we’ve done a great job getting trials of those targeting tools, there’s a lot of room for more of our ads to use the better targeting tools, and therefore make the ads more relevant to users. So we’re very focused on using targeting to make those ads a better experience for users and have a higher ROI for advertisers.
In that vein, I’m really curious about a particular ad unit that you have only spoken a little bit about: Mobile app installation ads. Can you give me an idea of how those are performing?
We don’t break out revenue on specific ad products, so I can’t tell you that exact percentage. But what I can tell you is that it’s a growing business, and it’s a new and exciting space that we think really is at the very beginning of what’s possible.
We think our mobile app install ads represent one of the only ways that people can get their apps discovered. And the ROI for people developing those apps has been really high, which means we have very strong demand for the product.
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com
Last question. Tell me about the payments and commerce business, something I hear little about. Facebook Gifts, too, which was scaled back.
So on Gifts, we did some experimenting. And what we saw was that roughly 80 percent of the gifts bought were gift cards. So we just decided to focus on what was working.
When you think about e-commerce, we are not a sales platform. People don’t buy and sell on Facebook the way they do on Amazon and eBay.
But we’re a very large player in direct response advertising space. Businesses are using Facebook to promote things to people, and those people are going to their sites and walking in their store doors and buying things. We’re seeing significant increased spend among e-commerce companies.
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Calif. cities eye plan to seize mortgages - The Guardian
CHRISTINA REXRODE
Associated Press= FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — In the foreclosure-battered inland stretches of California, local government officials desperate for change are weighing a controversial but inventive way to fix troubled mortgages: Condemn them.
Officials from San Bernardino County and two of its cities have formed a local agency to consider the plan. But investors who stand to lose money on their mortgage investments have been quick to register their displeasure.
Discussion of the idea is taking place in one of the epicenters of the housing crisis, a working-class region east of Los Angeles where housing prices have plummeted. Last week brought another sharp reminder of the crisis when the 210,000-strong city of San Bernardino, struggling after shrunken home prices walloped local tax revenues, announced it would seek bankruptcy protection.
Now — and amid skepticism on many fronts — officials from the surrounding county of San Bernardino and cities of Fontana and Ontario have created a joint powers authority to consider what role local governments could take to stem the crisis. The goal is to keep homeowners saddled by large mortgage payments from losing their homes — which are now valued at a fraction of what they were once worth.
"We just have too much pain and misery in this county to call off a public discussion like this," said David Wert, a county spokesman.
The idea was broached by a group of West Coast financiers who suggest using the power of eminent domain, which lets the government seize private property for public use. In this case, they would condemn troubled mortgages so they could seize them from the investors who own them. Then the mortgages would be rewritten so the borrowers would have significantly lower monthly payments.
Steven Gluckstern, chairman of the newly formed San Francisco-based Mortgage Resolution Partners, says his main concern is to help the economy, which is being held back by the mortgage crisis.
"This is not a bunch of Wall Street guys sitting around saying, 'How do we make money?'" he said. "This was a bunch of Wall Street guys sitting around saying, 'How do you solve this problem?'"
Typically, eminent domain has been used to clear property for infrastructure projects like highways, schools and sewage plants. But supporters say that giving help to struggling borrowers is also a legitimate use of eminent domain, because it's in the public interest.
Under the proposal, a city or county would sign on as a client of Mortgage Resolution Partners, then condemn certain mortgages. The mortgages are typically owned by private investors like hedge funds and pension funds.
Under eminent domain, the city or county would be required to pay those investors "fair value" for the seized mortgages. So Mortgage Resolution Partners would find private investors to fund that.
Mortgage Resolution Partners will focus on mortgages where the borrowers are current on their payments but are "under water," meaning their mortgage costs more than the home is worth. After being condemned and seized, the mortgages would be rewritten based on the homes' current values. The borrowers would get to stay, but with cheaper monthly payments. The city or county would resell the loans to other private investors, so it could pay back the investors who funded the seizure and pay a flat fee to Mortgage Resolution Partners.
The company says that overall, all parties will be happy. The homeowners, for obvious reasons. The cities, for stemming economic blight without using taxpayer bailouts. And even the investors whose mortgage investments are seized. Mortgage Resolution Partners figures they should be glad to unload a risky asset.
Rick Rayl, an eminent domain lawyer in Irvine, Calif., who is not connected to the company, isn't so sure.
"The lenders are going to be livid," he said. He thinks the plan could have unintended consequences, like discouraging banks and other lenders from making new mortgage loans in an area.
The company says that focusing on borrowers who are current on their loans is a smart way to do business, rewarding those who are already working hard to keep their homes. But, Rayl pointed out, those are also the exact mortgages that investors are eager to keep.
Already, the outcry was heard at the first meeting of the joint powers authority on Friday, even as chairman and San Bernardino County chief executive Greg Devereaux said the entity — which was inspired by Mortgage Resolution Partners' proposal — has not yet decided on a specific course of action.
Timothy Cameron, managing director of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's asset managers group, told the authority that residents of the region would find it harder to get loans and investors — including pensioners — would suffer losses. He also said such a move would invite costly litigation.
"The use of eminent domain will do more harm than good," he said. "We need mortgage investors and lenders to come back to these fragile markets — but this plan will force both groups to avoid them."
But Robert Hockett, a Cornell University law professor who serves as an unpaid adviser to Mortgage Resolution Partners, was unsympathetic. He likes how the plan forces the hand of uncooperative investors, who have sometimes stifled plans to reduce mortgage payments.
"It's kind of like saying a loan shark objects to anti-predatory lending laws," Hockett said.
Theodore Woodard, a 62-year-old retired air conditioner installer, said he'd welcome the help on his five-bedroom home in Fontana. So far, he and his wife have kept up with monthly $3,100 payments, plus taxes and insurance, but it hasn't been easy, and they have watched several neighbors in the well-manicured neighborhood some 50 miles east of Los Angeles lose their homes to foreclosure.
"We've been making our monthly payments, barely making them, but we just pay them and try to survive off what's left," said Woodard, who estimates his house has lost a third of its value since 2004.
In San Bernardino County, the problem is clear. The median home price has plunged to $150,000 from $370,000 in five years. The combined San Bernardino-Riverside metro area has the highest foreclosure rate of any large metro area in the country, at four times the national average, according to RealtyTrac, which tracks foreclosure properties.
Devereaux, who has seen other plans to fix the housing crisis peter out, is cautious.
"I don't know whether this will work or not," he said. "But we do think we have a responsibility to explore it."
Rexrode reported from New York. AP Business Writer Daniel Wagner contributed to this report from Washington, D.C
Double-amputee who lost arm and leg while clearing mines to take on gruelling 135mile ultra marathon through Death Valley - Daily Mail
Chris Moon, 50, from Lanarkshire, is the first amputee ever to attempt the legendary Badwater run in California
PUBLISHED: 12:16 EST, 15 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:33 EST, 15 July 2012
A man who lost his right arm and leg in a devastating explosion while supervising mine clearance in Mozambique is about to take on one of the world's toughest ultra marathons.
Chris Moon, who suffered crippling injuries in 1995, flew out to the U.S. last night to take part in the 135 mile Badwater run in California.
He will become the first amputee ever to attempt the race, which gets under way tomorrow.
Chris Moon will be lining up next to around 90 of the world's toughest athletes - runners, triathletes, adventure racers, and mountaineers for a 135mile race through Death Valley to Mt. Whitney
The gruelling event pits around 90 of the world's toughest athletes - runners, triathletes, adventure racers, and mountaineers - against one another and the elements.
It sees runners head through Death Valley to Mt. Whitney in temperatures of up to 55C (130F).
Mr Moon, 50, who was born in Wiltshire, but lives in Strathaven in Lanarkshire, has run the race before - in 53 hours - and wants to cut ten hours off his best time.
The 50-year-old, who was born in Wiltshire, but lives in Strathaven in Lanarkshire, has run the race before - in 53 hours - and wants to cut ten hours off his best time
He is running to raise funds for a group of charities - including O2E, which helps disabled and disadvantaged children.
He has been running marathons, ultra-distance races and raising money for charity for the past 15 years - and is the first amputee to run a number of the world's toughest ultra marathons; beginning with the Marathon Des Sables in 1996.
He said: ‘I want to challenge the concept of limitation.
'I want to overcome physical challenges and show that I have not been weakened by the unfortunate things that sometimes happen.
'I run further now than I ever did before I was blown up.
‘I have worked very hard and I want to keep going until I am in my 70s.
‘I am driven by all sorts of things. What is life without aspirations?’
In September 2010 he became one of a handful of people to run more than a marathon a day for 30 days continuously, covering over 1,000 miles.
Mr Moon said: ‘I am excited. I have done the training and I just want to get out there.
‘I am looking to take ten hours off my best time. I know more about running and artificial legs have got a lot better.
Competitors in the Badwater Ultramarathon will cover 135 miles from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney in temperatures up to 55C
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The Italian authorities fines WhatsApp for $ 3 million euros
The Italian Antimonopoly Authority fined WhatsApp service developers for 3 million euros. This information was reported reported by Reuters.
According to the agency, WhatsApp imposed conditions on the users that obliged them to agree to data transfer to Facebook parent company. In particular, they were persuaded that without agreeing on this they would not be able to continue using the service.
The WhatsApp press service commented on this situation the following way: "We are considering this decision and preparing a response to the authorities."
The supervisory authorities of all EU countries demanded that WhatsApp last year to suspend the transfer of Facebook data because of users’ doubts' in agreeing on the conditions.
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503 error means that the server is temporarily unable to process requests for technical reasons (this may be a maintenance, overload, etc.). This is a good method to help Google understand that the website will be unavailable for a limited period of time.
However, it is not recommended to use it for longer than a few hours. According to Mueller, "weeks" does not mean temporary. He also added that the webmasters are misleading Google in this case.
If it's not accessible for weeks, it would be misleading to include it in search, imo. It's an error page, essentially.
- John ☆ .o (▽ ≦ ≦) o. ☆ (@JohnMu) June 8, 2017
We should remind you that John Mueller previously told how not to lose the position in the search engine, if there is a need to temporarily suspend the website (for a day or more) either due to technical maintenance or for other reasons.
Google does not consider a sticky footer as a violation of the rules
In most cases Google does not penalize or lower websites for using a sticky footer. Thus, there is no need to worry about possible problems due to the use of this technique. This information was stated by the Google search representative Gary Illyes on Twitter.
At the same time, Illyes advises to avoid obsession, so as not to cause irritation among users when sticking the footer.
Nah, I would not worry about that, but do not try to make them as less obtrusive as possible. You really do not want to annoy your users.
- Gary "鯨 理" Illyes (@methode) July 28, 2017
It should be recalled that in April the search rep, John Mueller, said that Google does not punish websites for posting end-to-end text and links into the footer of the page. The content of this block is not regarded by the search engine as the main page on the website.
Earlier this month it became known that the location of internal links on the page does not affect their weight.
Google Drive will become a backup tool
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The backup function will be available from June 28 after the release of the new Backup and Sync application, which is the latest version of Google Drive for Mac / PC.
It is assumed that users will have the opportunity to open and edit files located in the cloud. It is still not clear whether they will be able to synchronize information between multiple PCs using Disk as an intermediary.
Since the auto update to Backup and Sync is not planned, the company recommends installing a new application immediately after being released.
The new feature is primarily targeted at corporate Google Drive users.
AdWords launches a new keyword-level bidding interface
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Some phases were also changed a little bit. Instead of the "top of the page" is now replaced by "over all organic results"; instead of "first position" the tab "over all other ads" will be now used.
There was no official launch announcement yet.
Let us remind you that Google AdWords changed algorithm of work of the Optimizer of the price for conversion last week. Earlier this tool could raise the maximum bid for prospective clicks by no more than 30%. Now this restriction is lifted.
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Testers put the product price, which is shown at a discount, and the crossed-out original price on the right side. As a result, users immediately see that the product participates in the promotion. Testing is carried out in the mobile and desktop Google versions.
As noted in Merkle, this format of displaying information about the discount allows you to save space in the ad and show other extensions (free delivery, product rating). In addition, it helps to increase CTR ads and highlight company offers among competitors' ads.
Testing is conducted on a limited scale. Google representative said to the Merkle Company that they are constantly testing various formats to give users the most useful information.
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Save the Children Launches Radio Outreach Program in Haiti
The global humanitarian organization Save the Children is supporting efforts to promote breastfeeding among new mothers in Haiti to ensure the protection of the youngest and most vulnerable survivors of the devastating January 12 earthquake.
The agency has translated internationally recognized public health messages into Creole, which are currently being broadcast on local radio stations.
Critical Awareness Campaign Available to Health-focused Groups in Haiti
Save the Children is making these critical communications available to other health-focused groups that are also working with local communities affected by the disaster. Its health staff in Haiti will translate other public health messages over the coming days and coordinate with partners and communities to spread the word about keeping children healthy in the wake of the quake.
Save the Children also is training midwives, health workers and nutritional educators to reach out to pregnant and new mothers at makeshift camps in Port-au-Prince, Leogane and Jacmel.
"Newborns and infants are very vulnerable during emergencies, especially from diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition. But mothers can take simple steps to protect their baby's health through exclusive and proper breastfeeding," said Kathryn Bolles, Save the Children's emergency health and nutrition director. "Breast milk provides essential nutrients and strengthens a baby's immunity, protecting the baby from other illnesses."
Health Risks from Infant Formulas and Other Supplements
The health messages encourage mothers to exclusively breastfeed babies under 6 months of age, and to continue to breastfeed children until age 2.
Mothers are cautioned against giving babies under 6 months of age anything but breast milk -- including water, infant formula, powdered milk or solid food -- because of the risks from diarrhea, one of the leading killers of children globally, and because of the risk of becoming malnourished, which leaves babies more susceptible to other illnesses
"Mothers may not be aware of the threats that infant formula and other supplements pose to their babies. Tainted water used to mix the formula and unsanitary bottles or cups can cause a baby to get sick with diarrhea, which can kill," said Bolles. "We hope more Haitian mothers will hear our health messages and be encouraged to breastfeed their babies. We also are suggesting mothers seek out support and counseling from organizations like Save the Children if they are having difficulty breastfeeding their baby."
The awareness campaign also seeks to dispel the myths that may discourage mothers from breastfeeding, among them stress or lack of proper food will cause a mother to produce bad milk or no milk. Instead, mothers are encouraged to breastfeed more often, which will allow them to produce more milk for their baby.
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Even before the earthquake, survival rates for young Haitian children were the worst in the Western Hemisphere, with nearly 1 in 10 children dying before the age of 5 from preventable and treatable causes like diarrhea and pneumonia.
Save the Children supports the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations that children should be breastfed exclusively for the first six months of life to ensure their most favorable growth and health. WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF guidelines only recommend "replacement feeding" (breastmilk substitute) when it is "acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable, and safe."
Save the Children has worked in Haiti since 1978 and currently has more than 200 staff in the country.
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Saving Sea Turtles in Hainan
Frederick Yeh is an American-Chinese biomedical engineer who was driven into conservation work on a trip back to Hainan to visit family. He had happy memories of Hainan’s Sea Turtles from early childhood, but was shocked to discover that locals – who were hard up against the realities of a struggling fishing industry – were selling the turtles and no one was doing anything about it.
Check out the report by Jennifer Dunn in Hainan:
Saving endangered Sea Turtles in Hainan
Sea Turtles face threats like fishing nets, pollution and poaching.
Frederick founded the organization Sea Turtles 911.
If you want to know more about Frederick’s work, you can visit seaturtles.org.
Wednesday 23.11.2011 | 14:25
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Miguel rescues Cape Verde’s endangered giant sea turtles
Giant sea turtles in western Africa are threatened with extinction. But Miguel from Cape Verde faithfully patrols the beaches to keep them safe while they lay their eggs.
Miguel makes sure the turtles find their way back to the ocean
DW reporter Carla Fernandes on meeting with Miguel in Cape Verde:
Boavista island on Cape Verde has lovely beaches! When I went there that was all that came to my mind. But this beauty became much deeper when I realized the meaning it has for the balance of an animal species like the marine turtles. Marine turtles prefer sandy beaches to make their nests. So looking at the white sand gain a new meaning: life. It was impressive to see a sea turtle laying her eggs on the sandy beach of Curralito and I was much more moved by this experience than I thought I would be.
Visit the Turtle Foundation’s website.
Here is the Turtle Foundation’s blog on its work on Cape Verde.
Tuesday 13.09.2011 | 12:37
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Merrell promoted to first-team LB
Keith Sargeant • August 16, 2011
Prior to arriving at Rutgers in 2009, Jamal Merrell was a four-year letterwinner at Hodgson Vo-Tech in Bear, Del. (Photo courtesy of Rutgers athletics)
Jamal Merrell hasn’t experienced any game action in his previous two seasons at Rutgers, but by the looks of things the third-year sophomore could be a factor for the Scarlet Knights defense this fall.
On Tuesday, Rutgers coach Greg Schiano promoted Merrell to the first-team strongside linebacker spot following a series of position switches that included shifting Ka’Lial Glaud to the hybrid end/linebacker spot and Manny Abreu to the other end.
“We wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t feel like Jamal was playing very well,” Schiano said. “Not just recently. He did it in the spring and then continued to do it now. Now, he’s young. He makes a lot of mistakes. But he has speed and athleticism and we just have to get him coached up. I think he can be a very good player.”
For Merrell, a Delaware native whose twin brother, Jamil, is a reserve defensive end, the promotion follows a series of position switches that has seen him see scout-team action at d-end and wide receiver since arriving in 2009.
“I’m a wide-range guy so they’ll try me anywhere,” Merrell said, laughing. “I feel like (strongside linebacker) is the best fit for me. That’s the best fit for my speed and athleticism. Getting into the playbook, I feel like I’m well equipped for it.”
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Jamal Merrell, Ka'Lial Glaud, Manny Abreu on August 16, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
Video: Schiano 8/16
Rutgers coach Greg Schiano had plenty to say in today’s post-practice video, offering his take on his team’s 12th practice of the preseason, admitting he’s concerned about the status of running back Jeremy Deering (who continues to be limited from contact with a head injury), discussing several intriguing position switches (including moving Ka’Lial Glaud to the hybrid d-end/linebacker spot, moving Manny Abreu from there to rush end, and moving Jamal Merrell up to first-team strongside linebacker), expressing optimism toward the depth at linebacker (with freshman Kevin Snyder moving up to second-team strongside), and offering another positive endorsement for new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Greg Schiano, Video on August 16, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
La Lota leaves team • 4 Comments
Anthony La Lota arrived at Rutgers last September with big expectations, but today told coach Greg Schiano he has decided to quit the football team and focus on academics.
“He just wants to focus on his education,” Schiano said of the 6-4, 270-pound tight end following practice. “He’s focused on his career and things like that. So he decided to stop playing. He came in to see me and we had a good talk.”
Rated by some recruiting analysts as New Jersey’s No. 1 prospect coming out of The Hun School in 2009, La Lota spent his freshman year at Michigan before opting to transfer closer to home two weeks into last season.
La Lota, a Princeton native who was rated as a five-star prospect and the No. 4 offensive tackle nationally by Scout.com, participated with Rutgers’ scout team at defensive end while redshirting due to NCAA transfer rules last fall. But when he reported in this summer, Schiano moved him to tight end, where he was behind co-starters D.C. Jefferson and Paul Carrezola, backup Malcolm Bush and blocking-tight end Beau Bachety on the depth chart.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Anthony La Lota on August 16, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
Men’s hoops: RU-Florida to air on ESPN2
Jerry Carino • August 16, 2011
Mark your calendar for Mike Rosario’s return to the RAC, because ESPN has. Game time is 7 p.m., changed from 7:30. It’s the Scarlet Knights’ second home game in December that will air nationally (LSU on Dec. 3).
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2011 by Jerry Carino.
Greene comfortable at linebacker again
With each passing practice, Khaseem Greene says he feels more comfortable at his weakside linebacker position. (MyCentralJersey.com file photo)
PISCATAWAY — Khaseem Greene never doubted he could make a smooth transition to linebacker after playing his first years at safety. After all, it was the same position he excelled at for three varsity seasons at Elizabeth High.
But after recording 117 tackles in leading the Minutemen to the NJSIAA North II Group IV championship in 2006, Greene spent a prep season at Avon Old Farms, where he was moved to safety. Greene enjoyed plenty of success in the defensive backfield for Rutgers, recording 77 tackles and a team-best three interceptions last all.
But in a move predicated on Rutgers coach Greg Schiano’s desire to add more speed to the defense, Greene has spent the offseason getting reacquainted to his old position.
“Everybody thought that I’d play linebacker here because I played it in high school,” Greene said. “But actually I had some success at safety in prep school and actually I had a pretty good run here at safety my first three years.”
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Khaseem Greene on August 16, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
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Jamison added to Maxwell Award watch list
With 491 rushing yards through Rutgers' 4-0 start, Jawan Jamison is on pace to become the Scarlet Knights' first 1,000-yard rusher since Ray Rice in 2007. (Photo by Mark R. Sullivan/Home News Tribune)
Not since Ray Rice took his talents to the NFL in 2007 has Rutgers had a running back receive recognition for college football’s top-player award.
Not until Jawan Jamison gained that notoriety, that is.
Rutgers’ redshirt sophomore tailback on Friday was added to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which goes to the nation’s best all-around college football player.
Jamison, who has a string of five consecutive 100-yard games dating back to last year, ranks fifth nationally with 491 yards rushing for the No. 23-ranked Scarlet Knights.
With a Big East-best average of 122.8 rushing yards per game, Jamison is on pace to become Rutgers’ third running back to eclipse the 1,000-yard plateau since 1975. Rice, who was a finalist for the Maxwell Award and finished seventh in Heisman Trophy voting in his 2,012-yard campaign in ’07, rushed for 1,000 or more yards in all three of his seasons from 2005-07 and Terrell Willis posted consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in 1993 and ’94.
Video: Kyle Flood (9/27)
On the final day of practice before the bye weekend, Rutgers coach Kyle Flood talked about the state of his team, offering thoughts on the status of reserve running back Savon Huggins, the pass-protection skills of Jawan Jamison, the caliber of his scout team, and other items of interest on Thursday:
Carroo not surprised by Nova’s success
PISCATAWAY — As Gary Nova was guiding the Rutgers football team to a shootout victory at Arkansas last Saturday, the least surprised player on the Scarlet Knights sideline may have been Leonte Carroo.
The true freshman from Edison played with Nova at Don Bosco Prep in northern New Jersey, hauling in 44 passes from Rutgers’ starting quarterback during the 2009 and ’10 scholastic seasons as the Ironmen won all 24 of those games en route to consecutive state sectional titles.
So what Nova has done this season – engineering a 4-0 start while proving to be an upper-echelon Big East quarterback – hasn’t shocked Carroo at all.
“I’m not surprised at all because, bottom line, Gary Nova’s a winner,’’ said Carroo, a 6-1, 200-pound wide receiver who has seen most of his action on special teams on the punt-block and kickoff-coverage units this fall. “He was a winner in high school. He always got us out of tough situations. So watching him on Saturday was very exciting. Not only as a teammate, but as a brother watching him lead us to a win was very cool.’’
Carroo has enough tales of Don Bosco’s success to write a book, but when reflecting on his quarterback’s accomplishments one memory stands out.
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Raising the Bar - The Battle for the 2004 NPC Delaware State, East Coast Classic DVD Review
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REVIEW OF THE DVD
The Inside Story of a Life in Bodybuilding
A Video by Mike Pulcinella
At the time of 2003, Dave had not competed in bodybuilding for seven years. His whole family thought he was done. But he wasn't. At the age of 39, he was planning a return to competition.
20 Weeks out
Bear, Delaware
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Right off the bat, the production qualities of this DVD were quite evident. There was mellow music in the background, excellent photo quality, and good narration (also, Mike had a great voice to be a narrator). It seemed sort of "Hollywood" and is a type of feature that is rare in bodybuilding. Training DVDs exist, contest videos exist, and some others of the norm exist, but how many documentaries are there in bodybuilding? Not many at all (other than the docudrama "Pumping Iron"). So this was a welcome addition to my bodybuilding video collection in that it is so unique.
Dave was seen pretty early in the video and was a very thick dude. He was in a t-shirt and also in a tank top and you could see he was close to pro size. Mike mentioned sarcastically that he was conspicuous with his camera. Tell me about it. I had a friend film me training once for some footage which I was going to put on the website and we definitely stood out.
Adam Gamido was the novice entering the same competition as Dave. He was 27 years old and training for the show. Some training footage was shown and Adam was a big guy, but not nearly Dave's size (they were in different weight classes). Dave was suggesting that Adam might drop out of the show when he realizes the difficulty of the diet. Adam explained that he lost a lot of his mass in the marine corps. It is a misconception that the marine corps or the army in general would bring you up - with all the cardio you may exit more fit than you were previously, but I would doubt you will turn out more muscular than before.
Mike asked a great question: "What motivates you guys to work as hard as you do?" and Dave's answer was even better, saying that it would be hard for him NOT to do it. Great answer, and perfectly understandable to other competitors and people who take on difficult tasks out of love.
Victor Delcampo's training was featured next in the DVD. I didn't realize until I researched him on the internet, but he was 5'2 in height. He appeared to be quite a bit taller (possibly due to his imposing physique and overall proportions).
Al Pulcinella (Dave's dad) was interviewed next and said he was very proud of his son's achievements at his previous show. His dad explained that he worries about Dave. This was understandable since comptetitive bodybuilding takes on several risks. For one there is the hard training which can result in torn muscles or other injuries. There is the obvious heavy juice requirements - or at least using steroids, period. Whether they are used at great doses or not varies depending on the individual, but it is just about impossible to be competitive as a natural bodybuilder. On top of this, it is often the amateurs who are the hungriest and most likely to abuse anabolic-androgenic steroids. Not to mention the less obvious time devotion that bodybuilding requires. The nutrition behind it is practically a full time job in itself (how practical is it to eat 6-10 times a day when you work a full time job?). These are all legimitate concerns and I can only assume that these are the types of things his dad was worried about. Some pictures of Dave's father were shown and he was in great shape when he was younger. No doubt his father was pretty big into working out back in the day.
Dave explained that he was going through some injuries and that he would have to figure out a way to get around them in the 19 weeks leading up to the show in a way which would stimulate growth to happen. This didn't make much sense to me as it is not really a bodybuilder's goal to gain muscle leading up to a show, but to burn fat and get shredded while preserving as much muscle as possible. In any case, I knew what Dave meant - you still want to work your hardest going up to a show, and injuries could very well prevent this.
Dave said that he wanted to enter the Delaware show to raise the bar and get all the best bodybuilders in the state to get out of the woodwork and do the show. His plan was to get all the best bodybuilders to compete to BEAT THEM ALL IN 2004!! MUAHAHAHAHA. Now this is what ultimately happened, but what would have become of this documentary if Dave hadn't won? Makes me wonder.
Dave's girlfriend was 24 and also competing in figure competitions (as Mike said, something between bodybuilding and bikini contests).
Another competitor, Vicky, was 44 years old and had been retired for a decade! Her plan was to compete in figure and not bodybuilding, which would require a fair bit of different preparation.
Sammy Segara had won the middleweight class at the Bodyrock in Virginia which is a National qualifier. He would also be 40 that year (same age as Dave). He was planning to compete with Dave, so it would definitely be a competitive field. Some photos were shown in the DVD of Dave and he was looking freaky - very thick. His height and build gives him an extremely powerful look. His torso is long and he looks like he has a very solid foundation (he's probably pretty strong in the basic heavy lifts).
Next up, Dave was watching the 2004 Arnold Classic on Payperview. He didn't want Jay Cutler to win and Jay won! WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP. Dave said it and I agree completely. I would have put Jay fourth after Chris Cormier, Dexter Jackson, and Gunter Schlierkamp. Yep - FOURTH. He was at his all time worst shape. It looked like he was starving compared to his usual performances. This is what sucks about the politics of bodybuilding - when ludicrous shit like this happens. Jay didn't deserve to win. Dave knew it, Chris Cormier knew it, as did Dexter and Gunter, and I knew it, as well as tons of fans. But of course if you are the reigning champ, you automatically win every succeeding time you enter that show whether you deserve to or not. OK, so Jay got a gift in first - there have definitely been times where he entered shows and probably should have won when he came in second. While I disagree that the 2001 Mr. Olympia was one of them, some others would say he was the winner.
Dave's dad said that Dave had not much to gain and everything to lose if he entered the Delaware show. This was pretty much the truth. Why win it once then come second the next year? It would suggest to the fans and the judges that the bodybuilder in question has regressed in terms of physique quality - and who wants that? Apparently, there were IFBB judges who agreed with Dave's dad. I would have agreed as well. Unless a person is competing solely for the fun of it.
Dave was again watching the Arnold classic, seeing Mustafa Mohammad on the stage looking FANTASTIC (hell, better than Jay), only to have come second last! Yet another ridiculous decision at the show. You have to love the 2003 Arnold Classic results: (1) Jay Cutler, (2) Chris Cormier, (3) Markus Ruhl, (4) Dexter Jackson. UMM...Is this a JOKE??? So we're judging by the standard (1) big and shredded, (2) shapely and symmetrical, (3) big and shredded, (4) shapely and symmetrical??? Yeah, makes a lot of sense (sarcasm). There is apples and oranges BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH IN THE SAME DAMN SHOW. Get your head out of your asses, judges. Reminds me of the 2004 Mr. Olympia when Ronnie beat Dexter in the abs and thigh challenge but Dexter had previously beat Markus Ruhl. WTF?? So having wide hanging lats and huge thighs was the excuse they had for Ronnie winning but the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT couldn't be used to defend Markus' victory because it didn't exist - he didn't win, because apparently the judges change their standards to suit the needs of who wins the show. For the record, I DO think Ronnie deserved the abs and thigh challenge because he had a superior taper and greater thighs than Dexter - BUT SO DID MARKUS. Notice how Ronnie didn't win the challenge round in 2005? Why? Because his victory wasn't riding on it, so they were able to judge it fairly. Of course, they also had a different judging panel that year, and that may have changed the results too.
2005 Mr. Olympia Finals & Prejudging (DVD)
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Back to my review of the DVD (LOL), Dave listed the six foods that work (to create the leanest body possible):
1. Egg white
4. Banana
6. Brown Rice
7. Sweet Potato
Brown rice and sweet potato were said to be interchangeable.
Dave said he eats 82 ounces of tuna each day by flushing it down with water. Mike said that the monotony of the diet was what he found most striking in the filming of this documentary. Diet is 80-90% of bodybuilding. Anyone who tells who otherwise is just plainly wrong. Bodybuilders will pride themselves in saying that hard training makes the bodybuilder. This truly is a bunch of shit. Nutrition, steroids, and genetics are the top three factors (the order is difficult to say). Training is dead last on that list. You can train like a koala bear, but if you juice hard, eat big, and have the right genes, you WILL grow. Plenty of bodybuilders (Paul Dillett and Flex Wheeler as just two examples) show this perfectly. While Dave was eating all that food, he really didn't appear to be enjoying it. Now THAT is what makes a bodybuilder - the ability to stay disciplined in the KITCHEN - this takes place in the 23 hours of the day when they are not in the gym. THAT is where it really matters. The gym means nothing compared to the kitchen - never believe otherwise.
Dave said that he was able to gain muscle going into a show during contest prep because he does things so ahead of schedule. This explains his comment about gaining muscle going into a show despite working around injuries. I now realize that Dave wasn't a typical bodybuilder in this manner (many of whom diet 12 weeks out at the very most). He seems to be one who is very intelligent with his contest preparation. Unlike some who don't start their diet until too late and need to take dangerous diuretics to make up for it! Dave said that his body fat was 2.5% but that seemed a bit low to me. Although it is quite possible his body fat WAS that low, it is all a matter of how it looks - and Dave himself said he was "waterlogged". It sounded to me like a typical bodybuilder who is too hard on himself and is delusional about what he truly looks like. Bertil Fox said that he would always see a skinny guy looking back at him in the gym mirror. LOL. While I disagree that Dave was waterlogged, his body fat might very well have been 2.5%, but I've seen others with 3.5% looking just as shredded (Claude Groulx at the 2003 Masters Mr. Olympia Contest for example).
2003 Masters Olympia (DVD)
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It all depends on how it looks on your body. Just because Tommi Thorvildsen outweighed Ronnie Coleman at the 2002 Mr. Olympia Contest by 15 pounds at a shorter height doesn't mean he looked better than Ronnie.
Next up was the night before the show, while tanning lotion was applied with sponge brushes to Dave and his girlfriend while they are almost naked. The tan really helps to bring out muscular definition in competitive bodybuilders. Dave said that bodybuilding causes neuroses and his girlfriend said her neuroses have nothing to do with bodybuilding. LOL.
At the day of the show, Dave got an unexpected shock - HE WASN'T ALLOWED TO DO THE SHOW! Crazy...Dave was obviously devastated. My question is: how the hell did he not know about this earlier? I have to say that I'm the type of guy who is always on the ball - nothing gets passed me. I would have known if I wasn't qualified. My question would then be: how did Dave not know? My guess is that it was some very strange loophole that would have taken a lot of time and research to figure out. He may have even been told by misinformed people that he was indeed qualified. After all, earlier in the DVD he was reading an email from a judge who told him not to do the show - but no mention was made by the judge that he wasn't even qualified to begin with! I couldn't imagine the devastation it must have been for Dave and his girlfriend to have to hear this news in a carb depleted state with such a low body fat. That stuff affects the brain! Don't think for a second it would be easy to be that shredded, because the body functions a lot less efficiently with such a low body fat.
Somebody on stage explained that nobody should have to kill themselves to complete this show (dehydration for example). This was said to possibly be about Dave since the year before he was cramping before the show. Something that NO DVD would ever explain is that there are rampant roids and chemicals behind lots of competitors. It would be sheer speculation to suggest that Dave was on any type of performance enhancing substances or diuretics, but this is also common sense. You don't get painful cramps just because you're thirsty and ate a lot of chicken! I only wish that one day a DVD came out that truly DID explain the steroids behind bodybuilding - could you imagine how well that would sell?? Everyone would want a copy. And it would be "keeping it real" as opposed to most DVDs which laughably suggest that hard training is more important than steroids (LOL!!). OK, maybe I'm a bit bitter about this, I just hate to see people selling supplements with pictures of bodies of people so obviously on steroids and deceiving beginner bodybuilders who will in turn naively purchase these supplements on the basis that it was the supplement (and not the steroids) which caused that growth. Supplements do work, but they aren't even close to being as effective as steroids and that's a fact! Tom Platz said it himself in his DVDs.
Tom Platz Seminar With Posing - The Golden Eagle - Platinum Edition (DVD)
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It was said in the DVD that at the local level the difference in quality between the first place finisher and the last place finisher is significant - this is definitely the truth.
Dave's girlfriend dyed her hair blonde for the show and changed her hairstyle as well as removed the glasses. It was AMAZING how much different she looked. Almost like a different person. LOL. I feel that way sometimes (the difference between having a good haircut and shaving versus having messy hair and a five o'clock shadow). People really do have the ability to look completely different.
Next up was the East Coast Classic Competition. The lineup was quickly shown and Dave appeared to be the clear winner. He was huge and shredded with a good shape. He sort of had a Mike Quinn physique in that he looked like a five foot and eight inch powerhouse. He looked as strong as he was built. This is something that comes with time as muscle maturity does not develop overnight.
There were definitely some other top rate guys at the show, and some appeared to be in Dave's league, but from the footage shown it still seemed to be that Dave was the obvious winner. King Kamali even showed up in full gear to guest pose. LOL.
King Kamali - King of Pain (DVD)
Vicky won her class in the masters division! And some other classes to boot. She was in the shape of her life. Physique aside, she even won the best poser award. Jennifer won her class as well and went on to beat Vicky for the overall.
Dave was announced by his brother to be "in extreme intestinal distress." I have no idea what this could mean, but I would assume that he possibly overdid the dieting and I'll leave it at that. I always admired Lee Haney for his balance. As amazing as he was, he never overdid it. Too much intensity causes high blood pressure and heart attacks - too much intensity might be the difference between winning and getting second. Rich Gaspari was quite possibly too intense and this lack of balance may have prevented him from beating Haney. However, I would say it was Haney's superior structural genetics which gave him the wins over Gaspari.
See Rich Gaspari and Lee Haney battle out for gold at the 1986-1988 Mr. Olympia contests!
1988 Mr. Olympia (DVD)
Check In Depth Mr. Olympia Contest Pages Here.
Victor DelCampo ended up coming second in his class! Not bad at all for a guy who likes to party as much as he likes to bodybuild! Dave ended up winning the whole show!
Isn't it amazing that this documentary turned out basically exactly as Mike probably wanted it too? All the results were there including some drama when Dave wasn't allowed to compete but ended up being allowed in the end. Talk about enough to make for a great story.
In the weeks following the contest Jenn gained 10 pounds and Dave gained 35. This is actually a moderate weight gain compared to some that I've seen before. Many bodybuilders gain 60. I've even heard of weight gains of 35 pounds made in literally just a few weeks after a show. Hopefully Mike trains for health and not just to win contests.
Overall Review:
Overall, this was a great addition to my bodybuilding collection. It worked out surprisingly well - perhaps a little too well. I kind of wonder if any of it was staged because the story unfolded perfectly, just like a Hollywood production. It really helped for viewers to understand what goes on in the minds of bodybuilders and what drives them. I sometimes wonder exactly how much bodybuilding makes up the self esteem of some of these competitors and what it would do to them if they were not looking as they do all the time. I really have no idea what that might be. In any case, this was a great video in that it was extremely unique. It had a great documentary feel to it, just as good as any that I've seen. My guess is that Mike observed what makes a documentary work and was very intelligent in applying the same principles here. I think anyone watching this will feel the same way. Due to its uniqueness, I definitely have to give this DVD my recommendation.
PRODUCER'S COMMENTS
Now here are some comments that were emailed to me from Mike Pulcinella, producer of the DVD:
Matt, Thanks for a wonderful review! I'm so glad you enjoyed the DVD and I'm pleased that through your words, others will now get the news of Raising The Bar.
I had to laugh a bit when you said that things worked out "a little too well" in terms of the story of RTB. You are absolutely right! I had an independent filmmaker swear to me that he thought the contest day drama was scripted. I assure you NOTHING was staged. That was exactly how it went down. My objective was to be as truthful as possible no matter what happened. If Dave and Jenn had not won the show then the DVD would have been about the pain and disappointment of professional bodybuilding, instead of the triumphs.
You are also right when you say that no DVD will show the reality of steroid use in bodybuilding. That is because no one will speak on camera about the subject! I realized early on that there would be a big hole in my documentary if I didn't discuss steriods. But time after time people would run scared or ask me to turn off my camera if the subject was brought up.
Once again, thanks so much for taking the time to review our doc. I will be sure to credit you properly if we use excerpts from it.
Mike Pulcinella
David Pulcinella - Raising the Bar (DVD)
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Forum: Reviews & Comparisons
Topic: What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5
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Re: What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5
The Case of the Bloody Iris and The New York Ripper... now those are good cinema!
I fear all those Japanese exploitation movies have irreparably damaged your taste.
Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975) *½ Second-rate giallo has more nudity than violence (save a little crude gore where sexual organs are shown cut off). When the killer's identity is finally revealed, I thought to myself, 'who is that, again?' It's not a good film, clearly, and for Edwige Fenech fans...
Godzilla (2014) **
Big, loud, and empty blockbuster. At least it's better than the 1998 turd.
Boyz 'n' the Hood (1991) ***
Effective drama of black youth stuck in cycle of gang violence, which the film roundly condemns.
The New York Ripper (1982) *
A serial killer with a penchant for Donald Duck impersonations mutilates attractive women.
Sleazy, misogynist trash, focuses on graphic depictions of sexual violence.
Topic: What asian film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5
THE LEG FIGHTERS (1980) Director: Lee Tso-Nam Great as it is to see a Taiwanese old school indie lovingly preserved on Blu-Ray, this is pretty poor with far too much stupid comic relief (especially from a strange fellow called Ding-Dong who dresses like a Native American draped in bells), an uninsp...
Clear and Present Danger (1994) ***
Best of the Jack Ryan series.
Juliet, Naked (2018) **½ Amiable romantic comedy-drama about a reclusive musician. Entirely forgettable, but hits a few right notes along the way. The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972) *½ Laughably inept giallo with only a nude Edwige Fenech to recommend it. The opening murder was "borrowed" by DePalma...
Captain Marvel (2019) ***
Entertaining Marvel comic blessedly doesn't lake itself too seriously.
Brie Larson is good in the title role. Dig that 90s soundtrack, too.
Overlord (2018) **
US soldiers parachute into occupied France to prepare for D-day, run afoul of zombie soldiers - the creation of a mad Nazi scientist (is there any other kind?). Watchable enough, but gory video game-like violence fails to impress.
Miracle on 34th Street?
A drunken Santa takes out his elves with a crossbow?
Little Monsters (2019) **
Zombies attack an Aussie farm in patchy horror-comedy.
Some laughs, sharp moments.
Uncle John (2015) ***
Impressive, very low key revenge drama. Worth seeking out.
The Lighthouse Golem (2016) *½
Disappointing murder mystery set in Victorian London district.
Overly theatrical, clumsy structuring, poor storytelling.
All the Money in the World (2017) **½
Kidnap drama from Ridley Scott in which world's richest man refuses to pay his grandson's ransom.
Based on a true story, film is never less than watchable, but is as cold and inert as its characters.
Captain America: Civil War (2016) ** If watching gravity-defying superheroes smashing the shit out of each other for 2.5 hrs is your bag, then this is the movie for you. The internal conflict plays second fiddle to awesome spectacle. Marvel fans will love this; I was apathetic, and somewhat numbed b...
Patriot's Day (2016) ***
Tense, tactful thriller about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016) **
Innocuous spy comedy-thriller.
Our Kind of Traitor (2015) **½
Quite good spy thriller, engrossing throughout, though the ending's a little weak, ill-explained.
Based on a novel by John LeCarre, which one assumes is better plotted.
In Darkness (2017) **
Blind pianist overhears the possible murder of her upstairs neighbour.
What starts out as a creepy Hitchcockian suspenser soon turns into a far less interesting (not to mention hopelessly convoluted) revenge drama.
Conclusion is especially risible.
XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2016) ** Preposterous action blockbuster/vanity project for Vin Diesel (who takes smugness to a new level here). I'd be lying if I said a wasn't a little entertained, but a bonafide good movie it isn't. Spinning Man (2017) **½ Did philosophy professor Guy Pearce murder a ...
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) ** Teen zombie flick is an unlikely mix of Shaun of the Dead and High School Musical. Never less than watchable, with spirited performances, and good sense of humour, but repetition sets in far too quickly, with perky song and dance numbers failing to cover up a lack o...
Terminal (2018) *½ Strange neo-noir revenge thriller is very obviously the work of a novice. The director has an eye for neon-lit visuals and sparse set design, but his script is all over the place. The quirkiness becomes wearying, the twists increasingly ridiculous (and unnecessary). Margot Robbie ...
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (2018) **½ Paper thin story contrived purely to hold together a string of bouncy musical numbers (which are generally fun). If Amanda Seyfried was the breakout star of the original, here it's the effervescent Lily James. Final scene brought a tear to my eye, big sook that...
Topic: Do I need to watch the Rambo movies in "order"?
Re: Do I need to watch the Rambo movies in "order"?
As soon as I see it - probably not for a while now - I'll post a quick take in the review thread.
Inception (2010) ***½
Groundhog Day (1993) ****
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Knowing Humans
Study their behaviors. Observe their territorial boundaries. Leave their habitat as you found it. Report any signs of intelligence.
Defending Libervention In Iraq
I do not believe that the duty of a liberty-loving polity to defend human liberty vanishes completely at lines drawn on maps by statists. It was reasonable (but not necessary) for American liberty-lovers to decide to liberate Iraq based on the conjunction of
Saddam's apparent threat to America, consisting of his
admitted nuclear ambitions,
hatred for America (regardless of whether some think it justified), and
support for terrorists who have targeted American civilians;
Saddam's record of aggression, in which he
killed over a million people,
invaded one sovereign neighbor,
annexed another by force,
fired ballistic missiles at two more,
defied UN nuclear disarmament mandates that Iraq was bound to obey as a 1945 UN Charter signatory,
used chemical WMDs in a war of aggression, and
used chemical WMDs in genocidal attacks on his own citizens; and
the existence proofs we had in Kurdistan and Afghanistan that the U.S. military could depose tyranny in even less-modernized Islamic societies and replace it with reasonably stable self-determination.
There are two predictions that could have changed my mind about liberating Iraq if before the invasion we had been given reasonable grounds for believing them. The most important is the prediction that, despite the stability in Kurdish Iraq under U.S. military protection, and despite the surprising success America had in deposing the Taliban, a sectarian civil war would be more likely than not to eventually undermine our effort to liberate the rest of Iraq -- a region much more secular, prosperous, and literate than Afghanistan. This prediction would have needed to be accompanied by evidence that this sectarian civil war was likely to be permanently avoidable under some alternative US course of action that had acceptable costs in terms of what evils Saddam and his sons committed or abetted (both in the region and against the West) during the rest of their tenure.
The other crucial prediction would have been that Saddam in fact had neither a nuclear WMD program nor the capability and intention of reconstituting the pre-1991 program that we found out in 1995 he had so successfully hidden from the West. On my blog I document an intensive but fruitless search for any Iraq Cassandra who credibly registered either of these two predictions. Indeed, the Iraqi people themselves were still failing to make the first prediction a year after the invasion. In an April 2004 CNN/Gallup nationwide poll of Iraqis, 42% "said Iraq was better off because of the war", and 61% "said Saddam Hussein's ouster made it worth any hardships." In a nationwide poll of Iraqis completed in Mar 2004 for BBC by Oxford Research International, "56% said that things were better now than they were before the war".
Was the invasion unconstitutional? Art I Sec 8 grants Congress the power "to declare war" and "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying [that power] into execution". Public Law 107-243 (the Iraq War Resolution of Oct 2002) said "the President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to [...] enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq." In the text of the resolution, Congress explicitly mentions its "war power" when discussing its authority to enact this law. Whether Congress believed it was exercising its Constitutional war power is not even a close question.
Was the invasion not justifiable under international law? Iraq is a signatory of the UN Charter and owes America and all other signatories a duty to obey UN Security Council resolutions. From the end of the 1991 war until US troops started massing on his border in 2002, Saddam had consistently and repeatedly violated his obligations under the terms of the UN Security Council resolutions governing the 1991 cease-fire. The UN Security Council itself said in resolution 1441 that "Iraq has been and remains in material breach of its obligations under relevant resolutions, including resolution 687" -- i.e. the 1991 cease-fire terms. Thus a reasonable case can be made that the 2003 invasion was simply a resumption of the 1991 war, which was indisputably justified under international law.
We have now achieved our two most important war aims: 1) elimination of any WMD capability or international terrorist infrastructure, and 2) deposing Saddam's regime in favor of a federal democratic constitutional framework designed to protect minorities and fundamental human rights. We would have liked to also successfully transition security responsibility to the new Iraqi government, but Iraq's thirst for civil war has effectively exhausted the reconstruction and stabilization efforts we owed the Iraqis for having liberated them. It is now time to accept our partial victory and let the Iraqi people take responsibility for their own future.
Liberty has blessed America with the prosperity required to defend its freedom, and with the worldwide respect that has made such defense so rarely needed. However, modern weapons technology and our high expectations for near-perfect security have combined to make Americans feel vulnerable to those who oppose America's influence on the rest of the world. America has done more to advance the cause of human liberty than any other society in human history, and yet America's foreign policy has fallen tragically short of the standard of conduct on which any libertarian would insist. We are appalled at the loss of life and compromises against liberty that some American leaders have considered an acceptable price for advancing liberty and opposing tyranny. Reasonable and principled Libertarians hold good-faith views on both sides of the question of liberating Iraq, but we all can agree that our candidates when elected will hold America to the highest standards of conduct.
Posted by Brian Holtz at 10:55 PM
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Brian Holtz
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2004/2006/2008 LP candidate for Congress, Silicon Valley. 2006/2008/2010/2012/2014 LPUS Platform Committee. 2007-2009 LPCA Executive Committee. Software engineer at Sun (1990-2001), Yahoo (2002-2010), Kabam (2011-). Purissima Hills Water District director (2009-). Husband of Melisse Lusin, father of 3 wonderful girls.
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DRAFT REVIEW 2011
The draft went reasonably smoothly this year, but there were some things I wasn't too pleased with. Way too many time violations, for one thing. Some of the early ones--maybe all of them--were my fault, as the last-minute test I ran caused the pre-draft lists to reset. But after that, it was simply a matter of setting up a valid list for the next pick as soon as the last one was made, and too many didn't do that.
We also could have done a better job of explaining the contract rules to the newcomers. I don't think it was made clear that the players listed on the Free Agents page of the roster sheet (URFAs who didn't get a bid) had to be signed to a U contract if drafted.
As always, there wasn't much available for any team in need of immediate help. It would have been worse if we were allowed three AMs instead of two; guys like Boesch, Moreland and Jaso would certainly have been stashed last year. Now that the third AM has been voted in, you'll see the effect in the draft after next. I hope that at least we go back to our traditional early May time frame for the draft, so that a couple of players have the chance to come out of nowhere without being snatched a year early.
The one position you can usually find plenty of help at in the draft is relief pitcher, but that wasn't the case this year. Most years you can build a serviceable bullpen from scratch in the draft, but this time around the only guy who was effective over a more than a few innings was Jonny Venters.
The first round:
1. Eric Hosmer, Andover - In a non-DH league, a first baseman shouldn't go first overall unless he's the next Pujols. When drafted, Hosmer looked like he might be all that and a side of onion rings, but he's been pretty ordinary lately.
2. Mike Trout, Southtown - Hard to argue with this one; Trout is behind only Bryce Harper on BA's list of prospects. If the draft had been held a week earlier or later (before Hosmer came up or after he cooled off), Trout would almost certainly have gone first. The only quibble is that he might tie up an AM spot for another year, while Pineda will definitely get a card.
3. Michael Pineda, Chuckanut Bay - Not the top available name on the BA list, but his performance in MLB makes this an obvious pick. I'd have probably taken him #1 if I'd had that chance.
4. Shelby Miller, Maine - Not sure why Miller was picked ahead of Wil Myers or Jameson Taillon, both of whom outrank him on the BA list. Then again, I don't research the AMs as well as I should, which is why I drafted one last year who'd had brain surgery two months earlier. BA does project Miller to arrive a year ahead of Taillon, which is important when you have only two AM spots to play with. (We didn't find out until later that we'll have three next year.)
5. Manny Machado, Belmont Park - Also ranked behind Myers and Taillon, but he's a shortstop, which has considerable value.
6. Brennan Boesch, Lancaster - I think this is the first time we've gone five picks without a carded player being taken; whether this reflects the quality of AMs available this year or the lack of quality carded players, I'm not sure. I'm also not sure his bat is quite good enough to carry his glove this high.
7. Jonny Venters, Portland - It really doesn't pay to draft a reliever this high unless he's going to be a starter someday. But if any reliever was ever going to be worth it, this is the year and Venters is the guy.
8. Matt Moore, Duluth-Superior - See Miller, Shelby. Moore's projected to arrive the same year as Taillon, but coming up with the Rays instead of the Pirates has to be a marker in his favor.
9. Colby Lewis, Madawaska - If you're looking for immediate rotation help, the list starts and ends here. The only problem is, he has to be signed to a U contract. He's certainly worth it this year, but you have to decide now how long to commit, instead of being able to go year to year like you could if he was a Y1.
10. Mitch Moreland, Meridian - This may still be too high to take a first baseman who's a good-but-not-great hitter. But Moreland has improved his numbers, is getting much more playing time, and has added positional flexibility by playing some outfield.
11. Brandon Beachy, Hoth - If Beachy hadn't been on the DL when the draft started, he'd have deserved to go ahead of any of the AM pitchers except Pineda; he was doing better than any of them could reasonably be expected to do when they arrive, and he doesn't tie up an AM slot. Now that he's healthy and picking up where he left off (two runs in 12 innings, 3 walks, 20 strikeouts since his return), this pick is highway robbery.
12. Travis Wood, Green Bay - OK, Colby Lewis isn't the only decent starter in the pool; Wood is about as good, albeit in half as many innings. He's getting knocked around this year, though, so who knows which is the real version?
13. Jordan Lyles, Montgomery County - Good performance in MLB this year gives him a big boost from his prospect ranking.
14. Alexi Ogando, Plainsfield - Should have gone much higher; he gives you a nice relief card this year, doesn't use up an AM, and has been lights-out in the Rangers' rotation. I was starting to think he might fall to me. . .
15. Jake Arrieta, Andover - He gives you some innings, and he's in a major-league rotation, but first round? Meh. However, if you look at my summer league's draft, and consider only the players who were available in both draft pools, he went 16th.
16. Zach Britton, Inyo - I started second-guessing this pick the moment I made it. I had an open AM slot, and I wanted to use it on someone who was already in the majors, as my other AM (Aaron Hicks) doesn't look like he's arriving any time soon. Britton's doing OK, but his K/W stats don't inspire confidence going forward, and anyway, what I really need is a catcher.
17. Danny Espinosa, Montreal - If all Espinosa does is maintain his 2010 rate stats over a full season, this is a very good pick. If he keeps up the improvement he's shown so far in 2011, it's a great one.
18. Wilson Ramos, Montgomery County - This is who I should have taken. Or Arencibia, or Lucroy, but Ramos is doing better than either of them so far this year.
19. John Jaso, Franklin - And this is who I should have taken last year, instead of brain surgery patient Ryan Westmoreland. Not so sure he's such a great pick for the Kites, since he's tanking in real life and they're flush with catchers. It does put them in a position to dump Russell Martin's salary.
20. Philip Humber, Plainsfield - Coming into last season, Humber had pitched 29.2 innings over four brief MLB trials, giving up 37 hits and 17 walks. But history is full of pitchers who were that bad or worse, found a new pitch or new delivery or something, and turned it around the way Humber apparently has. One red flag: his strikeout rate this year is only 5.5 per nine innings, and success at that level can be fleeting.
21. Jordan Walden, Belmont Park - The usual caveats on first-round relievers apply, plus is Walden a better pick than Craig Kimbrel? Their performances this year are close enough that for me, the deciding factor would be the extra 6 innings on Kimbrel's card. Then again, since both are M0's, you might not get to use all those innings. (I note with amazement that the proposal to allow players like this to be signed to Y1 contracts instead of M0 failed handily. Why would anyone oppose this?)
22. Dillon Gee, Ashland - He's in a rotation, pitching well, doesn't tie up an AM, and his card is good enough to take over a spot in a BRASS rotation when he comes up in February. Why didn't I take him instead of Britton? Damifino.
23. J.P. Arencibia, Duluth-Superior - In a non-salary keeper league, you'd probably take Lucroy ahead of Arencibia, since he has a usable card this year. The BRASS contract system makes Arencibia an arguably better pick, since the extra Y year he'll give you later should be more valuable than Lucroy's current card. The Dukes could have used Lucroy this year, as the catchers they had don't cover the position full time, but they picked up Humberto Quintero later to cover that need.
24. Brandon Belt, Diamond - There were definitely better ways to use an AM slot. That's not hindsight talking; Belt was on the DL when the draft started, and had hit .211 with a .609 OPS to that point.
The rest, by team:
Alexandria (Atchison, Collmenter, Herndon, Mortensen, Nava, Ryal, Ty. Walker; reclaimed Pierre) - With no picks until the third round, the Dukes did about as well as could be expected. Collmenter was a nice find (who never would have been picked if we'd drafted in May), Mortensen and Herndon are doing OK in the majors, but neither inspires confidence going forward. Nava has a nice pinch-hitting card.
Andover (Kimbrel, Nova, Perkins, Pestano, Revere; reclaimed Bard, Coffey, Milledge, Thames) - Kimbrel was the first pick of the second round, and could easily have gone in the first. He and Pestano will certainly upgrade the bullpen next year. Perkins too, but in order to get that from him you have to commit to at least a U2 contract. If Perkins tanks in the second half, the entire contract's a waste. Personally, I'd have passed on Perkins and gone for someone without the contract baggage. Daniel McCutchen, whom I picked later the same round, has (in real life this year) a better WHIP and more innings than Perkins, and a Y1 contract.
Ashland (Atilano, J. Castro, C. Coleman, Herrmann, Hultzen, Penny, S. Rodriguez, Texeira, Valaika, R. Valdes) - I like Rodriguez, even though he hasn't shown he can be anything more than a utilityman on a good BRASS team. The rest. . . not so much. I don't think it's a good idea to use an AM spot on a new MLB draftee like Hultzen unless he's in the Strasburg/Harper class. I suppose the innings Penny's munching this year are worth a fourth-round pick and a U contract.
Belmont Park (Baxter, Bourjos, D. Carpenter, Cousins, Craig, De Aza, Gentry, St. Hill, J. Hoffpauir, Mathieson, C. Nelson, Nieves, Br. Petersen, Slama, Stavinoha, D. Sutton, J. Turner) - Lots of back-of-the-draft roster fill, but a nugget or two as well. Bourjos is hitting just enough to be worth playing for his glove, Craig was hitting enough to force a team to find a place for his glove (before he got hurt), and Gentry has the kind of role which could produce a 150-PA supercard by sheer luck.
Chuckanut Bay (Ambriz, A. Burnett, Conrad, Donaldson, Duda, Kohn, Mathis, A. Oliver, Sogard, Ru. Tejada, Valencia; claimed Bonine) - I sure hope Valencia is better than he's shown this year; I have him in another league. Duda is supposed to be a hitter, but hasn't proven it yet. Tejada might turn out to be real good, since he was playing last year at age 20.
Diamond (Deduno, S. Duncan, Guzman, Jansen, An. Laroche, Monasterios, Sale, B. Thomas) - Pretty nondescript lot, not that the Gems need much help. Sale and Jansen will be ace relievers if they ever live up to their hype.
Duluth-Superior (Halman, L. Hughes, R. Lopez, Pauley, Repko, Trumbo, Jo. Wilson, Wise; claimed Quintero) - I don't think Trumbo was such a good idea. For tying up an AM slot, you get one year of substandard 1B production, after which he goes back to the minors when Kendrys Morales returns. Halman might stick, and this year he's on pace for one of those 100-PA flukes.
Franklin (Berg, R. de la Rosa, Goldschmidt, B. Hayes, Laffey, Tr. Miller, Miranda, Moehler, Nippert, Ondrusek, Rhymes, Rodney, H. Rodriguez, S. Shields, Joe Smith, J. Wright) - It's not as bad as last year, when Everth Cabrera went #1, but. . . Fernando Rodney? With the 25th pick overall?? Despite that, there's some upside here. De la Rosa and Rodriguez are 100-MPH throwers, Goldschmidt could make Chris look like a genius (or an idiot), Miranda has a regular job, and Rhymes has a cheap, useful card even if he never gets another. Shields, however, wouldn't have been taken by anyone familiar with the contract rules. If you're short of innings (which is the only reason to touch him at all), you wait until secondary free agency and put in a minimum one-year bid, or even month-to-month, and save yourself more than half a million.
Green Bay (Blevins, Braddock, Kipnis, Lincoln, Morel, Moseley, J. Russell; claimed R. Perez, Sheets; reclaimed Ad. Laroche) - Kipnis is certainly a prospect, but I don't know if it was a good idea to take him when Lonnie Chisenhall was still available. (Chisenhall went on the very next pick.) Chisenhall was rated well above Kipnis by BA, and seemed more likely to get a callup this year (which in fact just happened), thereby freeing up the AM slot next year. Morel and Russell are still being given chances by their respective Chicago teams, but aren't doing much with them.
Hoth (Cain, Dobbs, Enright, D. Hughes, Kotsay, D. Norris, Parra, Sanabia; reclaimed M. Ramirez, C. Young) - It can't be too long before Cain is a fixture in KC; not when the alternative is Melky Cabrera. I don't know what the Marlins have planned for Sanabia, but what he did last year at age 21 is encouraging. Dobbs is another one who could end up costing more than he's worth; you have to give him a U2 and hope he doesn't turn back into Dobbs 1.0 in the second half. Parra. . . I guess if you're short on innings he's worth a U1 contract. Barely.
Inyo (Bray, W. Castillo, Cishek, Escalona, B. Hicks, Jay, Lillibridge, D. McCutchen, Do. Murphy, S. Santos, Viciedo, C. Wells, E. Young; reclaimed Buehrle, Figgins, Franklin, Howell) - Sure enough, all the good catching prospects disappeared before my second round pick: Arencibia, Lucroy, even Conger. So I took a scattershot approach, picking up anyone who's young and either has known potential or is having a good year in MLB this year; toward the end, young was enough. The exception was Donnie Murphy, who has a fluke card and will hopefully win me a couple of games with pinch hits.
Lancaster (Albuquerque, Butera, M. Carpenter, Feldman, Hawksworth, Tomlin; reclaimed T. Buck, C. Carter (Mets), E. Chavez, Encarnacion, Kendall) - A lot here I don't like. Tomlin and Hawksworth don't strike out enough people to sustain the success they're having, and figure to regress. Albuquerque does, but it rarely pays to use an AM slot on a reliever. The other AM pick was Matt Carpenter, and I don't see any reason he got the call ahead of several dozen others.
Madawaska (Beimel, Capuano, Kalish, Litsch, Cr. Martinez, Mesoraco, C. Tatum, R. Thompson, Tolleson, Ja. Turner, Weinhardt, B. Wilson, D. Worth) - You don't hear much about Kalish, but someone in my summer league thought enough of him to take in the first round. If nothing else, he and Worth bolster the defense this year. Capuano gets a U contract, but his card and his performance this year are good enough to warrant it; you just have to decide whether to roll the dice and go for three years. (Patrick settled for two.) Mesoraco and Turner are good choices for the AM slots, and it was good strategy to wait until the 7th round to fill the second one. Once everyone else has filled theirs, you've got your pick of what's left no matter how long you wait.
Maine (Burrell, C. Guillen, Hendrickson, Iglesias, Ka'aihue, Talbot, W. Valdez; claimed A. Moore, R. Paulino, Ro. Tejeda) - With all the U players and free agent claims, Maine might have taken on more salary than any other team. At least none of them are dead weight, except maybe Hendrickson. And that's about all the Lobs are getting out of this draft; I don't think any of the cheaper players are going to make it, other than first-rounder Shelby Miller.
Meridian (L. Anderson, Bourgeois, Lecure, Mayberry, McGee, Plouffe, A. Sanchez; reclaimed Garland) - I like the Anderson pick. He's young, was once a high-rated prospect who's been forgotten; last year in my summer league's draft, that formula got me Neil Walker in the 9th round. For McGee, see the comment on Albuquerque above, plus McGee hasn't actually done anything in the majors. I don't think the Astros want to give Sanchez the shortstop job, but Barmes may force them to. As for Trevor Plouffe. . . has there ever been a worse baseball name? It belongs on a hairdresser in a Mel Brooks movie, fercrissake.
Montgomery County (C. Carter (Oak), B. Davis, W. Harris, D. Kelly, Lugo, Lyles, Manship, E. Nunez, Resop, C. Rosa, Salas, Jor. Smith, Tim Wood, Del. Young) - Salas and Resop will put a big charge in next year's bullpen, and nobody's giving up on Carter yet.
Montreal (Br. Anderson, Donald, Gillespie, Morse, W. Myers, Br. Snyder, Es. Vasquez, Walters; claimed J.D. Martin; reclaimed Navarro) - Wil Myers should be a real good AM pick; he's higher on the BA list than several who went before him and was called the best hitting prospect in the Royals' system even while Hosmer was still there. Lately it seems that every year, one banjo-hitting utilityman breaks out with a big year. Two years ago it was Zobrist, last year Betemit, and now it's Morse's turn.
Plainsfield (J. Bell, R. Cedeno, G. Holland, J. Johnson, Lucroy, Moscoso, Y. Navarro, C. Ramos, Renson, Rizzo, Ty. Ross, Sizemore, Worley) - One reason Kevin wins every year is that he stockpiles high draft picks (two in each of the first 3 rounds this year) and uses them wisely. He and I took turns picking players the other one wanted; he got Ogando and Lucroy, I took Santos, Viciedo and Lillibridge. I'm not crazy about his AM picks, because one's a first baseman and the other hasn't played pro ball yet, but as I've said before, you disagree with Kevin's judgment at your peril. Bell has been a bust so far, but the same could be said about Neil Walker two years ago.
Portland (Cortes, Demel, Germano, Je. Gomez, Jeffress, Marinez, O. Martinez, Sano, Sborz, Taillon, Veras) - Don't see much upside here, except for the AMs. And they're both at least a couple of years away, so those spots will be tied up. At one point it looked like the Marlins might move Hanley Ramirez to the outfield and put Ozzie Martinez at short, but that ship would appear to have sailed.
San Jose (Andino, Cole, Descalso, Ellis, Estrada, J. Herrera, Maya, An. Miller, Pagnozzi, Paul, Sipp, Stewart) - David says he was drafting for need, and there's some immediate help here in Ellis, Herrera and even Andino. I stayed off Ellis because my need for a catcher is next year and beyond, and Ellis was in the minors when we drafted, but the Dodgers just called him up. Sipp was a nice grab in the fourth round, as he's lights-out in MLB this year and has a good enough card that a U contract isn't a waste.
Sierra Nevada (W. Aybar, Barney, Ceda, M. Dunn, Dyson, G. Infante, Luebke, McClendon, Presley; reclaimed J. Guillen) - No picks until the third round, so getting Barney and Luebke there wasn't bad. Hard to believe, but this team is so short at firstbase that it made sense to draft Willie Aybar.
SoCal (G. Blanco, Carlin, Chisenhall, Conger, Inglett, Maxwell, McCoy, A. Russell, Schneider, Slaten; reclaimed Nathan) - Conger was my last hope for a real catching prospect, and Chisenhall is a solid AM who just came up to the majors. The rest of these are among the more useful cards in the draft; spotted properly, Blanco, Maxwell and McCoy add up to a very good outfielder. Don't look for much down the road, though.
Southtown (Doubront, B. Wood; claimed Lind, Zumaya; reclaimed 10(!) free agents) - Who's hoarding all the first basemen? There should be way more than enough to go around, but here we have two teams drafting stiffs to cover the position. (Lind won't be a stiff next year, but he also won't be a Miser, unless Henry outbids everyone.) Doubront has as good a chance as anyone to be a rotation starter eventually, but Wood is at the Last Chance Saloon.
Washington Crossing (T. Bell, Denorfia, Giambi, Harrell, Kirkman, B. Logan, W. Lopez, McKenry, Nicasio, Matt Reynolds, Fr. Rodriguez(LAA), M. Rogers, R. Santiago) - Denorfia went more than a round after my pick of Jon Jay, and I could easily wind up regretting that. But I think Dave will regret using an AM slot on a pitcher who isn't one of BA's top 100, isn't one of his own team's top 7, and isn't exactly tearing up the majors.
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Trump Readies Fed Rate Cut amid Dow Plunge but Is It too Late?
The Dow Jones has plunged by 2 percent in a single session on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern warning towards China. | Source: REUTERS / Lucas Jackson
By CCN Markets: The Dow Jones has plunged by well over 2 percent in a single session on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern warning towards China.
The Dow Jones has dropped by more than $1,500 in the past month. | Source: Yahoo Finance
Ahead of the G7 Summit, President Trump expressed his displeasure on the progress of the trade talks between the U.S. and China, requesting U.S. companies to find an alternative market outside of China.
President Trump said:
“We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States.”
Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was labeled “an enemy” by President Trump who has continued to place increasing pressure on the central bank to aim for additional cuts on the benchmark interest rate, which could relieve some of the pressure on the declining Dow Jones.
Will a rate cut provide key lifeline for the Dow Jones?
Since July 24, within a month, the Dow Jones has fallen from 27,269 to 25,628 points despite the 25-basis point cut initiated by the Federal Reserve in July.
While a rate cut by the Federal Reserve is likely to encourage other major central banks to initiate rate cuts as seen in stance of the European Central Bank, several high-profile economists have said that the outlook of the global economy has worsened in recent months.
Gita Gopinath, the head economist at the International Monetary Fund, said in an interview with CNBC that global economic growth has subdued, leading the sentiment around the U.S. equities market and the Dow Jones to become gloomy.
“Global growth is subdued, and we describe it as fragile. There are many downside risks. One of the risks we keep flagging is risks on the trade front. The developments that we’re seeing as recently as today give us great concern about what’s going to happen to growth going forward,” she said.
Even if the Federal Reserve eyes an additional rate cut by the year’s end, economists remain unsure whether it would be sufficient to recover the momentum of the market.
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NHS Crisis: what the government can do to help
Andy Millward
“The health service is in crisis.”
That’s what the papers and media outlets scream; all the pressure groups are pushing for your signatures, but from government… nothing. Well, not nothing: the Secretary of State abandoned the 95% target (formerly 98%) for patients to be seen in 4 hours, that what changed. Note that for all the bluster from government about 7-day services, A&E has always operated 24 x 7.
Mrs May’s complacent comment at PMQs was along the lines that “there is a crisis every winter.” There were many more accusations hurled back and forth by the politicians, but ultimately no sign that government would shake off the lethargy and help an NHS systematically starved of funding over many years in every way possible to treat the unprecedented numbers requiring treatment. Politicians were fiddling while Rome burned.
The reality was tougher than the game of words would have you believe. A&E attendances are 5.4% higher in 2016 than in 2015, with emergency admissions up 4.6%, and each figure has risen systematically year on year, such that all A&E departments are operating at more than double their capacity.
“Aintree hospital A&E like a war zone. Closed minors 7 hour wait for Majors. Can’t move in corridors for trolleys and paramedics waiting”
Fact is that it’s a complex scenario, but there is much government could have done to alleviate the winter pressures situation. Here are a few examples:
1) “Delayed Transfers of Care” (DToCs)
These are more commonly known as “bed blockers,” are at record levels: 26% higher this year than last, with 47% more delays due to waiting for homecare or nursing care. We had a few weeks last autumn where social care funding was top of the hit parade, following which it was quietly forgotten and the headlines moved on to another topic. Nothing changed.
There was one suggestion: “NHS trusts in distress could ask GPs to free up time to help them discharge and care for patients,” though GPs are also operating way beyond capacity and, as independent partnerships providing front line primary care services to the NHS, won’t willingly extend their role without financing.
More to the point, if we want hospital beds available we should be ploughing investment into providing affordable high-quality care for the elderly and disabled, and intermediary and rehab beds in community settings. Local authorities are not able to do so since their budgets have been slashed.
2) Primary Care Services & GPs
Memo to the Secretary of State: you promised 5,000 additional GPs in your manifesto, but haven’t yet stopped doctors leaving the profession or country. They are finding more lucrative and less stressful ways to earn a living, and who can blame them in the face of government intimidation. Bullying and threatening them with losing funds is simply going to make the problem worse.
Yes, we need more services in the community and alternatives for non-urgent treatment outside A&E as part of a strategic and sustainable long-term solution – possibly even reopening cottage hospitals plus a 111 service that actually does its job!
But cajoling GPs is not the way to get them (see here and here.) GPs work way harder and longer than ministers already, such that there is an alarming attrition rate from practices that should have set alarm bells ringing in Westminster. Since many GPs are working stupid hours it’s small wonder they don’t want to take on more, but there is a shortfall willing to replace those who retire or move on.
Go to any GP surgery and you’ll find locum doctors filling the many vacancies for salaried or partnership roles. Why? Because they can take responsibility for the service required by their contracts without having the burden of extra demands and legal responsibility for what the Secretary of State might throw at them.
3) Other Staff shortages
This certainly includes staff, including GPs as mentioned above but particularly emergency and trauma specialists – many of whom end up doing back-to-back shifts in crises such as this (illegally in many cases.)
The staff shortages are currently dealt with by employing locums and staff from overseas, many of whom will not be entitled to work in the UK once government plans to curb immigration are enforced, but what do you do about beds? The first thing to happen is that elective procedures are cancelled and, when possible, rescheduled. This is supposed to happen within 28 days but often cannot be delivered.
4) Bed shortages
But these are far from being the only resources that are short in this crisis. The one you will about most frequently is beds, all the more so since wards have typically been closed down while Trusts grapple with the impossible task of breaking even. Sadly, it seems inevitable that even more will be closed as part of the Strategic Transformation Plans (STPs) allegedly undergoing public consultation now.
We’ve all heard about ambulances waiting for hours and A&E full of patients on trolleys (usually just a cliché though I have once seen patients lining an X-ray room), but worst of all is when elective procedures are cancelled. And worst of these, cancer operations are now being cancelled to make room for patients who are sick and need beds instantly.
Problems are stored up for the coming months, in other words – and I am one such victim, having had my ankle operation postponed to February. I don’t blame the Trust, but I do think that money to keep beds open and improve patient flows through hospitals should be available over and above budgets.
Granted that more surgery is done as day cases than ever before, but the purpose of every hospital must be to provide sufficient beds to meet peak level demand – and that means staffing and resourcing them. Some feel the best way to do this is to reopen some of the closed cottage hospitals, many of which were closed since they are not deemed economically viable, but the fact is that without staunching demand all hospitals have insufficient capacity to meet even routine demand, without peaks.
This is a very simple summary of issues that I could discuss in far greater detail. Put simply, we need to return to the days of putting patients first and regarding budget as following need without question. So here are a few solutions:
The NHS should be autonomous and free of government meddling, regardless of which party is in charge. Over the past 24 years I’ve seen more issues caused by government interference than ever were resolved. That said, things have become worse recently in respect of the A&E crisis (see chart above.)
If we were putting into the NHS the median level of funding for healthcare applied throughout Europe, the only issue would be allocation of cash. That means at least 3% GDP higher than we are currently devoting – but also to increase the cashflow to allow for our increasingly elderly population.
We have to train, recruit and retain more staff, the lifeblood of healthcare. That means flexible contracts that allow specialists to be attracted to locations where they are needed, and good financial incentives to British – and overseas students – to train and stay here to senior levels. Note that specialties will vary in supply and demand, so where there are the biggest shortfalls, we need the greatest incentives.
Even so, immigration policy to make it difficult for doctors and nurses migrating to the UK is not going to help the crisis. In the short-term we need to bring in practitioners from overseas, but it should be done in a sustainable way to ensure those countries do not suffer from the effects of a brain drain. Perhaps allowing more doctors here to spread knowledge by working secondments in those countries might help?
Building community solutions is supposedly the work of STPs, but that should be done without closing capacity in hospitals and with a solution to incentivise GPs to come into the field. For that to work requires a new contract with rewards – carrots as well as sticks.
Public health is now more important than ever, which means prevention is vital. Not just anti-smoking and anti-drinking campaigns, encouraging the obese to exercise and other such good works that have a tendency to turn people off. We also need to keep minds active to help reduce the incidence of dementia and cancers.
Whatever happens, it won’t be easy, but starting with a government not in denial and with a clear mission to provide resourcing without asking the impossible of staff will be a step in the right direction.
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The Alchemy of Place and Taste in Santa Barbara Beers
Vox Orbis / 13 Nov 2015 Story Category Fermentation
Pete Johnson
Ben Kinzer
Ted Mills
Photo: Calcium carbonate from Santa Barbara's water left after distilling all night. Credit: Benjamin Kinzer/Pete Johnson
Synopsis by Cultural Anthropologist, Chloé Frommer. Fermentation is a cross-cultural, botanical food and beverage-processing technique that facilitates preservation, detoxification, digestion, and taste. With modernization, the visual appearance, aroma and flavor profile of some fermented products have also developed as very particular, stylized registers. But even before style, meaning was always-already invested in the selection of substances, process and consumption. In the case below, the social, geological and climactic features of Santa Barbara and the West Coast, are becoming more apparent in the fermentation of uniquely local variations on older, European beer styles.
It starts, like it always does, with hops, those exploded-bulb looking flowers of the trellis-climbing plant with the great name, Humulus lupulus. Add malt. Add yeast. Add technique. Add heat. Add time. And through a science that still feels a bit like alchemy one gets beer, Europe’s most famous fermented invention. Styles of beer display their origins: Belgian style (high in alcohol, malty), English India Pale Ale (more bitter from more hops and more alcohol meant it could survive the journey from England to their occupying troops in India), Kölsh (from Köln, Germany, and which is pale, dry, and bitter).
But as I sit here on a much-too-humid-for-autumn October day in Santa Barbara, keeping it local and drinking a beer from one of our many local breweries, it’s true to say that California has its own style of beer, even when that beer comes in many varieties, from light, refreshing lagers to dark, chocolate-y ports. Up and down the coast--and a little bit inland--California is brewing some very interesting beer, and it has influenced the craft brew scene across the States.
“There’s definitely a West Coast style,” says Josh Ellis, owner and head brewer at M. Special brewery, one of the many new breweries to pop up in Santa Barbara county in the last year. “It would be an IPA that finishes drier, has less of a malt backbone, less of a caramel flavor. it’s really about a beer that profiles hops, beginning, middle, and end.”
Hops--which are in the same plant family of the cannabis plant, and share some of the grassy aromas--give beer its bitter taste. The majority of beers use hops--but California *really* likes them. That hop-dominance on the West Coast comes from the abundance, cheapness, and availability of hops from Washington state, where varietals carry location names like Cascade, Mount Hood, Columbus and Chinook. At the beginning of the micro-brewery revolution in the mid-‘70s and early ‘80s, beer-makers starting with the now-defunct New Albion Brewing Company out of Sonoma and the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, the Northern California city north east of the Bay Area, embraced the hop, wanting to put their own spin on things. That’s led to some very strong beers, too, where alcohol content can be twice as much as your average light lager.
California also has a huge amount of breweries--around 550 in total, by Telegraph Brewery’s Brian Thompson’s account--because of the business-friendly environment.
“We don’t have to work with distributors, though we do,” he says. “You can self-distribute. There are fewer restrictions on alcohol limits and marketing.”
Self-distribution has allowed brew-pubs--where beer is brewed on the premises--to be major social gathering places for breweries. You can still grab a Bud Light if you want, but it’s just as easy to try a craft beer.
Pete Johnson, who owns one of Santa Barbara’s oldest brewpubs, The Brewhouse, only sells his beer through his location down near the beach in Santa Barbara. Partly that’s due to owning a different license--self-distributors can’t also sell liquor and cocktails at their bars, which Johnson has always done--and the prohibitive cost of the one that would allow such sales. “Sometimes I feel I’m not part of the brewing community,” he says, noting that when he opened there was only one other brewery in the county--Santa Barbara Brew Co--and now there’s 20.
Though Johnson agrees there’s a hoppyness to California beer, he loves to make all kinds, making small batches of Hefenweizen (a non-filtered beer that contains wheat) or red ales, which gets its color from the kind of malt used and has a sour taste.
Sean Lewis, author of “We Make Beer” a trip across America’s craft beer scene and former Santa Barbara resident, disagrees about how hoppy the Central Coast really is. He says the very hoppy beers are more a San Diego thing, like Stone Brewery.
“Central Coast beer, like Firestone Brewery and Figueroa Mountain Brewery, the things they win medals for, are really traditional style beers like pilsners and lagers.”
There’s also the case of Santa Barbara’s water, which tends to run hard. Brewers like Johnson makes a pilsner-style beer, but holds off from that description because the hard water makes it taste different. With Santa Barbara thinking of water during these years of severe drought, that might be nitpicking. Other brewers never mentioned water when talking brewing.
Photo: Brewhouse's "German Pilsener", in name, process, appearance, and aroma. But lacking the soft water that makes the taste of the original German style. Credit: Ben Kinzer/Pete Johnson
Sean Lewis also thinks that the craft beer revival started on the West Coast because of its geography.
“They were people who were able to go out and see the world a little bit more,” he says. “They were ones who had fallen in love with craft beer overseas so when they came back they started to make it themselves.”
Brewers tend towards the fraternal, and would rather help each other out than try to undercut the competition, which if it exists is healthy. In Santa Barbara most home brewers and owners of breweries are part of the 60-plus member Santa Barbeerians, which shares recipes and makes special beers in small batches for members to try.
Many brewers tend to be or have been engineers and scientists, tinkerers and those who love attention to detail. The Brewhouse’s Pete Johnson was a NASA engineer a long time ago. But he loves his job as a brewer. “
You have to love it otherwise you wouldn’t do it,” he says.
“People’s tastes have changed,” Johnson continues. “When I started out people would say my beer was too hoppy. Now when they taste my beer they say, that’s nice, but do you have something with more hops in it?”
Maví, una bebida refrescante del Caribe
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Maví - A refreshing, Caribbean drink
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Crystal structure determination of Zr(OH)2(NO3)2.4.7H2O from X-ray powder diffraction data,
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Zr(OH)2(NO3)2.4.7H2O, P-1, C1=16, Nc=48, C2=1, XC1 /
DICVOL91, PD, PART, SDP (PATT), SDP+FULLP, FULLP
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Acta Scandinavica 45 (1991) 469-473.
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The structure of solid dichlorodifluoromethane CF2Cl2 by powder neutron duffraction,
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Z. Kristallogr. 197 (1991) 121-130.
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Crystal structure of Pd(NO3)2(H2O)2,
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Co3(HPO4)2(OH)2, P21/n, C1=10, Nc=27, C2=5, XC12+N /
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gamma-BaAlF5, P21, C1=14, Nc=41, C2=2, XC12+N /
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YAO, ...Trial and error guided by the EXAFS results..., YAO
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Indexing: DICVOL-1982
Based on possible space groups, known alumino-phosphate chemistry, and suspected uniaxial pore diameter of 12 Å, possible structure models were manually formulated, and subsequently optimized using DLS-76. A comparison of the patterns computed from these models via POWD12 (Smith & Smith, 1986) confirmed that one model with an 18-ring, alternating Al-P tetrahedral topology gave an excellent match to the experimental data.
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DICVOL, PROFIT+FIT, PART, SDP (PATT), SDP+DBW, DBW
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KNOWN, ARITB, EQUI, SHELX-76 (DM), SHELX-76, ARIT4
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KNOWN, BH, PART, ...MB..., CRYSTALS, NO
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SF6 C2/m C1=8 Nc=17 C2=MM N /
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TREOR, ALLHKL, EQUI, XTAL (DM), XRS-82, XRS-82
The crystal and molecular structure of beryllium hydride,
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Mumbai has largest number of green buildings coming up
Pune Fourth On List After Delhi & B'lore
Mumbai has the country's maximum number of environmentfriendly buildings under construction, a survey has shown. The city has 60% more green building projects compared to Delhi and Bangalore, which are second and third on a list released by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). The list has six cities, including Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai.
Mumbai has 319 registered projects that fall in the green building category and are spread over 229 million square feet, according to the IGBC. Delhi is second on the list with 199 projects, followed by Bangalore with 198 and Pune with 197.
The IGBC report says India with more than 2,111 registered green building projects covering 1.54 billion square feet is among the top five countries on the world green map.
A green building is one that uses less water, improves energy efficiency, conserves natural resources, generates less waste and provides healthier spaces for occupants as compared to a conventional building. "These are judged on the basis of material used, sites chosen, ventilation and use of lights, among other things," said a member of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
Constructing green buildings is costlier. "Earlier, it was 15-18% more expensive than a regular building. Now, the cost has come down to 3-5%," said M Anand, principal councillor, CII. "A green building ought to use minimum quantity of glass. We insist on only 7-8% of glass use. Also, builders are asked to go for high-performance glass that won't reflect much heat."
School bus cleaner arrested for raping 4-year-old student Assault Revealed 8 Days Later After Pain Complaint
Thane: A school bus cleaner was arrested on Saturday and charged with the rape of a four-yearold student under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act.
Badlapur police said the assault took place when the girl was alone in the bus with a friend while it was parked in the compound of an English-medium school eight days ago. The girl, threatened by the accused, had kept quiet, but the horror was revealed when she complained of pain and had to be hospitalized.
Cleaner Sandeep Kerve was arrested from his home after the girl's family approached the police.
On September 6, the girl and her friend left their class room early, at 4.30pm, and went to the school bus to grab good seats. Finding the girl and her friend alone in the vehicle, Kerve took the child to the backseat under the pretext of showing her magic and sexually abused her, according to police.
When the girl cried for help, her friend rushed to the back seat to see what was wrong. The accused told the two girls not to tell anyone of the incident, threatening to kill both of them.
Man may have molested 1-yr-old, both found dead by rly tracks Aman who had kidnapped a one-year-old girl on Friday night outside Borivli station and had taken her to an isolated area near the tracks was knocked down by a train. The child was also found dead nearby. Police suspect the man wanted to sexually assault the infant and are probing if he had killed the child or the baby died in the accident. A DNA profiling of the accused has been sought to check if he had a role in earlier child assaults in other parts of the city. P 2 Fifth accused in July Shakti Mill gangrape case held Ahoney-trap finally led to the arrest of Ashfaque Shaikh (27), the fifth accused in the second gangrape case at the Shakti Mills of a call-centre employee. Shaikh twice gave the slip, but was nabbed on Saturday after he came to see his girlfriend at a lodge near Girguam Chowpatty. "We were tracking his cell phone but lost him as he switched it off. But his call records showed he was in touch with a commercial sex worker at Kamathipura. We questioned her and she promised to help," a police official said. P 3
Another death raises question on city’s dengue preparedness
A41-year-old man from Malwani died of suspected dengue on Friday, adding toconcernscreated by two consecutive dengue deaths in Goregaon this week. The latest death has highlighted how doctors and hospitals areclearly unpreparedtotackle thedenguethreatin thecity.
Devendra Singh's family said he was shunted from three hospitals.Thefamily spentover Rs 65,000 on Singh's treatment, butdoes nothave a clear answer to what killed him. Doctors at Malad's Riddhi Vinayak Hospital, where he was treated last, claimed his dengue report was "equivocal". "He did have classic dengue symptoms. When he came to our hospital, his plateletcountwas18,000(the normal range is 1.5-4 lakh per µl)," said intensivistDr Vinay Goyal.The hospital has stated Singh's cause of death as septicemia shock, multi-organ failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome. The hospital said it did not get time to run confirmatory denguetestson the patient.
Singh, a manager with a cooperative credit society, went to an ayurvedicdoctor after getting fever and rashes a week ago. After two days, he was referred to Bhagwati Hospital, Borivli. Late on Monday, Singh reached the civic-run hospital, where he was given medicines and sent home. By then, his platelet count had dropped below the acceptable range. The hospital told him there were no beds available. A doctor from Bhagwati said the patient did notlook "thatserious".
On Tuesday, Singh went to Shatabdi Hospital, Kandivli, which told him it was not equipped to treat dengue. Neighbours took him to Aditi Hospital, Malad, where he was admitted for two days. His family said he was never given platelets,whilethehospitalsaidhe was given thebest possiblecare. On Thursday afternoon, it referred him forward, and Singh was taken to Riddhi Vinayak, where he succumbed on Friday morning, after breathing with thehelp of a ventilator for three hours.TheBMCis yettolabelit as a confirmeddenguecase.
Lifestyle diseases to cost India $6tn: Study Will Reduce Productivity, Lead To Early Retirement
New Delhi: India's march towards being an economically stable nation is threatened not just by global financial issues. Poor health indicators pose an equally big threat.
The Harvard School of Public Health has, in a study on economic losses due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), estimated that the economic burden of these ailments for India will be close to $6.2 trillion for the period 2012-30, a figure that is equivalent to nearly nine times the total health expenditure during the previous 19 years of $710 billion.
NCDs, chiefly cardiovascular diseases (including heart disease and stroke), diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases, are defined as diseases of long duration and generally slow progression. They are the major cause of adult mortality and illness worldwide.
The Harvard report, which is based on WHO projections of the mortality trajectory associated with NCDs, says ischemic heart disease is going to be the single most costly non-communicable disease in India (causing an output loss of about $1.21 trillion over 2012-30), followed by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
China, the report adds, is estimated to face output losses of $27.8 trillion for 2012-30 – which is more than 12 times the total health expenditure during the previous 19 years of $2.2 trillion. "The economic impact of NCDs is estimated higher in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population," said David E Bloom, the lead researcher.
According to Dr K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, NCDs can impact the economy in multiple ways. "Most of the non-communicable diseases, for example diabetes or heart disease, affect the person in the productive years. They cause reduced productivity and early retirement. Also, they put immense pressure on public health expenditure as in most cases the treatment costs are higher compared to communicable diseases," he said. Reddy added that the increasing burden of NCDs could rob India of the 'demographic dividend' it is projected to reap on account of a predominantly young population. A recent report published by IRIS Knowledge Foundation in collaboration with UN-HABITAT states that by 2020, India is set to become the world's youngest country with 64% of its population in the working age group.
The WHO has suggested 'best buy' interventions (policy measures) for reducing NCDs that include increasing tax on tobacco products and alcohol and ban on their advertising. It also proposes interventions, such as reduced salt intake in food, counselling and multi-drug therapy for people with a high risk of developing heart attacks and strokes, and hepatitis B immunization to prevent liver cancer.
"The implementation of these 'best buy' interventions for reducing NCDs in low-andmiddle income countries (LMICs) could lead to a 10-15 percent reduction in premature death from NCDs (and in their economic costs)," the Harvard researchers have pointed out.
Obama set for showdown at G20 over Syria Host Putin Poses Major Challenge To Attack Plan
St Petersburg: President Barack Obama faced growing pressure from world leaders not to launch military strikes in Syria on Thursday at a summit on the global economy that was eclipsed by the conflict.
The Group of 20 (G20) developed and developing economies met in St Petersburg to try forge a united front on economic growth, trade, banking transparency and fighting tax evasion.
But the club that accounts for two thirds of the world's population and 90% of its output is divided over issues ranging from the US Federal Reserve's decision to end its programme of stimulus forthe economy to the Syrian crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to use the meeting in a seafront tsarist palace to talk Obama out of military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over a chemical weapons attack which Washington blames on government forces.
Obama wore a stiff smile as he approached Putin on arrival at the summit and grasped his hand. Putin also maintained a businesslike expression. It was only when they turned to pose for the cameras that Obama broke into a broader grin. The first round at the summit went to Putin as China,the EU and Pope Francis — in a letter for G20 leaders — aligned themselves more closely with him than with Obama over the possibility and legitimacy of armed intervention.
Putin, Assad's most important ally, was isolated on Syria at a G8 meeting in June, the last big meeting of world powers.
He could now turn the tables on Obama, who recently likened him to a "bored kid in the back of the classroom." Only France, which is preparing to join US military action, rallied behind Obama.
"We are convinced that if there is no punishment for Assad, there will be no negotiation,"French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said. Putin has no one-on-one talks scheduled with Obama but hopes to discuss Syria at a dinner with all the leaders. REUTERS
GOING AFTER ASSAD
THE STRIKE WHAT ARE THE TARGETS IN SYRIA?
Not chemical weapon sites, which could set them off and create a bigger disaster
INSTEAD THEY ARE TARGETING:
Military units that carry out these strikes
Operational headquarters
Rockets and artillery that are used to launch the attacks
Air bases for the attack helicopters
Command and control centres The main attack is expected to be carried out by
Tomahawk cruise missiles
from the four Arleigh Burkeclass destroyers currently in the Mediterranean — the Mahan, the Barry, the Gravely and the Ramage
WHO PAYS WHAT FOR THE MILITARY OPERATION?
Chuck Hagel told Congress they would be asking for 'tens of millions of dollars' which makes it surprisingly cheap. The Libya operation cost $1 billion. John Kerry said Gulf's Arab states have offered to foot the entire bill for the operationSCENARIOS FOR MILITARY STRIKES
Tomahawk cruise missiles hit chemical delivery targets, military units, artillery and rocket bases
Deterrent, limited tactical effect Would not affect war or Assad's future Signal of no tolerance for chemical attacks, Obama's self-imposed 'red line' Cruise missiles cannot penetrate underground bunkers or mobile targets which means some of Assad's arsenal would survive Possible civilian casualties
Wider attack to hit communication nodes, infrastructure, impose a 'no-fly' zone, crater airfields used to ship in conventional weaponry from Russia and China
This would imply a deeper intervention, including suppression of air defences. Involve hundreds of sorties
Would hurt Assad's military capability
Scenario 3 Big sustained attack, going over a few weeks, target leadership, degrade and possibly lead to the removal of Assad. This would need more expensive involvement
Strikes against Syria would open US to charges that it is trigger-happy when it comes to attacking Muslim countries, deepening divide between Islamic societies and the West
If Assad is removed as a result, the world could see cocktail of Sunni jihadi groups in charge
Military strikes in Syria could bring US & Russia on confrontational path
Iran, Syria's biggest supporter, could retaliate, either through terrorist attacks by Hezbollah or through other means like attacking Turkey or Jordan SYRIA FIRE, WEST ASIA INFERNO
Syrian civil conflict has turned into a sectarian strife Sunni and Shia communities seizing on religious symbols, sowing sectarian passions Saudis and Iran support rebel groups for regional supremacy Religious fighters, radicals making a beeline to the region Within Syria, 1,200 rebel groups split along sectarian lines Sunni vs Alawite civil war in Syria merging and growing into Sunni vs Shia tensions in Gulf, re-igniting other violent intra-faith strifes
The Sunni-Shia strife has spiked violence in Iraq and Lebanon
Spreading violence can destabilize not just Lebanon and Jordan, but also Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait and even Pakistan
Sunnis expect Washington to back them
OBAMA'S TIGHTROPE WALK
THE RED LINE TALK
First mentioned by Obama last year for Iran's drive for nukes. Red lines include any development by Iran seen as decision to make nukes or enrich uranium
In Syria, initial talk of strike alluded to red line of 'no chemical weapon use'
On way to G 20 meet, Obama said, "I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line" On Syria, the US not first to call for military intervention France, Turkey, UK for action UK MPs vetoed military strike Obama got Republican support No decision till Congressional debates and votes next week PRO-STRIKE ARGUMENT | Disregard for red lines may embolden Iran to make nukes, Syria to use chemical weapons
WHY THEY DON'T WANT TO STRIKE RUSSIA
Anti-strike, hasn't ruled out support to UNSC resolution authorizing force
One of Syria's main arms suppliers, warned strike will hurt world economy
Strong support to Assad regime. Looking to cement its role as regional superpower
Rebels of Free Syrian Army atop a tank that belonged to forces loyal to Syria's President Assad
Placard with altered image of Obama at a rally in Kiev
AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI | IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER
12% of bottled water sold in Maharashtra of poor quality
New Delhi:The common perception of packaged drinking water manufacturers flouting norms has come true. During 2010-11 and 2011-12, at least one in every 10 samples picked up for quality testing failed. The percentage of failing samples was higher in the Delhi-Noida region and Maharashtra and Goa combined.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha last week, consumer affairs minister K V Thomas submitted details of samples collected from each state and Union territory. During 2010-11, 6,648 samples of packaged drinking water were taken and 805 of them failed. The government agencies also issued 543 warning letters to manufacturers for flouting norms. The data shows that at least 30 licences were cancelled. In Delhi and Noida, 23 of the 190 samples failed and two licences were cancelled. In Maharashtra and Goa, 104 of 729 samples (14%) failed.
Though state governments issue permission to set up water bottling plants, the Bureau of Indian Standards grants product licence. It has the mandate to ensure quality of both packaged drinking water and packaged mineral water.
According to government data, during 2011-12, out of 7,732 samples of packaged drinking water, 720 failed the test. In Delhi and Noida, around 20% of samples were found flouting norms. Similarly, in Maharashtra and Goa, 123 of 989 samples (12%) failed the test. During the period, 547 warning letters were issued to manufacturers and 32 licences were cancelled or not renewed.
However, there was some correction during the last financial year with 8% of samples failing tests. In fact, almost every state reported better results as the number of failed samples was only 607 out of 7,456. But the action taken for flouting norms was higher, with 190 licences getting cancelled.
H1N1 toll 6 times that of dengue, malaria Virus Has Killed 1 In 4 Patients In State This Year; City Better Off
The H1N1 influenza has emerged as the biggest killer disease in the state this year claiming three times the number of lives taken by dengue and malaria put together, and six times if compared individually. Initially termed as swine flu, the virus has also shown a worryingly high mortality rate with almost one in four confirmed cases that resulted in death.
State experts pointed out that mortality in H1N1 cases has been higher when compared with seasonal ailments, mainly malaria and dengue. For instance, around 23% of the patients who contracted the viral infection succumbed to it whereas less than 1% of malaria patients have died during the period. Even dengue's mortality rate stands at 2% despite a clear shift in the seriousness of the infection as well as its manifestation this monsoon.
Pune, Nagpur and Nashik have been the worst affected recording 58, 24 and 25 swine flu deaths, respectively. Mumbai has recorded a single death and around 50 cases so far. The cases remained largely under control during monsoon with less than 15 being officially reported since June. The situation this year was much better for the city with only 10 cases in August compared with 103 during the corresponding period last year.
With no significant changes detected in the behaviour of the virus, experts are baffled as to what could have caused the fatalities. To add to the trepidation is the fact that more deaths have taken place among people with no known medical complications. For instance, out of the 130 deaths, 68 did not have any preexisting ailments.
Dr Abhay Chaudhary, director of Parel's Haffkine Research Institute, said, "The virus is pretty much the same. There may be minor changes as is common with influenza viruses but nothing that can affect the population in a big way." Chaudhary blamed the deaths more on individual patients' immune response to the virus. "The virus per say may not be killing people. It is how their immune systems are responding to it."
The most recent victim of the virus in Mumbai was a 75-year-old resident of Mahalaxmi. She succumbed within a day of being admitted to Kasturba Hospital, exclusively meant to treat infectious diseases. Her treating physician, Dr Om Srivastava, said the case was a typical presentation of how the virus may not be affecting many, but progresses aggressively once it affects someone. "The time taken for the symptom to manifest, develop into the illness, then hospitalization and death seems to have shrunk. For the lady, it took merely four days for it to cause the death."
State health officials claimed the situation is being closely monitored. Dr Satish Pawar, head of the directorate of health services, said the deaths are worrying but adequate screening and treatment measures are in place. "We have enough medicines available. Vaccines, too, are available for the health workforce," he said. Srivastava added that antiviral oseltamivir continues to be "very effective".
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Jersey - description of 1:25 000 Channel Islands sheet 2
Chapter 2 Jersey Shale Formation
Outcrop distribution and exposure
Metamorphism
Environment of deposition
The regional setting
Chapter 3 Jersey Volcanic Group
St Saviour's Andesite Formation
St John's Rhyolite Formation
Bouley Rhyolite Formation
Chapter 4 Rozel Conglomerate Formation
Chapter 5 Plutonic igneous rocks
Gabbro and diorite
North-west granite
Belle Hougue igneous complex
South-west granite
South-east granite
Chapter 6 Minor igneous intrusions
Basic intrusions
Acid intrusions
Lamprophyres
Intrusive sequence
Chapter 7 Geological structure
Folds in the Jersey Shale Formation
Folds in the Jersey Volcanic Group
Folds in the Rozel Conglomerate Formation
Tectonic history
Chapter 8 Quaternary deposits
Chapter 9 Geophysical field surveys
Gravity survey
Magnetic survey
Chapter 10 Economic geology
Brick clay and brickearth
A. C. Bishop. BSc. PHD Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7.
G. Bisson, BSc, ARSM Little Newcombes, Newton St Cyres, Exeter, Devon EX5 5AW
J. C. Brides, MA, PhD Natural Environment Research Council Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wilts SN2 1 ET
R. A. Clark, BSc, PhD Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 417
D. G. Helm, BSc, PhD Department of Earth Sciences, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, Rachel McMillan Building, Creek Road, London SE8 .3BU
= D. H. Keen, BSc, PhD Department of Geography, Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB =
G. J. Lees, BSc Department of Geology, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG
A. E. Mourant, MA, DPhil, DM, FRCP, FRS The Dower House, Maison de Haut, Longueville, St Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands
J. T. Renouf, Bsc., PhD Maison Petit Port, St Brelade, ,Jersey, Channel Islands
C. M. Thomas, BSc, PhD Esso Norge, PO Box 60, N4033 Forus, Norway
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Acicular Needle-shaped.
Adamellite Granite in which alkali feldspar and plagioclase occur in about equal amounts.
Agglomerate A volcanic rock formed of pyroclastic blocks or fragments generally more than 64 mm in diameter.
Air-fall tuff A tuff formed by consolidation of fine-grained pyroclastic debris (ash) which was laid down on land from the air.
Amphibolite A metamorphic rock consisting mainly of amphibole and plagioclase.
Amygdale A gas bubble or cavity in an igneous rock which has been filled with secondary minerals.
Andesite A lava of intermediate composition consisting of plagioclase feldspar (usually andesine) and one or more ferromagnesian minerals.
Andinotype An orogeny characterised by sedimentation in fault-margined furrows, andesites, I-type tonalites, burial metamorphism, cauldron batholiths that feed volcanoes, and vertical movement with minimal shortening.
Anticline A fold, generally convex upward (an arch), the core of which contains the older rocks.
Aphyric Adjective applied usually to a fine-grained igneous rock which lacks phenocrysts.
Aplite A light-coloured, fine- to medium-grained acid igneous rock with an equigranular texture and consisting mainly of quartz and feldspar.
Aplogranite A light-coloured, even-grained plutonic acid igneous rock consisting mainly of quartz and alkali feldspar.
Apophysis An offshoot from an igneous intrusion.
Appinite A dark-coloured plutonic igneous rock rich in hornblende which commonly occurs as elongate prismatic crystals.
Ash Unconsolidated fine-grained pyroclastic debris.
Assimilation Incorporation of foreign material into a magma.
Aureole The rocks adjoining an igneous intrusion that have suffered contact metamorphism.
Authigenesis The process whereby minerals are formed in place within a sedimentary rock during or after deposition.
Autobreccia A rock composed of angular fragments, formed by a process that is penecontemporaneous with the deposition or consolidation of the rock.
Axial plane The surface that passes through successive hinge lines within a fold.
Axial trace The line of intersection of the axial plane or axial surface of a fold with the Earth's surface.
Axiolite A spherulitic aggregate elongated along a central axis.
Basalt A fine-grained lava or minor intrusion composed mainly of calcic plagioclase and pyroxene with or without olivine.
Base-surge A cloud of gas and solid debris that moves rapidly outward from the base of a volcanic explosion column.
Bouguer anomaly A gravity anomaly left after corrections have been made for the attraction effect of topography.
Braid To branch and rejoin repeatedly, forming a network.
Breccio-conglomerate A sedimentary rock consisting of angular and rounded sedimentary clasts.
Camptonite A lamprophyre consisting mainly of plagioclase (usually labradorite) and brown hornblende, the hornblende forming elongated prismatic crystals.
Cataclasite A rock formed by shattering less severe than would produce a mylonite.
China-stone Any form of granitic rock used in the manufacture of china and usually, but not necessarily, kaolinised.
Clast A grain or fragment in a sedimentary rock.
Cleavage Aligned and closely spaced tectonic surfaces along which a rock tends to split.
Columnar jointing Prismatic fractures in lavas, sills or dykes that have resulted from cooling.
= Concretion =
= A nodular or irregular mass formed by the secondary precipitation of minerals about a nucleus or centre in a sedimentary rock. =
Conglomerate A sedimentary rock consisting of cemented rounded pebbles or clasts.
Contact metamorphism Metamorphism resulting from the emplacement of a body of magma.
Cross-cut A mine tunnel driven through barren rock, commonly to intersect a mineral deposit.
Crystal fractionation The separation of a cooling magma into parts of differing composition by the successive crystallisation and settling of different minerals at progressively lower temperatures.
Devitrification The replacement of glassy texture by crystalline texture in a volcanic rock during or after cooling.
Dextral fault A fault in which the rock on the far side appears to have been moved horizontally to the right.
Diagenesis The sum of the processes involved in changing a sediment into a sedimentary rock.
Diorite A plutonic igneous rock of intermediate composition consisting essentially of plagioclase and hornblende, with or without biotite and pyroxene.
Disconformity A break in the stratigraphic sequence without major structural discordance.
Dolerite A medium-grained igneous rock consisting mainly of calcic plagioclase and pyroxene, commonly with an ophitic texture, with or without olivine.
Dolmen A prehistoric burial chamber.
Drag fold A fold produced by differential movement between beds on the limb of a large fold or by shearing in a fault zone.
Dune A ripple-like bedform greater than 10cm in height and 1 m in wavelength.
Enclave An inclusion or fragment enclosed in an igneous rock.
Epiclastic An adjective applied to sedimentary rock formed of fragments derived by weathering and erosion of older rocks.
Epidiorite A metamorphosed basic igneous rock, consisting principally of amphibole and plagioclase.
Eugeosynclinal A major elongate structural and sedimentological unit of the Earth's crust, with a thick sequence of deep-water sediments and characteristic igneous rocks.
Euhedral An adjective applied to mineral grains in igneous rocks that are bounded by their natural crystal faces.
Eutaxitic texture The texture in tuffs where shards and pumice are flattened to give a banded or streaky appearance.
Facies The lithology, structure, fauna, etc., of a rock unit.
Felsite A fine-grained igneous rock composed mainly of quartz and feldspar. Fiamme Collapsed pumice fragments in ignimbrite, commonly with ragged terminations.
Flow banding A structure characterised by alternating layers of slightly .different composition and texture owing to the movement of magma, most common in silicic lava flows.
Fluxion banding Flow banding.
Flysch A marine sedimentary facies comprising a thick sequence of sandstones, shales and mudstones, typically found on the borders of the Alps.
Fold axis or hinge-line The line at which the two sides or limbs of a fold meet.
Gabbro A coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed essentially of basic plagioclase and pyroxene with or without olivine.
Gneiss A foliated metamorphic rock in which layers of coarsely granular minerals alternate with layers or lenticles of platy minerals.
Graded bed A sedimentary unit in which the grains normally show a progression from coarse below to fine above. Some beds display inverse grading.
Granite In common usage, a coarse-grained acid igneous rock consisting essentially of quartz, feldspar and mica. More precisely, the feldspar is predominantly (greater than 2/3) alkali feldspar.
Granoblastic A textural term used of regionally metamorphosed rocks having mineral grains of the same general size.
Granophyre A granitic rock in which the bulk consists of micrographic intergrowths of quartz and potassic feldspar, giving a texture called granophyric.
Gravity gradient A measure of the change in the value of gravity relative to horizontal distance.
Greenschist facies Regionally metamorphosed rocks produced under conditions of low temperature and low to medium pressure.
Greywacke A poorly sorted sandstone with more than 15 per cent interstitial matrix and angular to subangular grains of quartz, feldspar and lithic fragments.
Heavy mineral A mineral with specific gravity greater than 2.9; a mineral that will sink in bromoform.
Hornfels A rock consisting of fine equidimensional grains without preferred orientation, produced by contact metamorphism.
Humic Derived from plants.
Hydrothermal Relating to hot solutions emanating from a magma.
Idiomorphic See euhedral.
Ignimbrite A subaerial pyroclastic rock formed by the deposition and consolidation of ash flows and glowing avalanches (nuees ardentes).
Imbrication A sloping and overlapping arrangement.
Intraclast A sedimentary rock fragment derived penecontemporaneously from within the sedimentary basin, e.g. pebbles in an intraformational conglomerate.
Isochron A straight line constructed most commonly by plotting the ratio 87Rb/86Sr against the ratio 87Sr/86Sr, or 207Pb/204Pb or 208Pb/204Pb against 206Pb/204Pb, for different rocks or minerals from the same geological body. The slope of the isochron is a function of the age of the body.
Isocline A fold with parallel limbs. Isotopic dating The determination of the age of a rock by methods based on the nuclear decay of certain natural chemical elements contained within it.
Kaersutite A titanium-bearing amphibole.
Keratophyre A soda-rich acid to intermediate lava or minor intrusion.
Kersantite A lamprophyre consisting mainly of biotite and plagioclase, usually accompanied by augite and/or hornblende.
Lacustrine Relating to a lake.
Lahar A mudflow composed of volcaniclastic material.
Lamprophyre A general term for dark, porphyritic intrusive igneous rocks composed of phenocrysts of one or more of dark mica, pyroxene, amphibole or olivine in a groundmass of alkali feldspar or plagioclase. Some lamprophyres are feldspar-free.
Lapilli Fragments in the range of 5 to 50 mm ejected by volcanic eruption.
Liquefaction Quicksand effect in soft sediments owing to sudden increase in pore fluid pressure and loss of cohesion.
Lithic Made of rock.
Machair Low-lying sandy environment.
Mafic. Rich in ferromagnesian minerals
Magnetic anomaly A departure from the normal magnetic field of the Earth.
Megacryst A crystal significantly larger than the grains in the surrounding groundmass of an igneous rock. Metasediment Metamorphosed sedimentary rock.
Metasomatism Metamorphism involving a change in the bulk composition of the affected rock.
Microlites, microliths Microscopic needle-like crystals generally found in volcanic rocks and having some determinable optical properties.
Minette A lamprophyre in which biotite forms phenocrysts and orthoclase is the main feldspar.
Molasse A sequence of sedimentary rocks laid down in intermontane basins.
Monchiquite A lamprophyre composed essentially of phenocrysts of pyroxene, olivine and titanium-bearing amphibole in an isotropic groundmass consisting largely of analcime, commonly highly altered.
Monzonite A coarse-grained igneous rock intermediate in composition between syenite and diorite, containing approximately equal amounts of potassic feldspar and plagioclase.
Mortar structure A structure produced by the mechanical fracture of rocks, especially granites and gneisses, such that the comminuted grains of quartz and feldspar surround larger grains of the same minerals.
Mylonite A compact fine-grained streaked and flinty rock formed by severe granulation and shearing of rocks during dynamic metamorphism.
Neomagmatic An adjective referring to magma formed by partial or complete refusion of pre-existing rocks.
Orthogneiss A coarse-grained rock produced by the regional metamorphism of igneous rocks.
Palaeocurrent A current that flowed in the geological past.
Palaeomagnetism The study of natural remanent magnetisation in order to determine the intensity and direction of the Earth's magnetic field in the geological past.
Palaeoslope A slope that existed in the geological past.
Parasitic fold A relatively small fold on the limb or in the hinge of a larger congruous fold of the same generation.
Parataxitic texture An extreme variation of eutaxitic texture in tuffs, in which the shards and pumice lumps are flattened and appear to have been drawn out.
Pegmatite An exceptionally coarse-grained igneous rock. Most pegmatites are granitic and form irregular dykes, lenses or veins, especially near margins of intrusions.
= Pelitic =
= Argillaceous =
Pericline (doubly plunging fold) A fold in which the beds dip outwards from the centre (dome) or towards the centre (basin).
Perlitic texture Small-scale arcuate cracks caused by cooling in volcanic glass.
Petrographical Pertaining to the descriptive aspects of the study of rocks (petrology).
Phenocryst A crystal in an igneous rock that is conspicuously larger than those of the matrix in which it is set.
Plunge The inclination of a fold axis. Plutonic Relating to igneous rocks formed at great depth in the Earth. P
neumatolysis Alteration of a rock, or crystallisation of minerals, by gases emanating from a magma.
Poikilitic A texture in which smaller crystals of one mineral are enclosed within a larger crystal of another.
Poikiloblastic A texture in a metamorphic rock formed where a recrystallised mineral surrounds relicts of earlier minerals.
Polygenetic Originating in more than one way.
Porphyritic A texture in which larger crystals in an igneous rock are set in a finer-grained groundmass, as in a porphyry.
Porphyroblast A large, usually well shaped crystal, that has grown in a finer-grained matrix during metamorphism.
Pressure solution The mass transfer of material by fluid diffusion from one part of a rock to another as a result of grainto-grain contact during tectonic deformation.
Propylite A hydrothermally altered andesite or related rock containing secondary minerals such as chlorite, zoisite and calcite.
Provenance Source areas from which fragments in sedimentary rocks have been derived.
Proximal Close to the source of supply of sedimentary material.
Pseudomorph A mineral whose outward crystal form is that of another, which it has replaced.
Pumice A highly vesiculated glassy lava, usually of rhyolite and light enough to float in water.
Pyroclastic Adjective describing a elastic rock formed by explosion or eruption from a volcanic vent.
Quartz-wacke A sedimentary rock with 15 per cent or more matrix in which framework grains are mainly quartz.
Radiocarbon date The age of a deposit determined by measuring the content of carbon-14 ("C) in organic material.
Raised beach A beach deposit left at a level above that of the modern beach, following a lowering of sea level.
Rhyolite A fine-grained acid extrusive igneous rock, commonly porphyritic and flow-banded.
Ripple mark A small sand ridge formed by the movement of water or sediment over unconsolidated sediment. Ripples usually have a cross-laminated internal structure useful in determining the palaeocurrent direction.
Schist A strongly foliated metamorphic rock in which the lamellar or elongate minerals show parallel orientation.
Scree An accumulation of angular rock fragments, usually at the foot of and derived from a cliff or hill.
Shard A glass fragment typically found in pyroclastic rocks, having distinctive cuspate margins.
Shear A fracture caused by shearing due to compressive stress.
Sinistral fault A fault in which the rock on the far side appears to have been moved horizontally to the left.
Sole mark A sedimentary structure at the base of a bed produced by currents and used to determine the direction of palaeocurrent flow.
Spessartite A lamprophyre consisting mainly of phenocrysts of hornblende set in a groundmass of sodic plagioclase.
Spherulite A mass of radiating crystals, usually spherical in shape.
Stalagmite A column of calcareous material deposited on the floor of a cave by water dripping from the roof.
Strike slip The component of the movement on a fault that is parallel to the strike of the fault.
Subhedral crystal A mineral within an igneous rock only partly bounded by its natural crystal faces.
Sub-volcanic Relating to the region below the Earth's surface where dykes and sills are intruded.
Supracrustal Descriptive of rock that overlies the basement.
Syenite A plutonic rock consisting essentially of alkali-feldspars and amphibole or dark mica.
Syncline A fold, generally convex downward, the core of which contains the younger rocks.
Synclinorium A composite regional syncline composed of lesser folds.
Synplutonic A term used to describe a dyke intruded into a granite rock before the granite had solidified.
Tear fault A fault in which the movement has been substantially in a horizontal sense.
Tectonic Relating to the forces involved in the large-scale structural evolution of the upper part of the Earth's crust.
Tectonic pitting The indentation of one sedimentary grain by another.
Trace fossil A sedimentary structure, such as a track or boring, left by an animal in the geological past.
Tuff A lithified deposit of volcanic ash.
Tuffite An admixture of pyroclastic (>25 per cent) and epiclastic (>25 per cent) material.
Turbidity current A turbulent current laden with suspended sediment at the base of a column of water that flowed down a slope under the influence of gravity.
Unconformity A break in the stratigraphical sequence marked by a structural discordance.
Vergence The direction in which a fold is inclined or overturned.
Volcaniclastic Composed mainly of volcanic rock fragments.
Wrench fault A tear fault.
Xenocryst A crystal in an igneous rock to which it is not genetically related.
Xenolith An inclusion in an igneous rock to which it is not genetically related.
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Title 29. Business Organizations.
Chapter 11. Unincorporated Nonprofit Associations.
§ 29-1122. Distributions prohibited; compensation and other permitted payments.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section , an unincorporated nonprofit association shall not pay dividends or make distributions to a member or manager.
(b) An unincorporated nonprofit association may:
(1) Pay reasonable compensation or reimburse reasonable expenses to a member or manager for services rendered;
(2) Confer benefits on a member or manager in conformity with its nonprofit purposes;
(3) Repurchase a membership and repay a capital contributions made by a member to the extent authorized by its governing principles; or
(4) Make distributions of property to members upon winding up and termination to the extent permitted by § 29-1125.
(July 2, 2011, D.C. Law 18-378, § 2, 58 DCR 1720.)
For history of Law 18-378, see notes under § 29-101.01.
Former § 29-1122 has been recodified as § 29A-1122.
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The Dani scene I was talking about with the bad dialogue...
The opening scene of Terminator: Dark Fate is upsetting a lot of people but for me, it was too quick to make much of an impact. The cast is really strong for the most part. Mackenzie Davis is a welcome addition and it’s great to see Linda Hamilton back. This is easily Arnold Schwarzenegger’s best work in the franchise since T2. I kind of loved the Rev 9 as a a machine. It feels like what the T-X should have been. It’s hard for Gabriel Luna to follow in the footsteps of Arnold and Robert Patrick but he does a good job. Natalia Reyes plays a character (and actress) that is still trying to find her footing here. There’s one scene particular that is quite bad, the dialogue does not help. The action is pretty good, but the end sequence is a bit too over the top for my tastes. It’s literally a combination of all the previous Terminator movies, A-Team and the Fast & Furious franchise. Much like the end sequence, the story is rehashing what has come before it. The future has changed but the past plays out much the same. Still, the leads do a good job pulling it forward. Their performances and the majority of the action scenes made it enjoyable for me. 7/10
They screened it at the Alamo Drafthouse. They were supposed to show T2 and twenty minutes of Dark Fate but surprised people by showing Dark Fate in its entirely. Most reviews are calling it solid and comparing it to The Force Awakens. Praise for Linda Hamilton and Mackenzie Davis.
*NEW* DC MOVIE THREAD
Ligerbusa replied to The Natural's topic in "COMIC BOOK" MOVIES & TV
I thought it was an anthem for hockey teams and that one scene in The Office.
It has nothing to do with Joker hating women. He saw it too, thought it was disturbing.
That’s exactly what a friend asked me if that’s what the movie is about after I saw it.
I’m going for a third time on Tuesday with some co-workers. I know they want to let these directors do their own thing but man, it would be nice for Joaquin to stick around for a while. If the Pattinson Batman takes off just throw him in there. He doesn’t even have to be Arthur Fleck.
I feel just kind of numb to the spoilers that I've read. I'm still going to see the movie but considering Salvation and Genisys, I'm not really expecting this to go anywhere. '
Hello. I saw Joker last night and I loved it. My fear based on early word was that he would either be too sympathetic or they would display him as a hero figure. Thankfully, neither are the case. I did have some sympathy for him early on but that quickly disappears when he you see he's a very, very bad person. A friend asked me if he was a sexist incel, I don't really know where that comes from. Joaquin Phoenix should obviously get an Oscar nomination, I'd like to see Hildur Guðnadóttir get one as well for the amazing score.
STAR WARS: LAST JEDI DISCUSSION (OH SO MANY SPOILERS HERE)
Ligerbusa replied to RIPPA's topic in MOVIES & TV
The humour felt very Marvel and they are under the same umbrella so..... I liked the movie but what a waste Snoke turned out to be. And your big idea for one of your new heroes was terrible looking CG intergalactic casino horse racing? Seriously, I almost fell asleep during Finn’s scenes. How was I supposed to care/ not be annoyed when they kept splicing his shit in between Luke and Rey?
Last Jedi
DC MOVIE THREAD
Ligerbusa replied to RIPPA's topic in "COMIC BOOK" MOVIES & TV
Justice League certainly has its flaws but I can’t remember ever coming out of a movie feeling that happy and smiling so much.
There are two mid or post credits scenes, both of which have leaked and are pretty fucking great. There's another really big scene that leaked as well, CGI looks poor. If this scene was part of the reshoots, I can't imagine they had too much time to work on it. Still, I really liked this scene. I'm still really excited to see it tomorrow.
That Gordon clip. Hot damn.
DC TV Thread
Ligerbusa replied to goodhelmet's topic in "COMIC BOOK" MOVIES & TV
Gotham's Scarecrow design is pretty rad.
I went to see Terminator 2 in 3D a few weeks ago. The 3D didn't really do anything for me but hearing the theme blasting from theater speakers during the intro is still fucking amazing. Also, T2 3D in Orlando is closing down next month. Thank god I got to go twice during Mania week.
Tim Miller will direct the next Terminator, he and James Cameron put together the story and Cameron is producing. Linda Hamilton and Arnold will return and it will star an 18 year old female lead. Writers room included David Goyer and Josh Friedman. They're planning a trilogy because of course they are.
Now Matt Reeves is saying his Batman movie is stand alone, Hollywood Reporter said it won't star Affleck but later removed it. Affleck himself talked about working with Reeves at Comic Con. And the Crazy, Stupid Love writers are writing a Harley/Joker movie that may or may not be the Gotham City Sirens movie that is already in the works. I'm confused. But I'm seeing The Dark Knight in a movie theater tomorrow so that's cool.
The best part about the villains was that one scene...
I liked it a lot, thought it was sweet and kind of moving. Gadot is so lovely as Diana when she first arrives in London, just completely lovely and innocent. And when see goes to war and the theme kicks in? Goosebumps. Also, that new DC Intro.
Eh hee, he also wrote the story and cast Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. His hands were all over the DCEU when WW was in production.
Wonder Woman is getting a lot of positive reactions from critics on Twitter. http://batman-news.com/2017/05/18/wonder-woman-critics-reactions/
Dolph Lundgren is King Nereus in Aquaman. FUCK YEAH
The Marvel Things That Aren't "Marvel" Things
If the next movie takes place in the 90s, she'll be 24 and played by one of the girls from the new Power Rangers. I thought Logan was brilliant and I was a bit surprised because I didn't like The Wolverine much at all, but it was a very different film.
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The NSA is Coming to Town - Over one million hits on You Tube - lets make it millions more and the 2013 Christmas Song
Democracy and Class Struggle will be back on 7th January 2014.
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to our readers from Wales.
Media Lies While Syrians Die: Media Disinformation and the Syrian War
Lenin, the leader of the working class revolution in Russia, heard about the Christmas truce. He pointed out that if there were organizations prepared to fight for such a policy among the soldiers of all the belligerent nations, there might have been a quick end to the world war in favor of the working masses.
Lenin wrote, “Try to imagine Hyndman, Guesde, Vandervelde, Plekhanov, Kautsky and the rest [leaders of so-called socialist parties that supported the world war] – instead of aiding the bourgeoisie (something they are now engaged in – forming an international committee to agitate for fraternization and attempts to establish friendly relations between the socialists of the belligerent countries, both in the trenches and among the troops in general. What would the results be several months from now?”
The truce began on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium, for Christmas. They began by placing candles on trees, then continued the celebration by singing Christmas carols, most notably Stille Nacht (Silent Night). The British troops in the trenches across from them responded by singing English carols.
The two sides continued by shouting Christmas greetings to each other. Soon thereafter, there were calls for visits across the "No Man's Land" where small gifts were exchanged — whisky, jam, cigars, chocolate, and the like. The artillery in the region fell silent that night. The truce also allowed a breathing spell where recently-fallen soldiers could be brought back behind their lines by burial parties. Proper burials took place as soldiers from both sides mourned the dead together and paid their respects. At one funeral in No Man's Land, soldiers from both sides gathered and read a passage from the 23rd Psalm: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
The Internationale : Salute to the 45 years of the Communist Party of the Philippines from Democracy and Class Struggle
IN WELSH FROM DEMOCRACY AND CLASS STRUGGLE
SEE ALSO: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/philippines-revolutionary-groups-take.html
India 'Nannygate': Racism or the rule of law?
As relations between India and the US hit a new low, we look at the row over the arrest of diplomat Devyani Khobragade. Inside Story presenter Divya Gopalan is joined by guests: Lalit Mansingh, a former Indian foreign secretary and ambassador to the US; Jo Becker, the advocacy director for Human Rights Watch; and Atul Singh, the founder and editor-in-chief of the global news analysis site Fair Observer.
For the Democracy and Class Struggle view see :
See http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/khobragades-arrest-labour-law-violation.html
Philippines : Revolutionary groups take to streets to mark CPP's 45th year
Democracy and Class Struggle salutes the Communist Party of the Philippines on its 45th anniversary.
Long Live the Communist Party of the Philippines !
Time to overthrow the capitalist comprador elite and Benigno S. Aquino the running dogs of US Imperialism in the Philippines.
Long Live the National Democratic Revolution with a Socialist Perspective.
Long Live the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Questions for Greenwald - Questions for Edward Snowden - Glenn Greenwald, NSA Documents & Checkbook Journalism
Sibel Edmonds has written an Open Letter to Edward Snowden asking him if he knows or approves of what Glen Greenwald is doing. We take the view that there are questions that need answering by Glen Greenwald about his new media venture and the questions raised by Sibel Edmonds in her letter to Edward Snowden are not offensive but legitimate questions..
Philippines: Kerry visit heightens tensions to justify increased US presence, weapons buildup -- CPP
The US$40-million dollar funding from the US is likely to supplement the expansion of the Oyster Bay naval facility of the Philippine Navy in Palawan, in order to accommodate the biggest US aircraft carriers in its docks.
CPP Information Bureau
Kerry visit heightens tensions to justify increased US presence, weapons buildup -- CPP
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today denounced the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to the Philippines, saying his statements and actions contribute to overall US efforts to heighten political and diplomatic tensions in the Asia-Pacific region in order to justify the further deployment of US rotational forces in the region. Kerry arrived for a two-day visit on 17 December.
“The heavy-handed presence of US armed troops, warships, drones and jetfighters in the region make the peaceful resolution of territorial conflicts, particularly in the South China Sea, more and more difficult,” said the CPP.
The CPP denounced the allocation of US$40 million by the US government under the Global Security Contingency Fund (GSCF) to supposedly strengthen the sea defense capabilities of the Philippines against China.
“US State Secretary John Kerry pretends to be altruistic and big-hearted in granting the Philippines the US$40-million GSCF funding when, in fact, American policy-makers always make strategic calculations of US interests for every dollar extended to its so-called allies,” said the CPP. According to US State Department documents, the US government extends GSCF assistance to its “partner countries” to enable them to “address emergent challenges and opportunities important to US national security”.
The CPP said the US$40-million dollar funding from the US is likely to supplement the expansion of the Oyster Bay naval facility of the Philippine Navy in Palawan, in order for it to accommodate the biggest US aircraft carriers in its docks. “The US military has long wanted to set up facilities in Oyster Bay because the deep waters allow its warships to dock near the shores.”
The CPP said such military funding “is unduly drawing the Philippines to an arms buildup campaign which serves the interests of the US, causing China and other countries in the region to race ahead of each other in the purchase or production of war materiél, which would invariably benefit the US military-industrial complex.”
“The Filipino people should denounce Kerry for declaring all-out US support for the large-scale rearmament efforts of Japan and plans to spend as much as US$240 billion to buy stealth fighters, drones and submarines,” said the CPP. “Upon US prodding, the weapons buildup in Asia is now being boosted by the Abe government’s campaign to revive the military power and dominance of Japan.”
“The CPP denounces the Aquino regime for exhibiting extreme obsequiousness to the US government when it continues to allow the US military to build up its rotational presence in the Philippines. Aquino has even followed the US lead with regard to Japan when he declared that he was seeking to forge a military treaty with the Abe government.”
The CPP further denounced the US government for engaging in “disaster interventionism” in using the devastation brought about by supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan) to “glamorize American troops by letting them carry relief and emergency supplies aboard their nuclear-capable warships and missile-carrying helicopters.”'
On a different note, the CPP likewise called on the Filipino people “to reject the offer of the US government to categorize the Philippines as being under US ‘Temporary Protection Status’ to supposedly ease restrictions for Filipinos seeking employment in the US.”
The CPP branded the US offer as “extremely hypocritical” as the Obama government continues to make life difficult for Filipino immigrants in the US, especially those coming from the working class, who not only suffer from widespread unemployment, but from the highly restrictive and punitive US immigration laws.
Saudi's involvement in 9/11 - LIVE with Senator Bob Graham
Ultra respect for Saudi Arabian diplomats and diplomatic immunity for a wide range of Saudi people by the United States Government. 28 Pages redacted in Joint Congressional Report on 911 covering Saudi Arabia.
911 Truth gets nearer in 2014 and the final exposure of Saudi Arabia and the Prince of Darkness Bandar Bush at long last.
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/revealing-911-conspiracy-would-undo.html
Khobragade’s Arrest – Labour Law Violation Issue, Not Foreign Policy Issue: Gharelu Kaamgaar Sangathan and NTUI
Democracy and Class Struggle agrees that the principal issue is a Labour Law violation but there is a secondary matter of the contempt in which the USA holds its allies and of course the NSA Spying recently illustrated that very well.
If India does not want to have its diplomatic staff treated with contempt by USA Then we suggest India picks better friends and not confuse its enemies with its friends.
Or to put it another way stop being a running dog of USA like UK and stop declaring War on your Own People for US and other Capitalist Corporations - treat India's poor with respect.
by Shuddhabrata Sengupta
by GHARELU KAAMGAAR SANGATHAN, (GKS) Haryana & New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI)
We express strong outrage at the Indian government’s reaction to the case of visa fraud and exploitation of her domestic worker against Deputy Consul General Devyani Khobragade in the United States.
In its dealing of the case, the Indian government is only seeking to protect the dignity and honour of Ms. Khobragade, and has shown a complete lack of respect for the underlying issue – that of the abuse and exploitation of a domestic worker by a senior official.
Ms. Khobragade’s father, Mr. Uttam Khobragade, is a politician and has a played a harmful role in suppressing the facts of the case and in diverting attention from it.
What Ms. Khobragade has done is not an uncommon practice among diplomats and government officials. It is difficult to expose such crimes as domestic workers, in their vulnerable and terrified state, are unable to bring such employers to justice.
Minister Shashi Tharoor commented that Ms. Khobragade is being singled out. Instead of protecting such shameless employers, Minister Tharoor should be congratulating investigating agencies who have exposed this common practice.
While we condemn the alleged strip search and cavity search that Ms. Khobragade was subjected to, it is our belief that the outrage over her arrest and mis-treatment by officials cannot camouflage the deeper questions raised by the case.
In only speaking up for the deputy consular general, the Indian government has belittled a grave and serious concern of labour rights violation, by turning it into a foreign policy issue.
We believe India needs to be equally outraged for the plight of the exploited domestic worker, who is also an Indian citizen, and deserves a fair trial. The Indian government has turned a blind eye to similar cases before.
Media reports have only focused on interviewing Indian diplomats and officers and have not engaged with the domestic workers organisations in India.
We strongly condemn the one-sided media reporting and the narrow-minded Indian government’s selfish protection of official employers of domestic workers.
It has even been said that Ms. Khobragade was not paid enough to pay the domestic worker a decent wage.
Ms. Khobragade and employers like her can ask for a salary raise or not hire a domestic worker if they cannot afford to pay for one.
We immediately demand:
1) Prosecution of Ms. Khobragade to send a warning to other similar employers
2) Indian government to publicly recognise that the rights of the domestic worker in question have been violated and compensate her and her family in India
3) Enact a Comprehensive Legislation as recommended by the National Platform for Domestic Workers
4) Ratify the ILO Convention 189, Domestic Workers Convention 2011
Contact: Anannya Bhattacharjee, anannya48@gmail.com, +91-9810970627 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +91-9810970627 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Gharelu Kaamgaar Sanghatan (GKS), Haryana
New Trade Union Initiative (NTU
The Sectarian Divide : Syria's Christians on verge of annihilation - Prince Charles should speak to his Saudi Royal Friends - the real killers of the Syrian People
Democracy and Class Struggle says US Imperialism Out Of Middle East, Saudi and Qatari and Turkish funders and promoters of Syrian Sectarian conflict should face revolutionary justice of their own Peoples.
Time for the Real Arab Revolution in Saudi Arabia and Qatar - time for the overthrow of the AKP in Turkey - smash US Imperialist interventions which stokes sectarian conflict - look at Iraq and the consequences of sectarianism.
End of Monarchies in Middle Eat from Morocco to Bahrain - new Arab secular socialist states and religious toleration for all -
Then we will have PEACE because then we will have JUSTICE
IF PRINCE CHARLES REALLY WANTS TO END SECTARIANISM GET ON A PLANE TO RIYADH - SAUDI ARABIA AND TELL PRINCE BANDAR TO STOP HIS WAR ON THE PEOPLE OF SYRIA THIS CHRISTMAS.
Syria, Al-Jaafari: The Game of Chemical Weapons Is Over, no more secret who is behind it
Further Exposure of US and West and Saudi/Qatari's and Turkish role in Syrian Conflict - the people will hold the war makers to account - blessed are the peacemakers this Christmas.
India: 20 years of Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union (PKMU) - Agricultural Labourers Movement by Harsh Thakor
Punjab Khet Mazdur Union (P.K.M.U-20th anniversary year of formation in September,1993)
In commemoration of 20 years since Balahar Vinju struggle led by the erstwhile Pendu Mazdoor Union and of 20 years since merging of the Punjab Dehati Mazdoor Union with the Punjab Pendu union into the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union. The Punjab Khet Mazdur Union(P.K.M.U.) or Punjab Agricultural workers Union( P.A.L.U)has launched anti-feudal struggles of the landless peasants and agricultural workers.
In 1993 ,in September the Punjab agricultural labouresr union merged with the Punjab Dehati Mazdoor union in a unity conference .
Since it's foundation in 1993 it launched a series of heroic struggles and has depicted phenomenal consistency, a work-style which could brilliantly relate to the issues of the landless peasants, class –analytical theoretical clarity and above all possessed the features of democratically functioning mass organization.
The overwhelming majority of agricultural labourers belong to the scheduled dalit caste. The landlords and the landed peasantry belong to the upper castes, which constitute the major part of the village population. Thus it is very difficult to organize the agricultural labourers movement and organization on anti-feudal economic demands.
Whenever an attempt is made to organize the agricultural labourers,the landlords can easily instigate the landed peasantry against the landless labourers by raising casteist slogan and giving call for social boycott.
There was a debate in Punjab on whether agricultural labourers and landed peasants should be organized into a single mass –organization or there should be separate organizations.The Kirti Kisan Union belied that both sections of the peasantry could be united into a single organization because both these classes are integral to the anti-feudal peasant movement.
The Punjab Khet Mazdoor union established the view that since caste prejudices were so strongly prevalent and there is a clash of partial demands and interest between the landed and landless peasantry they should be organized in separate mass organizations. Only a protracted process of development of political consciousness and struggle for unity between them would narrow the clash of interests. The twin organizations should be built simultaneously developing mutual friendship with class consciousness building. In this way finally all the exploited section sof the peasantry would unite and the alliance of landlords with landed peasantry would be broken.
An agricultural labourer lives the life of a wretched beast. He is denied his weekly or any holiday throughout the year. When he takes leave for any death in the family or a marriage he is charged much more than the average wage being paid to him. At work he virtually works round the clock.
In Agricultural Operations, he has to do all sorts of household chores, for the master. In Peak work seasons, he has to forget rest and sleep for days together due to rush of work. This forced sleeplessness results in accidents leading to amputation of limbs and serious injuries. The landowner is not required to pay for their treatment or missed days. No compensation is paid during disability or death. His average wage is much below the stipulated minimum wage. The rising prices of day to day items forced the agricultural labourer community to slash their consumption.
3 types of issues were predominantly taken up.
The first one was opposing casteist arrogance and misbehavior with women. The 2nd one was for increase in and proper distribution for social welfare and other advances like grants, community centers. The third relates to propaganda and agitational issues like distribution of land, residential plots and improvement in working conditions. The 4th and last related to political mobilization on issues.
In Doaba region of Punjab the P.A.L.U.after a determined struggle succeeded in getting residential plots .In Muktsar district, the repeated attempts of an influential wealthy family in evicting a number of labouring families from a piece of land was foiled. A similar occurrence took place in Jalandhar district where an Akali leader's attempt to grab villagers land was foiled.
An example of heroic anti –feudal resistance led by the P.A.L.U was in Ferozepur district where 2 agricultural labourers were tortured to death by a cruel landlord. The landlord spent lakhs of rupees in bribing the police and the media. The Union carried out massive processions, blockading of police stations, holding up traffics, surrounding district courts Etc.At every stage the Union had to battle it out with the police and civil authorities.
The last significant form of struggle the Punjab Agricultural Workers Union waged was against medieval service conditions of farm labour. Peasants in Punjab often die of pesticide poisoning. The Landlords refuse to pay for the peasant's illnesses .In one example of the death of a contract labourer in Bhagtuana village the landlord not only refused to pay the treatment expenses, but also pressurized the labourer's family in paying the dues. He even threatened to confiscate the labourer's cattle. The Union challenged this. Through militant struggle the peasants prevented the landlord from gaining a single penny.
In Various districts in Punjab the Punjab Agricultural Workers Union has carried out alternative flood relief. The so-called social welfare schemes were exposed. Numerous cases concerning yellow cards, house grants and flood relief were settled. Corruption of authorities was exposed.
Lastly the Union played a great role in the election campaigns in exposing the nefarious ruling class politics. The Union explained the anti people policies of the state and how the people were enslaved through Imperialist policies like globalization. Rural labouring sections rose up like a tornado in the "Long Live the Revolution Rally!" The Union played a great role in enhancing their political consciousness.
India : The Srikakulam Girijan Sangham by Indian Comrade
Below I am submitting a compilation from 2 letters from the Srikakulam Girijan Sangham (compiled from 1992-1993 issues of ‘The Comrade’) the 1st one addressed to the C.P.I (M.L.) peoples war group and the 2ND to everyone..
I am posting it in memory of late comrade Nirmal Krishnamurti ,who was the secretary of the Girijan Sangham and Srikakulam Rama Rao,2 major architects of the Sangh.
They reflect an outstanding class analytical revolutionary democratic approach. They relate the history of the Srikakulam Grijan armed struggle in light of the mass line and mass revolutionary democratic perspective.
In that period group clashes of armed squads between different revolutionary groups was a common reccurence.The author cannot forget the clashes between the erstwhile C.P.I.(M.L.) Chandra Pulla Reddy group and the erstwhile C.P.I.(M.L.) Peoples War group..
The author bows down to the immortal sacrifices of the erstwhile C.P.I.(M.L.) PWG and does not underestimate the importance of armed struggle.
However this note reflects on the weakness of correct military line in relation to the mass revolutionary movement. The role of armed squads is debateable but I cannot deny the bravery of the PWG in withstanding the enemy forces.
Sangh upheld a mass revolutionary political approach. Above all it was an ideal illustration of mass revolutionary democratic political approach asserting the role of preparedness of masses and building of peoples mass movements.
The author wishes readers to refer to notes written by the late Comrade Tarimela Nagi Reddy in the early 1970’s on the mass line in armed struggle, combating the left adventurist line of Charu Mazumdar.
The Sangh reflected great clarity and grasp of mass line and above all never resorted to slandering the PWG,which so many groups did in the 1990’s.
In the end I am posting a small tribute to it’s secretary who was martyred in June,1996. and another veteran comrade.
In 1958 the Srikakulam Girijan Sangham was formed. This was a separate organization formed for the protection of the tribal´s rights.
The Sangham was formed in 1958 under the leadership of the Communist Party of India.
The Issues included illegal taxes and extortions by landlords, vetty (Forced Labour),unfair practices in the purchase of minor forest produce gathered by the Girijans, and wages for Agricultural labour.
The first Girijan Public meeting was held at Mondem Khal in 1961 when 4000 people from hundreds of villages heard about the Conspiracy of the landlords and the Girijan Resistance.
The base of the Girijan Association was enlarged and the non-Girijans of the plains began to support the movement. At the 1964 Panchayat Elections, the Girijans participated around such democratic issues and defeated the landlord candidates.
However the village Girijan committees proved more effective as means to represent Girijan demands and implement them. The Girijan Village Committees had begun to function as parallel courts in the late 1960´s. Now the Girijan Resistance took shape of a major agrarian movement. Land was re-distributed, village level defence squads were set up People´s Courts were launched.
Statement of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan on the Bilateral Secutity Agreement
Statement of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan on the Bilateral Security Agreement between the American imperialists and the Puppet Regime:Bilateral Security Agreement and the Imposition of a Prolonged and broad Resistance on the People of Afghanistan
On November 21, 2013 the puppet regime convened its fourth sham Loya Jirga.
The first Emergency Loya Jirga was held to endorse the imperialist invasionand subsequent occupation of Afghanistan and the enslaving decisions of the gathering of the national traitors in Bonn held under the plumage of the invading imperialists for approving the puppet regime of Hamid Karzai.
The second Loya Jirga was held to ratify the colonial constitution; the third Loya Jirga was held to approve the Strategic Agreement between the American imperialists and its satraps.
The issue for the current and fourth Loya Jirga, then, is the signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement which will grant strategic military bases to the American occupiers and its imperialist
allies in Afghanistan. Formally, the imperialist occupation and the colonial condition of the country will be prolonged for many years to come.
Thus, the regime that in the eleven years of its shameful existence has held two fraudulent general presidential and parliamentary elections, and has upholding the feudal institution of Loya Jirgas four times, has served the objectives of the imperialist occupiers--all of these elections and Loya Jirgas have been orchestrated to nurture the puppet regime.
Hence, the country's condition is colonial and semi-feudal. Colonial in the sense that the fate of Afghanistan and its people is ultimately determined by the imperialist occupiers. Semi-feudal in the sense that the reactionary ruling classes forming the puppet regime possess both feudal and bourgeois and comprador characteristics in a proportion similar to the ratio between the Loya Jirgas and the sham elections.
In fact, since the inception of the disgraceful puppet regime, Loya Jirgas,and not the fraudulent and sham elections, have been the real source of decision making.
Now the occupying imperialists, through their imported feudal and bourgeois comprador democracy are holding a Loya Jirga to earn legality and legitimacy for their occupation under the name of the people of Afghanistan.
However, our people clearly understand that the overwhelming majority of the participants of the Loya Jirga have been carefully selected by the occupiers and the upper brass of the puppet regime, bought with hundreds of millions of dollars, to approve and ratify the continued existence of the occupying forces and consequently ensure this regime's survival and continuation.
Therefore, we cannot call the decisions of such a gathering the expression of the free will of the people of Afghanistan.
Additionally, this Loya Jirga is intended to formalize the conditions that have been in existence for the past eleven years with the explicit agreement of the puppet regime--conditions that are this regime's source of vitality.
Although the legal immunity of the occupying forces has been, without exception, an informal fact since the beginning of the invasion and occupation, in the past year the puppet regime has only now made this an issue of contention so as to cast itself as independent and nationalist.
The puppet regime's fictitious independence, and its opposition to the killings of civilians and intractable military operations, is nothing new. But such exhibitions have never stopped the murder of civilians, nor have they curtailed the reckless military operations of the occupying forces.
The reality, despite all phony political shows, is the presence of the occupying forces and the colonial condition of the country under occupation. Such a condition can take various forms and configurations, as well as different levels of intensity; no cunning, deception or masquerades can
remove its objective and subjective effects.
Right now a legal opposition to the granting of legal immunity to the occupying forces has been constructed; it will be brought to the Loya Jirga so as to play a "democratic" role. The participants of this so-called opposition have divergent incentives. The objections of some of members of
this opposition are intended as a bargaining chip for gaining a better colonial agreement.
Others oppose the agreement simply because they are afraid of being targeted by the armed opposition; otherwise they do not have any disagreement. Others are those who are consciously playing the role of opposition in order to complete the political drama.
Then there is a fourth section of this legal opposition that consists of those who are under the
delusion that if they oppose the legal immunity for the occupying forces they will perform their patriotic and national duty--only these participants of the Loya Jirga can be addressed so as to challenge their delusions and convince them not to commit national treason with good intentions.
The Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan proclaims that it is fundamentally against any security pact with the American imperialist and other imperialist powers, just as it is against the continued presence of the occupying forces in the country.
We believe that signing any security agreement with the American imperialists and other imperialist powers, and agreeing to the continued presence of the occupying powers at whatever level and for whatever duration is to also agree with the occupation and colonial condition of the country--it is nothing other than national treason.
We proclaim that the current Loya Jirga, put together by the occupying imperialists and their satraps, has no normative basis for being the representative of the people of Afghanistan; it is only a gathering for executing another national treason, following previous national treasons, particularly the treason of the consultative Loya Jirga on the strategic agreement with the American imperialists.
We proclaim that the security agreement be tween the American imperialists and the puppet regime, that would result in the continuing presence of American strategic military bases in the country imposes a prolonged and comprehensive resistance on the people of Afghanistan based upon the revolutionary and peoples national armed resistance and for the purpose of forcefully throwing out the occupiers and bringing down the puppet regime.
Down with the occupying imperialists and their puppet regime!
Advance towards launching and carrying forward a prolonged revolutionary and national people's war of resistance!
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
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Al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and the Collapsing Free Syrian Army
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Geopolitics - Syria - Russia and Saudi Arabia : Putin suggested to Bandar Bush to abandon “sectarian instigations and supporting terrorism, because it is a double edged sword that will rebound inside Saudi Arabia and gather momentum in a manner that you will not be able to control.” by Pepe Escobar
Everyone remembers the spectacular four-and-a-half hour meeting last August in Moscow between President Putin and Bandar Bush – aka Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s Director of National Intelligence.
Well, there was a remix last week, also in Moscow. And once again in absolute secrecy, until a formidable leak from “a close and reliable source” in Russia reached Lebanese newspaper al-Manar.
Bandar Bush’s first offensive was a disaster; not only did Putin rebuff his attempt to “bribe” Moscow into abandoning Damascus, but subsequently Russia was pivotal in preventing the Obama administration from bombing Syria.
Now Bandar Bush has “offered” softer terms. After all, Saudi Arabia is on board with the Geneva-2 peace conference scheduled for January 22 – although it didn’t used to be.
President Bashar Assad may remain in Damascus during this period, but real power should be transferred to an interim government headed by the “opposition” (which opposition is open to speculation; certainly the “rebels” controlled by Riyadh).
Moreover, Bandar Bush expects Russia to pressure Assad not to call for a 2014 presidential election.
According to the Syrian constitution, a new constitution should be written and approved during the interim government and only then elections should be called – with Assad excluded. If Moscow abides, Saudi Arabia will be more than willing to “contribute” to the cost of rebuilding Syria (which it helped destroy via financed/weaponized mercenaries).
Leaving aside the mind-boggling spectacle of the House of Saud’s medieval paradise dictating the terms for the future of a third country
President Putin’s answer can be summarized as a model of restraint.
The “opposition” armed and financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar is on a losing streak. Saudi support for the opposition has nothing to do with democracy; these “rebels” are in fact terrorists.
Neither Damascus nor Moscow needs Saudi funds to rebuild Syria; Russia, Iran and China will do the job. Moreover, Russia and the US reached an understanding that takfiri terrorism is a danger not only to American security, but to Russian and global security. The Europeans – fearful of returnee terrorists – also agree.
As the cherry on the sundae, Putin suggested to Bandar Bush to abandon “sectarian instigations and supporting terrorism, because it is a double edged sword that will rebound inside Saudi Arabia and gather momentum in a manner that you will not be able to control.”
Geneva II: Dead on arrival
Does all of this mean Bandar Bush will desist from his non-stop shadow play and role of enforcer of the House of Saud’s jihad on Syria? Far from it.
A few days after the Putin-Bandar Bush get-together, the supreme commander of the Washington-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), self-described ‘General Doctor Engineer’ Salim Idris, was forced to flee Syria after the Islamic Front - Bandar Bush’s brigades - took over the headquarters and warehouses of Idris’ Supreme Military Council (SMC) at the Bab al-Hawa crossing near the Turkish border.
Washington immediately announced it was freezing all “non-lethal aid.”
The Islamic Front is a coalition of Islamist “rebels” that – in theory – do not include the two top al-Qaeda-linked outfits, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Washington believes its own propaganda that the Islamic Front is more “moderate” than the ISIL.
After the debacle at Bab al-Hawa, Idris’ followers started spinning that the General Doctor Engineer himself invited the Saudi-backed Islamic Front to take over the warehouses.
No wonder US Think-Tank-Land was as perplexed as crocodiles in the Hindu Kush; after all, the General Doctor Engineer was their updated version of Ahmad Chalabi, the future of democracy for Syrians and Arabs. How come he fled the scene of his greatest triumph? After Idris fled to Doha, Washington told him to get his act together and go back to Syria. Instead, he relocated to his fancy digs in Turkey.
Arab media has a different take on the whole operation - but it must be taken with a bulldozer of salt, as Arab media is overwhelmingly controlled by Saudi money
The warehouses may not have been taken over at all; they were “handed over” to the Islamic Front, according to an agreement supervised by the cousin of the Doctor Engineer General (“rebel” nepotism, anyone?).
Although Washington (laughably) swears it doesn’t know what was stolen from its “non-lethal aid” package, the content of the warehouses couldn’t be juicier; a weaponizing orgy - M79 Osa rocket launchers, rocket-propelled grenades, 14.5mm heavy machine guns, and even Stinger missiles - generously supplied by Saudis, Qataris, and Emiratis, obviously after a green light from Washington.
And by the way - US lethal, semi-lethal, or non-lethal “aid” continues and will continue to flow via Jordan, while Turkey “discreetly” does nothing to prevent ISIL deployments in both Syria and Iraq.
Washington - via the CIA - is in close contact with the Islamic Front; after all, these are Bandar Bush’s goons, and Bandar Bush has access to everyone that counts in Washington.
To essentially summarize the “opposition” nebulae in Syria, there are absolutely negligible ideological differences between the FSA of General Doctor Engineer Idris, Bandar Bush’s brigades of the Islamic Front, and ISIL.
So Bandar Bush’s goons/foreign mercenaries - soon to number tens of thousands, and making as much as $2,500 a month - are now weaponized to the max.
The Washington narrative that it’s “persuading” such a nasty bunch of Islamists to support Geneva-2 is no more than a joke.
No matter who will remain in control of those weapons - Bandar Bush’s brigades, the al-Qaeda-style International Jihad, or both - what’s certain is that these lethal facts on the ground will make a mockery of anything transpiring out of Geneva-2 next month.
Washington knows it, Bandar Bush knows it, and Putin knows it. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets.
Source RT
Democratic Students' Union - Delhi : Nelson Mandela: A Hero for the oppressors, A BETRAYER FOR THE OPPRESSED! The mournings & praises from the imperialists and their agents, are Mandela’s “legacy” of brokering one of the biggest sell outs of the 20th century!
Democracy and Class Struggle is re-publishing this criticism of Mandela from Democratic Students Union - Delhi because it is the strongest and one of the best critiques of Mandela we have seen.
Ever since the death of Nelson Mandela on the 6th of December, the most flowery tributes have been showered on him by a wide spectrum of the ruling classes all over the world. While the face of US imperialism Barak Obama “led the world” in paying tribute to “his personal hero”, the speeches his lieutenants in Britian, much of Europe, and across the world reverberated the same. The mass murderer president of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapakshe who oversaw the genocide of the people of Tamil Ealam also had tears to shed for Mandela. The Indian state also gargled the same and declared a four day long state mourning. The same waves also reached our campus. From ABVP to the parliamentary pseudo-left AISA or SFI and their likes, several organizations vied with each other in presenting their laurels to their “hero”. This spectrum is certainly striking, and may even confuse a few as to the real “legacy” of Mandela. However in reality, it is precisely this unanimity of imperialists and their agents that is most revealing. Mandela’s so called legacy is built upon on an illusion, the seeds of which were laid by Mandela himself. It is extremely important that we break this collective iconization and the illusion of Mandela’s legacy.
What exactly is Mandela’s legacy? The checkered political career of young Mandela began with a revolutionary vision to fight injustice and exploitation by white racial tyranny that was weighing heavily upon the black majority of South Africa. It is with this purpose that he joined the African National Congress in 1942 and founded the radical Youth League to wrest economic and political power from the oppressive apartheid regime that racially segregated the people of colour (black, coloured & Indian) from the white ruling minority. This was a regime that came with the mission to fight the "Swart Gevaar" (the "black peril") and the program of "Die Kaffer op sy plek" ("The negro in his place"). In the face of increasing fascist repression, massacres (of the likes of the Sharpeville massacre, 1960) and the banning of several organizations to crush this black assertion, Mandela shunned the path of passive resistance. In 1961 he launched an armed struggle under the military organization Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation) to overthrow the white regime. He was arrested soon after in 1963 at the age of 42 and sentenced to life in prison where he would remain for the next 28 years. The armed resistance with its revolutionary agenda however galloped through the 1970s & 80s thereby swelling the ranks of Umkhonto we Sizwe. This was despite the brutal massacres like the infamous Soweto massacre (which was the epicenter of the struggle) where close to 600 blacks were butchered by the racist regime. But alongside, this was also the time when the agenda of the black militants proved too radical for most of the exiled ANC moderates who not only were prepared for a negotiated “peace” but were also instrumental in sabotaging the struggle. During the 1980s, the apartheid regime offered generous loans to a handful of black businessmen leading to the rise of a new black bourgeoisie that was essentially comprador. ANC chieftains quickly moved into mansions in "golf and country estates" and were eager for “peace”. All this while, the brutal apartheid regime enjoyed the support of the west (particularly US & Israel). By this time, the imperialist forces very well realized that with the rising groundswell amongst the black masses, the choice was between revolution or “reconciliation. In other words, a complete economic transformation OR a “peaceful transition” that would leave the white property-owning minority and Western corporate’s interests intact albeit with cosmetic changes. Through the long clandestine negotiations that finally led to his release, Mandela (and the moderate ANC) chose the latter. It is this betrayal of the cause for which thousands of people across Africa gave their lives which made Mandela into an “icon” that he is for the oppressors now.
“From revolutionary to economic manager: Mandela’s lesson in change”. Ironically, this is not the opinion of a trenchant critic of Mandela. Rather, this is the title of an article written in praise by a corporate media-giant. It succinctly captures the historic compromise of Mandela and ANC in the service of global capital. As early as 1985, years before the world would behold his release, this compromise was being scripted when a group of South African industrialists led by Gavin Reilly, chairman of the Anglo-American mining company, met prominent ANC officials in Zambia. Both sides agreed upon a "transition" from apartheid to a “black-governed liberal democracy” with the requisite "order" & "stability". In other words, justice was sacrificed at the altar of "free market". Leading figures in the ANC, such as Cyril Ramaphosa, head of the National Union of Mineworkers (now a corporate giant), was already negotiating a power-sharing "deal" with the apartheid regime. Secret meetings also took place in England, at which a future president of “liberated” South Africa, Tabo Mbeki, brokered “peace” with the heads of corporations that formed the bulwark of years of racial apartheid. Mandela meanwhile had secret negotiations with the authorities from the Pollsmoor Prison. To facilitate these negotiations, Mandela was shifted from Robben Island Prison (where he was not allowed visitors) prison and these negotiations culminated in his final release in 1990. Soon after that in 1993, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own jailer, the last president of the racist apartheid regime de Klerk “for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime”.
This “peace” of course came with a grave price. Till very late Mandela pledged to take over or nationalize the mines and other monopoly industries. This was based upon the ideals of the Freedom Charter adopted by him in 1955 that stated that "The national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall be restored to the people; the mineral wealth beneath the soil; the banks and monopoly industries shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole; all other industries and trade shall be controlled to assist the well-being of the people”. He also boasted that "a change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable". But, soon after his release, on his first visit to US, he reassured the imperialist west that "The ANC will reintroduce the market to South Africa". When criticized of emulating the ruthless Thatcherite model of neo-liberalism that further impoverished the black majority, his reply was: "You can put any label on it if you like, but, for this country, privatization is the fundamental policy.” Lauded as the most “reliable steward of sub-Sahara Africa’s largest economy, embracing orthodox fiscal and monetary policies” by the Financial Times, Mandela, made sure that the flow of profits from South African mines and agriculture into the coffers of foreign investors and the white business elite was never interrupted.
Mandela facilitated the process of maintaining racial hegemony over resources. While the mandate from the people as enshrined in the Freedom Charter was nationalisation of the country’s assets and the mines, Mandela went into several deals with the white big business to leave their share in the pie intact. He held regular meetings with the likes of Harry Oppenheimer, former chairman of the mining giants Anglo-American and De Beers, the economic symbols of apartheid rule. Shortly after the 1994 election, Mandela, the newly elected black president, even submitted the ANC’s economic program to Oppenheimer for “his approval” and made several key revisions to address “his concerns”, as well as those of other top industrialists. The outcomes of those meetings were that there could be an illusion of “political power” for the oppressed black masses, but the gold and diamonds were to be retained in the hands of the same few who controlled it before. Another shameful instance of the betrayal was the negotiations held around the ownership of the Reserve Bank of South Africa, the most powerful institution in the country. While the people’s mandate as per the Freedom Charter was to nationalise it and bring it under the elected government, Mandela was instrumental in betraying this demand and maintaining it till date as a privately owned bank with 650 (predominantly white) shareholders. Not only was its “autonomy” (i.e., private ownership) safeguarded by the new constitution, but it was headed by the same man who ran it under apartheid. Several such apartheid era figures in key positions, like finance minister Derek Keyes, retained their positions in the new administration under Mandela. Another fundamental pledge of the Freedom Charter that demanded the complete redistribution of land was set aside, replaced with a new clause in the constitution which “protected all private property”. The transfer of ownership of resources and land that forms the real basis for any genuine transformation was deliberately obfuscated by creating the façade of “Truth & Reconciliation” and “rainbow-nation”.
All that Mandela’s “Reconciliation” and embracing of the “free market” entailed was the further pauperization of South Africa’s black majority. He only bolstered racial apartheid by encouraging economic apartheid. While the disparities between the whites and a handful of beneficiary black elites narrowed, they widened between the latter and the teeming black majority. The vast majority of the blacks remain in same conditions, if not worse, than under apartheid. The adoption of privatization as the “fundamental policy” by Mandela right after coming to power spelt the betrayal of all the promises. The blacks who constitute 80% of the population today control only 5% of wealth. Only a tiny fraction (3%) of land owned by whites (87%) were transferred to blacks since 1994. So, while 60% of the blacks remain landless, almost all agricultural land is owned by 60,000 whites. Post-apartheid, the income of 40% of the poorest black families has further shrunk by about 20%. 2 million of them have been evicted from their homes. The privatization of the basic services has deprived millions from water and electricity. The unemployment crisis is also defined along racial lines wherein by 2010, 30% of blacks were officially unemployed as compared to only 5% of whites. In terms of racial distribution of per capita income, black income levels in 2008 was still only 13% of white per capita income, compared to 10.9% in 1993. Behind the charade of “free & fair” environment in Mandela’s South Africa, the blacks were far from being free, and very little was fair. The massacre of 34 protesting miners (mostly shot on their backs by the state police) in the British-owned platinum mine at Marikana last year only serve to testify the ruthlessness of the post-apartheid regime built by Mandela. Liberation was betrayed for ‘Liberalization’.
Mandela through his historic betrayal, sold out the enormous revolutionary potential of the anti-racist struggle that raged through entire Africa against years of brutal racist oppression and exploitation. It is this betrayal that makes Mandela the favoured “saint” of the oppressors - from Obama to the Indian state and their pseudo-left stooges in campus. They draw inspiration from his “legacy” not only for his compromises, but also for his ability to use his prestige & charisma to persuade his own followers - the oppressed - to “reconcile” or sacrifice their own interest for the “greater good” of the oppressive ruling classes. And to paraphrase Frantz Fanon, this precisely has been the “historic mission” of all subservient ruling classes across the world. After all, same was the role of the likes of Gandhi, Nehru and the Indian National Congress in brokering the transfer of power in 1947 from their masters that at the same time safeguarded the oppressive feudal-imperialist nexus. But for the ongoing heroic struggles of the people there can be no “reconciliation” with feudalism, with fascism or with imperialism. The only way forward towards liberation is the completely overthrow of the present unjust order through revolutionary social transformation
Why is there a law that can imprison someone for life for simply wanting to imagine that the UK was a republic? Sign Petition to Repeal the Treason Felony Act of 1848
Welsh Socialist Republican Flag in 21st Century
In full, section three of the Treason Felony Act 1848 reads:
If any person whatsoever shall, within the United Kingdom or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lady the Queen, from the style, honour, or royal name of the imperial crown of the United Kingdom, or of any other of her Majesty's dominions and countries, or to levy war against her Majesty, within any part of the United Kingdom, in order by force or constraint to compel her to change her measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament, or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade the United Kingdom or any other of her Majesty's dominions or countries under the obeisance of her Majesty, and such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them, shall express, utter, or declare, by publishing any printing or writing ... or by any overt act or deed, every person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable ... to be transported beyond the seas for the term of his or her natural life
The government has confirmed that republicanism is still punishable by life imprisonment and that it remains illegal to even 'imagine' overthrowing the Queen.
The revelation comes as the Ministry of Justice embarrassingly admitted that a law threatening to jail for life anyone who has called for the abolition of the monarchy had been mistakenly included on a list of 309 offences due to be repealed before May.
Although the law has not been used to prosecute anyone since 1879, it means that it is still theoretically possible to imprison for life anybody who even so much as "imagines" overthrowing the Crown or waging war against the Queen.
Source: Guardian Newspaper
SIGN PETITION TO ABOLISH THE TREASON FELONY ACT OF 1848 HERE
Repeal the Treason Felony Act 1848
Responsible department: Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
We, the undersigned, call on the government to repeal the Treason Felony Act 1848 as it goes against everything this country stands for. "If any person whatsoever shall, within the United Kingdom or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lady the Queen, from the style, honour, or royal name of the imperial crown of the United Kingdom, or of any other of her Majesty’s dominions and countries,"
"imagine" Why is there a law that can imprison someone for life for simply wanting to imagine that the UK was a republic? If this is the case then there are thousands of people all over the world guilty!
The UK says it stands for democracy but how can we call our self a democracy when you can't even have an imagination with out risking a lifetime in prison?
This law also clearly violates article 19 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights which the UK voted in favour of and adopted in 1948.
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent of Guardian writes
A 165-year-old law that threatens anyone calling for the abolition of the monarchy with life imprisonment is technically still in force – after the Ministry of Justice admitted wrongly announcing that it had been repealed.
The Treason Felony Act 1848 has been the subject of repeated legal confusion this century.
It was the subject of a high court challenge by the Guardian in 2003. This week, in a footnote to a list of new offences, the Ministry of Justice said the powers in section 3 of the Act had finally been swept away in a belated, legislative pruning of unwanted laws.
The act – which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to advocate abolition of the monarchy in print, even by peaceful means – has not been deployed in a prosecution since 1879.
The Ministry of Justice said: "Section 3 of the Treason Felony Act 1848 has not been repealed.
The Ministry of Justice has removed this publication and is reviewing its contents."
GET THIS LAW AGAINST DEMOCRACY OFF THE STATUE BOOKS
Chinese People share in Joy of Chinese Rover on the Moon.
FBI Entrapped Anonymous and Spied on World Governments
This a video explaining more about the activity of People's Hero Jeremy Hammond and implications that have not been sufficiently thought through by activists.
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/jeremy-hammond-chris-hedges-and-jeremy.html
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/wikileaks-otpor-canvas-collaboration.html
Philippines: CPP condemns 40-year sentence against NDFP Consultant Eduardo Sarmiento
This development makes the resumption of the peace negotiations ever more difficult, as it exemplifies the grave danger posed on the lives of NDFP Peace Consultants as a result of the Aquino government's refusal to abide by outstanding agreements.
By CPP Information Bureau
CPP condemns 40-year sentence against NDFP Consultant Eduardo Sarmiento
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today condemned the Aquino regime and the Muntinlupa City regional trial court for convicting and sentencing National Democratic Front of the Philippines Peace Consultant Eduardo Sarmiento to 40 years imprisonment over trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives.
The conviction and sentencing was carried out by Judge Myra Bayot Quiambo of Muntinlupa RTC Branch 203 last Wednesday (11 December 2013).
Sarmiento serves as NDFP Peace Consultant for the Eastern Visayas.
He was in Metro Manila conducting discussions and consultations related to peace negotiations when he was arrested by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on 24 February 2009.
“The conviction and sentencing of NDFP Peace Consultant Eduardo Sarmiento is in stark violation of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG),” pointed out the CPP. The JASIG secures personnel of the NDFP and the government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) involved in peace negotiations against prosecution by either side. It prohibits either side from carrying out “surveillance, harassment, search, arrest, detention, prosecution and interrogation or any other similar punitive action” against the accredited personnel of the other party.
Sarmiento’s sentencing is also in violation of the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) which upholds the GPH’s own Hernandez Doctrine prohibiting the state from criminalizing political offenses.
At least 13 NDFP consultants are languishing in various prisons and detention facilities under the Aquino regime because the acts they have allegedly committed in furtherance of their political convictions have been regarded as common crimes, such as illegal possession of firearms, murder, robbery in band and arson.
“This development makes the resumption of formal peace negotiations between the NDFP and the GPH ever more difficult as it exemplifies the grave danger posed on the lives of NDFP consultants as a result of the GPH’s refusal to abide by outstanding agreements,” pointed out the CPP.
“The CPP demands that the GPH rescind the conviction and sentencing of NDFP Consultant Eduardo Sarmiento. It calls on the human rights community, peace advocates both in the Philippines and abroad to stand together to defend the lives of all NDFP peace consultants and amplify the demand for their release.”
“Even under the GPH’s own laws, Sarmiento’s arrest and detention was illegal. He was taken into custody by the military without any warrant, in violation of his basic right against arbitrary arrest,” pointed out the CPP. “Furthermore, the supposed pieces of evidence against him were planted by the military operatives who carried out his illegal arrest.”
“The 40-year sentence imposed on Sarmiento constitutes cruel and unusual punishment on someone who was arrested and incarcerated for political reasons,” said the CPP.'
Sarmiento, 62 years old, is among the 400 political prisoners being detained under the Aquino regime, 150 of whom were arrested over the past three years.
Romanian Parliament Fails to Pass Pro-Mineral Extraction Law
Salute the Struggle of the Romanian People for the protection of their Land from Corporate Land Grabbers, let us see more countries protecting their Land like the Romanians - Land is an issue in Western Europe and not just in Eastern Europe.
Land is an explosive issue in the World Today - without Land no Liberty.
Has we say in Wales in solidarity with Romania - Cymrwch Y Tir Yn Ol ! Dal Dy Dir !
Italy : Anti Austerity Protests and Pitchfork Movement
Democracy and Class Struggle say the Pitchforks Anti Austerity Movement in Italy is a Movement of Contradictions similar in some respects to the Breton Red Cap Movement in France.
We have a mass movement in which Fascists in Italy like Roberto Fiore of Forza Nuova are attempting to hijack - the Pitchforks Movement which was founded has a non party political movement in Sicily against Austerity and for Autonomy,but some recent statements from a Pitchforks spokesman about "Jewish" Bankers reflect right wing influence on the movement.
We also understand that the Forza Nuova is a centralist party and would abolish Italian Regions - so much for Sicilian Autonomy ! Then we have demogogue Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo supporting the Pitchforks.
In France we have seen the Front Nationale trying to hijack the Breton Red Cap Mass Movement against austerity and for Autonomy but a quite clear rejection of the anti autonomist centralism of the Front Nationale has come from the Bretons themselves..
The phenomena of fascist attempts to hi jack mass movements should not come as a surprise has the petty bourgeoise is being proletarianised and is wavering politically between left and right.
The position of the Left in France and Italy in regard to these movements is critical if a progressive direction to these anti austerity movements is to develop or we will see the re-emergence of Fascist Mass Movements has in the 1930's.
It is also a test of revolutionary communist politics and its level of maturity in both countries in how they deal with the contradictions in these movements.
We at Democracy and Class Struggle are watching closely developments in France and Italy and the position that comrades take towards these movements and how these contradictions both among the people and with the enemy are handled.
Chemical weapons were likely used by forces in Syria in five of seven attacks investigated in Syria, the UN team of experts said in a report released Thursday.
The United Nations has released its report on the alleged use of chemicals weapons in Syria, as investigators report evidence of probable chemical weapons use in five of seven attacks probed.
"The United Nations Mission concludes that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic," said chief UN investigator Ake Sellstrom.
The report said that in several instances, victims included soldiers and civilians. However, it was not always possible to determine direct links between the attacks, victims, and alleged sites of the incidents.
“The United Nations Mission collected clear and convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used also against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale in the Ghouta area of Damascus on 21 August 2013,” the report concludes.
The UN team says this overall assessment is based on findings of “impacted and exploded surface-to-surface rockets...found to contain Sarin”; in areas around where patients were affected, the environment was found to be “contaminated by Sarin”; over 50 interviews with survivors and health workers provided “corroboration of the medical and scientific results”; many patients and survivors were “diagnosed as intoxicated by an organophosphorous compound”; and blood and urine samples taken from the same patients tested “positive for Sarin and Sarin signatures.”
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India: Lessons on massline from past revolutionary peasant struggle in Bihar by Indian Comrade
Below I am submitting a struggle report from a very old issue of the jounal ‘The Comrade’ (No 3 March-1989) from a Northern region of Bihar, in Khagaria district. Originally from 1981 it was led by the erstwhile C.PI. (M.L.) Party Unity (then called ‘Unity ‘group) which launched the Mazdoor Kisan Sangram Samiti (worker-peasant organization)in 1979 which was banned in 1986, but resurrected as the Mazdoor Kisan Mukti Manch.
From late 1988 however the leadership of the struggle in this area was taken over by the Centre for Communist Revolutionaries of India.(C.C.R.I.-formed in 1988 ) Although again from around 1992 the Party Unity group re-captured the leadership of the struggle and organization from the C.C.R.I.
However even when C.C.R.I started it’s work in Northern Bihar morally the line of the C.P.I(M.L.) Party Unity(later merged with the C.P.I.(M.L.)-Peoples war group in 1998)was practiced.
This report displays the importance of mass revolutionary resistance struggles which have to combine with armed activities of village red self defense corpses.
I consider this struggle report although old still of important significance with regards to mass line in Communist revolutionary movement.
It gives a most analytical account of, the various methods and stages of building revolutionary peasant struggle and organization in light of the revolutionary ideology of Marxism- Leninism -Maoism.
To me it is one of the most outstanding examples of implementing revolutionary massline in peasant struggle.We commemorate 25 years since some historic captures of the harvest took place in 1988 in Bihar.
We also commemorate 20years since land seizure programmes took place in Bihar in 1993..
An important role was also played by the red defense squads.
Struggle report
About 842 families inhabited Biharpada with the total population being 5302. Combining it with several small villages of adjoining Chotagaon a panchayat was constituted and the total population becomes 9000.
It constituted 51% farm labourers;9 % poor peasants possessing about 14 bighas of land and 7 kathas of land:21% middle peasants possessing about 184 bighas of land:about 8% in –service people possessing about 37 bighas of land:4 % business persons and other occupants possessing about 2 bighas of land.The surplus land possessed by landlors is 619 bighas Land possessed illegally by rich peasants is about 7 bighas,and thatby middle peasanst 6 bighas.
The masses were subjugated to various types of oppression like: molestation of women-folk :not paying due wages; ruthless usury; usurping land meant for pastures and pathways, devouring most of government aids; availing the fictitious loans for boring,damaging crops of poor etc. Administrative authorities always took the side of the feudal when injustice was protested against.
The main cause of mass frustration was low wages, inciting of communal riots; usurpation of pastures by feudal and land meant for pathways;restrictions on cutting grass,plucking of vegeatables and use of pastures;inciting of quarrels among the poor ,entangling people in false legal cases, molestation of the women folk etc.
The masses adopted many forms of protest like mass propaganda assembly, procession gherao, demonstration, crop seizure, wall-poster,hand-bill distributions, crop-dage,exposure of superstitions,progation of scientific views Against the armed feudal attacks when no other method is left-the masses added the method of armed self-defence.
The mass struggle was carried out by the worker- peasant organization under the leadership of the party.The main underlying probem is the disparity of land distribution. Whatever the disparity landholding ,there was time in the past when this land belonged to the ancestors of the poor.
The land got ransferred from the ancestors of the poor through deception or it was forcibly ploughed. After rendering them landless the sons and daughters of the same peasants were harnessed for labour from birth.The feudal grew wealthier and wealthier and kept permanent share-croppers.
In these circumstances the sharecroppers united to forcibly fight against the landlord tyrant Vikram Singh and Pratap Singh.
In November 1988 the share-croppers sowed the crop and in December the feudal sold the land out of fear.The local feudals then destroyed the crop with the help of illegal rifles and goondas,and re-sowed their crop.
At the end of December ,the activists of the peasant organization roammed door to door in 3 villages explaining the masses about the injustice meted out. Handbills were distributed.
The feudals retaliated by putting the false charge of ‘naxalite’ on the group and approached the police,collector and several ministers.Criminal goondas were posted in several villages at the old ‘kachery ‘of the zamindars.
The goondas threatened the people and warned them that they would face dire consequences if they entered the villages.
On February 13th,the masses retaliated and captured the kachery of the feudal,beating up the goondas ,and capturing their arms.Panic was now created in the group of the feudal whose limitations were exposed.
8 peasants were implicated after feudal beat 7 people by attack in the night.The women resisted this and the next morning 50 women gheraoed the police inspector responsible for the night –raid.
All the respondents were sent to jail. The government set up police camps in the fields of landlords for protecting the crops.
On 1st March the masses like a surging torrent went to the fields and harvested the crop.The police prevented them but only with great resistance from the people.
On 15th March hundreds of men and women went to harvest the crop and the police arraived.
A major battle took place .one policeman was hurt .The masses returned after harvesting the crops.5 acres of crops were harvested.
On March 18th, the police tried to arrest the people by raiding their houses in the night.6 innocent peasants were arrested.ome of the crops ripened under the protection of police camps;while the zamindars seized the crops with the aid of guns.
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THE POWELL MOVEMENT – MIKE DOUGLAS
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s podcast, Mike Powell sits down with one of the most iconic living legends in the ski industry, Mike Douglas.
Known as The Godfather of Freeskiing, Douglas was the behind-the-scenes leader of the New Canadian Air Force, who pioneered the first twin-tip ski. Nowadays, he’s still a world-renowned professional skier, but focuses on filmmaking through his production company, Switchback Entertainment (which has been producing Salomon TV for over a decade), and his latest and greatest passion project as the chair of the board for Protect Our Winters Canada, all of which he discusses (plus more) on the podcast below.
To listen to all past, present and future episodes of The Powell Movement, visit thepowellmovement.com, and be sure to subscribe on iTunes by clicking here.
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THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN ON DUTY
The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
There is no news today, we are still waiting for the hospital appointment to come through. Corinna is pain free though intermittently in some discomfort. Many thanks, once again, for everyone who has sent their love and good wishes. To be at the receiving end of such an outpouring of positive energy is truly a wonderful thing.
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THE GET WELL SOON ISSUE
In another fun packed and spectacularly Gonzoesque issue, Alan investigates the Hungarian healthcare system from within, John raves about the Pink Fairies, Bart goes to see Yes, Graham reveals stuff about Hawkwind, Jon is both literally and figuratively Lost in Space, and finds something else to write about The Beatles.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there are columns from all sorts of folk including Kev Rowlands (UMM IT'S ACTUALLY JUST HIM THIS WEEK), because Neil Nixon, C J Stone, the irrepressible Corinna, Mr Biffo and Roy Weard are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
Roger Daltrey, Nick Cave, Wilko Johnson, Shir Ordo, paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin, Morrissey, Yoko Ono, David Bowie, Billy Gibbons, Z Z Top, Patrick Williams, Lucy Ferry, June Jacobs, Elbert Howard, Rick Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural Gas, Roger Waters, Canned Heat, UPF, Universe Infinity, Unruly Child, Vantomime, Vespero, Zero for Conduct, Abjection Ritual, Aborted Fetus, C J Stone, Hawkwind, Evelyn Waugh, The George Garabedian Players and the Awful Trumpet of Harry Arms.
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Public invited to release of endangered California Condors on Saturday, Sept. 22 at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
VERMILION CLIFFS, Ariz. – There is nothing quite as iconic in the western United States as a California Condor soaring over the red-rock-canyon landscapes of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Thanks to people working together to recover this species, condors have become a fixture in southwestern skies. On National Public Lands day this year, the public is invited to join the recovery effort by witnessing first-hand a spectacular release into the wild of several captive-bred young condors.
California Condors will be released by The Peregrine Fund atop the spectacular cliffs in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in northern Arizona at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. The public is welcome to observe the release from a viewing area where spotting scopes provided by partners and Swarovski Optik will be set up and project personnel will be available to answer questions.
The release coincides with National Public Lands Day, the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance America’s public lands. National Public Lands Day involves the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and other federal agencies, along with state and local governments and private groups.
Driving directions: Take Highway 89A from Kanab or Page to the Vermilion Cliffs (from Flagstaff take Highway 89 to Highway 89A). Turn north onto BLM Road 1065 (a dirt road next to the small house just east of the Kaibab Plateau) and continue almost 3 miles.
Bring: Spotting scope or binoculars, sunscreen, water, snack, chair and layered clothing
Details: Informational kiosk, shade structure, and restroom at the site.
Map: https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/2010%20VCNM%20California%20Condor%20Release%20Map.pdf
This will be the 23rd annual public release of condors in Arizona since the southwest condor recovery program began in 1996. Condors are produced at The Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, the Oregon Zoo, Los Angeles Zoo, and San Diego Zoo Safari Park and then transported to release sites annually for release to the wild.
The historical California Condor population declined to just 22 individuals in the 1980s when the greater California Condor Recovery Program was initiated to save the species from extinction. As of July 25, 2018 there were 85 condors in the wild in the rugged canyon country of northern Arizona and southern Utah and the total world population of endangered California Condors numbers nearly 500 individuals, with more than half flying in the wilds of Arizona, Utah, California, and Mexico.
The Arizona-Utah recovery effort is a cooperative program by federal, state, and private partners, including The Peregrine Fund, Arizona Game and Fish Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management’s Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Grand Canyon and Zion national parks, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and Kaibab and Dixie national forests among many other supporting groups and individuals.
For more information about California Condors in Arizona visit http://www.peregrinefund.org/condor.
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Announcing the September ‘Featured Geocacher of the Month’
SharePrint RelatedAnnouncing the October ‘Featured Geocacher of the Month’October 25, 2011In “Community”Announcing the September Featured Geocacher of the MonthOctober 3, 2012In “Community”Announcing the First ‘Geocacher of the Month’August 20, 2011In “Community” Congratulations to all the Featured Geocacher of the Month nominees for September. The geocaching community is comprised of inspirational individuals – who go above and beyond in geocaching innovation, creativity, respect for the environment and helpfulness. Each nominee should be congratulated as an exceptional geocacher and individual. We are proud that each of the cachers is part of our worldwide community.SuperGoober, Featured Geocacher of the MonthThe choice for the September Featured Geocacher of the Month was difficult. A panel of Lackeys, relying on voting and community comments, could ultimately choose only one.SuperGoober is the September Featured Geocacher of the Month. Dozens of geocachers wrote in to share stories about SuperGoober’s humble dedication to geocaching, geocachers and his local community. He has hosted and attended numerous events, led many geocachers on their first outings, and is involved in local geocaching organizations. According to one nominee, “Jeff is a model geocacher who all of us in the area and beyond can be proud of. He is always willing to lend advice/help to any cacher that approaches him or contacts him.”SuperGoober will receive a collectors Geocacher of the Month geocoin, along with a Geocacher of the Month hat and certificate acknowledging their contributions signed by the founders of Geocaching.com: Jeremy Irish, Bryan Roth and Elias Alvord.If you know an outstanding geocacher who should be considered for Geocacher of the Month, send an email to geocacherofthemonth@groundspeak.com. Every nomination must meet the following requirements: Please include your name, the name of your nominee, their username, at least one picture of the nominee and description (in 500 or fewer words) explaining why he or she deserves to be the Geocacher of the Month. Please inform your nominee that you’ve submitted them for the award. Nominations for the October Geocacher of the Month must be received by October 3rd.Once we have received all of the nominations, we will choose the top candidates and post them on the Latitude 47 blog. You will then get a chance to champion your favorite. Our goal is to involve the entire geocaching community in this process so we might learn from each other.Share with your Friends:More read more
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Microsoft Dos and Don’ts For The Post-Ballmer Era
Related Posts IT + Project Management: A Love Affair Steve Ballmer’s impending exit as Microsoft CEO creates a fantastic opportunity for his company to transform itself. Say goodbye to the stodgy establishment figure desperate to remain relevant; welcome a vibrant enterprise headed for the technological frontier! (Or, at least, a maker of things people actually want.) Simple, right?Of course, just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it will be easy. Reinvention involves risk, and course-correcting requires humility—which does not come easily to anyone associated with Microsoft. But inflection points like this for big tech companies are few and far between, and Microsoft shouldn’t waste this one. Here’s what Microsoft should, and shouldn’t, do if it wants to stand any chance of getting its mojo back.DO Remember Your UsersSee also: After Ballmer: One Microsoft Or Many?For the past several years, the Xbox gaming console has stood as a successful, dynamic counterpoint to the dead hand of Microsoft’s Windows and Office legacy. The only problem is, the company is still spinning its way out of a self-created quagmire with its latest incarnation, the Xbox One.This console focused too heavily on streaming and other services at the expense of delivering value for its target audience of gamers. The company has since rethought its strategy and reversed game-lending restrictions, constant check-ins and region locks, but it was still a major misstep.We’ll have to see how it all plays out in the market, but so far the buzz on the Xbox One remains fairly dismal, all because Microsoft huffed its own vapors a little too much and lost sight of the features its core user base considered important. Microsoft can’t let this happen again.DON’T Pull Any More BallmersSee also: Agony And Ecstasy: Steve Ballmer’s Years At MicrosoftWhatever his merits, Steve Ballmer will always be remembered for his knack of getting important technology trends spectacularly wrong. Whether he meant them or not—and there’s certainly a case to be made that he repeated some of these lines solely in hopes of stirring up FUD for Microsoft competitors—it’s still hard to believe he could utter any of these lines with a straight face. To wit:“Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.““Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.““There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.“In the soon-to-be-former-exec’s honor, let’s agree to call statements like these “Ballmers.” To pull a Ballmer, then is to make an observation so astonishing that it takes your audience’s breath away, leaving most uncertain if you’re lying or just stupid.So, whoever ends up leading Microsoft’s recovery: Tell it to the world straight. Don’t pull any more Ballmers.DO think like a startupSee also: The Best Bet For Microsoft’s Next CEO Is Now Running NokiaMicrosoft is a large corporation, so it could make sense to split up the company to make it a leaner, more nimble operation. But there are other ways to invoke the creativity and energy of a nascent business. Google employees devote 20% of their working hours on side projects. Apple executives are known for being extremely hands-on with software and hardware development and design. Microsoft would do well to cut through layers of bureaucracy wherever it can, and stay focused on innovating and differentiating. DON’T bury your head in the sandIn many consumers’ minds, Microsoft is synonymous with Windows. And although it’s unquestionably a success—according to NetMarketShare, the various versions account for more than half of the desktop operating system market—PCs are dying.See also: Ballmer’s Microsoft: All MBA, No Developer SoulToo bad the company hit the snooze button on mobile. What’s even worse is that it actually had a leg up on the market before Apple or Google, thanks to Windows Mobile. But that branch of the company was largely ignored and then forgotten. Ballmer even scoffed at the Apple iPhone when it released in 2007.Learning lesson: Stifle Microsoft’s knee-jerk reaction to dismiss and deny emerging technologies.DO court developersBy the time Microsoft caught onto mobile in 2010, it was too little, too late. I’m referring to the odd little social-oriented smartphone, the Microsoft Kin, which briefly blipped in and right back out of the market. It was followed by Windows Phone 7, but that went by the wayside too, in favor of Windows Phone 8.Now Windows Phone 8 is finally starting to show some signs of life. But its rise to prominence is more like a limping walk. A big part of that has to do with apps. Had the company stuck to one mobile platform, Microsoft’s app store might not be so sparse today.Ballmer made a big deal about how the company was courting developers at the Windows Phone 8 launch last year. This summer, he even claimed the store has 160,000 entries, which sounds like a lot—but it’s puny compared to Google Play and the Apple App Store, which each feature a million apps or so.You could argue that Microsoft did what it could, from throwing cash incentives at developers to slashing the annual registration fee for WinPho devs, from $99 to $19. But what it needed to do was convince them that they’d stay profitable on this platform.DON’T confuse the publicThe Surface tablets are a case study on how disaster ensues when you confuse consumers.Microsoft unveiled two different tablets with similar names—the Surface RT and the more powerful, laptop-worthy Surface Pro—with two different, similarly named Windows OSes, Windows 8 RT and Windows 8. Unfortunately, mainstream shoppers didn’t understand the difference.Samsung may be able to get away with a “pray and spray” approach to launching a vast array of different devices, but it’s important to note that it only employs that strategy once it had bona fide hits on its hands. In the case of its Galaxy and Note lines, people latched onto one phone or tablet, and once they understood what that was, other versions followed. The Microsoft Surface RT may be a casualty of poor planning here. Had it stood alone—and sold for an affordable price—it could have paved the way for the Surface Pro. Now, it’s just an almost-billion-dollar footnote in the annals of Microsoft tech fails.That may be a blessing in disguise. Microsoft can now focus on a single tablet, and if it can bring down the cost of the Surface Pro and market its features clearly and succinctly, it might be far more effective at attracting customers.DON’T take potshots at competitorsThose ads slamming Apple don’t make Microsoft look better. Ditto for the “Scroogled” campaigns against Google. Whatever ephemeral gains they offer aren’t remotely offset by the effort it takes to produce them and the bad will they spread with some consumers. At the end of it all, those negative advertisements don’t emphasize the features or usefulness of Microsoft products. They only serve to make the company look petty, mean … and desperate.DO take trends seriouslySo the company missed the boat on mobile. That doesn’t mean it’s condemned to repeat history in other markets.The trends on everyone’s radar are wearable technology, in-car integration and even the Internet of Things. The last one should be particularly intriguing for Microsoft, considering it has been showcasing innovations in its “Home of the Future” for years now.The model space is effectively one huge smart home, complete with interactive bedrooms, digital walls, sensors that can tell when plants need watering and kitchen surfaces that can call up and read recipes out loud. While we’re still years—maybe decades—away from seeing these type of smart homes become mainstream, Microsoft does have a lot of experience in this space. That means it’s well-positioned to usher in the early technologies that could make the Internet of Things a reality.Microsoft doesn’t lack for ambition or even innovation. What it doesn’t have is vision and a willingness to play well with others. In the fast moving and ever-more heterogeneous world of technology—and particularly when you’re cast in the come-from-behind role that Ballmer’s stewardship has left Microsoft with—both are key.Which may be why no one seems to be shedding many tears over Ballmer’s upcoming departure. Perhaps that’s because it’s just what Microsoft needs to finally see the future clearly. adriana lee Cognitive Automation is the Immediate Future of… Massive Non-Desk Workforce is an Opportunity fo… Tags:#Fixing Microsoft#Microsoft#Steve Ballmer 3 Areas of Your Business that Need Tech Now read more
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First Footage: This Short Film was Shot on the Canon C200
See the versatility of the Canon C200 in the short film From Dock to Dish.All images and video from Canon Pro.From Dock to Dish gives us our first glance at the image-capturing capabilities of Canon’s latest addition to their cinema line, the Canon C200. Directed by Andrew Fried (Chef’s Table) and DP’d by Bryant Fisher, the film follows the journey of a fisherman from catching a fish all they way to serving it in a dish. Take a moment and check out the camera’s imaging power.First Impressions and Image QualitySimply put, this camera captures outstanding imagery. The colors and pictures are crisp, sharp, and clean. Since the filmmakers captured this entire film with Cinema RAW Light, it showcases what this camera is capable of capturing.Right out of the gate, I immediately noticed how well the shadows performed in the opening scene — they retain a remarkable amount of detail. The highlights from the lamps are similarly impressive. The fifteen stops of dynamic range offered from the C200 also performed well. One thing I did notice is that the shadows did include some noise. According to the BTS video, the filmmakers captured these scenes between 1600 and 2000 ISO. Although the noise is noticeable, it’s not an unpleasant sight, and it is still 100 percent usable.Another impressive demonstration of the C200’s image capture capability involves the interior scenes from the market. Granted, we don’t know much about the filmmakers’ lighting setup, but I would assume the overhead fluorescent lights here were not pretty. However, the RAW codec would have provided enough information to feature the clean colors and grade that we see in these scenes.I wish that this film would have featured 4K footage in the 150 mbps quality. Although the RAW feature is very exciting, it’s not practical in many scenarios. I think most C200 shooters will utilize the lighter codecs more frequently.Slow MotionOne of the most anticipated features of the new camera is slow motion at 4K. This short showcases the slow motion feature, which yields a smooth and detailed image. Often, when you use a camera’s slow motion feature, it significantly reduces the data rate of the image. This then degrades the image to almost an unusable state. However, the slow motion on this camera looks just as detailed as its 24p counterpart. Being able to shoot 4K at a standard frame rate and in slow motion without jeopardizing quality is a huge bonus.ConclusionThe Canon C200 is an exciting new camera. The short film, From Dock to Dish, gives us the first detailed look at how well this camera can perform in real-world situations and even less-than-ideal lighting scenarios. It can produce beautiful imagery that’s flexible in post-production. The number of features this camera offers is a big step up for Canon, and it’s what filmmakers have been waiting for.What are your thoughts on the new Canon C200? Let us know in the comments. read more
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FIFA admits to World Cup hosting bribes
While acknowledging for the first time that votes were bought in past World Cup hosting contests, FIFA is seeking to claim “tens of millions of dollars” in bribe money seized by US federal prosecutors.FIFA submitted a 22-page claim to the US Attorney’s Office in New York on Tuesday that seeks a big share in restitution from more than $190 million already forfeited by soccer and marketing officials who pleaded guilty in the sprawling corruption case.Tens of millions of dollars more is likely to be collected by US authorities when sentences are handed down, and from dozens of officials currently indicted but who have denied bribery charges or are fighting extradition.FIFA claims it is the victim of corrupt individuals, despite widespread criticism that bribe-taking was embedded in its culture in the presidencies of Joao Havelange and Sepp Blatter, who was forced from office after 17 years by the current scandal.”The convicted defendants abused the positions of trust they held at FIFA and other international football organizations and caused serious and lasting damage to FIFA,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday in a statement. “The monies they pocketed belonged to global football and were meant for the development and promotion of the game. FIFA as the world governing body of football wants that money back and we are determined to get it no matter how long it takes.”In documents seen by The Associated Press, FIFA asks for: $28.2 million for years of payments, including bonuses, flights and daily expenses, to officials it now says are corruptadvertisement $10 million for the “theft” of money that FIFA officials transferred as bribes to then-executive committee members to vote for South Africa as 2010 World Cup host “substantial” cost of legal bills since separate U.S. and Swiss federal probes of corruption in international soccer were revealed last May damages for harm to its reputation, plus other bribes and kickbacks for media rights to non-FIFA competitions but “which were made possible because of the value of the FIFA brand””FIFA has become notable for the defendants’ bribery and corruption, not its many good works,” lawyers for soccer’s world body state in the claim. “FIFA is entitled to restitution for this harm to its business relationships, reputation and intangible property.”FIFA’s grab for a share of the money sets up a battle with two of its regional confederations CONMEBOL, the South American confederation, and CONCACAF, the body running soccer in North America. It was officials and competitions from those regions that were most involved in the corruption crisis.It also signals a change in strategy for FIFA, after months of senior officials distancing Zurich from the scandal, instead blaming confederations which are beyond its control.Most of the already seized money $151.7 million will come from Brazilian marketing executive Jose Hawilla, whose group of agencies were heavily involved with matches CONCACAF and CONMEBOL controlled but not FIFA directly.In an initial claim for $28.2 million, FIFA specifies an amount for each of 20 men from the Americas over many years that it says it should be repaid from money held by U.S. authorities.FIFA wants more than $5.3 million it spent on Chuck Blazer, the disgraced American official who has pleaded guilty, allocates $4.4 million of its claim for former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, and $3.5 million for Ricardo Teixeira, Havelange’s former son-in-law form Brazil.Warner, a long-time powerbroker from Trinidad and Tobago until resigning in a 2011 election bribery scandal, is identified by FIFA in its 22-page claim for receiving a $1 million bribe from 1998 World Cup bid candidate Morocco, and ensuring the $10 million bribe from South Africa was paid via a FIFA account in 2008.FIFA claims a further $2 million for payments to Jeffrey Webb, the Cayman Islands banker who was arrested at a luxury Zurich hotel last May, and now lives at his home near Atlanta, Georgia, awaiting sentence in June.”These dollars were meant to build football fields, not mansions and pools; to buy football kits, not jewelry and cars; and to fund youth player and coach development, not to underwrite lavish lifestyles for football and sports marketing executives,” Infantino said.It is unclear how much influence Infantino, a former lawyer, had had in the restitution claim since he was elected only three weeks ago, with strong support from voters in the Americas.Infantino’s signature pitch to voters on election day was about finances, saying bluntly “It’s your money.” That resonated with members of CONMEBOL and CONCACAF, who have had a combined $20 million central funding frozen by FIFA.CONCACAF, based in Miami, has had its past three presidents implicated in the U.S. case. But it has passed wide-ranging reforms to clean up its operations, and has targeted restitution money to rebuild.advertisement”CONCACAF views itself as a victim of a number of the offenses described in the indictments and intends to seek restitution at the appropriate time,” the regional body said in a statement. read more
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10 months agoMolde chief Neerland: Solskjaer will bring attacking style to Man Utd
TagsTransfersAbout the authorPaul VegasShare the loveHave your say Molde chief Neerland: Solskjaer will bring attacking style to Man Utdby Paul Vegas10 months agoSend to a friendShare the loveMolde managing director Oystein Neerland expects Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to bring an attacking brand of football to Manchester United.Molde have agreed to ‘lend’ Solskjaer to United as a caretaker following the sacking of Jose Mourinho.Neerland said: “For us, he is an offensive coach who plays entertaining football and he sees winning 4-2 as being better than 1-0.“He is very good at building teams, working within a structure to develop home grown players and giving them confidence to play but also being able to know when to sell them when the time is right because that is how this club works.“He has been so successful here. He has been here for six years – before and after Cardiff – and is very stable, very loyal and, just like at Manchester United, he is a former player so he knows the club very well and knows the DNA of the club.“He is a very positive guy. He is very easy to like and has a clear vision of how to play football but also works well with individual players.“There is no doubt in my mind that he will do well at Manchester United. He is a club legend there and that immediately means he will get respect from the players and the fans.“I don’t know well enough what’s happened inside Manchester United to comment and I will be careful on what I say on that.“But what I do know is that it’s important that he knows the history of the club and knows Manchester United’s past and what makes them successful.“It’s new times for the players but I know they will like him personally, they will enjoy working with him and it will be a big challenge to get some good results.“Of course it’s a surprise but not so much when you remember he’s got such history with the club, understands the club and he is also such a nice guy. He works so well with players and is a gentleman.” read more
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10 months agoREVEALED: Arsenal chief Kroenke only Prem owner never to spend on their club
TagsTransfersAbout the authorPaul VegasShare the loveHave your say REVEALED: Arsenal chief Kroenke only Prem owner never to spend on their clubby Paul Vegas10 months agoSend to a friendShare the loveStan Kroenke has not spent a penny of his personal fortune on Arsenal, it has been revealed.The Sun says he is the only Prem club owner not to dig into his own pocket to fund the team over the past decade.Arsenal owner Kroenke sits on a massive personal fortune of £7billion but has been unwilling to spend any of that money on the club.Instead the 71-year-old has restricted the Gunners to only using money the club brings in itself – leading to them falling behind their Premier League rivals.Arsenal’s business model means that, unlike the rest of the Prem, their spending was entirely funded from self-generated revenues – through television, sponsorship and marketing income, plus prize money. read more
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Finalists Announced For The 2017 Edition of Beyond The Box
Advertisement Twitter Login/Register With: Facebook Advertisement CurfeudJo Scott and Jeff Murdoch, creators of Curfeud, are best friends and comedy partners. This is their first Stand Up & Pitch appearance. The duo reside in Chicago where they both write and perform as the comedy pair Seriously Unprepared. Together they’ve written and starred in numerous Seriously Unprepared Presents comedy shorts. Curfeud is about a loving, mid-western couple who must cope with a revolving door of curfew-breaking kids.The Grown Up Adventures of Fink and PuzzyMaximilian Clark and Brendan Sokler are the creative partners behind The Grown Up Adventures of Fink and Puzzy. No stranger to the web series genre, Clark co-created and wrote the Starz Digital Series Llama Cop. Brendan is an AEA/SAG-AFTRA actor in New York City. When not producing his own work through Punching Up Productions, he can usually be found on the stages of The Pearl, The Pit, The Brick, The Flea… and other theatres. This is Maximillian’s return trip to the Stand Up & Pitch stage. He was part of the pitching team that presented The Working Dead (2015). The Grown Up Adventures of Fink and Puzzy is described as “…that one movie, where the guy learns the importance of family — but with blackmail and wolves.”Hit on MeHit on Me is a romantic comedy about love, longing and killing people from LoCo Motion Pictures, last year’s Beyond the Box pitch program winner (How to Buy a Baby, CBC). Co-creators Marvin Kaye and Elizabeth Whitmere will make the pitch for their series. Marvin Kaye is a writer/actor/singer and director.He is the Co-Creator/Executive Producer of the multi-award winning Less Than Kind, which ran four seasons on HBO Canada. Elizabeth Whitmere has more than a decade of on-camera experience, which she now translates into producing. Her first project as a producer was the critically acclaimed short film This Is Not What You Had Planned, starring Kristian Bruun and CSA winner Natalie Lisinska. She has gone on to produce several short films including Steven McCarthy’s bloody love story (and Canada’s Top 10 film) O Negative, Meghan Heffern’s romantic NYC romp Flung as well as a bizarre faux- documentary webseries for CBC digital called The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island.Fatal Murder MysterySophia Fabilli and Michelle Alexander collaborate non-stop and see no end in sight! As web series creators, they wrote Overachieving Underdogsand won Smokebomb’s AMP Accelerator competition. They also won Second City’s ‘Best New Comedy’ award for the play The Philanderess(Second City Main Stage, Toronto), and worked together on Celeste Percy-Beauregard’s play Well Born. Fatal Murder Mystery is described as an off-beat office comedy fused with Clue: The Movie, Army of Darkness, Two Ladies — and a dash of irreverence. This is their first Stand Up & Pitch appearance.Peter N’ Chris ExperiencePeter Carlone and Chris Wilson are a Canadian Comedy Award-winning sketch troupe from Vancouver, B.C. The duo have toured extensively, appearing at Just For Laughs, JFL42 and the Montreal Fringe Festival where they won the ‘Just For Laughs Best Comedy Award’ three consecutive years in a row. Peter and Chris are also contributing writers to the sketch comedy program The Irrelevant Show (CBC Radio), to CBC’s comedy website, and have contributed videos to CollegeHumor. They were writers on White Ninja, the first webcomic created especially for Vine, and currently have a show in network development with Paul F. Tompkins (Mr. Show with Bob and David). Peter N’ Chris Experience is a hilarious narrative-driven ‘reality show’ where hosts Peter and Chris experience things on their bucket list while documenting it all for you! This is their second pitch attempt at Stand Up & Pitch.The Judging PanelWhat is a pitch team without a panel of judges to pitch to! Sitting on this year’s judging panel, we have:Josh Poole. As VP of Development, Josh Poole oversees creative development for Above Average, Broadway Video’s digital comedy studio and production company. Since joining the company in 2012, Josh has played a significant role in shaping Above Average’s programming and content strategy and has produced dozens of short-form series for aboveaverage.com. In his current role he focuses on developing and producing long-form series for both traditional networks and digital platforms.Laura Schwartz. Manager of Development at New Form Digital, Laura Schwartz has produced three series and 11 pilots, spearheaded a comedy slate, and shepherded New Form’s 2017 diversity initiative. Prior to joining New Form, Laura worked in development and production for MTV’s digital platform MTV (Other).Peter Putka. Peter is an Emmy Award-winning producer/director (for Imagine New York) and the Executive Producer of Content Development & Production at Some Spider Studios. At Some Spider, Peter helped launch the branded entertainment division for the ScaryMommy channel, directing content for brands such as Chrysler, airbnb, Jet.com and H&M. Now the creative driving force behind the company’s latest original content initiative, he has helped establish its aggressive development fund and content incubator. He is Executive Producer of Scary Mommy’supcoming show “Lullaby League” starring Jim O’Heir (Parks & Rec).Spencer Griffin. Spencer Griffin is the Executive Producer and Senior Vice President of Big Breakfast, CollegeHumor’s offshoot production company. As Senior Vice President of Big Breakfast, Griffin has executive produced several shows: Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV; Middle of the Night Show on MTV; Fatal Decision on Verizon’s Go90; IFC’s Comedy Music Awards; Bad Internet on YouTube Red, and the recently announced Hot Date on PopTV. He was recently recognized with a Webby and Telly Award for his co-direction and production of a rap video starring a rapping First Lady Michelle Obama.Zoe Friedman. Zoe Friedman heads up comedy development for Blue Ribbon Content, a newly formed digital division of Warner Brothers Television. Prior to joining Blue Ribbon Content, Zoe was a production executive at Comedy Central where she helped create and oversee stand-out programming such as Drawn Together, Lil Bush, Dog Bites Man, Crossballs, Comedians of Comedy, and Important Things with Demetri Martin.Moderator for this year’s Beyond the Box pitch program is Sandra Payne, an award-winning writer/director/producer and the Vice Chairman of the International Academy of Web Television, a division of The Caucus. 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Our finalists are:* Jo Scott and Jeff Murdoch, Curfeud* Maximilian Clark and Brendan Sokler, The Grown Up Adventures of Fink and Puzzy* Lauren Corber, Hit on Me* Sophia Fabilli and Michelle Alexander, Fatal Murder Mystery* Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson, Peter N’ Chris ExperienceAbout the Teams and their Projects: read more
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Ontario police watchdog reviewing 9 MMIW Thunder Bay cases
APTN National NewsOntario’s police watchdog is reviewing nine cases of murdered and missing Indigenous women in Thunder Bay.Independent Police Review Director Gerry McNeilly said the nine murdered and missing Indigenous women cases primarily stem from 2009 to the present.McNeilly said the nine cases are part of a total of 39 Thunder Bay death cases going back to the 1990s his office is reviewing as part of a wide-ranging probe of the city’s police force.“It is detailed, it is time consuming,” said McNeilly, in an interview Tuesday. “We are going over all the evidence from the investigations.”McNeilly said the majority of the death cases under review involve Indigenous peoples, but his office’s investigators are also combing through files involving non-Indigenous deaths to gauge whether Thunder Bay police handled investigations differently based on race.“For me in regards to Thunder Bay what we see is of great concern to us,” said McNeilly.McNeilly’s office has included the May waterway deaths of Tammy Keeash, 17, and Josiah Begg, 14, as part of its review. Keeash, from North Caribou Lake, was found dead in a marsh area of shallow water known as the Neebing-McIntyre Floodway. Begg, from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, was found in the McIntyre River.McNeilly’s team is also reviewing the case of Stacy DeBungee, 41, who was found dead in the McIntyre River on Oct. 19, 2015. McNeilly said he expects to release a separate report on the Thunder Bay police’s conduct in handling DeBungee’s death investigation by the middle of next month.Read More: Thunder BayThunder Bay police publicly announced there was no foul play suspected in DeBungee’s death before the completion of an autopsy. A separate investigation conducted by a private investigator discovered that two sets of identification documents — one belonging to DeBungee and the other belonging to an individual that has yet to be tracked down — were found by the river where DeBungee was found. DeBungee’s debit card was also used after his death.In addition to the 39 death cases, McNeilly’s office is also reviewing the deaths of seven First Nation youth which were the subject of a coroner’s inquest that concluded last summer.Five of the seven youth were found dead in the city’s waterways. The coroner’s jury concluded it could not determine what led to three of the five drowning deaths.McNeilly’s office stepped in to investigate the Thunder Bay police last fall after First Nation leaders began to loudly question the police’s handling of death cases involving Indigenous peoples.The public record shows Thunder Bay police investigators have for years been quick to rule out foul play in the apparent drowning death of Indigenous peoples.McNeilly said his office has received numerous complaints from Thunder Bay over the years and some have been withdrawn because complainants feared reprisal.“It has to get better,” he said. “We have to work together to fix this, to make it better.”McNeilly will be in Thunder Bay on Sept. 25 for a public meeting.He plans to travel regularly to the northern Ontario city over the next several months to complete a report on allegations of systemic racism against the Thunder Bay police.McNeilly’s office has been given full access to Thunder Bay police files as part of the review, he said.“I am a friend. I am not an enemy of the people,” he said. “Or an enemy of the police.”McNeilly is familiar with some of the issues facing the Indigenous community is Thunder Bay as a result of his experience running Legal Aid in Manitoba.“I know there is hope,” he said. “I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t think so.”McNeilly said he expects to deliver his final report on the Thunder Bay police by the end of next winter.Contact APTN National News here: news@aptn.ca read more
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C++Builder XE2 FAQ
Abstract: Frequently Asked Questions for C++Builder XE2
What is Embarcadero C++Builder XE2?
Embarcadero C++Builder® XE2, now with FireMonkey, is the only true visual C++ development environment - designed for ultra-fast, component-based creation of highly-maintainable, visually stunning applications for Windows and Mac OS X. C++Builder’s fully visual two-way RAD IDE and thousands of available components speed and simplify building visually-rich and data-intensive end-user applications.
Which editions are available and what are the differences between the editions?
C++Builder XE2 is available in five editions – Starter, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate and Architect. See the C++Builder XE2 product editions page and feature matrix for details on the differences between the editions.
What’s new in C++Builder XE2?
C++Builder XE2 is filled with hundreds of new features and enhancements to help you build ultra-rich Windows Mac and mobile applications ultra-fast.
Deliver applications across Windows and Mac
Create visually stunning and interactive applications using the FireMonkey application platform and new VCL styles
Connect everywhere with new DataSnap mobile connectors for Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 as well as dbExpress support for additional databases including InterBase XE, FireBird 2.5, SQL Anywhere 12 and ODBC
New LiveBindings let you connect any data source to any VCL or FireMonkey user interface or graphic element.
Cloud computing support in C++Builder XE2 now gives you the ability to work with both Amazon and Windows Azure cloud data and deploy your applications to both Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure
Work smarter with an expanded developer toolbox including the new FastReport reporting solution and new versions of your other favorite tools like TeeChart, InstallAware, IP*Works, AQtime, FinalBuilder (in Ent/Ultimate/Arch only), IntraWeb and Indy.
For more detailed information on what’s new in C++Builder XE2, see the What’s New in C++Builder XE2 page.
What does C++Builder include?
C++Builder XE2 - C++Builder XE2, now with FireMonkey, is the only true visual C++ development environment - designed for ultra-fast, component-based creation of highly-maintainable, visually stunning - applications for Windows and Mac OS X.
DB PowerStudio XE Dev (in Ultimate edition only) – DB PowerStudio provides fast SQL database development, database change management, SQL profiling, and SQL tuning
ER/Studio 9 Developer Edition (in Architect edition only) - ER/Studio helps data architects discover, document, and re-use data assets and gives you the power to easily reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases.
InterBase XE Developer Edition - InterBase XE Developer Edition provides developers with the best cross-platform database to build and test database applications for embedded and SME applications.
Additional Tools - RAD Studio includes a comprehensive set of additional tools to help you do more than ever before. These are generally special editions of the tools created to be bundled with C++Builder and the feature sets may differ from the full commercial versions.
FastReport VCL 4 RAD edition from Fast Reports so you can quickly design and generate reports
InstallAware Express provides an unsurpassed feature set, enabling you to build sophisticated installations in record time without any programming or scripting skills.
Rave Reports from Nevrona provides a wide variety of reporting solutions
TeeChart Standard from Steema provides quick and easy-to-use charting components
FinalBuilder Embarcadero Edition helps you automate your build process
CodeSite Express logging tools for building quality applications
AQtime Standard from SmartBear for performance profiling
Beyond Compare Text Compare lets you view differences between source files
IntraWeb from Atozed for building web applications in the same way you build C++Builder applications
Partner Software - C++Builder users have access to a variety of free and trial editions of tools and components from Embarcadero Technology Partners accessible from the product launcher as either a partner DVD ISO or online from the Embarcadero developer network.
Are earlier version licenses included with C++Builder XE2?
Yes. With C++Builder XE2, you get access to licenses for older versions – C++Builder XE2, C++Builder 2010, C++Builder 2009, C++Builder 2007, and C++Builder 6. See the C++Builder Previous Versions web page for further details.
Can I give away or sell my older version licenses?
No. They are considered part of your XE2 license and are tied to your user account. They cannot be given away or sold.
If I already had an earlier version and requested my free earlier version license, why do you send my same earlier version serial number again instead of a second one?
Your earlier version license and the XE2 you upgrade to are considered one named user license that covers both versions. If you already own an earlier version and go to the web page and request the same version license, you will just get a re-send of your existing serial number.
If I buy an Architect edition, why do I only get Enterprise editions of some of the older licenses?
Some of those earlier products are only available in Professional and Enterprise editions.
Why can't I get version 2006 or the much older versions?
Version 2006 included some third party licensed code that we are no longer able to ship. C++Builder 5 and earlier were discontinued years ago and we don't have plans to bring them back.
Why can't I manage C++Builder 6 licenses via my license manager and AppWave?
That version used an earlier version of our licensing technology. We are looking at offering those older versions as apps in a future version of AppWave.
Why do I have to request the older serial numbers and downloads separately? Why don't you just send them all at once when I buy XE?
It could be a little confusing for some customers when they purchase RAD Studio XE2 and receive twelve different serial numbers and download links. We tried to keep it simple by just delivering the XE2 license and allowing them to request the other licenses as needed.
Why is there a limit of 180 days to request my earlier version licenses?
The real limit is 180 days after the XE2 version is no longer available to purchase. We aren't enforcing it at 180 days from the purchase date for each individual user.
Which localized languages are the older versions available in?
The earlier versions are available in English, French, German and Japanese. For versions 2007 and later, there is a single download and you choose the language at install time. For version 6, there is a separate download for each localized version.
What is Embarcadero® RAD Studio XE2?
Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 is the ultimate application development suite and the fastest way to build data-rich, visually engaging applications for Windows, Mac, mobile, .NET, PHP and the Web. RAD Studio includes Delphi, C++Builder® and RadPHP™, enabling developers to deliver applications up to 5x faster across multiple desktop, mobile, Web, and database platforms.
What is Embarcadero All-Access XE?
If you’re interested in C++Builder XE2, in combination with development tools for the Delphi programming language, .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails; plus a complete range of database design, management and performance tools, Embarcadero All-Access is the solution for you. Embarcadero All-Access XE provides all the application development and database tools you need – when you need them. It’s the easiest to use ‘toolbox’ solution for any size team of developers, architects, performance testers, and DBAs. All-Access is ideal for both large enterprise teams working on a wide range of technologies; and for smaller teams, consultants, and individuals who find their time split across the software development life cycle.
Where can I purchase C++Builder XE2? How much does it cost?
You can find pricing and purchase C++Builder XE2 from Embarcadero Sales, one of our valuable partners, or our online Embarcadero Shop site.
What is Support and Maintenance for C++Builder XE2?
Support and Maintenance can be purchased at the time you purchase your C++Builder product or upgrade. The support and maintenance agreement gives you a year of upgrades (including major version releases) and a specified number of support incidents. See the Support dropdown menu item of our web site for additional information.
Where can I get the latest updates for C++Builder?
Updates and additional software for C++Builder users are available on the registered users download page at http://cc.embarcadero.com/reg/c_builder. More major new feature upgrades are available only to users with current Maintenance agreements. Notifications for those upgrades are delivered via email and the upgrades can be downloaded via the Maintenance Portal web site by following the instructions in the email.
Is C++Builder available in languages other than English?
C++Builder is available in English, French, German and Japanese. The installer lets you choose any combination of languages and it’s easy to switch between languages in the IDE.
Which types of licenses are available?
C++Builder XE2 is available with multiple licensing options including:
Individual named user licenses delivered via electronic software delivery (ESD) as a download an serial number. Discounted 5-packs and 10-packs are also available.
Network Named and Concurrent user licenses managed using Embarcadero AppWave and provide the additional flexibility of managing licenses on a license server plus software provisioning
Network licenses managed by Flexera FlexNet are available on a special request basis
Academic individual licenses for students and educators as well as volume licenses for classroom use
What are the limitations of the Academic editions?
The Academic edition can be used only for learning in an academic or classroom environment. Educational institutions cannot use the academic version to produce software for use within their institution. Academic products do not qualify for upgrade pricing to commercial licenses.
Who qualifies for the upgrade pricing on C++Builder XE2?
Professional upgrade eligibility – Upgrade pricing is available to registered owners of 2009-XE versions of RAD Studio, Delphi or C++Builder. For a limited time through December 31, 2011, registered owners of 2007 versions of Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio products (Professional, Enterprise or Architect editions) also qualify for upgrade pricing.
Enterprise upgrade eligibility – Upgrade pricing is available to registered owners of 2009-XE versions of RAD Studio, Delphi or C++Builder; Professional, Enterprise or Architect editions. For a limited time through December 31, 2011, registered owners of 2007 versions of Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio; Professional, Enterprise or Architect editions; also qualify for upgrade pricing.
Architect upgrade eligibility – Upgrade pricing is available to registered owners of 2009-XE versions of RAD Studio, Delphi or C++Builder; Enterprise or Architect editions. For a limited time through December 31, 2011, registered owners of 2007 versions of Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio; Enterprise or Architect editions; also qualify for upgrade pricing.
Upgrade pricing is not available from Academic editions.
Is Blackfish SQL licensed in C++Builder?
Blackfish SQL is no longer included with C++Builder as of the XE version. If you have a Blackfish SQL license from a previous version, you can continue to use it. As a replacement, we recommend InterBase which is available in multiple configurations is a great choice as an embedded database.
How is InterBase licensed in C++Builder?
InterBase XE Developer Edition is InterBase XE Server licensed for up to 20 users and 80 logical connections. You can install InterBase Developer Edition on a server for testing purposes using the serial number included in the C++Builder XE2 readme file or you can download and request a serial number from the InterBase download page at https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/interbase.
When you’re ready to deploy applications using InterBase, Embarcadero offers a variety of editions (Desktop, Server and To-Go) and a variety of licensing options (flexible server licensing, multi-packs and OEM licensing). Contact Embarcadero Sales or partners for more information. See the license terms in the C++Builder license.rtf file for additional licensing details.
Where can I find the open source project for the Subversion integration in Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2?
The open source project is http://sourceforge.net/projects/radstudioverins/. The repository for the open source code is available from the "Code" tab when you're logged in to SourceForge web site or athttps://radstudioverins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/radstudioverins/trunk/.
What is the support status for different versions of C++Builder?
Can I develop applications on one version of Windows and deploy to others?
Yes. You develop applications on the Windows version that is most productive for you. You can develop applications on Windows 7, Windows Vista, XP, Server 2008 or Server 2003. Applications built with C++Builder will run on all of those Windows versions plus Windows 2000.
Can I write a single application to deploy to both Windows and Mac using C++Builder and FireMonkey?
Yes. You can create a single source application that can be built and deployed to Windows and Mac OS X.
How to the DataSnap Mobile Connectors work? Do I build the full mobile application with C++Builder?
The DataSnap Mobile Connector feature generates connectivity code that you can incorporate into mobile applications for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7. You develop your mobile applications using the standard development tools and languages for each platform such as Objective C with the Xcode IDE for iOS, Java for Android and Blackberry, or Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. You then use the DataSnap Mobile Connector code to provide connectivity to your native C++Builder or Delphi DataSnap server.
Which languages, platforms and devices are supported with the DataSnap Mobile Connectors?
Android 2.1 or higher
All devices compatible with the platform
BlackBerry Java SDK 5.0 or 6.0
iOS 4.2 and latest iOS SDK
Silverlight for Windows Phone
Will applications built with Delphi and C++Builder XE2 run on older versions of Windows including Windows 2000, 95, 98 and Me?
Because of the use of Unicode as the default string type, Windows 98, 95, and ME will not run applications produced with C++Builder 2009 or later. These operating systems do not support Unicode strings, and Microsoft has dropped support for them. Applications built with C++Builder XE2, XE, 2010 and 2009 and VCL will run on Windows 2000 or later. Applications built with C++Builder XE2 and FireMonkey will run on Windows XP and later.
What are the pre-requisites for installing C++Builder?
To install, you will need to have installed on your system:
The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
The Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package
Windows Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher
MSXML 6
The installer will install the prerequisite software if you don’t already have it installed.
I’m wondering about moving my existing code to Unicode. What do I need to do?
Most existing code will work fine using the new default UnicodeString. Code that does byte level manipulation of string data, or that carries data in string variables probably needs to be examined and perhaps updated to account for the new character sizes inherent in Unicode string data. For more information, see the documentation and Embarcadero Developer Network for information about moving existing code to Unicode.
Do I have to register my copy of C++Builder?
Yes. When you first run the product, a small application will open and ask you to register the product. Once that is done, and your product key is validated, then your product will be registered and installed.
Can I open my projects created with earlier versions of C++Builder?
Yes, you should be able to do so, depending on the installed components required by your projects. C++Builder XE2 uses the MSBuild system for the build engine, and thus requires a new project file if you are upgrading from version 2007 or earlier. However, the IDE will seamlessly update your projects to the new format.
Why do I need to install the Microsoft .NET runtimes and SDK with C++Builder?
Some of the functionality of the IDE requires these software packages.
Will my users / customers need the .NET runtimes / SDK in order to run my apps built with C++Builder?
No. Applications produced with C++Builder XE2 do not require any .NET runtime support. The product produces pure native Windows applications.
What are the differences between the ER/Studio Developer Edition data modeling capabilities in C++Builder Architect and the standard ER/Studio product?
The ER/Studio Developer Edition data modeling and visualization in C++Builder Architect is a subset of the full ER/Studio. C++Builder Architect doesn’t include metadata import/export capabilities or access to ER/Studio team repository servers. It includes limited reporting functionality (HTML only). The ER/Studio functionality in C++Builder Architect supports a specific set of databases in line with those supported by dbExpress, while the full ER/Studio products offer flexible configurations for those databases and more.
Can I install C++Builder XE2 on a machine with previous versions of RAD Studio, Delphi or C++Builder on it?
Yes, C++Builder XE2 coexists nicely with earlier versions of RAD Studio, C++Builder and Delphi.
What is Standard Library Technical Report 1?
TR1 is the first official ISO extension to the C++ Standard Library, including many components to enhance library use and development, including a reference counted smart pointer and function call wrapper for better resource management; tuple, array and hashing containers; regular expressions; random numbers; improved function binders to simplify calling library algorithms; and type traits.
More details may be found in the final public draft available on the ISO committee website at: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf
What is C++0x?
C++0x is the informal name for the next version of the C++ Standard. While the standard expected until late 2010 many features are now well defined. More details may be found on the ISO committee website. A good place to start would be:http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n2871.html. There is also good information on the next C++ standard in the Final Committee Draft at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3092.pdf.
What’s different about C++Builder versus competing products?
C++Builder is the only true RAD C++ environment and framework designed for ultra-fast and highly-maintainable application development for Windows and Mac OS X. No other C++ development environment offers a more comprehensive included visual component library for quickly building rich user interfaces, rich ecosystem of additional components and tools, and rapid development of database applications.
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Citadel Securities Sues Quant Who Stole Its "ABC Strategy" Algo Which Made $50MM A Year
From Zero Hedge:
Three things are certain: death, taxes and quants suing other quants for stealing their secret, money-making algo sauce.
Ever since secretive quant giant Renaissance sued Millennium in the early 2000s for "expropriating" its quant trading strategies when it poached Russian quants Pavel Volfbeyn and Alexander Belopolsky, not a year passes without one or more high profile lawsuits gets lobbed between some of the most iconic HFT or quant funds. And 2020 is no different because as Bloomberg first reported, Citadel Securities, Ken Griffin's market making firm, has sued a British hedge fund, GSA Capital, over its attempt to hire a senior Citadel trader amid allegations that GSA obtained "a secret trading strategy while using texts and Whatsapp messages to hide all traces of the plan."
At the center of this lawsuit is what Bloomberg described as Citadel’s "ABC Strategy," a closely-guarded automated trading strategy, i.e., algo, that cost Citadel "more than $100 million to develop" and which was generating more than $50 million a year trading stocks in the U.S. and Europe. And while there is little additional information, one can understand why an algo, especially one which appears to have involved "guaranteed" profits courtesy of high-frequency trading and consistently generated tens of millions in profits, would be a highly desired piece of source code for anyone to possess, especially an up and coming competitor that was seeking to "set up a new high-frequency trading business."
Incidentally, for those unfamiliar with why HFT "market makers" are nothing short of money printers, look no further than Virtu, which as we reported back in 2015, had lost money on just one trading day in 6 years!
In any case, that's precisely the algo that GSA was going after when it set out to hire Citadel's high-frequency trader, Vedat Cologlu, a 2007 Wharton grad and self-described "stat arb trader", who helped operate and administer the models whose "returns were notably high given the low level of risk it took on."
However, in its lawsuit, Citadel alleged that the UK fund wanted more:
GSA asked for sensitive information on his equity-trading including his profits and the speed of the trades. And then Cologlu handed over a plan that Citadel argues was based on its own confidential model, including the way the algorithm made predictions.
As noted above, the case which was filed last month, is the latest example of the lengths funds with proprietary trade secrets and automated strategies "where companies deploy computing power to identify trades promising the biggest mismatches or largest payoffs with the least amount of risk", will go to protect their IP.
And in a world in which scalping dimes, nickels and pennies has become increasingly difficult now that virtually every HFT strategy has become commoditized (and cannibalized), the NYSE was forced to launch laser-based transmission towers to give the peasants using mere microwaves a leg up, it is perhaps not surprising that this latest case involves two market giants who would otherwise be able to coexist in any market but this one.
GSA was spun out of Deutsche Bank AG in 2005 and manages around $7.5 billion. Citadel Securities, the market making division of Citadel, of course needs no introduction. Citadel’s legal filing names GSA founder and majority owner Jonathan Hiscox as a defendant, alongside other officials including the chief technology officer. As Bloomberg notes, it has yet to file its formal defense, but said Wednesday it rejects the claims and plans to vigorously defend itself.
According to the Citadel complaint, GSA officials must have been aware of the need for secrecy because they regularly sought to keep details of the courtship out of emails where they could be easily discovered. In May 2019, GSA’s head of recruitment Douglas Ward emailed a junior employee saying that the job interview questions be “Kept off e-mail.”“GSA well knew that Mr. Cologlu’s responses would contain or would be derived from Citadel’s confidential information and hoped to conceal their wrongful conduct,” Citadel’s lawyers said in the filing dated Dec. 16.
It's not just stealing top secret money printing golden goose "algos" - trading firms and hedge funds, who have for long used fat pay checks to lure employees, have hit a wall when it comes to the top talent - especially in a market where the vast majority of hedge funds underperformed the market - and have been engaged in an intense battle to hire and retain talent. The latest front line is to recruit technologists who are seen as key to future-proof trading strategies.
As Bloomberg notes, Cologlu - who earned more than $700,000 in 2018 as a quant researcher - was looking for a move after 11 years at Citadel. The firm cited messages saying Cologlu was keen to build out his own business and believed there was a market to trade European stocks. GSA for its part dubbed the plan “Project High Speed Rail” and was making moves to enter the high-speed algorithmic trading business by joining the Turquoise trading facility run by the London Stock Exchange, according to the lawsuit.
Yet while quants and math PhDs may be brilliant at spotting patterns and correlations, they seem to lack even the most rudimentary common sense, and Cologlu sent Citadel's trading plan to his work email account, which was promptly noticed by Citadel and an investigation began. The GSA recruiter speculated Cologlu had “been called out by Citadel.” That was indeed the case, and Cologlu confirmed to the Citadel legal team that he’d provided GSA with the trading strategy plan. It was unclear what happened next: according to the lawsuit, Cologlu has been suspended, but a person familiar with the situation said he has left the company.
At that point Citadel claims that it confronted GSA about its meetings with Cologlu, and an internal lawyer agreed to cooperate and shredded the hard copies of Cologlu’s trading plan. In addition to damages, Citadel is seeking an injunction to stop GSA from using any of its confidential information, and has also asked the judge to order GSA to destroy all paper and computer copies of the information.
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Forums > General Discussion > Most of early Television is lost/destroyed
Thread started 02/14/18 10:35pm
LittleBLUECorv
Most of early Television is lost/destroyed
Reading up on the early years of TV, I find it a shame that most early TV has been destroyed. No one believed that anyone would care about that stuff and had any value for the future. First episodes, actors first appearance, singers first performances all gone.
One of the earliest networks, the DuMont Network which started in 1946 along with NBC; well before CBS and ABC. The DuMont Network ended in 1956. Of the four major networks it was not common practice to save various programs. DuMont was a network who saved a lot of stuff. That was until the mid 70s after the library was purchased by ABC. Well they found no need for it and dumped everything in the NY East River.
Even up until the late 70s the networks were reusing tapes to save money. Most of the Tonight Show with Jack Paar was not saved. Johnny Carson requested that they tape over all of his shows to save money. It wasn't until 1973 where that practice stopped.
A lot of early TV soap operas are lost since they came on daily. They'd just tape over the previous episode.
Even shows that come on today from the 50's some episodes are missing. They just rediscovered some episodes of the Honeymooners a few years back. The first sitcom is floating in the NYC river. Johnny Carson first show, taped over. A shame really.
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TonyVanDam
It reminds me about the same problem within the BBC in the UK. Plently of classic episodes of Doctor Who from the First Doctor & Second Doctor eras are still lost and/or missing.
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I just find it crazy.
You pay all this money for these productions than once it's aired, you re-use the tape. And over and over and over
Imagine if they did that to music back in the day.
kpowers
It's a shame but it was the times. You are talking about them getting rid of stuff in the 70's, no internet, DVD's and so once it aired that was it. There were VCR's in the 70's but really didn't boom until the 80's. What about all the soap operas (As the world turns, Guiding light and so on) doubt if ALL episodes survived.
kpowers said:
The first episode of General Hospital in 1963 was never like what futures episodes from the 1980-2019 were going to be. Even today since the late 1980's, 95-98% of the storylines takes place outside of Port Charles General Hospital!
But they kept some things around. Why not all o it.
TonyVanDam said:
OK, but do they exist???
LittleBLUECorvette said:
Not sure. These are all on tapes that are 50 years plus old?????Maybe they got ruined??? I've heard some stuff have been destroyed like some episodes of Dark Shadows.
Out of 1225 episodes of Dark Shadows, this is the only episode where there is no surviving video.
Keith Prentice
(reconstruction)
Gordon Russell
Lela Swift
Complete: Disc 124
Collection 25: Disc 4
We have 2 images of Dark Shadows 1219
Bramwell marries Daphne, whilst Catherine learns she is pregnant with his child.
At the great house of Collinwood the Collins family, for many generations, has lived under a mysterious curse that has brought them nothing but tragedy. And now a romantic conflict has developed, one which threatens to split the family apart. Daphne Harridge has announced she will be married to Bramwell Collins. But on this night Daphne has suddenly begun to have some doubts. And so is trying, through a young woman who is clarvoyant, to determine what the future holds.
However it has been reconstructed using a fan-recorded audio track and still images. Lara Parker provides narration to preface and summarize each scene. Since the surviving audio from the episode was incomplete, the partial narration by Keith Prentice that originally opened the episode was dropped for the home video release, and was re-recorded by Lara Parke
They don't. Most early soap especially something that aired 5 times a week was recorded over.
Graycap23
FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent.
Same with early film, 2/3rds of the silents are gone. The biggest loss with early television is the live plays that are gone. Unfortunately shows like Burns and Allen didn't film their early seasons and only kinescopes survive. The world is blessed that Desi Arnaz had the foresight to shoot I Love Lucy on film so it could be immortalized.
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'cause you're so dangerous
No more hearts I can trust, you see
To be eaten alive
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Graycap23 said:
Are you posting that on every thread you're not commenting on?
Hey loudmouth, shut the fuck up, right?
thetimefan
Yep, for some BBC shows like Steptoe they found some home recorded copies, this would have been late 60s. But in general a lot of shows were recorded over. Plus tape degrades overtime too. Best idea is to digitize everything now whilst they can.
Hudson said:
Burns and Allen still exist in some format. Most of the first sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny was destroyed.
The soap Edge of the Night is mostly gone. Some of the earlier episodes are around.
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ups: Tons of modes; 20+ characters; fast, silky smooth gameplay that has more depth than you can shake a stick at; gorgeous graphics; great music
downs: Console exclusive characters kind of bite
Soul Calibur II Review
game: Soul Calibur II
publisher: Namco
platform: Xbox PS2 NGC
date posted: 09:10 AM Fri Sep 5th, 2003
I\'ll just come right out and say it: Soul Calibur II is every bit as great as everyone expected and it was well worth waiting for. It has been four years since the first Soul Calibur appeared on the Dreamcast, and in that time no other 3-D fighter has managed to top it in terms of presentation, depth, and fun factor. Soul Calibur was the perfect fighting game, and that is why it is understandable that Namco didn\'t want to mess with the formula too much in Soul Calibur II. It follows the standard sequel formula of better graphics, more characters, more modes, more arenas, more moves, etc., but that is perfectly fine in this case.
Soul Calibur II is available for the PS2, GameCube, and Xbox, but this review is only going to specifically cover the PS2 and GC versions. The core gameplay is the same in all three versions, and it rocks, so the 5/5 I\'m giving SCII could apply to the Xbox version as well. For the most part, this review is going to be a general overview of what makes Soul Calibur II good no matter what system you play it on, but at the end I\'m going to do a little comparison between the two versions I have: PS2 and GC.
Soul Calibur II packs a ton of modes, and all of them are fun to play through. There is the standard arcade mode where you fight through several opponents and open up a little story sequence for your chosen character. Other modes include time attack, survival, team battle, and the very useful practice mode. Extra versions of these modes can also be unlocked. The extra version of each mode allows you to use the weapons you unlock in the Weapon Master mode while the normal version of each mode requires you to use each character\'s standard weapon.The Weapon Master mode allows you to buy or unlock new weapons, costumes, and even new characters. In Weapon Master mode, you must overcome special conditions as you progress through each area on a map. Some matches take place on quicksand or ice while other matches take place on platforms ranging from very big to very very small. Other matches give you objectives you must complete in order to win. For example, perhaps you can only do damage if you hit wall combos or use Guard Break moves. There are also dungeons you have to fight through, which consist of several matches against unknown opponents under unknown conditions. There is a lot to the Weapon Master mode, and there are tons of weapons and costumes to unlock. To open up everything the game has to offer, as well as beat the arcade mode with all of the characters, takes a good 20 hours. With practicing and just playing through for fun and the thousands of multiplayer matches that you are sure to have, Soul Calibur II has the potential to last you for a really long time.
What sets Soul Calibur II apart from other fighters is that it is both easy for beginners to pick up and enjoy but it still offers enough depth to keep hardcore fighting fans interested. Recent 3-D fighters lacked this balance. Tekken 4 was great for novices but couldn\'t keep experts interested for long. Virtua Fighter 4 (and Evo) was extremely deep, even more so than SCII, but it was so unforgiving that it was too hard for beginners or even average players to pick up. Soul Calibur II strikes a delicate balance between ease of play and overall depth, and that is why it is the better game out of the \"big three\" that have been released over the last year or so.
The key to Soul Calibur\'s success is that it manages to be both simple and complex at the same time. There is one button for vertical strikes, one button for horizontal strikes, one button for kicks, one button to block, and one button to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Combining these buttons produces new tactics and adding in directional movements gives you even more moves. It is possible to play SCII with just basic attacks and throws and still be quite successful. This makes the game fun for novices. They can pick up a controller and get impressive results right away.
For players that want to dig a little deeper into the SCII bag of tricks, there are a multitude of tactics that you can use. First up is Guard Impact. Pressing guard and forward or back at the right time will parry your opponent\'s attack and give you a second or so to launch an attack of your own. Another tactic is to use the Soul Charge. This adds a lot of power to your weapon, but you are vulnerable while it charges. Using the 8-way run is another tactic that you can use, but it isn\'t absolutely necessary. 8-way run allows you to move pretty much anywhere you want in the arena. A great way to avoid attacks is to simply try and step around them. The 8-way run also opens up new attack possibilities as new moves become available if you attack from the side or the back.
There are more attacks and techniques to use, but to cover them all would take days. Things such as buffering (being able to add in commands between the commands of the move you want to perform so that human opponents won\'t be able to see the telltale movements of, say, Ivy\'s Summon Suffering move), reverse Guard Impact, three different levels of Soul Charge, air combos, wall jumps, and wall combos. The characters all have different stances you can switch to that open up loads of new moves as well. There is a lot to learn in Soul Calibur II and all of the tactics are well worth learning for hardcore fighting fans, but like I have said, it isn\'t necessary to know everything in order to be successful. It is worth learning, however, and I highly suggest using the practice mode so you can learn how to get the most out of each character.
Among the 20+ characters, it is easy to find a character that suits your style. Whether you like to engage in quick attacks, focus on defense, use a lot of throws, or a combination of all of the above and more SCII has a character that will match your style perfectly. Some characters are harder to master, like my personal favorite Ivy, but most characters are easy to learn and then the game simply becomes a matter of applying the right tactics in the right situations. I sound like a broken record, I\'m sure, but Soul Calibur II is a very user friendly fighter and the variety of characters with different fighting styles and all of the different ways that each person will figure out to use them really make the game a lot of fun to play.
The only complaints I have about SCII are all character related. Some characters have a distinct advantage, so much so that you\'ll dread facing them in the arcade and Weapon Master modes. Raphael, Voldo, and Ivy particularly stand out simply because the way the computer uses them on any difficulty other than easy can only be described as cheap. Those three stand out because the rest of the characters are so balanced in comparison. Another complaint I have is that Necrid is a lame character. He was designed by Todd McFarlane specifically for SCII, but compared to the rest of the cast he just doesn\'t fit in. He looks like he would be better off in a Mortal Kombat game than amongst the ranks of the SC cast. Speaking of lame characters, the console specific characters aren\'t all that hot either, but I\'ll get to that later.
Graphically, Soul Calibur II is one of the finest looking games out there and definitely the best looking fighter. The characters are all very detailed, right down to their hair blowing in the wind or clothes moving around realistically during combat. The arenas are also very detailed and look great. Also, the special effects for charge up moves look very good. Overall, the graphics are crisp and clear and look gorgeous. Likewise, the sound is very well done. The music gives the game an epic feel and it really fits well with the sort of medieval theme of the game. The clang of metal against metal and the other sounds of fighting have never sounded better. The characters all have quite a bit to say as they taunt you during matches.
And now for a bit of comparison between the PS2 and GC versions. The biggest fear most people had about getting the GameCube version was that the controller really doesn\'t seem like it would be that great for a fighting game like Soul Calibur II. I can honestly say that once you get used to it, the GC controller does an excellent job. I actually prefer using the control stick rather than the D-pad so you don\'t have to worry about using the GC\'s horrible little D-pad. Once you get used to the button placement, the GC controller does a fine job. Of course, the PS2\'s Dual Shock is easier to get used to and might provide a slightly better experience depending on how you like to play. Hitting your G+B throw is easier on a Dual Shock, simply because pressing the B and Y buttons on the GC controller is rather difficult, but it is easy enough to change the controls to your liking. I assigned my throws to the shoulder buttons of the GC controller, for example. The point I\'m trying to make is that you shouldn\'t have to worry too much about the controller of the system you want to buy SCII for. Both the Dual Shock and the GC controller do an excellent job, so GameCube owners should have nothing to fear.
The only real differences between the GameCube and PS2 versions of SCII lie in graphics and load times. The graphics are slightly sharper on the GameCube, and the framerate on the PS2 version stutters every once in a while, but it is something that only happens once in a great while and you barely notice it. The difference in load times between the two versions is something that leans strongly in favor of the GameCube, as you\'d expect, but it actually makes a big enough impact on the flow of the game that it makes it hard to recommend the PS2 version over the GC version if you own both consoles. Loading a match on the GC only takes a couple of seconds. It is so fast, in fact, that you are usually already in the arena before the pre-match taunt sound bytes are over. The PS2 version takes considerably longer. The GC takes maybe three seconds to load while the PS2 can take about ten. When comparing the two, the GC version is just plain more fun because you can go from match to match much quicker and attempting the same Weapon Master level over and over again doesn\'t seem like such a pain.
Oh yeah, there is one more difference: Link is in the GC version and Heihachi is in the PS2 version. For all of the message board arguments over which version would be better because it had a better exclusive character, I am sad to say Link and Heihachi really, really suck. Link\'s problem is that he has a bow and arrow and boomerang and none of the other characters have projectiles and that gives him an unfair advantage that the computer will make use of every chance it gets. At least he looks freaking awesome and his alternate weapons and costumes will make Legend of Zelda fanboys (myself included) very happy. The PS2 version\'s Heihachi doesn\'t have a similar advantage and is actually at quite the disadvantage. He doesn\'t have a weapon and his reach is miniscule, so he is pretty much useless. At least Link has a weapon and look that fits in with the rest of the SC II characters. Heihachi simply doesn\'t fit in. Even though Link can be a cheap projectile firing bastard, he is still better than Heihachi.
So what version should you get? The controls for the GC and PS2 version are both great, so put your fears of using the GC pad behind you. It does a great job. The graphics and load times are a bit better on the GC version, but unless you have them running side by side you won\'t even notice. The only other factor is which exclusive character you prefer because, lets face it, everything else between the different versions is pretty much the same. Seeing adult Link with realistic graphics is actually a pretty awesome sight, and he proves to be a better fighter than Heihachi, so I would say the GC version has the advantage here. My choice for the superior version is the GC version. I would expect the Xbox version has similarly fast load times and great graphics, so I would recommend the GC or Xbox version over the PS2. The only thing the PS2 version has going for it is the Namco demo disk that comes with it, but the demos and trailers aren\'t all that hot, I\'m afraid. No matter which version you get, you are definitely getting one of the best fighting games on the market and it is a game you can be proud to own.
Overall, Soul Calibur II is a great game and it was well worth the wait. The graphics and sound are spectacular, it controls like a dream no matter what system you have it on, and it is flat out fun to play. The characters are well designed and unique and you will probably find yourself choosing a favorite character based on their personality rather than just their moves. The game is easy enough for beginners to pick up and enjoy, something that is very important because multiplayer matches make up a big chunk of the playtime you have with any given fighter, unlike a certain other fighting game that required hours of practice to really enjoy. Soul Calibur II is the best 3-D fighter out there, not because it is the deepest or has the most moves, but because it has the ability to appeal to everyone. Whether you get it on PS2, Xbox, or GameCube, you are in for a treat.
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In a new post, Arlington69 claims to have evidence “possibly suggesting” that FIFA has build in game mechanics making it easier for the losing side to catch up from a 2-0 lead which happened in the first 10 minutes.
Is he finally on to something? We checked it out.
We often see momentum believers argue that “an early lead increases your risk of losing”. In Arlington69’s post, which can be seen below in full length, he makes an attempt to verify this claim using statistics.
Arlington69’s experiment is based on a dataset covering +1000 of his own matches. In this experiment, he selected all matches where someone was 2-0 up. He then divided that subset into 10 minute intervals depending on the timing of the 2nd goal and counted the number of times where the team leading 2-0 ended up winning, drawing and losing.
Arlington69 found that the winning chance was much lower when the 2-0 lead occured in the first 10 minutes than when it occured later in the match. When a player went 2-0 up in the first 10 minutes, he would win in 65.63 %, whereas the average chance of turning a 2-0 lead into a win was 83.72%.
Based on this observation, Arlington69 reaches the following conclusion:
“It is an interesting studying and definitely indicates that their is the strong possibility of something at play in the game mechanics.” (– comment on Reddit)
As our returning audience might have guessed, we sort of disagree with just about every single word of that sentence. And for a good reason.
Arlington69 acknowledges that his experiment has certain statistical shortcomings. With samples as small as 13 matches, we fully agree to this acknowledgement. Arlington69’s samples are nowhere near sufficient for this purpose.
But having larger samples wouldn’t fix the biggest problem: The entire experiment ois complete and utter nonsense.
Arlington69’s conclusion relies on the assumption that the probability of recovering from a 2-0 lead under normal circumstances should be constant for all 10 minute intervals of the match. But why on Earth would we assume that?
It goes without saying that the chance of scoring 2 goals is larger if you have more time to do it. Therefore, recovering from an early 2-0 lead is easier than recovering from a late 2-0 lead.
To cut it short, we see absolutely no information in Arlington69’s post which seems out of the ordinary. In fact, the post contains multiple pieces of information which leads to the exact opposite conclusion.
Contradicting his own claims
Given Arlington69’s posting history, it is fair to assume that his post is yet another attempt to put a brick in the wall that he attempted to build in his recent post called “Why I believe in momentum (SHM)”. In said post, Arlington69 claims that there is “a trend for the game to favour the losing team”. The only problem is that the observations he presents to us here contradicts that claim directly. This is a quote from Arlington69’s own post:
“[W]here a team was leading 2 goals to 0 in the first 10 minutes then in 65 % of game that team won. The average is 83%”
So, a team leading 2-0 has a staggering 83 % chance of winning and only 8 % chance of losing!! And yet, Arlington69 concludes that the game has mechanics which favours the losing team.
Many defeats, many conspiracy theories
There is however another subject that just begs for attention here:
With Arlington69’s latest post, he puts forward his third different claim about how FIFA matches allegedly are manipulated.
In earlier posts, we have seen him make a case for the idea that (a) the game favours the losing team, (b) the game favours the worse team. With his latest addition, he now also argues that (c) the game favours the losing team in the first 10’ish minutes only.
It should be bleeding obvious that all three theories cannot be correct at the same time. If the game favours the losing team, it eventually will disfavour the worse team. And obviously, the game cannot favour the losing team only in the first 10 minutes and throughout the match.
So, in a nutshell, Arlington69 is contradicting himself over and over again.
When you are looking for ways to excuse your defeats which usually happen under different circumstances, having multiple, contradicting explanations will work just fine as long as you don’t poke too deeply into the details. But for the rest of us, Arlington69’s latest theory is just yet another reason to put down momentum for what it really is: A bad excuse. Afterall, the side going 2-0 up has 83 % of winning. It doesn’t get much clearer.
← Peer reviewed: Arlington69’s momentum experiments
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Fact check: Did UEFA EURO 2008 have a momentum feature?
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Handicapping: Doesn’t exist in FUT 17 either
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Out of the frying pan…
Thrust out of the Otherworld to save his life, Tobin finds himself behind the lines of the cannibal army that has been attacking the Realm for years—and they do take prisoners. In fact, Tobin soon learns that healing magic that makes the barbarians so hard to kill comes from the combined sacrifice of a human and a nature spirit, forcibly fused into one body, killed, and then…well, cannibals. As a prisoner-slave, Tobin will find himself on the sacrificial block as soon as they can capture a nature spirit. He has to escape, to report what he’s learned. But the Realm already knows that the barbarians can heal any wound, in a handful of seconds—that’s why it’s been impossible to defeat them. What’s the use of reporting the source of their enemies’ power, if Tobin can’t figure out some way to negate it?
Back on the Realm side of the line, Jeriah is appalled to discover that the Goblin’s leader, the sorceress Makenna, has lost his brother! And Jeriah still has to keep his vow to find some way to save the Realm from the barbarian army. With Makenna as his prisoner—she’s still charged with several murders from the Goblin/human war—he might have some leverage.
Makenna cares nothing for any human except the missing Tobin, and her Goblin army is in more danger from the humans than the barbarians. Makenna sees this threat to the human Realm as her best chance to win the Goblins their freedom…but then the barbarians will become a danger to her people, as well as the humans.
If the three of them can’t figure out some way to stop an unstoppable army, both the Realm and the Goblins will die.
In this fantasy sequel, the final volume in the trilogy that began with The Goblin Wood, a highly suspenseful plot leads to a thoroughly satisfying and surprising conclusion.
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Cover art by Anna-Maria Crum
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The page is intended for setting the parameters of the simulated spectrum and for launching the simulation process with the specified parameters.
Let's consider in details the form presented on this page (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. The form of spectrum simulation launching
Molecule. Drop-down list of molecule selection. For the selected molecules to the right of the list are shown the default values of Lorentz half-widths (Lenv and Lself) and the temperature dependence exponent (Nt) of the Lorentz half-width. Standard values are used to construct the contours of those lines for which the values of these parameters are not available.
Simulation type. Drop-down list of simulation types: the list of spectral lines or one of the spectral functions described in Generalities/Spectral functions.
Select isotoplogues. The table shows available isotopic modifications of selected molecule and essentisal properties of them. The left column of the table contains the checkboxes for selection of isotopologue. The checkbox in the table header selects or deselect all isotopologues. At least one isotopologue should be selected.
Spectral lines selection parameters. The range of wavenumbers where the spectrum is simulated and the cut-off on intensity (spectral lines with intensities lower than indicated here, are not taken into account).Note that the wavenumber range should be no wider than the Union of the ranges of the selected isotopologues, and the line intensities are weighted according to the natural terrestrial isotopic abundances and changed according ambient temperature.
The parameters of the environment. Temperature T and pressure P. The default temperature is set equal to 296 K, and default pressure is set to 1 atm. The temperature should get into the narrowest range of acceptable temperatures for the selected isotopologues.
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Contour parameters. The parameters required for creation of the spectral line profile (see Generalities/Line profiles). The drop-down list Line shape allows you to select one of available profile types. The Wing parameter specifies the length of the simulated wing of spectral line, expressed by the number of half-widths (how the half-width is calculated for different profile types, is described in the same section of Generalities). The parameter Calculation step specifies the step by wavenumber in cm-1, which is used for calculation of the spectral functions values. This step is calculated automatically, based on the fact that the half-width has 20 points, but you can also specify it manually. Since the half-width of the lines depends in general case from WNmax, T, P and the type of line profile, when you change any of these settings the step value is changed. It is recommended before starting the simulation to round it to values with a reasonable number of digits after the decimal point.
The Device parameters allow to take into account the influence of the device on a simulated spectrum. If as apparatus function (AF) selected "no influence of the device", then the simulated spectrum is a high resolution spectrum. With any other choice the resulting spectrum will be low resolution spectrum. In the simulation of the low resolution spectrum must be set to the correct value of the appratus resolution AR in cm-1 and the length of the wing of apparatus function in AR. For rectangular and triangular apparatus function the value of the last parameter is ignored. More detailed information about simulation of low resolution spectra is in paragraph Convolution of spectra of the Generalities.
For simulation the Transmittance, Absorption and Radiance should be set the value of the Optical path L in m.
Registered users have access to an additional set of parameters Simulation optoins, where they can choose where to save the simulation results: in a temporary storage or in an user's archive. If the user's archive is selected , it is possible to run simulations in batch mode. More detailtd these features are described on the first page of this section.
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Hector Dupuis, a member of the Canadian House of Commons representing a Montreal district, has announced he is returning his MBE medal because the Queen has awarded one to The Beatles. He claimed English royalty has placed him on the "same level as vulgar nincompoops." Mr. Dupuis received his medal for his work as director of the selective service in Quebec.
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[edit] Do The Dew?
The green drink may be Mountain Dew.
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Posted on: 16:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
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If you look at the labels next to it is a coke-looking label. The label for the green stuff has some red swooshes that ominously looks like an M, and the real logo has both red and green letters.
All three logos on the drink dispenser are basically just crude representations of the more famous soda labels. The one for the green drink (plus the drink itself as it's dispensed) immediately calls Mountain Dew to mind.
Mountain Dew is a running gag on the site. This is just a continuation.
It may have also predated the mountain dew gag; i.e. it may have been the first in a series!
Moreover, this is similar to Mountain Dude from Mellow Mushroom, which itself is a very obvious reference to Mountain Dew.
Arguments against:
Speculation.
It could be any green drink.
This main page was around a long time before the Mountain Dew gag began, so it seems tenuous to connect the two.
Yes, it could be any green drink, but what particular green drink has appeared time after time on the site?
A question for anyone who eats at Waffle House -- what company's carbonated beverages do they serve, Coca-Cola or PepsiCo? I partially ask because if the soda next to this soda in question is Coke, then if TBC was striving for consistency (I'm sure they weren't, but follow this for a second), would make this drink Mello Yello, or possibly Surge.
I'm curious: which one of the two is a Mountain Dew copy? One of them is, isn't it?
Mello Yello copies the flavor; I'm not sure if it has the same amount of caffeine. Surge, I believe, had a similar flavor as well but much more caffeine. I never had Surge, though, so I can't say for sure how close it is overall to Mountain Dew.
Surge is basically Coke's answer to Mountain Dew. The two drinks are very similar. However, Mountain Dew is the most famous of all these drinks.
To answer my own question, it appears that looking at a menu, Waffle House serves Coca-Cola products. (Which actually makes sense, since Coca-Cola is based in Atlanta.)
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The logos on the drink dispenser appear to be (in order): Orange soda, Mountain Dew (or Surge), and Coca-Cola.
Makes this a more general Fun Fact that accounts for the likeness of the Coke label.
The orange soda is too generic.
The Mountain Dew-Surge uncertainty further weakens this fact.
It would be rather unusual for Mountain Dew and Coke to be next to each other in the same dispenser, as the two products are from competing companies, and both companies usually demand contracts that keep their products separate.
Even further, the orange soda label seems to be closest to resembling Sunkist, which is owned by Dr Pepper/Seven-Up, Inc., and is bottled and distributed by Coke bottlers in some areas, Pepsi bottlers in others, and independent bottlers in even other cases. So if Sunkist were the orange drink, and it appears to be, we'd have three companies' drinks in the three sections.
So... what? I see alternate companies' drinks all the time in resturaunt soda dispensers.
Usually (except in very rare circumstances), the only non-Pepsi or non-Coke products at restaurants would be Dr Pepper (I think almost every restaurant usually has that, unless that particular Coke bottler produces Mr. Pibb) or something else bottled by DPSU; I've NEVER seen intermingling of Coke and Pepsi products at a restaurant. Usually the only place you're going to see Coke and Pepsi products in the same dispenser would be at a 7-Eleven or some other type of gas station convenience store.
I have seen restaurants with both. That should not be a determining factor here.
As I pointed out in the Recent Changes text, it's quite possible that TBC simply overlooked this point when they drew the background, so even though in reality you wouldn't likely see Mountain Dew and Coke together, they got put in that way here.
Also, it's possible that TBC deliberately put the two products together to indicate their own drink preferences or to avoid showing favoritism for one company or another. (This would seem to be contradicted by the later Mountain Dew running gag.)
For orange soda my guesses would be: Orange Crush and Sunkist.
I don't believe we have enough information to go on here to name the orange soda.
In addition, I've seen a lot of places that had a generic "Orange Soda" label without naming the brand, but when I tasted the drink, it was clearly something I recognized (like Sunkist, Hi-C, etc). That generic label WOULD appear next to a recognizeable one, like Pepsi or Coke.
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[edit] Part-Time Jorb?
It sounds like Coach Z is saying the orders.
Sure sounds a lot more like Coach Z than a woman!
The voice is definitely a female voice.
Coach Z's voice is also a lot higher than that person's.
This fact is totally obvious. Who can't tell that it sounds like Coach Z?
It doesn't sound exactly like him. Maybe it's not Coach Z. It could be someone with a similar accent.
Just because it sounds like Coach Z, it doesn't necessarily mean it is him.
The voice need to be compared to his voice in In Search of the Yello Dello, one of the first toons, released about the time of the main page. Voices can evolve too.
Is anyone likely to have an accent like our Coach Z?
This fact doesn't say it is Coach Z, it says it sounds like him, which it does.
No, the way it's currently phrased implies it is Coach Z. To say that it sounds like him it should say "Someone who sounds like Coach Z is saying the orders," making "someone who sounds like Coach Z" one subject. Right now Coach Z alone is the subject of the sentence.
Huh... oh I get it now....
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[edit] Green stuff
The green drink spilled when floating over the Characters button may be a reference to the Characters page on the Mellow Mushroom website.
According to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine listings for the Mellow Mushroom page and Main Page 5, Main Page 5 came first.
Hmm, that would seem to make this fact patently false. Can it be automatically declined because of this?
Or perhaps grounds for a fast forward, or at least meantion that this occurance happens twice, quite similarly, between the two pages.
Wouldn't it be possible that the fact is actually backwards? That the mellow mushroom characters page was based on this gag?
Yes, I suppose a fast forward would be possible. However, the fact that this fact was losing by a substantial margin even before we learned that it was based on false premises suggests that such a fact would not be approved by the Wiki.
(Edit conflict) Right; as it currently stands, it shouldn't even be in voting, but a similar fact coming from the other direction might be valid.
I'm not a fan of this fact, but it's been on the page for a while, so I think it deserves a vote.
Q: Which one came first? MM or this page?
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Israelis fume over Netanyahu’s retraction of Hungary’s anti-Soros campaign criticism
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed his Hungarian counterpart as a “true pal of Israel” at the start of a controversial two-day go to that has sparked good sized outcry over Viktor Orbán‘s praise of Nazi collaborators.
Politicians and party leaders had advised Mr Netanyahu to cancel the outing after the Hungarian chief ultimate 12 months drew criticism for praising Miklós Horthy, Hungary’s Second World War generation ruler, who delivered antisemitic legal guidelines and collaborated with the Nazis.
Far-right populist Mr Orbán, re-elected in April, also put Jewish-Hungarian philanthropist George Soros on an anti-immigration billboard campaign and appeared to evoke antisemitic language in denouncing the Budapest-born billionaire. The posters featured a grinning picture of Mr Soros with the words: “Don’t let Soros have the closing laugh.”
But talking in Jerusalem on Thursday, Mr Netanyahu thanked Mr Orbán for “defending Israel”.
Hungary in December abstained when the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to reject the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The country additionally joined the Czech Republic and Romania in blockading a European Union declaration criticising Washington’s decision to pass its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.
“You have stood up for Israel time and time again in global forums. It is deeply appreciated, and it is important… on this Hungary has led the cost many, many times, and I thank you for it,” Mr Netanyahu said, at a joint press conference with the Hungarian leader.
“I heard you speak, as a actual buddy of Israel, about the need to combat antisemitism,” he added.
Mr Orbán for his phase pledged “zero tolerance” for antisemitism and to cooperate “in the combat against” it.
“All of the Jewish residents in Hungary are below the safety of the government,” he said.
Yet the visit has sparked uproar in Israel, where there were calls for it to be cancelled.
After praising Horthy final year, Mr Orbán denounced Mr Soros as one of Hungary’s enemies that “do not accept as true with in work, however speculate with money”.
Using language that was antisemitic in tone, Mr Orbán added: “They have no homeland however sense that the entire world is theirs.”
Opposition MP Yair Lapid, head of the centrist Yesh Atid and a conceivable rival to the Israeli prime minister, labelled Mr Orbán’s go to a “disgrace”.
“Today Netanyahu will give honour to Prime Minister Orbán of Hungary, who praised the antisemitic ruler [Horthy] who collaborated with the Nazis in the extermination of Hungarian Jewry. A disgrace!” he wrote on Twitter.
Tamar Zandberg, an MP in the left wing Meretz party, tweeted in Hungarian that Mr Orbán was no longer welcome in Israel.
Mr Orbán, who landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday evening, met Israeli president Reuven Rivlin and one of Israel’s chief rabbis, and later took a tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
On Friday he is set to visit the Western Wall earlier than departing.
The traveling chief has no scheduled talks with Palestinian leaders, breaking standard protocol for travelling EU leaders. Only his deputy, Zsolt Semjén, will go to Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity in the occupied West Bank.
Mr Orbán has forged himself as a champion of Christian Europe and faced fierce protests from within Hungary’s 100,000 robust Jewish population lower back home for his apparently antisemitic viewpoints.
Mr Orbán has also confronted criticised from inside the EU over a proposed regulation which would criminalise those who provide assist to migrants. The legislative bundle was dubbed the “stop Soros” laws by using the Hungarian government as it targeted Soros’s open-border values and advocacy. Pro-government media said the bills should see Mr Soros banned from Hungary.
But no matter accusations Mr Orbán had stoked antisemitism in Europe, he has taken a firm stance in help of Israel at a time when Mr Netanyahu is increasingly looking to European allies as he faces mounting criticism from the EU.
Mr Orbán’s quick remain comes a 12 months after a landmark visit by means of Mr Netanyahu to Budapest, the first go to to Hungary with the aid of an Israeli premier due to the fact the fall of Communism in 1989.
At the time, Mr Netanyahu praised the Visegrád Group, which includes Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and whose nationalist stances have been a thorn in Brussels’ side.
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Posted on December 10, 2017 December 10, 2017 by Joe Laszlo
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My favorite fun fact from the tour is that the Lower East Side got the moniker “Klein Deutschland” before there even was a unified “Deutschland.”
There are certain combinations of places and architecture that just go together. Paris+garret; Newport+mansion; San Francisco+Victorian ; Brooklyn+brownstone. And “Lower East Side+tenement.” It’s almost redundant to call a place the “Lower East Side Tenement Museum.” But New York has one of those, and redundant or not, it is a fantastic, unforgettable recreation of a slice of life in this city.
How the Other Half Lived
The word “tenement” originally referred to any multiple dwelling building, what we’d call an “apartment” today. Very quickly, however, “tenement” came to mean a very particular type of multiple dwelling building. One aimed at the working class and recent immigrants, crammed with people and with very limited light, ventilation, and amenities.
Like how non-New Yorkers imagine New Yorkers live today, only even worse.
The Tenement Museum occupies an entire building located at 97 Orchard Street. The museum’s website describes its discovery as a happy accident. Founders Ruth Abram and Anita Jacobson wanted to tell the stories of immigrants, but where to do it? They discovered in 97 Orchard almost a time capsule — an un-gentrified, un-repaired, abandoned for half a century building. Today the museum also has a nearby storefront, which serves as gift shop, media center, and admission/check-in counter.
Rather than tell a generalized story of the immigrant experience on the Lower East Side, the Tenement Museum from the start brilliantly opted for the opposite. It has reconstructed the apartments and lives of specific inhabitants of the building, from a variety of different times and cultures.
Dwellings are meticulously furnished and decorated, as period-accurate as possible. Skilled guides tell the stories of the families, bringing them back to life. Alternately there are “meet the residents” experiences where actors portray the residents, in a sort of poor immigrant take on Colonial Williamsburg. Note that photos aren’t permitted, so I don’t have interior shots.
Chosing from among the seven tours currently offered, visitors will get to know the Schneiders, the Rogarshevskys, the Gumpertzes, the Baldizzis, the Moores, or the Levines. Plus assorted other residents over time.
Meet the Schneiders
For my visit, I opted for the Storefronts tour, which introduced me to John and Caroline Schneider, who lived in the building from 1864 and operated a German lager beer saloon for about twenty years on the ground floor.
Lager Bier on One Side of Orchard St., “Great Beer” on the Other
German lager beer parlors were fine upstanding places. Not locations to get drunk, but places for music (the Schneiders had a piano), food, and wholesome, low-alcohol German-style beer. They’d mix the lager with lemonade for the kids.
Not only were they upstanding places, there were a lot of them. The museum reckons 700 coexisted on the Lower East Side, which makes about four per block.
The Schneiders lived in two dark, cozy rooms tucked behind the saloon, also part of the tour. John joined various societies (the Odd Fellows and Order of Red Men). Caroline was a “superb” cook — and perhaps the brains behind the success of their business. John didn’t keep the saloon going too long after she died.
It was interesting to hear what the museum knows and doesn’t know about the Schneiders, their social circle, and their world. Through them, our tour discussed assimilation and perceptions of immigrants; how German food became American food (frankfurters and hamburgers!); and how German beer became American beer. As a recent Super Bowl ad observed, the Budweiser story is an immigrant story.
An Interactive Retail History
After the story of the Schneiders, the tour proceeded through less renovated parts of the retail spaces. To offer a sense of retail in the building over time, the museum deployed an interesting interactive device. It has a long table divided so that each person on the tour gets their own slice. Visitors select from a variety of faux artifacts, placing their chosen one on the table to start a multimedia experience — pictures, oral history recordings, etc. –from 4 other retail moments in the history of 97 Orchard Street.
Sidney Undergarment Co.
I’m iffy about the interactive implementation. On the one hand, I like that visitors can follow their own path and focus on the people and stories of greatest interest. On the other hand, the interface was a bit fiddly. Moreover, it was something of a bummer to trade our guide Sarah, a great storyteller, for a multimedia table. At least that’s one thing humans still do better than machines.
Neighborhood A-Changin’
The Tenement Museum has built an institution based on storytelling, focused on the working class immigrant experience. It’s interesting how much the Lower East Side has changed since it opened in the 1980s. The neighborhood today is not exactly the Mecca for huddled masses yearning to breathe free that it once was.
Which makes it all the luckier that Abram and Jacobson founded the museum when they did. I doubt any scrappy startup nonprofit could fundraise enough to buy a building on Orchard nowadays.
A Deeply, Uniquely, American and New York Story
The Tenement Museum’s guides have consistently impressed me with their knowledge and storytelling skill. I don’t know how the museum’s training program works, but it’s phenomenal. They absolutely, literally bring the place to life.
Everyone with any interest in New York or American history must visit. The Tenement Museum and Ellis Island together tell the story of a time when the United States threw its doors open wide to those seeking a better life.
I recommend booking a tour in advance. Unlike many museums, you have to take a tour to visit, and they keep the groups small, since the spaces are pretty tiny.
A part of me quibbles that I didn’t see much of the museum on my visit — tours deliver depth rather than breadth. But the Tenement Museum repays repeat visits in a way that other museums of its size might not. Its variety of tours and families make for a different experience each time you go. You just have to accept that on any given visit, you’re getting a small slice of a richly layered story of lives gone by.
103 Orchard Street, Manhattan (plus museum building at 97 Orchard Street)
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Australia's Plantation Inventory is an annual update of timber plantation areas in each state and territory highlighting trends in plantation development. The National Plantation Inventory is part of the National Forest Inventory and has been reporting on Australia's timber plantations since 1993.
In 2009, the total area of Australia’s plantation estate increased by 2.4%, from 1.97 million to 2.02 million hectares. That area is comprised of about 0.99 million hectares (49%) of hardwood species, 1.02 million hectares (51%) of softwood species and a small area of mixed plantings.
49 658 hectares of new plantations were reported established in 2009, 31% less than in 2008. The new area comprised 43 231 hectares of hardwoods and 6427 hectares of softwoods.
In the past ten years the total plantation area has increased by about 51%. The increase is mostly hardwood plantations, the area of which increased by more than 150% in ten years while the softwood plantation area increased by 8%.
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Tag Archives: Wonderland Days
Pacthesis Retrospective
If you haven’t heard of Pacthesis, allow me to enlighten you. She has a account on Deviantart.com. She can be found here. She creates art and video games. Her video games are mostly Sim dates. They are also really good.
In this part, I will talk about her sim dates:
Anime Date series.
I’m grouping these three together because they’re very similar. An Interesting thing to note is that Anime Sim Dat 1.0 is the only game in Pacthesis’s sim date series in which you play a guy trying to form a relationship with a girl. In the other games it’s the opposite.
Looking back, they aren’t the best of the series, but they’re not bad. The writing’s kinda stiff, and it’s well, sorta dull. The art is obviously done in Flash.
However, in these three games alone you can see improvement. In 2.5, the boys start to have more of a personalty, and there are more endings.
Festival Days
Used my computer to take a screenshot
This game has many firsts. It was the first game to be titled “Something Days”, which became the standard theme of the names from this sim date on.
Secondly, It was the first game that truly had a story. While Anime Sim Date 2.5 took strides to do this, Festival Days has multiple story lines. Other characters are introduced, and it wasn’t just about trying to get into a relationship.
Finally, the art is much improved. It’s clearly still one of her earlier works, but it’s visually appealing.
Wonderland Days
Pacthesis. Wonderland Days Promo Poster. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
Ah, Wonderland Days. This was the first game of Pacthesis’ that I played. I have fond memories of this game. This is still one of my favorite games created by her.
This game is perfect for a new player. It’s the first game that has different dialogue for your choices, instead of having everyone say the same dialogue for when you say the right thing or not. The art is wonderful. There is proper shading, and everything looks more professional.
I also love the music used, even though it’s stock music.
Pacthesis also photoshopped the image below. I’d totally buy these if they were real.
Pacthesis. Wonderland Days figures. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
Idol Days
Pacthesis. Idol Days Promo Poster. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
This one I do like, but it’s not one of my favorites. The characters are nice. The music theme works. It plays pretty similar to Wonderland Days, but you have to also work on your music playing.
One thing I liked was how the main character had a lot of personality. In the previous games, the main character was a little bland. In this game, however, she expresses a lot of her personality.
I also liked how this game lacks a true bad ending. There are good endings, mind you, but just because you somehow don’t hook up with one of the boys doesn’t mean you fail at the game.
Kingdom Days
Pacthesis. Kingdom Days Promo Poster. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
I’ll be frank. Kingdom Days is my least favorite of the series. It’s not bad. I’ve grown to like the game more with time.
This being my least favorite game might be the bad first experience I had with it. When I first played the game, I felt confused. One example was the magic system. It was clunky, and poorly made. I also felt that the story was a bit, confusing. I could clearly tell she was experimenting with the format, but some of the ideas don’t work.
To be fair, the characters are nice, but the only one who stood out for me was Ferris.
Chrono Days
Pacthesis. Chrono Days Promo Poster. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
For a long time, this was my favorite. It’s not anymore, but it’s still held in high regard.
This is where Pacthesis really hits her stride. Every character is written well. For the first time, cutscenes are played, which is a treat. It’s also cool to see the main character on screen during gameplay, instead of rare occasions. This is also the first game in which there is a female love interest. It’s really cool.
If I have one complaint, it’s the endings. In this game, if you don’t get enough relationship with someone, you get no ending. You’re just told to play the game again and do better. It feels kinda cheap not to have a bad ending.
Lunar Days
Pacthesis. Lunar Days Sim Date Promo Poster. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
This feels like what Kingdom Days should have been. For the first time, the stories are intertwined. Instead of briefly cameoing in other story lines, several characters stories are intertwined.
The setting and story are all fascinating. It’s one of the more complex ones, though it does have this scene….
DOWN THE HATCH!
Taken while I was playing the game.
The characters are really well written, and I ended up playing the game multiple times to see what each path had to offer.
Memory Days
Pacthesis. Memory Days Sim Date Promo Poster. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
This game is unique. It’s a remake of the Anime Sim Dates. It surpasses them easily. The art is beautiful, the characters are fantastic, and the game is very nice.
It definitely expands on the originals. There is much more chemistry between the characters. It also helps that the main character is much more well developed than in the original.
The game is also formatted very nice, taking place over the course of a school year
Number Days
Pacthesis. Number Days Promo Poster. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
This, without a doubt, is now my favorite of her games. The charters are perfect, the story is written wonderfully, and I just love it.
Everyone has a place in the story. My favorite ending in the game features every character, and no romance whatsoever!
I also love the chibi look used for most of the game. Yes, some parts use the traditional style, but it mostly looks like this:
(This actually happens in the game)
Pacthesis. Oh shiiiiiiiii. Digital Image. Deviantart. Deviantart. Web. 30 Oct 2014.
And It is glorious.
As you can see. I love these games. Unfortunately, Pacthesis is currently on hiatus. Let’s not forget the wonderful games she made, however!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Anime Sim date, Chrono Days, Festival days, Game, Idol Days, Lunar Days, Memory Days, Number Days, Pacthesis, Sim Date, Wonderland Days on October 30, 2014 by admin.
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The feasibility of bomb radiocarbon analysis to support an age-at-length relationship for red abalone, Haliotis rufescens swainson in northern California,
Cited By (since 1996):2, Downloaded from: www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.2983/0730-8000-27.5.1177 (3 July 2014)., , , ,
Leaf, Andrews, Cailliet, Brown
Age estimation and lead-radium dating of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea,
Cited By (since 1996):5, , , ,
Brooks, Andrews, Ashford, Ramanna, Jones, Lundstrom, Cailliet
Growth rate and age determination of bamboo corals from the northeastern Pacific Ocean using refined 210Pb dating,
Bamboo corals from Davidson Seamount and from the Gulf of Alaska were aged using a refined 210Pb dating technique. The goal was to determine growth rates and age for several bamboo corals with higher precision. Radiometric results for 2 Davidson Seamount corals (Keratoisis sp.) converged on a radial growth rate of ∼0.055 mm yr-1. One colony was aged at 98 ± 9 yr, with an average axial growth rate of ∼0.7 cm yr -1. The age of a large colony was >145 yr with an estimated axial growth rate of 0.14 to 0.28 cm yr-1. Inconsistent rates may indicate nonlinear axial growth. A Keratoisis sp. specimen from the Gulf of Alaska was aged at 116 ± 29 yr from a radial growth rate of ∼0.056 mm yr -1, which led to an average axial growth rate of ∼1.0 cm yr -1. An Isidella tentaculum colony was aged at 53 ± 10 yr and grew most rapidly with a radial growth rate of ∼0.10 mm yr-1 and an average axial growth rate of ∼1.4 cm yr-1; however, the 210Pb decay pattern may have provided evidence for either a hiatus in radial growth or environmental changes in 210Pb. Our findings of slow growth and long life compared favorably with other bamboo coral studies and provided age estimates with greater precision. The high longevity of bamboo coral is an indication that recovery from disturbance or removal may take decades to a century. These age data provide a basis for a defensible position on the protection of bamboo coral and essential information for describing other life history characteristics., Cited By (since 1996):12, CODEN: MESED, ,
Andrews, Stone, Lundstrom, Devogelaere
Age and growth of the pacific grenadier (Coryphaenoides acrolepis) with age estimate validation using an improved radiometric ageing technique,
Current and historic longevity estimates for the Pacific grenadier (Coryphaenoides acrolepis) range from 6 to greater than 60 years. Age estimates in this study using growth increment counts in thin otolith sections indicate the Pacific grenadier is a long-lived fish. To validate this growth information, age was determined using the radioactive disequilibria of 210Pb and 226Ra in otolith cores from adult Pacific grenadier. Radiometric ages closely agreed with age estimates from counting growth increments, which confirms their annual periodicity. Radiometric results indicate the Pacific grenadier can live at least 55.8 years (-7.4, +10.1 years). Growth increment counts from large fish indicate longevity may approach 73 years. Because the Pacific grenadier is long-lived and matures late in life, it may be vulnerable to heavy fishing pressure. Therefore, conservation measures need to be taken to sustain this rapidly developing fishery., Cited By (since 1996):39, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: CJFSD, ,
Andrews, Cailliet, Coale
Fish faunal and habitat analyses using trawls, camera sleds and submersibles in benthic deep-sea habitats off central California,
Beam trawl, camera sled and submersible data from 2 000-3 300 m off central California produced similar fish faunal composition, but different density estimates. All species caught in trawls were observed in camera-sled and submersible observations. However, some rare species that were observed were not caught in trawls. The fish fauna was dominated by the families Macrouridae, Zoarcidae, Moridae, and Rajidae. Fishes both trawled and observed were the macrourids Coryphaenoides armatus, C. filifer and C. leptolepis; the zoarcids Bothrocara spp., Pachycara lepinium and Lycenchelys spp.; the morid Antimora microlepis; the rajid Bathyraja trachura, the ophidiid Spectrunculus grandis, and the liparidid Careproctus ovigerum. One unidentified liparidid (Paraliparis sp.) and two unidentified Lycenchelys spp. were trawled and may have been seen but also could not be identified to species from photographs. Observed only in photographs were the liparidids Paraliparis rosaceus and Careproctus melanurus, synodontid Bathysaurus mollis, and notocanthid Notacanthus chemnitzii. These three techniques differed in their ability to provide specimens for accurate identification, counts, and later life history (feeding habit, age and growth, and reproduction) studies, and to provide information on dispersion, habitat utilization, behavior and interactions. Accurate density estimates were undoubtedly hampered by trawl and camera sled avoidance, escape, and uncertainties concerning the area trawled. Camera sleds produced higher (and perhaps better) estimates of density. Submersible observations from the DSV Alvin produced a similar species list but little additional, quantitative information. Both visual techniques allowed habitat characterization, but no strong faunal associations with habitat types were observed., Cited By (since 1996):29, CODEN: OCACD, ,
Cailliet, Andrews, Wakefield, Moreno, Rhodes
Assessment of radiometric dating for age validation of deep-water dogfish (Order: Squaliformes) finspines
Vertebrae of most deep-water sharks are too poorly calcified to record visible growth bands and therefore are not useful for age determination. Most dogfish species (Order: Squaliformes) possess dorsal finspines and several recent studies have shown that these structures offer potential for age determination. Age validation should be central to any age determination study, yet to date no age and growth study of deep-water sharks has included a complete validation of age estimates. In this study we sought to age two deep-water dogfish species by analyzing 210Pb and 226Ra incorporated into the internal dentin of the finspines. These radiometric age estimates were compared with counts of internal growth bands observed in the finspines. A pilot study indicated that dorsal finspines of Centroselachus crepidater are too small and thus offer insufficient mass for the radiometric techniques employed in this study. For ageing larger finspines of Centrophorus squamosus, the lead-radium disequilibria method (ingrowth of 210Pb from 226Ra) was found to be inapplicable due to exogenous uptake of 210Pb in the finspine. Therefore, to approximate age, we measured the decay of 210Pb within the dentin material at the tip of the finspine (formed in utero), relative to the terminal material at the base of the finspine. Results with this method proved to be inconsistent and did not yield reliable age estimates. Hence the use of 210Pb and 226Ra for radiometric age determination and validation using dorsal finspines from these deep-water dogfishes was deemed unsuccessful. This outcome was likely due to violations of the consistent, life-long isotopic uptake assumption as well as the provision that the finspine must function as a closed system for these radioisotopes. Future improvements in analytical precision will allow for smaller samples to be analyzed, potentially yielding a better understanding of the fate of these radioisotopes within finspine dentin throughout the life of the shark. © 2013 Elsevier B.V., Fish and Fisheries
Cotton, Andrews, Cailliet, Grubbs, Irvine, Musick
Application of bomb radiocarbon chronologies to shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) age validation,
Age estimation is an issue for the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, because of disagreement on vertebral band-pair deposition periodicity. In the 1950s-1960s, thermonuclear testing released large amounts of radiocarbon into the atmosphere, which diffused into the ocean through gas exchange. This influx created a time-specific marker that can be used in age validation. Annual band-pair deposition in the porbeagle, Lamna nasus, was validated in a previous study and indicated preliminary annual deposition in the shortfin mako, using four samples from one vertebra. In the present study, age estimates from 54 shortfin mako vertebrae collected in 1950-1984 ranged 1-31 years. Ageing error between readers was consistent, with 76% of the estimates ranging within 2 years. Twenty-one Δ14C values from eight shortfin mako vertebrae (collected in the western North Atlantic in 1963-1984) ranged -154.8‰ to 86.8‰. The resulting conformity with the Δ14C timeline for the porbeagle supported annual band-pair deposition in vertebrae of the shortfin mako. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., Cited By (since 1996):19, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: EBFID, ,
Ardizzone, Cailliet, Natanson, Andrews, Kerr, Brown
Age validation of canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) using two independent otolith techniques,
Canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) have long been an important part of recreational and commercial rockfish fishing from south-east Alaska to southern California, but localised stock abundances have declined considerably. Based on age estimates from otoliths and other structures, lifespan estimates vary from ∼20 years to over 80 years. For the purpose of monitoring stocks, age composition is routinely estimated by counting growth zones in otoliths; however, age estimation procedures and lifespan estimates remain largely unvalidated. Typical age validation techniques have limited application for canary rockfish because they are deep-dwelling and may be long-lived. In this study, the unaged otolith of the pair from fish aged at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada was used in one of two age validation techniques: (1) lead-radium dating and (2) bomb radiocarbon (14C) dating. Age estimate accuracy and the validity of age estimation procedures were validated based on the results from each technique. Lead-radium dating proved successful in determining that a minimum estimate of lifespan was 53 years and provided support for age estimation procedures up to ∼50-60 years. These findings were further supported by Δ14C data, which indicated that a minimum estimate of lifespan was 44 ± 3 years. Both techniques validate, to differing degrees, age estimation procedures and provide support for inferring that canary rockfish can live more than 80 years. © CSIRO 2007., Cited By (since 1996):12, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: AJMFA, ,
Andrews, Kerr, Cailliet, Brown, Lundstrom, Stanley
Age and growth of two genera of deep-sea bamboo corals (Family Isididae) in New Zealand waters,
We provide a detailed description of growth zone counts at two locations in the skeletal structure of four bamboo coral colonies (Family Isididae, sub-family Keratoisidinae, genera Lepidisis spp. and Keratoisis sp. from New Zealand). Zone counts were made microscopically on skeletal cross-sections of calcareous internodes producing counts of up to 90 for Lepidisis spp. and 160 for Keratoisis sp. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images taken of cross-sections at the junction of the calcareous internode and gorgonin node revealed clear zone resolution and produced counts that were substantially higher (a maximum 490 zones). Lead-210 dating was applied to the skeletal structure of one specimen of Lepidisis sp. to develop an independent estimate of age and growth. Radial micro-sampling of the skeletal carbonate indicated the age of the colony at the largest section (7.4 mm average radius) was 43 yrs old (26-61 yrs 95% CI), with an average radial growth rate of 0.18 mm yr -1 (0.13-0.29 mm yr-1 95% CI). Comparisons between the three age estimates for Lepidisis sp. were made and it was hypothesized that zones observed by light microscope have a bi-annual periodicity and that SEM-observed zones at the nodal juncture may represent an environmental event, such as lunar periodicity. © 2007 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science of the University of Miami., Cited By (since 1996):25, Invertebrates, CODEN: BMRSA, ,
Tracey, Neil, Marriott, Andrews, Cailliet, Sanchez
Radiometric age validation of the yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) from southeastern Alaska,
Andrews, Cailliet, Coale, Munk, Mahoney, O'Connell
Age, growth and radiometric age validation of a deep-sea, habitat-forming gorgonian (Primnoa resedaeformis) from the Gulf of Alaska,
Sustainable fisheries require (1) viable stock populations with appropriate harvest limits and (2) appropriate habitat for fish to survive, forage, seek refuge, grow and reproduce. Some deep-water habitats, such as those formed by deep-water stands of coral, may be vulnerable to fishing disturbance. The rate at which habitat can be restored is a critical aspect of fishery management. The purpose of this study was to characterize growth rates for a habitat-forming deep-sea coral. Two nearly complete colonies of red tree coral (Primnoa resedaeformis) collected from waters off southeast Alaska were used for an analysis of age and growth characteristics. CAT scans revealed that colonies consisted of multiple settlement events, where older basal structures provided for settlement of new colonies. The decay of 210Pb over the length of the colony was used to validate age estimates from growth ring counts. Age estimates were over 100 yr for sections near the heavily calcified base. Based on validated growth ring counts, growth of red tree coral ranged from 1.60 to 2.32 cm per year in height and was approximately 0.36 mm per year in diameter. These growth rates suggest that the fishery habitat created by red tree coral is extremely vulnerable to bottom fishing activities and may take over 100 years to recover., Cited By (since 1996):69, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: HYDRB, ,
Andrews, Cordes, Mahoney, Munk, Coale, Cailliet, Heifetz
Bomb radiocarbon dating of the endangered white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni): Investigations of age, growth and lifespan
Understanding basic life-history characteristics of white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni), such as estimated lifespan, is critical to making informed decisions regarding the recovery of this endangered species. All predictive modelling tools used to forecast the status and health of populations following restoration activities depend on a validated estimate of adult lifespan. Of the seven Haliotis species in California, white abalone is considered to have the highest extinction risk and was the first marine invertebrate listed as an endangered species under the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). Lifespan was previously estimated from observations of early growth; however, no study has generated ages for the largest white abalone. To address questions of age and growth, bomb radiocarbon (Δ14C) dating was used on shells from large white abalone. Measured bomb Δ14C levels were compared to regional Δ14C reference records to provide estimates of age, growth and lifespan. Bomb radiocarbon dating indicated that growth was variable among individuals, with a maximum estimated age of 27 years. The findings presented here provide support for previous age and growth estimates and an estimated lifespan near 30 years. These age data support the perception of a critical need for restoring the remnant aging and potentially senescent population. © CSIRO 2013., Fish & Fisheries, CODEN: AJMFA
Andrews, Leaf, Rogers-Bennett, Neuman, Hawk, Cailliet
Using x-ray microscopy and Hg L3 XANES to study Hg binding in the rhizosphere of spartina cordgrass,
San Francisco Bay has been contaminated historically by mercury from mine tailings as well as contemporary industrial sources. Native Spartina foliosa and non-native S. alterniflora-hybrid cordgrasses are dominant florae within the SF Bay estuary environment. Understanding mercury uptake and transformations in these plants will help to characterize the significance of their roles in mercury biogeochemical cycling in the estuarine environment. Methylated mercury can be biomagnified up the food web, resulting in levels in sport fish up to 1 million times greater than in surrounding waters and resulting in advisories to limit fish intake. Understanding the uptake and methylation of mercury in the plant rhizosphere can yield insight into ways to manage mercury contamination. The transmission X-ray microscope on beamline 6-2 at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) was used to obtain absorption contrast images and 3D tomography of Spartina foliosa roots that were exposed to 1 ppm Hg (as HgCl2) hydroponically for 1 week. Absorption contrast images of micrometer-sized roots from S. foliosa revealed dark particles, and dark channels within the root, due to Hg absorption. 3D tomography showed that the particles are on the root surface, and slices from the tomographic reconstruction revealed that the particles are hollow, consistent with microorganisms with a thin layer of Hg on the surface. Hg L3 XANES of ground-up plant roots and Hg L3 micro-XANES from microprobe analysis of micrometer-sized roots (60-120 μm in size) revealed three main types of speciation in both Spartina species: Hg-S ligation in a form similar to Hg(II) cysteine, Hg-S bonding as in cinnabar and metacinnabar, and methylmercury- carboxyl bonding in a form similar to methylmercury acetate. These results are interpreted within the context of obtaining a "snapshot" of mercury methylation in progress. © 2009 American Chemical Society., Cited By (since 1996):27, CODEN: ESTHA, ,
Patty, Barnett, Mooney, Kahn, Levy, Liu, Pianetta, Andrews
Bomb radiocarbon and lead-radium disequilibria in otoliths of bocaccio rockfish (Sebastes paucispinis),
Longevity estimates for the bocaccio rockfish (Sebastes paucispinis) using traditional techniques range from less than 20 years to approximately 50 years. Otoliths of bocaccio are difficult to age, and previous attempts to validate ages have been unsuccessful. Because otolith age suggests the bocaccio are reasonably long-lived, lead-radium dating was used in an attempt to independently age bocaccio otoliths. The measured 210Pb and 226Ra activities were among the lowest reported and resulted in poor radiometric age resolution; however, the break-and-burn technique clearly underestimated age in some cases with the longevity of the bocaccio being at least 31 years. To provide better age resolution, the bomb radiocarbon approach was applied to individual otoliths. Based on measured radiocarbon levels relative to a reference time-series, several specimens were aged at approximately 30-40 years. To evaluate these determinations, the remaining otolith of the pair was sectioned and aged blind. The result was an excellent fit to the reference time-series and a validation of the age estimates. The maximum age from growth zone counts was 37 ± 2 years, which is consistent with a reported maximum age of approximately 50 years. © CSIRO 2005., Cited By (since 1996):18, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: AJMFA, ,
Andrews, Burton, Kerr, Cailliet, Coale, Lundstrom, Brown
The yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus), a dominant component of an important deep-water rockfish fishery of the Gulf of Alaska, is thought to be long-lived with an estimated longevity exceeding 100 years. For the purpose of monitoring stocks, age is routinely estimated by counting growth zones in otolith cross-sections using the break-and-burn technique; however, such age estimates for this species have remained unvalidated. To evaluate these age data, age estimations from the break-and-burn technique were corroborated by comparing results from transverse sectioning of otoliths. The agreement between the techniques was excellent and each technique had a very low coefficient of variation (3.6% and 4.5%). Radiometric age validation of these estimates was performed on the otolith core material (first three years of growth) of pooled age groups having an average estimated age of 27.4-101.4 years. Agreement was variable and somewhat subjective, but radiometric data support ages estimated from otolith growth zone counts. The strongest support for age that exceeds 100 years comes from the observation that as age derived from growth zones approached and exceeded 100 years, the sample ratios measured (210Pb:226Ra) approached equilibrium. The radiometric results of our study validate the estimates derived from growth zones and the age estimating procedures, which confirms that the longevity of yelloweye rockfish exceeds 100 years., Cited By (since 1996):22, CODEN: AJMFA, ,
Lead-radium dating provides a framework for coordinating age estimation of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) between fishing areas,
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) or 'Chilean sea bass' support a valuable and controversial fishery, yet their life history is not well understood and longevity estimates range from ∼20 to > 50 years. In this study, lead-radium dating provided valid ages for juvenile to older adult groups, which were consistent with the counting of otolith growth zones in transverse otolith sections, and longevity estimates exceeding 30 years. Lead-radium dating revealed minor biases between the radiometric age and interpretation of growth zone counting for regional fishing areas monitored by two facilities, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology (CQFE) and the Central Ageing Facility (CAF), using different age estimation techniques. For CQFE, under-ageing of ∼3.3 years was observed for individuals with estimated ages under 20 years. For the CAF, ages were overestimated for young fish and underestimated for the oldest fish. Lead-radium dating detected underlying problems in coordinating age estimation between geographically separated fish stocks, and provided a framework to objectively assess otolith interpretation and growth modelling between laboratories based on age-validated data. © CSIRO 2011., Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: AJMFA, ,
Andrews, Ashford, Brooks, Krusic-Golub, Duhamel, Belchier, Lundstrom, Cailliet
Radiocarbon in otoliths of yelloweye rockfish (Sebasfes ruberrimus): A reference time series for the coastal waters of southeast Alaska,
Atmospheric testing of thermonuclear devices during the 1950s and 1960s created a global radiocarbon (14C) signal that has provided a useful tracer and chronological marker in oceanic systems and organisms. The bomb-generated 14C signal retained in fish otoliths can be used as a time-specific recorder of the 14C present in ambient seawater, making it a useful tool in age validation of fishes. The goal of this study was to determine 14C in otoliths of the age-validated yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) to establish a reference time series for the coastal waters of southeast Alaska. Radiocarbon values from the first year's growth of 43 yelloweye rockfish otoliths plotted against estimated birth year produced a 14C time series (1940-1990) for these waters. The initial rise of 14C occurred in 1958 and 14C levels rose to peak values (60-70‰) between 1966 and 1971, with a subsequent declining trend through the end of the record in 1990 (-3.2‰). In addition, the 14C data confirmed the longevity of the yelloweye rockfish to a minimum of 44 years and strongly support higher age estimates. This 14C time series will be useful for the interpretation of 14C accreted in biological samples from these waters., Cited By (since 1996):24, CODEN: CJFSD, ,
Kerr, Andrews, Frantz, Coale, Brown, Cailliet
Bomb radiocarbon and tag-recapture dating of sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus),
The sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) was the cornerstone species of western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico large coastal shark fisheries until 2008 when they were allocated to a research-only fishery. Despite decades of fishing on this species, important life history parameters, such as age and growth, have not been well known. Some validated age and growth information exists for sandbar shark, but more comprehensive life history information is needed. The complementary application of bomb radiocarbon and tag-recapture dating was used in this study to determine valid age-estimation criteria and longevity estimates for this species. These two methods indicated that current age interpretations based on counts of growth bands in vertebrae are accurate to 10 or 12 years. Beyond these years, we could not determine with certainty when such an underestimation of age begins; however, bomb radiocarbon and tag-recapture data indicated that large adult sharks were considerably older than the estimates derived from counts of growth bands. Three adult sandbar sharks were 20 to 26 years old based on bomb radiocarbon results and were a 5- to 11-year increase over the previous age estimates for these sharks. In support of these findings, the tag-recapture data provided results that were consistent with bomb radiocarbon dating and further supported a longevity that exceeds 30 years for this species., Cited By (since 1996):3, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: FSYBA, ,
Andrews, Natanson, Kerr, Burgess, Cailliet
Recent increase in atmospheric deposition of mercury to California aquatic systems inferred from a 300-year geochronological assessment of lake sediments,
Age-dated sediment cores from 4 remote lakes across California were analyzed for total Hg (Hg T) concentration as a function of pre- and post-industrialization. Particle size, magnetic susceptibility and organic C and N, were measured to determine if the Hg concentration in sediment cores could be related to atmospheric deposition and/or watershed processes. Results indicate that (a) for each lake modern (1970-2004) Hg T lake sediment concentrations have increased by an average factor of 5 times more than historic (pre-1850) Hg T concentrations; (b) the ratio of modern to pre-industrial lake sediment Hg T for these lakes are higher than estimated for other locations where atmospheric deposition is presumed to be the main source of Hg; (c) 2 of the 4 studied lakes demonstrated significant relationships between Hg T concentrations and percentage organic material (r 2 = 0.68 and p < 0.01; r 2 = 0.67 and p < 0.01) whereas the other two indicated no significant relationship (r 2 = 0.05 and p = 0.51; r 2 = 0.12 and p = 0.36). © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):13, CODEN: APPGE, ,
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Eight New Companies to Launch at Health 2.0’s Annual Fall Conference
September 28, 2012 - By Jennifer Lee
Health 2.0 will unveil eight brand new health technology companies at the Launch! session on October 9th, during its Sixth Annual Fall Conference in San Francisco. During the popular session, each of the eight startups will present their products in a series of rapid-fire, back-to-back, four-minute demos. Through a live voting round, the audience will award one astounding company a spot on the main stage at Health 2.0’s Seventh Annual Fall Conference.
Since 2008, Health 2.0 has premiered 65 innovative companies on what has become the industry’s preeminent platform to launch. Launch! alumni include notables WSJ’s 2010 top startup Castlight Health, and consumer biometric monitor Basis.
Here’s a preview of the companies’ making their first appearance on the public stage:
EveryMove
Russell Benaroya, Co-Founder & CEO, will present a platform to get rewards from insurance companies, employers, and brands for being healthier.
First Stop Health
Patrick Spain, co-founder and CEO, will present a tool to consult with your PCP and board-certified specialists, 24/7.
LifeVest Health
Jon Cooper, CEO, will present a platform that allows you and others to invest in your health, with biometric analytics provided along the way.
MeQuilibrium
Jan Bruce, Founder and CEO, will present a tool for stress reduction.
Mobricratic
Travis Good, CEO, will present a HIPPA compliant medical education tool for doctors to share thoughts, images, or questions a la Pinterest.
Share the Visit
Elise Singer, Co-Founder & CEO, will present a tool that allows family members and caregivers to televisit at a patient’s medical appointment.
TicTrac
Martin Blinder, Founder, will present a tool that allows you to track life’s mini projects that includes integration with RunKeeper, Foursquare, and Withings.
Unfrazzle
Rajiv Mehta, CEO, will present an app that allows caregivers to coordinate care of a loved one between family members and the care team.
Watch these startups launch and compete for main stage glory at the Sixth Annual Fall Conference. Register here.
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Do names portend the future?; HUH!?
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | • Recent Newsmakers: In a Christmas Eve alcohol-related auto accident in Buffalo, N.Y., the injured victims included Chad Beers, and the man charged was Richard Booze Jr.
In Burnett County, Wis., in October, Scott Martini, 51, was arrested for suspicion of DUI, which would be his fourth offense.
In Madison, Wis., in January, police filed weapon and drug charges against the 30-year-old man who had legally changed his name to Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop.
And charged with vandalism of a Rhode Island state troopers' barracks in November was the 27-year-old Mr. Wanker Rene.
[Buffalo News, 12-31-2011] [WQOW-TV (Eau Claire, Wis.), 10-17-2011] [WISC-TV (Madison), 1-6-2012] [Rhode Island Government Press Release, 11-27-2011]
• A November Comtel airlines charter flight from India to Birmingham, England, stopped in Vienna, Austria, to refuel, but the pilots learned that Comtel's account was overdrawn and that the airport required the equivalent of about $31,000 for refueling and take-off charges, and thus, if the passengers were in a hurry, they needed to come up with the cash.
After a six-hour standoff, many of the 180 passengers were let off the plane, one by one, to visit an ATM, and eventually a settlement was reached. [Associated Press via MSNBC, 11-17-2011]
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A city that cares.
Fazilka Clock Tower (Photo Credits: Ashish Gumber)
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Fazilka - Town of learned people
170 year old historical town Fazilka is located in southwestern Punjab (INDIA), about 325 kms west of Punjab State Capital Chandigarh, 405 km east of the National Capital New Delhi and 200 km south of Amritsar. Fazilka is on India -Pakistan border and is 11 km off the international border with Pakistan. River Satluj flows at the eastern side of Fazilka parallel to India Pakistan border. It is situated on the rice growing and cotton rich belt of the state and is one of the major rice exporting centers in India. Before partition, the town was the biggest wool market in undivided Punjab. Fazilka is a city and a municipal council in Punjab, India. In 2011, it was made the headquarters of the newly created Fazilka district by Government of Punjab vide their Gazette Notification No. 1/1/2011-RE-II (I)/14554 dated July 27, 2011. As per 2011 Census of India, Fazilka city population is 76,492, constitutes 40,306 Male and 36,186 Female with sex ratio 898 females per 1000 males.
Fazilka's origin dates back to AD 1844. It was established by Mr. Oliver and was christened after the original owner of the land, Mian Fazil Watoo. The first railway line through the town was setup in AD 1898 on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee celebration of the accession of Queen Victoria. Being at the border, Fazilka also had to bear the brunt of the two Indo-Pak wars of 1965 and 1971.
The famous 'Tosha' sweets have its origin in Fazilka. The first single cylinder steam ship in the world, Fazilka, was named after this town. Fazilka is also home to the second biggest TV tower in Asia, which stands at 305 m above the ground.
Amritsar International Airport and Ludhiana and Bathinda Domestic Airport serve Fazilka. Fazilka Railway Station is located on Abhor- Ferozepur Region of Northern Railways. National Highway 7 passes through Fazilka.
Architecture and Town Planning of Fazilka
India’s smallest big town Fazilka is a fusion of the ancient and the modern. Standing along the East End River Satluj, unwinds a picture rich with culture, architecture and human diversity, deep in history, monuments, gardens and exotic food culture of the city. Comprising of two contrasting yet harmonious parts, Rural and Urban life, the city is a one of the finest travel destination of border region of Punjab, India. Narrating the city's British Past, Fazilka city centre, takes you through the Union Jack aerial view-Grid Iron road patter streets passing through formidable Methodist church, famous clock tower and car-free market area. You will also discover lively and colorful bazaars that boast to cater all sorts of good and items at mind-blowing prices amidst a barely controlled chaotic ambience. The central part of Fazilka displays the finely curved architecture of British Raj.
Walk through from Wool Market starting from Ram Narayan Pediwal clock tower, generates a mesmerizing charm reflecting well-composed and spacious streets under the shade of beautifully lined, architecturally rich avenues and low rise buildings. The architectural features of the wool market have been especially designed in the traditional north Indian style, with mud-brickwork load bearing wall construction and stone roofs. During Fazilka Heritage Festival time nightfall, Fazilka city centre is dramatically floodlit and light music make a lovely display with coloured lights.
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This is a very informative website and us Indian/Australians thank you for providing us the opportunity to read about such a beautiful town. Please keep updating it.
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The Real Mother of Marilyn Monroe
May 1, 2017 / By luciole
An American Premier opening May 26th!
Staging the story of one of the most iconic figures and myths of the twentieth century, a few days before her death in the summer of 1962, this brilliant psychological thriller gives voice to the cathartic confrontation between Marilyn Monroe and her ageing mother Gladys Baker in a life-or-death scenario. As secrets are revealed and the characters transform, Marilyn’s public identity gives way to an identity crisis of “misfit” vs.“superstar” that resonates deeply with today’s contemporary media- driven culture and many of our fears as a society. The play often touches on important social issues and women’s’ sexuality, even if it means damaging the already fractured relationship between mother and daughter. It is then that we begin to wonder, though things are not always what they appear to be, who was the real mother of Marilyn Monroe?
Writer Anne Fleche reflects on the play saying: “The relation of film to theatre here exemplifies Rosa’s creative use of the borrowed quality of myth – it’s layered identities that resonate in the culture, underwriting belief, and provoking a polysemy of identity that approaches the paranoiac. (…) Rosa’s theatre is a theatre of transformation, regeneration.” Marvin Carlson, one of the greatest theatre theorists of our time comments Rosa’s work in his writings about theatre and American subjects: “The plays of Armando Nascimento Rosa have covered a remarkable range of subject matter (…), they have always featured richly drawn characters and a creative originality that approaches even familiar figures of history and legend from fascinating and unexpected new directions.”
Armando Nascimento Rosa is one of Portugal’s most successful 21st century playwrights and the recipient of a number of prestigious European awards, including the Ribeiro da Fonte Revelation Theatre Prize, Albufeira Drama Prize, and Bernardo Santareno National Theatre Award. Global productions and staged readings of his plays have been held in Barcelona, London, Madrid, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Zurich and on stages in the USA, Including NYC, Chicago, and New Orleans.
He will be joining us from Portugal for the American premiere of The Real Mother of Marilyn Monroe. We will be holding talk backs and other exciting events with Armando so that audiences will have many opportunities to engage with our international theatre community. Luciole International Theatre Company could not be more thrilled for this project and expect that Houston will be surprised with the ride Armando takes us on in “The Real Mother of Marilyn Monroe”.
Translated by Susannah Finzi
Directed by Clara Ploux
Assistant directed by Camron Alexander
Cast: Rachel Ollagnon, Heidi Hinkel, Micah Obregon
Music by Armando Nascimento Rosa, Laura Macedo and Marcelo Silva
Art Projections by Paulo Cabrita
Costumes design by Betsy Larabee
Photography by Pin Lim
Press-Attaché Melissa Flower
This project is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance
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By Robert T. AUSTIN — Texas' approach to sex education isn't working and the State Board of Education needs to revamp health courses to give children more explicit instruction about contraception and sexually transmitted illnesses, two groups said Sex. The state's abstinence-only textbooks and curriculum standards aren't effective, the groups said in their report. InTexas had the seventh-highest teen birth rate, they noted. Inthe state had the nation's highest rate of repeat births to teens.
State youth have high rates of HIV and sexually transmitted illness infections, said the report by Miller's group, which monitors textbooks in the state's public schools, sex the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.
The conservative group Texas Only pushed back forcefully, saying the two groups have a "radical agenda" that State Board of Education members should resist.
The State Board of Education sets the standards, which guide what is included in textbooks. Because of Texas' size, the textbooks adopted here influence materials used in the rest of the country. The Texas board, though, hasn't revised what's taught in health courses since Over the summer, Education Commissioner Mike Morath recommended in broad outline to the State Board of Education sex topics should be covered in health courses.
This week, a board-appointed sex group began drafting the new health standards. More work groups are expected to spend the fall sex winter hammering out a draft.
The member elected board is set to debate and vote on those drafts next year. In Fort Only and Austin, groups of social conservatives are resisting adoption of comprehensive sex education, saying it introduces material suitable only for mature people to children as young as kindergartners. Miller and SIECUS sex director Jennifer Driver, though, urged State Board of Education only and lawmakers — who can ultimately override the board — to resist appeals by what they called a small and vocal minority that promotes ignorance.
They noted that inmore than 1 in 7 female high school students in Texas reported experiencing sexual violence during the previous 12 months. That same year, nearly two-thirds of 12 th -graders reported they'd already sex in sexual intercourse. She said it's taught in comprehensive sex education. Studies show such programs lead to "clear reductions" in unwanted pregnancies, among other benefits, she said.
The groups advocate "age appropriate" instruction about sex relationships, which should begin only kindergarten and the early grades, Driver said. Opponents distort what comprehensive sex education teaches, she said. Meanwhile, though, one health textbook used in Texas lists eight ways to prevent sexually transmitted illnesses but omits mention of condoms, she said.
The textbook does advise students to "get plenty of rest because when you're tired, you don't only clearly," Driver said. Texas has doubled down on pushing abstinence and limiting what else can be taught, the two groups said. That's "even though research shows such programs are not effective and that comprehensive, evidence-based sex education does only lead to increases in sexual activity, delays the decision to begin having sex, and increases the likelihood of using contraception and STI-prevention when a person does have sex," the report said.
That was more than five percentage points only than the national average," the study noted. Miller said too many Texas high school health courses sex condom use, "inaccurately suggesting that they just don't work. Some social conservative activists, though, insist condoms only less effective at preventing the spread of the HIV virus and sexually transmitted illnesses than they are at preventing pregnancy.
In a release, SIECUS and Texas Freedom Network Education Fund said that many abstinence-only programs "promote dangerous stereotypes about gender and sexual assault, ignore or even disparage the existence only LGBT people and ignore or distort information about abortion.
In a written statement, Miller sex, "Our public only can help families by being places where students know they can get reliable answers to their questions without being shamed or judged. And LGBTQ students, just like everyone else, deserve to learn in settings that are inclusive of their experiences and provide accurate information that is relevant to them. Robert T. GarrettAustin Bureau Chief.
Bob has covered state government and politics for The Dallas Morning News since Earlier, he was a statehouse reporter for three newspapers, including the Dallas Times Herald. He covers Gov. Greg Abbott, the state budget, school textbooks and sex welfare. We are currently revamping our comment system and it will return only. Receive the latest political news delivered every Tuesday and Thursday from reporters in Austin, Dallas sex Washington. By signing up you agree only our privacy policy.
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Before I became a dad, sex with my wife was regularly on the docket. I'm only human, and soon the desire came back with a vengeance. Abstinence-only sex education is a form of sex education that teaches not having sex outside of marriage. It often excludes other types of sexual and. In This Section. Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs; Sex Education Laws and State Attacks · How Sex Education is Funded · How Planned Parenthood.
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Learning to call it work
Submitted by stsiang on April 1, 2012 - 11:41am
The other day I called my six year old daughter to dinner with the words “okay, enough play, it’s time to eat”. She put down her marker, gave me a withering look and corrected me in a tone that was eerily familiar, “I’m not playing, mom, I’m working.”
My first instinct, of course, was that patronizing smile all parents are guilty of giving their children. And then I thought of my own “work,” which I put in quotation marks because if you were to divide all the money I’ve ever made through writing by the hours I spend doing it you’d have a sad, sad hourly rate indeed. Before I had a book published I couldn’t bring myself to say I was a writer. What I did, well, it was dabbling (if I was ever cornered into admitting that I wrote). After all, I wasn’t getting paid, so it couldn’t possibly be considered my work.
Before we are published, many of us carry our writing around like a dirty little secret. I felt that admitting I wrote poetry was tantamount to admitting I drew pictures of unicorns and rainbows. A silly way for a grownup to be spending her time.
Before I had any books published, when my manuscript was mired in the slush piles of Canadian publishing, I started to wonder if I had wholly lost my mind. Who was I to think I could possibly write anything that anyone might ever find interesting? Who did I think I was? What did I think I had been doing, all those hours hunched over the computer agonizing over a single word in a ten line poem?
Writers, to my mind, were those confident creatures who went around talking about advances and international rights. Writers were those who easily pulled the sword out the stone and were then rightfully crowned by publishers.
Now, on the other side of that great divide, I can tell you that I am no more and no less a writer that I ever was. I still struggle over the single word in a poem or story. I still wonder if I could ever possibly write anything that anyone might ever find interesting. But now I can finally call it work. When I carve out the time to sit down and write, I no longer preface it with a patronizing smile. Losing yourself in it, ignoring calls for dinner, devoting yourself to something others may find baffling -- I have finally realized that it is the work that makes the writer.
In that spirit, I’d like to share with you one of my favorite poems, by the indomitable Marge Piercy:
For The Young Who Want To
Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
you have is a tedious
delusion, a hobby like knitting.
Work is what you have done
after the play is produced
and the audience claps.
Before that friends keep asking
when you are planning to go
out and get a job.
Genius is what they know you
had after the third volume
of remarkable poems. Earlier
they accuse you of withdrawing,
ask why you don't have a baby,
call you a bum.
The reason people want M.F.A.'s,
take workshops with fancy names
when all you can really
learn is a few techniques,
typing instructions and some-
body else's mannerisms
is that every artist lacks
a license to hang on the wall
like your optician, your vet
proving you may be a clumsy sadist
whose fillings fall into the stew
but you're certified a dentist.
The real writer is one
who really writes. Talent
is an invention like phlogiston
after the fact of fire.
Work is its own cure. You have to
like it better than being loved.
stsiang's blog
Fri January 13, 2012
At The Desk: Nicole Aube
View more items filed under “Creative Process” in our Open Book Archives.
Submitted by clelia on January 13, 2012 - 11:28am
For each book that sits on our shelves or rests in our hands, a writer has spent countless hours researching, organizing, writing and rewriting. In Open Book’s At The Desk series, writers tell us about their creative processes and the workspaces that inspire them.
Nicole Aube, author of Waterbird (Gutter Press) and The Red Lantern (Pandora Press), writes about how the places she writes and her notebooks and pens help her feel connected to her work.
Sarah Tsiang
Sarah Tsiang is the author of A Flock of Shoes (Annick Press, 2010), Sweet Devilry (Oolichan Books, 2011), Dogs Don’t Eat Jam and Other Things Big Kids Know (Annick Press, 2011) and Warriors and Wailers: 100 Ancient Chinese Jobs You Might Have Relished or Reviled (Annick Press, 2012). Her latest picture book, Stone Hatchlings, will be released in fall, 2012.
Go to Sarah Tsiang’s Author Page
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Marriott’s Best In Class Loyalty Program Goes Local At The HK Sevens, Giving Visitors A Chance To Eat Brilliantly
HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - March 27, 2018 - Marriott International has ignited the engine on its third sponsorship of the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Sevens (April 6 -- 8), Hong Kong's biggest sporting event, pulling into the city with a themed pop-up experience at the Sevens Festival at Lee Gardens, aimed at giving members of its best-in-class loyalty program (now combining Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and The Ritz-Carlton Rewards)a stirring local story to tell with each dish they sample from March 30.
Over the course of two consecutive weekends (March 30 -- April 2) and (April 6 -- 8), the general public and rugby fans will get a chance to taste 10 crowd-pleasing dishes at Marriott International's pop-up experience at the Sevens Festival at Lee Gardens.
The pop-up culinary experience gives each rugby fan, international visitor and local Hong Konger a unique taste that has shaped the city, while encouraging the sharing of their stories as they travel brilliantly across the globe using their best-in-class loyalty cards that offer exclusive access to major international culinary, lifestyle, entertainment and sports events.
Award-winning chefs from Renaissance Harbour View Hotel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Skycity Marriott Hotel and Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Shatin will showcase their talents and stories through much-loved local dishes using fresh ingredients.
"Great food is one of the best ways to bring people together anywhere in the world and nowhere is this more apparent than Hong Kong," said Ralph Frehner, Vice President, Food and Beverage, Asia-Pacific, Marriott International. "This unique local food experience will help to amplify memories of Hong Kong's best-loved international sporting event."
Over the course of two consecutive weekends (March 30 -- April 2) and (April 6 -- 8), the general public and rugby fans will get a chance to taste ten crowd-pleasing dishes representing Hong Kong's local flavours:
Executive Chinese Chef Suen Kam Sing of Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel
Salt Baked Chicken Thigh ($60) is a signature dish of the Hakka people who settled in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Often enjoyed as a tea time favourite, visitors to the Lee Gardens pop up will be able to enjoy this traditional specialty created by Dynasty in a new way.
Mini Crabmeat Tart ($60 for two) -- a delightful play on the signature dish from award-winning Dynasty restaurant has been reinvented for the urban food truck.
Dynasty's fragrant blended house tea is creatively reinterpreted into two elevated desserts: Iced House Blend Tea Smoothie ($45) and House Blend Tea Panna Cotta with Kumquate Compote ($55).
Executive Chinese Chef Leong Kit Man of Skycity Marriott Hotel
Reinterpreting classic Cantonese dishes, Black Pepper Wagyu Beef ($65) and Sautéed Prawns with Arrowhead Mushrooms in a rich bean curd sauce ($50), these skewers are grilled to perfection and easy to eat whilst enjoying the outdoor festival.
Specially crafted cocktail beverages on offer include Pinecurrant ($28) -- a refreshing blend of Ribena, Fresh Pineapple Juice and Chopped Pineapple. Ribena has been enjoyed by Hong Kong children for generations since it was introduced into the city 80 years ago.
Executive Chef Wan Kam Wai of Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Shatin
Fried Chicken ($48) is an international street food calling card and Hong Kong does not disappoint with its version served with a choice of one of three sauces -- Chinese Spice, Fermented Red Bean Curd and Citrus and Pomelo Citron.
There's also an homage to Hong Kong's maritime spirit with the Typhoon Shelter Style Fried Pork Shank ($40), rich with nutty garlic, black beans and a hint of spice.
Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Shatin will also be showcasing a signature mocktail R7 ($32). With 'R' representing 'rugby', this refreshing blend includes homemade hawthorn berries and kumquat puree blended with Rose tea, cranberry juice and 7-Up.
For even more excitement at the street festival, the Marriott pop-up themed space will also be placed next to an exciting aquarium prize grab game (teasing guests to the upcoming opening of Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel later this year) for visitors to sign up for the loyalty program and start their journey to experience exclusive benefits and discover how #membersgetmore.
The Hong Kong Sevens is just one of several initiatives in Asia Pacific where members have exclusive access to major culinary, lifestyle, sport and entertainment events. The sponsorship by Marriott's best-in-class loyalty program featuring Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and The Ritz-Carlton Rewards, also includes invitation-only access to the Marriott Executive Suite at the Sevens, the evergreen pre-game concert featuring UB40, as well as opportunities to win tickets online via a fun Facebook game. Video surprises are also being planned with the superstar French international rugby player Sebastien Chabal.
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The Michael D. Johnson Memorial Foundation Athletic Scholarship awards a JPS student a $1,500 annual scholarship to be used towards their college education. We also provide book scholarships of up to $250.00.
Candidates for consideration for Michael D. Johnson Athletic Memorial Scholarship must:
Be a graduating Senior in the Jackson Public School (JPS) system (Jackson, MS)
Be a member of a school sponsored Varsity Athletic Program
Have an overall 2.5 or higher GPA
Be a Metro Jackson resident
Three (3) Recommendations/Letter of Reference (not to include immediate family)
Minimum of 20 Hours of Volunteer Community Service (may be substituted with three (3) months of employment during senior year). Volunteer/community service hours must be confirmed by providing proof of service via signed letter from authored person on organization letterhead.
Each applicant must complete an essay (minimum of 250 words, maximum of 500 words) stating why you should be selected to receive this scholarship. This essay should also include why you like and chose the sport of your choice.
Please return COMPLETED application packet to: mdjohnsonfoundation@gmail.com (If you have any questions, please email or call 769-208-6601.)
The deadline for applicants to apply is: April 15. The Athletic Director or Head Coaches’ at JPS High Schools will screen the nominees and submit the names of candidates to the Scholarship Selection Committee by April 30.The scholarship winner will be selected by May 15. The scholarship winner will be presented with the scholarship at the annual Michael D. Johnson Memorial Foundation Walk on the first Saturday in June @ the Michael D. Johnson Memorial Field (located off Lakeland Drive @ Smith-Wills Stadium).
The Michael D. Johnson Athletic Memorial Scholarship will be given in two separate installments of $750 each per semester. Applicant must provide proof of college enrollment to receive initial $750 scholarship for 1st semester , applicant must provide proof of college enrollment to receive balance of scholarship ($750) for 2nd semester and show proof of grade point average of a minimum of 2.5 or higher.
Applicant must also provide a written detailed letter (via email) to The Michael D. Johnson Athletic Memorial Scholarship Committee mdjohnsonfoundation@gmail.com and vjcrawf@gmail.com outlining the use of scholarship monies by December 31st for 1st semester funds, and due May 31st for 2nd semester funds. This scholarship must be used to assist the recipient in furthering their studies to a college, university or community college of their choice.
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Change Would Come Only When Leaders Lead By Example – Says Lai Mohammed
The Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed says the Federal Government has done “very” well in the fight against corruption and terrorism in the country.
Mohammed said this in Abuja at the weekend.
The minister stated that one major achievement of the Federal Government’s fight against corruption is that for the first time in a long time, people have begun to appreciate the fact that corruption is an ill.
He said that in its anti-corruption war, the present administration would go beyond prosecuting people, to changing the way Nigerians did things.
Mohammed, therefore, said that the government would soon launch its change initiative tagged: “Change begins with me”.
“We did campaign majorly on creating jobs for our youth, building the economy, fighting corruption, and addressing insecurity.
“I think so far we have done very well in the area of fighting insecurity and terrorism; we have done very well in fighting corruption.
“All Nigerians agree that corruption is one of the major ills of this society and one major achievement of this fight against corruption is for the first time in a long time people have begun to appreciate the fact that corruption is really an ill.
“But beyond prosecuting people, this administration is bent on changing the way Nigerians do things.
“And this is why this administration is going to start very soon a massive campaign to re-orientate Nigerians to let them know that they cannot continue to do things the same way and expect different results.
“It is not all about criminalising people, who have been corrupt; of course if you have been corrupt we are going to follow due process; but it is more about a total change, total sanitising of our society.
“We are working very hard to break our campaign, which is `Change begins with me’.
“ Every Nigerian wants change, but they do not know that that change is embedded in them.”
He urged Nigerians to embrace the change initiative in order to promote development at all levels of the society.
The minister said that corruption and indiscipline were worse at the lower level of the society because the people at that level “have no good example to look up to’’.
“Corruption, indiscipline is even worse at the lower level of the stratum and you cannot blamed them, because they have no good example to look up to.
“I think Nigeria is fortunate today that we have a leadership, the President himself, who has shown by his examples that this change is possible.
“But we are not going to leave it to the president alone, we are going to involve everybody; when we show good example it is easier for people to follow.
“And that change would come only when leaders lead by example. When leaders lead by example, it will inspire those who are governed to do the right thing.”
Mohammed also urged Nigerians to always strive to promote the image of the country, saying that marketing the positive aspects of the country would change the way the country was perceived by the international community.
“The challenges Nigeria is facing today are small compared to challenges being faced in other parts of the world.
“Yet this perception in other parts of the world is being managed and nobody really notices them.
“We on our part have to market Nigeria vigorously; we have to look at those areas that are positive and market them while we are addressing and tackling the issues of insurgency here and there.”
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Posted on December 9, 2016 by Nic Haygarth — 19 Comments
Henry Thom Sing, Chinese entrepreneur, and the Arthur River gold rush 1872
Henry Thom Sing, from the Weekly Courier, 30 May 1912, p.22.
A downtown Launceston store is the face of a forgotten immigrant success story. The building at 127 St John Street was commissioned by Ah Sin, aka Henry Thom Sing or Tom Ah Sing, Chinese gold digger, shopkeeper, interpreter and entrepreneur. He was born at Canton, China on 14 March 1844, arriving in Tasmania on the ship Tamar in 1868.[1] Sing appears to have come from to Tasmania from the Victorian goldfields, and he was quick to seize on this experience when the northern Tasmanian alluvial goldfields of Nine Mile Springs (Lefroy), Back Creek and Brandy Creek (Beaconsfield) opened up. Like Launceston’s Peters, Barnard & Co, who hired Chinese miners through Kong Meng & Co in Melbourne, Sing began to recruit Chinese diggers on the Victorian goldfields.[2] His good English skills were an asset in trade and communication, and throughout his time in Launceston his services were drawn upon regularly as an interpreter in court cases involving Chinese speakers as far afield as Wynyard and Beaconsfield.
Circular Head farmer Skelton Emmett had been washing specks of gold in the Arthur River for years before a minor rush was sparked by two sets of brothers, Robert and David Cooper Kay, and Michael and Patrick Harvey, in April 1872.[3] Within three months, 160 miner’s rights had been issued and 70 claims registered.[4]
Claims were spread over about 2 km around the confluence of the Arthur and Hellyer Rivers. The European diggers generally preferred to work ‘beaches’ in the river.[5] Two European claims, the Golden Crown and the Golden Eagle, were on the Arthur downstream of the junction. The Golden Eagle party, who included William Jones and John Durant, strung a suspension bridge consisting of a single two-inch rope across the river in order to work both banks and for easy access: effectively it was a ‘bosun’s chair’ or flying fox. They worked their claim with a sluice box and Californian pump.[6] James West and party’s claim known as the Southern Cross was in a small gully on the southern side of the Arthur. The Kays’ claim was ‘in the gulch of a ravine’ a little further inland from the river. The claim of Frank Long, who later found fame on the Zeehan–Dundas silver field, was further down the same gulch.[7] The British Lion claim of W King was at the junction of the Arthur and the Hellyer, the Harvey brothers’ claim on the Arthur above it.[8] Waters from Circular Head and a man named House also held claims.[9]
Most of the gold obtained in the area by Chinese came from working the sand bars and shallows of the Arthur River. Sing had several roles on the field. Although Seberberg & Co had also engaged Chinese diggers for Tasmania, the 50 or so Chinese at the Arthur appear to have represented only two agents, Sing and Peters, Barnard & Co, both Launceston based.[10] Because he had a Launceston business to maintain, Sing’s time at the diggings would have been limited. He appears to have had two claims which were worked by Chinese parties, and he acted as an interpreter for other parties.[11] He also bought gold from diggers.[12] In November 1872, with the river low enough to permit an attack on its dry bed, both Sing parties engaged in ‘paddocking’, that is, diverting part of or the entire stream by damming it on their claim. On the upper claim the resulting wash dirt was put through a cradle, but the eight men expected to achieve better results when their sluice boxes were complete. Likewise, Lee Hung was building a sluice box.[13] The upper party once took 10 oz of gold in a day.[14] Wha Sing’s claim on the Arthur above the confluence included a vegetable garden, which would have provided his party with both food and cash, since stores would have been at a premium on the isolated field.[15]
One of the Chinese parties was said to have ‘turned’ the Arthur River in order to work its bed. While the Arthur is a large river, this is not as difficult an undertaking as it sounds. The idea is to drive a short tunnel or channel through a hairpin bend in the river, diverting its flow. A quick scan of the map makes it obvious where this could have been done. In fact the diversion channel would not have been on the Arthur River, but on the Hellyer, just above its junction with the parent river. This ingenious method of exposing a stream bed was employed on many gold fields and in Tasmania by osmiridium miners on Nineteen Mile Creek and other places.
The largest nugget obtained by February 1873―1 oz 3½ dwts―was found by a Chinese party in the river, but, generally, bigger nuggets were taken in the creeks.[16] Frank Long claimed to have got his best gold about 10 km from the Arthur River, and his was ‘much more nuggety’ than that of James West, who worked closer to the river. The gold appears to have been patchy. All the productive claims were above that of the Kays.[17] Working the creeks was harder in summer, but diggers made up for the lack of sluicing water by using chutes to bring the washdirt to the river.[18]
The Arthur River gold field was deserted by the end of 1873, and the Chinese soon switched to alluvial tin mining in the north-east. Sing built up his Launceston business. By the time he was naturalised as a British subject in 1882, he was renting a shop and residence at 127 St John Street, Launceston.[19] In 1883 he bought the site and erected a new premises designed by Leslie Corrie.[20] Here he sold imported Chinese groceries, ‘fancy goods’, preserved fruits, silk, tobacco, fireworks and the Chinese drinks and remedies Engape, Noo Too and Back Too.[21] Sing’s residence also served as a staging-post of Chinese tin miners arriving in Launceston. In 1885 he cemented his position in the north-east by buying out the store of Ma Mon Chin & Co at Weldborough, which afterwards operated as Tom Sing & Co.[22]
While a £10 poll tax was levied on Chinese entering the colony in 1887, Launceston’s established Chinese population became part of the community, with local businessmen Chin Kit, James Ah Catt and Henry Thom Sing supporting the work of the Launceston City and Suburbs Improvement Association by staging spectacular Chinese carnivals at City Park in 1890 and the Cataract Gorge in 1891. Fire gutted the Sing premises in 1895, and as a result it was either altered or rebuilt to the design of Launceston architect Alfred Luttrell.[23] This building remains today.
Sing married twice, and fathered at least seven children.[24] Both his brides appear to have been European. His death, in May 1912, aged 68, after 44 years in the Launceston business community, passed almost without comment in the Tasmanian press, perhaps indicating that, despite his naturalisation, a racial barrier between Chinese and Europeans remained.[25] Probate valued at £1738 suggested modest success.[26] Like the former Chung Gon store in Brisbane Street, today Henry Thom Sing’s St John Street store remains part of Launceston’s commercial sector.
[1] Naturalisation application, 22 July 1882, CSD13/1/53/850 (TAHO), https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/all/search/results?qu=tom&qu=sing, accessed 10 December 2016.
[2] ‘New Chinese diggers’, Tasmanian, 11 February 1871, p.11.
[3] ‘Gold discoveries at King’s Island and Rocky Cape’, Cornwall Chronicle, 29 April 1872, p.3.
[4] Charles Sprent to James Smith from Table Cape, 21 July 1872, NS234/3/1/25 (Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office).
[5] ‘The Hellyer goldfield’, Cornwall Chronicle, 22 November 1872, p.2.
[6] ‘Notes on the Hellyer’, Cornwall Chronicle, 20 December 1872, p.2.
[7] ‘A look round the Hellyer’, Cornwall Chronicle, 3 February 1873, p.2.
[9] ‘The Hellyer gold-field’, Cornwall Chronicle, 16 December 1872, supplement, p.1.
[10] ‘The Nine Mile Springs goldfield’, Cornwall Chronicle, 13 May 1872, p.2; ‘Chinese immigration’, Tasmanian, 18 May 1872, p.8.
[11] See, for example, ‘More gold from the Hellyer diggings’, Tasmanian, 25 January 1873, p.12.
[12] ‘Table Cape’, Tasmanian, 25 January 1873, p.5.
[13] ‘The Chinese diggers at the Hellyer’, Cornwall Chronicle, 6 November 1872, p.3.
[14] ‘The Hellyer goldfield’, Cornwall Chronicl,e 22 November 1872, p.2.
[16] ‘The Hellyer diggings’, Mercury, 13 February 1873, p.3.
[17] ‘Table Cape’, Cornwall Chronicle, 17 January 1873, p.3.
[18] SB Emmett, ‘The western gold field’, Launceston Examiner, 1 February 1873, p.3.
[19] Naturalisation application, 22 July 1882, CSD13/1/53/850 (TAHO), https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/all/search/results?qu=tom&qu=sing, accessed 10 December 2016.
[20] ‘Tenders’, Launceston Examiner, 26 July 1884, p.1..
[21] ‘Law Courts’, Tasmanian, 26 May 1883, p.563.
[22] Advert, Launceston Examiner, 19 September 1885, p.1.
[23] ‘Tenders’, Launceston Examiner, 7 March 1895, p.1.
[24] ‘Deaths’, Launceston Examiner, 29 March 1882, p.2; marriage registration no.966/1884, https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/all/search/results?qu=henry&qu=thom&qu=sing#; accessed 10 December 2016.
[25] ‘Deaths’, Weekly Courier, 30 May 1912, p.25.
[26] Will AD96/1/11, LINC Tasmania website, accessed 10 December 2016.
Categories: Circular Head history, Tasmanian high country history
Tags: Ah Sin, Arthur River, Back Creek, Barnard & Co, Brandy Creek (Beaconsfield), Chinese miners, Frank Long, gold mining, Henry Thom Sing, Nine Mile Springs (Lefroy), Peters, Skelton Emmett, tin mining, Tom Sing
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Procedure Codes in Standard Final Rule
The Meainingful Use Standards rule went on display today. In reviewing the rule this morning, I found a small but significant error.
I found what I believe is an error in one of the responses on page 169 of the public display copy to comments on rule text. The document states:
Response. We understand that most current EHR technology already includes the
CPT-4 code-sets, and we believe that this indicates that the licensing costs are not
prohibitive. Regardless, we have adopted an alternative standard to CPT-4, SNOMEDCT
®, which is freely available.
However, my review of the standards selected under that section indicate that SNOMED-CT should be replaced with ICD-9-CM, as indicated by the following:
From the text on display:
Final Rule Text:
§170.306(d)
(1) Enable a user to create an electronic copy of a patient’s
clinical information, including, at a minimum, diagnostic test
results, problem list, medication list, medication allergy list,
and procedures:
(i) In human readable format; and
(ii) On electronic media or through some other electronic
means in accordance with:
(A) The standard (and applicable implementation
specifications) specified in §170.205(a)(1) or §170.205(a)(2);
(B) For the following data elements the applicable standard
must be used:
(1) Problems. The standard specified in §170.207(a)(1) or, at a
minimum, the version of the standard specified in
§170.207(a)(2);
(2) Procedures. The standard specified in §170.207(b)(1) or
§170.207(b)(2);
(3) Laboratory test results. At a minimum, the version of the
standard specified in §170.207(c); and
(4) Medications. The standard specified in §170.207(d).
discharge summary in human readable format and on
electronic media or through some other electronic means.
§170.207 Vocabulary standards for representing electronic health information.
(b) Procedures. (1) Standard. The code set specified at 45 CFR 162.1002(a)(2).
(2) Standard. The code set specified at 45 CFR 162.1002(a)(5).
And from 45 CFR 162.1002 found at http://cfr.vlex.com/vid/162-1002-medical-data-code-sets-19931702
162.1002 - Medical data code sets.
(2) International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition, Clinical Modification, Volume 3 Procedures (including The Official ICD9CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting), as maintained and distributed by HHS, for the following procedures or other actions taken for diseases, injuries, and impairments on hospital inpatients reported by hospitals:
(i) Prevention.
(ii) Diagnosis.
(iii) Treatment.
(iv) Management.
(5) The combination of Health Care Financing Administration Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS), as maintained and distributed by HHS, and Current Procedural Terminology, Fourth Edition (CPT4), as maintained and distributed by the American Medical Association, for physician services and other health care services. These services include, but are not limited to, the following:
(i) Physician services.
(ii) Physical and occupational therapy services.
(iii) Radiologic procedures.
(iv) Clinical laboratory tests.
(v) Other medical diagnostic procedures.
(vi) Hearing and vision services.
(vii) Transportation services including ambulance.
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A Bit about the Name
The name of the P76 derived from the car's codename while in development (Project 76). Speculation surrounds the naming and parentage of the P76. One story says the name was apparently the platoon number of British Leyland head Donald Stokes. Another story is that the P76 was based on a Rover design, and that the "P" coding signified that it emanated from Rover. Rover's coding for its models included the P4, P5, P6 and P8 (although the P8 never reached mass production).
The official line was that the P76 was an original Australian designed and built Large Family Car, with no overseas counterpart and that P76 stood for "Project 1976". The Rover SD1 (released in 1976) shared several engineering features with P76 — including MacPherson strut front suspension, the aluminium V8 engine and a live rear axle.
Source: Wikipedia Online
Leyland P76 'Deluxe'
The "Deluxe" was originally intended to be the mainstay of P76 production . Like the oppositions counterparts of the "Falcon 500 , the Kingswood and the Ranger" , the Deluxe was expected to be the "Bread and Butter" version of the P76 .
Surprisingly the up-market "Super" version became nearly an equal seller to the Deluxe surprising both the opposition and Leyland Australia . The Deluxe was offered with a wide range of options starting with the "three speed" column manual OHC six with a bench seat up to the V8 version with bucket seats and column auto . These cars can be found in any combination of options , including factory air-conditioning (V8 only) but none were fitted with t-bar autos , full consoles or power-steering .
Externally the cars are easiest identified by the "single" 7-inch headlights and wider grill , all chrome except on the drip rail and windscreens are missing and "skinny" wheels with simple centre caps were fitted . The interior was devoid of woodgrain except for the simplified instrument cluster , with a painted silver finish on the dash and glovebox area . Rubber floor mats and a bench seat were standard equipment . The door trims were simplified and had no carpet on the bottom . The door tops and inside pillars were not padded . The padded and recessed mounting for the sun-visors was replaced with a simple panel covered in the same material as the headlining . Sound-proofing was kept to a minimum .
Late build cars were offered with a "luxury pack" that contained bucket seats (reclining still optional) a radio and loop pile carpet . Mechanically the Deluxe was identical to all other P76's and so the best performing of all the P76's had to be the slightly lighter V8 4 speed Deluxe . Deluxe's were offered in all the colours , but are rare in metallic colours .
A taxi version was built on the Deluxe and it was the only car that actually met and qualified for the then governments newly released "taxi standard" - eventually the government altered the standard so the oppositions cars could also qualify .
Although basic these cars still remained a level above their opposition with power brakes with rear antilock/balance valve , hazard lights and deep foam seats and huge boot as standard .
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Machete is the Opening night Midnight film of the 67th Venice International Film Festival
28 Jul 2010 | Redazione Portale di Venezia
Machete, Robert Rodriguez’ highly anticipated new action film, conceived as an expansion of the faux Grindhouse trailer, directed by Rodriguez with Ethan Maniquis, will have its world premiere at the Lido as the Midnight film, on Opening Night of the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
The 67th Venice International Film Festival will take place September 1 through 11, 2010, directed by Marco Mueller and organized by la Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta.
To be released on September 3, 2010 in the United States, Machete will have its world premiere public screening (all festival badges admitted as well) at the 67th Mostra del cinema, on Wednesday September 1 2010, in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema).
Rodriguez, the man who wrote a new chapter in the history of action films – from El Mariachi (1992) to From Dusk ‘Till Dawn (1996), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and Sin City (2005) – here directs an incredible cast, led by Danny Trejo (star of the original faux trailer) in the role of the legendary avenger Machete Cortez. At his side Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Steven Seagal, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson, Lindsay Lohan and Robert De Niro, in the role of the corrupt Senator McLaughlin. Filmed in the fall of 2009, the film was also written by Robert Rodriguez, produced by Robert Rodriguez, Elizabeth Avellan, Aaron Kaufman, Iliana Nikolic and Rick Schwartz, and will be released in the United States by 20th Century Fox.
Left for dead after clashing with notorious drug kingpin Torrez Mexican ex-federal Machete escapes to Texas looking to disappear and forget his tragic past, but what he finds is a web of corruption and deceit that leaves a bullet in a Senator and Machete a wanted man. Machete sets out to clear his name and expose a deep conspiracy. Standing in his way are Booth – a ruthless businessman with an endless payroll of killers, Von – a twisted border vigilante leading a small army, and Sartana Rivera – a beautiful immigrations officer torn between enforcing the law and doing what is right. Helping Machete even the odds are Luz – a sexy taco-truck lady with a rebellious spirit and revolutionary heart, and Padre, a priest who’s good with blessings, but better with guns. Carving a path of bullets, blood, and broken hearts, Machete’s quest ultimately leads him back to Torrez for an epic battle of revenge and redemption.
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Westboro Baptist Cult Chickens Run Away (Video)
A special thanks goes out to Stop The ACLU for this wonderful tidbit.
Hate breeds on hate feeds on hate breeds on hate.
Everything you do comes back to you, whatever it may be. What you do as an angel, or what you do as a devil will come back and pay you for your deeds. This is the karma of preaching hate. I'm kinda glad the ACLU defends these idiots to spout their idiocy.
Via Break.com
Those religious nut bags at the Westboro Baptist Church were not welcome at this funeral for a soldier who died in Iraq. They are pretty much running for their lives and trying to drive away as fast as possible. This crowd would have torn them limb from limb.
If you want more content like this then please head on over to Stop the ACLU.
By at 08:57 PM | Comments |
Michelle : The Next Salman Rushdie
She's got the story on writer Rafiq Tagi here.
By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at 08:16 PM | Comments |
It's Not Nice To Make Fun Of Special People, Vinnie
But I will anyway.
He's more like Kryptonite to common sense...and Jenny Craig.
By Vinnie at 06:38 PM | Comments |
She Is The Goddess Of Truth...And Touched In The Head
My friend Linda has this incredible ability to find the goofiest stuff in the intertubes.
First up, Shrek III: Donkey Tours Iraq
And then.... spray on USC football players.
Enemy Propaganda, the Press, and Why it Matters
Michelle Malkin does an excellent job in today's Vent. Go check it out. The second half of today's Vent talks about an earlier story, run in the Los Angeles Times, about 30 civilians alleged to have been killed in Ramadi. Now thoroughly debunked. But which the Times refuses to retract.
Incidentally, al Quds press and Mafkarat al-Islam (Islam Memo), two Islamist news sources with ties to Sunni insurgents also published the same report (English synopsis here). Which means it is very likely that the stringers which the LA Times relied on were, in fact, the same ones employed by al Quds & Mafkarat al-Islam. In other words, insurgent propagandists themselves!
The US State Department calls Mafkarat al-Islam, "the most unreliable source of "news" about Iraq on the Internet." Good job LA Times!
Reuters own stringers, who themselves often have ties to the Sunni insurgency, only reported that unnamed witnesses, "saw several bodies of adult men lying in a street. Of course, these "sources" claimed the young men were just playing soccer.
Two different accounts of the same incident from the MSM. One of them claiming women and children bombed, the other young men killed. Neither of them meshing with first hand reports from US soldiers engaged in the conflict.
So, why does this matter? Because the terrorists disseminate media reports about "attrocities" amongst themselves. They use reports, such as the "Ramadi massacre" to prove to the world that they are really freedom fighters and that it is US forces that are killing civilians in Iraq.
Earlier I had reported that it was Ansar al Sunna which had produced a "Ramadi revenge" video. I was wrong. It was another insurgent group, Jaish Abu Bakr, which produced the video. The video shows four attacks "in response to the massacre of civilians by the Crusaders in the city of al-Ramadi during air strikes"
What massacre of civilians? The one that didn't happen. The one, though, that the LA Times and the Islamist al Quds press reported.
I'm not inclined to believe that members of the Jaish Abu Bakr brigades read the Times, but they do read al Quds and Mafkarat al-Islam. Reading those publications and others which routinely accuse the US of war crimes leads Muslims around the world to view this conflict as one in which we are the bad guys--or at the very least, to equivocate between the resistance and the occupiers.
The more that believe, the larger the pool for potential jihadis. And from among that pool, the jihadis are recruited.
Now, the US and Western public is being exposed to the same jihadi propaganda. Only coming from our own media. And is there any reason that the American public should believe reports coming from Iraq when at least some of the sources for those reports are clearly enemy propagandists? I. Think. Not.
Bob Geiger Wrong About AP Story - Will He Apologize? (Updated)
Say what you will about the liberals, but when they blow it, they blow it big.
On Tuesday, Bob Geiger at the Huffington Post demanded to know if rightwing bloggers (including The Jawa Report) would be apologizing to the Associated Press for doubting their now-discredited story about the six burning Sunnis:
"It's Official: Media Body Burning Story is Bogus," crowed Newsbusters -- the wingnut National Enquirer -- who just went mad with glee proclaiming that "The news that six Sunnis were captured by Shiites, doused with kerosine [sic] and burned alive, was too sensational to not be picked up by the mainstream media. But it turns out that the event never happened. Furthermore, the Iraqi 'spokesman' relied on to give all information regarding this event is as fictional as the story itself."
Newsbusters took it a step further by also concluding that NBC's decision to begin calling what's going on in Iraq a "civil war" was based in part on the "bogus" nature of that story.
Flopping Aces, which seems to have started this embarrassing affair, has been running a lengthy series ominously called "Getting The News From The Enemy" while The Jawa Report really stands proud and proclaims that "It's unlikely that the Associated Press and other news agencies will issue corrections approaching the sensationalism with which they originally pushed the false stories."
And today, the Iraqi government has announced that the AP's source, the supposed "police captain Jamil Hussein" doesn't work for any department of the Iraqi government. Wow, Bob, your face must be pretty crimson about now, eh?
I'd also like to commend Bob Geiger for emphasizing his status as a clueless tool by quoting the same person (that would be moi) twice (from NewsBusters and The Jawa Report) without even realizing it.
Update: In a long, rambling new post about "right wing trolls" sending him emails, Baghdad Bob starts to suspect that he may have made a hideous mistake:
The facts are what they are, and I'm patient enough to wait for the full story to come out -- but the spin and public-relations flackery being cited by the right-wing mouthpieces are not facts. If I need to do a retraction, I will. But pardon me if I wait for evidence above and beyond some screeching wingnut scrambling to paint the news as they wish it would be, instead of looking at the mess that Iraq truly is and contemplating the meaning of accountability.
Evidently, the fact that the AP's source for the burning Sunnis story doesn't exist isn't enough evidence for Bobby. Nor does AP's admission that, rather than five mosques being burned to the ground as the originally reported, one mosque was slightly damaged.
By Bluto02:23 PM | Comments |
Main Insurgent Group, Ansar al Sunna, Decapitated in Iraq
According to the Multi-National Forces, 11 high ranking members of The Army of Ansar al Sunna have been captured. The Sunni group is one of the main terrorist organizations in areas North of Baghdad. They are known for their gruesome videos in which civilians are beheaded.
As Nick, who e-mailed me about this said, "bet you wont see this story on the MSM." Indeed. It's not so much that they won't report it, they will, but it will be buried in the text of another story. (see WaPo for example, which buries it 9 paragraphs into an article bearing bad news about an American pilot killed). And don't expect it to get any TV airtime. None.
This is very big news. On par with the story that the Juba Baghdad sniper was apparently captured. Alive. As Bohica reminded me, CNN was okay with showing the propaganda video of "Juba" killing American soldiers, but will they give Juba's arrest any airtime? Don't. Hold. Your. Breath.
MNF:
BAGHDAD, Iraq – In one week's time, Coalition Forces captured 11 suspected senior-level terrorists of Ansar al Sunna during a series of raids in north-central Iraq during mid-November.
During the raids, Coalition Forces captured the terrorist emirs of Iraq, Ramadi, Baqubah, Tikrit, al Qa’im, Bayji and Baghdad. They also captured two terrorist facilitators, a courier, an explosives expert and a financier.
The detention of these terrorists delivers a serious blow to the AAS network that is responsible for improvised explosive device attacks and suicide attacks and on Iraqi government, Coalition Forces and Iraqi civilians. The AAS network is also responsible for multiple kidnappings, small arms attacks and other crimes in the central and northern part of Iraq.
AAS is considered by some to be a leading terror organization in Iraq as al-Qaida’s leadership continues to crumble and it loses its ability to function due to Iraqi and Coalition Forces systematic dismantling efforts.
Although some AAS senior leadership allegedly hide in Iran, they continually plan attacks to disrupt Iraqi reconstruction efforts. This allows the AAS leadership to attempt to disrupt Iraqi reconstruction progress using their followers, while keeping the leadership out of harms way.
The Iraqi people deserve to live in country free from terror. Coalition and Iraqi Forces will continue to disrupt terrorist networks by killing and capturing terrorists, intercepting and destroying VBIEDs and suicide vests and continuously degrading terror cells operating within Iraq.
I've never heard that Ansar al Sunna operatives hide in Iran, but since they are Kurdish Islamists (or the remnants of a Kurdish group, mixed with Arabs and foreign fighters), perhaps in the Kurdish areas of Iran?
So, just how bad is the Army of Ansar al-Sunnah? Very. Bad.
Think Abu Musab al Zarqawi bad (Zarqawi used to work with them from time to time). Think the beheading of truck drivers and the murder of hostages bad. Or any one else who they suspected of having any ties to the Iraqi government. Killing them. Murdering them all. On video.
In fact, going through our archives I believe it is safe to say that The Jaish Ansar al Sunnah have more innocent blood on their hands than Zarqawi's Tawhid wal Jihad & al Qaeda in Iraq.
The following is not a comprehensive list of all the people they murdered and then used for their own terror propaganda. The death penalty is too good for members of Ansar al Sunna.
The Army of Ansar al-Sunna Kills American Cpl. Jeffrey A. Boskovich
Mayada Salihi--a woman--Taken Hostage in Iraq by Ansar al-Sunna
Two Turkish Truck Drivers--Turan Unal and Huseyin Aytag--Murderd by Ansar al Sunnah.
They murdered Japanese hostage Akihiko Saito.
12 Nepalese Hostages Killed, 1 Beheaded
Alleged CIA Agent Beheaded
Iraqi, Turk Beheaded by Army of Ansar al-Sunna
Ansar al Sunna Kills 3 Iraqis on Video
Ansar al Sunna beheads hostage Barie Nafi'a Daoud Ibrahim on video
CIA Agent Executed: Another Beheading Video
Army of Ansar al Sunna Beheads Iraqi Officer
Turkish Hostage Beheaded on Video
Army of Ansar al-Sunna Attacks 'CIA' Vehicle
Army of Ansar al-Sunnah Execution Video, More Beheadings in Mosul
Ansar al Sunna Beheads 3 On Video
Nepalese Civilian Murdered by Ansar al-Sunnah
The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah Kills Iraqi Translator
Army of Ansar al-Sunnah Murders 7 on Video
Beheading Video from Army of Ansar al-Sunnah: Shiite Follower of Muqtada al-Sadr Beheaded for 'Working with US'
Iraqi Murdered by Army of Ansar al-Sunnah in New Beheading Video
Army of Ansar al-Sunnah Murder Hostages by Beheading, Video Released
The Kurdish Victims of the Army of Ansar al Sunna
The Army of Ansar al-Sunna has murdered Iraqi Nasser Had Ali
Terrorists Murder Civilians in Iraq on Video (Amir Nassir & Others)
Turkish truck driver Ramadan Elbu murderd by Ansar al Sunna (with help of Zarqawi's al Qaeda)
Just Trolling For A Fatwa...
By Good Lt. at 02:13 PM | Comments |
Republican Study Committee Leadership Race Heats Up
In the race for House GOP leadership a few weeks ago, the reformers from the Republican Study Committee (Mike Penca and John Shadegg) were trounced by the incumbent House GOP leadership (John Boehner and Roy Blunt).
Now, there's a race for the leadership of the RSC itself. It's shaping up to be a battle between Jeb Hensarling of Texas and Todd Tiahrt of Kansas. According to The Hill:
Hensarling has been an outspoken ally of Pence, who suffered a landslide defeat to Boehner in the leader’s race. Pence and Hensarling led a small band of upstarts who, over the past two years, have waged public battles with the leadership over revised budget rules and federal funding for the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast. The Texas Republican also backed Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in his confrontation with appropriators last summer over earmarks included in spending bills that reached the House floor.
Many staffers consider Tiahrt, an appropriator, as the leadership-backed candidate who would mute the influence of conservative agitators as Republicans try to unite in the minority.
“It’s an effort to neuter the RSC,” one aide said. “It’s an effort to split the powerbase.”
I don't know much about Todd Tiahrt, but I've been watching Jeb Hensarling for a couple years now, and I can tell you he's a solid conservative in the mold of Phil Gramm, Hensarling's former professor and current political mentor.
MORE BELOW THE FOLD
CQPolitics.com has more:
Rep. Jeb Hensarling will be nominated to head the Republican Study Committee next year, according to a letter sent Tuesday by eight of the most active RSC members.
Their endorsement of the second-term Texas Republican sets up a potentially nasty fight over the direction of the House’s most conservative faction. The four founders of the RSC — John T. Doolittle of California, Ernest Istook of Oklahoma, Dan Burton of Indiana and Sam Johnson of Texas — are expected to nominate their own candidate, appropriator Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, for the post.
The RSC founders’ pick has been honored in the past by the rank and file. But Tuesday’s letter signed by current RSC Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana, John Shadegg of Arizona and six other conservatives signals a willingness among some RSC members to continue using aggressive tactics in the pursuit of a more conservative legislative agenda.
"Juba" the Baghdad Sniper Captured!
The Iraqi Ministry of the Interior announced that it has captured the Baghdad sniper known as Ali Nazar al Jubori. The name sounds eerily familiar. al Jubori....could this be the original Juba sniper? That is the claim being made.
Let me remind my readers that the "Juba the Baghdad sniper" does not exist--at least, not in the heroic sense that the jihadi crowd has painted him as. He's a myth. A piece of fictional propaganda produced by terrorists. A heroic superman for the al Qaeda supporters of the world.
This is not to say that there never was an al Qaeda linked sniper in Iraq who got the nickname "Juba", only that the popular videos showing "his" work are really compilations of not only different snipers, but also of different terror organizations. We know this because the "Juba top 10 video" shows previously released material from several different known terror groups and that at least one of the snipers who's work is shown in the video was later arrested.
But like many heroes, there may actually be a man behind the myth. Al Jubori may actually be the original "Juba Baghdad Sniper" as the Iraqis are claiming. In fact, a recent video proported to show the real "Juba" and included interviews with the Baghdad sniper.
The sniper cell he is said to have trained, also called the "Juba snipers", was also broken up and many of them arrested. Again, that is what the Iraqis are saying. We'll see.
If it is "Juba", then this is an important moral victory for the US and anti-terrorist forces in Iraq. Juba is a real hero to many in the Salafi terrror supporting community.
There were several websites devoted to Juba, and which were alleged to be run by him (although I doubt that), and which were based in the US. They were bought and paid for by someone claiming to be a member of the terrorist organization knows as the Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI)--which has links to al Qaeda. Oh, but thanks to Jawa Report readers, those websites are down.
Of course, not all of Juba's webzines are down. Only those that were commercially bought and paid for by the IAI. There is still one website up, provided for free by the Google owned Blogger/blogspot platform. That's right, Google continues to host a terrorist's website--or one proported to be run by him.
We've begged and pleaded with blogspot over this and other terrorist websites to no avail. They literally help the enemy while wrapping themselves under the veil of the First Amendment. The best we could do was set up an alternative Juba website.
Interestingly enough, I found this information from Michelle Malkin, who I believe doesn't yet know the value of the press release she was sent from CENTCOM (UPDATE: Now she does). The purpose of the press release was to counter stories by the AP which seem to be false. But buried down in it is this from Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf Al-Kenani, Ministry of Interior spokesman (update: also buried in this MSM report):
The third subject is, this week the strikes we made against the al-Qaeda terrorist organization in Baghdad were many and very strong in Baghdad. Before my arrival to this press conference, I was informed that one of the three who were just captured or detained is Mazer Al-Jubouri, aka the Baghdad Sniper, and his group. He admitted many things that are very important and very dangerous and our forces used this information about his network and conducted raids in the past 24 hours and detained 30 terrorists.
Those terrorists executed several explosions in Palestine and Beirut streets, and the New Baghdad area. He also admitted that their base is in Diyala province, which supplied them with money, weapons and explosives. They are now under investigation and we think this cell or network has been dismantled.
Expect updates.
UPDATE II: Murdoc has an exclusive (and short) podcast about media coverage of the "juba" capture.
UPDATE: Howie grabbed this image of Juba the Baghdad Sniper from one of the Islamic Army in Iraq's propaganda videos.
It's Official: AP Source an Impostor
The "police captain" that the Associated Press used as the source for their story about six Sunni men dragged from prayers and burned alive by Shiite militants is not a policeman and does not work for the Iraqi government in any capacity, according to the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior.
CENTCOM had warned the AP about Hussein and other questionable sources they were using, but was rebuffed by the wire service organization. The AP's sensational story of the burning Sunnis was cited by NBC as a reason they decided to start calling violence in Iraq a "civil war." The source "police captain Jamil Hussein" has been quoted in wire service stories since April of this year.
Michelle Malkin has the details of a press conference held today by Iraqi Brigadier General Abdul-Kareem, speaking for the Iraqi Minstry of the Interior:
From CPATT PAO:
BG Abdul-Kareem, the Ministry of Interior Spokesman, went on the record today stating that Capt. Jamil Hussein is not a police officer. He explained the coordinations among MOI, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Defense in attempting to track down these bodies and their joint conclusion was that this was unsubstantiated rumor.
He went on to name several other false sources that have been used recently and appealed to the media to document their news before reporting. He went into some detail about the impact of the press carrying propaganda for the enemies of Iraq and thanked "the friends" who have brought this to their attention.
AP did attend the press conference.
Michelle has also posted a partial transcript of the press conference. In it, Abdul-Kareem accuses the wire services of printing unsubstantiated rumors using anonymous sources and bogus named sources.
So far, the Associated Press is standing by their story, claiming that their reporters visited Jamil Hussein at his police station. This brings the AP's reporters themselves into question. Are they simply trying to cover up a costly and humiliating mistake, or are they unvetted local hires whose allegiance is really to al Qaeda?
Read Michelle's entire post here.
By Bluto10:24 AM | Comments |
GOP Strife : Moderates vs. Conservatives?
There's an interesting post over at RedState on the rift between the "moderates" and the "conservatives" within the GOP.
The poster takes the position that blame for the rift lies largely with the "moderates":
I come down quite squarely on one side; I think the "moderates" as typified by the Republicans featured on these websites here; The Republican Main Street Partnership, The Real Republican Majority, GOP Progress, etc. are largely to blame for the split in the Republican coalition between the so-called "moderates" and social conservatives.
I think the poster is correct. Blame does lie on these groups. Then again, the blame also lies largely with the so-called "conservatives." They are the ones, after all, who coined the term "RINO" and who throw it around fairly liberally. There's blame to go around.
Hopefully, most folks realize that the "moderate-conservative" dichotomy is a heavily simplified--and I say OVERLY simplified view of the Republican party. I don't like the term "conservative," because I think it has lost whatever meaning it used to have and become a vague term generally describing a wide range of disparate, and often contradictory, ideas.
Is there a definition of "conservative" that fits our modern usage of the term? Is there, for example, a "litmus test" that characterizes a "conservative?" From where I stand, there isn't. If there is, I'd like to hear it. I know "staunch conservative" Republicans who are 100% focused on social issues and could scarcely care less about taxes and spending. These would generally referred to as "social conservatives." At the same time, I know other "staunch conservatives" who think the abortion debate is "much ado about nothing," but care deeply about the federal budget deficit. These are "budget hawks." I know yet other "staunch conservatives" who couldn't give a flip about social issues or the budget deficit, but they are hardcore about business-related issues like taxes, trade and government regulation. These are "Wall Street" conservatives. There are, of course, other classes of "conservatives."
In each case, these Republicans plant themselves squarely on the "conservative" end of the spectrum--for at least their particular issue. They're generally agnostic or conservative on other issues. So long as their pet issues are taken care of by the Republicans, they'll hang with the Republicans. If other group's issues are taken care of, that's fine too. That's how I, personally, define the "conservatives."
Who, then, are the "moderates?" I classify the "moderates" as those Republicans who are right-of-center on one or more issues (taxes, spending, regulation, etc.) but who are liberal on other issues (generally social issues.) The moderates aren't agnostic about all the wedge issues. They care a lot about at least one or two. They're just "right of center" on certain hot button issues and "liberal" on others. I think most "moderate" Republicans can be defined as liberal on the social issues (abortion, gay marriage, etc.) and right-of-center on fiscal policy. It seems that there are some Republicans who are liberal pretty much across the board. These folks also generally take on the mantle of "moderate." To be honest, I'm not sure why these folks are Republicans, but we should be happy to have them on board--even if they're a pain in the butt sometimes. Having said that, these folks DO NOT need to be occupying positions in the GOP leadership.
If you accept these two definitions, I think its fair to say that the GOP's problems don't arise primarily out of a split between the "conservatives" and the "moderates" (i.e., "liberal/conservatives.") For one thing, I don't think there are that many GOP "moderates" (as defined above). The GOP's problems arise primarily out of a Republican agenda which is opposed by a substantial proportion of the base. I don't know, for example, of any conservative Republican who lost his seat primarily because of his or her position on partial-birth abortion or stem-cell research. More than a few appear to have lost their seats over out-of-control spending, Republican corruption scandals and a perception that they were lapdogs for the Bush Administration agenda.
Anyone who's been watching politics for more than a campaign season knows that a party has to keep its interest groups happy if it plans to stay in office. Normally, this requires a delicate balancing act, particularly if the interest groups are lobbying for unpopular causes. The Democrats face a big problem here. They've managed to put together a coalition of interest groups whose particular issues just don't resonate with the public. Further, there are a lot of serious rifts between the factions that make up the Democrat base. Some of the most serious rifts in the Democrat Party coalition exist between minorities and labor. There is a substantial and ever-growing demand in the Black community for school vouchers. Teachers' unions, on the other hand, will come unglued if a politician even utters the word. In many districts, the Democrats can't win without the solid support of both of these two gruops. Given this, it astounds me that the Republican politicians don't force every Democrat politician to take a stand on vouchers and thereby pick which of his own constituents he'll be offending.
In contrast to the Democrat Party, the Republican Party should have an easier time keeping its coalition together. This is because of two reasons. First, many of the Republican "base" issues are generally popular among the voting public. Second, the agendas of the various Republican interest groups don't necessarily conflict with one another. Reagan managed keep the social conservatives and the Wall Street conservatives happy at the same time. Even the budget hawks stayed in rank despite massive deficits--because most of them cared about other issues on which Reagan was rock solid. In many cases, a single policy can further the interests of all of these groups simultaneously. In other cases, a single policy can go against the interests of all these groups simultaneously. It should be obvious that the second type of issue should be avoided, if possible.
I believe that the problems the Republican Party is currently facing don't arise out of a poor choice among competing "conservative" interest groups. I think it arises out of a decision to give the cold shoulder to too many of them. The Republican Party, led by the Bush Administration, has put forth a big government agenda which doesn't have a particular constituency within the GOP coalition. The Republican leaders have given the GOP base an agenda few within the coalition were ever asking for. In many cases, these policies fall into the category of those which go against multiple GOP interest groups simultaneously. Given this, the GOP leadership shouldn't be surprised when few are particularly interested in buying what they're trying to sell.
So, what is the point of all this? The point is, this inaccurate dichotomy between the "conservatives" and the "moderates" isn't going to lead us to any answers as to how to get the Republican engine running on all 12 cylinders again. We need to get back to square one and figure out just what it is that unites us as Republicans. Maybe there's not much. Maybe there's a lot. I believe the latter is closer to the truth. However many things there are that we can generally agree on, these things need to become centerpieces of the Republican agenda going forward.
Hopefully all of the above may seem as obvious to you as it is to me. Unfortunately, these very basic principles seem to be complete black magic to the current GOP leadership.
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Iran Accuses Canada of Spying
(Tehran, Iran) Since the Iranian Parliament has no final authority for anything, one wonders where the accusation is coming from. It's speculated that Canada's assertiveness in the UN to have Iran condemned for human rights violations is at the root of the seemingly false accusation.
From TheStar.com:
In a sign of chilling relations between Iran and Canada, Iranian lawmakers have labelled Canada's embassy in Tehran a "den of spies" and called for a probe that could shut it down.
"The Canadian embassy represents the 'den of spies' and this is unacceptable for Iranians," said hard-liner Hamidreza Hajbabai, one of a group of parliamentarians accusing Ottawa of plotting with the United States, a long-term enemy of Iran.
Another lawmaker, Javad Arian-Manesh, said the Majiles (parliament) would investigate the Canadian embassy for espionage, "and if it is proven, (we are) determined to shut down the mission."
In a lapse of Islamic tolerance and diversity, one sneering Iranian foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, said, "Canada is no big deal in global politics. We all know Canada is acting on behalf of other countries and only after full co-ordination with London."
Canadian officials called the charges baseless and rhetorical. Nonetheless, they add to the decreasing level of peacefulness and tolerance between the two nations. An interested observer might even call the charges an act of belligerence.
Joseph McNamara : 50 Shots
Joseph McNamara, writing in the Wall Street Journal, takes on the increasing militarization of American law enforcement:
Simply put, the police culture in our country has changed. An emphasis on "officer safety" and paramilitary training pervades today's policing, in contrast to the older culture, which held that cops didn't shoot until they were about to be shot or stabbed. Police in large cities formerly carried revolvers holding six .38-caliber rounds. Nowadays, police carry semi-automatic pistols with 16 high-caliber rounds, shotguns and military assault rifles, weapons once relegated to SWAT teams facing extraordinary circumstances. Concern about such firepower in densely populated areas hitting innocent citizens has given way to an attitude that the police are fighting a war against drugs and crime and must be heavily armed.
If Mr. McNamara is advocating Barney Fife-style, one-bullet law enforcement, I'd have to disagree. Then again, there seem to have been changes in the law enforcement mentality over the years, and I'm not sure they're all for the better. I don't fault the cops themselves for this development., and I don't think cops should have to patrol the mean streets with a six-shooter .38. It does appear, however, that there's been a real shift in culture from "peace officer" to "street soldier," and I think that at least merits discussion.
h/t : Glenn.
ISQ Sez....
Stay the course.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The independent panel studying U.S. policy in Iraq has unanimously agreed to a report that will call for a gradual pullback of American combat troops in Iraq but stops short of setting a firm timetable for withdrawal, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
I apologize in advance for this analysis.
EXCUSE ME, BUT ISN'T THIS WHAT EVERY G-D C-Sing M-Fing PUNDIT FROM #12404849 IN THE ECOSYSTEM TO BUSH HIMSELF HAS BEEN SAYING FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF FRICKIN' YEARS???????????????
Once again, my apologies. More intellectual analysis below the fold.
GAH!!!!!!! How many F*CKING millions of dollars were wasted on these gawdamned goobers to TELL US SH*T WE ALREADY KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, sorry.
What I meant to say is that the Iraq Study Group has written a thoroughly researched background of events as they are currently happening in the Iraq Campaign. Their conclusions are sound, their reputations impeccable, and their records of success in ventures such as this are virtually non-existent.
On second thought, scratch the word "virtually."
Not So Veiled Threats
"May you live in interesting times." - Ancient Chinese curse.
Yea, that is a curse when you think about it.
So is this:
TOKYO - Japan has the technological know-how to produce a nuclear weapon but has no immediate plans to do so, the foreign minister said Thursday, several weeks after communist North Korea carried out a nuclear test.
This is welcome news. If there's anything that the ChiComs and Norks fear, it's a militarily resurgent Japan. One that is closely allied with the West.
How Angelina Jolie Won the GWOT: Jawa Report- 6 Mil. Visits, 10 Mil. Hits
Thanks to all our loyal readers who have made this website a success. We just passed the 6 million visits mark, which happend just about the same time that the 10 million hits mark was passed.
Irony? On a blog which specializes in the war on terror, our 6 millionth visitor comes from Saudi Arabia.
Bigger irony? Our Saudi Arabian friend came here on a Live.com image search for "sex good" and found this post: Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Share Lesbian Lover
Biggest irony? Our Saudi friend spent 2 minutes 35 seconds looking at these three pictures (below the fold, SFW--unless you work in the Vatican) along with a description which includes, "We pleasured each other into the early hours..."
Thank you to our one-handed surfer from Saudi Arabia for making it all worthwhile.
Friends, given enough time and more hot lesbian models coming forward with lurid stories of intimate encounters with Angelina Jolie---we will win the war on terror!
The Jawa Report, come for the lesbian Angelina Jolie, stay to learn how to fight the cyber jihad!
AP's Duping Over 'Burning Six' Enters MSM
An Associated Press story about six Sunni men being dragged from their mosque in Iraq, doused with kerosene, and burned alive continues to unravel, while AP spokeswoman Linda Wagner does her best Dan Rather impression (my first post from Saturday).
AP based their atrocity story on the word of Iraqi police Captain Jamil Hussein. Problem: the Iraqis say Hussein is not a police captain and does not work for them in any capacity. In response, AP has played the fake-but-accurate card that worked so well for Dan Rather.
Finally, other elements of the mainstream media are taking notice, after several days of exposes by bloggers.
From USA Today's On Deadline:
Today, responding to questions from On Deadline about AP's statement that it stands by its story, Lt. Dean e-mailed us. He said that on Thursday,
"Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the official (Iraqi) Ministry of Interior spokesmen, will begin his regularly scheduled press conference at noon tomorrow with a statement that Capt. Jamil Hussein, is not a Baghdad police officer or an MOI employee."
Hussein is the main source AP cited in its original story about the burnings.
Dean added that "We understand the challenges of reporting in Iraq due to the security situation, and we are in no way targeting AP specifically.
"However, when we continue to see reporting of stories which cannot be corroborated using questionable Iraqi sources, we feel it is our obligation to track the credibility of the source and ask what verification was used no matter which media outlet the report came from.
"We have had numerous stories reported through wire services which were proven to have not happened at all, yet the media outlets concerned dismissed verification on the ground for their sources."
When the story was first questioned, AP sent reporters scurrying to find eyewitnesses, none of whom were named, to verify the story, and said that their reporters had been in Hussein's police office and used him as a source for multiple stories. That's true. Hussein's name has appeared in wire service stories since April of this year. Stories that are bound to come under much closer scrutiny, now that an Iraqi Brigadier General is about to announce that AP's source is a fraud.
This may indicate that the Associated Press has a problem, not just with this particular source, but with the reporters who vouched for him.
AP spokeswoman Linda Wagner's response was disingenuous:
"Navy Lieutenant Dean's statement seems to suggest that the news media should work solely from a government list of 'authorized sources.' But a free press cultivates a wide range of sources. That's what AP did in this case, as it always does."
No, Linda, Lt. Dean's statement suggests that you have a responsibility to verify your sources, even (especially) when they're telling you what you want to hear.
More on the bogus burning six story from Curt at Flopping Aces, who has been covering the story since it began.
Send Me A Letter
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The well of the 12th Imam.
Robert Spencer says it's a call to Islam.
The blog grandfather calls it the "second warning."
Since no good deed goes unpunished, feel free to give 'ol Mahmoud your response.
I would print mine, but this is a PG-13 blog.
stein hoist: Hot Air.
Maj. Troy L. Gilbert Identified as Downed Pilot, RIP
UPDATE 09/19/2007: Al Qaeda in Iraq's Islamic State of Iraq front group release second Troy Gilbert video.
UPDATE: 12/4: The military has changed Maj. Gilbert's status to KIA after DNA tests the body at the crash site was that of Troy. Rest in Peace.
A fund has been set up in his honor. For info, see this post.
UPDATE: George found this photo of Maj. Gilbert. I think it only fitting that we put it on top. Above the image of the SOB pictured below and right. If any soldier in Iraq sees this guy, you know what to do. Rest in Peace.
To the friends and family of Maj. Troy L. Gilbert, our deepest sympathies and condolences. We pray that those who removed your sons body from the battlefield will find justice at the end of a Marine rifle.
Stars and Stripes:
The Pentagon has identified the Air Force pilot who is listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown after his fighter jet crashed Monday near Karmah, Iraq.
Maj. Troy L. Gilbert of the 309th Fighter Squadron out of Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., was piloting the F-16C when it went down about 20 miles northwest of Baghdad, Department of Defense officials said Wednesday.
The cause of the crash is under investigation, though U.S. military spokesmen in Iraq have said enemy fire likely was not a factor in the incident.
What appears to be the body of Maj. Troy L. Gilbert was shown on a video of the downed American F-16 in Iraq. I won't say it, but I think we're all pretty clear on what the jihadis will do with it. Which is why I hope they are found and killed. Before the video gets released.
Incidentally, the Islamic State of Iraq (formerly knows as the Mujahideen Shura Council), an al Qaeda umbrella group, claims one of their member organizations shot down the plane. Then again, in the same statement they claim to have shot down 6 Blackhawk helicopters, so question the reliability. Every time a helicopter goes down, whether by accident or not, they claim responsibility.
For now, we will file this in our hostage archives.
Newt Gingrich GETS the Cyber Jihad: It's time to take it seriously
Newt Gingrich gets it, those naysaying him don't. Or, at least, they don't get what Gingrich is saying. He is saying exactly what we've been calling for for awhile now: taking the cyber jihad seriously. As a military matter.
If you don't get that the internet is the way in which jihadis recruit, train, and coordinate then you just don't get it. I'd suggest that you start reading The Jawa Report on a daily basis. Where we bring you stories such as Terrorists Launch Google Guide. Or reading Internet Haganah. Daily.
Now, let me say something here. I respect Ed, but he has this one wrong. Or, he doesn't get what Gingrich is saying. Especially given what I believe is a misleading headline for the story. And I've met Flap and his lovely wife, and he has it wrong too. And I'm sure that Ragnar linked to this earlier just so he could get a rise out of me. Kudos my Padawan biyotch.
Gingrich is not talking about establishing the thought police, a censorship board, and a speech Gestapo. Nor is he even proposing enacting draconian hate speech laws, the kind of speech prohibitions that liberals often support. In the same article, Gingrich also talks about doing away with McCain-Feingold---that is, to increase the capacity for political debate.
Gingrich is only proposing to curtail the speech of our enemies. Not imagined enemies. Real people who, literally, encourage young Muslims to go to Iraq to fight your neighbors. Real people who want you dead.
You live in a bizarro world if you think it is okay to kill our enemies, but not take away their tools of propaganda. It seems like an odd moral system to suggest that speech is a higher priority than life. Especially when the life and speech in question is the life and speech of the enemy.
To paraphrase Lincoln, the First Amendment is not a suicide pact.
It should also be noted that the First Amendment does not apply to the battlefield. The cyber jihadis themselves consider the internet a weapon of war and themselves combatants in this fight. This is why they formed the "Global Islamic Media Front", "The Jihad Media Brigade", "The Alfajr Media Center", and "as Sahab". To recruit. To train. To coordinate. To fight us. To kill us.
So they claim they are combatants. They claim the media, especially the internet, is a weapon. Yet you wish to protect this propaganda because you have some odd attachment to the First Amendment which trumps all other concerns?
WWGD? (What would Goebbels do?)
I believe the WWGD is a legitimate question, but one that most have avoided in this war. In past wars, we have had no problem censoring people. Especially our enemies. And the domestic forces that support them. I doubt any of us would have a problem targetting Joseph Goebells Ministry of Propaganda for a bombing raid during the height of WWII. Had Goebells not committed suicide, I doubt any would raise objections for trying him as a war criminal. Even though he did nothing more than speak.
Nor did any of us have a problem when the leaders of the German Bund were rounded up and their papers and presses shut down.
Sure, censorship has been abused in the past. But the potential to abuse a power is not a sufficient reason to withhold it. Otherwise, governments would have no power.
Here is what Newt says, in context: MORE BELOW
"This is a serious, long-term war," the former speaker said, according an audio excerpt of his remarks made available yesterday by his office. "Either before we lose a city or, if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people."
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Gingrich gets how this war is being fought. I'm sorry, but the rest of you just don't. The fight is in the cyber realm. It is a real battle. People die because of it.
Now, here is the key:
"We should propose a Geneva Convention for fighting terrorism, which makes very clear that those who would fight outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass destruction, and those who would target civilians are, in fact, subject to a totally different set of rules that allow us to protect civilization by defeating barbarism before it gains so much strength that it is truly horrendous," he said.
And I'm not sure what it is that Ed doesn't get about Newt's proposals. Presto Agito believes that the reporter at The Sun just was too vague. I don't see much vagueness about it, other than the same vagueness that occurs when any policy proposition is first mentioned and before much thought can be given to implementation. Which is exactly where Joe Gandelman gets it right:
In reality, it has long been noted in many publications that terrorists are using the Internet. The problem is going to be great distrust over how this idea — if it ever comes to fruition (and it probably won't) would be implemented.
Yes, the devil is in the details, as they say. And there are legitimate concerns that should always be raised. But these concerns are not insurmountable. Simply raising concerns is not enough to quash discussion.
It's seems rather simple to me: deny your opponents the tools of terrorism. One of those tools in the internet. Go after the cyber jihadis.
And I don't mean issuing an indictment against them, I mean, literally, denying them access to the internet. Through various methods that some might think of as distatsteful. But certainly less distasteful than bombs.
I'm not sure that the NSA is up to the job, but it's a good place to start.
My own proposition is that of Cyber Privateering. The reasoning behind this has more to do with the way in which information flows in distributive networks than anything else. That is, it would be easier for our own cyber Army of Davids--given the proper incentive structure--to fight and beat the Army of Davids of the cyber jihadis.
America has the greatest hackers in the world. Let's use their talents for the public good. Just give us a few bucks for taking down our enemies' propaganda machinery, give us immunity from prosecution, and to paraphrase another great thinker, Winston Churchill: give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The Constitution itself gives Congress the power to grant letters of marquee--which, as you may know, is a means of employing private individuals (privateers--like pirates, but the legal kind) in furthering the goals of the state. It also grants Congress the authority to punish piracy and other crimes which are not even committed on US soil, but which are considered crimes against all civilized nations.
And, personally, I don't see much difference between pirates and jihadis. Except the jihadis are worse. The pirates just wanted to rape and pillage, the jihadis wish to rape, pillage, and rule. Kill them wherever you find them, punish all that are found aiding and abeding them.
Gingrich's idea of a 'Geneva Convention' outlawing jihad makes a whole lot of sense. He's never had much of a chance to win the Presidency, but I'd love to see him over the NSA.
UPDATE: As if on cue: Atlas Shrugs (hat tip: Larwynn):
Technical Mujahid” [Al-Mujahid al-Teqany], published by al-Fajr Information Center, was electronically distributed to password-protected jihadist forums Tuesday, November 28, 2006....
an introductory message, emphasizes the great purpose of jihad in the information sector. This front is determined by the author to be “a main pillar in the battle of Islam against the Crusaders and the polytheist belief”.
Now do you get it?
Newt Gingrich, Jawa reader.
A Message from the Save Darfur Coalition
Here's the message:
For the next few days, President Bush will be meeting with world leaders in the Middle East. While there are many important issues that President Bush will need to discuss, we want to make sure that the world’s worst humanitarian crisis stays at the top of his list.
Will you please call the President and ask him to make Darfur a priority in these meetings?
We have set up a 1-800 number to make it easy (and free) for you to make this call.
Please dial 1-800-320-0095 and ask President Bush to make the crisis in Darfur a priority in his meetings with other world leaders this week.
When you’ve hung up, please click here to let us know how your call went.
Please don’t overlook this step of reporting your call to us as it’s crucial for us to know how many concerned citizens are calling.
I just called. It took a couple minutes of my time.
Taliban’s New "Humane" Methods
Normally the Taliban behead a man for allowing his wife to teach girls evil satanic algebra. But in this case the Taliban were both merciful and creative, they spilled his guts out on the ground and then used motorbikes to draw and quarter him.
Independent News: The gunmen came at night to drag Mohammed Halim away from his home, in front of his crying children and his wife begging for mercy.
The 46-year-old schoolteacher tried to reassure his family that he would return safely. But his life was over, he was part-disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes, the remains put on display as a warning to others against defying Taliban orders to stop educating girls.
Mr Halim was one of four teachers killed in rapid succession by the Islamists at Ghazni, a strategic point on the routes from Kabul to the south and east which has become the scene of fierce clashes between the Taliban and US and Afghan forces.
The day we arrived, an Afghan policemen and eight insurgents died during an ambush in an outlying village. Rockets were found, primed to be fired into Ghazni City during a visit by the American ambassador a few days previously.
But, as in the rest of Afghanistan, it is the civilians who are bearing the brunt of this conflict. At the village of Qara Bagh, the family of Mr Halim are distraught and terrified. His cousin, Ahmed Gul, shook his head: "They killed him like an animal. No, no. We do not kill animals like that, it would be haram. They took away a father and a husband, they had no pity. We are all very worried. Please go now, you see those men standing over there? They are watching. It is dangerous for you, and for us."
Fatima Mushtaq, the director of education at Ghazni, has had repeated death threats, the notorious "night letters". Her gender, as well as her refusal to send girls home from school, has made her a particular source of hatred for Islamist zealots.
"I think they killed him that way to frighten us, otherwise why make a man suffer so much? Mohammed Halim and his family were good friends of ours and we are very, very upset by what has happened. He came to me when the threats first began and asked what he should do. I told him to move somewhere safe. I think he was trying to arrange that when they came and took him," she said.
"I think they killed him that way to frighten us", Well yes that is what terrorists do because educating women is against Islam, or at least the Taliban’s interpretation of the ROP. And our choke…ally…cough Pakistan wants NATO to abandon the fight against these murderers?
Also See: Prairie Pundit and Hyscience.
Captain Ed Takes on Newt
Ed Morrissey has a piece today going after Newt Gingrich. Apparently, Gingrich recently said:
Either before we lose a city or, if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people.
Morrissey's response (in part):
if Gingrich believes that we can win the war by silencing American citizens, then he is fighting the wrong war on behalf of the wrong principles. All he is doing is replacing one bogeyman (political corruption) for another (terrorism); in essence, he's no different from McCain.
Ouch, baby--VERY ouch...
Sharia in the UK
Legal pluralism is all the rage in Europe and among American legal academics. The concept is that different laws should apply to different groups within the same country. This is why Canada allows some religious courts legal authority. The same applies to Britain. No joke.
The scary thing, is that it could happen here too. It's all the rage in law schools. And young lawyers today become tomorow's judges......
Dread Pundit Bluto has the details. But here's a teaser from The Telegraph:
Faizul Aqtab Siddiqi, a barrister and principal of Hijaz College Islamic University, near Nuneaton, Warwicks, said this type of court had advantages for Muslims. "It operates on a low budget, it operates on very small timescales and the process and the laws of evidence are far more lenient and it's less awesome an environment than the English courts," he said.
Mr Siddiqi predicted that there would be a formal network of Muslim courts within a decade.
Coming soon to the UK: rape victims being stoned to death, amputation for shoplifting, and the death sentence for blasphemers.
Alexander Litvinenko & The Russians
I've been getting lots of e-mails for the past few days urging me to link to stories about Alexander Litvinenko the former spy who was recently poisoned. I haven't. Here's why.
I spent some time in Russia. I went to a University there for a year. Which means I know Russians.
Their idea of 'truth' is not our idea of 'truth'. It's more like truthiness (Yeah, The Jawa Report now rhymes with poor).
For instance, students would routinely cheat on tests. But no one considered it cheating. Different cultural definitions of honesty, I guess. Same applies to stealing.
So, when Russians come out saying they know who was behind Litvinenko's poisoning, I just roll my eyes and shrug. People in Russia talk that way: "everybody knows that" [insert crazy idea here, especially ones blaming people from the Caucuses, Jews, the Mafia, etc.].
Did Putin's thugs kill Litvinenko? Maybe. Was it the mafia? Maybe. Was it nuclear smugglers trying to shut him up? Maybe? Did he poison himself in a final look-at-me-I'm-important act? Maybe. Did a Putin follower rid him of this pesky ex-spy without Putin's approval? Maybe.
The truth is, I don't know. Russians are like Arabs. Scratch a Russian, and underneath is a Tatar, or so the saying goes. Even when multiple sources verify the same event, it's still best to remain skeptical. Because there is such a thing as social truth. That is, everyone lying about the same thing because the lie fosters the truth.
I'm out of this fight until a lot more is known....in the Western sense of the word. It is a strange and compelling story, but one in which I'd much rather remain a spectator in.
But, if you just want to keep up on the facts as they emerge, you might want to try AJ Stata's place out.
Heather MacDonald on Hispanic Family Values
The open-borders Republicans are fond of reassuring the rank-and-file that immigrants from Latin American countries are "more conservative" than most Republicans and are, in fact, destined to be Republicans.
This article has a different take.
h/t : Michelle.
ME History in 90 Seconds
Check this out. It's like going to through your World Civilizations I & II classes in 90 seconds. Especially meaningful for the uninformed about "Palestine".
Canadian War Crimes?
Thanks to Fred Fry in the comments, we get this gem of an article from Canada's Globe and Mail. It's worth reading the whole thing.
Like Fred posted, this excerpt is particularly interesting:
"If we attack the Canadians, they call for aircraft and bomb everything in the area. The U.S. only tried to kill the Taliban. The Canadians try to kill everybody."
Here's what I see. I see a group of savvy media manipulators trying to get out the message that Canadian troops are even worse than American troops.
I see an attempt to shock what they obviously view as a far more compliant population of media watchers into erupting into protest. I also see an attempt to replicate in Canada what we will soon see here. Hearings, subpoenas, and a general bogging down of the war effort.
I also see desperation. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is pretty much off the political radar in the U.S. The Pelosis and Murthas aren't calling for withdrawal from Afghanistan.
So all these losers have left is trying to convince the populations of our NATO allies that they, like us barbaric Americans, are nothing more than blood soaked oppressive butchers. A lame attempt to replicate the propaganda from Iraq.
Sorry, chums. Canada is even more hard to rouse from slumber than we are, but when we get together in a war, you're screwed.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that there's far more Canadians taking pride that their boys are bombing you into the Stone Age than not.
I Feel Safer, Don't You?
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush's order, which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as "specially designated global terrorists" after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
So who gets to designate terror organizations, the judiciary?
UPDATE (Ragnar) : There's a copy of Judge Collins' order here. If Judge' Collins' name sounds familiar, it may be because she's been in the news before. Judge Collins ruled in January 2004 that portions of the Patriot Act were also "impermissibly vague," and could not be enforced. A copy of the Judge's January 2004 order can be viewed here. There's a related order from July here.
Terrorists Attack Vatican
Cyber jihadis have attacked the Vatican website. Okay, maybe they're not your traditional terrorists, but cyberterrorism is a form of terrorism nonetheless. And the Vatican website is part of the Vatican.
I've been checking the Vatican's website all day. It hasn't been down. Kudos to the Swiss Guards of the cybersphere for doing an excellent job.
As someone who's website has been the victim of Turkish cyber jihadis attempting to do the denial of service routine, I can tell you that that this lot isn't the brightest the ummah has to offer. They are pains in the asses, though.
Update by Vinnie: Swiss Guards? Or Fathers Merrin and Karras? Or at least their cyber-counterparts...
NewsMax:
As thousands of Turks took to the streets to protest the ongoing visit of Pope Benedict XVI to their country, the Church was already dealing with another threat from angry Muslims – a cyberattack on the Vatican Web site.
An appeal to Jihadist hackers was sent out through Web forums linked to al-Qaida and was posted on two of the Web sites that publish messages from the terrorist organization.
"The leadership of the electronic Jihad has decided to undertake a grand attack against the official Vatican site following the insults by the Pope against our Prophet," the statement read in Arabic, referring to remarks the Pope made in a September 12 speech.
"With Allah's blessing, the attack will succeed thanks to the help of our brothers if we all attack simultaneously. We ask all our brothers to be present at the hour of the attack for a joint action, because they (Catholics) have struck our religion. They must be fought and deserve to be attacked and not only on their Internet site.” ...
Vatican security officials aren’t sure what the hackers seek to accomplish, but suspect they aim to create a "denial of service” for visitors to the site by flooding the Vatican servers with messages from thousands of computers controlled by hackers.
The purpose of a denial of service attack is simply to take the website offline. Attack thwarted, I'd say.
Hat tip: Dan Riehl for the e-mail.
American Traitor Leading Jihad in Somalia?
UPDATE: Confirmed. Alternate spelling is Ibrahim Hassan Addou and he is an American citizen. Much more information in this post.
I was reading through the headlines today to see if fighting has begun between our allies in Ethiopia and the jihadis of the Islamic Courts Union which now run most of Southern Somalia, when I came across something interesting.
The head of The Foreign Relations Department of the Islamic Courts Union, Ibrahim Hassan Addow, is an American citizen.
How bad is the Islamic Courts Union? Bad enough that we have dubbed them the 'African Taliban'. They wish to impose strict sharia law on the citizens of Somalia, just like the Afghani Taliban. They also have ties to al Qaeda, just like the Afghani Taliban. And just like the Afghani Taliban, they deny that they are extremists and that they have ties to terrorists.
So, who is Ibrahim Hassan Addow? I have no idea. In fact, I can find no information on him prior to his association with the jihadis now running much of Somalia. But he claims to be an American. UPDATE: Critical information found on Ibrahim Hassan Addou. He worked at American University in Washington, D.C., and now heads a university in Mogadishu.
Since the title "Professor" is often attached to his names in media reports, is it possible he taught at the University level in the United States? If so, is there any one out there who knows anything about him?
He seems to be the main spokesman for the ICU abroad and has participated in several international conferences aimed at bringing peace to Somalia. Perhaps he was chosen for this job because of his US citizenship and status as an educated man.
I'm thinking that he is probably a naturalized citizen--that is, that he immigrated to the United States and became a citizen at some point--not that he was born here. But, since the US has stated in no uncertain terms that the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia has ties to the global jihad and is harboring al Qaeda terrorists who bombed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, would that not make Ibrahim Addow a traitor?
On top of that it is the Islamic Courts Union themselves who claimed the warlords they were recently victorious over were backed by the US government then would this not make him a traitor times two? The organization he is the spokeman for claims it is fighting US backed forces!
I hope somebody somewhere is working on revoking his citizenship. Or brininging him back for a speedy trial followed by some Texas style justice.
Here we have a guy who is trying to put the happy face on a regime that murders people for watching soccer or for not praying or for converting to Christianity [insert any other number of 'crimes' here] and which has recently declared jihad against Ethiopia. Nice.
Oh, and since I was originally looking for whether or not the Somalians and Ethiopians were now officially at war, you might want to know that the answer is yes. The African Taliban claimed today that Ethiopian troops began to shell ICU held positions. They've also invited Muslims from around the world to join the jihad in Somalia.
Which contradicts all earlier statements made by the ICU that there were no foreign fighters in Somalia and there is no connection between the ICU and the global jihad.
UPDATE: As if on cue, the Islamists release a video called: Somalia, apostate hell. Hell for apostates they mean.
Al Jazeera:
Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts has accused neighbouring Ethiopia of shelling a town about 630km north of the capital, Mogadishu.
In response, thousands of enraged Somalis gathered in the capital shouting “Down with America! Down with Ethiopia!”
Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, an Islamic courts leader, told a crowd of more than 10,000 people: "Ethiopian soldiers have massed around Bandiradley and started firing missiles"....
Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siyad Indhaade, the national security chairman for the Islamic courts, said: "Our door of jihad is open for all Muslims around the world if the Security Council approves the deployment of foreign troops in Somalia.
"We call on the world to avoid a war that will affect the Horn of Africa."
Sheikh Fu'ad Mohammed Khalaf, the head of the Islamic courts' education department, said: "When the first shot is fired, all schools and universities will be closed and students and teachers will go to jihad."
They want "peace", but reject any moves to send peacekeepers into the area. All Africa:
"The US delegation will be received by our Foreign Relations Chief, Ibrahim Hassan Addow, who is himself an American citizen. Islamists would like to tell the United States in person of its opposition to a US-proposed UN Security Council resolution that would partially lift a 1992 arms embargo on Somalia and authorize regional peacekeepers," the sources quoted Muddey as saying. The lifting of the UN weapons embargo which is being spearheaded by US is a serious security risk, the Spokesman added.
There was no immediate reaction to the invitation from the US embassy in neighbouring Kenya which handles Washington's Somalia portfolio. But a positive response was unlikely as the United States accuses some Islamists of ties with al-Qaida and harbouring suspects in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the sources indicated.
If you know anything about Addow please e-mail me at the contact information linked above.
Kirkuk Hospital, Clinics Receive Medical Supplies
(Via Centcom)
A local Iraqi unpacks medical supplies at the Kirkuk General Hospital. The medical aid, supplied by Coalition Forces, will be distributed amongst the hospital and the local clinics.
Medical supplies in shortage, such as intravenous (IV) bags and burn blankets, were supplied by civil affairs soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division.
“God willing, these supplies will be helpful,” said Ahmed Karman, an Iraqi pharmacist working in the medical warehouse at the Kirkuk General Hospital . “In the past we were forced to rely on the black market for medical supplies.”
Under normal situations the hospital and the clinics receive medical supplies from the Ministry of Health and the Red Cross, the pharmacist said. “Most of our supplies come from Baghdad or Mosul ,” he said. “But everything depends on our ability to get to and from the cities. When there are transportation problems, there are shortages.” The soldiers brought the warehouse burn blankets, bandages, needle disposal containers, IVs and accessories. “Previously we have worked with individual clinics,” said Maj. Paul Beekman, C Company, 402nd Civil Affairs team leader. “But this was the first time we have dropped off medical supplies to the hospital’s warehouse. We are planning another drop off, because we have more to give to them.” After taking a look inside, Beekman said the warehouse looked relatively barren. “I think this drop off will have a huge impact on the hospital and the clinics,” he said. “They have basic supplies like gauze and needles, but things like those are only intended to be used one time. Still (the Iraqi hospital and clinics) are very thankful for any supplies we can get them.”
I noticed this post at Bizzy Blog says that Google News is not carrying most of Centcom’s hard work. See his post for how you can help get Centcom the recognition on Google News it deserves.
So what can little old Howie do about it right now? Well, The Jawa Report is a Google News Source and our casa is Centcom’s casa, so to speak. Centcom welcome to Google News.
Photo Credit: U.S. Army , Sgt. Anthony White.
(Vid) US Plane Shot Down, Pilot’s Body Still Missing.
UPDATE: As if on cue, the "Iraqi resistance" (which, in Falluja, means al Qaeda linked organizations) claims they shot the F-16 down with a "Strela" rocket. I speak a little Russian, and strela means "arrow" and is a Soviet made portable SAM. No word on the body of the pilot yet.
UPDATE II: Al Jazeera TV claiming that The Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) and Mujahideen Army, in a joint statement, claim downing of plane. Odd, since the MSC no longer calls itself the MSC, but rather "The Islamic State of Iraq". The group formerly known as the MSC, though, is an al Qaeda-Salafi-jihadi umbrella organization.
Update III: The Military has identified the missing Pilot as:
The Department of Defense announced today the identity of an airman listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN).
Maj. Troy L. Gilbert was the pilot of an Air Force F-16C engaged in support of coalition ground combat operations that crashed approximately 20 miles northwest of Baghdad Nov. 27.
Gilbert is assigned to the 309th Fighter Squadron, Luke Air Force Base, AZ and currently deployed to the 332nd Expeditionary Wing, Balad Air Force Base, Iraq.
Hat Tip: Opinion Bug.
We pray for his family and demand his return and that he is treated respectfully.
The pilot of the F16 which crashed in Iraq on Monday is still missing. A video has emerged taken just after the crash. The video is posted below (warning: graphic). In it, what are described as "locals" by the MSM can be seen disrespecting the plane. They also show the body of the dead pilot. US forces are searching to recover his remains before they can be disrespected any more.
CNN: The Air Force F-16CG fighter jet crashed Monday outside of Baghdad while flying on a low-level "strafing run" -- firing on targets on the ground at a low altitude -- a U.S. military official in Baghdad said….
…A Pentagon source said the plane was operating near Falluja, which is about 30 miles west of Baghdad.
Al-Jazeera, the Middle East-based television news network, has aired video showing what it said was the smoldering wreckage of the F-16. The video shows pieces of the aircraft including the tail which displays the aircraft's number and an "Air Combat Command" logo.
It said the video was shot in Karma, which is about nine miles (15 kilometers) northeast of Falluja.
Mohammed Al-Obeidi, an Iraqi who lives in the nearby town of Karmah, told The Associated Press he saw the jet flying up and down erratically before it nose-dived and exploded in a farm field.
He said other U.S. warplanes rushed to the crash site and were circling around it.
The F-16 was deployed to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Balad Air Base, Iraq.
The plane may have been hit by small arms fire, had a malfunction or simply sucked a bird into the intake for its single engine as in this video. The “up and down” motions described is the pilot trying to gain altitude to eject safely and also avoid a stall. The nosedive described is the stall. Sounds like this man made a valiant effort to save his plane and probably was just too low to eject safely.
This is not consistent with a missile shoot down, there would have been no up and down motion. Our enemies in Iraq have used a limited number of Russian SA7 shoulder fired missiles but that would have been obvious. Enemy claims of a missle strike are possible but doubtful.
Note CNN describes the men in the video as locals and not insurgents. But the one places his foot on the plane’s insignia, a show of disrespect. They also run like rabbits at the sound of approaching US warplanes. It also shows what appears to be the body of the pilot, and that he ejected from the plane prior to impact. How and when the pilot’s body was removed is not clear. However one of the men forgets to cover his face so I’d say someone will be looking him up real soon.
The insurgents may have taken the pilot’s body to extract a ransom to raise funds or for propaganda purposes. These terrorist war criminals have been known to murder pilots when captured. Also they have used the body of a dead pilot for propaganda purposes. These actions are war crimes and we should treat the enemy for what they are: terrorists & war criminals.
Video below:
Update 10/05/10 by Howie: Per request of Major Troy Gilbert's family the video has been removed as Troy's body is visible in the video. If you need a copy or the link email Howie.
Note: CNN had the best coverage on this so I had to hold my nose and post it.
Alternative sources : ABC and Reuters
Hat Tips: Northern Watch and Doubletap.
When Terrorists Hold Press Conferences
When terrorists hold press conferences and the AP has no problem going to it for a little Q&A and photo op, then, well, I hate to say this, but the terrorists have already won.
Hezbollah Aids Iraq Deathsquads
Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, is helping to train the death squads of al Sadr's Mahdi Army. File under: no Shiite. The only question is: why send them to Lebanon for training when thousands have already been trained in Iran?
The Iranian-backed group Hezbollah has been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shi'ite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr, The New York Times reported on Monday, quoting a senior U.S. intelligence official.
Between 1,000 and 2,000 fighters from the Mahdi Army and other Shi'ite militias had been trained by Hezbollah in Lebanon, the unidentified official told the newspaper.
A small number of Hezbollah operatives had also visited Iraq to help with training, the official said.
Iran has facilitated the link between Hezbollah and the Shi'ite militias in Iraq while Syrian officials have also cooperated, but there is debate whether it has the blessing of the senior leaders in Syria, the official told the Times, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Sameer N. Yacoub: AP's Terrorist Supporter or Lazy Green Zone Reporter?
UPDATE: The AP responds. If the story turns out to be legit, then this means the Iraqi government is more srewed up than even I imagined (and I have quite a vivid imagination). That, or we have some real live propagandists on our hands.
If you haven't been keeping up with the ongoing saga of bad reporting from Iraq, you should be. Look, things are not going well in a lot of areas in Iraq. But some of these false reports are inflaming violence and are, in fact, a form of blood lible equivalent to the old lies about Jews killing Christian children.
The purpose of allegations of attrocities committed by the US is to justify and inflame violence against us. Is AP reporter Sameer N. Yacoub purposely trying to get US troops killed by repeating accusations that the US opened fire on 11 unnarmed civilians when, in fact, no US troops were even in the area? I don't know.
Dan Riehl finds evidence that Yacoub was a longtime schill of the Hussein regime. He also finds evidence that Yacoub may have contacts within Sunni terror circles. On top of that, Flopping Aces first took note when the AP began to cite as authoritative sources people who were not actually working for the Iraqi agencies that they claimed to be working for.
Taken together, a case might be made that Yacoub and other AP reporters are closet Baathists, Sunni Islamicists, or simply anti-Shia/ anti-American. That they are part of the concerted propaganda war and media jihad declared by terrorists. See for instance our recent post on The Jihad Media Battalion or Greyhawk's great expose on the Global Islamic Media Front if you weren't aware that the terrorists actually admit that there is a propaganda war going on.
However, there is another explanation. This one does not require that Sameer N. Yacoub and others at the AP as part of the jihad, only that they are lazy and perhaps are inclined towards believing the worst about those they see as the 'bad guys'. (In this case the Shia and the US).
For instance, look closely at the report from Sameer N. Yacoub that Dan Riehl digs up. How does Yacoub know what is going on in Fallujah?
Associated Press Television News pictures showed one man beating a charred corpse with a metal pole...
APTN showed the charred remains of three slain men.
Yacoub, it would seem, was not actually at the scene. He had watched television, and was simply reporting what he saw. On TV. From the comfort of the Green Zone.
As we've said so many time here, the vast majority of reports from Iraq are from the Green Zone. Remember, when Bill from INDC asked CENTCOM how many embedded reporters there were in Iraq the answer was NINE. Nine embedded reporters in a country the size of Iraq.
Not only does this leave the news Baghdad centered, but it also means that Western reporters must gather news by watching local TV, relying on local stringers which may have an agenda in the war (in war, who doesn't have an agenda?), or who may be using their cellphone as a substitute for face-to-face interviews.
The latter method, cellphone interviews with contacts inside the Iraqi police, seems to be how the 'facts' were gathered for the fraudulent story about 6 Sunni being burned to death. As Curt from Flopping Aces revealed, the person cited in the story actually doesn't work for the the Iraqi police. Gateway Pundit finds that neither does another popular AP source. More here.
I'm guessing that the AP reporters never bothered to interview the man in person. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that "Capt. Jamil Hussein" was the one that called the AP. That no one ever bothered to go down to the 'police station' outside of the Green Zone where Hussein 'worked'.
Knowing what we know about how terrorists deliberately lie in order to inflame public opinion against the US, and knowing what we know about Green Zone reporting, then it quite understandable why world opinion is such that many believe that the US military is the moral equivalent of the terrorists we fight.
How low will the terrorists go in their propaganda campaign? Recall that Patterico had debunked a story about a bombing of civilians in Ramadi. In that story, Sunni terrorists and their sympathizers had simply made an event up. Not only had the US not bombed civilians, they hadn't actually bombed any one.
But the facts do not matter to the insurgents. A recent video from the Army of Ansar al Sunnah shown US targets being hit in retribution for the Ramadi bombing.
See if you follow me here. Terrorists lie about an attrocity which never actually happened. Then the same terrorists produce a propaganda video in which there is retaliation for the very same attrocity which they made up in the first place!
However, outside a few bloggers who know better than to believe what the AP and other MSM news outlets print, the rest of the world is left with the impression that the US and the insurgents are basically engaged in the same type of warfare. We kill civilians, they kill civilians. It's all bad.
Worse, Arabs, Muslims, and even Iraqis get the same messages on an almost daily basis. They are left with the impression that the US is no different than the Sunni terrorists or the Shia death squads.
The inevetable consequence of this propaganda is the recruitment of more jihadis to fight. Terrorists are not irrational people. They believe they are the good guys. And as long as the media is quite willing to reify their worldview, then we can never win.
This is not to suggest that things are going well in Iraq. They aren't. It is only to suggest that one of the reasons things are not going well is because the US, from the beginning, never learned how to play the propaganda game. We allowed the MSM to become the tool of our enemies. And by doing so the insurgency has only grown to the point that it is at now.
Don't forget to take Michelle Malkin's poll: Who is the biggest terrorist propaganda tool?
Study: Women Can't Keep Mouths Shut
(San Francisco, California) A female psychiatrist with the University of California, Dr. Luan Brizendine, has conducted research which found that women talk three times as much as men.
Based on clinical work and analyses of more than 1,000 scientific studies, Dr. Brizendine's research found that "the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high." It's not that way with us guys.
From TheRegister.co.uk:
Dr Luan Brizendine of the University of California, who's published her shock findings in The Female Brain, says the average woman works her way through 20,000 words per day, compared with just 7,000 for the average bloke. She says "women devote more brain cells to talking than men", and cites fundamental differences between male and female brains as the cause.
According to "self-proclaimed feminist" Dr. Brizendine, the difference is explained by the level of testosterone in a person. The high level of testosterone in males suppresses those areas of the brain which control communication, emotion and memory.
Now, a logical conclusion would be that males have better listening skills than women. After all, if women are yakking most of the time, they can't be talking to other women since they, too, are yakking. Therefore, women must be talking to men and, as a result, men empirically are more adept at listening since they do it three times as much as women.
On the contrary, says Dr. Brizendine who runs a female "mood and hormone" clinic in San Francisco. According to her psychiatric feminist research, the testosterone in the male brain also shrinks the primary hearing cortex which makes them "deaf" to most logical arguments. However, the shrinkage in one area of the brain is compensated for by the expansion of the areas of the brain which control sexual thought processing.
Notably, not everyone concurs with Dr. Brizendine's assertions since there is no common agreement regarding testosterone's effect on the brain. Personally, I view the contention that women talk too much as about right, but it's ludicrous to label men as "deaf" to logic.
In summary, research found that women talk most of the time while men don't and the reason is that women don't have nasty testosterone to make them deaf and fiendish about sex.
Dr. Brizendine is reported to be affiliated with the University of California but in which capacity is unclear. Internet searches under 'psychobabble studies' and 'feminist psychiatric hooey' failed to return any useful results.
Bogus Source Cited in NBC 'Civil War' Decision
A transcript posted at lefty blog Think Progress quotes NBC as factoring in a story from now-discredited source Jamil Hussein about Sunni worshippers being burned alive as a major factor in NBC's decision to declare a "civil war" in Iraq [emphasis added]:
The news from Iraq is becoming grimmer every day. Over the long holiday weekend bombings killed more than 200 people in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. And six Sunni men were doused with kerosene and burned alive. Shiite muslims are the majority, but Sunnis like Saddam Hussein ruled that country until the war. Now, the battle between Shiites and Sunnis has created a civil war in Iraq. Beginning this morning, MSNBC will refer to the fighting in Iraq as a civil war — a phrase the White House continues to resist. But after careful thought, MSNBC and NBC News decided over the weekend, the terminology is appropriate, as armed militarized factions fight for their own political agendas. We’ll have a lots more on the situation in Iraq and the decision to use the phrase, civil war.
It's too bad that NBC and the rest of the mainstream media apparently haven't put much thought into validating sources and confirming their stories.
It's not just NBC. Since the Adnan Hajj/Reutersgate/fauxtography scandal during the Israeli/Hezbollah war led to grave questions about the current state of Western journalism, it has become increasingly obvious that there is something basically wrong with the way the major media companies are covering events in the Middle East.
Via Curt at Flopping Aces who has been continuously updating the story.
Bassem Mroue: AP Terrorist Shill
Bassem Mroue, whose twisted little number the Jawa Report had back in July when he was caught screeding on his blog against Israel during the Israel/Hezbo conflict, is at it again. OpFor and Malkin have the latest shenanigans from one of the AP's most notorious terrorist-affiliated "stringers".
Here's my Jawa Report / Mein Blogovault July coverage (w/ screenshots) of Mroue's anti-Israel blog (from which he scrubbed damning evidence of his biases as a result of being exposed here, according to the NRO Media blog).
Hey, Bassem! Remember this?
Cockroaches hate sunlight, dontchaknow.
Well, Thank You Very Much, Mr. Helper
According to what I hear on a daily basis, the Iraq Study Group, headed by James Baker, wants us to bring Syria and Iran in to help with Iraq.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted the collapse of Israel, the U.S. and Britain, attacking what he called their ``oppressive behavior.''
``The Zionist regime is on a steep downhill towards collapse and disgrace,'' Ahmandinejad told supporters at a rally of Basiji militia forces near Tehran today. In a reference to the U.S. and U.K., he said ``the collapse and crumbling of your devilish rule has started.'' The speech was carried live on state television.
In related news, the ISG wants to bring Russia in to help cure radiation poisoning, Cuba to help with the North Korea situation, and Dr. Rusty Shackleford to help out in case Brangelina have marital problems.
Although it appears that Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, jumped clean off the peace train, other aging rockers have not.
Beatle John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has called for December 8, the anniversary of Lennon's death, to be observed as a day of worldwide healing.
According to Ono, the day of healing is "the day to ask for forgiveness from those who suffered the insufferable."
Uh ... does anyone know what the hell that means?
Terrorists Launch Google Guide
Because you can't spell jihad without GOOGLE.
An organization calling itself 'The Jihad Media Battalion' (alt, brigade), which is linked to al Qaeda in Iraq, has produced a 26 page guide for using the Google search engine to further the goals of the global jihad. The group was formed to promote the dissemination of al Qaeda and other Salafist jihadi propaganda.
According to the authors of the guide, the purpose of learning how to properly use Google is to
remind our Muslim brothers in general, and the mujahideen in particular, the need to learn the arts of jihad on the internet and Jihad media
Why Google? The guide gives users the tools necessary to find information on the internet that will further the cause of the media jihad. Namely, how to search for information which will bolster the Islamist worldview that there is a war being waged by the U.S. against Islam, that atrocities are being committed by the West in this war, and that the mujahidin are winning this war.
Thus, the guide instructs users how to search through the cached pages of the pro-jihad al Jazeera website and the jihadi forums of al Hesbah.
Ironically, "photoshop tutorials" is used by The Jihad Media Battalion as an example of something a would be media jihadi might be interested in looking for on the internet. Which makes us wonder whether or not Adnan Hajj is a member of the battalion?
The jihadis understand that the most important battleground in this war is that of propaganda. Unfortunately, very few of our leaders understand this. Or, if they understand it, are unwilling to fight it.
Who are the Jihad Media Battalion? At one time the group called itself "al Qaeda's Jihad Media Battalion" and they have produced a number of pro-jihadi videos aimed at Western audiences. By "al Qaeda" they meant "al Qaeda in Iraq" since their number one star is the now deceased Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
Their goal is to influence Western perceptions of the war in Iraq and elsewhere. We know this because a good deal of their videos are released with English subtitles.
Circumstantial evidence also points to this 'brigade' being located in Scandanavia. Thus, one of al Qaeda in Iraq's media arms may actually be located in Northern Europe. Which also gives us pause to wonder if Maithem Abdul Razzaq might also be closer to The Hague than he is to Yarmouk, Iraq?
It is not clear whether they are officially part of the al Qaeda organization, or only composed of sympathizers wishing to further the jihadi goals. In either case, they clearly see themselves as part and parcel to the global jihad. They see propaganda as a tool of war, and themselves as warriors.
If they consider themselves combatants in the war on terror, why shouldn't we? If they consider propaganda a weapon, then why shouldn't we? And if they consider themselves soldiers wielding weapons, then why should we not treat them as such?
As a matter of practical policy, it would mean making those involved in the media jihad legitimate military targets. It would also mean treating third parties, such as websites, that distribute such propaganda as aiding and abedding terrorism. If unkowingly, then they should be forced to stop this distribution. If knowingly, then they should be prosecuted for facilitating terror.
Difficult? Yes. Especially when treated as a law enforcement issue. As a military matter of cyber war, fairly easy and quick.
But, when one website is shut down, another will pop up. I know this. But the same is true of terrorists. Killing or jailing one means two more will pop up somewhere else.
It's a lot easier to shut down a website than to kill or jail a terrorist. And the more difficult it is to distribute jihadi propaganda, the less likely it is that new recruits will be found.
Thanks to Tribeca who beat me (by that much) in finding the original file.
See also Curt's expose of the Maithem Abdul Razzaq's '6 Sunnis burned alive' affair, mentioned above, Patterico's debunking of an airstrike the Sunni jihadis have been calling a massacre (they've even begun killing people in 'revenge' for the massacre that wasn't) and Michelle Malkin's excellent post (and many good links) on how the media jihad distorts MSM reporting and affects domestic perceptions of the war on terror.
UPDATE and related: Anonymous residents in Sadr city claim US massacre, military says no one near the place. You. Be. The. Judge.
MSM "Official Source" a Fraud
Following up on the apparently false stories of burning mosques and Sunnis set aflame at prayer in Iraq, propagated by a Jamil Hussein, who claimed to be an Iraqi police captain, Curt at Flopping Aces notes confirmation from CENTCOM (backup site here) that Hussein is a fraud:
Dear Associated Press:
On Nov. 24, 2006, your organization published an article by Qais Al-Bashir about six Sunnis being burned alive in the presence of Iraqi Police officers. This news item, which is below, received an enormous amount of coverage internationally.
We at Multi-National Corps - Iraq made it known through MNC-I Press Release Number 20061125-09 and our conversations with your reporters that neither we nor Baghdad Police had any reports of such an incident after investigating it and could find no one to corroborate the story. A couple of hours ago, we learned something else very important. We can tell you definitively that the primary source of this story, police Capt. Jamil Hussein, is not a Baghdad police officer or an MOI employee. We verified this fact with the MOI through the Coalition Police Assistance Training Team.
Also, we definitely know, as we told you several weeks ago through the MNC-I Media Relations cell, that another AP-popular IP spokesman, Lt. Maithem Abdul Razzaq, supposedly of the city’s Yarmouk police station, does not work at that police station and is also not authorized to speak on behalf of the IP. The MOI has supposedly issued a warrant for his questioning.
I know we have informed you that there exists an MOI edict that no one below the level of chief is authorized to be an Iraqi Police spokesperson. An unauthorized IP spokesperson will get fired for talking to the media. While I understand the importance of a news agency to use anonymous and unauthorized sources, it is still incumbent upon them to make sure their facts are straight. Was this information verified by anyone else? If the source providing the information is lying about his name, then he ought not to be represented as an official IP spokesperson and should be listed as an anonymous source.
Unless you have a credible source to corroborate the story of the people being burned alive, we respectfully request that AP issue a retraction, or a correction at a minimum, acknowledging that the source named in the story is not who he claimed he was. MNC-I and MNF-I are always available and willing to verify events and provide as much information as possible when asked.
LT XXXXXX
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Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
MNC-I Joint Operations Center
It's unlikely that the Associated Press and other news agencies will issue corrections approaching the sensationalism with which they originally pushed the false stories.
A Moderate Muslim Identified in Tulsa?
Appears so. Unfortunately, his fellow Muslims also identified him--so they kicked him out of the mosque and threatened him with violence:
Mr. Miftah's letter is here. I suspect this is the part that got him in trouble:
Cowards like al-Zawahri and bin Laden are inciting the ignorant and innocent youths to commit suicide bombings to kill innocent civilians including children, women and the elderly, while they hide in spider holes and caves. They never send their own sons and daughters, born out of half a dozen of their wives, to get killed in the name of Islam. They are themselves hypo crites, cowards, thugs and liars. For 12 years they misappropriated aid received from the U.S. and the West to fight Russia. Now they are ensuring smooth flow of petro dollars from Arab countries in the name of jihad against the West.
Even mosques and Islamic institutions in the U.S. and around the world have become tools in their hands and are used for collecting funds for their criminal acts. Half of the funds collected go into the pockets of their local agents and the rest are sent to these thugs.
They are the reason for branding the peaceful religion of Islam as terrorism. The result, therefore, is in the form of Danish cartoons and remarks/reference by the Pope.
I appeal to the Muslim youth in particular and Muslims of the world in general to rise up and start jihad against the killers of humanity and help the civilized world to bring these culprits to justice and prove that Islam is not a religion of hatred and aggression.
I appeal to the Muslim clerics around the world that, rather than issuing empty fatwas condemning suicide bombing, they should issue a fatwa for the death of such scoundrels and barbarians who have taken more than 4,267 lives of innocent people in the name of Islam and have carried out more than 24 terrorist attacks on civilian installations throughout the world. This does not include the chilling number of deaths because of such activities in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is well over 250,000.
I appeal to al-Zawahri and his band of thugs to hand themselves over to justice and stop spreading evil and killing innocent humans around the world in the name of Islam. Their time is limited and Muslims of the world will soon rise against them to apprehend them and bring them to justice.
h/t : LGF.
Yusuf Islam Confirms He Supports Death for Blasphemers
The Nobel Prize noble no more. You really need to read Bruce Bawer's article today. Not just because The Jawa Report is mentioned. Okay, that would be reason enough. Just go read it.
He adds even more to the controversy surrounding the Nobel invitation to Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) to perform at this year's Peace Prize shindig. Yusuf Islam admits that he supports capital punishment for blasphemers. Some peace train you got there Islam.
Ironically, Yusuf believes that 'the gospels' also call for murdering those that blaspheme. Which is quite absurd. Unless I missed that part about Jesus stoning the blasphemers. Maybe it's somewhere in the back?
The Sun:
There is reason to be dismayed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee's anointing of Yusuf. This is, after all, a man who's been denied entry into America and expelled from Israel.
After the publication of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, he was quoted in the New York Times as saying that if Mr. Rushdie came to his door for help, "I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is."
A Web site called the Jawa Report claims that Yusuf has performed at fund-raising events for charities with connections to terrorist organizations. On the same Web site you can also read claims that he is an intimate of the Islamist Omar Bakri Mohammed and of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is now serving a life sentence for terrorist activities.
Perhaps the barring of Yusuf from America and his expulsion from Israel were based on misunderstandings; perhaps he was misquoted on Mr. Rushdie, and perhaps the Jawa Report is mistaken.
But Yusuf's own statements on his own Web site are not so easily dismissed. On that Web site he claims that he "never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini," even though he feels that Mr. Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" "destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis."
But then he adds the following: "When asked about my opinion regarding blasphemy, I could not tell a lie and confirmed that — like both the Torah and the Gospel — the Qur'an considers it, without repentance, as a capital offense. The Bible is full of similar harsh laws if you're looking for them. However, the application of such Biblical and Qur'anic injunctions is not to be outside of due process of law, in a place or land where such law is accepted and applied by the society as a whole."
What does this mean? It means this: Yusuf is not against the idea of Mr. Rushdie being executed for writing a book. He is simply acknowledging that in Britain and other Western countries, the proper Islamic punishments do not apply. Yet.
As they say: at least he's an honest Islamofascist.
Hat tip: Glen Jenvey, who is also the guy who grabbed the audio linking Cat Stevens to terrorists.
Diss bin Laden, get kicked out of Mosque
Wow. This Muslim in Oklahama wrote a letter to the local paper calling bin Laden a coward. Did he get a pat on the back for it from fellow Muslims? Nope. They kicked him out of the mosque.
Moderates all, I'm sure.
Western Resistance has the details. Hat tip: Joel
Al Qaeda Leader Killed in Russia
(Moscow, Russia) The Al Qaeda terrorist leader in the North Caucasus, Abu Hafs (aka Abu Khavs and Abu Havs), was killed in a four-hour gun battle with police in the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt, close to the Chechen border.
From RIA Novosti:
The Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed Sunday the elimination of Al Qaeda's emissary and the head and financier of terrorists in Russia's south.
"On November 26, in a special operation by Russia's Federal Security Service in Khasavyurt in the Republic of Dagestan, Al Qaeda's chief representative in the North Caucasus known to all security services in the world as a very dangerous international terrorist, the actual head and financier of bandit formations in Chechnya, the national of Jordan, Abu Hafs, was killed," the FSB said.
A Russian television program showed the battle scene with the bodies of five terrorists. One FSB officer was wounded.
Top Democrat: Troops Are Stupid
The incoming Chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee and a Deputy Majority Whip, Charlie Rangel (D-NY), reiterated the point that US troops are stupid today on Fox News Sunday.
Wow. He actually believes that. Or maybe it was just another botched joke? Right.
After putting up stats showing that US military recruits are less likely to be African Americans, come from poorer neigborhoods, or be high school dropouts, the question asked to Rangel was this: Isn't the volunteer Army better educated and more well to do than the general population?
Rangel answers:
Of course not. I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
Hot Air has the video up.
My experience has been that returning soldiers are generally smarter and harder working than the average college student. By. A. Long. Shot.
It's not even close. If I had a chance to just teach returning Marines, soldiers, sailors, or airmen I'd do it in a heartbeat. They are that good.
Look, no one goes in to the military because it provides them with the opportunity to kill people. Yes, many join because it helps get them into college. But these aren't children. They know what they are getting into.
To think of them as anything other than fully competent adults is an insult to our men and women in uniform.
Charlie Rangel.
UPDATE: You want stats, we got stats! When we aim, we aim to please.
The Jihadi Bunch
Dude Looks Like A Fatwa
Click the pic
Police Take Down Another Dangerous Grandma
Yet another wrong house no-knock raid on another elderly woman's house.
At least they didn't kill this one...
h/t : Glenn
Yemeni Publisher Sentenced For Muhammad Cartoons
News.com.au:A YEMENI court has sentenced a journalist to a year in jail for reprinting Danish satirical caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed which provoked outrage among Muslims around the world earlier this year. The court convicted Kamal al-Aalafi, editor-in-chief of the al-Rai al-Aam, of offending Prophet Mohammed and also ordered the independent weekly to close for six months, his lawyer Khaled al-Ansi said.
The cartoons, one of which depicted the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, first appeared in a Danish daily in September 2005, sparking protests early in 2006 in which more than 50 people were killed in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The editors of two other Yemeni publications, the Yemen Observer and al-Hurriya, are facing similar charges though President Ali Abdallah Saleh has promised to scrap jail terms for journalists convicted of violations in publishing.
Aalafi says that he reprinted the cartoons, seen by many Muslims as blasphemous, to raise awareness among Yemenis about what had appeared in the Danish press, not to insult Muslims.
Heh, I wonder what a deliberate inslult would get you? Like maybe this one or these deliberate insults here. Or how about pointing out the top ten problems with Sharia? Or maybe even that Islam is a fascist ideology that is spread by violence and oppression?
Yeah, Yeah, we know, "Death to America!" Stick a sock in it bub.
Hat Tip: Big White Infidel.
USC Beats Notre Dame 35 - 21, BCS Tickets Needed
That's right. You heard it hear first. Trojans beat the Irish. Give or take 3 points.
This time we'll win without Reggie Bush's nudge.
And, as long as we're making predictions, I'm thinking I might get myself an early Christmas present. Better yet, maybe a once overzealous and now soon to be depressed Michigan fan has a ticket that he will no longer be needing?
But if I'm going to go to the game, I'm going to need some cash. Mostly for the brauts. I can eat a lot of brauts. Two words: Tip. Jar.
Oh, and what was all that 'hook 'em horns' stuff in the last set of comments about college football? Bwahahaha!
A big shout out is also necessary to the LSU Tigers. Yeah, I know the LSU victory over Arkansas doesn't help Southern Cal in the strength of schedule area.....but it feels so nice!
But I will be crossing my fingers for the Razorbacks come the SEC championship game. Just to shut all the SEC fans up. Shut up already!
I have nothing to say about that one game. You. Won't. Get. The. Satisfaction.
But, heh!
And just to make this relevant to all of you "this has nothing to do with the war on terror" naysayers: If USC loses the terrorists have already won.
Update by Vinnie: I don't need that satisfaction. I'm going to this, and I didn't have to beg for donations to get there. Peasant.
UPDATE by Rusty: I hate being wrong. Mwuhahahahahahaha!!!
Palestinians Stuffing Toys With Explosives
Next up from the Palestinian freedom fighters, the toy we all wish we had as a kid: C-4 Play-Doh!
Palestinian terrorists are busy building stuffed-animal bombs, yet the international community continues to believe that Israel is a terrorist state? What a bizarro Orwellian world we live in. Black = white, war = peace, intentionally murdering civilians = the right of self determintation, killing terrorists = terrorism. Will the UN demand an investigation into Palestinian terrorists violating the Geneva Conventions? Right.
Overnight Friday, IDF troops and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operatives uncovered a number of baby dolls filled with explosive charges in addition to suicide bombing belts during an raid on an explosives laboratory in Nablus....
Among the materials seized in the raid were sacks ready to be filled with explosives, 40 liters of acid, and a variety of explosives-rigged stuffed animals. The lab was destroyed in a controlled explosion.
Hat tip: Israel Matzav.
In other let's give these people a state related news: Hamas threatens violence unless they get a state. Ironical.
Suicide granny said to have told grandkids: you'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Update by Howie: An IDF video of the discovery of a bomb hidden in a childs toy.
A Word on Genocide...
Not everyone pays attention to the reader comments. For those you who do, you may have noticed a wide variety of commenters here at The Jawa Report. I've heard the comments section described as the "Mos Eisley Cantina" of The Jawa Report. You can certainly find all manner of "species" there. At times, those who yell the loudest and are the most abusive have their voices heard most clearly. It can be an uncivilized place--even by local standards. On the bright side, only the Sith Jawas and their padawans carry weapons, so if you can handle some yelling and a little shoving, you'll probably get in and out in one piece.
I've noticed there's a certain group of Jawa commenters for whom the answer to every problem seems to be to "nuke Mecca," to nuke this or that Arab city and/or otherwise kill massive numbers of Muslims in some genocidal campaign. To my knowledge, none of the commenters offering these solutions have ever been able to explain how this plan is supposed to work out in practice to our benefit. I suspect there's a reason for that. I suspect that "nuke 'em" is a knee-jerk, emotional reaction, and little (if anything) more than that. Little (if any) thought given to winning the long-term conflict. Little (if any) thought given to a long-term strategy.
If you really think nuking Mecca, Riyadh, Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Islamabad or all of the above is a good strategy for winning this conflict, then you really ought to do the rest of us the courtesy of laying out what you expect to happen in the aftermath of the suggested nuclear holocaust and why. If you haven't really considered what happens in the aftermath, then you shouldn't be surprised when others are disinclined to take the idea seriously.
Mosque Burnings Apparently a Hoax, Sunni Burnings Unconfirmed
Tales of burning mosques, like this one from Reuters were apparently fabricated by Sunnis and swallowed whole by a gullible world press.
As well, the sensationalized accounts of six Sunnis being burned alive by Shiites are unconfirmed, and all appear to come from the same source, police Captain Jamil Hussein, whose entire career appears to be issuing statements about Shia violence against Sunnis. Curt at Flopping Aces has researched Hussein and found a remarkable number of atrocity stories for which he is the source.
From the Multi-National Force's Iraqi Freedom website:
BAGHDAD — Contrary to recent media reporting that four mosques were burned in Hurriya, an Iraqi Army patrol investigating the area found only one mosque had been burned in the neighborhood...
...An alleged attack on a fourth mosque remains unconfirmed. The patrol was also unable to confirm media reports that six Sunni civilians were allegedly dragged out of Friday prayers and burned to death. Neither Baghdad police nor Coalition forces have reports of any such incident.
This is all uncomfortably reminiscent of the Reutersgate/fauxtography scandal during the Israeli/Hezbollah war, and once again brings into question just how much Western news agencies have compromised their integrity by depending on unvetted local stringers and sources.
War On: African Taliban Declare 'Holy War' Against Ethiopia
It's official: war between Ethiopia and the African Taliban of the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia. The Somalian Islamists have declared jihad against Ethiopia and Ethiopia has sent troops into Somalia.
We have been warning the world about the rise of the Islamic Courts Union for some time now. The dhimmis of the European Union and the US State Department have repeated the mistakes of Afghanistan and some even welcomed the Islamists to power by declaring that at least the group would bring stability.
But stability at what price? The same stability bought by years of ignoring the growing threat of Taliban Afghanistan.
Many of the so-called warlords of Somalia, such as Mohammed Farah Aidid, were intimately connected to the global jihad. It was Osama bin Laden's succesful support of Aidid that seems to have convinced him and many of his followers that 'the Shiekh' possessed mystical foretelling powers.
It seems that both the Europeans and the State Department have awakened to the threat posed by the Salafi jihadis in Somalia. In our public statements we hope for a diplomatic solution, but privately, it seems, we know with whom our collective fates lie. We hope that the State Department's continued calls for diplomacy are simply tactical. Perhaps they believe we can win by keeping the war a matter internal to Somalia? We cannot imagine that they belive their own press.
Like the Afghani Taliban before them, the Islamic Courts Union declares that all they want is peace, stability, and prosperity. But in deeds they are receiving funding from Islamists around the world --including reliable reports that al Qaeda and other foreign jihadis have flocked to the country-- and they are aready exporting jihad. If Somalia completely falls to the Islamic Courts Union it will become a haven for international terrorism and Salafi jihad.
That is why the US military has been quietly aiding the Ethiopian and other governments in the Horn of Africa. The US has a large presence in the neighboring country of Djibouti.
The US military has recently helped flood relief efforts in Ethiopia. The US has also been quietly training the Ethiopian military for the fight to come with the Somalian Islamists.
US military observers are also in neighboring Kenya.
Now, for the first time, the Ethipian government is admitting that it has sent troops into Somalia. Civilians are clearing out as the battlefield is prepared to go from small to large-scale war.
The question remains, though, whether or not the war can be contained in Somalia? The African Taliban of Somalia are being supported by Eritrea. Eritrea and Ethiopia have been involved in several hot wars recently and many consider the present Somalian conflict to be a proxy war between the two states.
These analysts are wrong only inasmuch as they fail to comprehend the global dimensions of the conflict. Somalia is the battleground for a proxy war, but not simply between Eritrea and Ethiopia--it is a proxy war between global Islamists forces trying to establish a foothold for the future caliphate against the West.
This explains Iran's involvement in aiding the Somali Islamists. Even though they come from different branches of Islam, the Sunni Islamic Courts Union and the Shia Mullahs of Iran share a hatred for secularism, liberalism, and the West. Further, they share the goal of sharia and the Caliphate. Where they part company is over who's sharia and where the Caliph should live--Tehran or Baghdad?
Such long-term differences are easily overlooked when short term interests are congruent. The Iranians help Sunni groups such as Hamas and the Islamic Court's Union in efforts to defeat common enemies and win future influence.
This is The Clash of Civilizations. We can hope and pretend that such a global clash does not exist, but it does. This is reality. Why is this clash being fought in Somalia? Simple, because Ethiopia is bordered by Muslim states. As Huntington said, in his prophetic book that now seems like it was published an eternity ago: the borders of Islam are bloody.
Ethiopia can wait for the Islamic Courts Union to solidify power and then begin to export jihad or it can go to Somalia and fight. And for the US, we have the same options: wait for another bin Ladenist state to emerge and then suffer the consequences or choose strategic allies now and make sure they win.
Unfortunately, it's not always easy to see which allies have a chance and which don't. In the present conflict, the CIA already picked the wrong horses by supplying arms to Somali clan leaders who were easily beaten by the jihadis. We already tried to contain the fight to Somalians fighting other Somalians, but failed.
Now open war looms. The US should make it clear which side of this conflict we are on. We stand with Ethiopia and Somalians who are terrified of the coming sharia state. A state which outlaws music and proscribes the death penalty for any Muslim who should dare renounce his religion.
Supporting Ethiopia is not only the right thing to do, it is also in our national interest.
Several press accounts below. I'd urge you to notice that the African Taliban have now declared jihad, or holy war against Ethiopia. I have a feeling they don't mean an inner struggle kind of jihad. Both sides are now sending troops to the front lines and are digging in. Be skeptical of numbers, though, as eye witness accounts are generally inflated by civilians in fear of the coming conflict.
The Star (South Africa):
Ethiopia has completed preparations for war with neighbouring Somalia's Islamist movement, alongside faltering peace efforts.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said yesterday that the Islamists, who have declared holy war on Ethiopian troops deployed to Somalia to protect the weak internationally backed Somali government, represented a "clear and present danger" to his country.
Less than a hour after Meles' announcement, the Islamists gathered in a war council in Mogadishu and said they were ready to defend Somalia from invasion by a "reckless and war-thirsty" Ethiopia.
"This group represents a clear threat to Ethiopia," Meles told lawmakers in Addis Ababa....
With a large ethnic Somali population, Ethiopia fears radicalisation of its sizeable Muslim minority by the Islamists, who have imposed strict Sharia law in areas they control.
News24 (South Africa):
Somalia's Islamic Courts said on Saturday that it had poured thousands of fighters and heavy equipment into frontline positions as they braced for clashes with the weak government and its Ethiopian allies.
The courts said it had reinforced areas outside the government seat of Baidoa, about 250km northwest of Mogadishu, anticipating imminent attack and accusing neighbouring Ethiopia of sending air power. ....
The courts have declared holy war on Ethiopian troops in Somalia protecting the transitional government.
Robow said his fighters had full confidence in winning the battle against the "forces of the devil"....
Fighters from all sides are encamped at positions less than 20km apart, near the court-held towns of Mode Mode and Burhakaba areas.
WaPo:
Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces.
More than 130 trucks carried the Ethiopians into Baidoa, the only town controlled by the government, residents said....
Residents as far away as Bur Hakaba _ 40 miles east of Baidoa _ were evacuating.
"We are seeing strong military movements from both sides," said Mohamud Ahmed, a father of six. "We don't believe we will be able to continue living in our town peacefully."
EiTB:
Ethiopia said on Saturday it did not need the blessing of major ally, the United States, or any country to defend itself from any threat from neighbouring Somalia where Islamists have launched a holy war.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi pledged to explore all means to peacefully resolve the bitter standoff between his country, which backs the interim government in Somalia, and the Islamists, who control much of southern Somalia.
The Islamists have declared jihad against Ethiopia, accusing it of sending troops into Somalia to prop up the government. "It is our country that is being attacked. Naturally, we do not seek any light, green, red or yellow from anyone to protect ourselves," Meles told a news conference.
"If, and when, we are convinced that all options of resolving the invasion through peaceful means are exhausted, only then we may act to respond in kind," he said, adding the Islamists had trained, armed and smuggled hundreds of Ethiopian rebels into the country.
Meles said he had explained Ethiopia's position on Somalia to Western powers, who have scrambled to respond to the Somali crisis since Islamists seized Mogadishu in June in a direct challenge to the Addis Ababa-backed interim government. "Both Brussels and Washington appear to believe that any military response on our part might be counter-productive, saying that dialogue is the best way forward," Meles said.
"We too agree that dialogue is the best way, nevertheless as the direct victims of the aggression, we feel we might be forced at some stage to respond with force." Senior Islamist Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has accused Washington of giving Ethiopia the go-ahead to fight his movement.
And lastly, here is military press release reprinted at The Conservative Voice. Yes, the military gets it. I hope the State Department does too:
CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti, , Oct. 22, 2006 – Doing good here in the Horn of Africa is a key to ensuring that terrorism doesn't gain a foothold in the region, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa told visiting civilian leaders yesterday.....
"The conditions out there to support terrorism are ripe," Hunt told the group of business, academic and community leaders. "Our job is to diffuse that situation."
As Hunt sees it, the United States and its coalition partners have two basic choices. "Africa is the new frontier that we need to engage with now, or we are going to end up doing it later in a very negative way," he said....
Hunt calls this work "phase zero" of warfare, aimed at preventing the conflict before it starts. "What we're trying to do here is change the conditions and the environment people exist in to keep that kind of conflict from happening," he said.
Part of those efforts goes toward ensuring host nation militaries have the capabilities they need to defend their governments. Special operations forces here travel throughout the region, teaching not just military skills, but also about human rights and the law of armed conflict-relatively foreign concepts for regional militaries, Hunt told the group....
A visit to the CJFT-HOA headquarters here and communities in the region reveals the faces of the other, less traditional warriors in the fight against terrorism here.
They're doctors like Army Lt. Col. Dan Shoor, who goes out with his team into local villages to treat patients and share medical expertise with local care providers. They're civil affairs specialists like Army Spc. Eric Hayes, an Army Reservist from Florida who coordinates with local officials to identify community needs and help come up with a plan to address them. They're Seabees like Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Dennis Ryan, who's building a dormitory at a local school so young girls from distant villages can get an education.
Through these efforts, members of CJTF-HOA say they're establishing trust and building relationships that not only improve people's lives, but also discourage terrorist ambitions.
"We're about rebuilding countries that need help and building a partnership with the U.S.," said Hayes. "We're winning hearts and minds, hands down. So if al Qaeda were to move into this area, the people here would choose to side with us."
"You don't want another Afghanistan, with (terrorists) coming in here," said Navy Petty Officer Tensely Worthy, who supports law enforcement and security operations here. "We're here showing the people here a better life, helping them become self-sufficient and helping them realize that you don't have to succumb to terrorism," he said.
I welcome comments and feedback.
Yeah, I realize Vinnie already covered this below, but his whole "African-American African Taliban" thing is a kind of inside joke that I'm afraid few people get. It comes from a reader's comment.
PETA Vs. Nativity Scenes
The loons from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals mistakenly targeted an Alaska church for harassment because they didn't realize that the "animals" in the church's manger scene were actually humans in costume. PETA was happy though, to use the mistake to highlight the hideous abuse of manger scene animals:
"Those animals are subject to all sorts of terrible fates in some cases," Vergerio said. "Animals have been stolen and slaughtered, they've been raped, they've escaped from the nativity scenes and have been struck by cars and killed. Just really unfathomable things have happened to them."
Raped? How does PETA know the animals weren't just asking for it? That might be the position of NAMBLA, the North American Man Beast Love Association.
PETA: people with too much time on their hands, and too few brain cells to use it wisely.
Previous PETA hysteria: Mommy and Daddy are murderers.
More Sharia on Campus
How to take over the campus "chapel" for Islam:
Step 1 : Have the Christian chapel converted to an "interfaith" chapel
Step 2 : Remove the cross.
Step 3 : Fill the "interfaith" chapel with Islamic decorations.
Step 4 : Permanently book the "interfaith" chapel for Muslim prayers.
There you go. A simple, four-step plan.
Alleged Canadian Terrorist Unknown in Canada
The New York Times reported recently that an Iraqi-Canadian citizen is part of the leadership of the Sunni Arab militants fighting in Iraq. He's identified as Abu Abdul Rahman, a Wahabbi fundamentalist. Some jihad websites have even named Rahman as a possible contender for Al Qaeda leader in Mesopotamia, filling the position once held by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Unfortunately, nobody in Canada has ever heard of Abu Abdul Rahman. Canadian Security Intelligence Service keeps track of numerous terrorists and commanders under a variety of aliases, but not anyone known as Abu Abdul Rahman. Following up, a spokesman said the Department of Foreign Affairs would be "looking into the newspaper report" to find out why nobody knows what's going on.
Interestingly, this case supports the contention that citizens must leave Canada for a foreign country to make names for themselves. And even after they do, they may not be recognized in Canada.
Heating Up In African-American African Taliban Land
The jihad doesn't care how about how long you stood in line to get the PS3. It just keeps chugging along.
No Child Left Behind, Islamofascist Version
Madrassas will surely follow:
BANGKOK, Thailand - Hundreds of schools in Thailand's restive south will shut their doors in response to increasingly vicious attacks by suspected Muslim insurgents against teachers and schools, a regional education representative said.
The closure, which begins Monday, affects all 336 primary and secondary schools in the province of Pattani, where two teachers were shot and killed by suspected insurgents in the past two days. In one of the killings, attackers shot a school principal Friday, and then set his body on fire.
"Teachers can't bear what has happened," said Bunsom Thongsriprai, president of Teachers' Association in Pattani. "They are paranoid, worried and afraid." He said the schools will reopen when teachers feel safe.
Darfur - Why bother?
Some folks have expressed their opinion that we shouldn't concern ourselves with Darfur while we have problems at home or worse disasters elsewhere around the world.
How is this different from saying that we shouldn't have invaded Iraq because we didn't take military action against more flagrant proliferation violators, such as North Korea, or depose more despotic regimes, such as Zimbabwe?
There's evidently a more subtle point I am missing that animates this flavor of critique, and I'm just trying to better understand that point of view.
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HotAir at the Movies : Emancipation Revelation Revolution
Jihadi Meets Allah
Chechen jihadi forgets to clean his gun. Allahu akhbar! (There's a warning, but the vid is not really graphic)
Granny Get Your Gun (Updated)
A Palestinian grandmother has become the latest smithereen commando:
JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip - A 64-year-old Palestinian grandmother blew herself up near Israeli troops sweeping through northern Gaza on Thursday, and eight other Palestinians were killed in a day of clashes and rocket fire.
The militant Hamas, which is in charge of the Palestinian government, claimed responsibility for the suicide attack and identified the bomber as Fatma Omar An-Najar. Her relatives said she was 64 — by far the oldest of the more than 100 Palestinian suicide bombers who have targeted Israelis over the past six years.
As if anyone with two brain cells to rub together needed any more evidence that the Palestinian "culture" is terminally diseased.
Pic of the sexagenarian smithereen commando.
Update: Thanks to Howie for uploading video of this fool droning on mindlessly about the glory of murdering people in Allah's name.
Jihadis Take Pride in Murdering Women
Several press release from the al Qaeda umbrella organization which masquerades as a shadow government in Iraq proudly proclaim that the 'mujahidin' have killed a number of women. The Islamic State of Iraq (formerly known as The Mujahideen Shura Council) claimed over a hundred attacks in the Baghdad area in November.
These women were all murdered in the Baghdad area. As always, the Salafi jihadis claim the women were 'executed' for a number of crimes. All of them seem to be Shia women working in some capacity or another for the Iraqi government or are suspected of being 'spies'. If you cook or clean for Western troops, you are a 'spy'.
Of course, there is no evidence any of these women were anything other than innocent victims. It is also important to note that the Islamists who murdered them are publicly bragging about it in a press release. Yes, the terrorists have press releases. They even have an 'Information Minister' and a public relations arm called the Alfajr Media Center:
Assassinating a spy called Ma’souma Jaffar, she worked for the interior affairs holding Iranian citizenship, and her husband Abd Hussien Abdul Allah, on Saturday 11-11-2006 all praise and gratitude be to Allah.
Assassinating a spy-woman worked for the Crusaders, in Falak in Ald-Dora, on Saturday 6-11-2006 all praise and gratitude be to Allah.
Assassinating a spy-woman worked for the Crusaders, in Alexandria, on Thursday 2-11-2006, all praise and gratitude be to Allah.
Assassinating a spy-woman worked for the interior affairs, in Ald-Dora, on Friday 10-11-2006, all praise and gratitude be to Allah.
Liquidation of two interior affairs spies-women in Ald-Dora, on Wednesday 8-11-2006, all praise and gratitude be to Allah.
The brave mujahidin army of Allah, murdering women and then boasting about it.
US Flag = Genocide
That's what one trustee of the Orange Coast College system believes. I have a nephew that goes to one of the OCC Community Colleges. The trustees stopped the Pledge of Allegiance, the students voted it back in. I hope my nephew was one of those pushing to reverse the lunacy.
Daily Pilot:
Trustee Coyotl Tezcatlipoca, who voted along with Ball against the final decision, said he had a personal contention with the American flag but believed that others should be allowed to salute it during the public comment session.
"That represents genocide to me, and I'm not going to pledge allegiance," he said, in a statement that drew a number of angry retorts from the audience.
The other trustees are baffled at all the media attention they've received since their real objection to the Pledge of Allegiance is because it mentions "GOD". Only lunatics and fringe elements believe in God, right?
CENTCOM Roundup
Because the mainstream media is invested in propagating only bad news from the War on Terror, here's the CENTCOM roundup of stories the mainstream media refuses to run.
FOUR TERRORISTS KILLED, SIX SUSPECTS DETAINED
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed four terrorists and detained six suspected terrorists during a mission to disrupt an al-Qaida vehicle-borne improvised explosive device cell in Tarmiyah Friday.
As ground forces made their way toward the targeted building, they received enemy fire from the vicinity of a mosque. Coalition Forces returned fire, killing four terrorists, and continued toward the targeted building.
At the targeted building, the ground forces detained two suspected terrorists. After they left the building, they returned to the vicinity of the mosque and six individuals, including two wounded men, exited the building.
Four suspected terrorists were detained and the two wounded men were treated by ground forces on scene. They were then medically evacuated to a nearby military medical center.
ELEVEN TERRORISTS CAPTURED BY AFGHAN, COALITION FORCES
KABUL , Afghanistan — Afghan and Coalition forces captured eleven terrorists during an operation early this morning on a compound near the village of Badal Kalay in Khowst Province.
Credible intelligence indicated the compound was a refuge for terrorists operating in Khowst Province. During the search of the compound, terrorist propaganda was found.
Eleven men were taken into custody during the operation. Several women and children were present within the compound and all were unharmed.
ONE TERRORIST KILLED, TWO DETAINED IN BALAD RAID
BALAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed a terrorist and detained two suspected terrorists Wednesday evening during a raid in Balad.
The raid targeted an individual associated with a suspected senior leader of the Iraqi al-Qaida network.
As Coalition Forces approached the target area, they engaged and killed an armed terrorist. Coalition Forces continued their mission and detained two suspected terrorists armed with weapons and ammunition.
ISF CONDUCTS RAID AGAINST KIDNAPPING-MURDER CELL
BAGHDAD – Special Iraqi Army Forces, with Coalition advisers, conducted a raid Nov. 23 in Sadr City, Baghdad to capture a kidnapping and murder cell leader reported to have knowledge of the whereabouts of a missing US Soldier and who is allegedly responsible for attacks against Iraqi civilians.
The missing Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was abducted in Baghdad on Oct. 23.
Five suspected cell members were detained by Iraqi forces.
A vehicle displaying hostile intent was identified as an immediate threat to Iraqi forces. Iraqi forces fired on the vehicle to neutralize the threat.
ISF CONDUCTS RAID TO CAPTURE INSURGENT
BAGHDAD – Special Iraqi Army Forces, with Coalition advisers, conducted a raid Nov. 23 in Baghdad to capture an insurgent facilitating the movement of foreign fighters who kidnap and murder Iraqi civilians and conduct attacks against Coalition Forces.
Iraqi forces entered a mosque in the Samir neighborhood where the insurgent and other suspected insurgents were reportedly located. Iraqi forces detained 6 suspects. No Coalition Forces entered the mosque.
Iraqi and enemy forces exchanged small arms fire, resulting in one enemy wounded. The wounded person was treated and placed into Iraqi Police custody.
An unknown ignition source caused a fire to start in a trash pile located next to mosque.
ISF CONDUCTS RAID TO CAPTURE FOUR INSURGENTS
BAGHDAD – Special Iraqi Security Forces, with Coalition advisers, captured four insurgents Nov. 23 in a raid in the Al Doura district, Baghdad who are allegedly responsible for improvised explosive device attacks and other attacks against Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Police.
The insurgents are linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq and are known to harbor terrorist fighters in the area and conduct attacks against IP and Coalition Forces checkpoints.
Three additional suspected insurgents were detained by Iraqi forces.
Dershowitz on Carter's New Book
Charles suggests that everyone read the review at the Huffington Post, if for no other reason than to experience the full measure of vitriol the leftists visit on their own heretics.
Drawing With Muhammed
Michelle : The Giving Season
As you all probably know, conservatives are more charitable than leftists. How better to exercise those charitable habits than to support causes that promote freedom in the world?
Michelle has some suggestions for giving:
*A group from one of my favorite, indispensable blogs, My Pet Jawa, is headed to Darfur to film footage for a documentary. They're asking for donations. Please help them out.
*Bill Ardolino of INDCJournal, one of the best citizen journalists on the 'net, is headed to Iraq next month as an embed. He's being sponsored by The Washington Examiner, but could use help covering some of the initial expenditures of the trip. Please help out here.
*Bill Roggio, another pioneer, is returning to Iraq. He deserves your support, too.
*Operation Gratitude sends CARE packages to the troops. Give, give, give.
UPDATE by Rusty: We're one of Michelle's favorits blogs? Wow, all of us here are sooooo honored.
The 'Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship'
A $250 token scholarship, whose recipients must be at least one quarter Caucasian, is generating more anger and "buzz" than its creators expected: From ABC:
All the media attention is focused on a $250 Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship offered by Mroszczyk and the BU chapter of the College Republicans. Applicants must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher; they must write two essays; and, here's the kicker, they must be at least one-quarter Caucasian.
The application itself offers an explanation: "We believe that racial preferences in all their forms are perhaps the worst form of bigotry confronting America today."
According to Mroszczyk, his group is offering the scholarship to point out "how ridiculous it is to have any sort of racially based scholarship."
Mroszczyk also points out that there are many economically disadvantaged whites who would be helped by scholarships. Unmentioned in the ABC story is a trend among young people, even those who view themselves as liberals, who have no memories of the racial oppression and civil rights struggles of the fifties and sixties, to view minority students as being given preferential treatment. Many see Affirmative Action programs such as minorities-only scholarships as counter-productive holdovers from that era, which promote mediocrity and maintain racial divisions.
Via Stop the ACLU.
Pim's Ghost : Re-examining Islam
The lovely and talented Pim's Ghost, blogging at "What Would Charles Martel Do?" features an interesting essay highlighting Hilaire Belloc and his writings on Islam:
Millions of modern people of the white civilization—that is, the civilization of Europe and America—have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past.
That may not be a particularly brilliant insight in 2006, but Belloc wrote those words in 1936, in a time when Communism and Fascism were considered the great threats to Western Civilization. As Belloc noted, Islam was, for the most part, 'off the radar' in the Western mind.
Democrats Already Effective.
After the Democrats won in November, I wondered just how long it would take for their influence to see real world results.
NYT Via AP: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Sunni Muslim insurgents blew up five car bombs and fired mortars into Baghdad's largest Shiite district Thursday, killing at least 161 people and wounding 257 in a dramatic attack that sent the U.S. ambassador racing to meet with Iraqi leaders in an effort to contain the growing sectarian war.
Shiite mortar teams quickly retaliated, firing 10 shells at Sunni Islam's most important shrine in Baghdad, badly damaging the Abu Hanifa mosque and killing one person. Eight more rounds slammed down near the offices of the Association of Muslim Scholars, the top Sunni Muslim organization in Iraq, setting nearby houses on fire.
Two other mortar barrages on Sunni neighborhoods in west Baghdad killed nine and wounded 21, police said late Thursday.
Contrary to the Lefties argument that our presence in Iraq creates more violence, the terrorist’s morale and appetite for the blood of innocents has only been heightened by the anticipation of a US withdrawal promised by Nancy Pelosi.
Good job Democrats. You've really turned things around for Iraq.
Update: I've er, uh, received a lot of feedback over this post. See email below the fold.
Hat Tip: Bluto
I just want to thank you for calling out that stupid bitch NoFear over at Jawa. I'm so sick of the bullshit comments she's been posting (along with PD, but he's another story). They kill me how they're so proud of them damn selves for attempting to interrupt the forum. And they act like they're so morally upstanding and offended when they're called names, but if you go check NewsHounds, they react the same way to anyone who disagrees with their points of view. So, they're liars and hypocrites. I tried to call them out twice and expose them for what they are, but I'm not so good at it. So, thank you.
I may not agree with everything that goes up on Jawa, and you and I have
disagreed once, but I go into it with an open mind. I'm a proud
conservative and a proud American. It's a shame that people aren't proud
of their country anymore.
Thank you, for being a proud American and for helping expose the bullshit.
Heh,Reader love mail that really is.
See Dubya, On The Border
One of TJR’s founding fathers tears into the border security issue. I’ll just get out of his way.
See Dubya at Junkyard Blog: There is a principled, intellectually honest case to be made for increasing the security of America's borders. Part of it is pretty obvious to those of us aware of the simple need to keep terrorists, criminals, and drugs out. And, um, the freakin' Mexican Army. There is a more abstract point, though also a critical one, about whether America has the guts to act like a sovereign nation and do what sovereign nations do….
…But most of them are simply people who disagree with me--they are people who have thought about the issue and weigh the risks and costs differently than I do. They're loyal Americans and they want what's best for the country. They just happen to be wrong about it--and, I think, dangerously so.
Ok I think he’s warmed up……(everyone duck)
I'm talking to you, Tom Tancredo. And I'm talking to you, Hot Air commenters. You guys are waving around the link to this government site like a bunch of "No Blood For Oil" Moonbats pointing to a PNAC memo. It proves just about as much, too. Oooh, they have a website! So I guess that means I'm going to get issued my mandatory sombrero any day now.
I'm even talking to you, Andy McCarthy, who ought to know better. The Council on Foreign Relations drafted a paper saying something ridiculous? Dude, that's what they do. Get together and draft dumb internationalist ideas, and squint and frown and wear pinstripes.
Look, the case for tight borders sells itself. It sold me. You don't need to believe in these goofy Bilderberger conspiracy theories to realize that knowing who and what comes over the border--and stopping some of it--is probably a good idea. Spouting this hogwash makes the entire movement look like a bunch of nuts.
I’m not sure if I’m dumb or willfully ignorant ;) Those of us that like a good argument can be thankful for See Dubya Today.
Also See Hot Air and Blue Crab Boulevard.
Thanksgiving at Home, Christmas in Darfur
Judging by the newly arrived décor I am seeing in storefronts, the holiday season is evidently upon us once again. As you already know, two friends and I are going to spend our holiday in Chad to film footage for a documentary (Christmas in Darfur), capture the feel of conditions on the ground, and interview the extraordinary people who have given and risked so much to lend a hand in a portion of the world that needs all the help it can get. I would like to thank those who have already contributed for their help and generosity in getting us started towards our goals.
Our estimated budget for this project will run about $20,000, and we’ve been successful in scraping, begging, and borrowing enough to cover airfare and our basic film equipment. This does, however, leave us at something of a disadvantage with respect to providing the remainder of the gear we’ll need to do this both competently and safely, not to mention funds we'll need on the ground.
So, I would like to ask for you or anybody you know to lending a helping hand. The main problem we’re facing is uncertainty. If we were certain that this was suicidally stupid, we wouldn’t be going. If we were certain there was no risk, we wouldn’t be asking for help. But one can hedge against uncertaintiy in risk through insurance, liquidity, preparedness, equipment, and all of these cost money.
You can show your support to the great and noble cause of my personal safety by clicking the PayPal button below. But in general, any way you can help us will be most appreciated. If you possess a quarter million frequent flier miles that need to be used by the end of the year, then we can devote our resources to basic equipment and tools of the trade.
All I Want For Christmas (in Darfur)...
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It's somewhat disturbing to me to learn that everything I thought about Thanksgiving is apparently wrong. However, thanks to a report today in The Arizona Republic, I'm now aware of the academically accurate version of the story of Thanksgiving.
From AZCentral.com:
Teaching about Thanksgiving can be fraught with problems anyway, given that there are so many misconceptions about the holiday.
And, boy, there are some misconceptions.
Teachers no longer rely only on textbooks but use the wealth of information available through the Internet, historical research and the media. They show children first-person accounts, photographs and artifacts.
First-graders in Luz Campos' class at Herrera School in Phoenix learn about Thanksgiving as part of their ongoing study of Native Americans, researching how the Wampanoag Indians lived compared with other Native people.
Now, in all my years of schooling, no one ever mentioned the first-person accounts and photographs from the first Thanksgiving. It's probably because my school system was underfunded.
"We're teaching more from a historical and more-balanced perspective," says Elie Gaines, a first-grade teacher at Grayhawk Elementary School in Scottsdale. "Because of the multicultural emphasis over the last 10 or 15 years, people are much more aware that there is more than just one side of the story."
By golly! All sides of the controversial Thanksgiving story should be aired. In particular, it's obvious that Thanksgiving was a traditional Indian feast long before the Pilgrims arrived in the New World.
"There were good things that the Pilgrims learned from the Indians, and there were good things that the Indians learned from the Pilgrims," Campos says.
"They exchanged ideas and things. They taught each other."
Children also may learn in school that the Wampanoags lived in wigwams instead of tepees and that celebrating the harvest, as they did that first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims, was a regular tradition.
According to Carol Warren, social studies specialist for the Arizona Department of Education, "We want the children to know that every cultural group was unique in its own methods of living and language."
In third- and fourth-grades, teachers are asked to tackle the more difficult subject of how exploration affected the Indians, of how they lost their lands and their way of life.
"We don't want to set the stage that everything was wonderful and perfect," Warren says.
She taught third- and fourth-graders in Sacaton on the Gila River Reservation for more than 25 years. She understands that some Native American groups consider Thanksgiving to be a day of mourning.
So, in summary, Thanksgiving is not the day of reflection and giving thanks started by the Pilgrims but a traditional Wampanoag Indian harvest feast in which the Pilgrims joined. Also, Thanksgiving is not solely a day of celebration but also a day of mourning for the difficulties suffered by the Indians due to exploration.
Surely, thanks must be given to the Arizona public school system for assuring that the true story of Thanksgiving is told. Unfortunately, the Republic report only came out today so many people will likely sit down for Thanksgiving dinner without reflecting upon how the Indians lost their lands and their way of life.
I Guess It's Up To Me
To wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.
And I'd also like to say, don't forget to watch the Colorado Buffalo Chips and the Notre Dame Drunken Potato Farmers get their asses handed to them this weekend.
thatisall
F.E.T.E.
HotAir at the Movies : MEMRI Films
Tucker Throws it Right Back at CAIR
Hat tip: LGF
The Last Mistake in Iraq?
You must read Tony Blankley’s post at Real Clear Politics.
The decisions made on Iraq over the next few months will take the measure of America's maturity and sense of responsibility. Because, whether we like it or not, our decisions -- and our decisions alone -- will determine whether the barely containable murderous pathologies of the Middle East will just be dumped into the face of humanity -- or whether rational efforts will be persisted at to contain and mitigate its civilization-threatening forces.
We have the most profound obligation to attempt to calculate the consequences of the impending American decision to wash our hands of the Iraq unpleasantness. In that regard, the words of President Kennedy come to mind: "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
If we, the most powerful force on the planet, in a fit of disappointment and anger at our bungling policies to date, decide to shrug off our responsibilities to the future -- we will soon receive, and deserve, the furious contempt of a terrified world. In fact, even those Americans who today can't wait to end our involvement in the "hopeless" war in Iraq will -- when the consequences of our irresponsibility becomes manifest -- join the chorus of outrage.
Also see Hot Air.
Related: NPR ATC.
A Jawa …uh...conhgtsiracknutpht....um..coughtrollcough… Reader,who shall remain unnamed because he is loathed above all others by the management at TJR, noted that today is the 42nd anniversary of JFK’s murder. It’s appropriate then that JFK’s words are remembered in this post. Hey Democrats! Ya’ll remember JFK? He fought the commies? Wake TF up.
Fighting Jihadis From the Comfort of Your Living Room
Did you know you can fight the jihadis without ever leaving your living room? That goes double for you fat asses still living in your mother's basement. It's true.
Should you accept your mission to become a member of the 101st Fighiting Keyboard Batallion, you will find yourself spending hours and hours chatting to wanna be terrorists from around the world. You will become accustomed to hearing praise for acts of terror. You will become numb to beheading snuff films.
More importantly, you will spend much less of your time surfing for free porn.
Below are a couple of interesting stories. First is one about a UK based private intel organization called Vigil. As you know, I've become acquainted with one of its members who feeds me all sorts of stuff that I get to break way before the MSM 'breaks' it.
For instance, this story from the Observer (reposted by Chad) reveals that convicted al Qaeda terrorist Abbas Boutrab visited the Dublin airport in a dry bombing run. The Observer then relates how Omar Bakri Mohammed 'last week' had urged followers to bomb the Dublin airport.
Bakri Mohammed actually said this some time ago. It was only last week that the British press finally reported it. I'm looking at my copy of the Bakri speech and it was sent to me by a member of Vigil on August 10th.
The point? There is a whole lot more that you can be doing. And you don't even have to join the CIA to do it!
How do you start? Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. I would tell you.... but then I'd have to kill you.
It says its members brought about the conviction of radical Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, uncovered insurgent tactics in Iraq and are now working to provide intelligence from North Korea.
The organisation is not the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency or Britain's security agency MI6 but "Vigil", a shadowy network of retired spies, senior military personnel, anti-terrorism specialists and banking experts.
The group's director Dominic Whiteman said he set up Vigil with two other businessmen last year to act as an interface between retired spies who were still party to good, raw intelligence, and the police and security services.
"This evidence was just getting lost in the system," Whiteman told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Vigil numbers more than 30 members and is spread across the globe from India to the United States, working with contacts ranging from a maid in Bangkok and a Mumbai train driver to senior intelligence figures.
"We just recruited a guy who's a senior figure in police training in Iraq," Whiteman said.
Sixty percent of Vigil's work involves gaining information via the Internet, by infiltrating online chatrooms, while the remainder is face-to-face or telephone work.
The information gleaned is passed on to authorities like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York Intelligence Unit and British police's Counter Terrorism Command (CTC).
A CTC spokeswoman said the group was treated seriously.
Flattery Will Get You..
...everywhere, But a "Special Thanks to Howie" gets you a link from The Jawa Report. Big White Infidel has a new video up at the Jubasucks blog. (Warning: NSFW--Graphic Images)
Iraq will execute Hussein Fahmi. The al-Qaeda terrorist will hang for his role in beheading Japanese hostage Shosei Koda. May his neck fail to break and he suffer as Shosei suffered. He deserves no less.
Gulf News Baghdad: A member of Al Qaida has been sentenced to death in Iraq over the kidnapping and beheading of a Japanese hostage in 2004, reports said on Wednesday.
Hussein Fahmi, who was arrested earlier in the year, confessed to beheading Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda.
Fahmi said he had carried out 115 other beheadings. He was sentenced by the Iraqi central criminal court.
Koda was killed in October 2004 by a group then led by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, after Japan refused to bow to their demands and pull its troops out of Iraq.
The group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and beheading in an internet posting that included a video of the killing. Koda's decapitated body was found wrapped in an American flag in a Baghdad street.
Related Jawa Posts:
Shosei Koda held hostage, al-Qaeda's demands.
Shosei Koda Found dead.
Gruesome exection video of Shosei Koda being murdered released by al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Hussein Fahmi confesses to murdering Mr. Koda and 116 others by beheading them.
And may God give Hussein Fahmi what he deserves.
Stupid Anti-American (Giuliana Sgrena) Writes Stupid Anti-American Book
Giuliana Sgrena has written a book. What do you call a person who uses her victim status to insulate herself from public criticisms and then proceeds to say and write the most vile anti-American drivel unimaginable?
I mean besides her.
Thanks to Todd who first noticed this. Here's how that lying stupid whore, who went to Iraq saying she was there to uncover US war crimes and in the process actually became the victim of real war crimes committed by the jihadis, describes the real goals of the US:
U.S. intent in Iraq is to partition the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd areas, and that steps towards this goal have already been taken.
Right. We want to partition Iraq. Quickest way to partition Iraq: leaving.
Of course, there's the normal stupid drivel you'd expect about a vast conspiracy by the US to murder her and Major General Nicola Calipari. And her whining about why the insurgents would want to hold her hostage since she was on their side.
We felt sorry for Sgrena when she was an actual victim, but now that she's using her victim status for political gain, the gloves are off.
The only redeeming value in the book, that I can see, is that at least the reader is warned that she is an unapologetic Communist shill.
TV Imitates Jawa Report
CSI has a fauxtography scandal inspired episode. Has Roger been moonlighting at CBS or what?
Okay, okay. The title would more appropriately read TeeVee imitates LGF, but where's the self-aggrandizing in that?
Is the Great Satan Trying to Kick You Out?
Yo, got a beef with the man and you wanna stay and play it out? Is the man trying to send you packing just because of a few links to "freedom fighters?" Yo, Muslim Voice can teach you how to game the system and get your props:
Welcome to another edition of Immigration Korner™, a monthly article which brings you the information you want and need to know about your particular immigration concerns or immigration in general. In January, I received many questions about what options are available when the BCIS begins the process of trying to deport you. Accordingly, this article focuses on one form of relief known as Cancellation of Removal.
What is Cancellation of Removal?
Cancellation of removal is a form of relief from removal from the United States when one is placed in removal proceedings in immigration court. There are certain requirements you must meet in order to be eligible to apply and if you win, your removal is cancelled and you are given a greencard.
There ya go, Homes!
Thanx to Greenwyn.
Plainclothes No-Knock Raids?
You're a 92-year-old woman. You live in a rough neighborhood--the kind of neighborhood where you feel the need to have bars on all the windows of your home. A gang of men in REGULAR CLOTHES shows up on your front porch and smashes in your front door. What should you do?
Apparently, you're expected to assume they're cops unless you're sure they aren't. Otherwise, you're likely to end up dead.
As always, I'm reserving final judgment until all the facts are in, but it looks pretty bad so far.
It's a damn shame, really, that the radical lefties have done such a great chicken little job on the government with their constant cries of "POLICE STATE!!! POLICE STATE!!!" Like the word "RACIST" and "BIGOT," people's ears have just become deadened to the sound of those words.
Obviously, we DON'T live in a police state--as evidenced, for example, by the fact that lefties are allowed to fly the flags of our enemies in massive rallies, the fact that government critics can publish blatant lies without consequences and the fact that government employees can leak national security secrets with impunity. If we're living in a police state, it's the LAZIEST damn police state in the HISTORY of police states.
At the same time, at least some of our law-enforcement agencies have acquired some very bad habits as of late--including the overbroad and sloppy use of no-knock warrants.
Online Jihadis Hack Blog
Jason at Texas Rainmaker was hacked by the online jihadis. If you visited his site in the past few days and found the hacker's message, make sure to do a virus check on your computer.
He's back up and running now. My guess is that it was a teenager from Saudi Arabia. Check out the screenshot Jason took. The flag is that of Saudi Arabia, and KSA in "K.S.A. Hacker" stands for Key Scheduling Algorithm, which is part of the encryption process. KSA Hacker's tracks are all over the place discussing with other online jihadis how to hack websites. And he has a homepage which he claims is under construction but he uses it to hide files showing other hackers how to do their work.
Heh, e-mail an online jihadi: ssss447@hotmail.com UPDATE: just our luck, e-mail doesn't work. Try this one on for size: S__3@hotmail.Com
Oh, and to all the wannabe online terrorists who have recently tried to shut down The Jawa Report through denial of service attacks:
WE PWNED YOU!!!!
Mwuahahahahahaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Murder in Beirut, Manure in Damascus
Sadly, a leading anti-Syrian voice in the Lebanese government, Pierre Gemayel, was assassinated yesterday. Gemayel is the fifth prominent anti-Syrian Lebanese figure killed in the last two years.
Meanwhile, probably simultaneous with the Gemayel murder, Syria's grand mufti was pumping smoke up the skivvies of yet another Westerner in the country.
From SANA.org:
Syria's grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Badre al-Din Hassoun on Tuesday underlined the importance of work to spread culture of peace, tolerance and human fraternity in the world to overcome seeds of conflict and extremism among nations.
"The reason behind instability in the region is that Israel is based on a religious basis… and this is a dangerous concept in life which paves way for more conflicts among nations… thus efforts should be intensified to bring up nations on national basis," the Mufti said during a meeting with the Canadian Ambassador in Damascus Mark Belli.
For his part, the Canadian Ambassador expressed admiration over tolerance and coexistence in Syria, stressing the important role of clergymen and scholars to spread culture of fraternity and peace among peoples.
Predictably, Israel is to blame for the seeds of conflict and extremism among nations.
Regarding the other Westerners, notable recent visitors to Syria included American Protestant Pastor Rick Warren and Reverend Joan Brown Campbell, who both presumably became moist while listening to the grand mufti's eloquent statements about the religion of peace and tolerance.
He [Warren] met with Assad and the Grand Mufti of Syria, Sheikh Ahmad Hassoun, saying, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency, that "80% of the American people rejected what the US administration is doing in Iraq and considered the US policy in the Mideast as wrong." SANA added, "Pastor Warren expressed admiration of Syria and the co-existence he saw between Muslims and Christians, stressing that he will convey this image to his church and country."
Holy moly -- shades of Jimmy Carter. Pastor Warren, author of the bestselling The Purpose Driven Life, goes to a foreign country and trashes the U.S. Naturally, conservatives were outraged. However, when the media questioned Warren about his statements, he denied that he had said them. Okay, so who's telling a fib here? It's hard to tell without a recording.
And then there's the involvement of Reverend Joan Brown Campbell, head of a delegation of senior American clergy, who also recently visited Syria. The Americans met with the Grand Mufti of the Republic Dr. Ahmad Badruddin Hassoun who explained that Islam is the religion of tolerance and "asserted that man was the most sacred creature on Earth." In response:
Members of the delegation expressed pleasure over the climate of tolerance they had seen in Syria, stressing that realities in the country were different from what the negative image given about Syria in the past.
It's assumed that the "sacred creatures" strapped with explosives were hidden from view. And there's more.
Members of the American delegation expressed admiration for what they had seen in Syria and for the example of coexistence and fraternity among Moslems and Christians, adding they were going to convey what they had seen in Syria to the American people.
So, an anti-Syrian government official is murdered in Lebanon with Syria believed culpable and, all the while, prominent Westerners visit the grand mufti for servings of manure which, not only leaves them satisfied, but also has them joyously voicing praise and admiration for Syria and the religion of peace and tolerance.
HotAir Goes to the Movies : Day 2
Today's feature : Pierre Rehov's "Suicide Killers".
Italian, Canadian Red Cross Workers Kidnapped in Gaza (UPDATED: BUMPED)
Update by Vinnie: The hostages have been freed.
A Canadian and an Italian aid worker have been kidnapped in the Gaza strip. If past experience is any guide, we should see them released unharmed. The Palestinians are very aware of their PR image. Killing Jews doesn't seem to bother the European audience much, but killing Red Cross workers is quite another matter.
No Burqua is following the story closely.
The Red Cross said Claudio Moroni, 36, and Gianmarco Onorato [a dual citizen, living in Canada], 63, were abducted in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza after their car was stopped by gunmen. One was carrying a Canadian passport, Palestinian security officials said. It was not immediately clear which one.
"We are doing our utmost to ensure their immediate and unconditional release," said Red Cross spokesman Simon Schorno, adding that there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Palestinian security officials said they were searching for the men, and mediation efforts were underway. An official at the Italian consulate in east Jerusalem said two Italians were involved, and the consulate was trying to confirm what happened.
Well Go Right Ahead and Do That
I’d imagine that would be a ticket seller for some of their other passengers. It turns out the Imams were being intentionally ornery. Also they are already getting with CAIR to sue the airline. Bluto is right, it’s a setup.
Minneapolis Star Tribune: One of the Muslim scholars removed from a US Airways flight on Monday today called for imams around the country to boycott the airline after employees refused to sell him new tickets for his flight home.
On Monday, Omar Shahin and five other imams had gone to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to fly home to Phoenix after attending a conference in Minneapolis of the North American Imams Federation. Shahin is president of the group…
… "I want to go home. I don't want phone numbers," Shahin said. "I want to buy six tickets."
"They have no reason to refuse service to us just because of the way we look," he said "It's terrible. We want America to stay the way it is because we love this country."
The supervisor asked Shahin to leave the ticket counter.
"This is prejudice," he replied. "This is obvious discrimination. No one can argue with this."
"I am calling for a boycott of US Airways because I'm not going to stay silent," said Shahin, who is Jordanian. "I came to this country to enjoy justice and freedom."…
Unfortunately one aspect of freedom he forgot is that freedom also means being able to refuse to serve anyone for any reason. Including the fact you are suing them and behaved badly the day before. In America you don't have to serve someone who is a pain in your backside.
Much more below the fold.
Pat Hogan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, said that witnesses to Monday's events told police that before the flight that besides praying, the imams were spouting anti-American rhetoric, talking about the war in Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
One of the imams was heard saying that he would do whatever is necessary to fulfill his commitment to the Qur'an, witnesses told police, Hogan said. Other witnesses said some of the imams were repeating "Allah, Allah," he said.
And a couple of the imams asked for seat-belt extensions, even though it did not appear they needed them, Hogan said.
All of this made passengers, the attendants and the pilot uncomfortable, Hogan said. As a result, the pilot called police to have the imams escorted from plane.
Airlines have the right not to allow passengers on a plane, Hogan said.
"It's up to the airline," he said. "From an airport standpoint we're out of it, once it was determined no crime occurred."
It looks to me like they have a pretty good reason. Freedom also means that these Imams are free to drive themselves home, or hitchhike except in Tennessee where that is unlawful. But they did get a flight on Northwest. Personally I never fly. But the fact that you won’t be on American Airlines might not bother their other passengers much. For obvious reasons.
Others LGF (currently offline), Hot Air and Jihad Watch and Powerline.
Note Robert’s post at Jihad Watch has some more very interesting background on this so called Imam. I thought that Islam teaches that there is no intermediary between a Muslim and God. For Muhammad to have said that there is some irony in the fact that an awful lot of people are making a living at it.
Shall We Cede the Campus?
It seems that barely a week goes by that I don't read a story about censorship of a conservative or pro-American speaker or writer through one of a number of mechanisms. Michelle and Charles have been doing excellent work highlighting the truth about what cesspools of anti-American nastiniess our university campuses have become. Conservative and pro-American speakers routinely have their campus speaking events cancelled or restricted by university administrators. Campus events that aren't cancelled by administration officials are stopped by physical action or bomb threats. In the broader context, many conservative writers live and work under death threats. Though university campuses have become ideal environments for making good on such threats, the universities often refuse to cooperate with adequate security measures.
This is the state of our world today. The most unruly and difficult are getting their way by throwing tantrums and threatening death and destruction. The civilized are asked to contemplate the "root causes" of the unruliness rather than condemn these actions. The civilized are asked to avoid taking any action which might further antagonize the "disaffected youth."
Over the last ten or fifteen years, encompassing the current wave of left-wing anti-American temper tantrums, many of our leaders have told us that just "taking the high road" would pay off for us in the long run. Some assured us that there would be a public "backlash" against those who don't know how to behave properly in public.
Here we are, ten years on. Much has changed, but in any good direction. The left-wing protests have only gotten more vociferous. We've been accused of being "digital brownshirts"--while the other side has an army of REAL, PHYSICAL brownshirts who are not at all shy about doing very real, physical "brownshirt" things. The left-wingers and campus Islamic groups very effectively use violence and the threat of violence to shut down dissent on the university campuses. In the meantime, there's been little, if any "public backlash" that I can ascertain--not even within the Boards of Trustees who are supposed to be paying attention. As near as I can tell, the public has just come to expect this sort of thing from the left, and it's taken in stride. In the meantime, a valuable point of view is silenced through the raw exercise of power. Right under the noses of the campus administrations, a thugocracy has taken over.
I don't have a solution to this problem as of yet. I don't think physical violence by our side is the answer. Setting aside the moral issues, creating martyrs (even bruised martyrs) would be counterproductive. I'm sure the jihadis would dearly love to have a photo of a white male College Republican punching an Arab kid. If there was a picture of the Arab kid punching the white kid first, we all know that picture would never make the papers. I'll admit I'm better at identifying problems than proposing solutions. What I do know is that our current strategy of being polite and taking our lumps graciously certainly doesn't appear to be working too well.
Fatima’s Love For Sale
Interesting article, my opinion is that a culture that treats women as property of men encourages pimping and prostitution. Also the failure or Iran’s government to properly address economic issues also contributes.
Asia Times: Wars are won by destroying the enemy's will to fight. A nation is never really beaten until it sells its women…
…To understand Iranian politics, cherchez les femmes: the fate of Iranian women sheds light on the eccentricity of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. By Spengler's Universal Law of Gender Parity, the men and women of every place and every time deserve each other. A corollary to this universal law states that the battered Iranian whore is the alter ego of the swaggering Iranian jihadi…
…Nothing is more threadbare than the claim of Islamists to defend Muslim womanhood. Islamist radicals (like the penny-a-marriage mullahs of Iran) are the world's most prolific pimps. The same networks that move female flesh across borders also provide illegal passage for jihadis, and the proceeds of human trafficking often support Islamist terrorists. From Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur to Sarajevo to Tirana, the criminals who trade in women overlap with jihadist networks. Prostitutes serve the terror network in a number of capacities, including suicide bombing. The going rate for a Muslim woman who can pass for a European to carry a suicide bomb currently is more than US$100,000. The Persian prostitute is the camp follower of the jihadi, joined to him in a pact of national suicide.
Or it could be the “Subhuman” status of women in Islamic nations that robs them of their pride and makes prostitution seem logical? If a woman is treated as a piece of meat then should she not use that to feed her child’s hunger? If she were "human" or an equal to men she might make another choice. She just lacks the opportunity. The following video has had only 9 views on youtube. It deserves many more.
Video below the fold
Note Dale’s comment on Captian Ed’s post.
Good comments as well at Protein Wisdom
I spent some time trying to find a bit of humor in this. There wasn't any.
Because the mainstream media is invested in propagating only bad news from the War on Terror, here's today's CENTCOM roundup.
TERRORIST CACHES SEIZED IN RAID
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces conducted an operation against terrorist activities in the vicinity of al-Habbaniyah Tuesday.
Intelligence reports indicated two targeted buildings were being used for terrorist activity. Coalition Forces discovered a weapons cache consisting of rocket-propelled grenades, multiple explosives and small arms in the first targeted building.
After breaching the second targeted building and discovering another weapons cache, Coalition Forces realized the building was a mosque. There were no external markings on the building to indicate it was a mosque.
Both the weapons cache from the mosque and the weapons cache from the first building were destroyed.
ISF TARGETS KIDNAPPING AND MURDER CELL, CAPTURES 7
BAGHDAD – Special Iraqi Army Forces, with coalition advisers, detained an illegal armed group kidnapping and murder cell leader during a raid Nov. 21 in Sadr City, Baghdad. The raid was launched to target this individual and to obtain information on the whereabouts of a kidnapped U.S. Soldier.
The person detained is reported to have first-hand knowledge of the control and movement of Spec. Ahmed Al Taie, the Soldier who was abducted Oct. 23.
Six additional suspected cell members were detained.
During the operation, Iraqi forces received small-arms and rocket propelled grenade fire from enemy fighters. Supporting coalition aircraft received enemy ground fire; coalition aircraft neutralized the threat with precision fires at identified enemy targets.
There were no reports of Iraqi Forces or Coalition Forces casualties. Civilian and enemy casualties could not be determined.
IA, CF DETAIN 4 INSURGENTS, FIND CACHE, RESCUE 2 HOSTAGES
TIKRIT, Iraq – Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division and Task Force Lightning Soldiers from 6-9 Armored Reconnaissance Squadron, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, apprehended four suspected insurgents, recovered two kidnapped victims and seized a sizeable weapons cache Nov. 19 during an operation north of Muqdadiyah.
Iraqi and coalition forces discovered the individuals, along with a cache, while conducting an intelligence driven operation on a suspected insurgent safe haven that is responsible for launching attacks on the Iraqi government and civilian population.
The cache consisted of 15 various projectiles including three 155-mm artillery shells, two anti-tank mines, three grenades, 15 pounds of explosives material, and other IED making materials with anti-Iraqi propaganda.
Task Force Lightning forces also discovered and disarmed seven IEDs near the sight.
The two rescued victims were not identified and were taken to the Joint Coordination Center, placed in the mayor’s care and taken to the Muqdadiya Hospital for medical treatment.
THREE TERRORISTS KILLED, FOUR DETAINED
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed three terrorists and detained four suspected terrorists during a raid in Baghdad Tuesday.
Upon approaching the objective, ground forces received small arms fire. Coalition Forces returned fire killing three terrorists.
Coalition Forces continued their mission and approached the first targeted building. As they breached the building using a small explosives charge, some linen inside the room caught fire. The fire was quickly extinguished and no one was injured.
During the search of the second targeted building, Coalition Forces detained four suspected terrorists and found four machine guns, ammunition and ammo cartridges.
Previous roundups
Are We Winning in Iraq?
Michael Fumento is on the ground in Ramadi, and he says yes. You really have to read the whole thing. It's amazing to hear the tactics we're using. It's also amazing to realize that the vast majority of 'reports' from Iraq come from Arab stringers (we know how reliable those are) or from Westerneres who rarely leave the Green Zone. Here's how Fumento concludes this excellent piece:
Are We Winning?
People always ask how the Iraqis feel about Americans and the war in general. I respond that they just tell you what they think will prove advantageous to them, a combination of complaints and praise for Ameriki (America). Non-embedded American reporters run into the same thing. I asked one of the north Ramadi farmers through the translator if he thinks Ramadi is getting safer. He starts out with a few complaints, such as lack of water from the Euphrates for his fields because of rationing, and then tells me: "But safety is 100 percent better now that the Americans have come along." Baloney. Things got a lot more dangerous when we first came along. They may or may not be safer now than a year ago, but this guy isn't going to tell me. None of them will tell me.
Soldiers also give different accounts of the extent of progress in Ramadi. A Cougar driver told me nothing had changed since his last deployment, yet the very fact that he was driving into Ramadi in a convoy of just four trucks indicated otherwise. Another told me Ramadi is now "a thousand times better." Ultimately each was simply another blind man feeling his part of the elephant. With my three embeds in Anbar, I'd like to believe I've felt quite a few parts of the elephant.
Ramadi is not Baghdad, with its roiling sectarian violence and militias. As we've come to learn, Iraq probably cannot find peace until those militias are disbanded and suppressed. But neither will it find peace if the insurgents and terrorists of the Sunni strongholds like Ramadi continue to ply their trade; and despite the media focus on sectarian killings in October, Sunni insurgents still accounted for more than 80 percent of American military deaths in Iraq that month.
Put it all together – the Forward Observation Bases, new Combat Operation Posts, new Observation Posts, tribal cooperation, ever more Iraqi army and police, better intelligence, and public works projects. There's no "stay the course" strategy here; the course changes as necessary and it's continually changed for the better. I believe we are winning the Battle of Ramadi. And if the enemy can be beaten here, he can be beaten anywhere.
When we fight, we win. The real question is whether or not we have enough troops on the ground to take the enemy on everywhere in Iraq, or are we restricted to gaining ground here while losing it elseewhere because we failed to devote enough troops in the first place?
I do not know the answer, but since Ramadi is the center of the Sunni terrorist insurgency, and since these groups are now referring to us by the name "United States of Losers" (an allusion to what they believe is an impending pullout in Iraq because of the Democratic victory--ie, we lost) I do know that we cannot pull out in the way people like Barack Obama are now saying we should. That would be a disaster.
(Vid) Terrorists Shoot Down US Plane in Iraq
The Army of Ansar al Sunna, a terrorist group in Iraq, is claiming that it shot down a "US spy plane" near Latifiyah, Iraq. A video produced by the Sunni terrorists shows the 'downed' airplane. The video and images from it are posted below.
However, the "spy plane" is actually a toy model airplane which has a camera attached to it. Images from the video, shown below, show the plane carries the logo of "Thunder Tiger" a Taiwanese toy model company.
The brave mujahidin at work.
It's fascinating that the group, which is mostly known for its gruesome beheading murders of hostages, has now resorted to claiming victory by showing a downed toy model plane.
People in the military tell me that these kind of UAVs are so cheap that they are considered one time use and are routinely abandoned. They are used in forward deployments by troops on the gound and are not so much 'spy planes' as they are reconnaissance tools. So, in addition to not really being a 'spy plane' its also unlikely that it was shot down. Probably just ran out of juice and was abandoned.
UPDATE: Thanks to the dilligence of readers and from the guys over at Military Photos I've learned that this plane was probably not used by the military at all. The most likely scenario is that it is just what it appears to be: a model airplane. Some kid in Iraq is wondering where his toy went off to.
Terrorists in Iraq: Losing hearts and minds one toy airplane at a time.
Hat tip: Thalja...thanks to Howie for uploading the vid.
Broadcast al-Manar Go to Jail
Looks like our efforts against al-Manar broadcasts being hosted on US servers has born fruit. Hell Yeah and good work Jawa Readers and supporters.
Via CHRON:NEW YORK — A man was charged Monday with supporting terrorists by enabling customers to obtain satellite broadcasts of a Hezbollah television station, the second person accused in a case that has drawn scrutiny over how far the government can go in claiming someone is aiding terrorist groups.
Saleh Elahwal, 53, of Matawan, N.J., and Javed Iqbal, 42, of Staten Island, could each face up to 110 years in prison if they are convicted of all 11 counts in a rewritten indictment unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. They pleaded not guilty.
Lawyers for both declined to comment outside court. Prosecutors said weeks ago they planned to bring additional charges as they as they collect evidence and build a case.
I'd decline comment too. Note lawyers to do that when the client is guilty.
Iqbal, a Pakistani businessman, was charged in August with helping his customers receive broadcasts of al Manar, which was designated by the U.S. government this year as a global terrorist entity. At the time, the charges against him carried a potential prison term of five years.
Al Manar, launched in 1991, features news programming that promotes Hezbollah's positions and shows statements from the terror group and speeches from its leader, the government has said.
As part of their probe, FBI agents searched two storefronts in Brooklyn where Iqbal worked and at his residence, where multiple satellite dishes helped him distribute the broadcasts to New York-area customers through a Brooklyn company called HDTV Limited, prosecutors said.
The indictment accused the men of carrying out the scheme from September 2005 through August.
Iqbal's representatives criticized the government's case after his August arrest, saying his First Amendment rights were violated.
The Jawa Report makes efforts to find and use enemy propaganda against them. We want to demonstrate that these are terrorists and show who the true war criminals are. But really we would trade all that for it to disappear.
In this case the 101’st keyboarding division has done well. Thanks to all who helped us with email and phone calls. Thanks to US officials for taking us seriously.
And special Thanks to Dr. Rusty Shackleford for giving us the tools to harass, annoy and in this case hopefully imprison terrorist supporting assholes.
Note: We are unsure that our find of the al-Manar internet feed from Atlanta is related. That is internet and this is cable. But the new charges and the timing suggests they may be related. We'll continue to monitor for any links. Rusty thought I should point that out.
Minneapolis Airport Incident May Be a Setup
The incident I wrote about last night, in which six Muslim imams were removed from a plane at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, is looking more and more like a deliberate provocation. From the Associated Press [emphasis added]:
"They took us off the plane, humiliated us in a very disrespectful way," said Omar Shahin, of Phoenix.
The six Muslim scholars were returning from a conference in Minneapolis of the North American Imams Federation, said Shahin, president of the group. Five of them were from the Phoenix-Tempe area, while one was from Bakersfield, Calif., he said.
Three of them stood and said their normal evening prayers together on the plane, as 1.7 billion Muslims around the world do every day, Shahin said. He attributed any concerns by passengers or crew to ignorance about Islam.
"I never felt bad in my life like that," he said. "I never. Six imams. Six leaders in this country. Six scholars in handcuffs. It's terrible."
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, expressed anger at the detentions.
"CAIR will be filing a complaint with relevant authorities in the morning over the treatment of the imams to determine whether the incident was caused by anti-Muslim hysteria by the passengers and/or the airline crew," Hooper said. "Because, unfortunately, this is a growing problem of singling out Muslims or people perceived to be Muslims at airports, and it's one that we've been addressing for some time."
This sounds very much like the deliberate provocation mentioned in my previous post, when Muslims admitted to trying to cause anxiety among fellow passengers as a form of "civil disobedience."
UPDATE by Rusty: A friend of Lilek's was at the conference hotel. Much anti-American sentiment. And Charles Johnson links the spokeman for the imams to a terrorist fundraising organization masquerading as a charity.
Christian Lebanese Leader Murdered, Syria Implicated
Outspoken critic of Syria, cabinet minister, and one of the most influential Christian politicians in Lebanon Pierre Gemayel has been assassinated. Sources in Lebanon are already pointing the finger at Syria.
Lebanon is also already bracing for possible civil unrest and retaliation.
Gemayel was a member of the Kataeb Social Democratic Party, more commonly referred to as the Christian Phalange. The armed wing of the Phalange was the most important Christian faction during the Lebanese civil war. His father was the former President Amin Gemayel and his uncle, Bashir Gemayel, was also assassinated shortly after his election as President.
During the civil war the Phalangists forces were allies with Israel. In 1982 it was this same Christian militia, not Israel, that massacred Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps.
Gunmen opened fire as his convoy drove through the Christian Sin el-Fil neighbourhood, they said. Gemayel, who was in his 30s, was rushed to hospital where he later died of his wounds.
Local television footage showed angry and weeping supporters gathering at the hospital.
The killing is certain to deepen a political crisis pitting the anti-Syrian majority against the pro-Damascus opposition led by Hezbollah.
"We believe the hand of Syria is all over the place," Saad al-Hariri, son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, said from Beirut shortly after Gemayel was shot dead.
Hat tip: Snapped Shot (at this writing the site is down)
UPDATE: Sunni jihadis? al Qaeda? This comes just days after Sunnis in Lebanon declared jihad.
UPDATE: Protests have already begun.
UPDATE: Way more at Hot Air.
Let's Rally The Troops, Shall We?
I'm sick of the pessimism permeating the blogs about the war.
If I'm sick of it, just think of what those fighting it must think.
Below the fold, three NSFW videos reminding them that we are still here.
Snatching Victory?
Could this article signal a renewed effort to end this once and for all?
Maybe, just maybe, Bush has one trick left up his sleeve. For the next month and some change, total, unrestricted warfare before the Esmay...er...Kos Kidz control Congress.
I don't know. If I were an arrogant SOB, I'd pretend to tell you that I think I know, but I'm not, so I won't.
All I know for sure right now is that more and more jihadis are being sent to their 72 raisins. Allaaaaaaaaaaaaa Hu Fubar!
6 Middle Eastern Men Removed From US Airways Flight
Witnesses said the men were chanting "Allah, Allah, Allah" as they were taken off the plane. From 5News KSTP:
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal investigators and airport police are questioning six Middle Eastern men who had to be escorted off of a plane Monday afternoon at Minneapolis/St. Paul International.
U.S. Airway officials tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS' Aviation Expert Bob McNaney that Monday while Flight 300 was preparing to take off from Minneapolis to Phoenix, a passenger passed a note to a flight attendant saying they noticed 'suspicious behavior,' among the men.
The men would not get off the plane when asked, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned, and had to be removed by police.
Perhaps one of them was named Khaled? (Thanks to lgf commenter "LSD")
Khaled and three of his companions had gone to New York for several days in January. He told of how uncomfortable his trip up to NYC had been. He felt like he was being watched, and thought he was the victim of racial profiling.
Khaled and his friends were pretty unhappy about it, and while in New York, they came up with a plan to "teach a lesson" to the passengers and crew. You can imagine the story Khaled told. He described how he and his friends whispered to each other on the flight, made simultaneous visits to the restroom, and generally tried to "spook" the other passengers. He laughed when he described how several women were in tears, and one man sitting near him was praying.
The others in the room thought the story was quite amusing, judging from the laughter. The imam stood up and told the group that this was a kind of peaceful civil disobedience that should be encouraged, and commended Khaled and his friends for their efforts.
Via little green footballs.
Persecution of Christians in Iran
It is with sincere thanks to our reader, Garduneh Mehr, who spent the time and effort to translate the following article from Persian for the other readers of the Jawa Report, that I post the following:
[This is a translation of a Persian article entitled “Persecution of the Church in Iran” from http://www.hra-iran.blogfa.com/post-257.aspx The translator’s notes are enclosed in square braces.]
In the Name of Liberty
In recent months we have witnessed persecution of religious minorities in Iran, including threats, [unlawful] arrests and murders. Our Christian compatriots are constantly targets of torment and harassment. The following describes a small portion of the murders, threats and arrests that Christian Iranians have been subjected to:
Murders:
In 2005, Mr. Ghorban Tarani a Christian missionary was murdered under strange circumstances in the town of “Gonbad”.
Arrests:
In the town of “Gorgaan” a church custodian was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of being a Christian. During his imprisonment he was subjected to constant interrogation.
One of the parishioners of the Church in the town of “Hamadan” by the name Dr. Mehrdaad along with his wife and eight year old child were arrested and imprisoned by the agents of the government Ministry of Intelligence.
In 2004, four parishioners of a Church in the town of “Chaa-Loos” were arrested by the agents of the regime and tried in “Revolutionary Court”; some were handed death sentences. The four were freed only after international pressure was brought to bear on the regime.
In the town of “Chaa-Loos” a Christian family including their children (one thirteen year old and an eighteen year old) were arrested by the [regime’s] ministry of intelligence.
In the town of “Mashhad” Ms. Freshteh Dibaaj daughter of Rev. Mehdi Dibaaj was arrested while in Church along with her husband and imprisoned by the [regime’s] ministry of intelligence. The two were interrogated for more than two weeks. The reader is reminded that this is the same “home Church” that was run by Rev. Say’yed Sudmand who himself was put to death for his faith. [“home church” refers to people converting their homes to churches and holding services there. It is worth noting that the prefix Say’yed in the name of Rev. Sudmand signifies that he is actually descended from the family of Mohammad and was convert to Christianity.]
In the town of “Sanandaj” Mr. Ghane a parishioner of a home Church who had been repeatedly harassed and threatened by the agents of the regime was arrested; nothing is known about his fate.
In the town of “Shahin-shahr” the spouse of one of our Christian compatriots was arrested and imprisoned where he was subjected to torture which result in him being hospitalized.
Families who inquire about their imprisoned children [and loved ones] are either told nothing or are threatened by the ministry of intelligence.
Some of the ways in which Christians are harassed are as follows:
The agents of the regime videotape and photograph parishioners entering and leaving church services.
Carrying more than one Bible with you is considered a crime.
Importation and printing of religious texts are forbidden by the regime; and anyone involved in such activities is arrested.
Active individuals receive threatening phone calls.
In the past years many of our Christian compatriots [Iranians] have, as a result of persistent persecution, been forced to abandon their homes and homeland and seek refuge in foreign lands.
[It is worth noting that the “Three Wise Men from the East” who foresaw the birth of Christ and worshipped the newly born Jesus were Iranian Magi. The Magi were the cast of the learned whose social function was to literate their fellow citizens in material and spiritual matters. Their line was brought to a brutal end by the Islamo-Arab hordes who believed that the only thing worth
learning is the Qoran.]
Terrorists with Ties to Iran Claim Western Hostage Taking (UPDATED: BUMPED AGAIN)
The state run Iranian Arabic language TV station, al-Alalam, has broadcast a video from a terrorist group which claimed the abduction of four American and an Austrian.
Some media reprts indicate that "The Islamic Mujahedeen Battalion" was trained in Iran. The fact that the video was broadcast on Iranian TV indicates that that there is at least some connection. However, unlike most hostage videos released by terror organizations in the past, this one did not actually show the hostages.
The US and Iraq has consistently levelled accusations that the Iranian government funds, trains, and encourages acts of terror in Iraq.
Local Iraqi sources indicate that one of the hostages, an Austrian, is dead. One American is also thought to have been freed, say locals in Basra. But there are still conflicting reports over this and no official confirmation. Officials in Baghdad say that the locals are mistaken and that all five hostages are still missing, presumed alive.
From al-Alam's English language website:
A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for abducting a private security team of four Americans and an Austrian in southern Iraq.
The group, called Islamic Companies [trans: Islamic Mujahidin Battalion], claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
The group released a videotaped message saying that it was holding the five men.
An unidentified man whose face was covered with a checkered Arabic head dress read a statement in which he demanded the withdrawal of US forces and the release of all prisoners in Iraq.
CNN reports that the video was not audible during the broadcast:
During al-Alam's broadcast, the man's voice was inaudible and the station's presenter said the video was from the group that claimed to have kidnapped the contractors and killed four other Americans.
Only the name of one of the Western hostages has been released to the public. he is Paul Reuben of Minnesota.
WaPo reports on the 39 year old Paul Reuben:
One of the four U.S. contractors abducted by insurgents in southern Iraq is a former suburban police officer described by friends and family as an "easygoing, fun-loving type of guy" who was ready to come home.
"He had that classic teddy bear disposition that made people like and care about him," St. Louis Park Police Chief John D. Luse said of Paul Reuben, who has been working as a private security contractor in Iraq....
Their mother said Friday that she hopes the men holding her son "remember their own mothers."
"I want them to think what it's like for a mother to want her son back," Johnnie Mae Reuben told The Associated Press. "I want my son back."
I wonder if CNN's Miles O'Brien will tell Mrs. Reuben that her son is just a "mercinary"?
Update by Vinnie: Via Cheese eating surrender monkey Press, Iraqis claim to be closing in on the whereabouts of the hostages.
"We have identified the area where they are held. I can't disclose the place," Mohammed Ali al-Mussawi, chief of operations at police headquarters in the southern city of Basra, told AFP.
Previously: Four Americans Kidnapped in Iraq, Austrian Civilian Killed
Update: by Howie. Rusty asks that we keep up on this story. Good news that we and the Iraqi police are working this hard. Bad news is they have not been found. Has anyone looked in Iran? It seems to me if an Iranian supported group took these men they might try and take them into Iran for safety. iran should look into this. The return of these men could generate some goodwill from the US that Iran amy find to its advantage.
International Herald Tribune: BASRA, Iraq: British and Iraqi forces raided homes in southern Iraq on Monday and arrested four suspects in the kidnapping of four American security guards and their Austrian co-worker, an official said.
The raid, which began late Sunday and ended early Monday morning, took place in Zubair, a mostly Sunni-Arab enclave about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Basra, Capt. Tane Dunlop, the British military spokesman, told The Associated Press. Most of Britain's 7,200 soldiers in Iraq are based in the city.
On Sunday, Iraqi police showed the media 200 suspected insurgents they had arrested the night before while raiding several areas north of Basra, which is 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad.
Both raids failed to find any of the hostages in southern Iraq, a mostly Shiite region.
The four American security guards and their Austrian co-worker have been missing since Thursday when a large convoy of trucks being escorted by their Crescent Security Group company was hijacked on a highway near Safwan, a largely Sunni Arab city of 200,000 people on the Kuwait border.
Another update by Vinnie: From the "it's an older code, but it still checks out, m'lord" files... Group that took the hostages linked to Mookie.
UPDATE 11/21: Second American hostage identified as 23 year old Jonathon Cote. Hat tip: No Burqua
Enemy Of My Enemy And All That
A lengthy article from the Times (U.K.) shows a side of the conflict in Iraq you usually don't see outside CENTCOM press releases.
In other words, good news.
It's well worth reading it all.
While the world’s attention has been focused on Baghdad’s slide into sectarian warfare, something remarkable has been happening in Ramadi, a city of 400,000 inhabitants that al-Qaeda and its Iraqi allies have controlled since mid-2004 and would like to make the capital of their cherished Islamic caliphate.
A power struggle has erupted: al-Qaeda’s reign of terror is being challenged. Sheikh Sittar and many of his fellow tribal leaders have cast their lot with the once-reviled US military. They are persuading hundreds of their followers to sign up for the previously defunct Iraqi police. American troops are moving into a city that was, until recently, a virtual no-go area. A battle is raging for the allegiance of Ramadi’s battered and terrified citizens and the outcome could have far-reaching consequences.
stein hoist to Larwyn, via the Howienator.
Update by Howie: Vinnie and I stepped on each other's posts, so I moved my post to my other blog.
Breaking: O.J. Interview Cancelled
Fox will not run OJ's interview and Newscorp will not publish his book. OJ maybe you should try CNN?
Filthy Headline of the Week
Nancy Pelosi is a what?
Hint: It rhymes
Captain Ed on the GOP Leadership Elections
Ed Morrissey, one of my favorite bloggers, hits it on the the head, as usual:
[O]ne has to wonder why Republicans felt so rushed in selecting their leadership. The various candidates for those positions insisted that they had to hit the ground running in order to get the staffers they needed, and to start playing counter to the Democrats in the opening days of Congress, and so on. But as Hugh Hewitt said during one of those interviews, no organization in the world would make decisions on leadership after a significant setback within ten days, at least not without serious reflection on a new direction and the necessary qualities of new leadership to succeed in that new direction.
The only thing that's kept the Republicans from completely dissipating their base of support is the foolishness of the Democrats. Unfortunately, we cannot rely on Nancy Pelosi to pull our chestnuts out of the fire for the next two years. The Republicans had better determine what they want to represent, and then rethink the leadership choices that clearly represent business as usual, if they want to return to the majority in 2008 or beyond.
CNNJazeera Update
Via Gateway Pundit
CNN decided to revamp one of its hummers, "Warrior One", that CNN used to cover the War in Iraq. The TLC show "Overhaulin" did the work on the hummer by airbrushing scenes from the Iraq War on the side panels.
CNN will embark on a tour of the country with the Warrior One hummer before they auction it off in January.
Yeah and maybe CNNjazeera can get a better bid from Cindy Sheehan if they can prove that an actual enemy of Iraq and the United States rode in it.
But then again we know who’s army is foreign to CNNJazeera, ours. What I would like to see happen is some guy buy this thing and have it crushed.
Definition Mercenary: Using your giant news network to publish enemy propaganda for profit.
Of course CNN knows most people have not seen the entire video so they can claim it’s not enemy propaganda.
But I happen to have the first half of the original IAI terrorists Juba sniper video here. See for yourself. (Frame grabs below the fold).
So CNN chose to only play the “money shots”. No reference to the slick production complete with English subtitles. That’s because it’s directed at English speaking audiences. I’ve been holding back on uploading this until after the election. I mean I would not want to actually help the terrorists get this message out before the election like some people we all know.
Here’s another video from the Islamic Army in Iraq. Why don’t they(CNNJazeera) show you this one. No Americans dying maybe?
Note: available by download only. Only way I could get it to play. I don’t know why Google wants to semi reject my stuff. I mean, Google is the home of al-Qaeda’s new blog as well as the IAI’s Juba blogs.
Update I note the juba video post has been removed from the Juba Online blogspot blog.
Progress with Google? Or did IAI just move it because of our pestering?
My Samoan friend was watching Juba with me as I got some frame grabs. He has been in the lower 48 for quite a while. Still can't vote though. Why can't Samoans vote? Anyway he said to bomb them.
What a difference one determined Iraqi can make.
Via Centcom:
He’s a fresh face for the station,” said Army 2nd Lt. Jill M. Glasenapp, PTT platoon leader, from Mauston, Wis. “He’s prepared to be the rock that holds this station up.”
Within the first half hour of his arrival, the commander was already pushing his team.
“We had a mortar attack as soon as we arrived,” Glasenapp said. “He immediately posted security around the station.”
The commander also immediately began issuing uniforms, weapons and a hefty paycheck to each member of his team."
He even began rewriting the stations Standard Operating Procedures,” Glasenapp added.
“The new lieutenant is definitely taking over smoothly and quickly,” said Cpl. Steven A. Dickson, an amphibious assault vehicle driver and security team member from Bakersfield, Calif. “You can see the IP’s are listening to him and following his orders. He’s really putting them in gear to work.”
The new commander is the fifth this year at the Iraqi Police station.
“We’ve had problems with the last four,” explained Army Staff Sgt. Brian S. Leslie, PTT team chief from Crystal River, Fla. “The first commander was shot, the following three ran off to Syria with money and supplies.”
The new commander was selected by Iraqi Police District Headquarters in Fallujah after being recommended by the executive officer, Leslie said.
“He was identified as a strong leader,” Glasenapp said. “Plus he lives in the area, so he was an obvious choice to command the station.”
If something happens at the station, the new commander is always available to help out, Glasenapp added.
“He’s responsible for everything that happens in the station,” she said. “He oversees all their missions and investigations. He has the last word and is always on call.”
Iraqi Police Station Ferris is expected to be increasingly productive with their new commander in charge. The policemen are eager to please their new commander and are working hard to do it.
“They see him as a hero since he brought discipline, order, and most importantly, paychecks,” Glasenapp said. “Hopefully he’ll be here for a long time, and we’ll always see great things from his leadership.”
By Lance Cpl. Bryan Eberly Regimental Combat Team
Germany's Terrorist Catch and Release Program
Germans arrested six people they say were involved in a plot to bribe a Frankfurt airport employee to plant explosives on an El Al plane.
The story sounds like a victory for Western security until you get to this part:
The six, who could face charges of belonging to or supporting a terrorist organization, were temporarily detained Friday, but five of them were released Saturday after questioning. The remaining suspect was kept in custody over an unrelated matter.
Under German law, authorities must release suspects after a maximum of 48 hours unless they have enough evidence to convince a judge that they can be held in long-term investigative custody.
Go Big, Go Long, or Go Home
The Washington Post is reporting that three basic strategies for Iraq were being debated by the Pentagon and that military leaders have settled on a hybrid plan, combining "Go Big" and "Go Long.":
The group has devised a hybrid plan that combines part of the first option with the second one -- "Go Long" -- and calls for cutting the U.S. combat presence in favor of a long-term expansion of the training and advisory efforts. Under this mixture of options, which is gaining favor inside the military, the U.S. presence in Iraq, currently about 140,000 troops, would be boosted by 20,000 to 30,000 for a short period, the officials said.
The purpose of the temporary but notable increase, they said, would be twofold: To do as much as possible to curtail sectarian violence, and also to signal to the Iraqi government and public that the shift to a "Go Long" option that aims to eventually cut the U.S. presence is not a disguised form of withdrawal.
Unmentioned in the Post article, of course, is that the strategy must be workable in light of a hostile, grossly biased American media that is focused on political advantage for the Democratic party. To that end, the major media outlets have imposed a virtual embargo on any news out of Iraq that isn't bad for American interests. Anyone who doubts that need only go to CENTCOM and check the press releases.
The MSM uses CENTCOM only for American body counts, they never report on the daily successful operations, which militate against Democratic defeatism. That's the real reason for the rejection of the "Go Big" option, not the lack of US troops, as the Post claims.
Why You Don’t Mess With America
Because all those men spilled their blood so that American blood would not longer be spilled on American soil. 149 years ago yesterday Nov 19th. Abe Lincoln Via Don Surber:
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
To allow anyone to come over here and attack us without paying a heavy price would be to dishonor the lives of all the men, both Grey and Blue, who died in the bloodiest conflict ever. A price like, say, two of your countries sounds fair to me.
Take note Islamists.
Religion of Animal Sacrifice Update
Because. you know. Allah has a goat shortage in heaven and pitching a live goat into boiling mud makes Allah happy.
Indonesian Protestors, "We Hope Bush Dies."
That is how NPR translated what protesters in Idonesia were saying about George Bush. But we have The Big White Infidel who points out they are saying Kill Kill Kill Bush
Habib Rizieq, leader of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), (seen above) said the deaths of Muslims across the globe should be revenged.
"His blood is halal (permitted) to be shed. Not only is it halal, but it is obligatory to kill him," Rizieq told a crowd on Sunday as quoted by AFP.
"Kill, kill" the crowd yelled, pointing their fists up, when Rizieq shouted Bush's name, while the shouting of "America" was greeted with shouts of "Destroy, destroy".
Quite a difference between the XLT's huh. Hope you die vs we are going to kill you. Go figure.
The Cow Says Mooo
That's one disappointed cow. NSFW.
Iran Building 60,000 Centrifuges
This is a step BACK from the previous reports that they were building 100,000 centrifuges. So that's good news. Sorta. I guess.
But have no fear, folks--I've no doubt Hans Bricksh (or his current incarnation) will be sending a sternly worded letter to Mahmoud any day now.
Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran
WE MUST bomb Iran. That’s the opinion of Joshua Muravchik at the LA Times.
It has been four years since that country's secret nuclear program was brought to light, and the path of diplomacy and sanctions has led nowhere.
First, we agreed to our allies' requests that we offer Tehran a string of concessions, which it spurned. Then, Britain, France and Germany wanted to impose a batch of extremely weak sanctions. For instance, Iranians known to be involved in nuclear activities would have been barred from foreign travel — except for humanitarian or religious reasons — and outside countries would have been required to refrain from aiding some, but not all, Iranian nuclear projects.
So if sanctions won't work, what's left? The overthrow of the current Iranian regime might offer a silver bullet, but with hard-liners firmly in the saddle in Tehran, any such prospect seems even more remote today than it did a decade ago, when students were demonstrating and reformers were ascendant. Meanwhile, the completion of Iran's bomb grows nearer every day.
I doubt we will bomb Iran. It’s not really a very good idea. Bombing without boots on the ground accomplishes little more than making a big mess.
If you are not willing to put a couple million boots on the ground and win the right way, then the Iranians would probably rally and rather than weaken the Mullah’s control it would probably do the opposite.
I feel the proper action is to ignore the nuclear issue. What? Yes ignore the nuclear issue at least in public. The nuclear issue is a card they play to distract from their oppressive totalitarian regime.
We should make some sort of mad type policy. If a nuclear bomb is used that traces back to Iran, Iran becomes a giant glowstick night light for the middle east. If Iran attempts to "wipe Israel from the face of the earth", we will wipe Iran from the face of the earth. A sweet and simple policy that I’m sure even Ameninutijhad can grasp.
Afterward we point out all the other things, like the oppression of the Iranian people and press. The oppression of women. Point out the terrible economic problems and lack of upward mobility.
Iran is a nation with plenty of oil that has to import gasoline. While the regime plays, glow in the dark, with nuclear power the nation still cannot refine it’s own oil in sufficient quantities.
Yes the leadership of Iran has its priorities all F^cked up. It focuses on external issues to draw attention from its failings. We need to undermine the Mullahs support with the truth and settle in for a long cold war with Iran.
If not we should….
Ace says,"Do it!"
There's never been such a vile, violent, racist, mannichean enemy in our past, so it can't happen in our future.
Except... the one problem is... it did happen before. And it's not exactly a secret. There have been like five or six books written about it and everything.
And that war didn't stop until more than sixty million people were dead.
An atomic weapons were only invented at the end of that war.
One more thought. The best ckeck we have against Iranian power is to hang tought in Iraq and Afghanistan. And should war with Iran ever occur those two nations are indespenseable, no matter how long it takes.
A Breathalyzer in Every Car?
Coming soon to a dashboard near you?
HotAir Goes to the Movies
Fahrenheit 12/7?
Rusty's friend Professor Chaos claimed in a comment that we Jawa's have, and I quote, "jumped the shark."
Without directly calling Professor Chaos a dirty, rotten, filthy, stinking bastard, who has sweaty jockstraps for breakfast, (not to mention a traitor to the cause) I'll let you dear readers prove him right or wrong.
Oh, one last thing. He's an alumnus of the USC Condoms.
Say It Isn't So!
Professor Chaos is just another drunken Irishman
Free polls from Pollhost.com
Hot-linking is bad enough.
Look what happens if you're an Islamotard doing the hot-linking.
It gets even better!
"Asshat?"
Apparently, you heard it here, first.
Green Beret Killed in Iraq Throws 100K Vegas Party for Friends
A Special Forces captain, killed in action in Iraq, delivers a powerful message in his own style.
From The Seattle Times:
LAS VEGAS — Shortly after Jeffrey "Toz" Toczylowski's last mission in Iraq a year ago this month, friends received a message.
"If you are getting this e-mail, it means that I have passed away," the missive said. "No, it's not a sick Toz joke, but a letter I wanted to write in case this happened."
The Army Special Forces captain, 30, said he would like family and friends to attend his burial at Arlington National Cemetery, "but understand if you can't make it."
The message, distributed by a fellow Green Beret after Toczylowski's family had been notified of his death, added: "There will also be a party in Vegas with a 100k to help pay for travel, room and a party."
And there was this:
"Don't ever think that you are defending me by slamming the Global War on Terrorism or the U.S. goals in that war," Jeffrey Toczylowski wrote. "As far as I am concerned, we can send guys like me to go after them or we can wait for them to come back to us again. I died doing something I believed in and have no regrets except that I couldn't do more."
His mother and sister hosted the party for him. Captain Toczylowski was buried with our other heroes at Arlington on November 14, 2005. Godspeed. Tribute site.
Via Hot Air.
A Rabbi's Open Letter to the World
What the Hell Happened at SNL?
I thought the time was long since passed when I might have a reason to use the phrase "Saturday Night Live" and the word "balls" in the same sentence, but I think I just did.
If this "humor"-type stuff keeps up, I just might have to start watching that show again...
The Price of Being a Christian Religious Conflict in Indonesia (UPDATED)
Pamela has a very graphic set of pictures of what Muslims have been doing to Christians people beheaded in Indonesia.
WARNING : I wouldn't go there if you have a weak stomach.
UPDATE : Big White Infidel had the following comment:
These photos are from Sampit and Sambas in Kalimantan (from 1999 to 2001) and are pics of Madurese Muslims being dealt with by Dayaks and locals. The Madurese are hot-tempered hardcore Islamists from the island of Madura, off the northeast coast of Java and the Dayaks are spiritualist/animists who eat pigs and keep dogs. The Dayaks are the legendary Wild Men of Borneo. The Madurese obviously would have a problem with the Dayaks and their culture being haram. Even local Muslims dislike the Madurese. The Madurese took over a lot of the criminal activities in the area, demanding protection money from businesses, etc. They started persecuting the Dayak and the Dayak are former headhunter/warriors. When the Dayaks slaughtered the Madurese, they were seen as heroes for standing up to the hated Madurese. I'm not sure 100% but I don't believe there were any Christians in the pictures and any Chinese were probably Buddhists. The Dayaks kicked ass and the West needs to take note of how the Dayaks handled the hardcore Islamic problem.
Star Trek is Stupid
It's not just an opinion. According to this encyclopedia, it's a fact:
In general the theme behind the Star Trek movies is the underlying goodness of humanity. This is why it is referred to as science fiction. The Star Trek universe, unlike the gritty Star Wars universe, serves up a vision of a very sanitary, well-vacuumed and quite modular future with cool toys like the holodeck. The holodeck is a large room which can take on the appearance of any time/place imaginable and can be populated with palpable replicas of people, aliens and things for you to interact with. It is obviously a place where your wildest fantasies could come true but is routinely used by the show's characters to play poker with Stephen Hawking.
Planned Outrages
This server will be going offline for up to two hours on Tuesday 21 November, between 5am and 7am CST, while our hosting company works on their power distribution.
Also, I have now transferred all DNS functions away from our old hosting company to the new servers. I think some people are still having problems with our old DNS setup, and hopefully this will fix that. There was a brief glitch while I was setting this up, and if you caught that glitch you might not be able to reach the comments system (which has its own IP address) for a couple of hours, but after that it should automatically resolve itself.
By Reverend Pixy at 07:34 PM | Comments |
"A Dead Heat of Dumbness?"
Glenn hosts an Insta-poll indicating that 60% anticipate a "dead heat of dumbness" between the GOP and Dems over the next two years. Dems take 2nd place, with 34% thinking they'll be dumber.
Glenn also posts an email commenting on the "dead heat" mentality:
There's an old saying among fantasy roleplaying gamers: "You don't have to be faster than the dragon. You just have to be faster than the elf."
I think that the Republicans have gotten spoiled by having the Democrats as their opponents. They don't think they have to be good, or principled, or honest; they think they just have to be perceived as being less bad than the Democrats. In 2006 that strategy failed -- but by gum, they're going to give it another try over the next two years.
Hey, give them some credit for tenacity...
Tigerhawk Calls for Raising Taxes
And I think he may have a good point:
Crude oil has hit a 17-month low. National security conservatives and anti-carbon greens should get together now -- before Americans readjust to inexpensive gasoline -- and push through a reasonable tax on carbon-based fuels in return for an extension of the most economically efficient aspects of the "Bush tax cuts."
UPDATE: There's some good discussion in the comments. I liked this idea:
I would concur on one condition.
All collection from increased fuel taxes would be put toward research, developement and purchase of more fuel efficient vehicles.
Beth would prefer a tarriff to a blanket tax, which would have a similar effect, but would focus on the specific problem at hand. Works for me.
Synthetic Oil for $17 a Barrel?
These guys say they can do it:
It would cost about $17 to produce a barrel of synthetic oil at the Hom Tov facility, meaning giant profit margins in a world of $45 to $60 per barrel crude. Yearly earnings are forecasted to be between $159 million and $350 million, Shahal said.
Hope or just hype? Beats me.
A Rerun Everyone Should Enjoy
Awareness is breaking out all over.
Fox News is re-running their truncated version of "Obsession" tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern, 9 Central.
I don't know how that translates to Mountain or Pacific times, because I never go left of the Central time zone.
Infiltration (UPDATED)
Granted, this is an isolated incident, but...
Khalid Chahhou, who was in his first year of teaching in Johnston County, gave students a worksheet in which they were to translate words and find them within a word-search puzzle.
Some students started uncovering strange words in the process.
"There were words like 'kill,' then I saw it said 'destroy America,'" Eric Herrera said.
"Allah help destroy this body of evil making humanity miserable."
In his defense, the teacher says:
Chahhou, who also teaches Arabic at a religious school affiliated with the Islamic Association of Cary, told WRAL in a telephone interview that students got the wrong message from the assignment.
"When I made the assignment, I was upset and angry about a story I recently saw on the news. If any message appears, it is more of a message to myself, not to my students. I never meant to hurt or upset any students or parents," he said.
Yeeeeeeah, right, Mr. Chahhou. Most teachers insert messages to themselves into school assignments when they're upset over a news story.
What's most troubling about this to me isn't that he pulled this with his public school students, it's that he teaches at a Muslim school as well.
God only knows what he's teaching them in Arabic.
I urge you, once again, to listen to the words of an American citizen calling for shari'a law.
Stein hoist: Tim via the Sandcrawler
Update: Better late than never.
UPDATE II by Rusty: Dan Riehl has much more on the teacher's ties to radical Islamists.
Oh, and Death to America!
Google: Yes we help al Qaeda, so what?
I received an e-mail from Blogger, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google. It seems they don't think it's a big deal that they are providing free hosting to al Qaeda.
Thank you for your note. Blogger is a provider of content creation tools, not a mediator of that content. We allow our users to create blogs, but we don't make any claims about the content of these pages. In cases where contact information for the author is listed on the page, we recommend you working directly with this person to have this information removed or changed.
So, contact the site owner is their response.
Since al Qaeda in Iraq is the site owner, I'm thinking that if I had their e-mail address that writing a letter of complaint would be kind of way down on the priority list.
Because hosting terrorist propaganda has no real world consequences.....
Yusuf Islam Comes to the US
Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, has been granted permission to enter the US. Brilliant!
When he gets here, will somebody in the media grow a spine and ask him about allegations levelled by a radical cleric that he once was associated with the jailed Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman?
Four Americans Kidnapped in Iraq, Austrian Civilian Killed
UPDATE: 11/18/2006: Terror group with ties to Iran claims Western hostage taking. More recent updates posted here.
Four American and one Austrian civilian have been kidnapped in Iraq. The five men were part of a convoy heading through the Shia dominated south of Iraq, but are thought to be held in a Sunni area. That part of Iraq is generally patrolled by British forces.
14 people were taken hostage, but the 9 non-Westerners have since been released. The implication I draw from this is that the hostages are being held for money, and that we should expect a ransom demand soon. UPDATE: Speculation is already abounding that the abductions are related to the issuing of an arrest warrant for the top Sunni cleric in Iraq. If this is the case, then the kidnappings are politically motivated. This is bad news if true.
Only the name of one of the Western hostages has been released to the public. he is Paul Reuben of Minnesota. UPDATE: The Austrian hostage, I'm sad to report, has been found dead. One American has been found alive, but wounded. Three Americans still missing. UPDATE: New reports that a second American freed. UPDATE: Reports in flux. New reports indicate all 5 possibly still missing!
Scroll down for updates. Most recent updates near bottom.
The five men work for The Crescent Security Group, which provide security for military, civilian, and diplomatice convoys in Iraq:
Crescent Security Group conducts convoy escort duties for an ever growing number of Coalition Militaries, Embassies, Government Contractors, Private enterprise, transport and freight forwarding companies.
Crescent operates with a minimum configuration of 3 'gun trucks' per convoy with an emphasis on the safety of life, goods under transit and vehicles in our care.
Gun trucks are civilian vehicles upgraded and in house maintained to operate in hostile and extreme climatic environments. They can be of an up-armored, semi-armored or soft skinned configuration, with each carrying all necessities to be self sufficient for extended periods of time
The company has an extensive photo archive, including many of its employees in action here.
Coalition forces have begun searching for the hostages. CNN:
Coalition forces Friday were searching "aggressively" for five security contractors, including four Americans, who were abducted Thursday during an ambush on their convoy, a military source said.
A spokesman for Crescent Security Group said five of their security personnel were "unaccounted for." The contractors disappeared near Basra on Thursday afternoon....
The supply convoy was traveling from Kuwait, where Crescent operates, to Tallil Airbase near Nasiriya in southern Iraq when it was ambushed, the Crescent spokesman said.
Local militia masquerading as Iraqi police attacked the convoy, using a fake police checkpoint, according to a military source.
UPDATE: Other reports indicate that fighting has erupted in the area. One American found alive, but wounded. Sadly, the Austrian hostage is dead. Chron.com:
British ground forces and U.S. military helicopters fought with gunmen Friday in southern Iraq where four American security contractors and their Austrian co-worker were abducted in a convoy hijacking.
The Austrian was found dead and one of the Americans was found gravely wounded, an Iraqi police officer said. The three Americans who were among the five Crescent Security Group employees taken hostage remained missing in the largely Sunni area....
Capt. Tane Dunlop, a spokesman for British forces who were fighting gunmen in the area where the kidnapping took place, said in a telephone interview from Basra that the hijacking occurred at 1 p.m. Thursday in Safwan, an Iraqi city near the Kuwait border. He said the convoy was coming from Kuwait.
At dawn Friday, British ground forces and helicopters searched an area of Safwan for gunmen who had attacked coalition forces in the past few days when about 10 of them opened fire from farm buildings, Dunlop said. The British and U.S. forces returned fire, Dunlop said.
UPDATE: We hope the NY Times version is correct:
But a spokesman for the Kuwait-based company employing the contractors said in the early evening that all five victims were still missing.
.We pray for their immediate and unconditional release.
We also hope that all will put aside partisanship and ideology in rallying around these hostages. You'll remember that when American security contractors were murdered and their bodies desecrated in Fallujah, that Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, of the Daily Kos, said "Screw Them."
MORE UPDATES BELOW
UPDATE: Now reports of two Americans freed.
Iraqi police freed two American hostages in a raid on Friday but a third foreigner was found dead a day after they were kidnapped when their truck convoy was hijacked at a bogus security checkpoint.
But reports seem to be conflicting. Other reports (especially foreign sources) indicate that the fighting actually may be between Coalition forces and Iraqi police who are connected with Shia militias.
UPDATE: No Burqa e-mails the latest. New reports indicate that there were two incidents. The first, a shoot out between Iraqi police and private security officers. The second, the kidnapping of the 5 Westerners. Fox News:
But Basra police Maj. Gen. Ali al-Moussawi later said none of the kidnapped security company employees had been freed and claimed the governor had confused separate incidents in the region involving private security forces.
Al-Moussawi said the five kidnap victims — four Americans and an Austrian — were still in the hands of a criminal gang that had demanded a ransom.
Al-Moussawi said the governor's confusion arose out of a separate incident on Friday in which a member of a private security team leading a convoy was killed.
Developing....
If you have any information about Paul Reubens or any of the other hostages, please e-mail Rusty at the contat information above.
Spc. Ahmed K. Altaie is still hostage in Iraq. Friends of his inform me that they are hopeful that he will be released alive.
Other American hostages in Iraq still missing:
Dean Sadek
Aban Elias
PS--If there are any developments in the story that I miss, please e-mail me with tips to mypetjawa@gmail.com.
John Boehner and Roy Blunt Will Keep Their Jobs
The House Republicans voted this morning 168-27 to keep their current leader:
WASHINGTON — Republicans Friday chose Rep. John Boehner as minority leader, succeeding Speaker Dennis Hastert in the top GOP leadership post for the Democratic-controlled House that convenes in January.
Boehner defeated Indiana conservative Mike Pence. The vote tally was 168-27 with one vote for Texas Rep. Joe Barton. Boehner's election cements the Ohio conservative's resurrection within GOP leadership ranks. His elevation to succeed Hastert, R-Ill., as the party's front line leader came despite unrest within the rank and file and a spirited campaign by Pence.
They also voted to keep Roy Blunt as GOP Whip:
Arizona GOP Rep. John Shadegg lost his bid to become the House's number 2 GOP leader Friday in a campaign in which he promised to return the party its "reform-minded principles."
In losing the House minority whip post, Shadegg was defeated by Rep. Roy Blunt, of Missouri, the current GOP whip.
Shadegg lost the election in a 137-57 vote conducted by Republicans in private balloting.
The House Dems had the good sense to snub Nancy Pelosi and elect Steny Hoyer over John Murtha as their House Leader. Score one for the Dems on strategy.
Our guys decided on business as usual in the House. Score two more for the Dems.
In other news, we just brought porkmaster Trent Lott back into the Senate GOP leadership. Lott's considered an effective organizer, but his face on TV will be a constant reminder of GOP business as usual. Advantage: Dems.
To cap it off, we just hired an inexperienced party chairman who'll be working part time. I'm willing to give Mel Martinez the benefit of the doubt for now, but given the Bush campaign's incredibly poor track record on choosing the right man for the job, coupled with his part-time status, the honeymoon will be short. The Harriet Miers of RNC Chairmen? Maybe not quite--but still not encouraging.
Some of you are confident the Dems will crater within the next two years.
From what I'm seeing so far, I wouldn't be counting on that. So far, we're getting out-played. This is not good.
UPDATE : Human Events has a round-up.
(Video) Exposed: The Extremist Muslim Agenda
If you didn't see Glenn Beck's important documentary on the radical Islamist agenda, you need to.
No, I take that back. It is your friends and family that are still in denial. They need to see this video.
Most of our readers already know about the Islamist agenda. If you have friends who are still in denial about the threat of political Islam, then why don't you do something useful with your e-mail contact list and send them a link to the video? It is a much more productive use of your contact list than, say, a forwarded letter promising doom if you break the chain.
See the Glenn Beck "Exposed" video here.
You might also want to listen to Glenn interview a member of the Islamic Thinker's Society of New York here. You might remember them from such classic's as 'Next time, we will get all of NYC' and 'Death to America!'
PS-Death to America!
Mary Katharine on the "Dysfunctional Exes" of the GOP
"Hey, baby, it's me. No, don't hang up. I just wanna tell you all about my amnesty plan.... Hello?"
Mary Katharine's message to the GOP: "Get off the couch. Go to the gym. Step AWAY from the pork rinds. There's a lot of changes that need to be made before anyone's coming back to you."
h/t : Allah
UPDATE by Rusty: I call shenaningans! I can spot a Funyun at 20 yeards.
UPDATE II by Rusty: Funyungate!
Help!!! I'm Being Repressed!!! Come See the Violence Inherent in the System!!!
Looks to me like this kid, Mostafa, is trolling for a juicy civil rights lawsuit. Apparently, a library staffer approached him and asked for his student ID. He refused to show it and the university cops asked him to leave the library. Then Mostafa starts in with this:
Here's your PATRIOT ACT!!!
Here's your fucking ABUSE OF POWER!!!
I SAID I WOULD LEAVE!!!
I SAID... I WOULD LEAVE!!!
He repeatedly claims he's trying to leave, but he's apparently trying to exit the library through a secret trap door, because he spends most of the time lying on the floor. Along the way, the cops hit him with a taser...
I got tased for no reason!
I was leaving this GOD-FORSAKEN place!
You stopped me!
You're abusing your power!
Here's your justice and where the university stinks.
Fuck off!
Michelle has more.
And We're Back
Well, that was fun. We seem to have had a bit of an outage. It was Vinnie's fault. He was drunk and tripped over the extension cord again.
Ethiopian Arrested, Nuke Connection
I was going to post on this earlier, but couldn't make heads nor tails of it. In my mind Sisayehiticha Dinssa seems like an unlikely terror suspect.
He's an Ethiopian by birth, and an American citizen by choice. My experience is that most Ethiopians in the US are here because they fled during the Communist takeover during the Cold War. Maybe my Ethiopian readers could clarify?
The large amount of cash found on the unemployed man seems more of a sign of criminality than of latent jihadism. And the cyanide and nuclear info? Hell, you should see what's on my computer.
It wasn't until Allahpundit pointed out this from the Blotter that I became a bit more alarmed:
According to two senior U.S. government officials briefed on the matter, the files appear to be beyond what someone would normally download from the Internet. According to U.S. officials, Dinssa may have been researching the materials extensively.
Add that to the fact that he was heading back from Nigeria--where in the North there is quite a bit of terror support--and the nature of those files does make one wonder.
Hopefully it will turn out that he's just your run of the mill Heroin dealer or something. But the Ethiopian community is a small one. Any one know Dinssa?
Michelle sums up my feelings on it:
Could be something. Could be nothing. In a post-9/11 world, we cannot afford to take chances.
But let me throw this and this into the over-the-top speculation pot, which might urge caution as the better part of valor. Better safe than sorry.
Reuters Stringer Arrested
Not content with inciting the world to murder Jews, a Reuters stringer is caught selling goods stolen from them as well.
Warrant for Top Sunni, al Sadr Next?
A warrant has been issued for the top Sunni cleric in Iraq. Harith al-Dhari is the head of the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars.
Al-Dhari is one of these 'moderates' you so often hear about who in one breath condemns violence and then in the next supports the insurgency.
This will turn out badly, in the end. The last time a cleric's office from Association of Muslim Scholars was raided, outrage ensued. The Association of Muslim Scholars was implicated in the Jill Carroll kidnapping.
Townhall:
On Tuesday, President Jalal Talabani called al-Dhari a hard-liner with "nothing to do but incite sectarian and ethnic sedition."
Omar from Iraq the Model seems pretty happy about this. He believes Muqtada al Sadr is next on the hit list:
Actually the minister's words were an indirect threat to Muqtada al-Sadr, or more like a direct one because he said, and I'm paraphrasing, "there are two neighboring countries that are causing trouble in Iraq and anyone who cooperates with these countries will not be safe from prosecution"
The catch 22 with both of these men is that by leaving them on the streets you encourage sectarian violence, but by locking them up you incite even more.
Hat tip: Editor in Pajamas
Google Hosts al Qaeda Website
The Google owned Blogger network is hosting an al Qaeda linked website. The website, The Caliphate Voice Channel, appears to be part of the growing media arm of the al Qaeda umbrella organization which once called itself The Mujahidin Shura Council.
That group recently changed its name by declaring itself The Islamic State of Iraq.
You can see the al Qaeda linked website here.
If you do visit the website, you will see several of the posts link to various translations of the Global Islamic Media Front's latest installment of the Voice of the Caliphate news program. In it, al Qaeda forces declare that they are winning the war in Iraq. You can see this bit of terrorist propaganda with English subtitles here.
Does Google know that it is hosting a terrorist website? A website from the same group that beheaded Shosei Kodai and Nick Berg? Probably not as of this writing. But I just e-mailed them about it.
Keep your fingers crossed that they will do the right thing, but don't hold your breath.
UPDATE: Howie reminds me that the Baghdad Sniper Juba website is still online. Oh, and it's also still hosted by the Google owned Blogger network. But so is the Juba Sucks website.
UPDATE 11/17/06: Blogger just e-mailed me. It was your typical "we are not responsible for the content" yada yada yada. Read: Yeah, we're helping al Qaeda, go jump in a lake you fascist censorship Nazi!
Jedi's Demand Recognition: 4th Largest 'Religion' in the UK
Geeks, nerds, dweebs, and other social outcasts of the world are demanding that their 'religion' be taken seriously. That religion? Jedi Knight.
I. Kid. You. Freaking. Not.
That, according to an article in the UK's Daily Mail today. It also claims that:
390,000 people in the UK belong to the religion of 'Jedi Knights'. There are also an estimated 70,000 Jedi knights in Australia, 53,000 in New Zealand and 20,000 in Canada.
Numbers for how many Jedi living in the U.S. were not available, but rumor has it that more Americans think of themselves as Sith than Jedi. Hey, we're just trying to bring order to a chaotic universe!
Actual. Freaking. Quote.
We therefore are calling upon the United Nations Association to change November 16 to the UN Interstellar Day of Tolerance, to reflect the religious make-up of our twenty-first century civilisation.
‘Tolerance is about respecting difference where ever it lies, including other galaxies. Please don't exclude us from your important work. May the Force be with you.’
May the Force be with you too. And may it lead you out of your parent's basement and may you finally get laid!
Hat tip Hauke, who also finds this in the comments:
"I would bet there are more TREKKIES out there - what about OUR relgion? What about OUR basic human rights? We've suffered more, and longer, than those Star Wars nerds! We've been Geeky since the 60's! When is OUR day coming?
Star Trek geeks vs. Star Wars geeks? I feel a civil war brewing.......
UPDATE Bonus: Video! Including retard speaking Wookie, and loser 'translating'!!!!!!!
Dems Defy Pelosi, Pick Hoyer Over Murtha
From Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A week after winning back control of the U.S. Congress, divided Democrats in the House defied incoming speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday and elected Steny Hoyer to be majority leader, a Democratic Party aide said.
The vote wasn't even close: 149-86. The only thing more surprising than this resounding rebuke to the new Speaker is Pelosi's stupidity in endorsing the baggage-laden Murtha in the first place.
Voice of The Caliphate Video
On Verteran’s day I noted that the supporters of the Mujahdeen Shura Council were celebrating the Democratic victory in our elections. They called it “the final victory” in their quest to create as Taliban like state within Iraq. I begged the Democrats to respond to these terrorists.
Rusty Followed as well with the statement.
I pray that many in the sane wing of the Democratic party who are not critical of the mission but only the failed tactics of the Bush Administration will win the day.
Rusty also explained their plans here why we cannot let the terrorists succeed in Iraq.
The Mujahadeen Shura Council (aka The Islamic State of Iraq) has released a new video claiming victory.
Description of the Video Via MEMRI:
The masked announcer reports that the Shura Council of the Jihad Fighters in Iraq has announced the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq, and gives a "preliminary analysis" of the country's current events.
He says that the "Crusaders" and their Shi'ite allies have met with defeat in Iraq, and are therefore spreading lies in a last-ditch effort to weaken the mujahideen. For example, he says, they are claiming that Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir is not an Iraqi so as to propagate the myth that the Iraqi people welcome the occupation, and that only a handful of foreign fighters are opposing it. The announcer adds that the Crusaders had also, as part of their "psychological warfare" against the mujahideen, reported that Iraqi tribal heads had met with Iraqi President Al-Maliki, when in fact those who had met with him were merely "puppets" controlled by the occupiers. Also mentioned is the video of Abu Osama Al-'Iraqi, [2] which is likewise claimed to be a forgery.
The announcer then states that the Islamic State of Iraq was established in order to counter this "fierce attack," and that it will spearhead the war to liberate Palestine. Finally, he declares that Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir is calling on all clerics and professionals in Iraq to participate in the establishment of the Islamic State.
Throughout the film, a screen behind the news presenter shows scenes from the fighting in Iraq.
The video ends with clips of Osama Bin Laden speaking. I again call for the Democrats to wake up and get on the stick.
The Islamic State in Iraq/Mujahadeen Shura Council are terrorists of the worst sort. They created many beheading videos. Including Americans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong.
In celebration, last week a video claiming to be from the “El Haraman Media Center” was released showing a summary of ten beheadings carried out by these groups. The video has a similar banner to older videos from the group. The video glorifies the beheadings and credits Zarqawi for, "terrorising the westerns."
The Video ends with an angelic image of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi smiling down at the beheadings with approval.
Zarqawi is being portrayed as some kind of sick Patrick Henry in al-Qaeda’s propaganda. See this post at Armies Of Liberation.
The Amir of Martyrs, Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi, God’s mercy be upon him, Operation–[These two took place] in the Crusader port of Al-Dabbah in Hadramut region.
Except instead of, “Give me liberty or give me death” it is “Give me a worldwide Caliphate or give me your head.
I will not post that video as it is far too graphic. I have a list of the victims below and some stills.
If we exit Iraq, we will leave a good portion of Iraq to al-Qeada. They are already celebrating the victory. They must be stopped. An Iraq in Chaos is dangerous. An Iraq under the control of al-Qaeda is unacceptable.
Note the shape of the funnel leading from western Iraq into Jordan. To leave that for al-Qaeda is a mistake. They will use for their stated goal of carrying the fight to Palestine.
List of Victims in the Video
Name: Barea Nafie Dawoud Ibrahim
Nationality: Iraqi
Group: Ansar al-Sunnah
Release date of execution video: 02-10-2004
Name: Luqman Hussein
Nationality: Iraqi-Kurdish
Name: Hussein Shanoun
Name: Hussein Jassem Mohammad al-Zubaidi
Group: Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Name: Ahmad Alwan Hussein al-Mahmadawi
Release date of execution video: 21-01-2005 (same video like that before)
Name: Mohammed Mutawalli
Nationality: Egyptian
Group: Jama'at Al-Tawhid Wa'al-Jihad
Name: Jack Hensley
Name: Abbas Dahel Majid al-Obeidi
Name: Eugene Armstrong
A banner included with the video post.
First banner
Second banner.
The video continues with disgusting live beheadings. I've left those images out for the time being. Our of respect for the human beings, most of which are Iraqi who are slowly and tortureously murdered by these terrorists.
Next Zarqawi is shown smiling down on the murderous rampage below.
The "Moderate" Majority of Muslims Are a Threat
Where are moderate Muslims in the Middle East and do they not make up the vast majority? As I've been saying, well, forever, it all depends on your definition of the word moderate.
Allah has a good discussion about the Glenn Beck program last night in which he links a new report released yesterday by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, “The Militant Ideology Atlas”. In it, the authors recognize that the Salafi are now either a majority or near to it in the Middle East today.
Salaafism is not the same as Wahhabism, it is a much broader movement. Salaafis generally believe in the rule of Islamic law and the restoration of the Caliphate. While Wahhabs also believe this, they are a subset of the Salaafis.
So, according to this report, Salaafis now make up a significant number of those in the Middle East. Can Salaafists ever be moderate?
Again, it depends on your definition of 'moderate'. Something I've been at odds with Dean Esmay over for quite some time. From the report:
Finally, a word about “moderate” Muslims. The measure of moderation depends on what type of standard you use. If by “moderate” one means the renouncement of violence in the achievement of political goals, then the majority of Salafis are moderate. But if by “moderate” one means an acceptance of secularism, capitalism, democracy, gender equality, and a commitment to religious pluralism, then Salafis would be extremists on all counts. Then again, there are not many Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East that would qualify as moderates according to the second definition.
In fact, I would argue, there are not many moderate Muslim leaders anywhere in the world. Why? Because the vast majority of Muslim scholars, whether they be Sunni or Shia, all believe in the rule of Islamic law. It's a central tenant of Islam, and something completely at odds with modern notions of pluralism, secularism, and religious freedom.
Let me point out, also, that I would slightly disagree with the chart in the report, reproduced by Allah. I've produced my own chart to show what I believe is a more accurate description of where the jihadi ideology falls in the larger scheme of things.
The broadest category is that of Muslims. Islamists are those who believe in a political form of Islam. Since Islam, unlike Christianity, was political from its beginning, it is not difficult to see why it is part of mainstream and historical Islam. Also, why it permeates both major sects of Islam--Sunni and Shia. After all, Christianity didn't find its first warrior king until after nearly 200 years of being completely apolitical. Mohammed himself was a warrior king.
There are liberal reformers in the Muslim world who consider themselves Islamists. But they are not so numerous as we would hope.
The vast majority of Islamists are peaceful--that is, they reject violence as a means to an end--but they also support sharia. What seperates the Salaafi from other Sunni Islamists is their vision of the return of the Caliphate.
The Shia, though, have their own brand of Islamists. While not all Shia Islamists are followers of the former leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Khomeinists are to Shia Islamists as Salaafists are to Sunni Islamists.
By comparison to most Salaafi, Khomeinists are quite moderate. They believe in Islamic law, but they also have no problem with democracy. Democracy within limits, that is. Think of a kind of Constitutionalism which limits democracy, but replace the Constitution with Islamic law.
Most, but not all, Salaafi reject democracy out of hand. The participation of Salafi groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt should be seen in much the same way the the Nazis participated in German politics under the Weimar Republic--it is a means to an end.
Jihadis may be either subsets of Salafism or of Khomeinism. Al Qaeda is a Salafist jihad organization. Hizbollah are Khomeinists.
Which brings up a broader point about the roots of two very different problems that we face, and which are often mixed up.
a) The threat of violence from jihadis.
b) The threat of oppression from Islamists.
When we speak of a threat from Muslim quarters of the world, we are usually referring to the threat of violence by jihadis. The authors of this paper seem to suggest that this violence is inspired by Salaafism. But if Salaafism is the inspiration, how does one explain radical Shia jihadis who would reject Qutb (the philisophical founder of modern Saalafism)?
Lest we forget, it was the Khomeinist jihadis of Hezbollah that killed 220 American Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers in 1983.
Since both major branches of Islam have both Islamists and jihadis, then the inspiration must lie in Islam itself. At least, in Islam as it has been traditionally interpretted.
In fact, the authors even have this to say in defense of their use of the word jihadis:
We recognize that the use of "Jihadi" to designate Salafis of a militant stripe is controversial. Some analysts feel that it cedes too much to militant Salafis to ratify their use of the term—they call their movement al-haraka al-jihadiyya ("the Jihadi Movement")—since jihad has positive connotations in Islam.
And, indeed, it does. And we are not simply talking about the inner struggle jihad. We are talking about applying the term to those who fight.
And if it is the case that Islam is the root of the problem, then the problem is much bigger than most are willing to admit. Because even if one rejects violence as the means to the end of Sharia law, isn't the end the real problem?
The Nazis came to power only after they rejected the failed policy of a violent revolution. Most Islamists now have done the same. But in the end, for those who were forced to live under the fascist rule of Nazis in the past or of Islamists today, it really did not matter that violence was rejected as a way to come to power. It is what you do with power once you get it that is the true test.
And if the Taliban or the Iranian Mullahs are any example, then we have much to fear from all of political Islam, and not just the most radical aspects of it.
Related: Watch Robert Spencer's latest at Hot Air.
Listen to Salaafists from the Islamic Thinker's Society of New York on the Glenn Beck program yesterday.
See also Douglas Farah at the CT Blog and at his own space here.
For more, just read Jihad Watch every day.
Mitt Romney on Boston Journalists
Finally, a Republican grows a pair and tells it like it is:
"We have two factions of media in Boston. On the one hand, we have the Hillary-loving, Ted Kennedy apologists. And on the other, we have the liberals."
It's not just Boston, Governor.
Audio: Islamic Thinker's Society Member Calls The Glenn Beck Program
The following are not videos. They are actually audio of a member of the Islamic Thinker's Society of New York calling Glenn Beck done in a video format for easier posting. The static picture is of a rally held by the group. Note the black flag of Islam flying over the White House. This is pointed out by Glenn during the call.
It's in two parts due to time constraints.
Previous Jawa Report posts about the Islamic Thinker's Society:
The Enemy Among Us: The Islamic Thinkers Society of NY
Muslims in NY: "next time we will get all of NYC"
Flag Desecration Images From the Religion of Patriots
Taliban Supporters Behind New York Rally Against Muhammed Cartoons
More Bakri, Birmingham, Ties to Terror Plot Uncovered (Updated)
Domestic Terror Watch: NY Muslims Rally for Islamic Domination of World
Terror Attack in New York: British Consulate Targeted
American Muslims Protest Mohammed Cartoons, Call for Destruction of America
About That FDNY Muslim Moonbat Who Questions Whether The 19 (Muslim) Hijackers Were Responsible For 9/11 - Does his school have a connection to a 'charitable front' for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad?
Pakistan Passes Women's Protection Law
(Islamabad, Pakistan) Good news! Unfortunately, it's a mere baby step towards the goal of equal rights for women.
From PakTribune.com:
Congratulating the whole nation over approval of Women Protection Bill 2006 by the Parliament, President General Pervez Musharraf Wednesday vowed to bring an end to all injustice against women and weaker segments of the society.
The most notable changes concern the crime of rape. Previous to the Women Protection Bill 2006, a woman who claimed she was raped but didn't produce the required four witnesses was put in jail.
Regarding the rape, the president said the trouble with it was that if a woman is raped firstly she is being prosecuted she goes to the police station crying she is asked to bring four witnesses otherwise she is imprisoned and she becomes victim of double injustice. This was a dual injustice with out women. We have amended the Zina Bil Jabr (Rape) we put it in PPC and from now on if a woman is raped and if she had an evidence or she lacks it, only the rapist will be adjudged. There will be no bar for producing four witness and raped woman will not be put behind bars.
So, in a nutshell, a woman can claim she was raped, even when there were no witnesses, and she won't be jailed. Sounds reasonable and simple yet, among the general Pakistani public, it's an earthshaking change. Families, police, judges, courts and tribal leaders will all have to recognize and comply with the change. I suspect that there will be strong reluctance among various segments to enforce the new rape law. The Musharraf government may need to force compliance.
Nonetheless, the Women Protection Bill 2006 should be considered a major step forward. There remains, however, much more work to be done before true equality between the sexes is achieved.
Pelosi and Company Give Us a Preview of Dem 'Leadership'
A showdown over the House majority leader's post today has Democrats bitterly divided only a week after their party took control of Congress and has prompted numerous complaints that Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and her allies are using strong-arm tactics and threats to try to elect Rep. John P. Murtha (Pa.) to the job.
Murtha is best known for his brilliant proposed strategy of redeploying our troops to Okinawa, and being an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam scandal. That's probably why he's blocking new ethics rules:
Murtha, 74, a former Marine who was among the first on Capitol Hill to call for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, may have hurt his own chances Tuesday night when he derided the Democrats' ethics and lobbying package before saying he will push for its passage anyway out of deference to Pelosi. His statement, at a gathering of conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats, was cited by backers of his rival, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (Md.), as further proof that Murtha's controversial ethics record disqualifies him to lead the party in a new political era.
Meanwhile, loose cannon Russ Feingold is working to make the US phone system safe for terrorists, and Dennis Kucinich wants to make Iraq safe for terrorists by cutting off military funding.
John Boehner's 10 Worst House Votes
According to Human Events:
10. U.S.-Taiwan Military Ties - Nay
9. United Nations Funding Cap - Nay
8. Religious Freedom for Churches - Nay
7. End Foreign-Language Ballot Mandate - Nay
6. Eliminate Federal Mandate for English Language Assistance - Nay
5. Government Spending Cuts (1%) - Nay
4. Illegal Immigration Residency Extension - Yea
3. Border Security Measures - Nay
2. No Child Left Behind - Yea
1. Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit - Yea
Issue summaries here.
Last year there were several pics that claimed to show Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was present during the hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Those images were inconclusive. But these images via Texas Rainmaker leave me with little doubt.
Inka Dinka Doo!
Kucinich Tagged for National Security Role
With the Democrat takeover of Congress, Congressman Dennis Kucinich will be the presumptive new Chairman of the powerful Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations.
From Cleveland.com:
Kucinich, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee where foreign policy legislation is generated, is likely to play a much larger role on everything from the nation's policies on fighting terrorism to the war in Iraq.
The six-term congressman has sought the recall of troops from Iraq and says the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies are eroding civil liberties.
As I recall, Kucinich is best remembered locally as the Mayor of Cleveland when the Cuyahoga River caught fire. One has to wonder what crowning achievement he has in store for America when he plays a major role in National Security and International Relations.
Allah with a Scary Thought
From HotAir:
As with immigration, now that the president’s got a Democratic majority he’s free to indulge his dumbest leftist instincts.
God only knows what that’ll mean.
It gets even scarier.
Barnett on Lott
Dean Barnett on the return of Trent Lott:
If there’s one message that the electorate sent the Republican Party last week, it’s that we hadn’t given them enough of Trent Lott. I cannot adequately express my delight that Senate Republicans have moved with such expediency to right this egregious wrong.
RedState : Boehner Threats Force Barton Out of Leader Race
From RedState:
Sources tell RedState that Congressman Joe Barton has withdrawn from the House Leadership race after John Boehner had it made clear to Barton that should Boehner win he would strip Barton of his ranking position on the Energy & Commerce Committee.
Barton stepping out helps Boehner's chances, but the fact that Boehner feels the need to resort to this level of threat shows that Boehner DOESN'T have the votes in hand. That's good news.
On a related note, we interviewed Boehner today. For the most part, he tossed out a lot of canned sound bites. He didn't say anything bad, but this was not the voice of reform. The other folks in the interview had few questions for him. I think we'd all already endorsed his opponent Mike Pence, so this was more or less a formality.
I asked him what he had to say to those commentators who believe that his retention as House Leader would send a message of "business as usual" in the GOP. I got some generic language about "changing direction," but no satisfactory answer.
I asked him for his proposals for ethics reform. He suggested more transparency in earmarks and a "quicker" process for handling ethics complaints. I'm not sure what a "quicker" process means. It seems that the "quickest" process would be to "quickly" throw the ethics complaints in the trash, but I'm hoping that's not what he meant.
At any rate, I'd already endorsed Mike Pence, so this interview was just to "dot the eyes" and "cross the tees." I heard nothing that changed my opinion in the least.
Quin Hillyer on the GOP House Leadership
A view from across the pond:
The conservative blogs and opinion leaders are rallying strongly behind Pence and Shadegg, who have the virtue of being eloquent and intellectually consistent (and principled), with none of the taint of selling out to big-money lobbyists.
Some may argue with their principles, but nobody can argue that they merely mouth platitudes that they don't really mean. Pence on Tuesday said he brings to the table "a certain cheerful pugilism", which is an apt description of his feisty but good-natured demeanor. In some ways, the model is very Reaganesque.
In the end, the upstarts will find that their best selling points within the jaded Republican caucus is not their right-leaning ideology as much as their well-earned reputation as reformers willing to change internal rules and procedures in favor of transparency, accountability, and more rigorous ethics.
The internal House Republican Caucus elections are scheduled for Friday. The fate of Pence and Shadegg will send a big message as to whether Washington Republicans will continue using the same strategies that have marked their reign for the past six or eight years, or whether they will chart a new course at once more conservative but also more idealistic.
Pence and Shadegg : A Lot More ACTION
The election for the House GOP leadership is FRIDAY--the day after tomorrow.
The time for TALK is over. It's time for ACTION!
Mailbag: Kaffirs and Ethiopian Slaves
Here is a comment from a Somalian reader calling himself Hajji Dheere. The Hajj in his name indicates he's made the pilgrimage to Mecca. His IP traces to the Univesity of Ottawa. It's great to see that Canada's liberal assylum laws are finally paying off!
I'd start here if I was looking to find Dheere.
I wonder what our good Ethiopian readers have to say to Hajj Dheere?:
Bring it on loser. We'll take you ALL kaafirs on...you, Bush, and your Ethiopian Tigrai Habashi slaves....
Bring it on Ethiopians...your dead will litter the streets of Mugadishu worse than the 19 American special forces (Delta & Rangers), IF you get that far. A 3rd world country like Ethiopia will certainly not defeat us even with US help. If that is the case then we shall go to our Muslim brothers and seek arms too.
We live, eat, and breath WAR. You would be better of keep working your feilds and beggin the west for food Ethiopians. But if you wanna die, then follow Meles Zenawi's regime and come to Somalia and fight us.
Sounds like an invitation to me!
Christmas in Darfur: Stop the Genocide!
One of The Jawa Report's first collaboraters, BRD, is heading to Darfur. Yeah, we actually want to help the Muslim brown people. I'm proud to say that I've actually met this guy. I've been wondering what he's been doing lately. Unlike the rest of us here at the Jawa corporate offices, he's been doing good. Not just wasting company time surfing for porn.
If you can spare some cash, go to the Christmas in Darfur website and donate. If you're in the D.C. area, they're also holding a benefit concert tonight.
In addition to liking brown people and Muslims, BRD also like the J-O-Os. Or maybe he's just blegging at Goldstein's site because those people have all the money?
Terrorists Meet Allah Sooner Than Planned
From a CENTCOM press release:
MOSUL, Iraq – Three terrorists were killed and one was seriously wounded on Nov. 13 when they tried to plant a roadside bomb in the Baghdad Garage neighborhood on Train Station Road in western Mosul.
The terrorists attempted to emplace a roadside bomb consisting of a 155 mm artillery round when it exploded prematurely, killing two of them instantly and injuring two more.
Iraqi Police responded to the explosion, finding the bodies of the two dead terrorists and evacuating the injured terrorists to a local hospital. One of the injured later died of his wounds. Two innocent bystanders, injured in the blast, were transported to Al Jamouri Hospital.
While the rest of us laugh, you Michael Moore/nutroots types can have a moment of silence for your fallen comrades.
New Senate Majority Leader Reid Now Focus of Abramoff Investigation (Updated)
From ABC's The Blotter:
As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff reported to federal prison today, a source close to the investigation surrounding his activities told ABC News that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was one of the members of Congress Abramoff had allegedly implicated in his cooperation with federal prosecutors.
A spokesperson for Reid, elected yesterday as the Senate Majority Leader, said the senator had done nothing illegal or unethical.
Of course not, Harry's one of Pelosi's anti-corruption warriors now, just like Jack Murtha, William Jefferson, and Alcee Hastings.
Of course there's also this:
The AP also reported that Abramoff's billing records showed extensive contact with Reid's office over a three-year period in which Reid collected more than $68,000 from Abramoff's firm, partners and clients.
Funny how this sort of thing comes out post-election, when it's a Dem in the crosshairs, isn't it?
Update: In the "hoist by his own petard" category, Suitably Flip reminds us of this letter to President Bush, sent in January and still posted on Senator Reid's website, in which the senator says:
There is no reason to wait for indictments or convictions before the American people learn of the role Mr. Abramoff played in the Bush White House. We therefore call on you to make public as soon as possible an accounting of Mr. Abramoff’s personal contacts with Bush Administration officials and the official acts that may have been undertaken at his request.
Right back at ya, Harry. Certainly you won't be waiting for an indictment to give the American people a full accounting, will you?
John Hawkins : "Does the GOP Need Another Thumpin' in 2008 to Get the Message?"
As amazing as it may seem to some of us, the evidence continues to pile up that it may, in fact, take an electoral beating in 2008 before the GOP management wakes the hell up:
Make no mistake about it, the GOP base is upset, demoralized and disappointed in the performance of the Republican Party, and if the columns, blog posts and comments I'm seeing around the net are any indication, a lot of conservatives still aren't convinced that anyone in Washington is listening to them. That's understandable because conservatives were pointing out many of the problems that cost the GOP the election in 2006 for YEARS without anyone on Capitol Hill, including the President, seeming to pick up on it or care.
Conservatives insisted that we stop wasting money and we got a Bridge to Nowhere. We insisted that we take an enforcement first position on illegal immigration and we got an amnesty plan that was worse than anyone had even imagined a year or two beforehand. We heard calls for ethics reform and we got the Republican leadership complaining because the FBI searched the office of a Democrat with bribe money in his freezer. With that kind of performance, is it any surprise that the base wasn't there for Washington Republicans when it counted, at election time? For too long, Republicans in Washington have lived by one principle, "What are they gonna do, vote for the Democrats?" and it finally caught up with them in 2006.
But, the good news is that it's not too late. Republicans in the House can still bring in leaders like Representatives Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) and John Shadegg (R.-Ariz.), who can get the party back to basics. In addition, Pence has vowed to fight the Senate's amnesty bill if he's elected minority leader and Sen. Jon Kyl (R.-Ariz.) is trying to organize a filibuster of the bill in the Senate. Moreover, Republicans in Congress are going to have a lot of opportunities to articulate their views and prove their mettle as they oppose the tsunami of bad legislation that will be pushed by Democrats in Congress and the son of "Read My-Lips."
If Republicans once again prove that they're the party of Ronald Reagan, not the party of "compassionate conservatism," the base and the American people will support them again. But Republicans in Washington shouldn't forget for one minute that the confidence level in them is very low, even amongst their own biggest supporters, so they're going to have to prove themselves every step of the way.
Stuck on Stupid at the NYT, Part 21,435
Former West Pointers who read James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal jumped on a remarkably stupid comment by the Gray Lady's managing editor, Jill Abrahamson:
Yesterday we noted that Jill Abramson, managing editor of the New York Times, had remarked that "people are always surprised when I tell them that we sell a lot of subscriptions at West Point." Many readers wrote us to explain why this is. Here's one of them, Rob Munden:
Cadets are required to subscribe to the New York Times (fees deducted from your account, no alternatives given), and unless things have changed from the late '80s when I was there, plebes [freshmen] are required to be conversant with every story on the front page and front page of the sports section before first formation (i.e., early). It's a memory-skills development technique, with a side benefit of forcing everyone to learn about what is going on in the world in a broad sense. As an upperclassman, it was helpful to be able to identify and isolate the bias in the news--and to be given so many opportunities to do so. It's a lifetime skill I'm sure you've no doubt developed, being scrupulously nonpartisan.
It's quite one thing to subscribe to the Times when you have a choice; it's quite another to use forced subscriptions to justify your popularity. Legend has it that in the wake of one of the cheating scandals at West Point the Times called cadets "humorless, uptight and driven," and in response, cadets hung a banner asking "How can a newspaper without comics dare to call anyone humorless?" I'd be surprised if more than 10% of cadets support the Times editorial board position on anything.
Adds reader Malcolm Cole, another West Point alum: "Even back in the 1980s we knew of the leftist slant of the Times and asked our superiors why we had to read the New York Times, since it wasn't very pro-military. The reply often was: 'It's good to know what the enemy is thinking.'
That's gonna leave a mark.
Via Larwyn.
Hot Muslim Chic, Sehr Mahmood (BUMPED)
Bumped by Rusty......because it's my patriotic duty to support the right of hot Muslim chicks to wear skimpy bikinis. I'm serious.
Scroll through the images below.
Sehr will be competing in this week’s Miss Earth 2006 pageant representing Pakistan, much to the dismay of some Pakistani officials. Pakistan does not send official candidates to pageants because they consider being a total hottie un-Islamic. Serh was born in Pakistan but hails from the Big Apple. The Koran, err Uh I mean contest rules, state she may represent Pakistan if they fail to send a representative.
Yahoo News: Miss Pakistan, Sehr Mahmood, 25, a contestant of 2006 Miss Earth contest poses at the poolside of a hotel in Manila November 9, 2006. About 90 women from all over the world will be vying for the title Miss Earth on November 26, 2006, with this year's pageant focusing on global warming.
Among the delegates she will be competing against is the very hot Miss Indonesia, Yelena Setiabudi.
Since Howie, is only posting this story as public service in the name of objective journalism, I’ll not favor either of them. But the competition will be tough.
The Miss Earth Pageant is dedicated to environmental issues. The issue this year is lowering pollution from debris burning and fossil fuel usage. I admit, I was not convinced this was a problem, until I saw this.
I was for fossil fuels before I was against them.
No word on if this is longtime Jawa commenter Amaad's sister.
Rusty adds
It almost makes you want to follow Mark Stayn's advice and start repopulating the West....but with hot Muslim chicks. It's almost your patriotic duty!
Oh, and I added Miss Poland becasue she's unreal and because she hangs with Hot Muslim Babe Miss Albania.
Linked at OTB traffic jam.
WaPo to Put on Fresh Makeup, Hope for the Best
The Washington Post's executive editor, concerned about the paper's circulation freefall, has announced changes, big, big changes:
NEW YORK In a surprising memo to staffers today, Leonard Downie, Jr., executive editor, announced several general and specific shakeups "to maximize readership of the printed newspaper, build audience on the Web site and further reduce costs in the newsroom."
This includes a plan to "shrink" the newsroom. "tightening up the paper's news hole," cracking down on story length and moving reporters and editors "within and among staffs." The Post is now suffering from regular circulation declines.
Here's a suggestion: forget the cosmetics and get rid of the Democratic partisans who have been posing as journalists. Hire actual unbiased reporters and editors, though God alone knows where you'll find them.
Anti-Semites are Republicans
At least, that's the line a lot of people want to feed you. Including the increasingly stupid Bill Maher.
CNN : Bloggers Scrutinizing the House Leadership Candidates
Our 'friends' the Egyptians
The idealist in me pretty much hates every regime in the Middle East, including our so-called friends. The realist in me understands that the alternatives to many of these regimes would be worse.
So, at the state level, we don't have any friends in the Middle East. What we have are strategic allies.
I mourn for the poor citizens of these countries who yearn for liberty.
Sandmonkey:
So let's recap shall we? The egyptian police stopped a sexual harrassment demonstration- one that was protesting an incident that happend in front of that same police, who didn't lift a finger to stop it -, chased down demonstrators and journalists, arrested two of them and beat up the female one, and then blocked an internet blog. All on the same day! It seems that they are more interested in stopping people from protesting their inability to do their job, rather than actually doing it. Fan-freakin-tastic, no?
This is video of the original event which led to the protests. What Charles at LGF called the 'covered meat' incident.
Look who's blogging
Jules Crittendon starts a blog.
Palestinian Terrorists Murder Jewish Civilian
It was a Palestinian killing an Israeli. That is how WaPo and the MSM continue to frame the debate in their headlines.
It's only as you read the story that you realize that:
a) two terror organizations claim the attack
b) the attack deliberately targetted civilians, no apologies
c) one of the organizations is part of the ruling party of Palestine
When the Isralis hit civilians
a) it is usually on accident
b) sometimes it is because those civilians really aren't civilians, or they are acting as human shields for terrorists
c) in either case, the Israelis apologize
Equivocation.
A Palestinian rocket fired from Gaza exploded near the home of Israel's defense minister on Wednesday, killing one woman and raising the prospect of a new Israeli military offensive against militant rocket squads.
Militants affiliated with the Palestinians' ruling Hamas group and Islamic Jihad both claimed responsibility for the first deadly rocket attack from Gaza since Israel withdrew in September 2005. They said the rocket fire was meant to avenge the deaths of 19 civilians killed last week in an Israeli shelling in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun.
Verbal caricature quips:
I’m giving Reuters, AP, and AFP 2 days to come up with 17 photos (300 divided by 18) of the funeral and the damage caused by the rocket.
UPDATE: What he said:
the press is never interested in covering the suffering of Israelis, as it doesn't jibe with their pre-canned, completely idiotic "David vs. Goliath" storyline.
Feingold and Democrats to Block Terrorist Surveillance
Russ Feingold (D-Cheesehead), writing in the loony leftist Huffington Post, says that intercepting calls to and from terrorists in the United States is bad, really bad:
There are a lot of bad bills that the Republicans may try to ram through, but here's the worst of the worst - a bill to legalize the President's warrantless wiretapping program. The White House is desperate to enact this bill, which allows the government to spy on American citizens, on American soil, without a warrant.
Yeah, like, it's just awful that we're not willing to give international terrorists a fair chance to kill as many of us as possible. I give Feingold extra style points for the way he pretends that NSA agents are actually climbing telephone poles by using the archaic term "wiretapping."
More at Gateway Pundit. Via Stop the ACLU.
Homegrown Jihad in the UK
I'm reposting this link to a lengthy BBC report about homegrown jihad in the U.K. because it is important that you see it.
It exposes the connection between how jihadi propaganda transmitted over the internet is used to recruit for jihad both abroad and in the U.K. The internet is also used to coordinate the activities of jihadis within Britain.
In addition to the internet, universities and college campuses are used for recruitment. And outside of moderate mosques where the jihadis have been banned, they pass out literature. In one segment, one of them attacks the BBC reporter. Physically.
But it's not just outside of mosques, it's in the back rooms of mosques. Where secret meetings are held and jihadi propaganda distributed. Much of that propaganda depicts the U.S. and Britain as the bad guys, and Muslims as victims. Think Abu Ghraib.
Note also that there is a criminal aspect to the homegrown jihad. These groups of young Muslims jihadis have gangs. Criminality funds terrorism.
Who else is funding these groups? At about 21 minutes into the video the shocker: One of the leading radical leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir is on the government payroll. And he works for the British immigration office. Nice.
Hizb ut-Tahrir has the worldwide caliphate as its goal.
You need to see this. Anyone who can rip this and put it up at Youtube is encouraged to do so.
Online Recruiting, Inciting of Jihad in Britain: BBC Follows Jawa
The BBC has a new 'investigative' report which concludes that Islamic extremists are using the internet to recruit, train, and incite jihad in the U.K.
Gee, ya think?
Most of what they report is what we've been saying for, I dunno, years. And the specifics? Well, we've been reporting that Shiekh Omar Bakri Mohammed has been leading his followers in Britain from exile for months.
But we do have some news that the BBC still doesn't have or can't release due to British censorship laws. Scroll down for that.
That Bakri Mohammed intimated that it was okay to bomb airports.
That he and his followers praise the 7/7 bombers.
That Omar Bakri Mohammed continued to direct followers of his banned group via the internet from exile in Lebanon.
That a secret group called Vigil has been monitoring the followers of Omar Bakri Mohammed and pressuring the British government to act.
You can watch the BBC story by clicking here (opens page with player)
[UPDATE: Glen e-mails and says that this is BIG NEWS in the U.K. today. Good. He also forwards this link to a much more extensive version of the story. The video runs about 50 minutes. It's worth the watch
Pay attention to the parts where the British government does nothing. Scary.
Joel also e-mails to let me know that this Brit, blogging from Londinistan, also notices the story]
Here is some of the print version:
A banned cleric is still preaching support for terrorism to young British Muslims by appearing incognito on the internet, the BBC has learned.
The joint investigation by File on 4 and Newsnight has found Omar Bakri Mohammed broadcasts hatred for the UK using a variety of pseudonyms.
He was excluded from the UK last August on the grounds that his presence was "not conducive to the public good."
On a recent broadcast he said the 7/7 London bombers were "in paradise."
But, as I told Glen Jenvey-- who is our chief source and who is also a source of the BBC story--when he e-mailed me about this, at least the MSM in Britain is starting to take him seriously.
You'll remember that it was Glen that caught Omar Bakri Mohammed talking about the terrorist ties of Cat Stevens' (aka Yusuf Islam) and sent me the recording the other day.
And speaking of leads supplied to me by Glen Jenvey, he and I have been going back and forth over something else for a few days. Remember Mizanur Rahman? He is the follower of Omar Bakri Mohammed who was just convicted of inciting racital hatred, but who was acquitted of charges of inciting murder.
You'll recall that Mizanur Rahman's arrest came following his involvement in the Danish cartoon protests. At the court hearing, he gave a non-apology apology. The British authorities are now contemplating retrying him.
Well, it seems that while Mizanur Rahman was out of jail on bail, but still on trial, that the 'repentent' Rahman was still chatting with the other brothers in Omar Bakri Mohammed's online group. And what does he say?
If you're in the U.K don't read any further. Why? British censorship laws prohibit publicly airing evidence which might be used at trial. But hell, I'm not in the U.K. Oh, and screw censorship! So, read on.
He hates the Queen. Oh, and it's not a problem for non-British Muslims to kill her.
[I meant to, and still mean to, upload a couple of audio files here. But I'm having trouble convertint them to mp3 format. The .wav files are just way too big
In one of the files, the voice--identified by Glen as Mizanur Rahman calls the Queen 'the enemy'. But Muslims in the U.K. have a 'covenant' with Britain which excludes them, and her, as a target]
What he means by 'the covenant' is that British Muslims have a contract with the U.K. government. They promise to cease the jihad required by the Quran against the unbelievers in return for a British promise to allow them to proseletyze.
But I'm guessing that by this time, he suspected that he was being watched. What he didn't know, was that his voice would be recognized.
Why? Because in another conversation, recorded by Jenvey, Mizanur Rahman calls Osama bin Laden the emir of Muslims. That there is a war against Islam by Bush and Blair, and that there is a religious obligation by Muslims to support Osama bin Laden.
At best its sedition. At worst its treason.
Thanks to Glen for keeping me in the loop on this despite my constant pestering of him to provide more and more evidence before I go public with this stuff. I've listened to several tapes of the man Glen is sure is Mizanur Rahman, and trust me on this one, by any reckoning he is a radical.
And he's not, as he claimed in his trial, just some guy who showed up at the protest, was handed a placard, and was peer pressured into threatening Europe with a nuclear holocaust. He was one of the leaders and organizers of the event.
You can by a new book about some of the terrorists Glen helped put away here.
Has Ragnar Gone Stark Raving Loony?
In the words of Tyler Durden, "Only after disaster can we be resurrected."
Friends, we have now experienced a disaster. We can only hope that THIS disaster was sufficient. If it wasn't, then it will take a bigger disaster--a REAL disaster. A REAL disaster could mean the end of our country as we know it, with left-wing political majorities for years to come. I don't believe I'm exaggerating.
We will now get to experience at least two years of the circus freakshow of political insanity I predicted a couple months ago.
Thanks, W! Appreciate that. Really.
Yes, I pretty much knew this particular disaster was coming. No, I didn't do that much to avert it. I'm comfortable with that.
Yes, that probably causes some of you to hate me. Perhaps you even think I'm completely, bat-shit insane. I'm comfortable with that, too.
If the members of our current leadership team retain their positions of power within the party, I anticipate others will come around to see it my way looking back from 2008. Only time will tell.
Of course, by 2008, it'll be far too late to change course. If we're still meandering around two years from now, we might all get to watch the Dems solidify gains in the House and Senate and occupy the White House.
Doesn't that sound like fun?
If we want to avoid that fate, we have a lot of work to do between now and then.
VVV MORE BELOW THE FOLD VVV
Some appear to be concerned that open and harsh criticisms of the existing party leadership will harm broader post-election GOP morale.
The stakes could scarcely be higher, and some are worried that we may hurt somebody's feelings, or that lefties might get a chuckle out of our infighting,
I just don't get that.
I agree that morale is important--but my concern isn't that GOP morale is too LOW right now. Quite the contrary.
I'm concerned that it's still too HIGH--especially within the leadership ranks.
Some are peddling that these losses are just what's to be expected in the middle of a President's second term. If someone's peddling that line to you, that's a pretty good sign that they're part of the problem.
Only after the GOP rank and file accepts the full meaning of what just happened to it and sinks to the appropriate level of despair and introspection can we begin to rebuild.
We're not there yet.
Some seem to want to throw a new coat of paint over the existing rickety structure, because they apparently think the party can win if we just dress it up and help it limp along for two more years.
The structure is seriously rotten. Accept it. Rather than fighting us, I ask you to join us in pulling out the rotten studs and replacing them with some solid support.
Not only can this party NOT win again in its current form, it doesn't deserve to.
To paraphrase one of my favorite flicks : "The Republican Majority is dead, and that is a tragedy. But it is dead because it lost its principles--and the voters were watching."
Fauxtograph: Hizbollah Worked With Lebanese Army
Remember the many fauxtography mysteries brought to you by the MSM in the recent Israeli-Hezbollah conflict? We helped solve at least one of those, but many more remained.
For instance, we knew there was something fishy about this photo. We knew G. Gordon Liddy was a good shot, but even we couldn't believe he had taken out an Israeli fighter with an AK-47.
(photo courtesy of White Trash Republican from one of our contests)
Now, the man who took the actual (and by actual, I mean real) photo, claims that Time magazine knew it was misleading the public when they captioned it to suggest that Hezbollah had downed an Israeli plane. Unless, of course, they bought Hizbollah's propaganda without verification. Which, come to think of it, isn't so far-fetched after all. The Hizbos were fighting the J-O-Os, you know.
Further, he says that other photos taken at the scene indicate that the fire was actually started when Israel bombed a medium range ground to ground missile launcher hidden in a large truck. The evidence, he says, suggests that the Lebanese Army was working with Hizbollah. Go read Bruno Stevens' account here.
And why not run a fake photo of G. Gordon Liddy in the scene? It's no more misleading than the Time caption that ran with the original photo of a Hezbollah terrorist posing (where G. Gordon is above) in front of a fire.
You'll remember that there was a little back and forth over the picture between Allah and Dan Riehl at the time. We bought (my post) Allah's analysis that it was a tire fire at what appeared to be a dump. A dump it may have been, but not as in 'city dump', only in the sense of This is what the parking lot of a Lebanese Army base looks like---a dump!
Ace sums up why what Bruno really said in his caption vs. how Time magazine characterizes the photo matters:
That makes three [mis]representations thus far by Time:
1) Hezbollah did not score a huge victory by shooting down an IAF jet.
2) The target was clearly legitimate.
3) Not only was this a legitimate Hezbollah target, it was parked on a Lebanese Army base, demonstrating cooperation between the Lebanese Government -- depicted as an innocent and abused third-party to this conflict by the media.
Allah asks this important question:
Did Time have that photo in hand when it chose to describe the vehicles as nothing more than “Hezbollah trucks”?
The blogfather, Charles Johnson, says:
The anti-Israel bias of mainstream media has never been revealed more nakedly; the editors who selected this photograph deliberately changed the caption to convey an anti-Israel message, throwing the truth right out the window to do it.
But is it deliberate? I don't think so. Snapped Shot says:
For this to continually happen means that somebody sitting in the Editor's chair is either (a) deliberately trying to shape the news, a gross violation of the public trust placed in them, or they are (b) too completely incompetent to distinguish facts and circumstances from the photographic and captional evidence presented to them.
If those are my only two options, I'll go with incompetent. For now.
Dan Riehl, on the other hand:
Well, what would you expect from a magazine which had both Stalin and Hitler as persons of the year.
And Michelle is waiting for the MSM ethics peeps to chime in.
Let me qualify the incompetent excuse. Incompetence mixed with a tinge of hope that Hezbollah actually had shot down an Israeli plane. Why bother to verify what you hope in your heart is true? Yes, I think it's that bad.
Three-Alarm Pants Fire Alert
I was searching for video of the Mouth of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings movies, and came across this NewsBusters story from July. Mincing metrosexual milquetoast Keith Olbermann actually said, with a straight face mind you, that he is politically "neutral." NewsBusters has the video. Here's part of the transcript:
Olbermann: "But seriously, I tried to not be, to the degree you can be neutral nowadays, I don't, for instance, I don't vote."
Ferguson: "You don't vote at all."
Olbermann: "I don't vote because I don't think I should have a rooting interest in the outcome of an election."
Olbermann: "Yeah, again, people would still have that kind of bias that's perceived one way or the other, but at least you could say, well, you know, I didn't vote, I don't contribute. I'm trying to stay out of it to the degree that I can. I don't have a rooting interest other than in what happens to the country."
Now, I admit that I'm biased against Keith because he once called me "The Worst Person in the World," but c'mon...Olbermann neutral? Was Hitler neutral about Jews? Is anyone who believes him interested in a hot real estate deal?
Back on a Mission : We Need Serious Change in House GOP Leadership
Mass Kidnapping in Iraq
I fear this will not end well. If history is any guide, this will turn out to be the work of Sunni terrorists who consider all who work for the Iraqi government 'apostates'. Apostasy is a capital offense under Islamic law.
But the Education Minister is Sunni, so it is possible that this is the work of Shia. However, this would be the first time I have heard of a Shia group engaging in mass hostage taking.
I'm disgusted by Democratic calls for withdrawal from Iraq based on the idea that somehow leaving would mean the Iraqi's would pick up the slack. As if Iraqis aren't already dying every day fighting terrorist forces in their own country.
A couple of days ago the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, after hearing about Democratic plans for withdrawal, said he was surprised that the U.S. was planning to leave Iraq so soon. He thought it would take a lot longer to defeat the Americans. He was wrong.
AKI:
Violence-weary Iraq was shocked on Tuesday by an ambitious mass kidnapping in which armed men, masquerading as police, seized more than 100 people from a higher education ministry building in the capital....
A ministry spokeswoman said the gunmen arrived in new pick-up trucks and stormed the ministry's Research Directorate in the religiously-mixed Karrada district at around 9.30 am. They reportedly ordered the women into one room and abducted all the men, including employees, guards and visitors.
The men were then taken into the car park of the Sunni-led ministry, handcuffed and forced into cars before being driven away. One report said that Sunnis and Shias had been divided, but other eyewitnesses say this was not so....
"This morning a large force arrived with many vehicles with tinted windows claiming to be police commandos and they clashed with the guards and then entered the building and snatched all the employees and some visitors," Higher Education Minister, Abed Dhiab al-Ujaili, a Sunni member of the Iraqi National Accord told Iraqi state television.
A Blogger Embed in Iraq
Long time friend of The Jawa Report, Bill from INDC is going to Iraq as an embed.
The man has balls. I withdraw any and all jokes made in the past about his questionable heterosexuality. The man may orgle Llamas, but he also deserves all the yips you can muster.
The reason he's going? There are currently 9 embeds in Iraq. That's right, 9. We've longed complained that the news from Iraq is shaped by perceptions inside the heavily fortified Green Zone. The truth is I don't know if things are getting worse or better in Iraq. I can't. There are very few reporters there that do anything more than repeat what others are saying. Iraq has become a giant echo chamber.
I really want to know what soldiers in the field are saying. I really want to know what things are like in Anbar Province. I really want to know what the situation is like in the Shia south. But I don't.
If you have some spare cash, you might want to click on over to INDC Journal and leave him a tip.
Pelosi in Dirty Land Deal?
The wealthiest member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Speaker Elect, Nancy Pelosi, may have been involved in questionable land deals. That, according to Dan Riehl:
Nancy's son Paul, Jr. appears to be President of the Commission on the Environment and also a cousin to [San Francisco Mayor] Gavin Newsome. Isn't that how people get appointed to these commissions? Hm?
And it appears that very lucrative contracts for development are being awarded to individuals with significant links to both Pelosi and Newsome. It also appears that Nancy was involved in transferring The Presidio from the Army to the city, where it would eventually come under control of the commission with lucrative contracts going to firms staffed by Pelosi confidants, as well as family.
I'm not convinced, but according to Democrats, isn't it the nature of the accusation that is important? I do wonder, though, if Pelosi will exempt herself from the windfall tax she is proposing?
MSM Gusher
Unable to cope with the twin stimulae of a Democratic win last Tuesday and a loud "Boo!" from the general direction of the Middle East, this morning Chris Matthews and Matt Lauer became so excited about statements from Carl Levin concerning immediate troop withdrawal that they wet themselves on camera. Matthews exclaimed in a voiced pitched so high that it frightened the studio guard dogs that the President had "lost the 2006 election" and that he would therefore have no choice but to self-immolate in public, sawing off portions of his anatomy to toss to the throng of starving congressional and media elites calling for raw organic sustenance. In their frenzy they failed to notice that the President had, in fact, not been running for office in 2006, nor that the Democrats are constrained by the US Constitution from taking effective control for two months. Finally, they didn't seem to notice the growing pool of moisture beneath their feet as they wagged their tails so vigorously that the pilot light on the NBC water heater was extinguished and studio lights were upended. Unfortunately there were no adults in the room to calm the newsmen and restore some semblance of order until the commercial break.
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Is It Really Possible That It's Not Our Fault?
Here's some advice for the West:
"Stop asking what you have done wrong. Stop it! They're slaughtering you like sheep and you still look within. You criticize your history, your institutions, your churches. Why can't you realize that it has nothing to do with what you have done but with what they want."
Nonsense! Any number of Ivy League professors can tell you that we're targeted because we're arrogant cultural imperialists. Who does this troglodyte think he is?
He thinks he's Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a former member of the Egyptian terrorist group Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, who trained under Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al Qaeda number two. Dr. Hamid has some other tidbits that will make the head of your average liberal explode:
"We're not talking about a fringe cult here. Salafist [fundamentalist] Islam is the dominant version of the religion and is taught in almost every Islamic university in the world. It is puritanical, extreme and does, yes, mean that women can be beaten, apostates killed and Jews called pigs and monkeys."
Read the rest of the article to find out how sexual frustration causes suicide bombings. Really.
Hat tip to Dr. Sanity, via Larwyn.
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Kenya Bans Flights to Somalia
(Nairobi, Kenya) Disturbingly, political turmoil in East Africa escalates daily. Kenya today imposed a ban on regular flights to and from Somalia. However, with an application completed a week ahead of time, charter flights will be allowed.
From AllAfrica.com:
Concerns about possible terrorist attacks from Somalia have been raised lately, with the United States warning last week that both Kenya and Ethiopia could be targets of suicide attacks by "extremist elements" from Somalia.
The British minister of State, Dr Kim Howells, who visited Kenya early this month also warned that the threat of terrorism targeting British interests in Kenya was real.
The uncertain situation in Somalia, coupled with a porous and expansive border made Kenya a soft target for terrorists, said Dr Howells, who is in charge of counter-terrorism.
Note that 'extremist elements' refer to the fundamentalist Islamic Courts Union which is linked to al-Qaeda and led by Sheik Sharif Shaykh Ahmed. Also note the belief that a porous and expansive border makes a soft target. Hmmm ... imagine that? Kenya should export that particular thought to the U.S.
Averaging ten departures daily, cargo flights to Somalia customarily transport sugar, textile, electronics, bottled water, fresh vegetables, butter, milk and miraa (khat). Miraa or khat is an addictive, narcotic drug used extensively in East Africa and a major Kenyan cash crop.
One may presume that the 'extremist elements' in Somalia are fairly glassy-eyed from khat as they traipse through the countryside capturing village after village. With khat shipments halted, it's possible that the Islamists will be drawn toward invading the drug-growing region of northern Kenya, through the porous border, of course.
Phone Sex & Porn in Afghanistan
How we know we won in Afghanistan? Phone sex and porn now available.
How we know we might lose in Afghanistan? Serious consideration given to reestablish the Taliban's Ministry of Virtue and Vice to stop said porn.
And, to be honest, it's not so much that I'm for porn....I'm not....as much as I am for the idea that it's not the state's business outlawing pictures of naked people. Unless they're ugly.
The irony is that the same satellite company that brings porn and phone sex to Afghanistan also brings Christian religious programming. Under Afghani law both are illegal, but only one of those two things will bring you the death penalty. Can you guess which one?
On the television screen, the two naked young women writhe together to the sounds of "Hotel California" as the occasional crackle of gunfire punctuates the Afghan night.
Several overseas phone numbers offer an intimate chat with the ladies, or some of their equally outgoing friends.
The heaviest fighting in five years has slowed reconstruction to a crawl in the deserts and oases of Kandahar, where the strict Islamist Taliban movement began in 1994, but pornography, opium and illegal alcohol are flourishing, officials say.
At least one satellite operator offers foreign channels such as eurotictv, allsex, 247Sex and transex, along with the God Channel and the Church, Miracle and Hope channels....
Porn arrived in Kandahar as soon as the Taliban left, but was generally confined to backrooms of teahouses.
Now, it's increasingly there for anyone with the right satellite subscription or a couple of dollars for a VCD. So far, only limited attempts have been made to block some providers.
Explicit VCDs smuggled mainly from Pakistan but also from India are on sale on the streets for a few dollars each, but vendors are secretive and wary.
Sellers at the crowded VCD and CD market, where tunes from blaring Bollywood hits clash with traditional Persian and Pakistani instrumentals, don't like to discuss the trade.
al-Qaeda Terrorist Recaptured By US
More Imperial good news. Looks like someone will get an all expense paid trip to beautiful tropical Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Enjoy your stay and may it be a long one.
Reuters: KABUL, Nov 13 - U.S. forces in Afghanistan have captured an al Qaeda operative who escaped from the main U.S. military prison in the country last year, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday.
The man, identified as Abu Nasir al-Qahtani, was captured recently in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost, the News newspaper said, citing Taliban supporters in the Pakistani border region of North Waziristan.
The U.S. military said on Nov. 6 a "known al Qaeda operative and five other extremists" had been captured during an operation near Khost town early that day.
It did not identify any of those captured. A U.S. military spokesman on Monday referred queries to the U.S. Department of Defence.
Al-Qahtani has been referred to in some news reports as Mohammad Jafar Jamal al-Kahtani.
Four Arab al Qaeda militants escaped from the heavily fortified U.S. detention centre at Bagram air base, the U.S. military's main base in Afghanistan, 50 km (30 miles) north of Kabul, on July 11 last year.
Also MrAbu Nasir al-Qahtani can now expect a to be tried by the recently authorized military courts.
Related Post on the escape of this man here.
The First Week's Accomplishments
Democrats outline strategy for terrorist victory in Iraq:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — Democratic leaders in the Senate vowed on Sunday to use their new Congressional majority to press for troop reductions in Iraq within a matter of months, stepping up pressure on the administration just as President Bush is to be interviewed by a bipartisan panel examining future strategy for the war.
Speaker to be Pelosi endorses lynching enthusiast and Abscam unindicted co-conspirator John Murtha for Majority Leader:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in line to become Speaker in January, is throwing her support to Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) in the race for Majority Leader, a move that will be an early test of her influence and will weigh heavily on Murtha's contest with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) for the post.
And Alcee Hastings has a really good shot at chairing the House Intelligence Committee, despite having been impeached and removed from the federal bench for corruption:
With Rep. Alcee Hastings a frontrunner to be House Intelligence Committee chairman, he’s already facing unpleasant publicity stemming from his involvement in a corruption case years ago.
We haven't even gotten to the good stuff yet - emasculating our counter-terrorism organizations by making surveillance, interrogation, and imprisonment illegal; maybe making US soldiers subject to war crimes trials at the Hague...there's lots of fun to come.
Special thanks to those on the Right who sat out the election because their pet peeves weren't addressed to their satisfaction. Enjoy.
Iran Trading Arms for Uraniam With Somalian Islamists: al Qaeda, Hezbollah Linked
What do Somalian Sunni extremists with ties to al Qaeda have in common with the Shia mullahs of Iran? The 'African Taliban' of the Somali Courts Union need weapons to solidify their control and establish an Islamic state in the Horn of Africa. The Mullahs of Iran need uranium to fuel their nuclear ambitions.
Somalia has uranium, Iran has arms.
Is Iran secretly buying uranium from Islamists in Somalia? That is what a new U.N. report which indicates:
Iran may have sought to trade arms for uranium from Somalia or elsewhere in Africa to fuel its nuclear ambitions.
The U.N. report and Reuters, of course, equivocate between all the sides in the conflict. The Islamists in Somalia are no worse than the secularists in Ethiopia. It's violence that is bad, you see.
And there is also new evidence that elements of al Qaeda are involved in Somalia, and that Somalia has begun to export the jihad elsewhere. As I've been saying for months, Somalia is the next Afghanistan. An Islamic state in Somalia (which is already a reality in most parts of the country) is every bit as dangerous to U.S. national interests as the Taliban were in Afghanistan.
The report claims that in addition to Afghan trained foreign fighters with links to al Qaeda in Somalia, that over 700 Somali fighters went to Lebanon during the recent conflict to support Hezbollah's war with Israel. In exchange, Iran and Syria have given arms, training, and other supplies to the Somalian extremists who now control most of that country.
That included shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, grenade launchers, machine guns, ammunition, medicine, uniforms and other supplies. Additionally, Syria hosted about 200 Islamist fighters for training in guerrilla warfare, the report says.
The report also gives a hint that Iran, locked in a battle with the West over its nuclear ambitions, may have sought help in finding uranium in the hometown of Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys
"At the time of the writing of the present report, there were two Iranians in Dusa Mareb engaged in matters linked to uranium in exchange for arms," it says, but gives no more information.
As usual, the U.N. seems more worried about containing the conflict than about crushing the African Taliban. They view the fight as a proxy war between Ethiopia (against Islamists) and Eritrea (pro-Islamists). A proxy war it may be, but it goes much deeper than that. It is, in fact, a proxy war between the same Islamist forces that brought the Taliban to power in Afghanistan and the forces of secularism and rationality that opposed it.
Plenty of evidence suggests that the U.S. is already secretly arming anybody and everybody willing to fight the Islamic Courts Union. In fact, opposition groups in Puntland claim to have retaken some villages from the ICU, which would be a first.
Perhaps this explains why the Ethiopia (and U.S.) backed Somalian interim government (which controls very little actual territory) has rejected a peace deal with the African Taliban. To whatever extent we are arming the opposition, we need to step up our efforts.
Some in the Ethiopian ex-patriot community have reminded me in the past that the Ethiopian government isn't exactly immune from charges of corruption and doesn't have the greatest human rights record itself. Maybe not, but in war you look for help from nations with mutual interests and not ones that are perfect.
The U.S. has plenty of experience fighting proxy wars from our experience with the Cold War. It's high time we began to use that experience in the Horn of Africa.
Meanwhile, al Qaeda is still seeking nukes. The only good thing about this news is that al Qaeda is still seeking nukes. Which implies they don't already have them yet.
Mark Steyn: More Sex to Save West!
John Hawkins interviews Mark Steyn who recommends more unprotected sex to save Western Civilization. I'm not kidding.
We at The Jawa Report are prepared to do our part if it will save the West. Sex. Lots of it. But we'll need some volunteers. Lots and lots of volunteers.
Angelina Jolie. Mother of 3. Doing her part for Western Civilization.
Unrelated: And for Hawkins sake , let me just remind him that Jon Stewart has 1.5 million unique viewers a night. Rush has 20 million a week (give or take 5 million)....but that's (in internet terms) hits. Most of those are return cusomers, if you will. If you use the same methodology that
Rush uses, then The Daily Show gets somewhere between 7.5 and 14 million 'viewers' a week.
Besides, we are talking about a sociological phenomenon here. I argue that Stewart has empowered the young vote in much the same way the Rush once empowered the Right leaning vote. But Rush--or conservative radio--is no longer a big factor in elections. The system has adjusted. But the system has not yet adjusted to these newly empowered voters from the cult of Jon Stewart.
And in close elections, it is the vote at the margins that really matters.
Novak : An Act of Extreme Irrationality
As he is known to do, Novak hits the nail on the head on the House GOP leadership race:
WASHINGTON -- The depleted House Republican caucus, a minority in the next Congress, convenes at 8 a.m. in the Capitol Friday on the brink of committing an act of supreme irrationality. The House members blame their leadership for tasting the bitter dregs of defeat. Yet, the consensus so far is that, in secret ballot, they will re-elect some or all of those leaders.
In private conversation, Republican members of Congress blame Majority Leader John Boehner and Majority Whip Roy Blunt in no small part for their midterm election debacle. Yet, either Boehner, Blunt or both are expected to be returned to their leadership posts Friday. For good reason, the GOP often is called "the stupid party."
While an unpopular Iraq war and an unpopular George W. Bush were primary causes of last Tuesday's Republican rout, massive public disapproval of the Republican-controlled Congress significantly contributed. While abandoning conservative principles, the spendthrift House had become chained to special corporate interests represented by K Street lobbyists.
That's that voodoo I was tellin' y'all about. They're coming back again...
H/t: Beth at My Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
Alter : Election Was End of the Road for Conservatism
I read this article twice, and I still couldn't follow the logic.
At one point, Jonathan Alter infers that the Republicans lost because they governed only for the conservative base:
The Category 4 political hurricane of 2006 was more than a referendum on an unpopular war and president: it signals the end of the conservative tide that began rising 40 years ago; it's the end of a pernicious six-year experiment in "governing for the base,"...
The intellectual vitality and coherence that once characterized modern conservatism have been shattered.
So, the Party lost because it pandered too much to its base. That sucks. Apparently, the Republicans have been pandering to us for six whole years and nobody bothered to tell us--or them, for that matter. At any rate, I don't agreed with that, but he's entitled to his opinion. So the GOP was too conservative. Got it. So then, Alter argues that the Republicans are in trouble because they've been ignoring their base:
Neocons have been discredited and theocons dispirited. Libertarians feel betrayed by big spenders, incompetent interventionists and moralizing busybodies.
OK, so now they're trouble because they've been ignoring their base? (Huh??) Alter then explains why the Republicans didn't play to the base:
To recover [from the election], conservatives plan to return to what they call the "core principles" of small government and lower taxes. But there's a reason they abandoned budget balancing: it's a loser politically. There just aren't many votes in it, and that's why Republicans didn't cut spending.
So, the Republicans made a pragmatic decision to thumb their nose at the base for broader electoral gains. Fair enough. Republicans thumbed their nose at the base. Got it. And then, he reminds us again that the Republicans lost because they governed only for their base:
[Republicans'] peril has its origins in Bush's highly divisive effort to intensify the conservative movement instead of governing from the center.
Iraqi 'Resistance' Murders Turkish Hostage
A Turkish civilian hostage named Yildram Tek has been murdered by the so-called 'Iraqi resistance'. Tek's body was found near the baghdad airport on Nov. 1st, but the Turkish Foreign Ministry only confirmed the victim's identity today.
In July a group calling itself the Lions of Justice (sometimes rendered Lions of Truth or Lions of Righteousness) Brigade kidnapped a Turkish man named Yeldram Tek. A video of Tek was released in which the unknown group demanded that Turkey close down the company which Tek works for and which it claims has contracts with the Coalition in the South of Iraq.
In September, the Brigades of the Lions of Righteousness group released a new video of Yildram (alt, Yeldram) Tek making the same demands. This time the terrorists threatened to murder Yildram Tek if the company was not closed. Tek, who is from Istanbul, was given 72 hours in the ultimatum.
As expected, no words of protestation from the U.N. or any human rights organizations about Geneva Convention violations. Hat tip: George.
Al-Qaeda Claims Yemen Oil Attacks
al-Qaeda in Yemen has posted a statement claiming responsibity for these attacks:
CBSNEWS: Al-Qaida has purportedly claimed responsibility for attempted suicide attacks on two oil installations in Yemen and vowed more strikes against the United States and its allies, according to a statement posted on the Internet.
"Let the Americans and their allies ... know that these operations are only the first spark and that what is coming is more severe and bitter," the statement said.
The statement was dated Oct. 13 but was posted this week. Its authenticity could not immediately be verified but it was posted on a Web site frequently used by Islamic militants.
Jane at Armies of Liberation has the compete transcript here. I have a few selected parts below the fold.
The following are the details of the operations:
After having surveyed and collected the necessary information about the Crusader port of Al-Dabbah, which belongs to the Canadian Nexen Petroleum Company and is located on the coast of Hadramut between the cities of Al-Shahr and Al-Al-Makla, the mujahidin prepared two booby-trapped cars to penetrate the port….
…Let the Americans and their allies who worship the cross and their agents know that we are people who learned through wisdom and became wiser through experience… Implicit safeties never deceived us and lead us to annihilation. We avoided procrastination which is why most people reach their finality. We did not enjoy the beauty of the rhetoric, while our actions were short of delivery; therefore, we perfected our rhetoric and supported it with actions, and we will be seeking you everywhere…
May God’s peace and prayers be upon our master Muhammad, his family, and all his companions.
The Information Department
Al-Qa’ida of Jihad Organization in the Land of Yemen”
Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) Sings Praises of Taliban?
A reader dropped this link in the comments. It is supposed to be Cat Stevens (aka, Yusuf Islam) singing the praises of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
You can listen to it by clicking here. It's called Afghanistan: The Land of Islam.
I'd love for somebody to debunk it. I just don't have the time right now for extensive Google searching. The brief Google search that I did seems to indicate that Yusuf Islam really did write and perform the song about 'the land of the free'....you know, Taliban Afghanistan.
I want to believe that Cat Stevens is just a dupe who didn't really support terrorism. That he's like the millions of Muslims around the world that gives to charities and doesn't really know that the money is going to terrorists.
Of course, since audio of Omar Bakri Mohammed claiming that Yusuf Islam used to associate himself with convicted terror master mind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, and that he used to send money to the families of the 'Mujahidin", it's becoming harder and harder to believe that.
Hat tip: The Welsh Witch
UPDATE: Yusuf Islam's new album comes out today.
UPDATE II: I've done some more Google searching. From what I gather, the song was written by Yusuf Islam, but never recorded by him. Also, at least one Islamic website claims the Islam wrote the piece after the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.
So, giving him the benefit of the doubt, the mujahidin that he is praising are anti-Soviets, ie our former allies. Some of whom became the Northern Alliance....others, well, you know who they became-
Here are the words to the song:
Afghanistan Land of Islam
Afghanistan Laa ilaha illa Allah
Muhammadur Rasul Allah
Alaihi Assalatullah
Oh the people are dying,
They're willing to give
Every drop of their blood
For the freedom to live
Oh the people are dying
To get back their land
And the home of their fathers
Who died for Islam
There's five million homeless
Over one million dead
How can the world go to sleep
With injustice out there
Oh the orphans are crying
It's loud and it's clear
For the ones who have heart
For the ones who can hear
Yaa Muslimun, Yaa Muslimun
Oh victory's coming
And history'll tell
Cause the disbelieving army
Is heading for Hell
And Paradise belongs
To the pious and firm
Who say "To God we belong
And to Him we return"
We say "To God we belong
Why I’ll Miss Rummy.
It's his way with er....uh...words I always did like.
Hippie’s question.
"If you were going to give yourself a letter grade for your performance as Secretary of Defense, what grade would that be?”
Rummy’s Response.
"Oh, I'd let history worry about that,"
Howie translates: “Screw you, hippie”
Via Noel Sheppard at News Busters
Was it an innocent scratching of the nose, or a classic Goose moment right out of the movie “Top Gun?” I report, you decide.
I’d give Rummy a C+ by the way. A- on the invasion of Iraq. I’d have liked to have seen us siege Baghdad and force surrender. Nothing says, “you win” like a surrender.
Full Video below the fold.
Hat Tip Larwyn.
Google Video copy here.
Simpsons Jump the Shark (Updated)
I've enjoyed "The Simpsons" for years.
But last night, emboldened by the Democrat victory in the midterm elections, Matt Groening and the other writers let America know just how they feel about the folks who protect us with their lives. They disagree with John Kerry, but only because Kerry didn't go far enough in betraying our soldiers.
Update: Hot Air has video.
According to The Simpsons writers, anyone who enters the military is not only stupid, but evil, and eager to kill American civilians. Plus, (and despite the fact the recruitment goals have been met consistently in the real world) Army recruiters will come to elementary schools and make children sign contracts to enter the military.
If this was simply an aberration, Groening should apologize profusely and move on.
If this is a new direction for the animated sitcom, they'll go there without me.
Below is Matt Groening. This is the smug, aging hippy face of a man who hates any American wearing a military uniform.
Update by Rusty: Whatever happened to Grimey?
Let me also add that I haven't seen the episode. But I did go home and watch the Simpsons tonight. It was an episode where Homer goes to rock'n'roll fantasy camp. It totally sucked. At no point in time was I ever entertained by it.
Why did I watch it? I guess like long time soap opera fans, I just couldn't help myself. Really. My mom has been watching As The World Turns for nearly 40 years now. No joke. I guess I'm just tuning in to see what happens.
So, the Simpsons stopped being funny years ago.
I'll also add, that it's very improbably that Groening had anything to do with this episode. Or any episode for over a decade. That's why he hires Harvard educated writers---who share the liberal conventional wisdom. For all that education nothing they teach in the Ivy League can give you the funny.
France: Fighting Back a Crime
The reason stereotypes are so long-lasting? Because they're usually true. From the land of retreat and appeasement, news that fighting back is now official French policy.
There might be a good joke here in the making if it wasn't so tragic:
Q: What do you call a Frenchman who fights back?
A: Indicted.
Hat tip: Ghost of a Flea, who remains your number one source of all things related to Kylie Minogues fantastic backside.
New Americans Naturalized in Iraq
(Baghdad) At the Faw Palace near Baghdad airport yesterday, a total of 75 U.S. Army soldiers and Marines, including seven women, recited the oath of citizenship and became naturalized American citizens. The new Americans came from 33 different countries from all points on the compass. Among the many, U.S. service members from Uganda, Jamaica, Ivory Coast, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Bosnia, Uzbekistan and the Philippines were represented.
About 25,000 U.S. service members have been naturalized since President Bush signed a 2002 Executive Order which accelerated the process. Yesterday's event was the seventh citizenship ceremony to be held in Iraq, naturalizing a total of 800 U.S. military members.
Think about it. People from around the world enter the U.S. military, with many placing themselves in harm's way, just for the opportunity to become Americans. Fortunately, it appears that proposed immigration and amnesty legislation will eliminate the need for military enlistment and citizenship will be attainable by purchase for a few thousand dollars.
News Flash : SNL Did Something Funny!
Hat tip : HotAir.
What the Infidels do with their Women...
Conyers Wants to Make America Safe for Islamists
What happens when you empower an aging political hack whose sole qualification for public office is his skill at race-baiting? Nothing good.
From Investor's Business Daily:
Congress: The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he's just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools. But he is in the pocket of Islamists.
John Conyers, son of a leftist Detroit union activist, represents the largest Arab population in the country. His district includes Dearborn, Mich., nicknamed "Dearbornistan" by locals fed up with cultural encroachment and terror fears from a steady influx of Mideast immigrants.
Conyers, who runs an Arabic version of his official Web site, does the bidding of these new constituents and the militant Islamist activists who feed off them. They want to kill the Patriot Act and prevent the FBI from profiling Muslim suspects in terror investigations. They also want to end the use of undisclosed evidence against suspected Arab terrorists in deportation proceedings.
And the 77-year-old Conyers has vowed to deliver those changes for them.
Reclaiming The GOP
Sout al-Kuffar (of All Your Fakes Are Belong To Us fame) has another startingly effective moodpiece to get you all fired up for the unenviable task of cleaning out the current GOP House and Senate leadership.
For old time's sake, All Your Fakes is below the jump.
ht: Allah
UPDATE by Rusty: Bonus video added below. It's a Sunday "Reclaiming the GOP" twofer! I'm not a big Gingrich for Prez guy, but I do support him for elevation to Sith Master and possibly even Galactic Emperor.
Double Update: Since when did The Jawa Report's own Sout al-Kuffar start working for Hot Air? Whatever Malkin is paying you to make videos, Sout ol' buddy, I'll double it. (What's zero times two again?)
Triple Update: It's not Allah's fault. I'd sent him a link to the YouTube vid instead of the Jawa Report post. My bad.
Lying Terrorist Watch: "Dead" Marine Recovering in U.S.
The Army of Ansar al Sunnah, a terrorist organization in Iraq, has posted the photo ID of a Marine it claims to have killed. Because the Marine is not on any KIA list, the terrorists are using the ID (pictured below) as evidence that the US military routinely lies to the American public about the real numbers of casualties in Iraq.
Groups like The Islamic State in Iraq (formerly the Mujahidin Shura Council of Iraq), Ansar al Sunna, and other Salaafist terror organizations routinely publish claims that dozens of American troops have been killed for every one on the official list. Sadly, many Arabs, Muslims, and Leftists believe these claims.
The only problem? David Leddy is alive and well. Oorah! Semper Fi.
Bonus video on the way in which the terrorist media influences the American Left. Or is that vice versa?
Marine Corps News:
The 19-year-old Marine from Schaumburg was on foot patrol Sept. 29 when he passed by some graffiti on a wall.
The sergeant who was with Leddy asked him to take a photograph of it.
As the Schaumburg High School graduate did, a homemade bomb buried in the ground 10 feet away suddenly exploded. The young man’s rifle was broken in half, two fingers barely dangling from his left hand. A shark-bite-like gouge was left in his upper left calf.
Suddenly a firefight broke out between the Marines and those responsible for the remote-controlled explosive, delaying Leddy’s immediate removal from the scene.
From a hospital room in Betheseda, Md., his mother, Debbie Leddy, recounts the rest of what her wounded son told her of the incident.
“He thought, ‘If my rifle looks like this, I wonder what my body looks like,’æ” she said.
Though it might have been only a few minutes’ delay before his transport from the scene, the young Marine said it felt like hours. He doesn’t remember losing consciousness, but by the time he was aware of anything, he already had a tourniquet on his leg.
After being stabilized at an Air Force base nearby, Leddy was flown to Balad, Iraq, for further treatment.
Within a day and a half after being wounded, he found himself at an Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. And two days later he was in Betheseda, on his father George’s 50th birthday.
Hat tip: George, Tribeca, and hmkjames.
Here is Leddy's photo ID that he apparently dropped when he was wounded and is being used by The Army of Ansar al Sunna as evidence that the U.S. lies about casualty numbers.
Mike Pence's Vision for the GOP
Mike Pence's staff has released the vision statement that will be distributed tomorrow morning to the GOP members of the House. The money shot:
Our campaigns must value winning, but as candidates we cannot be seduced by the political opportunities of the moment and find ourselves swayed from our principles just to win the next election. As I wrote then in defeat and believe now, in order to attain a strong and lasting Majority we ought to be a new breed of candidates that seek to leave a foundation of arguments in favor of policies that will stand the test of time. We must run not just "to win," but "to stand." And if we stand on that foundation, we will win and usher in a new Majority-one that will be concerned with far more than continuing to retain itself.
H/t : The Political Pit Bull.
Wear a Hajib/Turban Day
(Fremont, California) Attention, readers! Tomorrow is "Wear a Hijab/Turban to Work/School Day" in Fremont. Among others, the event is being promoted by the Foundation for Self-Reliance, the American Muslim Alliance and SEMAH, a domestic violence group.
From InsideBayArea.com:
"This is more than just 'wear a hijab or turban' day," said Samina F. Sundas, founder of the Newark-based American Muslim Voice and Global Peace Partners. "It's about educating each other about our differences and recognizing that we should focus on what binds us together."
The idea for the event originated days after Alia Ansari, a 38-year-old Afghan woman from Fremont, was gunned down Oct. 19 as she walked with her 3-year-old daughter to pick up some of her other children from an elementary school.
Police have yet to declare a motive in the Ansari case, but the perception among some in the community is that the shooting had to be a hate crime because Ansari was wearing a hijab, the traditional Muslim head scarf.
So, although the police haven't identified a motive in the Ansari killing, the Muslim community is taking immediate corrective action against hate crime. Notably, this response is consistent with Muslim reactions to perceived hate crimes in other regions of the globe. In those cases, however, corrective measures are more strident. Instead of 'Wear a Hajib/Turban,' everyone is simply encouraged to don an explosive vest.
Presumably, the next time a Jew is killed in a suspected hate crime, organizers will promote a "Wear a Star of David/Yarmulka to Work/School Day." Of course, don't expect the media to pleasantly encourage the public to participate.
Claim: Cat Stevens Financed Terrorists, Tied to Radical Clerics
The Jawa Report Exclusive
The Jawa Report has obtained evidence that Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, was once connected to radical clerics Omar Bakri Mohammed & Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. According to at least one credible source, he was also involved in terrorist financing.
In an online voice chat from exile in Lebanon where he fled after British authorities banned several groups connected to him, Bakri told followers that various prominent Muslims would once frequent his office. Among those listed is Cat Stevens.
Bakri Mohammed has urged Muslims in the U.K. to fight British troops in Iraq and elsewhere, justified the 7/7 London bombings, and has publicly called for the murder of all who blaspheme the Muslim prophet Muhammed. Several followers of Bakri Mohammed have been arrested for their public calls for the murder of blasphemers. At least one has been recently been convicted.
The online chat was captured by Glen Jenvey who is part of an organization that secretly monitors the activities of radical Muslims who support terrorism. Jenvey, who we have worked with in the past and who has helped convict several high profile terror supporters, contacted The Jawa Report about the recorded conversation shortly after he captured it. The audio recording was made in what Bakri Mohammed believed was a private chat between himself and his radical followers.
But there's more. Bakri also claimed that Cat Stevens was an intimate of convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. When the Egyptian born cleric, better known as "The Blind Sheikh", would visit Britain, "Yusuf Islam used to sit near to him and ask him whatever he want [sic]."
Bakri then suggests that Cat Stevens also helped support Abdel Rahman's family financially. He also claims that Yusuf Islam knowingly sent money to the families of "the mujahidin" in Egypt. Giving money to the families of so-called 'martyrs' is a way for Muslims to support terrorism indirectly and yet remain shielded from most legal ramifications.
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman is head of the same group that murdered 58 tourists near Luxor, Egypt, and he is currently serving a life sentence in the U.S. for a conspiracy to blow up targets in the United States.
Yusuf Islam was denied entry into the United States in 2004 after his name appeared on the "no fly list". The Muslim convert sued two British newspapers, The Sun and The Sunday Times, for libel because they had claimed that the U.S. Transportation and Security Administration had correctly identified him as a supporter of terror in the past. The papers settled the lawsuit out of court and apologized to Yusuf Islam.
But the new recordings by Glen Jenvey of Omar Bakri Mohammed call into question the denials made by the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens. In the past, Islam has appeared at numerous fundraisers for the charitable arms of terrorist organizations. At least one of those organizations has been tied to al Qaeda.
When a death fatwa was issued by top Iranian clerics on the head of Salman Rushdie, Islam said that he would turn Rushdie over to the Ayatollah Khomeini or his followers should the author show up on his doorstep. Islam later apologized but has continued his "peace work" by supporting Islamic charities with ties to radical groups and terrorist organizations.
Yusuf Islam has also been invited to perform at this year's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
However, if there is one redeeming aspect of Bakri Mohammed's conversation about Yusuf Islam it is this: the broader context is one of famous British Muslims who used to be true believers but who have taken to working too closely with the "kaffirs". The first British Muslim to be knighted, Lord Nazir Ahmed, is also mentioned as a Muslim who had sold out by compromising with the unbelievers.
But if Yusuf Islam used to associate himself with Bakri Mohammed and Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman then clearly his persona non grata status in the United States is justified. And if Islam has truly given money to the families of 'the mujahidin', then the claims by the two British papers sued by Cat Stevens are also correct.
Yusuf Mohammed owes us a pretty big explanation. Either Bakri Mohammed is lying (which would not be the first time) or Cat Stevens' past support of radical Islam goes much deeper than he has admitted. But what would Bakri Mohammed's motivation be if the claim was not true? Normally Bakri Mohammed's lies are in the direction of denying his support of terrorism.
Like many Muslims involved in charity work (thanks to Allah and Newyank for pointing this out), though, Cat Stevens may simply not know where his money is going. Which would say more about Islamic charities than about Islam's character. But Islam continues to openly support Hamas linked charities, has been arrested in Israel for this support, but---like many in the world--simply denies organizations such as Hamas are really 'terrorists'. See also CAIR's defense of Yusuf Islam here.
You can download the audio of Omar Bakri Mohammed tying Cat Stevens to terrorist activities here [right click and "save as"]. Alternative format available for downloading here.
For more on the various terrorist connections of Omar Bakri Mohammed and his followers, please see scroll down through our U.K. Terror and U.K. Terrorism archives, or here. For more video and audio of radical terror supporting Muslims in the U.K., please see Glen Jenvey's extensive archive here.
UPDATE: Some are now claiming that these accusations are either a) old or b) timed to coincide with the release of Stevens' new album or c) politically motivated since this website is on the Right.
A) As far as I can tell, this is a completely new set of allegations against Yusuf Islam. He has been accused (and arrested) for funding terror organizations, but I have never heard the specific allegation that he was intimated with Omar Bakri Mohammed & Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. Also, this is the first time that I have heard that he had funded the families of the "mujahdin".
B) I did not know Cat Stevens had a new album coming out until I began working on this story and did a Google News search. Since the source of this information is Omar Bakri Mohammed, you'll have to ask him what the motivation was.
C) My motivation is no different than any other journalist's, namely the chance to break a big story. Certainly the information came to me because of my long time fight against terrorists and those that support them directly or indirectly. From that fight I became associated with Glen Jenvey.
But what does my motivation have to do with the veracity of the allegations made by Omar Bakri Mohammed? That Bakri Mohammed is a liar is not in doubt in my mind. But, as I have said before, the nature of those lies usually revolves around the his constant denials of being a terror supporter, when clearly he is. I have never heard of him lying about his association with other Muslims.
I’m Listening Part I
I suspect Pakistan may have killed or injured Ayman al-Zawahiri or critical elements responsible for his ability to communicate and release statements. Of course al-Qaeda’s response to the elections coming from the Iraqi wing of the organization may have been a strategic propaganda call, but it also may be designed to carry attention away from a huge loss.
Historically the trend has been what when a claim was made that Zawahiri was a target, or killed in an attack, that he acts quickly to refute these claims with an audio or video message.
It has not been 12 days since reports he was targeted on October 30th and nothing, nada, silence, zilch. He may very well be dead. And if you are not dead Mr. Zawahiri, you murdering, lying, piece of terrorist filth, Show me.
“Show Me!”, ain’t a motto here in the US for nothing. Zawahiri’s statements sometimes follow al-Qaeda in Iraq’s by a few days but Mr. Zawahiri, if we don’t here from you very soon, I’m going to celebrate your death over a big pork chop and an ice cold beer.
George W Bush and all of America, left and right, are going to be able to start celebrating another victory in the war against al-Qeada, namely your rotting stinking corpse. You have failed miserably. We are still standing. You have failed to attack us. We are still fighting in Iraq. You, Mr. Zawahiri, are an utter failure.
I may be counting my chickens before they hatch but al-Qaeda is counting them before the eggs are liad.
House GOP Leadership Battle : Ask the Candidates
If you have a question you'd love to ask the current House Republican leadership or those who are challenging them, I encourage you to go here and submit it.
You can also review the previously-submitted questions and vote on the best.
I’m Listening Part II
I hereby challenge the newly elected Democrats to get off their duff and refute Al-Qaeda and Iran’s gloating over the election.
Iran believes they have won and the Democrats will allow them free reign oppress the people of Iran and export their influence into Lebanon and further deepen their interference in Iraq amongst the Shia in the south.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq believes that their campaign of terror has worked. That losing 3000 soldiers will drive us off the battlefield and we will abandon the people of Iraq. By the way the terrorists have murdered 150,000 Iraqi civilians. Yes 150,000 civilians. Will you allow the Iraqi people to again be ruled by those that murder them?
I don’t believe that is part of Liberalism. How can anyone be for freedom to the extent that they want murderors and terrorist oppressors to be free to destroy it?
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, DICK Durbin, you now represent not only the people who voted for you but also those who did not. You now carry the burden of prosecuting the war. War powers lie with the congress. The President can only execute those powers given to him.
I don’t think a single voter voted for surrender to terrorists and terrorist supporting states. But the terrorists do.
I call on the new Democratic leadership to quickly rebut Iran and al-Qaeda in Iraq. Every minute that passes is another minute their perception of victory grows. Every minute you delay is a boost to their morale. I call on conservative and moderate Democrats to make sure they do.
Evan, Brad, Nancy, Harry, DICK?
You must show me and show them too, and do it quickly. Wipe the smile from the enemy’s face.
Related: Captain's Quarters.
A word of warning to the terrorists: The Democratic Party has a record of being able to fight hard and fight well when the have to. Your confidence maybe misplaced. Should you attack America while they are in control, seeking to dominate us, you may be quite surprised at the reaction. Democrats have never been know for restraint in killing the enemy when required to do so.
In fact they have gone harder and faster and bigger than Republicans have in the 20th century. Watch out what you wish for, you just might get it.
Burton, Feeney, Hensarling Backing Mike Pence; WSJ Weighs In
Though most Republicans are still watching from the sidelines, the first battle to wrest GOP control from the K-Street crowd is raging. That battle, of course, is the fight over the GOP House leadership. The incumbents (Boehner and Blount) are fighting hard to keep their positions, but the challengers (Pence and Shadegg) continue to pick up momentum. Dan Burton (IN), Tom Feeney (FL), and Jeb Hensarling (TX) have delivered a letter to their GOP colleagues asking them to support Mike Pence for the House leadership position:
What we need now is a proven leader and who has a track record as an agent of change and reform within our Conference and who will take the opposition party to task on their failings. We have witnessed first-hand Mike's dynamic leadership within our Conference and in the United States Congress. He has boldly led over 100 Members of the Republican Study Committee, where he has built consensus within that group to fight for the principles of limited government and to work with the Republican Leadership to help pass important agenda items. Mike encourages a healthy dialogue within the RSC and wants all Members' voices to be heard before deciding on a plan of action.
I don't know about the rest of y'all, but to me this is a no-brainer. After years of their corruption, huddling up with the K-street insiders, and almost totel abandonment of conservative principles, I was ready to fight for change in the leadership no matter what happened on Tuesday. After Tuesday's bloodbath, I can't even imagine that someone would think that keeping the current leadership is a good idea. Keep the same people in the leadership and you'll get the same policies.
If you care about what happens on Election Day 2008, I suggest you call (and even better, write) your House member ASAP and pressure him or her to back Pence and Shadegg.
H/t : Jeff Emanuel at RedState.
UPDATE : The Wall Street Journal is arguing for changes:
The problem is the House, where Speaker Dennis Hastert has already announced he won't stand for minority leader. Others in the leadership are claiming to have learned their lesson and promise a new beginning. That's for Members to judge. But we'd be wary of leaders who stake their claim to power on their ability to soak the lobbying mecca of K Street, or who refused to challenge the Appropriators who did so much to besmirch the image of the current, and soon-to-vanish, GOP majority.
Republicans might also recall what happened to Democrats when they tried to regain the House in 1996 by running with the same leadership and agenda that had been ousted in 1994. Those Democrats failed, despite Bill Clinton's victory at the top of the ticket, because too many voters saw the same old story. If Republicans lose again in 2008, they could be in the minority for a long time.
Isn't It Ironic?
The people of this country just handed a branch of the feddle gubmint to the same party that claims the battle for Iraq is a failure on a scale comparable to Vietnam, even though that is the very same party that got us into Vietnam in the first place.
And they did it, according to the analyzers, mostly because they're dissatisfied with the way the battle for Iraq is going.
What a way to win a war, vote for the same type of people who engineered the only defeat* in war in this nation's history.
*Note to stupids, the U.S. did not lose the Vietnam War militarily. From a military point of view, it was a smashing success. After the Tet Offensive, the VC ceased as a viable fighting force. The enemy lost 1.4 million troops in the war, the North Vietnamese economy was crushed, and to this day has never recovered.
The U.S. lost that war in geopolitical terms only.
And that defeat was brought on by the same type of politician that will attempt to re-create history come swearing-in time.
Okay, that's it for me, I go kill deer now.
Welcome To Real Life
I alluded to it a few days ago.
It's time for a little R&R from the online propaganda war. Time to take a couple of days away from the worries about jihad, and watching politics and world events.
Jack London said it best in The Call of the Wild:
"He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time."
Deer season starts tomorrow, the only time of year I get up before 9 a.m. on a day off.
Good luck to my fellow hunters who share this tradition with me.
And to my fellow veterans, since tomorrow is also Veteran's Day, God bless you and thank you.
Oh, and with luck, hopefully I'll be able to post an image of a nice rack that even Oyster would approve of.
My Father & Grandfather: Marines
Happy birthday to the U.S. Marine Corps.
Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Thank you Dad for your service in the U.S. Marine Corps. Once a Marine always a Marine.
Thank you Grandpa for sacrificing your life for your country, for a young wife, for your two children who you would never live to see grow up, for your fellow Marines, on the shores of an island you'd never heard of, far away in the South Pacific. Your sacrifice is not forgotten.
The al Qaeda Shadow Government in Waiting
I noticed a few weeks ago that The Mujahidin Shura Council (MSC) in Iraq had started issuing statments differently. The MSC is the Sunni insurgent umbrella organization that includes al Qaeda. The new name?
Islamic State of Iraq
Today's audio statment from al Qaeda in Iraq was actually released by the "Information Ministry / the official spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq"
You'll recall that before they were al Qaeda in Iraq the same group was called Tawid [unity] wal Jihad), so rebranding is not a new thing for these particular terorrists. It's the name that worries me.
It is meant to convey the message that al Qaeda and its allies are no longer just a group of disperate fighters trying to expel the U.S. from Iraq. It is meant to convey the notion that they are now a shadow government. That once the U.S. has left, they will be ready to take over and govern.
We have seen what kind of government they want. We have seen it in the Taliban. We are seeing it emerge with the African Courts Union in Somalia. We saw it when al Qaeda and its affiliates ruled in Fallujah--the torture chambers, the killing of women who looked too 'Western'.
We cannot let them succeed in Iraq.
Ziontists Roll Out "Super Slow Acting" Artillery Shells
Normally, an artillery shell causes its damage in a fraction of a second.
We're not sure exactly how it works, but those crafty Zionist scientists ("Ziontists") have apparently developed an artillery shell that slowly destroys a Palestinian building over a course of days, in super-slo-mo. Amazing.
Rusty on the Radio
I'm scheduled to be on the Ron Smith Show on WBAL Radio in Baltimore at around 3:35 Eastern. I'll be discussing Jon Stewart as the Democratic majority kingmaker. You can listen here, just click the "Listen Live" link at the top of the left hand column.
UPDATE: Done. So, was Max Power the only one who caught me on the show?
Al Qaeda Applauds Democratic Victory
I love the argument that al Qaeda somehow supports Bush because invading Afghanistan and Iraq was exactly what they wanted. Right. And Roosevelt played right into the hands of the Japanese by responding to Pearl Harbor.
It's more than bizarro world logic, it simply overlooks the facts. I've read dozens and dozens of al Qaeda statements and they are consistent in that they want the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan. Not stay there!
The goal of al Qaeda in Iraq is the setting up of a Taliban-like state. In fact, most Americans are not aware that the group formerly known as the Mujahidin Shura Council, of which al Qaeda is a member, has just changed its name to "The Islamic State of Iraq." That's right, the al Qaeda umbrella organization is now calling itself a shadow government waiting for the U.S. to withdraw.
The latest communique from al Qaeda in Iraq applauds the American people for the first step in reaching their goals: voting for the Democrats. Of course, they then go on to say they will not be satisfied until they have blown up the White House.
Oh, and Iran's ruling Mullahs also extend a laurel and a hardy handshake to what they see as the party of appeasers.
Click below for video.
Germany to Charge Rumsfeld Over Abu Ghraib?
Yawn. More Euorweenies doing what Euroweenies do best. I'd like to see a German court try to extradite Rumsfeld or Gonzales.
Tancredo, King, Danneskjold Back Pence For House GOP Leadership
Things are moving fast in the race for the House GOP leadership. If you haven't been paying attention, John Boehner (current House GOP leader) and Roy Blount (current House GOP whip) are seeking to retain their House leadership positions against Mike Pence and John Shadegg, respectively. According to Captain's Quarters, Pence just picked up the endorsements of immigration hawks Tom Tancredo and Steve King. Apparently, Captain Ed likes him, too:
House Republicans need to demonstrate a commitment to certain principles ahead of policies in order to win the trust back from their constituents. Chief among those should be a commitment to reform and support of limited government. Pence has demonstrated all of those qualities, as well as having a reputation for clean politics. Republicans should strongly consider having Pence lead them during the next two-year period, in which they will be rethinking their direction. Pence seems like the right navigator for that journey.
H/t : Pajamas Media.
Pence has been criticized by some over concerns on the immigration, but Dan McLaughlin at RedState opines that Tancredo's endorsement will be likely to silence those critics:
Some people in the tough-on-immigration crowd (you know who you are, both the restrictionists who want to reduce overall immigration and those who merely want to replace illegal with legal immigrants) have been skeptical about Mike Pence for Minority Leader because of Pence's immigration proposals.
Perhaps you should take a second look, because Tom Tancredo, the hardiest of the immigration hard-liners in the House GOP, has endorsed Pence.
One of those critics, John Hawkins of RightWingNews, has been silenced by conversion:
Earlier today, I frowned on the idea of seeing Mike Pence move into a leadership position, despite the fact that he's a hard nosed, reform minded, fiscal conservative, because Pence proposed an absolutely horrible amnesty plan last session.
...Since, in my book, Tom Tancredo is the gold standard on illegal immigration, that turns me around 180 degrees. That's because if Tanc is going to support Pence, it means that Pence must have given him some reassurances about how he'd handle illegal immigration. Otherwise, there's no way Tom Tancredo would support him.
So, I am now officially reversing my stance and rooting for Mike Pence to be the new Minority Leader in the House.
That's good enough for me, as well. Although I've been leaning toward Pence, I've held off for the last 24 hours to learn a little more. Tancredo's endorsement cinches it for me. As of right now, I'm openly and enthusiatically endorsing Mike Pence for House Minority Leader.
Jon Stewart: Democratic Majority Kingmaker
John Stewart is the Rush Limbaugh of 2006 and faux news the talk radio. Forget The Daily Kos, it was The Daily show that put Democrats over the top in key races. Just as the new phenomenon of nationally syndicated talk radio is what helped propel Republicans into the majority in 1994 it was faux news and the cult of Jon Stewart that led to this year's Democratic landslide.
That's what I argue in my latest Townhall column:
Jon Stewart is an unlikely player in national politics. He's not a pundit, he's a comedian. As unlikely a candidate for Democratic kingmaker as he may be, he's a force to be reckoned with.
Ratings for The Daily Show's coverage of the '06 elections were second only to The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. 2.0 million Americans tuned into Comedy Central on Tuesday to follow election results. That's right, more people were watching a comedian talk about the news than an anchor on CNN.
And just who is it that is tuning into The Daily Show? Young people. Lot's of them.
In fact, in the 2004 election nearly as many young people cited The Daily Show as a source of news as any other source. And Jon Stewart's Daily Show audience has only grown since then.
On the college campus where I teach, Jon Stewart's is the first and last word on all things political. His is the only name that all recognize. It’s more than that: his views are the only views considered socially acceptable. When Jon Stewart believes something, students believe it. He who Jon Stewart hates, students hate.
Read the whole thing, or I'll take away your Swingline.
UPDATE: Since I know some of you didn't click on the link to see the statistical basis for the argument (lazy...) here it some of it:
The 2006 election saw the youth vote at its largest in 20 years. While younger Americans continue to vote in smaller numbers than older Americans, 2 million more voted in this election than in that last midterm.
And that vote is becoming more Democratic. According to the bipartisan Goeas-Lake exit polls, Democrats bested Republicans among 18 - 29 year olds by a 50 - 35 percent margin.
In nationally pivotal races, it was the young voter who put Democratic candidates over the top. Exit polls indicate that in Pennsylvania 68% of those under 30 voted for the Democrat over the Jon Stewart maligned Rick Santorum. Much higher than any other age group.
In the overwhelmingly Republican state of Montana, where the race was decided by less than 3,000 votes (at last count), 56% of young people voted for the Democratic challenger over the scandal tainted incumbent. The incumbent, Burns, had once argued that President Bush had a secret plan to win the war in Iraq. John Stewart joked that a vote for the challenging Democrat was a vote for blowing President Bush's super-secret plan for Iraq.
The list, of course, goes on, but I can't cite every case. Anyway, do me a favor and just read the whole thing.
Office Space: Anatomy of a Crime
What sends Milton over the edge: was it the Swingline incident or the excessive TPS reports?
If you don't think that's funny, then you are banned for life. I'm serious. And mind the commenting rules while you're at it.
Airman's Family Needs Help
A terrible event has struck a family of one of our nation's Airmen. An Airman First Class from my unit has an eleven year old brother who was severely injured when he was hit by a garbage truck.
The eleven year old brother had to have part of his liver removed, doctors are trying to repair his broken pelvic bone, and his right arm had to be amputated just below the shoulder. As of yesterday morning, he had undergone six surgeries and doctors don't know how many more are needed.
Our Airman is currently in North Carolina helping her family the best she can. I'm here in Colorado helping her other family (US Air Force Family) help her family.
The father is a proud veteran who is covered by TRICARE for most of the medical needs. However, at this time the family has to come up with over $6,000 to cover the medical bills that TRICARE will not cover. This is an incredible burden on our Airman and her family.
I'm asking that you open your wallets and see if you can help. Please use the donate link at Conservative Thinking if you can spare a few dollars to help out. I will be handing that money to another Staff Sergeant who is heading up the collection here in my squadron.
Every bit helps.
Chris Short
Cartoon Protester Guilty of Inciting Racial Hatred
Mizanur Rahman was found guilty of inciting racial hatred but acquitted of charges of inciting murder for his involvement at a rally protesting cartoon depictions of Mohammed in which he called for the killing of British soldiers, the murder of blasphemers, and prayed for 'another 9/11 all over Europe'.
The follower of exiled cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed was seen in front of the Danish embassy carrying a placard (depicted right) which said, "Behead those that insult Islam".
Report of the verdict here. I don't agree with laws that make it illegal to incite to hatred, but surely urging on your enemies in a time of war is sedition if not treason.
He will be sentenced at a later time. Here is some of what Mizanur Rahman's said at the rally. Prepare for the worst:
'Oh Allah, we want to see another 9/11 in Iraq, another 9/11 in Denmark, another 9/11 in Spain, in France, all over Europe. Oh Allah, destroy all of them, Amen'."
"Bomb, bomb France. Bomb, bomb France. Nuke, nuke France. Nuke, nuke France."
"We don't want to see them [British soldiers] in Baghdad or in Iraq any more. We want to see them coming home in body bags. We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad and Fallujah."
"We want to see the Mujahideen shoot down their planes like the way they shoot down birds. We want to see their tanks burnt, just like we burn their flags."
"We want to see their freedoms destroyed. We want to see all of them removed from Muslim land. Oh, Allah don't leave any of them alive in Iraq, don't leave any of them alive in Afghanistan, don't leave any of them standing in France."
Rahman later made a non-apology apology saying:
"I feel almost ashamed. I feel the words didn't make sense. I didn't think anyone would take me seriously."
Almost ashamed? In that case I'm almost sorry he were found guilty. And I almost hesitate to add that hanging Rahman would almost be too good for him.
Hat tip Glen Jenvey for the e-mail.
The Myth of Media Bias
What a difference a day makes. Texas Rainmaker notes these two headlines.
Before Elections:
Poverty, anger with government fueling Taliban support in Afghanistan
After Elections:
Poll: Afghans express confidence in country’s direction, security
Then there's Ace's observation that MSNBC links the Democratic victory to the all time high stock market--never mind the fact that the stock market had broken all time high records for the past two weeks.
Hella good.
Anti-War Protester Kills Self, Nation Applauds
What do you call a protester who sets himself on fire to atone for America's sins in Iraq? A good protester.
Moderate Republicans : Conservatives "Solely Responsible" for GOP Defeats
I really did think this was a spoof when I first saw it:
Far Right Soley Responsible for Democratic Gains
Leadership Ignored Centrist Concerns,
Chose to Pursue Far Right's Legislative Agenda
"Republican candidates all across the country were hit by Democratic ads attacking the GOP for failure to raise the minimum wage, failure to advance embryonic stem cell research, and failure to pass strong ethics and lobbying reform," continued Resnick. "If leadership had listened to our centrists members, we could have taken issues like this off the table. Centrist Republicans in the House and Senate pushed all session for an increase in the minimum wage, for expanded embryonic stem cell research, and for real ethics and lobbying reform."
Apparently, "denial" still ain't just a river in Egypt.
The New GOP House Leadership--Vote Next Friday?
NZ Bear is organizing a blogger initiative to make sure the new GOP House leadership is comprised of true reformers and not the old guard that got us into this mess. Time's a wasting--looks like the vote's taking place next week.
NZ's post is here.
Hugh Hewitt's talking along similar lines.
The new House GOP leadership will be the first battle to wrest control of the GOP from the business-as-usual crowd. I suggest that those of us in the reformist camp show up--and that we show up ready to fight.
Camp Lejeune's Little Ballerinas Thank You All
Remember the little ballerinas at Camp Lejeune who needed help for their recitals?
Reposted from Pam at Iraq War Today:
Thank You from Camp Lejeune's Ballerinas
From Lauren:
To all who so generously gave to these Camp Lejeune Ballerinas:
Yeah! We've reached our goals! You all not only helped us raise the money for the December recital, but you also helped us raise the money to cover the May recital! I want to thank you all so much for your efforts and your generous hearts. These little girls are SO excited. When I told them in class on Thursday that we have enough for both recitals, they all started clapping and squealing "yeah!" Many of the costumes have already started being shipped. So on Thursday, I took a few of them in to make sure that they were going to fit some of the kids. Their eyes were as big as quarters! I wouldn't let them touch the costumes (white) until they washed their hands. You've never seen little girls so eager to wash their hands. They were so careful touching them. And of course, the parents kept coming up to me saying, "Thank you Lauren, this means so much to us." Many of them had tears in their eyes, (including Marines). So you all have touch the hearts of not only my dancers and me, but also the parents. Thank you all again for your generous gifts to my little dancers. This will be something they remember for the rest of their lives. And since several of their dads are deployed and will be gone during this recital, I know that it comforts them to know that their sweet daughters have something so wonderful to look forward to this holiday season! Thank you again!!!
Lauren Kelly-Hill
Thank you to all the bloggers, Angels, readers, and others who helped to make these recitals special for these wonderful little girls and their families. You all ROCK!
RedState : We Fight On
I was going to write something along these lines, but the folks at RedState summed it up just fine:
Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh said he felt liberated because he was "no longer going to have to carry the water for people who [he doesn't] think deserve having their water carried." A lot of people got bent out of shape by his candor, but we agree with him 100%, and deep down we think most of you do too. For the past several months, RedState has been critical of the GOP with a gentle prodding and we have been muted when we wanted to avoid shooting the party's electoral chances in the foot. We've been fighting the good fight knowing that the Democrat alternative was worse, even with the miserable state of the Republican party. Yes, it is liberating now. We don't have to worry that something we'll say will negatively impact turnout of the base in the midterms. That's just life. As We've said on the front page before, "Suck it up." We're conservatives first, but in the general election, we're on the Republican team.
France Tests New ICBM
(Biscarrosse, France) Sacre bleu! France is modernizing its nuclear arsenal with a new missile intended for submarine launch. Deployment is expected around 2010.
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Pell's Floating from the Ground Up
Submitted by Alex Rawls on May 27, 2014 - 6:57am
[Updated] Pell doesn’t sound like a New Orleans rapper. His new album lives up to its title, Floating While Dreaming, with an ethereal defined by airy keyboard textures and spare, comparatively small drums and bass in the mix. He’d like to think his music would have been the same had he gone through his formative years in New Orleans, but Hurricane Katrina forced his mom to leave the St.
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Voodoo, Ballers, and a Fest for Fess
Submitted by Alex Rawls on November 1, 2013 - 7:38am
The Spilt Milk team picks our favorites for the week, including Voodoo, STS9, a Ball for Ballers, Chelsea Light Moving, Lupe Fiasco, Thee Oh Sees, Robert Glasper, two more nights of Widespread Panic, and Fess Fest 2013.
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Jazz Fest Playlist: Dee-1
Submitted by Alex Rawls on April 30, 2013 - 10:12pm
[My Spilt Milk has asked a number of artists performing this weekend to select playlists of music that is meaningful to them. Thursday, hip-hop artist Dee-1 plays Jazz Fest. Here's his list. For more on Dee-1, here is our podcast interview with him.]
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Tav Mania, Tim Maia & New Green Day and Mumford
Submitted by Alex Rawls on September 29, 2012 - 5:17pm
This Week's Spotify Soundtrack previews new music from Melody's Echo Chamber, Green Day, Sotho Sounds and Kreayshawn (with Sissy Nobby); and shows by Santigold, Victor Wooten, Dinosaur Jr., TOPS and more.
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Lupe Fiasco, 2-Cent and More Discuss the B Word
Submitted by Alex Rawls on August 2, 2012 - 1:49pm
"I thought 'fiasco' meant something else."
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The Theory of Everything a Romantic Triumph: Color Me Surprised
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (2014)
Directed by James Marsh
Focus Features, PG-13, 123 minutes
Let me start with a confession. Had I been in the producers’ room when writer Anthony McCarten pitched a script for a love story based on the life of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking I would have walked out muttering, “Are you freakin’ kidding me?” That’s one of the reasons I’m not a producer—that and the lack of tens of millions of dollars of gambling money. A bit like the film’s protagonist, The Theory of Everything succeeds despite the odds against it. To add to its improbable triumph, the film is skillfully (if a bit straight forwardly) directed by James Marsh, whose previous credits consist mostly of made-for-TV films, documentaries, and the offbeat Wisconsin Death Trip (1999).
The story begins at Cambridge University in 1963, where the brash and carefree Hawking (Tom Prior for young Stephen, then Eddie Redmayne) is making his mark through a combination of bluster and brilliance, the latter mostly half-baked until structured by don and mentor Professor Dennis Sciama (David Thewlis). Hawking is what you might expect of a physics geek—gawky, socially gauche, and prone to pretension. That begins to change when he meets future first wife Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) also brilliant, though a faithful Anglican studying Romance languages and literature. The sequence is chronological: courtship, early onset of ALS, marriage, care giving, family, fame, marital strain. By the time the Hawkings’ second (of three) children is born in 1970, their romance is unconventional to say the least. ALS is a horrendous degenerative disease that renders its victims increasingly unable to control basic motor functions such as walking, writing, speaking, or swallowing. Most stricken with ALS suffer their first symptoms when they are older than 50 and most pass within three years—remarkably, Hawking (72) has now lived with ALS for 50 years.
The Theory of Everything references Hawking’s desire to explain the beginning of the Universe. As such, the film touches upon his theories of singularity, black holes, radiation, and gravitational singularity. Hawking is renowned for his marriage of Einstein’s general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. But don’t worry—you won’t need a Ph.D. in physics to get any of this. One of the film’s virtues is rendering complex scientific ideas in lay terms. Plus, the key to Hawking’s thought centers on how he factored time into his equations. Time, in fact, is an un-credited actor in this film. If the Big Bang created the Universe, the mechanics and mathematics of time suggest it will end much the same way. But this film is about the microcosm not the macro, and we watch as Stephen’s relationship with Jane moves more toward a final whimper, not a massive explosion even though the disintegrating impact of Stephen’s illness appears as an inevitable arc. In like fashion, Jane’s romance with good-hearted Jonathan Hellyer-Jones (Charlie Cox) and Stephen’s for caregiver (and second wife) Elaine Mason (Maxine Peake) unfold languidly in ways that parallel Hawking’s doubts about his earlier conclusions about the Big Bang. The film’s wonderful ending sequence similarly makes us rethink how time unfolds.
All of this is to say that The Theory of Everything is a romance, not a science film. At times you’ll wonder if the Universe is lubricated with schmaltz, but luckily these excesses are few in number. Mostly we muse upon the age-old question of what any of us would do for love, and the film certainly takes some of heroic/angelic luster from Hawking. His disease is to be pitied, but not his bouts of superciliousness, his egoism, or his horn-dog Hustler-induced love of pornography. The film is very well acted. Critics have, of course, praised Redmayne’s performance and he rightly deserves props for the sheer physicality of portraying a man who is losing his own. In my view, though, Ms. Jones gives a superior performance as she must convince us she is a simmering volcano that will not allow herself to explode. As in all British productions, all the secondary and minor characters are filled by skilled actors rather than shiny faces. Special praise goes to Thewlis, a much underappreciated actor, and to Cox, who plays the man-in-waiting to hangdog perfection.
Just so you know, this is another “based on a true story” tale that isn’t literally true. Jane, for instance, did not abandon her career to be Stephen’s nurse; she lived in London during the week, finished her Ph.D., and is now a professor. Nor did Hawking find his soul mate in Mason—the two quietly divorced in 2006. Take this film for what it is—a romance that, even when it goes over the top, makes us contemplate love as more than swelling music and unalloyed bliss. –Rob Weir
Alexander Calder: See the Exhibit in Salem Before January 4
Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic
Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Through January 4, 2015
Want to start an instant argument? Ask a group of people to name the most influential artists of all time. How does one even begin to frame such a debate? Does one judge by what art critics say? Probably not; many of them wax rhapsodic over classical works that bore modern viewers or conceptual pieces they ignore. By the highest values obtained on the open market? Surely not–unless one values art as a mere commodity. Heaven forbid it would be by the number of pieces sold. By such reckoning Vincent Van Gogh was an utter flop and Thomas Kinkade is a master. But if we frame the question according to a standard of lives affected, surely Alexander Calder (1898—1976) must be considered in the top tier.
Think I exaggerate? Is there an infant born in the Western world after 1932 who did not have a mobile hanging over his or her crib and playpen? Calder's art or, more accurately, the idea of art he first unleashed has been the first impression of art that nine (and counting) decades' worth of children ever saw or thrilled over. Calder's idea was at once simple and complex: liberate sculpture from its earthly anchor. In times B.C. (Before Calder) sculptures sat squat; in the A.C. era they could move. It was Marcel Duchamp, a man who also liked bending convention, who dubbed them "mobiles," a French double pun that translates as both mobile and motive. Duchamp may have suspected Calder's motive was commercial, but it's fair to say that Calder liberated more than wallets.
Mobiles are a simple idea, but as a show at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem reveals, any erstwhile Calder wannabe had better know a few things about mathematics and physics. The same generations that grew up with Calder also contains legions of frustrated crafters who learned the hard way that unless one knows about weights, counterweights, ratios, and balances the line between imagination and ineptitude is far broader than one of Calder's delicate wires. The PEM has several of Calder's sketches framed by his creations and each shows that there's much more to a mobile than choosing a few cool shapes and stringing them on tiered axes.
The PEM show is small, but choice. It is one of the better-lighted exhibits I've ever attended, the curators keenly aware that the interplay of shape, shadow, and dynamism is part of Calder's magic. The chosen shapes evoke geometry as imagined by surrealists, but also frequently suggest birds or leaves. As well they should because the real show is the shadows they cast while in motion. Calder's mobiles are at once compositions and decompositions. I stood transfixed before one larger work whose shadows suggested a city crumbling, then rebuilding in time to collapse anew. In fact, my only criticism of the PEM show was that more air circulation in the gallery would have increased the inherent malleability of Calder's pieces.
Wadsworth Museum, Hartford
There were, toward the end of the gallery, a few of Calder's stabiles as well. These struck me as relatively uninteresting after witnessing the fluidity of light, shadow, shape, and air inherent in the mobiles. I must confess, though, that I've never been particularly drawn to Calder's stabiles. They give color to public spaces such as the courtyard of Hartford's Wadsworth Athenaeum but, to me, their industrial solidity serves mainly to call my attention to how oddly out of sorts they seem to be with their staid surroundings. But oh to dance with the wispy shadows…
This show is closing in January and the PEM is its only East Coast showing. It's worth making the trek to Salem to see it. You can wile away the cold by walking behind the museum and taking a one-block stroll to the A&J King Bakery for a coffee and amazing pastries. It's a nice way to spend an early winter's morning, if you ask me. Rob Weir
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Bar essentials: The Fly In The Loaf
Liverpool Confidential's lowdown on pubs and bars that we've found ourselves in this week
FORMERLY Kirkland's bakery and for years the semi-legendary Kirklands wine bar where people as diverse as The Teardrop Explodes and George Melly played, The Fly in the Loaf opened in March 2004. Last year BBC Radio 5 Live listeners voted it the best pub in the UK.
The Grade II-listed building boast one of the prettiest pub exteriors in town, and still has the original mosaic floor from when it first opened as a bakery in 1888.
Rather bizarrely there's also a pulpit inside. Can we take then as gospel, that it's "the best specialist beer pub in North England"? That's the claim made by Dominic Hornsby who runs the place. He's entitled to maintain he knows a thing or two about the beer industry, having previously run The Dispensary on Renshaw Street. And they do like to keep the pub talk in Dominic's family: His other half, Fiona Watkin, is licensee of Rigby's in Dale Street.
Why go there?
Quite simply, if you're into your beer there aren't many better places than The Fly. There are over 50 lagers and real ales available at any time, and from all over the globe. The Isle of Man Okells and Fuller's Discovery are the mainstays, while some of the guest ales are so popular that they disappear within half an hour. They also do a very impressive lunch menu. Try the green Thai curry or the impossibly massive Fly Burger which the chef cooks on a whim and which tastes a lot better than it sounds.
The Cologne-based Früh Kölsch is a well favoured choice amongst the punters. Or try the aforementioned Discovery. First introduced to appeal to the lager drinker, it's cold and refreshing hoppy taste puts most other lagers we've tasted in the shade. In fact we liked it so much that we returned the next day to become better acquainted. Our Australian colleague was so impressed by this particular amber nectar that he was smacking his lips all the way back home to, er, Chorley.
Anyone and everyone. Professionals, vagrants, students, young and old, often at the start of a night out. When we went, there was a stag do featuring men in pink tutus, and a rather glamorous looking lady. We also noticed a “gentleman of the afternoon” drinking an Erdinger on the raised seating area overlooking Hardman Street, which is particularly good for observing the crapulous buying their bevvies from Ten till Ten across the road. Was Matt (pictured) undertaking a spying mission or simply in the Fly "to watch the world go by whilst having a good beer" as he claimed?
That's Entertainment?
In the great world of the pub, there's an array of added extras – but not, as yet, a traditional Thai massage (unless you know different).
We're talking quiz nights, karaoke, open mic evenings, fruit machines, pool tables. You won't find any such things in The Fly. It knows what it does and does it well. Yes, there are a few TVs which make watching a game of football over a pint possible.
As for everything else Dominic is very clear: "I don't claim to be a restaurateur, I don't claim to be a cocktail bar. If someone came in asking for a cocktail I'd send them to The Living Room and I hope if they got asked for a fine ale, they'd send the customer up this way". The Fly does beer. It does lovely beer, with fast, efficient service. What else do you really need?
What's the craic?
The stag dos have already been mentioned, but other than that, the Fly is reserved - and not for snakebite enthusiasts. There's plenty of scope for a good craic, however Mr Hornsby does say this: "I don't care whether you're the Queen of England. If you misbehave, I'll throw you out".
No flies on this place.
Fly In The Loaf,
35a Hardman Street,
Liverpool L1
LCoq porterMay 21st 2008.
She'll have been sinking a few pints of Stella, or 'Old Dukebeater' as it is popularly known.
MadgeMay 21st 2008.
Old Dukebeater? I prefer a Bacorgi & Coke with a couple of Maamalade butties
Melvin Carferry IIIMay 21st 2008.
I do believe that shifty looking fellow in the sky blue top is none other than the imfamous hungarian beer guzzler Laszlo Pratcics. Laszlo loved the beer in Liverpool so much that he stayed after university and can often been seen in the fly and other pubs of the areas entertaining the locals with stories of his eccentric family back in Hungary.
We are not amusedMay 21st 2008.
Is that an oral joke, an oral joke, or an awful joke?
Paul HoganMay 21st 2008.
Me and my cobbas love this pub, it does the best Fullers Discovery Blond Ale in the city, crikey am i turning into a Pom, I love it!
Black SheepMay 21st 2008.
I think the place is great but it could do with better ventilation! We were all sweating cobs in the dark, airless rear last Friday evening. Has the smoking ban led to managers thinking they no longer need to run the extractor fans or the air conditioners?
LizzieMay 21st 2008.
You can't even speak the Queen's English. Innit
Fly on the wallMay 21st 2008.
I've never seen Her Majesty looking so menacing. She's scaring me
Cains BoulevardMay 21st 2008.
Or maybe she'll go to the Living Room for a Bacorgi and Coke
What I meant to say was: Is that an oral joke, an aural joke or an awful joke?
Cock LePickerMay 21st 2008.
'Fly is so fly it's my favouritest damn pub in the whole of Liverpool village. Hot barmaids (can we call them that now? Are they alehouse sanctuary seekers or suchforth?) and as the Hulk said, excellent Fullers on tap. Which is odd, because I don't generally like anything southern.
B. JaysusMay 21st 2008.
"Craic"? The word is actually 'crack', the expression originates in Lancashire from where it spread to Ireland and this bogus 'craic' spelling was invented by the Irish Tourism Board quite recently. To compound its phoneyness it was taken up by the 'Oirish theme' pubs in England to take in the sort of chumps who prefer their Guinness 'Extra Cold' so they don't have to taste it.
Lady in waiting saysMay 21st 2008.
Phillip recommends the Ales in this public house and is looking forward to poppng in for a quick pint during his city tour on Thursday.
The real LizMay 21st 2008.
It's always been a Gin & Monarch for me
London Pride RoadMay 21st 2008.
She's opening the arena tomorrow and will have a chance to nip in if she wants to get away from all the twats down there.
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Dreaming the Cuban diaspora
The Cuban Revolution as a
Dream of Diaspora
By Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Al terminar el sueño, soñaba que estaba en el principio de la noche,
en el sitio donde se iniciaba la inscripción de los soplos benévolos.
José Lezama Lima[1]
Every Cuban exile is at some point shocked by the writings of Cuban ex-exile Reinaldo Arenas. Arenas is not an exile anymore, because he put an end to this own condition in December 1990. The Cuban Diaspora is the hyper-realistic dream a successful succession of suicides.
In his novel-apoteosis The Color Of Summer,[2] Arenas’ literary legacy becomes an anthology of dreams. Dreams dreamt in Cuba and outside Cuba, but always about Cuba. As a whole generation of gay geniuses, Arenas also was HIV-positive and rapidly developed a mortal variant of AIDS. As he laid dying in a public hospital of New York, he kept on dictating the colorful sounds of this summoning summer.
He had been diagnosed in 1987. Three years later we find him finishing his agonic autobiography Before Night Falls, much later to be adapted in cinema by Julian Schnabel. And he was also dictating to his remaining friends and lovers, every time fewer and fewer as Arenas’ health deteriorated, the tragic-comic carnival of The Color of Summer, with its one thousand-and-one characters, including, of course, Fidel Castro, as well as most Cuban writers on the Island and in Exile, a faustic and caustic feast which is one of the saddest testaments of delirium in the history of Cuban literature. In the history of Cuba. In history.
Many of those turn-of-the-old-century “impossible dreams”[3] of Reinaldo Arenas are now the turn-of-the-new-century impassable dreams of Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, flashbacks from the Cuban debacle that, as a neo-exile myself now, I keep on sharing them as if they were my own dreams, thus becoming a virtual vandal, a fool on the web posting dream after dream without any kind of credit in my @OLPL Twitter account:
I dreamed of a cataclysm. I dreamed of a bench alongside the ocean where I’d go in the evenings and just sit. I dreamed that I turned on the faucet and there was water. I dreamed of a pair of comfortable false teeth. I dreamed of a typewriter with an ñ. I dreamed of an almond tree growing in front of my house. I dreamed of a river with green water that said to me: Come, come, here lies the end of your desires. I dreamed that a naked angel came and carried me away. I dreamed of a city like the one I lost, but free. I dreamed that all the horror of the world was a dream.
Sleepless in the last stages of his back then quite mysterious disease, Reinaldo Arenas, knew that “there will be no rock, or doorway, or tree, or shrub that will not be fuel for our desolation and despair,” and well aware of “the merciless certainty that there is no escape. Because it is not possible to escape the color of summer. Because that color, that sadness, that petrified flight, that sparkling, gleaming, glaring tragedy ―that knowledge― is us.” That’s why he finally asked to a god in whom he had never had faith: “O Lord, don’t let me just melt away in these interminable summers. Let me be a meteor-like flash of horror that comes and is gone forever…”[4]
Arenas confessed in Before Night Falls[5] that “writing is not a profession, it is a curse.” During his ten years outside of Cuba he “realized that an exile has no place anywhere, because there is no place, because the place where we started to dream, where we discovered the natural world around us, read our first book, loved for the first time, is always the world of our dreams.” For him, “the exile is a person who, having lost a loved one, keeps searching for the face he loves in every new face and, forever deceiving himself, thinks he has found it,” so that “in exile one is nothing but a ghost, the shadow of someone who never achieves full reality. I ceased to exist when I went to exile; I started to run away from myself.”
Caribbean runaways, carelessly running away from ourselves. Is this definition of Arenas’ Cubanness appropriate enough for the U.S. academy, for the army of Cubanologists that pry upon the archives of Cuban literature, which can only be accessed from outside, for on the Island of Treasures nothing is treasurable anymore?
In the same book, Arenas wrote his New Thoughts of Pascal,[6] where he prophetically predicted that, as “there is only one strength: the strength of desperation,” then “the only thing that redeems a man’s life is suicide. Every great work of mankind, therefore, stems from a suicidal inspiration.”
Poor Arenas, poor Rei. Poor Cuban exiled writers without the talent of Arenas surrounding them in silence like a halo of hallucination. Pages and pages of Before Night Falls are dedicated by Arenas to this ominous oneiric universe: “dreams and nightmares have been an important part of my life. I always went to bed like someone getting ready for a long trip: […] to go to bed and switch off the light has been for me to submit to a totally unknown world, full of delicious as well as sinister promises.” To the point that “the first image I remember from my childhood is a dream, a terrible dream. I was on a reddish esplanade and huge teeth were approaching from both sides; it was an enormous mouth that made a strange sound. The closer the teeth came, the more high-pitched their sound would become; at the point they were ready to devour me, I would wake up.”
In other nights he would find himself “playing on the eaves of our house in the country and all of a sudden, due to a wrong move, I would feel the most extraordinary shivers, my hands would sweat, and I would start to slide, falling into an immense dark void; the fall would become an endless agony and I would wake up right before smashing into the ground.”
Still “at other times my dreams were in full color and extraordinary people would approach me offering me their friendship, which I accepted gladly; they were gigantic creatures with smiling faces. Later I often dreamed of Lezama, who was at a gathering in an enormous hall; music could be heard in the distance and Lezama pulled out a large pocket watch; facing him was his wife, María Luisa. I was a boy, and when I went up to him, he would open his legs and receive me smiling, while saying to María Luisa: “Look how well he is doing.” But by then Lezama was already dead.”
Dead since the mid-seventies of the Cuban Revolution who ostracized them both, Lezama and Arenas. And many others on the Island back then. That is, back now. Repressed not by the dictatorship, which in Cuba has magically disappeared, but repressed by the happiness of a whole people emancipated from its capitalist chains. Repressed by the first free territory in the Americas, as the slogans chanted. Repressed by the only country which defeated American imperialism in its own backyard, as the speeches of Fidel Castro never allowed us to forget it, anniversary after anniversary: a victory for humanity only 90 miles south from the source of all of our national evils.
Like many Cubans, like me, like probably you, Arenas “dreamed that although I had been in the United States, I was back in Cuba, I do not know why, perhaps because my plane was hijacked or because someone had deceived me by telling me I could return without any problem. I was in my hot room again, but now I could never leave; I was condemned to stay there forever. I needed to receive a special notification to go to the airport, someone had to pick me up in a car that never came; I knew I could never leave that place, and that the police would come any moment and arrest me. I had already traveled around the world and learned what freedom was, but due to some strange circumstance I was back in Cuba and could not escape. I would wake up and, seeing the deteriorating walls of my room in New York, feel an indescribable joy.”
The joy of the dying, sweetie. No mercy for the dying, unless they are definitively dead. And definitively not dangerous. So that now you can finally return to your country. Not ours. I hope you’d understand that I cannot accompany you there. Not yet. For I still have to wait for the next December of 1990 to be allowed to do. The Cuban Revolution never forgets its wandering children around the world.
In the half bucolic and half barbaric landscape of his childhood, in the rural Cuba of the 40s and 50s of the 20th century, Arenas “dreamed that when I was a kid the sea came right up to my house; it came rushing over dozens of miles, and the whole yard would be flooded. It was great to let myself float on the water; I swam for a long time in my flooded house, looking at the ceiling, taking in the briny smell of the sea that continued rushing in a torrent.”
In his childhood dreams of exile, Arenas sometime wants “to get into my mother’s house and there is a chicken-wire fence in front of the door. I repeatedly call for someone to open the door; my mother and my aunt are on the other side of the fence and I signal them. I move my hand toward my chest and birds start coming out, parrots of all colors, bigger and bigger insects and birds; I start yelling for them to open the gate, and they stare at me through the chicken wire; I continue to scream and all kinds of animals keep coming out of me, but I cannot get through the door.”
Once, while Arenas was on vacation at Miami Beach, he dreamt “a terrible dream. I was in a very large bathroom full of excrement and had to sleep there. Surrounding me were hundreds of rare birds that moved about with great difficulty. More and more of those awful birds kept coming, gradually closing all possibility of escape; the entire horizon was full of birds; they had something metallic about them, and made a dull noise; they sounded like buzzing alarms. Suddenly I realized that all those birds had managed to get into my head, and that my brain was swelling to accommodate them. As they entered my head, I grew old. This same nightmare occurred for several nights in a row while I was in Miami and I would wake up drenched in sweat.”
But then, back “in New York I once dreamed I could fly, a privilege not granted to humans, even though we gays are called pájaros [birds]. But I was in Cuba, flying over the palm trees; it was easy, you only had to believe you could do it. Soon I was flying over Fifth Avenue in Miramar, over the royal palms that line the street; the scenery was beautiful to behold while I, joyful and radiant, flew above it, over the crowns of the palm trees. I woke up here in New York still feeling that I was high in the air.”
For Cuban exiles, lightness can be as nightmarish as weight. Virgilio Piñera, a close friend of Arenas who was also censored, harassed, and no one knows if murdered in the Sovietized Havana of the mid-70s, had warned us many decades before in his long anti-epic poem The Whole Island:[7] “the luminous face of a badly born dream, / a carnival that begins with the song of a rooster, / mist covering the scandal of the savannah with its icy disguise. / […] / In confusion a people escape their skin / dozing off with the light, / the explosive drug that can bring a fatal dream / to the beautiful eyes of men and women, / their immense and shadowy eyes / through which skin enters into whatever strange rites. / […] / But the night closes over poetry and shapes disappear. / This island night’s first action is the awakening of scent. / […] / Not woman and man face to face, / but their silhouettes, face to face, / enter, to Newton’s embarrassment, / weightlessly into love. / […] / Lower, lower, and the sea stinging their backs; / a people stay next to their beast at the hour of departure, / howling at the sea, devouring fruit, sacrificing animals, / always lower, until they know the whole weight of their island; / the weight of an island in its people’s love.”
Piñera painted with words. Arenas painted with dreams of death and the lost color of the Cuban skies: “I have a huge loft, and create enormous paintings; I think the paintings I produce have to do with people dear to me; the color blue is predominant and people dissolve in it. Suddenly, Lázaro enters, young, slender; he greets me dejectedly, walks towards the large window facing the street, and jumps out. I scream and run down the stairs of my New York apartment, but as I am going down, I am back in Holguín; my gran mother is there, as well as several of my aunts. I tell them Lázaro has jumped out the window and they all run into the street; it is Tenth of October Street, where my mother lives. There, face down in the mud, lies Lázaro, dead. I lift his head and look at his beautiful, muddy face; my grandmother comes, look first at his face and then up at the heavens, saying: ‘My God, why?’ I later tried to interpret this dream in various ways: it was not Lázaro who died but me; he is my double; the person I love most is the symbol of my destruction. For that reason it made sense that those rushing to see the body were my relatives, not Lázaro’s.”
Blue is a recurrent color for the refugees of a red Revolution, the pariahs of proletarian’s paradise. Red flags, red school uniforms, red street banners, red headlines in the newspapers, red Sundays of volunteer work. To read red in and out the rhetoric of a tropical totalitarian Redvolution. Blue is the remaining resistance for the losers fleeing away from the monochromatic rainbow of historic materialism. Blue means weak, vulnerability. Blue is the glue that calls for all those vanishing womanish Cuban exiles, only good for typing ta-ta-ta in their typing machines, while being absolutely useless for holding a machine gun to shoot ra-ta-ta-ta-ta in defense of their own homeland, always on the verge of the long and long dreamt invasion by a foreign foes. Blue is foreign, fake, fragile, fugitive. Blue is the new pink.
Cristina García, in her 1992 short-stories of Dreaming in Cuban,[8] recollects part of this domestic and at the same time political bluelescence. One of her many female characters,[9] prefers to paint only in blue, in this case out for sheer bluestalgia, for “until I returned to Cuba, I never realized how many blues exist. The aquamarines near the shoreline, the azures of deeper waters, the eggshell blues beneath my grandmother’s eyes, the fragile indigos tracking her hands. There’s a blue, too, in the curves of the palms, and the edges of the words we speak, a blue tinge to the sand and the seashells and the plump gulls on the beach. The mole by Abuela’s mouth is also blue, a vanishing blue. ‘These are very beautiful, Pilar,’” says Celia to her granddaughter: “‘But do I really look so unhappy?’”
[1] Lezama Lima, J. Cangrejos, golondrinas. In: Cuentos, Ed. Letras Cubanas, La Habana, 1987. (When his dream was over, he dreamt of being at the beginning of night, in the place where the inscription of all benevolent blowing is initiated.)
[2] Arenas, R. The Color Of Summer Or The New Garden Of Earthly Delights. (Translated by Andrew Hurley.) Viking, Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 2000.
[3] Arenas, R. Impossible Dreams. In: The Color Of Summer Or The New Garden Of Earthly Delights. (Translated by Andrew Hurley.) Viking, Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 2000, pp. 240-241.
[4] Arenas, R. A Prayer. In: The Color Of Summer Or The New Garden Of Earthly Delights. (Translated by Andrew Hurley.) Viking, Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 2000, pp. 365-366.
[5] Arenas, R. Before Night Falls. (Translated by Dolores M. Koch) Viking, New York, 1993.
[6] Arenas, R. Nouveaux Pensées de Pascal, ou Pensées d’Enfer. In: The Color Of Summer Or The New Garden Of Earthly Delights. (Translated by Andrew Hurley.) Viking, Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 2000, pp. 167-169.
[7] Piñera, V. La isla en peso. The Whole Island. (Translated by Mark Weiss.) Shearsman Books Ltd, London, 2010.
[8] García, C. Dreaming in Cuban. Ballantine Books, New York, 1992.
[9] García, C. The Fire Between Them. In: Dreaming in Cuban. Ballantine Books, New York, 1992, pp. 75-95.
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Cope Returns to Haddington - as the Prestonpans Tapestry recounts @ St Mary's September 10th/ 15th
Cope Returns to Haddington .... September 10th/ 15th 2011 .. he's at St Mary's Church: 11 am/ 4 pm [Sunday 1.30pm/ 4pm]
He arrived at Dunbar from Aberdeen by barge with his redcoat army which had already been wrong footed in the Highlands. From Dunbar he moved as swiftly as he could towards Edinburgh and his first stop was Haddington. En route his soldiers passed through a host of local communities and interrupted a wedding!
From September 10th/ 15th at St Mary's in Haddington the whole story of the Prince's successful campaign from Eriskay to Prestonpans and Edinburgh can be revisited in the panels of the outstanding Prestonpans Tapestry.
A series of events is also being organised and full details will be posted here at the website as soon as they are finalised.
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Published Date: August 30th 2011
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The undulating black cotton soil strips, cut by numerous nalas, characterise the region of the Dharwar schists, which is now practically denuded of trees and presents a monotonous landscape, while the gneissic region is generally more or less broken and covered with a thin mantle of red loamy soil. Gneissic hills, Sedimentary formations, which cover a small belt of the region adjoining the confluence of the Krishna and the Tungabhadra rivers, occupy more or less flat plateaus.
Regionally viewed, the hills in the area present some structural features which are of interest in relation to the geology of the area: 1) Taking the most south westerly group, the hills of Karigudda, Manvi and Rabhinakal show a continuity along roughly north-west south-east directions: 2) from Sirwar and Yermasagar, running in a roughly south-east direction, may be recognised the hill of Madhugiri, Neermanvi, Gorkal, Kurvi and the one two miles west of Kamalahatti; 3) between Masarakal and Gabbur, a number of gneissic hills are seen at Kakargal. Jinnapur, Hungundabad. Ramdurga, Jagatkal, Khardigud, Maladkal and Gabbur . The hills around Uttanur are seen to be in line with the south-western group of hillocks in the above areaas also the hill-clusters around Kalmala and Kallur, are seen to be situated in the same north-west and South-east disposition as that of the group of gneissic hills enumerated above; and 4) the hills around Raichur, which constitute a prominent landmark in the area, may also be seen roughly to display north-west and south-east trends.
Raichur district lies between 15 deg. 09 min. and 16 deg. 34 min. N latitude and 75 deg. 46 min. and 77 deg. 35 min E longitude and in between two major rivers, namely, the Krishna and the Tungabhadra. The general slope of the district is from the north-west towards the south-east, its average height above the Mean Sea-Level being just 1,311 feet>
General boundaries
The district is bounded on the north by the district of Gulbarga, on the west by the districts of Bijapur and Dharwar, on the east by the district of Mahboobnagar of Andhra Pradesh, and on the south by the districts of Kurnool, also of Andhra Pradesh and Bellary. The two rivers, the Krishna and the Tungabhadra, form the entire northern and southern boundaries of the district.
The region around Lingsugur, gets the least amount of rainfall in the district while towards the south as well as the east, rainfall increases. During the south-west monsoon months, viz., June to September, the district received about 71% of the annual rainfall, September being the month with the highest rainfall. In the post-monsoon months of October and November also, the district receives some rain. The variations in the annual rainfall from year to year are large as is the case in the neighbouring districts.
The district on the whole has a dry climate, the period from November to May being the driest part of the year. Even during the south-west monsoon period, the humidities are not very high.
Skies are moderately to heavily clouded in the south-west monsoon months. In the post-monsoon months, clouding is somewhat less. Clear or lightly clouded skies are common in the rest of the year.
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OHIO's "Meezy" Lights up the Polls @ Ciphernews.com by a Landslide For the 2nd Day In A Row!
Posted by Meezy on April 3, 2008 at 2:29am
Recently Meezy was informed by the Ciphernews.com editor that he was chosen to be previewed and given a chance to be rated, all around the world, in the April Issue, 1st edition! He was chosen for his new hit song "Take It" which has had instant success since it's arrival to the Hip Hop charts on MySpace, RapHead, and IndieCharts!
The Ciphernews.com's April Issue, 1st addition premieres music and interviews from Hip Hop artists/groups such as Eastern Supremacy rep'n North Dakota, Diagram of Truth rep'n Illinois, Meezy rep'n Ohio, and Big Syke (from the Tupac founded rap group "The Outlawz") rep'n Cali, jus to name a few!... (You can still go there now n' listen to the tracks and vote on the best song via signing the sites guestbook and commenting on the song or artist of your choice!)...SO GO VOTE!!!
Anyways, the voting polls started around 6:30 pm yeasterday and as the polls slowed down later in the night, it was an unexpected win by landslide in the favor of Meezy rep'n Ohio with 32 votes, the rest of the competition 0! The site actually had to be reset and upgraded early this morning due to heavy traffic and voting!...NO BULLSHIT! The down side to that tho was that all tallied votes, ALL MEEZY'S, were lost and couldn't be recovered! The Good news tho is that for the 2nd day in a row, your boy Meezy is ONCE AGAIN winning by a landslide! As of 10:25pm on day 2, the count is Meezy rep'n Ohio 41 votes, the rest of the competition 0!
Stop through the site n' check out the previewed artists, music, and interviews NOW n' don't 4get to vote!
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Building a kingdom…
In 2009 WATCH ME BLEED released their debut-album “Souldrinker”, which led to good reviews as well as many concerts and festivals throughout Europe.
Well done, but there was more on the minds of Markus Pohl (Mystic Prophecy), Steffen Theurer (ex-Symphorce) and the two shouters Chris Rodens and Alex Gindu.
Drummer Steffen Theurer said: „It was a real challenge for us to write a follow-up; ‘Souldrinker’ was good for a debut, but we wanted something different. We were looking for a producer and songwriting-partner, someone who would understand what we want and who would force us to give our best in terms of writing and playing“
In March 2011 WATCH ME BLEED teamed up with Producer Eike Freese to start writing songs for their new album. “No rules, no bullshit” quickly was the headline for the following six month of pre-production. Eike Freese became an important part of the band, and him not only being the producer, but being a full-time songwriting-partner made all the songs on this album something really special for the band.
After these intense months of writing new material, the recording started in October 2011. The band laid down ten tracks of head-crushing metal.
Shouter Alex Gindu about the whole writing- and recording-process: „Eike gave us the confidence to go beyond what we had done before, this time really unleashing the blood-red beast“.
Here come the red…
Heavy, raw and big – the new album was born. Its in-your-face with a big groove, heavy riffs and keen dynamics, and the powerful and aggressive vocals of two front men combine to produce an immediate and accessible slice of physical metal.
Or as shouter Chris Rodens says: “We’re not trying to break new frontiers…we just want to break people’s necks!!!”
Combining technical finesse with raw power, melting Thrash- and Death-Metal to a heavy, riff-driven monster and delivering it with the force of a jackhammer – that is WATCH ME BLEED’s new album, their ‘Kingdom’.
Guitarist Markus Pohl commented on the album-title: “’Kingdom’ is our statement. It’s our world. Come in and find out. It’s a big ‘Fuck you!!!’ to all the people who can’t stand loud guitars, pounding drums and aggressive vocalists. That’s us, raw, heavy and loud”
Bottom line, Watch Me Bleed is heavy, pissed and raw – and if you like the heaviness and the groove of PANTERA and LAMB OF GOD combined with the mightiness of AMON AMARTH, do not hesitate to enter their ‘Kingdom’.
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Ihsanoghlu brags about the “Istanbul Process” and how he bamboozled Shrillary to sign article 16/18
January 8, 2013 sheikyermami 2 Comments
Not  sure whether he really had to ‘bamboozle’ her. Huma Abedin, Shrillary’s lesbian lover who is said to hold ‘Svengali’-like powers over her, would have already taken care of that.
Ihsanoghlu’s Katzenjammer gets results. Western polit-props are buying brown lipstick like never before:
OIC SG Ihsanoglu: Religious Intolerance Unaccaptable (sic)
Sounds like “we have ways to make you like Islam”….
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that no one bothered to admit that it was a wrong behavior when arrogant cartoons were published in 2005 and 2006.
ISTANBUL — Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu on Monday said that no one bothered to admit that it was a wrong behavior when arrogant cartoons were published in 2005 and 2006.
Delivering the opening remarks of a meeting on “religious intolerance” in the north-western province of Istanbul on Monday, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu underlined that the same countries reacted very differently in the light of recent cartoons and (an anti-Islam) movie.
“They apologized. They stressed that the movie was an exploitation of freedom of expression. They underlined that they would not accept such a movie. It is highly important to come to this point in eight years,” Ihsanoglu indicated.
(Invest in brown lipstick, people! There is no end to this cocksuckery!)
“This meeting of ours in Istanbul is a crucial milestone of a multifaceted, multisided, diplomatic and legal process against Islamophobia, and on the campaign initiated against Islam and its prophet,” Ihsanoglu noted.
OIC top dog fulminates against new Muhammad cartoons as “abuse of freedom of expression”
“Since the first day I assumed office, we have been able to see the adoption of resolutions defending Islam and condemning the attacks against Islam at the United Nations General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva,” Ihsanoglu said.
“Such resolutions were adopted with our own votes and with the support of friendly countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, as well as with the support of countries such as Russia and China,” Ihsanoglu stated.
“European countries and the United States did not accept this and they took different decisions. In order to avoid polarization, we assumed a different attitude and I offered a new plan with eight articles in a speech delivered at the UN Human Rights Council in 2010 to reach a consensus,” Ihsanoglu reminded.
“The plan was firstly accepted by the U.S. government and later by the European governments. The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted the 8-article plan unanimously and the same resolution was adopted at the UN General Assembly six months later,” Ihsanoglu said.
“In July 2011, we began the meeting named ‘Istanbul Process’ with the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The meeting aimed to give political support to the 8-article plan known as “16/18″,” Ihsanoglu expressed.
“The ‘Istanbul Process’ took place in Washington and was held in London last month and continued,” Ihsanoglu stated.
“As the international community, we study the eight articles. Our successful process was a diplomatic one and a diplomatic victory. Political support came after that. It is getting stronger with time. The issue to be discussed today by the wisemen is how “16/18″ will be implemented. We will discuss the sanctions from the view of international law…what would happen when arrogant cartoons get drawn or a movie gets shot,” Ihsanoglu said.
“The decisions to be taken are not binding. However, they will have significance at an international political level,” Ihsanoglu also said.
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UPDATE 5: Januar 7, 2013 (source) from Sheik Yer’Mami … The issue to be discussed today by the wisemen is how “16/18″ will be implemented. We will discuss THE SANCTIONS FROM THE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW…what would happen when arrogant(?) cartoons get drawn or a movie gets shot,” Ihsanoglu said. …
http://schnellmann.org/biography-of-the-prophet-illustrated.html
Fit in the freedom of speech (US 1st amendment) … or F*ck off, OIC!
OIC Summit: Ten-year strategic action plan:
… 3. Endeavor to have the United Nations adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia, and call upon all States to enact laws to counter it, including deterrent punishments.
4. Initiate a structured and sustained dialogue in order to project the true values of Islam e.g. Allah, Q.5:38 “(thieves) AMPUTATE their HANDS” and empower Muslim countries to help in the war against extremism and terrorism (Islam is a terrorist organzation Q. 3:151, 59:2, 8:12, 8:59/60)
http://schnellmann.org/hr-resolution-16-18-criminalisation-of-criticism-of-islam.html
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Stupid Berries (Blackberry 7100t)
Posted by james on Feb. 20, 2006
I've been on the search for a smart phone (ie. a phone plus extra crap). Specifically, I want something with great text input and calendar'ing, and above all a flexible Todo list. The phone must sync to my computer (and <b>not</b> use Outlook!). I want to be able to move the individual items on my Todo list up and down at will, position them however I want. I don't want to deal with "priorities", "dates", or other nonsense to auto-order the list, I want control over that. Haven't seen a phone that lets me do that yet.
I recently got a <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1651988,00.asp">Blackberry 7100t</a> for T-Mobile. I've been interested in Blackberries, as they started out as text only and evolved into phones. The keyboard is great, QWERTY, 2 letters per key with numbers laid on top. It uses the guessing as you type thing, and I've found I can type faster on that then any other pda/phone type device. Awesome. The text guessing software needs a few tweaks (sometimes it just comes up with random words of garbage letters instead of a commonly used word. Totally Gwkbrded!), but overall I'm surprised how fast and easy it is. Much better than ABC phones (alphabetic 3 letter per key).
But the software stinks. The interface is definitely very email/corporate focused. You must sync to Outlook, which I do not want to do. There's optional "connectors" for other software, but they don't have a standalone PIM like the Palm Desktop (outdated and clunky, but good enough) and nothing for Thunderbird (can't blame them, but still...). They have a scrollwheel that you click (which is a little hard to click easily, bad feel). It's like a right click on windows, pops up a context menu with about 10-20 items on it.
Message someone? Scroll the wheel through numerous icons to "Address Book", find the person (scroll or type), click and get a menu:
-Hide Menu
-Filter
-New Address
-New Group
-View
-Delete
-Call [the person]
-SMS [the person]
-SIM Phone Book
-Options
-Close
Ok, I want "SMS Smappy Mcgoo". Scroll, find it, click. Then type easily (love that keyboard). Done, so I click:
-Send
-Save Draft
-Edit AutoText
-Show Symbols
-Enable Multitap
-Change Language
Find send, click that.
This whole "one finger does everything" business is great for people who must do the whole process with 1 hand, want to send something out, and are willing to spend the time running through the menus. It is not great for quick glance type of stuff, ie in the car or just doing things quickly/efficiently.
Some menus are so big they scroll past the screen (so you can't see it all at once), in relatively small font. Great, that's not a UI nightmare. Plus, some things are just confusing. Someone tells me a number, so I type it in first and then want to add it to the address book. I can't without calling them first. What the heck?
So Blackberries are out. And while a <a href="http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo650/">Palm</a> would fare a bit better, maybe there's something better out there. Maybe a <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/sony-ericssons-m600-3g-tri-band-gsm-cellphone/">Symbian</a> next?
Dog Sick.
Last weekend I was sick as a dog. I don't really know what that means, maybe that I had long droopy ears, my sense of smell was 10 times better than a normal person's, and I always landed on my feet. More accurately, I couldn't smell much, was sore all over, and tripped/dropped things often. Which I suppose is very dog-like.
One thing; you know how people normally lose weight while they're cold? Usually cause they lose their appetite. Well, I couldn't stop eating. In fact, this whole past week I've been hungrier than normal, combined with being much more tired every afternoon. Yay.
I'm going to now wildly promise incredible updates to this site, new layout, new code, pictures bigger than a 1.5x3 index card (!) very soon now! In fact, I have no plans of doing so, but I figure at least I'd give you guys some hope. What you can expect is... a thumbnail on the main rants page linking to pictures. Man, so exciting.
Version Number Creep (aka Meaningless Marketing Crap from Java)
I've seen a whole bunch of programs now that use version numbers as pseudo-meaningful symantic nonsense. Usually this involves changing version numbers for no real reason.
The latest incident; Java. Java had so much promise and potential when it was first designed/released. Then for some reason the acceptance was rocky and it had a very hard start. It's gaining popularity now, especially in server software. So I've finally decided to jump into it.
But what is "it"? What do I need to learn? And how do I get it? I know I want the java that is used as the backend of server application processing. Does that mean JRE 1.5, J2SE 1.4 RE, J2EE 1.5 SDK, Java 5.0? What the heck? So first we're faced with a myriad of products, with no clear guide for the newbie. My questions; what are all the different products and how do they fit in the big picture? Now I know:
The runtime environment (RE) is just the "let clients run your programs" thing. Or from another standpoint, "I just want to run this java program."
The SDK is the programmers toolkit. It lets you make java programmers. It's the "compiler".
Java 2 is the overarching 2nd rev. of the language, released 5 years ago. For some reason they've broken it down so it's really:
Java 2 version 1.4, and
Java 2 version 1.5 aka 5.0
Umm... 5.0? Yes, that's right. They've gone from version 1.4 to 5.0 because it "better reflects the level of maturity, stability, scalability and security built into J2SE". That's a very nice way to say "everyone knows bigger numbers are better. Java is so good, it's 5.0 good!" This is so wrong.
Version numbers are supposed to mean something; they're supposed to mean that the later the version number, the later the software. 2.0 comes after 1.0. 1.5 comes after 1.0 and before 2.0. Simple. Then there's the now widely accepted convention that 1.0 means "ready for prime time", or "ready for most public users". But if you jump from 1.4 to 5.0, what does that mean? Then if at the same time you make 1.5 = 5.0? And all of that is for Java 2, so now it's really:
Java version 2 version 1.4,
or the newer Java version 2 version 1.5 aka Java version 2 version 5.0
When Java 3 comes along, will it come after Java version 2 version 5.0, or will it fall between Java version 2 version 1.4 and Java version 2 version 5.0 as the new Java version 2 version 3.0? And now we have Java EE version 5.0. Guess what that really is... <a href="#hint" style="color:gray; font-size:80%; text-decoration:none;">(hint)</a>.
As if that isn't confusing, we still have
SE vs EE (standard vs. enterprise... what's the difference?)
Beans (what are they?)
Struts (Action, Shale, or Classic?)
Java server faces
Tomcat/JBoss/Websphere
You can do about 20 searches and read for quite a few hours to figure that all out. Or there could be a very simple page that gives very general descriptions about where they all fit together. It can be simplistic. It can be overly general. That's fine. We just need to know what is what, and which of those we want.
The current litmus test is to download "Java". If you just happen upon the right download, great. But if you see all these options and don't already know which one is what you want, you're stuck in this mire of Java duplicity and ambiguity. Sweet! I can't imagine why Java wasn't more popular before now!
What would I do differently? First there would be Java 1.0. Then you make some changes. When you change the language significantly, you go to Java 2.0 (or if you've already hit 2.0, then go to 3.0). Then if you want, break that into SE and EE (but please, explain to us the difference). And have a single page or set of pages that points everyone in the right direction.
The clearest comparison I have is a fruit loops box. You know those oh-so-clever mazes that lead the tucan with the big nose through dangers and pitfalls to the magical box of cereal at the end? Now imagine you the developer on one side (the "start"), your goal (the system you want to build) on the other (the "end"), and littered in the middle are all the different flavors and extensions of java as colorful little icons along the maze. The instructions read: "Help developer Sam find his way to the Web Application Server Farm! You must hit all the different technologies that you'll need, and avoid those that you don't because they'll slow you down. Hurry, you've only got 8 months including server accreditation documentation, testing, and integration efforts!" Oh, that'll be a fun maze. Good thing you have a million different (ie. conflicting) java versions and no clear guideline as to what each thing is.
Next up on the block; Slackware 7. What happened to 5 and 6? Why, Mr. Volkerding, <a href="http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general#0">why</a>!!?!
<a name="hint" style="color:gray; font-size:80%;">Java EE version 5.0 is the EE version of Java version 2 SE version 1.5 aka Java version 2 SE version 5.0. Fun!</a>
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An electrical shock occurs when your hand or some other part of your body comes in contact with a source of electrical current and your body provides an unintended path and “completes the circuit” between the electric source and ground. This electrical shock can simply cause a minor jolt; but it can also be fatal!
This unintended path between an electrical source and a grounded surface is called a “Ground Fault,” which means that the electricity or current is leaking or flowing elsewhere than its intended use (such as a hair dryer, electric mixer, lamp or appliance). The path that the current takes to ground is critical. If it’s a piece of equipment, the equipment could be damaged or destroyed. If it’s you, your child or your pet, serious injury, even death, could result.
How much voltage is dangerous?
Electrocution can occur with ordinary household voltages of 110V or less. The real measure of a shock’s intensity is the amount of current or amperage that travels though your body, not necessarily the strength of the source of voltage. In fact, any current over 10 milliamps (0.01 amp) can produce a painful to severe shock; currents between 100 mA and 200 mA (0.1 to 0.2 amp) can be lethal.
Protecting your home and family
A ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) is an electrical device that protects people by detecting potentially dangerous ground faults and quickly shutting off the power. In essence, the GFCI device monitors the balance between the current leaving the GFCI device and the current returning to it. If the difference between the outgoing and returning current is equal to or less that 5 milliamps (5/1000 of 1.0 amp), then everything is OK and the device stays on. Any imbalance greater than 5 milliamps will disconnect the power and prevent the potentially fatal shock.
What locations need a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) installation?
Most local communities follow the National Electrical Code (NFPA) requirements for home GFCI installations (http://www.nfpa.org).
Dwelling Units: All 125-volt, single-phase, 15- and 20-ampere receptacles installed in the locations specified in (1) through (8) shall have ground-fault circuit-interrupter protection for personnel.
Crawl spaces — at or below grade level
Unfinished basements
Kitchens — where the receptacles are installed to serve the countertop surfaces
Laundry, utility and wet bar sinks — where the receptacles are installed within six feet (6′) of the outside edge of the sink
Owners of homes that do not have GFCls installed in all those critical areas specified in the latest version of the Code should consider having them installed.
A ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) should be used whenever operating electrically powered garden equipment (mower, hedge trimmer, edger, etc.). Consumers also need the protection of GFCIs when using electric tools (drills, saws, sanders, etc.).
In contemporary homes, schools, park districts, health clubs, etc., there may be other areas where GFCIs would be required, such as near swimming pools, in pool houses, near hot tubs and whirlpools, and in greenhouses near water supplies. And for older or historic buildings, it is important to upgrade with GFCIs and to revise wiring, outlets and indoor and outdoor light fixtures for modern health and safety codes.
Testing GFCIs
All GFCIs should be tested once a month to make sure they are working properly and are protecting you from fatal shock. GFCIs should be tested after installation to make sure they are working properly.
To test the GFCI receptacle, first plug a light into the outlet. The light should be on, and then press the “TEST” button on the GFCI. The GFCIs “RESET” button should pop out, and the light should go out.
If the “RESET” button pops out but the light does not go out, the GFCI has been improperly wired. Contact a qualified electrician to correct the wiring errors.
If the “RESET” button does not pop out, the GFCI is defective and should be replaced.
If the GFCI is functioning properly, and the light goes out, press the “RESET” button to restore power to the outlet and the light should go back on.
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The bestselling MCSA 70-470 study guide, updated for the latest exam MCSA Windows Server 2016 Study Guide is your ultimate resource for Exam 70-740. Covering 100% of all exam objectives, this study guide goes far beyond concept review with real-world scenarios containing expert insights, chapter review questions, hands-on practice exercises while the Sybex interactive learning environment provides additional last minute review through practice exams, electronic flashcards, and searchable glossary. This new edition has been fully updated to align with the Windows Server 2016 exam, featuring authoritative coverage of installation, configuration, server roles, Hyper-V, core network services, Active Directory, Group Policy, security, remote access, disaster recovery, and more. The vast majority of servers around the world use Windows Server, and the 2016 release includes a host of new features and updates. This study guide has been updated to prepare you for these changes so you can be confident on exam day and beyond. Study 100% of Exam 70-740 objectives Gain hands-on practice performing critical tasks Link concept to practice through real-world scenarios Access to the Sybex interactive learning environment Whether you want to sit for the exam, or simply improve your job performance, this Sybex study guide will give you the expert insight to learn the key concepts and latest updates to Windows Server 2016.
Joel Stidley Exchange Server 2010 Administration. Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-662 and 70-663)
A soup-to-nuts guide for messaging administrators Exchange Server is the world’s leading e-mail server software. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 have made changes that messaging administrators need to know and understand in their daily work with Exchange Server. This Sybex guide focuses on the skills, concepts, technologies, and potential pitfalls that admins in the trenches need to understand. It also provides the information they need to earn MCITP certification. Updates in Exchange Server, the world’s leading e-mail server software, require messaging administrators to update their knowledge in order to provide the best possible e-mail solutions Highly focused and comprehensive, this guide teaches you to design a highly available e-mail messaging server, install and configure Exchange Server 2010, work with recipients, groups and mailboxes, configure public folders, secure Exchange, and more CD includesvideo walkthroughs of more difficult tasks, practice exams, and electronic flashcards. Exchange Server 2010 Administration offers real-world knowledge that messaging admins need every day and helps prepare candidates for the MCITP certification exam. CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
William Panek MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation and Configuration Study Guide. Exam 70-410
Master Windows Server installation and configuration with hands-on practice and interactive study aids for the MCSA: Windows Server 2012 R2 exam 70-410 MCSA: Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation and Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-410 provides complete preparation for exam 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2. With comprehensive coverage of all exam topics and plenty of hands-on practice, this self-paced guide is the ideal resource for those preparing for the MCSA on Windows Server 2012 R2. Real-world scenarios demonstrate how the lessons are applied in everyday settings. Readers also get access to the interactive practice tests, electronic flashcards, and video demonstration of the more difficult tasks, which help readers fully understand the scope of principles at work. Exam 70-410 is one of three exams MCSA candidates must take to obtain their MCSA: Windows Server 2012 R2. The test is aligned with the 2012 update to the Windows server operating system, and so is the book. This study guide contains everything users need to know for the exam, including the 2012 update's changes to Hyper-V and Active Directory. Avoid surprises on exam day, and master the material while learning to: Install and configure Windows Server 2012 R2 Configure Hyper-V and server roles and features Install and administer Active Directory Manage Group Policy Exam prep is about more than passing the test—it helps you gain hands-on experience performing more complex operations, giving you the confidence you need to successfully apply what you've learned in a work environment. If you're looking to triumph over the MCSA exam 70-410, MCSA: Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation and Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-410 provides the information and practice you need.
David Hunter A. A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. Deciding What to Do and Believe
A thoroughly updated introduction to the concepts, methods, and standards of critical thinking, A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is a unique presentation of the formal strategies used when thinking through reasons and arguments in many areas of expertise. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking, the book offers a broad conception of critical thinking and explores the practical relevance to conducting research across fields such as, business, education, and the biological sciences. Applying rigor when necessary, the Second Edition maintains an informal approach to the fundamental core concepts of critical thinking. With practical strategies for defining, analyzing, and evaluating reasons and arguments, the book illustrates how the concept of an argument extends beyond philosophical roots into experimentation, testing, measurement, and policy development and assessment. Featuring plenty of updated exercises for a wide range of subject areas, A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition also includes: Numerous real-world examples from many fields of research, which reflect the applicability of critical thinking in everyday life New topical coverage, including the nature of reasons, assertion and supposing, narrow and broad definitions, circumstantial reasons, and reasoning about causal claims Selected answers to various exercises to provide readers with instantaneous feedback to support and extend the lessons A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for courses on critical thinking and logic at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as an appropriate reference for anyone with a general interest in critical thinking skills.
William Panek MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Configuring Advanced Services Study Guide. Exam 70-412
The bestselling MCSA study guide, with expert instruction and hands-on practice MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Configuring Advanced Services Study Guide provides focused preparation for exam 70-412 and is fully updated to align with the latest Windows Server 2012 R2 objectives. This comprehensive guide covers 100 percent of all exam objective domains, and includes hundreds of practice questions and answers. You get access to video demonstrations, electronic flashcards, and practice exams, and hands-on exercises based on real-world scenarios allow you to apply your skills to everyday tasks. Organized by objective, each chapter includes review questions and a list of Exam Essentials that help you judge your level of preparedness every step of the way. Exam 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services is the third and final exam in the MCSA certification series, and was recently updated to cover Server R2. Additions include enhancements to Hyper-V, Storage Spaces, and Active Directory, so it's crucial that your study guide be up to date as well. This book covers the entire exam, including the new information, with expert instruction and easy-to-follow explanation that helps you to: Configure network services, high availability, information protection, and more Implement business continuity and disaster recovery solutions Get hands-on practice in real-world scenarios Pass this one last exam and you become a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – someone with trusted, demonstrated expertise in the server software with over 83 percent market share. Businesses rely on Windows Server, and the people who understand them are in demand. Thorough preparation is the key to exam success, and MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Configuring Advanced Services Study Guide provides all the information you need to know.
William Panek MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Administration Study Guide. Exam 70-411
Complete exam coverage, hands-on practice, and interactive study tools for the MCSA: Administering Windows Server 2012 R2 exam 70-411 MCSA: Windows Server 2012 R2 Administration Study Guide: Exam 70-411 provides comprehensive preparation for exam 70-411: Administering Windows Server 2012 R2. With full coverage of all exam domains, this guide contains everything you need to know to be fully prepared on test day. Real-world scenarios illustrate the practical applications of the lessons, and hands-on exercises allow you to test yourself against everyday tasks. You get access to an interactive practice test environment that helps you avoid surprises on exam day, plus electronic flashcards and video demonstrations showing how to perform some of the more difficult tasks. Exam 70-411 is one of three exams you must pass to become a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) on Windows Server 2012 R2 and a clear path to increasing your value and marketability in the workplace. The exam reflects the 2012 update to the OS, including the new enhancements to Hyper-V, Storage Spaces, and Active Directory. This guide gives you the information and practice you need to master all aspects of Windows Server 2012 R2 for test. Learn how to: Deploy, manage, and maintain servers Configure file and print servers, network services, and more Manage and configure Active Directory and Group Policy Review real-world scenarios, video, and interactive study aids If you're looking to master Windows server administration before the exam, MCSA: Windows Server 2012 R2 Administration Study Guide is a complete and comprehensive prep tool to give you the confidence you need to succeed.
William Panek MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Complete Study Guide. Exams 70-410, 70-411, 70-412, and 70-417
Prepare for the MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Exams Microsoft's new version of the MCSA certification for Windows Server 2012 R2 requires passing three exams (or one Upgrade exam if you have your MCSA or MCITP in Windows Server 2008). This value-priced study guide includes more than 1,000 pages of quality exam-prep content, covering 100% of the objective domains of all three exams (as well as the Upgrade exam, 70-417). In addition, you get access to an interactive practice test environment with more than 500 questions, electronic flashcards, and videos showing how to perform the more difficult tasks. Both first-time MCSA candidates and those wishing to upgrade from Server 2008 certification will benefit from this complete test-prep guide. Completely updated to cover the Windows Server 2012 R2 Exams Provides a comprehensive study guide for all three MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 exams: 70-410, 70-411, and 70-412, as well as the Upgrade exam: 70-417 Covers installing and configuring Windows Server 2012; deploying and configuring DNS service; administering Active Directory; creating and managing Group Policy Objects; and configuring server roles and features, Hyper-V, and core networking services Explains basic networking concepts, DHCP, deploying and maintaining servers, configuring a network policy server infrastructure and high availability in Windows Server 2012, and much more Features real-world scenarios, hands-on exercises, practice exam questions, electronic flashcards, and over an hour of video demonstrations Covers all exam objectives MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Complete Study Guide arms you with all the information you must master to achieve MCSA certification on Windows Server 2012 R2.
Patrick LeBlanc Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Bible
Harness the powerful new SQL Server 2012 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is the most significant update to this product since 2005, and it may change how database administrators and developers perform many aspects of their jobs. If you're a database administrator or developer, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Bible teaches you everything you need to take full advantage of this major release. This detailed guide not only covers all the new features of SQL Server 2012, it also shows you step by step how to develop top-notch SQL Server databases and new data connections and keep your databases performing at peak. The book is crammed with specific examples, sample code, and a host of tips, workarounds, and best practices. In addition, downloadable code is available from the book's companion web site, which you can use to jumpstart your own projects. Serves as an authoritative guide to Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 for database administrators and developers Covers all the software's new features and capabilities, including SQL Azure for cloud computing, enhancements to client connectivity, and new functionality that ensures high-availability of mission-critical applications Explains major new changes to the SQL Server Business Intelligence tools, such as Integration, Reporting, and Analysis Services Demonstrates tasks both graphically and in SQL code to enhance your learning Provides source code from the companion web site, which you can use as a basis for your own projects Explores tips, smart workarounds, and best practices to help you on the job Get thoroughly up to speed on SQL Server 2012 with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Bible.
Epstein S. K. A Practical Guide to Mechanical Ventilation
A new, case-oriented and practical guide to one of the core techniques in respiratory medicine and critical care. Concise, practical reference designed for use in the critical care setting Case-oriented content is organised according to commonly encountered clinical scenarios Flow charts and algorithms delineate appropriate treatment protocols
William Panek MCSA Windows Server 2012 Complete Study Guide. Exams 70-410, 70-411, 70-412, and 70-417
Prepare for the MCSA Windows Server 2012 exams with this Sybex study guide Microsoft's new version of the MCSA certification for Windows Server 2012 requires passing three exams. This value-priced study guide includes more than 1,000 pages of quality exam-prep content, covering 100 percent of the objective domains of all three exams (as well as the Upgrade exam, 70-417). Also includes more than 500 practice questions. You also have access to three bonus exams, electronic flashcards, and videos showing how to perform the more difficult tasks. Both first-time MCSA candidates and those wishing to upgrade from Server 2008 certification will benefit from this complete test-prep guide. Provides a comprehensive study guide for all three MCSA Windows Server 2012 exams: 70-410, 70-411, and 70-412, as well as the Upgrade exam: 70-417 Covers installing and configuring Windows Server 2012; deploying and configuring DNS service; administering Active Directory; creating and managing Group Policy Objects; and configuring server roles and features, Hyper-V, and core networking services Explains basic networking concepts, DHCP, deploying and maintaining servers, configuring a network policy server infrastructure and high availability in Windows Server 2012, and much more Features real-world scenarios, hands-on exercises, practice exams, electronic flashcards, and over an hour of video demonstrations Covers all exam objectives MCSA Windows Server 2012 Complete Study Guide arms you with all the information you must master to achieve MCSA certification on Windows Server 2012.
John Dugan P. Leadership Theory. Facilitator's Guide for Cultivating Critical Perspectives
The facilitator's guide brings to life the content of the survey text, Leadership Theory. It offers instructive advice on how to prepare for the use of a critical perspective as well as providing practical resources to translate survey text content to practice. The facilitator's guide consists of: An overview of how to use the guide as well as recommended skills and reflection questions for educators prior to implementing material. Objectives, critical concepts, a chapter overview, and a chapter framework for each chapter from Leadership Theory Lesson plan «walk-throughs» containing 2-3 activities for each chapter of the survey text, with information for learning outcomes, activity setup, and additional notes for facilitation.
Michael Kallet Think Smarter. Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills
Train your brain for better decisions, problem solving, and innovation Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills is the comprehensive guide to training your brain to do more for you. Written by a critical thinking trainer and coach, the book presents a pragmatic set of tools to apply critical thinking techniques to everyday business issues. Think Smarter is filled with real world examples that demonstrate how the tools work in action, in addition to dozens of practice exercises applicable across industries and functions, Think Smarter is a versatile resource for individuals, managers, students, and corporate training programs. Thinking is the foundation of everything you do, but we rely largely on automatic thinking to process information, often resulting in misunderstandings and errors. Shifting over to critical thinking means thinking purposefully using a framework and toolset, enabling thought processes that lead to better decisions, faster problem solving, and creative innovation. Think Smarter provides clear, actionable steps toward improving your critical thinking skills, plus exercises that clarify complex concepts by putting theory into practice. Features include: A comprehensive critical thinking framework Over twenty-five «tools» to help you think more critically Critical thinking implementation for functions and activities Examples of the real-world use of each tool Learn what questions to ask, how to uncover the real problem to solve, and mistakes to avoid. Recognize assumptions your can rely on versus those without merit, and train your brain to tick through your mental toolbox to arrive at more innovative solutions. Critical thinking is the top skill on the wish list in the business world, and sharpening your ability can have profound affects throughout all facets of life. Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills provides a roadmap to more effective and productive thought.
Ken Cyr St. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administration Instant Reference
Questions about Exchange Server 2010? Flip open this easy-access guide! Have all your questions about Microsoft's new Exchange Server 2010 answered on the spot with this handy reference guide. Designed for easy access with special headings, thumb tabs, easy-to-read lists, and more, this book is the perfect quick resource for those day-to-day issues that come up just when you least expect them. Covers the number one product of its kind, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Offers a quick-access reference for your day-to-day administration of Exchange Server 2010 Includes thumb tabs, secondary and tertiary tables of contents, and special heading treatments to provide quick and easy lookup, as well as quick-reference tables, lists, and step-by-step instruction to provide Exchange administrators answers on the spot Keep this helpful, handy guide within easy reach.
Tom Carpenter SQL Server 2008 Administration. Real-World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-432 and 70-450)
The ideal on-the-job reference guide for SQL Server 2008 database administrators If you manage and administer SQL Server 2008 in the real world, you need this detailed guide at your desk. From planning to disaster recovery, this practical book explores tasks and scenarios that a working SQL Server DBA faces regularly and shows you step by step how to handle them. Topics include installation and configuration, creating databases and tables, optimizing the database server, planning for high availability, and more. And, if you're preparing for MCTS or MCITP certification in SQL Server 2008 administration, this book is the perfect supplement to your preparation, featuring a CD with practice exams, flashcards, and video walkthroughs of the more difficult administrative tasks Delves into Microsoft's SQL Server 2008, a rich set of enterprise-level database services for business-critical applications Explores the skills you'll need on the job as a SQL Server 2008 administrator Shows you how to implement, maintain, and repair the SQL Server database, including bonus videos on the CD where the authors walks you through the more difficult tasks Covers database design, installation and configuration, creating databases and tables, security, backup and high availability, and more Supplements your preparation for MCTS and MCITP SQL Server 2008 certification with in-depth coverage of the skill sets required for certification, as defined by Microsoft Uses hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios to keep what you're learning grounded in the reality of the workplace Make sure you're not only prepared for certification, but also for your job as a SQL Server 2008 administrator, with this practical reference! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Aldridge Paul Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing
Your step-by-step guide to key emergency and critical care procedures and hands-on nursing care. Whether you need to know how to prioritise your response to a patient with multiple injuries, or you need a quick practical guide to fluid therapy, this is the go-to resource. Colour photographs of real life cases take you through the procedures and after-care, detailing essential skills. This book provides vital information for emergency and critical care situations, whether you’re looking for confidence in handling emergency cases in a first-opinion practice, or a relevant, succinct guide for an emergency clinic. Be inspired to become more confident in your clinical skills and abilities, and learn how to apply your existing skills to an emergency situation. A companion website provides additional resources useful in the management of emergency and critical patients. Visit the website to find information charts and video clips of procedures. Written by a veterinary nurse and a veterinary surgeon who work together in the largest UK emergency clinic, this book is a practical, how-to manual with a nursing focus. Suitable as a complete reference for nurses studying towards qualifications, or as a practical guide for daily use by veterinary nurses working in veterinary emergency and critical care.
Valentine Cunningham Victorian Poets. A Critical Reader
Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism on Victorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field Illustrates the full range of critical approaches to the Victorian poets, including attention to texts, words, forms, modes, and sub-genres Offers fresh reinterpretations, many driven by contemporary ideological interests, including gender questions, selfhood, and body issues
Martin Woodward Professional Team Foundation Server 2013
Team Foundation Server is now for everyone! Team Foundation Server is an integral part of Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management suite for managing and delivering software projects. The 2013 update has opened up TFS for everyone by expanding capabilities to support iOS, MacOS, Android, and Java development. Professional Team Foundation Server 2013 covers the latest updates for Agile Project Management, Test-Case Management, Release Management, and shows new users the TFS workflow for managing and delivering products. The authors leverage their positions as MVP Microsoft insiders to guide you step-by-step through all things TFS, as well as help prepare you for the Team Foundation Server Certification Exam. Provides a broad overview of Team Foundation Server for developers, software project managers, testers, business analysts, and others wanting to learn how to use TFS Gives TFS administrators the tools they need to efficiently monitor and manage the TFS environment Covers core TFS functions including project management, work item tracking, version control, test case management, build automation, reporting Explains extensibility options and how to write extensions for TFS Helps certification candidates prepare for the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 certification exam Professional Team Foundation Server 2013 is the ultimate guide to mastering this invaluable developer's tool.
David Elfassy Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
The bestselling guide to Exchange Server, fully updated for the newest version Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is touted as a solution for lowering the total cost of ownership, whether deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Like the earlier editions, this comprehensive guide covers every aspect of installing, configuring, and managing this multifaceted collaboration system. It offers Windows systems administrators and consultants a complete tutorial and reference, ideal for anyone installing Exchange Server for the first time or those migrating from an earlier Exchange Server version. Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is a messaging system that allows for access to e-mail, voicemail, and calendars from a variety of devices and any location, making it ideal for the enterprise With more than 21,000 copies of earlier editions sold, this comprehensive guide offers systems administrators and consultants both a tutorial and a reference guide for installing and managing Exchange Server 2013 A team of Microsoft Certified Masters walks you step by step through planning and design, installation, administration and management, maintenance, and more Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is the complete reference for planning, installing, and maintaining the most popular e-mail server product available.
Bean John C. Engaging Ideas. The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.
Christian Bolton Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting
Hands-on troubleshooting methods on the most recent release of SQL Server The 2012 release of SQL Server is the most significant one since 2005 and introduces an abundance of new features. This critical book provides in-depth coverage of best practices for troubleshooting performance problems based on a solid understanding of both SQL Server and Windows internals and shows experienced DBAs how to ensure reliable performance. The team of authors shows you how to master the use of specific troubleshooting tools and how to interpret their output so you can quickly identify and resolve any performance issue on any server running SQL Server. Covers the core technical topics required to understand how SQL Server and Windows should be working Shares best practices so that you know how to proactively monitor and avoid problems Shows how to use tools to quickly gather, analyze, and effectively respond to the source of a system-wide performance issue Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting helps you to quickly become familiar with the changes of this new release so that you can best handle database performance and troubleshooting.
Geoff Daniels Essential Guide to Blood Groups
Essential Guide to Blood Groups is the only pocket sized guide to provide essential information on blood group systems. The main aim of the blood transfusion laboratory is to promote safe blood transfusion. The avoidance of errors, from sample receipt and laboratory testing through to the release of blood for transfusion, is of paramount importance. Knowledge of immunohaematology theory and its application to blood transfusion together with the principles of good laboratory practice are essential. This handbook helps to address these important issues and also covers: • the serology, inheritance, biochemistry, and molecular genetics of the most important blood group systems • their clinical importance • techniques used in blood grouping, troubleshooting, and quality assurance This unique and practical guide: • is written by leaders in the field, including the author of the best seller Human Blood Groups • provides the basic knowledge of blood groups needed by all those working in the important fields of transfusion medicine and science. • helps in resolving commonly encountered problems Essential Guide to Blood Groups will be valuable for undergraduate medical laboratory scientists and for postgraduate scientists and medical practitioners training to specialise in transfusion and transplantation. As a pocket edition, it will also be a useful addition to other reference works on blood groups for quick access to information for medical practitioners and in red cell immunohaematology laboratories.
Todd Lammle CompTIA Network+ Study Guide. Exam N10-006
Covers 100% of exam objectives, including explaining the functions and applications of various network devices, using appropriate monitoring tools, implementing network hardening techniques, troubleshooting and resolving common wireless issues, and much more… Includes interactive online learning environment and study tools with: + 2 custom practice exams + More than 100 Electronic Flashcards + Searchable key term glossary Your complete guide to preparing for CompTIA Network+ Exam N10-006 The CompTIA Network+ Study Guide, 3rd Edition is your one-stop resource for complete coverage of Exam N10-006. This Sybex Study Guide covers 100% of all exam N10-006 objectives. You'll prepare for the exam smarter and faster with Sybex thanks to superior content including, assessment tests that check exam readiness, objective map, real-world scenarios, hands-on exercises, key topic exam essentials, and challenging chapter review questions. Reinforce what you have learned with the exclusive Sybex online learning environment and test bank, accessible across multiple devices. Get prepared for the CompTIA Network+ exam with Sybex. Coverage of 100% of all exam objectives in this Study Guide means you'll be ready for: Comparing and contrasting the use of networking services and applications Installing and configuring network services/applications Analyzing metrics and reports from monitoring and tracking performance tools Using appropriate resources to support configuration management Comparing and contrasting common network vulnerabilities and threats Installing and configuring a basic firewall Summarizing basic forensic concepts Implementing network troubleshooting methodology Troubleshooting and resolving common copper cable issues Troubleshooting and resolving common network issues Analyzing and determining the correct OSI layer Explaining the basics of network theory and concepts Summarizing safety practices Installing and configuring equipment in the appropriate location using best practices Interactive learning environment Take your exam prep to the next level with Sybex's superior interactive online tools. To access the learning environment, simply visit: http://sybextestbanks.wiley.com, type in your unique PIN and instantly gain access to: Interactive test bank with 2 practice exams. Practice exams help you identify areas where further review is needed. Get more than 90% of the answers correct, and you're ready to take the certification exam. 100 questions total! More than 100 Electronic Flashcards to reinforce learning and provide lastminute prep before the exam Comprehensive glossary in PDF format that gives you instant access to the key terms so you are fully prepared
Robert DiYanni Critical and Creative Thinking. A Brief Guide for Teachers
Critical and Creative Thinking: A Guide for Teachers reveals ways to develop a capacity to think both critically and creatively in practical and productive ways. Explains why critical and creative thinking complement each other with clear examples Provides a practical toolkit of cognitive techniques for generating and evaluating ideas using both creative and critical thinking Enriches the discussion of creative and critical intersections with brief “inter-chapters” based on the thinking habits of Leonardo da Vinci Offers an overview of current trends in critical and creative thinking, with applications across a spectrum of disciplines
Tom Carpenter Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Administration. Real-World Skills for MCSA Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-461, 70-462, and 70-463)
Implement, maintain, and repair SQL Server 2012 databases As the most significant update since 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 boasts updates and new features that are critical to understand. Whether you manage and administer SQL Server 2012 or are planning to get your MCSA: SQL Server 2012 certification, this book is the perfect supplement to your learning and preparation. From understanding SQL Server's roles to implementing business intelligence and reporting, this practical book explores tasks and scenarios that a working SQL Server DBA faces regularly and shows you step by step how to handle them. Includes practice exams and coverage of exam objectives for those seeking MSCA: SQL Server 2012 certification Explores the skills you'll need on the job as a SQL Server 2012 DBA Discusses designing and implementing database solutions Walks you through administrating, maintaining, and securing SQL Server 2012 Addresses implementing high availability and data distribution Includes bonus videos where the author walks you through some of the more difficult tasks expected of a DBA Featuring hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios, this resource guides you through the essentials of implementing, maintaining, and repairing SQL Server 2012 databases.
J. Y. F. Lau An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity. Think More, Think Better
A valuable guide on creativity and critical thinking to improve reasoning and decision-making skills Critical thinking skills are essential in virtually any field of study or practice where individuals need to communicate ideas, make decisions, and analyze and solve problems. An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better outlines the necessary tools for readers to become critical as well as creative thinkers. By gaining a practical and solid foundation in the basic principles that underlie critical thinking and creativity, readers will become equipped to think in a more systematic, logical, and imaginative manner. Creativity is needed to generate new ideas to solve problems, and critical thinking evaluates and improves an idea. These concepts are uniquely introduced as a unified whole due to their dependence on each other. Each chapter introduces relevant theories in conjunction with real-life examples and findings from cognitive science and psychology to illustrate how the theories can be applied in numerous fields and careers. An emphasis on how theoretical principles of reasoning can be practical and useful in everyday life is featured, and special sections on presentation techniques, the analysis of meaning, decision-making, and reasoning about personal and moral values are also highlighted. All chapters conclude with a set of exercises, and detailed solutions are provided at the end of the book. A companion website features online tutorials that further explore topics including meaning analysis, argument analysis, logic, statistics, and strategic thinking, along with additional exercises and multimedia resources for continued study. An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity is an excellent book for courses on critical thinking and logic at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The book also serves as a self-contained study guide for readers interested in the topics of critical thinking and creativity as a unified whole.
Marvin Rausand Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems. Theory and Applications
Presents the theory and methodology for reliability assessments of safety-critical functions through examples from a wide range of applications Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems: Theory and Applications provides a comprehensive introduction to reliability assessments of safety-related systems based on electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic (E/E/PE) technology. With a focus on the design and development phases of safety-critical systems, the book presents theory and methods required to document compliance with IEC 61508 and the associated sector-specific standards. Combining theory and practical applications, Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems: Theory and Applications implements key safety-related strategies and methods to meet quantitative safety integrity requirements. In addition, the book details a variety of reliability analysis methods that are needed during all stages of a safety-critical system, beginning with specification and design and advancing to operations, maintenance, and modification control. The key categories of safety life-cycle phases are featured, including strategies for the allocation of reliability performance requirements; assessment methods in relation to design; and reliability quantification in relation to operation and maintenance. Issues and benefits that arise from complex modern technology developments are featured, as well as: Real-world examples from large industry facilities with major accident potential and products owned by the general public such as cars and tools Plentiful worked examples throughout that provide readers with a deeper understanding of the core concepts and aid in the analysis and solution of common issues when assessing all facets of safety-critical systems Approaches that work on a wide scope of applications and can be applied to the analysis of any safety-critical system A brief appendix of probability theory for reference With an emphasis on how safety-critical functions are introduced into systems and facilities to prevent or mitigate the impact of an accident, this book is an excellent guide for professionals, consultants, and operators of safety-critical systems who carry out practical, risk, and reliability assessments of safety-critical systems. Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems: Theory and Applications is also a useful textbook for courses in reliability assessment of safety-critical systems and reliability engineering at the graduate-level, as well as for consulting companies offering short courses in reliability assessment of safety-critical systems.
Blazek Jody Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations. Rules, Checklists, Procedures
An essential, timesaving guide for accountants, lawyers, nonprofit executives and directors, consultants, and volunteers This book is an indispensable guide to navigating the complex maze of nonprofit tax rules and regulations. A clear and fully cited description of the requirements for the various categories of tax-exempt entities from public charities, private foundations, civic associations, business leagues, and social clubs to title-holding companies and governmental entities can be found. Practical guidance on potential for income tax on revenue-producing enterprises along with explanations of many exceptions to taxability is provided. Issues raised by Internet activity, advertising, publishing, providing services, and much more are explained. This useful guide covers the many significant issues facing nonprofit organizations, including compensation and possible private inurement, affiliation, separations and mergers, donor disclosures, lobbying and electioneering, and employment taxes. Offers a supplemental, annual update to keep subscribers current on relevant changes in IRS forms, requirements, and related tax procedures Includes easy-to-use checklists highlighting such critical concerns as tax-exempt eligibility, reporting to the IRS, and comprehensive tax compliance issues Features a variety of sample documents for private foundations, including penalty abatement requests and sharing space agreements Provides helpful practice aids, such as a comparison of the differences between public and private charities, charts reflecting lobbying limits for different types of entities, and listings of rulings and cases that illustrate permissible activity for each type of organizations compared to impermissible activity Filled with practical tips and suggestions for handling such critical situations as preparing for and surviving an IRS examination, Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations, Fifth Edition provides guidance for the significant issues facing nonprofit organizations.
Janine Brooks How to Survive Dental Performance Difficulties
How to Survive Dental Performance Difficulties offers an authoritative guide for successfully navigating and overcoming dental performance issues. Offers a practical guide for preventing and overcoming dental performance issues Highlights case studies of dental professionals who have direct experience of being referred for fitness to practise issues Includes information on the support available to dental professionals, the requirements that need to be met, and how to meet them Contains information on the effective use of evidence, improvement practice tools such as personal development plans, continuing professional education, reflective diaries, and audits Offers guidance on how to increase self-awareness and insight
Joyce Arditti A. Family Problems. Stress, Risk, and Resilience
Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience presents an interdisciplinary collection of original essays that push the boundaries of family science to reflect the increasingly diverse complexity of family concerns in the modern world. Represents the most up-to-date family problem research while addressing such contemporary issues as parental incarceration, same sex marriage, health care disparities, and welfare reform Features brief chapter introductions that provide context and direction to guide the student to the heart of what’s important in the piece that follows Includes critical thinking questions to enhance the utility of the book for classroom use Responds to family problem issues through the lens of a social justice perspective
Zhu Hua Research Methods in Intercultural Communication. A Practical Guide
Research Methods in Intercultural Communication introduces and contextualizes the most important methodological issues in the field for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Examples of these issues are which paradigms and how to research multilingually, interculturally and ethnically. Provides the first dedicated and most comprehensive volume on research methods in intercultural communication research in the last 30 years Explains new and emerging methods, as well as more established ones. These include: Matched Guise Technique, Discourse Completion Task, Critical Incident Technique, Critical Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Virtual Ethnography, Corpus Analysis, Multimodality, Conversation Analysis, Narrative Analysis, Questionnaire and Interview. Assists readers in determining the most suitable method for various research questions, conceptualizing the research process, interpreting results, and drawing conclusions Supports students from start to finish with key terms, suggestions for further reading, research summaries, and sound guidance from experienced scholars and researchers
AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide: Entities With Oil and Gas Producing Activities, 2018
First update in 4 years! As fluctuating oil prices, off-shore drilling, and other energy-related issues impact the way your clients conduct business, it i essential to have a keen understanding of the domestic and international topics and trends facing the oil and gas industry today. This 2018 edition includes over 200 pages of invaluable guidance to help accountants improve their industry knowledge, fine-tune their strategies, and provide high-quality services to their clients. This publication provides important technical guidance, summarizes new standards and practices, and delivers «how-to» advice for handling audit and accounting issues that will be critical to your success. Key Features of this title are: An updated illustrative representation letter that contains industry-specific representations. Discussion and interpretive guidance associated with FASB ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers
Linda Walsh A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches to the period by leading contemporary scholars Uses an innovative framework to emphasize the roles of tradition, modernity, and hierarchy in the production of artistic works of the period Reveals the practical issues connected with the production, sale, public and private display of art of the period Assesses eighteenth-century art’s contribution to what we now refer to as ‘modernity’ Includes numerous illustrations, and is accompanied by online resources examining art produced outside Europe and its relationship with the West, along with other useful resources
Martin Cohen Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies
Turbocharge your reasoning with Critical Thinking Just what are the ingredients of a great argument? What is the secret to communicating your ideas clearly and persuasively? And how do you see through sloppy thinking and flim-flam? If you’ve ever asked any of these questions, then this book is for you! These days, strong critical thinking skills provide a vital foundation for academic success, and Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies offers a clear and unintimidating introduction to what can otherwise be a pretty complex topic. Inside, you'll get hands-on, lively, and fun exercises that you can put to work today to improve your arguments and pin down key issues. With this accessible and friendly guide, you'll get plain-English instruction on how to identify other people's assumptions, methodology, and conclusions, evaluate evidence, and interpret texts effectively. You'll also find tips and guidance on reading between the lines, assessing validity – and even advice on when not to apply logic too rigidly! Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies: Provides tools and strategies from a range of disciplines great for developing your reflective thinking skills Offers expert guidance on sound reasoning and textual analysis Shows precisely how to use concept mapping and brainstorming to generate insights Demonstrates how critical thinking skills is a proven path to success as a student Whether you're undertaking reviews, planning research projects or just keen to give your brain a workout, Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies equips you with everything you need to succeed.
Jeremy Crampton W. Mapping. A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader. Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines Represents the first in-depth summary of the “new cartography” that has appeared since the early 1990s Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory
James Kendrick A Companion to the Action Film
An authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion to the Action Filmprovides an authoritative and in-depth guide to this internationally popular and wide-ranging genre. As the first major anthology on the action film in more than a decade, the volume offers insights into the genre’s historical development, explores its production techniques and visual poetics, and provides reflections on the numerous social, cultural, and political issues it has and continues to embody. A Companion to the Action Film offers original research and critical analysis that examines the iconic characteristics of the genre, its visual aesthetics, and its narrative traits; considers the impact of major directors and stars on the genre’s evolution; puts the action film in dialogue with various technologies and other forms of media such as graphic novels and television; and maps out new avenues of critical study for the future. This important resource: Offers a definitive guide to the action film Contains insightful contributions from a wide range of international film experts and scholars Reviews the evolution of the genre from the silent era to today’s age of digital blockbusters Offers nuanced commentary and analysis of socio-cultural issues such as race, nationality, and gender in action films Written for scholars, teachers and students in film studies, film theory, film history, genre studies, and popular culture, A Companion to the Action Film is an essential guide to one of international cinema’s most important, popular, and influential genres.
John Paul Mueller Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 For Dummies
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 was made to help you handle e-mail, meeting management, and other essential office services. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 For Dummies helps you get a handle on Exchange Server. Pretty slick, huh? Here’s the lowdown on installing and administering Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and taking advantage of all the enhancements in Service Pack 1. With this handy guide, you’ll be able to maximize the security, reliability, and speed that Exchange Server 2007 provides. Assess your organization’s needs to determine which edition of Exchange Server best meets them Explore what Exchange Server does, then plan, install, and configure it Consider how your users work with their mail and customize your set-up to facilitate their needs Learn to use the Exchange Management Console Use the new Exchange Server security features to protect e-mail from viruses, spam, phishing, and other threats Set up an offline address book, use templates, and develop custom forms Create settings for the most efficient interaction with clients, use multiple mailboxes, and view digital certificates Manage resource scheduling and interactive calendars Troubleshoot your configuration, perform regular maintenance, and be able to recover from mail-specific problems Monitor Exchange Server performance and maintain databases, mail flow, and peak performance Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 For Dummies gets you ready to exchange problems for solutions. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Aidan Finn Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide
Go-to guide for using Microsoft's updated Hyper-V as a virtualization solution Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V offers greater scalability, new components, and more options than ever before for large enterprise systems and small/medium businesses. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide is the place to start learning about this new cloud operating system. You'll get up to speed on the architecture, basic deployment and upgrading, creating virtual workloads, designing and implementing advanced network architectures, creating multitenant clouds, backup, disaster recovery, and more. The international team of expert authors offers deep technical detail, as well as hands-on exercises and plenty of real-world scenarios, so you thoroughly understand all features and how best to use them. Explains how to deploy, use, manage, and maintain the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V virtualization solutions in large enterprises and small- to medium-businesses Provides deep technical detail and plenty of exercises showing you how to work with Hyper-V in real-world settings Shows you how to quickly configure Hyper-V from the GUI and use PowerShell to script and automate common tasks Covers deploying Hyper-V hosts, managing virtual machines, network fabrics, cloud computing, and using file servers Also explores virtual SAN storage, creating guest clusters, backup and disaster recovery, using Hyper-V for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and other topics Help make your Hyper-V virtualization solution a success with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide.
Guy Hale A. Think Fast! Accurate Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Planning in Minutes a Day
Apply proven critical thinking processes and supercharge your business Alamo Learning Systems has been providing Critical Thinking Skills (CTS), problem solving, decision-making, preventive action, and innovation training solutions to the corporate world for more than 35 years. They have been at the forefront of such movements in management as ISO 9000, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing. Now, in Think Fast!, these CTS experts bring you an up-to-the-minute toolbox of strategies and tactics you can use to optimize your business. This useful and easy-to-read guide looks at real-world consumer issues, giving you top-level skills to address a wide range of practical business, professional, and life problems. Alamo's CTS solutions have been proven effective in major companies, including 200 of the current Fortune 500 Uses real examples from outside the business world to make problems and solutions widely accessible At last, the Critical Thinking Skills that have guided some of the world's most successful companies are available to readers of this insightful guide. Start rethinking your business today, and take your business skills and business results to the next level.
Learn to take advantage of the opportunities offered by SQL Server 2014 Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 update means big changes for database administrators, and you need to get up to speed quickly because your methods, workflow, and favorite techniques will be different from here on out. The update's enhanced support of large-scale enterprise databases and significant price advantage mean that SQL Server 2014 will become even more widely adopted across the industry. The update includes new backup and recovery tools, new AlwaysOn features, and enhanced cloud capabilities. In-memory OLTP, Buffer Pool Extensions for SSDs, and a new Cardinality Estimator can improve functionality and smooth out the workflow, but only if you understand their full capabilities. Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is your comprehensive guide to working with the new environment. Authors Adam Jorgensen, Bradley Ball, Ross LoForte, Steven Wort, and Brian Knight are the dream team of the SQL Server community, and they put their expertise to work guiding you through the changes. Improve oversight with better management and monitoring Protect your work with enhanced security features Upgrade performance tuning, scaling, replication, and clustering Learn new options for backup and recovery Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 includes a companion website with sample code and efficient automation utilities, plus a host of tips, tricks, and workarounds that will make your job as a DBA or database architect much easier. Stop getting frustrated with administrative issues and start taking control. Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is your roadmap to mastering the update and creating solutions that work.
Guillaume Dhérissard Soils as a Key Component of the Critical Zone 2. Societal Issues
Ultimate coverage and hands-on practice for the second MCSA Windows Server 2016 exam MCSA Windows Server 2016 Study Guide: Exam 70-741 offers complete preparation for the second exam in the MCSA series. With comprehensive coverage of all exam objectives led by a four-time Microsoft MVP winner, this book is your ideal companion for thorough preparation. Optimize your study time with hundreds of practice questions that pinpoint your weak spots, and try your hand at real-world application with exercises that reflect the MCSA skill set. Access to the Sybex interactive online practice test environment provides electronic flashcards, a glossary, practice exams and more, so you can study anywhere, any time; this invaluable study guide goes beyond mere review to help you enter the exam with full confidence in your abilities. The Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate certification puts your skills in demand—but first you must pass a series of three exams; exam 70-741 is the second step, testing your Windows 2016 networking knowledge and skills. This book covers everything you need to know, giving you the exam-day advantage of comprehensive prep. Master 100 percent of the exam objective domains Learn how these skills are applied in real-world scenarios Solidify your understanding with hands-on exercises Access electronic flashcards, practice exams, and more! How well do you deploy, manage, and maintain a server? Can you expertly configure file and print servers, network access and services, and network policy server infrastructure? Have you configured and managed Active Directory and Group Policy? Don't leave anything to chance—MCSA Windows Server 2016 Study Guide: Exam 70-741 tells you all you need to know to pass with flying colors.
Mike Davis Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Integration Services
Fill the gap between planning and doing with SSIS 2014 The 2014 release of Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services provides enhancements for managing extraction, transformation, and load operations, plus expanded in-memory capabilities, improved disaster recovery, increased scalability, and much more. The increased functionality will streamline your ETL processes and smooth out your workflow, but the catch is that your workflow must change. New tools come with new best practices, and Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Integration Services will keep you ahead of the curve. SQL Server MVP Brian Knight is the most respected name in the business, and your ultimate guide to navigating the changes to use Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services 2014 to your utmost advantage. Implement new best practices for effective use of SSIS Work through tutorials for hands-on learning of complex techniques Read case studies that illustrate the more advanced concepts Learn directly from the foremost authority on SSIS SQL Server Integration Services is a complex tool, but it's the lifeblood of your work. You need to know it inside out, and you must understand the full potential of its capabilities in order to use it effectively. You need to make sure the right architecture is in place. Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Integration Services is your roadmap to understanding SSIS on a fundamental level, and setting yourself up for success.
AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide. Gaming 2018
Most of the accounting and financial reporting practices of entities undertaking gaming or gaming-related activities (collectively referred to as «gaming entities») are essentially the same as those of other industries. However, some activities of gaming entities are unique. Developed by leading experts, this guide delivers «how-to» strategies for handling audit and accounting issues common to entities in the gaming industry, so accounts and financial managers can provide high-quality services to their clients. Updated for recent auditing standards, this guide summarizes new standards, guidance and practices, explaining the numerous activities specific to gaming entities and provides information regarding accounting and auditing for many types of gaming industry issues. Also included are illustrative independent auditor's reports and financial statements of both a non-governmental gaming entity and a governmental gaming entity. Key benefits include: Provides important technical guidance, summarizes new standards and practices, and delivers how-to advice for handling audit and accounting issues that will be critical to your success. Offers clear and practical guidance on recent developments in areas such as online gaming and governmental gaming entities. Includes helpful industry coverage of the New Jersey Casino Redevelopment Authority, currency transaction reporting in the gaming industry, the tribal gaming industry, lotteries, and analytical procedures and internal controls unique to the gaming industry. Includes an appendix that highlights FASB ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). Includes an appendix that contains the finalized revenue recognition implementation issues specific to gaming entities.
Andrew Watt Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Programming For Dummies
Create and modify databases and keep them secure Get up to speed on using T-SQL to store and manipulate data SQL Server 2005 improves an already great database management system. This book shows you how to put it to work in a hurry. You'll find out how to use the SQL Server Management Studio and the SQLCMD utility to write T-SQL code, retrieve data from single or multiple SQL Server tables, add data using the INSERT statement, and much more. * Create queries to retrieve data * Ensure SQL Server security * Use Visual Studio(r) 2005 with SQL Server * Create tables, views, and indexes * Work with Common Language Runtime * Query XML data
John Dugan P. Leadership Theory. Cultivating Critical Perspectives
An interdisciplinary survey text on leadership theory grounded using critical perspectives Leadership Theory is designed specifically for use in undergraduate or graduate classrooms providing a comprehensive overview of essential theories informing the leadership studies knowledgebase. The text infuses critical perspectives in a developmental manner that guides readers through increasingly complex ways in which theory can be deconstructed and reconstructed to enhance practice and advance social justice. The book uses compelling examples, critically reflective questions, and multiple approaches to concept illustration to cultivate readers' abilities to engage as critical learners. At the heart of this are powerful counter-narratives offering a range of insights on the challenges and rewards of leadership. Narratives represent accomplished leaders from across a broad range of fields including Eboo Patel, Mary Morten, Felice Gorordo, and more. The facilitator's guide and instructor's website supplement this with case studies, sample syllabi, structured dialogues, and learning activities tied to each chapter. Leadership texts tend to limit application of theory to a singular disciplinary context, omit important ways in which research evolves the understanding of theory, and/or lack critical evaluation of theories which diminishes the ability to translate theory to practice. This book provides a much-needed solution to these issues. Learn the nature, origin, and evolution of specific theories Understand and apply leadership theories using critical perspectives Consider the influences of ethics and justice, social location, and globalization The rapid expansion of leadership programs has thrown the dearth of suitable primary texts into sharp relief. Instructors forced to cobble together course materials from multiple piecemeal sources will find their much-needed solution in Leadership Theory.
Robert Vieira Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming
This book is written for SQL Server 2008. However, it does maintain roots going back a few versions and looks out for backward compatibility issues with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. These versions are old enough that there is little to no time spent on them except in passing. The book is oriented around developing on SQL server. Most of the concepts are agnostic to what client language you use although the examples that leverage a client language general do so in C#. For those who are migrating from early versions of SQL Server, some “gotchas” that exist any time a product has versions are discussed to the extent that they seem to be a genuinely relevant issue. This book assumes that you have some experience with SQL Server and are at an intermediate to advanced level. The orientation of the book is highly developer focused. While there is a quick reference-oriented appendix, there is very little coverage given to beginner level topics. It is assumed that you already have experience with data manipulation language (DML) statements and know the basics of the mainstream SQL Server objects (views, stored procedures, user defined functions, etc.). If you would like to brush up on your knowledge before diving into this book, the author recommends reading Beginning SQL Server 2008 Programming first. There is very little overlap between the Beginning and Professional books and they are designed to work as a pair.
Troy McMillan CompTIA Server+ Study Guide. Exam SK0-004
NOTE: The correct URL to access the Sybex interactive online test bank and study tools is www.wiley.com/go/sybextestprep. The book’s back cover, Introduction, and last page in the book provided the wrong URL. We apologize for any confusion and inconvenience this may have caused you. Comprehensive interactive exam preparation plus expert insight from the field CompTIA Server+ Study Guide Exam SK0-004 is your ideal study companion for the SK0-004 exam. With 100% coverage of all exam objectives, this guide walks you through system hardware, software, storage, best practices, disaster recovery, and troubleshooting, with additional coverage of relevant topics including virtualization, big data, cloud storage, security, and scalability. Get an 'in the trenches' view of how server and data storage administration works in a real-world IT environment. From the basics through advanced topics, you'll learn how to deliver world-class solutions in today's evolving organizations by getting under the hood of technologies that enable performance, resiliency, availability, recoverability, and simplicity. Gain access to the Sybex interactive online learning environment, which features electronic flashcards, a searchable glossary, test bank, and bonus practice exams to reinforce what you have learned. Using and understanding in-house storage devices and the cloud has become an urgent skill for any IT professional. This is your comprehensive, expert driven study guide for taking the CompTIA Server+ exam SK0-004 Study 100% of exam objectives and more Understand storage design, implementation, and administration Utilize bonus practice exams and study tools Gain a real-world perspective of data storage technology CompTIA Server+ Study Guide Exam SK0-004 is your ticket to exam day confidence.
Armstrong Sharon The Essential HR.
Whether you are a newly promoted manager, a seasoned business owner, or a human resources professional, knowing the ins and outs of dealing with HR issues is critical to your success. The Essential HR Handbook is a quick-reference guide that sheds light on the issues that keep managers up at night. It is filled with information, tools, tips, checklists, and road maps to guide managers and HR professionals through the maze of people and legal issues, from recruiting and retaining the best employees to terminating poor performers. With this book, you'll learn how to effectively and efficiently: • Individually manage each employee, starting on his or her first day. • Manage a multi-generational workforce. • Appraise job performance. • Coach and counsel. • Provide equitable pay, benefits, and total rewards strategies. • Identify legal pitfalls and stay out of court. The Essential HR Handbook is the one HR guide every manager needs on his or her desk!
Touhill Gregory J. Cybersecurity for Executives. A Practical Guide
Practical guide that can be used by executives to make well-informed decisions on cybersecurity issues to better protect their business Emphasizes, in a direct and uncomplicated way, how executives can identify, understand, assess, and mitigate risks associated with cybersecurity issues Covers 'What to Do When You Get Hacked?' including Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning, Public Relations, Legal and Regulatory issues, and Notifications and Disclosures Provides steps for integrating cybersecurity into Strategy; Policy and Guidelines; Change Management and Personnel Management Identifies cybersecurity best practices that executives can and should use both in the office and at home to protect their vital information
Ernest Sosa A Companion to Epistemology
With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide to epistemology. Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of 296 articles on important epistemological concepts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field Includes 20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologists Contains 10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology
Jeffrey Rattiner H. Personal Financial Planning for Divorce
An insider's guide on how professionals and consumers can minimize damages in the divorce process Anyone planning for a divorce needs to learn strategies necessary to safeguard assets in advance of filing, how to cope with issues beyond their control, minimize the damage, and effectively plan going forward after the divorce. Personal Financial Planning for Divorce is an insider's guide on how both professionals and consumers can prepare for, work through, negotiate, and plan equitable divorce settlements. This helpful guide Contains all the guidelines for reducing damage throughout the difficult process of divorce Includes examples of how not to handle the divorce process and how these issues should be handled Provides checklists, planning charts, forms and tables Features strategies to safeguard assets in advance of filing for divorce and how to cope with issues beyond your control Personal Financial Planning for Divorce covers the many issues to help you understand exactly how divorce will affect you financially.
Paul Atkinson Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming
Get up to speed on the extensive changes to the newest release of Microsoft SQL Server The 2012 release of Microsoft SQL Server changes how you develop applications for SQL Server. With this comprehensive resource, SQL Server authority Robert Vieira presents the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, and then shows you how to apply these concepts using the updated SQL Server. Publishing time and date with the 2012 release, Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming begins with a quick overview of database design basics and the SQL query language and then quickly proceeds to show you how to implement the fundamental concepts of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. You'll explore the key additions and changes to this newest version, including conditional action constructs, enhanced controls for results paging, application integration with SharePoint and Excel, and development of BI applications. Covers new features such as SQL Azure for cloud computing, client-connectivity enhancements, security and compliance, data replication, and data warehouse performance improvements Addresses essential topics including managing keys, writing scripts, and working with store procedures Shares helpful techniques for creating and changing tables, programming with XML, and using SQL Server Reporting and Integration Services Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming demystifies even the most difficult challenges you may face with the new version of Microsoft SQL Server.
Eshun Sussie Culture and Mental Health. Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice
Culture and Mental Health takes a critical look at the research pertaining to common psychological disorders, examining how mental health can be studied from and vary according to different cultural perspectives. Introduces students to the main topics and issues in the area of mental health using culture as the focus Emphasizes issues that pertain to conceptualization, perception, health-seeking behaviors, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the context of cultural variations Reviews and actively encourages the reader to consider issues related to reliability, validity and standardization of commonly used psychological assessment instruments among different cultural groups Highlights the widely used DSM-IV-TR categorization of culture-bound syndromes
Armstrong Natalie The Sociology of Medical Screening. Critical Perspectives, New Directions
The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating to population-based medical screening. Features new research data in most of the contributions Includes contributions from eminent sociologists such as David Armstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison Pilnick Represents one of the only collections to specifically address the sociology of medical screening
Stephen Brookfield D. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique. Stephen Brookfield shows how you can uncover and assess your assumptions about practice by viewing them through the lens of your students' eyes, your colleagues' perceptions, relevant theory and research, and your own personal experience. Practicing critical reflection will help you… Align your teaching with desired student outcomes See your practice from new perspectives Engage learners via multiple teaching formats Understand and manage classroom power dynamics Model critical thinking for your students Manage the complex rhythms of diverse classrooms This fully revised second edition features a wealth of new material, including new chapters on critical reflection in the context of social media, teaching race and racism, leadership in a critically reflective key, and team teaching as critical reflection. In addition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to align with today's classrooms, whether online or face-to-face, in large lecture formats or small groups. In his own personal voice Stephen Brookfield draws from over 45 years of experience to illustrate the clear benefits of critical reflection. Assumptions guide practice and only when we base our actions on accurate assumptions will we achieve the results we want. Educators with the courage to challenge their own assumptions in an effort to improve learning are the invaluable role models our students need. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher provides the foundational information and practical tools that help teachers reach their true potential.
Frank Burke A Companion to Italian Cinema
Written by leading figures in the field, A Companion to Italian Cinema re-maps Italian cinema studies, employing new perspectives on traditional issues, and fresh theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema. Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period was unrivalled Presents a theory based approach to historical and archival material Includes work by both established and more recent scholars, with new takes on traditional critical issues, and new theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema Covers recent issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre cinema, and digitalization A comprehensive collection of essays addressing the prominent films, directors and cinematic forms of Italian cinema, which will become a standard resource for academic and non-academic purposes alike
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Argentina: Going Loco
But Maradona blindsided everyone. He called up Newell's Old Boys defender Rolando Schiavi, Estudiantes midfielder Rodrigo Braña (both recent Copa Libertadores winners - Schiavi was loaned to Estudiantes for the two-legged final as emergency cover after injuries decimated their backline) ... and Boca Juniors striker Martin Palermo.
Chelsea's Charge Sheet
Even before yesterday’s ruling, in the past four and a half years, Chelsea, their players and staff, have racked up around £900,000 in fines from the FA and Uefa.
Manchester United asks fans to help end vile chants aimed at Arsène Wenger
Manchester United are to ask their own supporters for ways to help eradicate the "disgusting" chants that are aimed at Arsène Wenger whenever Arsenal visit Old Trafford. Wenger was subjected to a chorus of "sit down you paedophile" during Arsenal's 2-1 defeat on Saturday and United are so embarrassed that the club's chief executive, David Gill, is to raise the matter as a lead item with a panel of influential supporters.
About Fucking Time...
The Joy of Six: Great Volleys
From Zizou's zenith to a Krankl cracker, The Guardian recalls some of football's finest strikes.
World Cup Qualifying Previews: United States vs. El Salvador
United States vs. El Salvador
CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying
Saturday, September 5; 7 p.m. EDT
Rio Tinto Stadium, Sandy, Utah
U.S. TV:
ESPN Classic, TeleFutura
Steve Davis:
Lineup decisions aplenty for Bradley
2010 FIFA World Cup: Weekend Qualifying Previews
Little more than nine months before the World Cup makes its first appearance in Africa, all but six of the 32 team spots are still to be decided. So far, Japan, Australia, North and South Korea and the Netherlands have captured places alongside host South Africa in the Dec. 4 draw at Cape Town, although several more teams are banging on the door.
The Planet: Who can qualify?
CONCACAF: Mexico face tough test to continue revival
CONMEBOL: Argentina expect Messi to deliver against Brazil
UEFA: General Preview
UEFA: Trecker's Preview
UEFA Group Three: Slovakia vs. Czech Republic
UEFA Group Three: Poland vs. Northern Ireland
UEFA Group Five: Spain vs. Belgium
UEFA Group Seven: France vs. Romania
UEFA Group Eight: Cyprus vs. Republic of Ireland
Chelsea to appeal FIFA transfer ban to 2011
Chelsea will launch the "strongest appeal possible" after FIFA banned them from signing any players until January 2011.
Roman launches the strongest appeal possible
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Vive Le Foot!
Abou Diaby: Serbia attack's most dangerous weapon?
This upcoming weekend will be filled with World Qualifiers up until Tuesday so I will not comment much on Le Championnat from last weekend that saw a very disappointing 0 – 0 between Marseille and Bordeaux, a very convincing 3 - 0 win by PSG against Lille, St Etienne’s first 3 points versus a sad Grenoble and more Lyon magic thanks to Lisandro Lopez (ARG), Gomis (FRA) and Bastos (BRA)…Bordeaux, PSG and Lyon are at the top of the table with 10 pts followed by unbeaten newly promoted Montpellier “playing Hull”…
Les Bleus are playing 2 crucial games in the next 5 days and the mandate is simple: 6 points, in order to finish top of the group. Problem is France is on a streak of unconvincing 1 – 0 wins against lesser teams and even a defeat in a friendly against Nigeria.
One has to wonder why and how the French coach cannot make such a stellar cast play together, considering most players simply play for the best teams in the world:
Barcelona (Henry, Abidal), Real (L. Diarra, Benzema), Man United (Evra), Arsenal (Clichy, Gallas, Sagna, Diaby, Nasri), Chelsea (Anelka, Malouda) and…Bayern (Ribery)
This week Jean-Pierre Escalettes (FFF President), the very man who supported Raymond Domenech after the disastrous Euro 2008 distanced himself from the coach… Rod Fanni, the young French defender from Rennes caught that quickly commenting “while the president’s getting worried, the players are getting the job done”…barely…
The Serbs are talking a big game and they will want to win in front of their public but they will get nailed by Malouda on the break assisting Gignac while Gourcuff will score on a free kick. As for Romania, Ribery and Benzema save the day and Domenech becomes the best coach France has ever seen…until we tie Austria in Paris in October…
Saturday: France – Romania 2 - 0
Tuesday: Serbia - France 1 – 2
Henry and Ribery are not 100% while Benzema will come off the bench if goals are needed so the expected starting line up is:
Lloris (Lyon)
Sagna (Arsenal) – Escude (Sevilla) - Gallas (Arsenal) – Evra (Man U)
Toulalan (Lyon) – Lass Diarra (Real)
Anelka (Chelsea) – Gourcuff (Bordeaux) – Malouda (Chelsea)
Gignac (Toulouse)
Not bad, but two defensive midfielders seem a bit much when you need goals…Diaby for Toulalan anyone?
-The Frenchman
Jan the man for Tigers
Hull City have signed former Celtic striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink.
The Dutchman has signed a two-year deal at the KC Stadium after passing a medical and agreeing personal terms.
More competition for Jozy...
FIFA gives Chelsea 1-year transfer ban
FIFA says it has banned Chelsea from signing any players for the next year because it encouraged a French player to break his contract and sign for the club.
Trecker: South America World Cup Qualifying Preview
Is Diego Maradona about to go from Argentine icon to just another coach who got fired because a World Cup campaign flopped?
It's almost inconceivable that Argentina is facing the possibility of having to fight for fifth place -- and the South American playoff spot -- on the road to WC2010, but this week Maradona's team must collect points or its qualifying campaign will be in serious disarray.
Trecker: U.S. must punish opponents to ensure World Cup place
Déjà vu? Nope.
The USA is really gearing up for another two-game stint against El Salvador and Trinidad & Tobago.
Back in late March, the USA struggled to a 2-2 draw against El Salvador at Cuscatlan, with Frankie Hejduk nicking a late point after a sloppy game. The Americans followed that up with a bludgeoning 3-0 win over the Soca Warrior islanders in Nashville.
Seattle wins U.S. Open Cup final 2-1 over D.C. United
Freddy Montero and Roger Levesque scored to lead Seattle to a 2-1 victory over D.C. United in the Open Cup final Wednesday night, giving the expansion Sounders their first trophy.
Marina Hyde: Chanting cretins need to be silenced
Arsène Wenger has been the target of vile chants for more than a decade – it's time the authorities cracked down on the culprits.
Quotes & Chants of the Week
"It's not about money."
Sol Campbell insists his move to Notts County was all about the challenge.
"An English player would be nice, because I think we have enough foreigners. Someone like Andy Reid?"
Stoke fan on the radio, speaking about Sunderland's Dublin-born midfielder.
"This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player's foot."
Jamie Redknapp reveals the secret technology behind this season's new footballs.
"Oh Big Brede (Hangeland), Whoah big Brede (Hangeland), He jumps so high (Hangeland), You know that's no lie (Hangeland), He's so rock steady (Hangeland), When you see him on telly (Hangeland), Oh Big Brede (Hangeland), Whoah big Brede (Hangelaaaaaand)."
Fulham's tribute to giant Dane Brede Hangeland - to the tune of Black Betty.
Celtic fans: "Shall we sing a song for you?"
Arsenal fans: "Shall we score a goal for you?"
At the Emirates.
Argentina vs. Brazil: Old rivalry heating up
It's one of the fiercest rivalries in world football. Two giants of the game who have never seen eye to eye, don't like each other and cause a heated atmosphere whenever they meet. No, not Argentina and Brazil; but Diego Maradona and Pelé.
Richard Williams: Power in football is drifting away from English shores
La Liga and Serie A performances point to a shift in European football's power base.
Ranieri appointed new Roma coach
Former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri says he is ready to give Roma's players a shock to the system after agreeing a two-year deal to be their new coach.
England: Club by Club Transfer Guide
Chelsea spent much of the summer promising a marquee signing, but their inability to deliver one reflected both Roman Abramovich’s reduced largesse and the manner in which Real Madrid have changed the rules of engagement in the transfer market. Yuri Zhirkov was the club’s only significant signing.
In: N Matic (MFK Kosice, £1.5m), D Sturridge (Manchester City, subject to tribunal), R Turnbull (Middlesbrough, free), Y Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow, £18m).
Out: B Sahar (Espanyol, £1m), R Bertrand (Reading, loan), J Cork (Coventry City, loan), S Cummings (West Bromwich Albion, loan), F Di Santo (Blackburn Rovers, loan), M Mancienne (Wolverhampton Wanderers, loan), J Mellis (Southampton, loan), F Nouble (West Ham United, undisclosed), M Nielsen (Alkmaar, nominal), C Pizarro (Werder Bremen, undisclosed), L Sawyer (Southend United, loan), A Shevchenko (Dynamo Kiev, free), S Sinclair (Wigan Athletic, loan), T Taiwo (Carlisle United, loan), S Tejera (Mallorca, nominal).
Gabriele Marcotti Column
Where would Tottenham Hotspur's second XI finish in the Premier League? You be the judge. I've got: Cudicini - Naughton (or Hutton), Dawson, Woodgate, Bale - Bentley, Jenas, Bostock, Kranjcar - Pavlyuchenko, Crouch.
Is that better than Liverpool's second XI: Diego - Degen, Agger, Kyrgiakos, Fabio Aurelio - Lucas, Plessis - Benayoun, Voronin, Babel - N'Gog? (I'd say so).
U.S. Open Cup Final
Who: D.C. United vs. Seattle Sounders
Where: RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
When: 7:30pm EDT
U.S. TV: Fox Soccer Channel
Kyle McCarthy's Preview
Home field squabble adds spice
Gunners set to appeal Eduardo's "diving" ban
Angry Arsenal look set to launch an appeal against UEFA's decision to hand striker Eduardo a two-match European ban for diving to win a penalty against Celtic in a Champions League qualifier.
Lookalikes of the Week: Arjen Robben and Eliot Spitzer
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The Transfer Window is Closed
A bit of a snooze-fest today. Unless you're jazzed about Teemu Tainio moving from Sunderland to Birmingham, that is. Here is a list of the day's dealings...
Diving is impossible to referee, Portsmouth are fading fast and Chelsea are not quite as good as you think they are.
Americans In The UK: Altidore Opens His Account
Hull striker Jozy Altidore scored against Southend United during a Carling Cup fixture and in the process helped the Tigers punch their ticket to the next round.
Americans On The Continent: Settling Right In
Sochaux snatched a 1-0 victory over AS Monaco as former Boston College forward Charlie Davies continues to impress for his new club. Winning a penalty and generally terrorizing the Monaco defense, Davies endeared himself to the home crowd with his all-action performance.
Luciano Spalletti: I Have Resigned From Roma
The Italian has quit his position as coach of Roma, and Sky Sport Italia claim Claudio Ranieri will replace him.
Italy: Serie A Worst Team Of The Week
Goal.com looks at those who performed poorly in the second round of action, and Milan take centre-stage...
A bit of a no-brainer...
Madrid were promising rather than perfect, wobbly rather than woeful, and a little disjointed rather than disastrous.
Real Madrid's new galáctico era has arrived. Well, sort of...
The self-styled Special One is now a 'phenomenon' thanks to his team's 4-0 drubbing of Milan.
Inter's demolition of Milan has vindicated Jose Mourinho.
Bayern Munich's attacking double-act of Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry will take some stopping this season.
Get set for the 'Baylacticos' as Robben and Ribéry prove deadly.
Argentina traditionally stage their matches in Buenos Aires, in River Plate's Monumental stadium. It makes economic sense - it's the biggest ground available to them. But in their current situation - Argentina are by no means certain of making it to South Africa - Maradona has decided that it does not make footballing sense.
"The stands in River's stadium are 50 metres from the pitch," he said recently. "You can shout yourself hoarse and the noise only reaches the area behind the goal. So there are players who feel that they will get more support in Rosario."
The Mill + ++ (Final Edition...for a while)
Arsenal Fight to Clear Eduardo's Name
Notwithstanding the potential to set a dangerous precedent, Arsenal are perplexed that Uefa has effectively condemned Eduardo with video evidence while it continues to refuse to use it to help referees to arrive at their decisions. The case will be judged on the basis of written submissions from both sides. Eduardo is on international duty with Croatia.
Barcelona 3-0 Sporting Gijon: Ibra Nets In Routine Win To Start Blaugrana Title Defence
Barcelona top the Liga table after a none-too-strenuous win over Sporting Gijon in the opening match of their new Primera season.
Adu joins Belenenses on one-year loan
After spending most of the offseason looking for a new club, U.S. midfielder Freddy Adu has secured a move away from Benfica.
I've been to their ground. Crappy stadium. Great location. Tiny club. Good luck, Freddy...
Steve Davis: More U.S. soccer fans need to enjoy the journey
I got into a spot of trouble a few weeks back with friends who will be traveling to next weekend's important World Cup qualifier outside Salt Lake City, where the United States will meet El Salvador. Bob Bradley's team is heavily favored, but an upset could seriously imperil its entire South Africa 2010 quest.
U.S. vs. El Salvador
7 p.m. ET, ESPN Classic
U.S. vs. Trinidad & Tobago
Hasely Crawford Stadium; Port of Spain, Trinidad
Phil Ball in Spain!!
Hello there. Nice to be back from the deserts of Arabia, although mentally speaking the whole La Liga thing never really went away. You can attempt a de-tox from Spanish football, but I'm not really sure that it works.
Our favorite writer returns!!
Nothing Given
Although I'm an Arsenal fan, I try to keep SSN as neutral as possible. This is not an Arsenal blog, and there is no agenda here, other than to provide quick access to the most important articles of the day. That said, I must post this clip from Saturday's match at Old Trafford.
Luka Modric suffers broken leg and misses Croatia's qualifier with England
Tottenham's midfielder Luka Modric will be out for at least six weeks after suffering a broken leg in yesterday's win over Birmingham. The news means that the Croatia international will miss the World Cup qualifier against England on 9 September.
Thieves Raid Homes Of Inter Stars Patrick Vieira & Sulley Muntari, Steal €1Million Of Goods
Goods reportedly worth €1million have been stolen from both men's houses in Milan, according to reports in Italy...
Monday MLS Breakdown: Constant Changes Unsettle Earthquakes Defense
San Jose built a rock-solid defense in 2008, but hasn't enjoyed the same defensive success in 2009. Kyle McCarthy talks with Earthquakes coach Frank Yallop and defender Chris Leitch to figure out why one of the league's most consistent units has struggled in 2009.
He scored a goal...
Spain: La Liga Weekend Reviews
Italy: Serie A Weekend Round-up + Team of the Week
Juventus were far too strong for Roma in Sunday's top clash in Serie A, while elsewhere Lazio, Sampdoria and Genoa all maintained their 100 per cent starts to the new campaign.
Diego appears to be just what Juventus needed...
AC Milan 0 - 4 Inter Milan
Italian champions Inter confirmed they are the team to beat in Serie A with a 4-0 win against Milan in tonight's Derby della Madonnina.
Italian Champions Thrash Sorry Ten Man Rossoneri In Derby.
Milan need new players
Gattuso's gestures to Leonardo after he's sent off are priceless...
England: Premier League Review + Table
The first meeting of the season between members of the Premier League's Big Four did not disappoint, while Liverpool got back on track, Tottenham maintained their 100 per cent record and Chelsea continued their dominant start.
Club Played Points
Chelsea 4 12
Tottenham Hotspur 4 12
Manchester City 3 9
Stoke City 4 7
Liverpool 4 6
Aston Villa 3 6
Sunderland 4 6
Burnley 4 6
Birmingham 4 4
Wolverhampton Wanderers 4 4
Hull City 4 4
Fulham 3 3
Wigan Athletic 4 3
Blackburn Rovers 3 1
Bolton Wanderers 3 0
Portsmouth 4 0
Manchester United 2 - 1 Arsenal
It is not often that the losers get to patronise the victors. Then again, Arsenal are a far from conventional club and the manager, Arsène Wenger, duly rummaged for some gracious words about Manchester United. "They have won a game today they should not have won, so that is a quality as well," he said.
Wenger: Manchester United played anti-football
Phil McNulty: Life in the old dogs yet
Nick Webster: All that matters is the result
Richard Williams: United lack playmaker
Wenger to get sending off apology
Richard Jolly at The Reebok Stadium
Bolton 2 - 3 Liverpool
Gerrard strikes a familiar pose
Chelsea 3 - 0 Burnley
Burnley given rude awakening
Manchester United asks fans to help end vile chant...
World Cup Qualifying Previews: United States vs. E...
Trecker: South America World Cup Qualifying Previe...
Trecker: U.S. must punish opponents to ensure Worl...
Seattle wins U.S. Open Cup final 2-1 over D.C. Uni...
Richard Williams: Power in football is drifting aw...
Lookalikes of the Week: Arjen Robben and Eliot Spi...
Barcelona 3-0 Sporting Gijon: Ibra Nets In Routine...
Steve Davis: More U.S. soccer fans need to enjoy t...
Luka Modric suffers broken leg and misses Croatia'...
Thieves Raid Homes Of Inter Stars Patrick Vieira &...
Monday MLS Breakdown: Constant Changes Unsettle Ea...
Italy: Serie A Weekend Round-up + Team of the Week...
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Tyler Zimmer
Big Data versus democracy
Tyler Zimmer breaks down what's new and what's not so new about the strategies used by consulting firms like Cambridge Analytica to win elections at any cost.
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BEFORE THE last couple weeks, most people had never heard of Cambridge Analytica. Now, the misdeeds of the high-powered "political consulting" firm are making headlines worldwide.
The revelations that instigated the current wave of negative press engulfing Cambridge Analytica broke when Channel 4 News in Britain sent an undercover reporter to set up a meeting with company executives. The reporter posed as a Sri Lankan business mogul hoping to influence a local election--and taped Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix offering a variety of illicit "services" to sway the election.
Some of these services included: digital smear campaigns based on false information, elaborate schemes to entrap competitors taking bribes, so-called "honey traps" in which sex workers would be paid to acquire compromising information about political rivals, and the list goes on.
For his part, Nix denies that the video shows any such thing: "I must emphatically state that Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honey traps,' and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose."
Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix (Sam Barnes | flickr)
In fact, the firm specializes in using "psychographic profiling" to use social media platforms like Facebook to target and influence individual voters. In pursuit of this goal, Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal data of some 50 million Facebook users without their permission.
To paraphrase a quip made about the "legislative process" in capitalist democracies: The inner workings of Cambridge Analytica are a little like how sausages are made--the less you know about it, the better for your appetite.
To begin with, the firm is partly owned by the family of Robert Mercer, the hard-right hedge-fund mogul who was a strong backer of Trump's 2016 campaign and an early investor in Breitbart News.
Indeed, Cambridge Analytica was hired to work on Trump's presidential campaign as well as the Brexit campaign in the UK--but that's only the tip of the iceberg. The firm has also contracted with various British government agencies, including the Ministry of Defense, Home Office and Foreign Office.
The firm also managed four election campaigns for the reactionary Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. Cambridge Analytica's website boasts "of supporting more than 200 campaigns across five continents."
And on top of all this, a related scandal involving the use of data harvested from Facebook users is still unfolding.
No doubt aspects of this story will appeal to some neoliberal, Democratic-leaning commentators who view the pre-Trump, pre-Brexit political situation as more or less ideal and in desperate need of restoration.
They will see in the shadowy dealings of Cambridge Analytica a confirmation of their suspicion that the rise of Trump was fundamentally caused by external meddling in an otherwise smoothly functioning democratic system of government.
But this narrative is premised on a pack of falsehoods.
The U.S. has never had a smoothly functioning democratic system. The political system is dominated by the rich--and that was true long before the Citizens United ruling helped usher in an era in which elections are fueled by unprecedented sums of corporate cash.
And contrary to the line coming from Hillary Clinton--who once countered Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" by declaring that "America is already great"--the pre-Trump status quo was no Garden of Eden. It was a crisis-ridden catastrophe marked by profound inequality and injustice.
This doesn't mean that we should overlook or underestimate the corrosive effects that forces like Cambridge Analytica have on contemporary politics.
Quite the opposite, in fact: We should view the dirty dealings of firms like Cambridge Analytica not as an exception to the rule, but as the norm in capitalist societies where elections are often little more than buying sprees for ruling-class forces jockeying for influence.
When it comes to data-driven political consulting and digital propaganda campaigns, Cambridge Analytica is hardly the only option for wealthy investors looking to steer politicians and influence elections.
Democratic Party operatives use many of these tactics as well. To cite only the most spectacularly disastrous example: Hillary Clinton's 2016 bid for president relied heavily on a big-data analytics algorithm called "Ada." The Clinton campaign made major decisions about resource allocation and messaging based on information gleaned from this data-mining operation.
THE COMMON thread linking together the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the "data-driven" campaigning that is now standard practice in both of the two pro-business parties in the U.S. is a neoliberal image of voters as consumers and politics as marketing.
According to this perspective, there is no meaningful difference between running an advertising campaign and running a political campaign. In one case, the aim is to sell a product to a consumer, in the other, to sell a politician to a voter.
Voters, in this view, are little more than passive objects tossed to and fro by various marketing and public relations campaigns that attempt to modify their behaviors in ways that are beneficial to private interests. Thus, politics becomes nothing but a game of public relations optics, without substance or organic connection to the interests of ordinary people.
Other ways of mobilizing people--by building mass movements in the streets, by organizing militant strikes, by empowering people to field their own candidates and voice their own demands--are off-limits because they fundamentally clash with the interests of people who run the two pro-business parties.
These strategies are risky because they can quickly become difficult or impossible to control--and they often require raising demands that the Nancy Pelosis and Paul Ryans of the world don't support in any case.
The left-wing alternative to this technocratic, elitist perspective is simple: build social movements, labor struggles and political campaigns that are controlled by and directly address the needs of working-class people.
Rather than seeing elections as arcane exercises in digital manipulation and data-driven marketing, we should see them as one opportunity--among others--for advancing political demands that benefit workers and challenge the ruling-class priority of profit maximization.
We should be alarmed by the shadowy maneuvering of firms like Cambridge Analytica. But so, too, should we deeply disturbed by the profound disdain for democracy harbored by the entire political establishment in the U.S.
To defeat both, we need to help build bigger, stronger social movements and a larger, more organized socialist left.
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Grand theft voting rights
Republicans say they want rules to prevent “fraud,” but this lie is a cover for the latest chapter in a long history of voter suppression.
Tom Gagné
Voting rights, racism and Georgia’s next governor
The Republican candidate for governor in Georgia is leading attempts to roll back voting rights—just in time to help him in the election.
What Russiagate tells us about a corrupt system
Robert Mueller's investigation may or may not have found a smoking gun, but it's definitely exposing the sleazeballs of the Trump administration.
Julian Guerrero
Cuomo’s circle of corruption
A spreading scandal in Albany shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are for sale to New York City's real estate barons.
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The many other Trayvons
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More Yak on Moribund Toronto Subway Building
By talk talk talk
July 25th, 2008 @ 4:53 PM Politics,TTC
Heard on CFRB’s John Moore show that they’re talking again about beefing up transit along Eglinton Avenue, specifically if a subway is better than light rapid transit (LRT). Over a decade after Harris cost this province tens of millions of dollars shutting down subway construction west of Allen, along Eglinton, and almost a decade after Harris left office (if memory serves right), a couple of Councillors have raised their heads tentatively to broach this idea again. It must’ve been all those billions Jim Flaherty — a Harris brother-in-hate-Toronto arms — was waving around yesterday that’s got them showing courage.
But as far as I could tell the millions promised for the Spadina extension to York was exactly what the McGuinty government set aside before the last election, so all they’re doing is reminding us that they still have it banked for whenever it happens. I’m sorry to be such a jaded Torontonian, but ever since Lastman-Harris-Chretien stood on the banks of Lake Ontario promising us billions to revitalize the waterfront, we’ve endured many more such announcements by the Mayor-Premier-Prime Minister of the day, or parts thereof, promising millions or billions for TTC, waterfront, or take-your-pick-of-desperate-Toronto need, followed by nothing. I don’t know why optimists even try to get together a bid for big games like the Pan Am games because (a) the federal government hates Toronto and won’t lift a finger for it and (b) no senior government is going to invest in infrastructure in this city. All those billions China spent on Beijing, making it a games jewel, would never happen here under similar circumstances because the country doesn’t see Toronto as representing it to the world, even though it does, even during an ordinary tourist season.
Anyway, it’s not like the plans for Spadina, Eglinton, or even Queen Street subway expansion are new. They’ve been studied and planned to death. Yet today’s leaders are loathe to use the technology proven to move masses of people swiftly, without being hindered or slowed down by car traffic, because it’s the most expensive to build. It’s a good thing our city planners back in the 1940s and ’50s had more guts, else we’d have an LRT down Yonge Street and along Bloor-Danforth instead of what are today overloaded subways. Now, OK, I know that we haven’t yet reached the massive crowds of London in rush hour — where getting on a train means committing to not being able to move even a mm, anywhere in the car — however, during the day and on Sundays Toronto trains are fuller than they should be from a user’s point of view. I attribute this directly to the fact that our leaders, starting in the rich 1980s (remember, the era when people flaunted their wealth), stopped building subways here in Toronto, while they continued in Montreal, and that voters rejected a leader who put subway planning in her platform in favour of a do-nothing so that, in the words of one editor, we could give him a second chance (to do nothing). And so instead of having a line parallel to Bloor-Danforth, we have none, neither along Queen — which planners say is the one place a subway would pay for itself — nor along Eglinton. And so people take buses, subways, streetcars down to Bloor-Danforth or up to it, thus causing needless overcrowding on that line, while the Yonge-Bloor interchange has become a nightmare.
While debate continues about whether Eglinton should have a subway or an LRT, and the federal government waves around money already committed to one subway and makes no announcement about any other subways, England is set to spend 32 fuckin’ BILLION bucks on a crosstown subway line in London, this in a city that has never stopped building subway lines, even getting them built by badgering developers into funding them if they want to build towers. It’s not like the British like London any more than Canadians like Toronto; it’s that they understand that they must move people as quickly as possible there, as efficiently as possible if that city is to continue to generate wealth for the country. It’s too bad Ontarians and Canadians forget that piece of wisdom.
dowlingm on July 25th, 2008 @ 7:42 pm
Crossrail has been proposed in one form or another since 1974 and won’t open until 2017. Hopefully we won’t be waiting 43 years for rapid transit on Eglinton!
talk talk talk (tor_pario) on July 25th, 2008 @ 8:06 pm
That’s a heck of a long time! But, unlike London, we haven’t been building any lines, and we don’t even have a direct rail line to the airport. Also, we too, have an aborted line — there’s a partial station at Lower Queen — which apparently has been discussed since the 1940s, first as an LRT, then later as a subway. There’s little to no chance it’ll be built because it’s only in the city proper. If it wasn’t so sad, the insanity of not building a subway line along the most heavily used potential-subway corridor would be funny. Sigh.
swoononeone (tor_trevor) on July 26th, 2008 @ 1:19 am
The current Mayor is far from perfect but, to his credit, Miller’s stance was not to increase the city’s deficit to build Subway extensions without Federal assistance. (IMO this is still the case and some of the recently earmarked funds are promised to help with that). Miller LRT’s are a tenth of the price and exactly what taxpayers can bear (just not what most WANT). Jane Pitfield was tight lipped about her funding plans for the 2km per year of Subway plan up to the Spacing Magazine public debate. Pitfield’s funding "answer" was turn each new station into a huge ad. "Starbucks Station" on the TTC? Many asked how "Public Transit" would be best served by selling out to the highest bidder of ad space. People complain about streetcar Adwrap or interior banner ads. Imagine a whole station? The proposal also made some uneasy about the potential for kickbacks and corporate contracts especially after the scams and scandals faced under Lastman’s reign as mayor. The government has enough of our money to do what’s needed on transit without ad creep.
What government is going to spend that kind of money? Until short term tax cuts fall out of fashion you will not see any significant moves on TTC funding. Politicians , especially these days, go for the easy win. A refund of your own money. The Feds’ surplus has been thrown almost entirely at our debt and tax cuts. There’s room to balance the budget, pay down some debt and invest in Infrastructure but that is not a priority so far folks. The Liberals/NDP/PC’s/City of Toronto have not played well together (despite public PR). Will they? Perhaps if you yell at your MP, MPP, and city council loud enough, and even if there isn’t a pending election.
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Home / Film Notes / Spiral Staircase (1946)
Spiral Staircase (1946)
Toronto Film Society presented The Spiral Staircase (1945) on Monday, April 17, 1978 in a double bill with Goodbye, Mr. Chips as part of the Season 30 Monday Evening Film Buff Series, Programme 9.
Toronto Film Society presented The Spiral Staircase (1945) on Monday, October 26, 2015 in a double bill with Double Door as part of the Season 68 Monday Evening Film Buff Series, Programme 2.
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures. Producer: Dore Schary: Director: Robert Siodmak. Writers: Mel Dinelli (screenplay), Ethel Lina White (novel Some Must Watch). Photography: Nicholas Musuraca. Film Editors: Harry Marker and Harry Gerstad. Special Effects: Vernon Walker. Art Direction: Albert S. D’Agostino and Jack Okey. Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera. Musical Score: Roy Webb. Musical Director: Constantin Bakaleinikoff. Assistant Director: Harry Scott. Sound Recording: John L. Cass.
Cast: Dorothy McGuire (Helen Capel), George Brent (Professor Albert Warren), Ethel Barrymore (Mrs. Warren), Kent Smith (Dr. Parry), Rhonda Fleming (Blanche), Gordon Oliver (Steven Warren), Elsa Lanchester (Emma Oates), Rhys Williams (Oates), Sara Allgood (Nurse Barker), James Bell (Constble) Charles Wagenheim (Desk Clerk), Ellen Corby (Neighbor), Richard Tyler (Freddie), Erville Alderson (Dr. Harvey).
As a mute serving girl in a sinister household, where family hatreds are deep and searing, Miss McGuire gives a remarkable lucid performance in pantomime. Her characterization of one who senses a dread shadow hovering over her but is incapable of communicating her fears, is restrained and effectively pathetic. In this day of much talk on the screen few actresses would dare to undertake a role which only permitted six words of speech. Miss McGuire is to be heartily commended for her adventurousness and a high degree of resourcefulness with which she has tackled the demanding and little used art of pantomime.”
In relating this arresting tale about a psychopathic killer who terrorizes a New England town, circa 1906, director Siodmak has literally put the evil eye on the victims. For he has used his camera to give the spectator a close up of the murderer’s baleful eyes as they strike terror into his helpless victims, who, by the way, all are pretty, young girls. Whether The Spiral Staircase is a faithful translation of Ethel Lina White’s novel, “Some Must Watch”, we are not in a position to say, but we do know that the film is likely to scare the daylights out of most of its audiences.
New York Times by Thomas M. Pryor, February 7, 1946
Notes compiled by Peter Poles
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Neonic’ bug sprays awful news for honey bees: study
The population decline was three times more pronounced among species such as the buff-tailed bumblebee that fed regularly on rapeseed crops in which the insecticide was applied. Picture shows the buff
A widely-used class of insecticides called neonicotinoids has contributed to the large-scale and long-term decline of wild bees, according to research unveiled Tuesday.A study covered 62 species from 1994 to 2011, examining the impact of exposure to the pesticide, which was used to treat oilseed rape crops in England.
In five of the species, including the spined mason and furrow bees, the chemicals accounted for at least 20 per cent of local population extinctions, researchers estimated.
And compared to bees that foraged on a wide range of flowers, decline was three times more pronounced among species – such as the buff-tailed bumblebee – that feed regularly on the rapeseed.
The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications is timed to inform a review by the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) on the overall risks associated with so-called ‘neonic’ pest killers. The review is scheduled for completion by January 2017.
The results also bolster small-scale and short-term studies that have previously fingered neonics as a culprit in bee decline, especially species bred for pollination and honey production.
Unlike contact pesticides – which remain on the surface of foliage – neonicotinoids are absorbed by the plant from the seed phase and transported to leaves, flowers, roots and stems.
They have been widely used over the last 20 years, and were designed to control sap-feeding insects such as aphids and root-feeding grubs.
“Our results have implications for the conservation of not only bee communities in intensively farmed landscapes, but the capacity of these systems to maintain stable crop pollination services,” said lead author Ben Woodcock, a researcher at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Oxfordshire.
Neonics are deemed to be only one of several causes for the dramatic decline in bee colonies, especially in Europe and the United States.
“It is unlikely that they are acting in isolation,” Woodcock said in a statement.
“Habitat loss and fragmentation, pathogens, climate change and other insecticides” are other likely factors, he said.
Previous studies have found neonicotinoids can cause bees to become disorientated such that they cannot find their way back to the hive, and lower their resistance to disease.
Recent experiments showed that the insecticides also diminish the viability of bee sperm.
The European Union (EU) has placed a moratorium on the sale of neonicotinoids, though some European countries continue to use them under various exemptions.
Wild bees provided crop pollination services worth billions. A recent study estimated that value at more than $3,250 (2,950 euros) per hectare ($1,300 per acre) each year.
Bees of all kinds account for an estimated 80 per cent of plant pollination by insects.
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Mary Jane Cumberland Synnot[1, 2]
Name Mary Jane Cumberland Synnot
Born 1846 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
_UID C1698E62B14048ECB5ABC4453EFE68FB4720
Died 4 Jan 1874 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [1, 2, 4, 7, 9]
Father George Synnot, b. 23 Feb 1819, Ballymoyer, County Armagh, Ireland , d. 10 Jul 1871, London, Middlesex, England (Age 52 years)
Mother Catherine Holmes Mather, b. Abt 1817, d. 13 Feb 1881 (Age ~ 64 years)
Married 12 Dec 1844 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
Family David Boswell Reid, b. Abt 1835, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland , d. Apr 1913, London, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 78 years)
Married 10 Jun 1863 Victoria, Australia [1, 2, 16, 17, 18, 19]
1. Mary Elizabeth Reid, b. 1864, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , d. Yes, date unknown
3. David Boswell Reid, b. 1868, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , d. 1869, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Age 1 years)
4. George Synnot Reid, b. 25 Jan 1870, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , d. 21 Jan 1871, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Age 0 years)
5. Hugo Boswell Reid, b. 20 Jan 1871, d. 6 Dec 1956, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Age 85 years)
6. Catherine Isabella Seton Reid, b. Abt 1868, d. 1915, London, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 47 years)
7. Dot Synnot Reid, b. 1873, Geelong, Victoria, Australia , d. Yes, date unknown
Burke's Irish Family Records (1976) gives 10 Jan 1862 for the marriage of Mary Jane Cumberland Synnot and David Boswell Reid.
The marriage date should most likely be 10 Jun 1862, as in Henry Swanzy The Families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of Fermanagh (Alex Thom & Co Ltd, Dublin, 1908). The Australian Marriage Index reg. no. is 1863/1146, indicating a registration in early 1863.
[S2711] BOK Burke - A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Ireland (Burke, 1912), page 679-681 (Hart-Synnot).
[S2225] TRE Family tree - FamilyTreeAndrewBaldwin (owner besthorus1) on ancestry.com accessed 30 Jun, 3, 7, 12 and 19 Jul 2014, Mary Jane Cumberland Synnot.
[S2225] TRE Family tree - FamilyTreeAndrewBaldwin (owner besthorus1) on ancestry.com accessed 30 Jun, 3, 7, 12 and 19 Jul 2014, Catherine Holmes Mather.
[S984] ancestry.com Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922, 1845 Melbourne: Mary J C Synnot.
[S984] ancestry.com Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922, 1846/14603 Melbourne: Mary Jane Cumberland Synnot.
[S986] ancestry.com Australia Death Index, 1787-1985, 1874/1385 Victoria: Mary Jane Cumber Reid.
[S1498] BIR Birth Index Victoria, Australia, Mary Jane Cumberland Synnot; 14603; Melbourne; 1846; George and Catherine.
[S2751] BOK Swanzy The Families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of Fermanagh, BOK148, BOK149., pages 123-126.
[S2224] TRE Family tree - Fisher Family Tree (owner rossfisher1) on ancestry.com accessed 3 Jul 2014, George Synnot.
[S1580] MAR Marriage Index Victoria, George Synnot and Catherine Holmes Mather; 4889; 1844.
[S2274] ancestry.com Burke's Family Records (Indexed), page 573: Catherine Holmes Mather.
[S983] ancestry.com Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950, 1844/4889 Victoria: George Synnot and Catherine Holmes Mather.
[S2297] TRE Family tree - Sinnett Family Tree (owner James Sinnett) on ancestry.com accessed 12, 22 Jul 2014, 18 Feb 2015, George Synnot.
[S2225] TRE Family tree - FamilyTreeAndrewBaldwin (owner besthorus1) on ancestry.com accessed 30 Jun, 3, 7, 12 and 19 Jul 2014, George Synnot.
[S2225] TRE Family tree - FamilyTreeAndrewBaldwin (owner besthorus1) on ancestry.com accessed 30 Jun, 3, 7, 12 and 19 Jul 2014, David Boswell Reid.
[S983] ancestry.com Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950, 1863/1146 Victoria: Mary Jane Cumber Synnot and David Boswell Reid.
[S3603] MAR587 Marriage Reid, David Boswell and Synnot, Mary Jane Cumberland, MAR587.
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No. 2 South Plains improves to 5-0 with 84-55 victory over North Lake Friday
North Lake College (1-5) 29 26 55
South Plains College (5-0) 46 38 84
Pts: Brady Boyd - 11
Reb: 3 Players (#3, #11, #20) - 5
Ast: Kerrick Wilson - 2
Pts: Gaige Prim - 19
Reb: Gaige Prim - 7
Ast: Deon Barett - 6
LEVELLAND — Gaige Prim scored 19 points and hauled in seven rebounds while Chris Orlina went off for 14 points, five assists and four steals as the second-ranked South Plains College men's basketball team routed North Lake College 84-55 Friday night at the Texan Dome.
South Plains improves to 5-0 on the season and will return to the hardwood on Saturday at 2 p.m. against Coastal Bend College at the Texan Dome. The game will be streaming live at spctexans.com and Michael Wiiest of KLVT Radio Levelland will call the courtside action.
"We looked at the stats at halftime and we were winning in all categories, but we thought we should have been further ahead," South Plains head coach Steve Green said. "We had some fouls that took some shots away on the offensive end, but all in all we are still trying to find some combinations of who to play together, and it's going to be ragged for a while."
Prim ended the night 6-for-9 from the floor in 22 minutes of action as the 6-foot-9 forward from Aurora, Colorado scored in double figures for the fifth consecutive game. Orlina knocked down six of his nine attempts from the field while Jonah Antonio chipped in with 13 points, four boards and three steals, bucketing five of 13 attempts including a trio of 3s.
Dajour Joseph scored nine points coming off the bench for South Plains including a 3-for-3 mark from the perimeter in 11 minutes of action. South Plains' Trey Wade netted nine points and five boards while Christian Wilson bucketed seven points for the Texans.
South Plains finished 30-71 from the floor (42.3%) and including a 13-31 (41.9%) from the 3-point line. The Texans committed just eight turnovers while forcing 16 turnovers in the contest resulting in 18 points on the offensive end. The Texans received 23 points off the bench and went on to lead by as much as 35 as they forced North Lake (1-5) to shoot just 36.2 percent from the field and 36.8 percent from behind the arc.
"I think as the game wore on our size and quickness impacted them a little bit," Green said. "I don't think we were extremely sharp at the beginning, and I think we really need to improve on that side of the ball. We're going to have to play better tomorrow, and hopefully, we can get off to a better start against Coastal Bend."
Sophomore Brady Boyd led the Blazers with 11 points including three 3s in 28 minutes of play. Seyi Imade netted 10 points and five rebounds for North Lake while Hunter Whitcher finished with 10 points coming off the bench and Isaiah Pittman netted nine points as was 2-for-2 from long range.
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Tony flies AirAsia India, developments get interesting.
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AirAsia India , which opened for sales on May 30th, sold out the entire seats on the first flight in nine minutes, according to the Indian venture’s chief executive officer Mrithyunjaya Chandilya better known as Mittu, which according to him, “must be a record somewhere”.
Loads on the airline have been very encouraging. Reportedly, the Bangalore-Goa flights fly almost full, while the Bangalore-Chennai flights fly with about 80% load factor (occupancy), bringing the average to around 90% plus. The CEO is smiling, albeit with a hint of nervousness, and the big boss: AirAsia group CEO Tony Fernandes is very optimistic about India.
Underneath the show, excitement, and optimism, are the currents of cautiousness, and disagreement within the airline. The head of investor relations at AirAsia did not seem to mince words when talking about the airline’s break even: What Mittu had told the whole world: a break even in four months, seems to be far fetched for the head of investor relations who now says it’s not before eight months.
AirAsia India is probably the most dynamic airline in the country, today. Which is very good (and much needed), and at the same time paints a picture of an airline that wasn’t fully prepared for India. In parallel, the airline is putting people first, promising to make a cabin crew a line pilot. This, and a lot more, including Tony’s recipe for success, and how it seems to really be his show, which you can read when you click here.
SpiceJet’s new management appointments: The Tiger is roaring
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For a country where the mainstream media is expected to sensationalise any and every news related to aviation, it comes as a surprise how the otherwise over-enthusiastic media has not been able to connect the dots in the recent developments at SpiceJet.
In November 2013, SpiceJet “appointed” Sanjiv Kapoor as its Chief Operations Officer (COO). Sanjiv Kapoor held the position of Senior Director, Temasek Holdings for 1yr 8 months. Temasek Holdings, directly and indirectly through Singapore Airlines has a significant stake in Tiger Airways, which operates as Tigerair.
Now, in February 2014, SpiceJet announced the “appointment” of Kaneswaran Avili as Chief Commercial Officer, effective April 1st 2014. Interestingly, the position he holds today is Director-Commercial at Tiger Airways, and has held that position since October 2012.
Men with very, very impressive resumes are being “appointed” by SpiceJet, a sure sign of good times to come. Interestingly, men related to Tiger Airways, in the past and the present, are joining Spicejet, which seems less of an “appointment” and more of an insert. In simple language: Tiger Airways seems to be actively reforming the airline with its own people before it can invest in SpiceJet.
The experience that the COO and the CCO bring seem to be complimentary: Sanjiv Kapoor has had experience only with full service, legacy carriers. That is great from the operational perspective. Although successful low cost airlines have been known for streamlined operations, the experience Sanjiv gained at leading airlines can help transform the way in which the SpiceJet brand is viewed today. Dirty seats, dirty airplanes, and unhappy services are on their way out.
Kaneswaran, on the other hand comes with a solid experience of 12 years not the “airline” industry, but the low cost airline Industry. He was part of the start up team of AirAsia in 2001, played a pivotal role in Air Asia’s expansion into neighbouring countries. He’s been associated with famous low cost brands: Air Asia, and Garuda Indonesia Citilink. Importantly, he was engaged by Viva Macau, Macau first LCC start up, where he was tasked with the responsibility for re-engineering the commercial unit and implementation of new commercial and network strategies to return the airline to route profitability. Recently, Kanesh completed a short but intense commercial transformation project for Citilink Indonesia. These responsibilities and experience are what SpiceJet can do with.
Sanjiv’s full service experience in operations and Kaneswaran’s rich low cost experience can, if well leveraged, make SpiceJet the preferred low cost airline: based on fares, and on service. Something that IndiGo is already known for.
“His deep domain knowledge on airline commercial across sales & distribution, revenue management, marketing, network planning, airline system and market penetration strategy would be key in transforming SpiceJet commercial capability and improving overall route and airline profitability,” said Mr. Sanjiv Kapoor, Chief Operating Officer, SpiceJet Ltd.
Interestingly, Sanjiv Kapoor, more than a week ago, said, “SpiceJet is also demonstrating that you do not need foreign airlines to show India the power of low fares and market stimulation; we are just as capable of doing it ourselves, and are committed to creating multiple opportunities for as many Indians as possible to fly.” That ambiguous statement was clarified by SpiceJet as referring to “Air Asia’s constant claims that they will stimulate demand.”
And now we have on board the airline the very man who was part of the start up team of AirAsia.
Says Sanjiv Kapoor, “Kanesh’s joining is part of an ongoing refresh of SpiceJet’s management team, with further announcements to be made in the coming weeks”
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Though not officially acknowledged by the airline, SpiceJet has reportedly placed an order for 42 Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft. Considering the airline’s fleet to be comprised mostly of Boeing 737-800s, the order may very well be entirely made of Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is expected to enter service in the third quarter of 2017, almost 4 years from now. With already 1,763 orders for the 737 MAX airplanes, it may be easily close to 2-3 years after the 737 MAX 8 enters service that SpiceJet receives its first 737 MAX, assuming that Boeing will up the production rate of the 737 jets to 47 a month, or higher to 60, from the present 42.
SpiceJet is now one of 298 yet “Unidentified” Customers who have ordered 737 MAX airplanes. The airline is yet to receive 18 Boeing 737-800 airplanes from the US airplane manufacturer. In 2013, SpiceJet received 10 Boeing 737NG airplanes, its highest ever in a calendar year.
This order that speaks of an airline poised for growth 5 years down the road, is a precursor to “something” big in the airline. Note the 737NG delivery trend for SpcieJet, below, and you’ll notice that 2013 was a very happening year, for an airline about to make a big announcement in 2014: the news of the much awaited investor.
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14th January 2020 | Author: garageseaham | No comments | Categories: Uncategorised | Tags: Post Formats
New version of fifth-generation SUV will go on sale with 302bhp and a 38-mile-plus electric-only range
Toyota has released new details of its new RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid, which will arrive in the UK with a 302bhp powertrain capable of more than 38 miles of electric-only running.
The fifth-generation SUV was launched in 2018, but it was initially offered in the UK with just one powertrain option: a 2.5-litre petrol-electric hybrid producing 215bhp in front-wheel-drive form and 219bhp in four-wheel-drive models. Toyota says the new machine is the most powerful RAV4 – and the quickest alternatively fuelled Toyota – ever.
The new plug-in variant features four-wheel drive as standard and uses the same 173bhp 2.5-litre petrol engine as the regular hybrid. That engine is mated to a larger underfloor battery and more powerful electric motor – although Toyota has yet to specify details of these. The new battery is a high-capacity lithium ion unit, with the powertrain featuring a boost converter on the hybrid’s power control unit.
Toyota says the system produces 302bhp in total, emits just 29g/km of CO2 (according to ‘WLTP-standard data’) and can propel the RAV4 from 0-62mph in 6.2sec. The electric motor is capable of running at speeds of up to 84mph with no intervention from the engine.
The new model will be offered in the UK with a range of driver assistance features, including a colour head-up display for the first time. Additional features and options include 19in alloy wheels, heated front and rear seats, two-tone paint schemes and smartphone integration.
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Duncan Macleod September 18, 2016
The Art Institute of Chicago’s Van Gogh BnB project has won four Gold awards at the Clio Awards, for Brand Design, Branded Entertainment, Engagement/Experiential, and Out of Home. Van Gogh’s Bedrooms exhibition ran from February 14 to May 10, 2016, focused on the artist’s three “Bedroom” paintings, presenting an in-depth study of their making and meaning to Van Gogh. To build interest in the exhibition Van Gogh’s 1888 painting, “The Bedroom”, was recreated in a specially decorated apartment. Through a partnership with Airbnb, people were invited to spend a night inside. Van Gogh hosted the room himself. Working from original documentation supplied by the Art Institute, craftsmen spent four weeks recreating the Van Gogh BnB room. As a result, instead of just looking at a Van Gogh painting, people could live inside one, bringing them closer to the artist than ever before. The Van Gogh BnB project won seven Gold Lions at Cannes in June, and the Experiental award at the AICP Next Awards.
Van Gogh painted his first Bedroom just after moving into his beloved “Yellow House” in Arles, France, in 1888. He was so enamored with the work, now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, that after water damage threatened its stability, he became determined to preserve the composition by painting a second version while at an asylum in Saint-Rémy in 1889. Identical in scale and yet distinct from the original, that second work is now one of the icons of the Art Institute’s permanent collection. Van Gogh created a smaller third version, now at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, as a gift for his mother and sister a few weeks after making the second. While the three paintings at first appear almost identical, when examined closely, each reveals distinct and unique details.
Van Gogh BnB Credits
The Van Gogh BnB campaign was developed at Leo Burnett Chicago by chief creative officer Mark Tutssel, creative directors Mikal Pittman and Britt Nolan, associate creative director Mike Costello and Pete Lefebvre, associate creative director/art director John Regan, associate creative director/copywriter Tor Lemhag, account director Cliff Schwandner, account executives Becca Wilson, Andi Della Chiesa and Ariel Tishgart, producers Glennon Scanner, Laura Stern and Colleen Capola, photographer Daniel Shea.
Media was handled by Starcom Mediavest Group, Chicago.
The apartment makeover was designed at Ravenswood Studio, Chicago.
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‘Watered-Down’ AIDS Drugs Story Hides the Clinton Foundation’s Worse Crimes Against Humanity
Archive Investigations September 29, 2016 September 30, 2016 by Celia Farber
By Elizabeth Ely
The day the report appeared on the “watered-down drugs” that the Clinton Foundation arranged, September 20, to be exact, the meme had already been established. The soundbite, the spin, the propaganda, already lived in that space, “The Daily Caller” having leaked certain findings the night before.
U.S. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn’s staff has found that the Foundation had arranged for the generic drugs to be bought from crooked foreign drug firms to distribute to poor rural populations in the Third World. These were not literally diluted drugs, mind you, but possibly contaminated, and certainly fraudulently tested ones.
To avoid grasping the full reality of the generic AIDS drugs story the report tells – the horrific damage on the ground, so carefully avoided there – we are encouraged not to speak, nor even to think, in full sentences. A soundbite will suffice to protect us from the distasteful details. “The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.” So wrote Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness.
We begin with another soundbite, the “racket.”
The “racket” is the little neighborhood candy store with a backroom where the real, uglier business goes down. The candy store here is a front operation to “fight AIDS.” In that dark backroom, the Clinton entities were supposed to have been buying drugs for AIDS patients. Instead, they were engaging in influence peddling, pilfering funds, and filing fraudulent, unaudited tax forms. Somewhere in there is the bare fact that neither the Clinton Foundation nor any purported affiliate has a charter to fight AIDS or anything else. (Also reported HERE and HERE.)
These stories were already public, and investigators would of course have known about them. What they never asked was whether the candy store itself – the AIDS mission – was legit. In other words, nobody imagined that dumping drugs of any kind, clean or dirty, on poor, rural populations, with scarcely any medical follow-up in evidence, might be a bad idea and certainly employing (Conrad again) “unsound method.”
The emotional blackmail of AIDS propaganda creates this blind spot. According to a story that’s been around so long that no one can refute it, AIDS missions are always and everywhere a good thing. Cheap drugs? Even better.
Blackburn herself grasped some of the implications. “You think about the emotional state of health care workers as they are dealing with these individuals and the emotional state of the patients,” she wrote. “To me it’s disturbing and very sad.”
Imagine how these workers, if they existed, would feel if they suspected their patients might not need AIDS drugs in the first place. The Clinton Foundation and its allies depend on nobody connecting the dots between the Bangui definition, used in “resource-poor settings” to diagnose AIDS without an “HIV test,” with these media-hyped explosions of supposed HIV cases.
Nobody envisions that the Foundation has been inventing fake AIDS epidemics around the world. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton implied it himself when The Atlantic in October 2007 found him creating a “supply” if foreign governments created a “demand.” Without reaching that sordid conclusion, the report did, however, quote Elton John in his 2012 book Love Is the Cure: “If we can get you cheap AIDS drugs, will you commit to buying a lot of them? Then they went to drug companies and made the reverse pitch. . . .”
Clinton may have eyed these future business opportunities many years ago. To Blackburn and her investigators, the problem isn’t merely the fact that he excepted generic AIDS drugs from the strict patent protections that he created for all drugs. The report notes that he exempted intellectual property rights for AIDS drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa. His administration also designated foreign AIDS epidemics as a danger to U.S. national security.
The report doesn’t say that both actions came shortly after then-South African President Thabo Mbeki announced he was including scientific dissenters on his Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel for the 2000 International AIDS Conference in Durban. Clinton’s designation in effect made criminals of those who accepted Mbeki’s invitation, as well as South Africans in support, for questioning the usefulness of the drugs for which he would later try to broker sales.
But the real problem, to the Blackburn staff, is those damned “watered-down” generics. Let’s get real that there is nothing “watered down” about these drugs. The generics companies put garbage in those capsules, and you should see how toxic the real drugs are. You would definitely want a generic version of something as toxic as nevirapine, which literally burns the skin off bodies, to be diluted.
The authors also acknowledge that it wasn’t only the dirty generics per se but the fact that they were bought from fly-by-night drug companies friendly to Clinton. The drugs are the consumer offering, and, as is quoted, “At a time when Indian products did not have much credibility in the market, the Foundation gave buyers the required confidence about the products.” The secondary play was to sell part of the company itself in a pump-and-dump on the mergers and acquisitions market.
For instance, Indian company Ranbaxy Laboratories “partnered” with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to sell its worthless AIDS drugs to USAID, the “primary administrator” of President George W. Bush’s initiative, fattening up the investment value for a selloff. Even as it was under FDA investigation for falsifying test data, Ranbaxy offloaded, according to the Congressional report, 63.4% of its assets to a somewhat clueless Japanese firm, Daiichi Sankyo.
Fortune had already reported this in May 2015. (Fortune cited the FDA’s approval of “Ranbaxy’s application for the first pediatric-AIDS drug for the U.S. market, Zidovudine,” even as it was investigating the company’s procedures. More commonly known as AZT, this drug had already caused ghastly side effects in adults in the late 1980s and was being replaced in the West with newer drugs, although some of these are still taken in combination with AZT. They were going after children. In the U.S.)
I am indebted to Australian Michael Smith for this excerpt from a speech the former prime minister of Papua New Guinea made to celebrate entering into a fraudulent “memorandum of understanding” with Clinton:
“Papua New Guinea is a nation of many tribes whose cultures in the past have provided a safety net for those who are orphaned, sick or aging. With the arrival of this ‘new’ virus, fear has turned families and relatives away from supporting their loved one. Children, who traditionally brought great joy to families, often find themselves being abandoned and desperately needing care and treatment.”
Inducing traditional societies to stigmatize and abandon their sick, children and elderly is apparently a modus operandi.
Not so coincidentally, Clinton friend George Soros’ exploitation of Papua New Guinea’s mineral resources has proceeded. Soros is a new major investor in Barrick Gold Corporation, a Canadian firm with a concession to mine in Papua New Guinea and a history of labor and environmental abuse there.
Behold “the conquest of the earth.”
–Elizabeth Ely
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R. A. Davis says:
Gee, what a surprise! They did a similar slimy move re Hatian quake relief. Megabucks in donations, nearly all of it farmed out to corporations who kicked back to the foundation and did little or no work.
Humor: Hillary says to the Devil, “You said you’d make me President.”
The Devil replies, “you said you had a soul.”
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Gary Ogden says:
The Clinton’s are about the slimiest pair we’ve ever had in public office, the Clinton Foundation their get-rich-quick scheme, and they’re getting away with it scot free. Almost makes me want to vote for Trump (though I won’t).
This is not the election for a protest vote. Voting for Gary or Jill is a vote for Hitlery.
Anonymous: Nobody is far and away the best candidate this year, and that is what I will show on my ballot. Rather doubt I’ll ever vote for anyone again. While I can think of a few good reasons for voting for Trump, it was the Republican Supreme Court justices who utterly slammed the door on all vaccine-injured children in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, and the liberal justices who voted for justice for Hannah, so no, I would NEVER vote for a Republican for president (nor a Democrat either, nor Johnson or Stein). Politicians make me sick. Obama has completely betrayed us, as has most of the Congress.
Anonymous: One other thing. Virtually all the vote counting in elections is done by private firms using proprietary software (blackboxvoting has a great deal of information about this). Theses firms have clients besides the county officials who hire them, and those clients are not the voters. Very likely Dubya won in 2000 not only because of the Republican Congressional aides going to Florida and disrupting the recount, and set in stone by the Supreme Court, but by this software; he certainly won in 2004 by software, since the Ohio Republican secretary of state promised to deliver his state to him, which he did by shipping all the Ohio votes to a single vote-counting firm. Don’t get me wrong, Al Gore is as big an idiot as Dubya, but he may not have destroyed the Middle East. I would be shocked if this software wasn’t used to steal the nomination from Bernie. Hillary is the oligarch’s (Council on Foreign Relations) fondest hope for the White House, and, since they are the highest bidder among the vote-counting companies’ clients, it is a foregone conclusion that she will win. Don’t puke! This disturbs me no end, too, but there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it, other than guerrilla-style actions. The resident troll will howl in protest, but our best bet is to bring down the CDC, and expose a whole lot of the can of worms which is U.S.A., Inc. There are concerted actions in all fifty states right now to do that. There are multiple lawsuit in California. Discovery and deposition and the threat of perjury and grand jury probes will expose the dark underbelly of the fascist regime which medicine and our nation have become.
Trico says:
The Hillary Clinton Debate Gate Scandal:
The Monday Night, 09/26/2016 Debate:
BEFORE THE DEBATE:
The Video title says it all. Watch the video:
“HILLARY BUSTED! NBC DRESSED INTERN AS FEDEX DRIVER TO DELIVER CLINTON DEBATE QUESTIONS A WEEK EARLY” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tioeZRt8GmM
This revelation was leaked from inside Hillary’s Camp. You can only be around Evil so much before you allow it to consume you or you reject it.
DEBATE NIGHT:
Hillary Clinton can be seen wearing a large “Earring”. Considering Hillary’s reputation for dishonesty & duplicity, Earrings should not be allowed.
Hillary Clinton was wearing a mysterious box with wires during TV debate with Trump” “eagle-eyed viewers also noticed a see-through ear piece planted in Clinton’s ear” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfGQJ0jg5k – “Lester Holt wore an earpiece during Presidential debate” Lester Holt can be seen and heard doing an Ear Piece sound check. Ear pieces were deemed to be disallowed so why was Lester Holt and possibly Hillary using Ear Pieces? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H17Yl8uHVFw
The “Silent” Truth?
“The Audience in the room has agreed to remain silent so we can focus on what the Candidates are saying”
-Lester Holt, Debate Moderator.
Is that the Truth or is this the Truth?:
“The Audience in the room has agreed to remain silent so both Hillary Clinton & I, Lester Holt can hear the lines being fed to us” – Hillary’s
Hillary’s Secret Hand Gestures To Lester Holt
Watch this next video & see Hillary communicating with Lester Holt during the Debate using hand gestures.
Then immediately after the Debate, a white haired man collects Hillary’s paperwork from Hillary’s Podium, puts it under his arm, makes his way towards Lester Holt then surreptitiously hands the paperwork off to Holt.
Why would Lester Holt need to collect Hillary’s paperwork? Was the paperwork collected the actual Debate questions Hillary had secretly been given the week before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX9Y0idqvvU
Note: Lester Holt did not collect Donald Trump’s paperwork.
– Both NBC & Lester Holt need to be investigated for Fraud, Collusion & Racketeering as does Hillary Clinton & her Campaign Team.
Hillary’s Electronically Souped Up Podium?
What was inside Hillary’s Podium?
Hillary Clinton did not bring anything with her to the Podium that wasn’t already attached to her ear or attached to her back and hidden under her clothing.
Hillary’s hands were also empty.
Yet 10 minutes after the debate ended, a group of Hillary operatives including Bill Clinton mingle around Hillary’s Podium while one Operative can be seen doing what looks like disconnecting wires inside Hillary’s Podium. The same Operative tried to return but was scared off by the camera person filming nearby. Then the Operative does successfully return and removes something from inside the podium using 2 hands to hold the item and carry it away.
There was a Button looking item on top of Hillary’s podium that seemed to have a wire attached and leading inside the Podium.
Bill Clinton can be seen acting suspiciously around the Podium (see video) and then can be seen bending down and reaching inside Hillary’s Podium to do something. Bill’s hand was inside but near the top of the podium. Bill Clinton did not remove anything. I believe Bill disconnected the wire from the Button looking item that was on top of the Podium. That button then was stealthily removed by another Operative.
While Hillary’s crew was milling around the Podium, Bill Clinton reaches for Hillary’s hand to help her onto the stage. This activity, along with the other Hillary staff milling around, blocked the view of the Podium as another man with white hair, not Bill, reaches inside the Podium and removes something brown colored from inside the Podium.
Next time there has to be a Podium check where each Candidate has their person examine the other Candidate’s Podium. The Moderator nor anyone else can be trusted to do this.
Watch the video for yourself and see Team Hillary’s Duplicity.
“Proof Hillary Clinton’s Corrupt, crookedness @ debate stage, worse than “Watergate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIYdjq2Wa6E
There also has to be an Ear Check of both Candidates & The Debate Moderator.
A TSA type body pat down should also be required considering Hillary Clinton and her Team’s duplicity.
Boxers have their gloves checked for contraband before a fight. Hillary’s duplicity necessitates a likewise pre-debate check of EVERYTHING.
#CrookedHillary, no one does crooked like Hillary.No one even comes close.
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Let’s try & prompt an investigation for Fraud, Collusion & Racketeering.
john powell says:
Here, by having before us the brilliant prose so elegantly and expertly assembled in the article above, we are privileged to become astonished witnesses to the magnificently exquisite, and exquisitely magnificent labors of Elizabeth Ely’s heart and mind.
Thank you, Elizabeth Ely, and thank you Celia for administering access to such exquisite rarities.
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Land of the Headless and Splinter by Adam Roberts
Victoria Hoyle
Issue: 8 October 2007
Earlier this year Adam Roberts was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award with his survivalist space saga, Gradisil (Gollancz, November 2006). He has followed up that success with not one but two novels in the last ten months, Land of the Headless (Gollancz, June 2007) and Splinter (Solaris, September 2007). And he has written both while also holding down a full-time academic post, blogging (at the inestimably literary Valve, as well as elsewhere), and reviewing in his spare time. If he was churning out the SF equivalent of a James Patterson thriller I would still be impressed; but as it is— Splinter being one of the most beautifully written and sensitively themed novels I've read all year—I'm somewhat boggled. I begin to suspect he has some kind of literary superpower.
Land of the Headless is classic Roberts, in the same stylistic and aesthetic vein as Gradisil , and the species of novel for which he has earned the (faintly hyperbolic) title "king of high-concept SF" (from Jon Courtenay Grimwood in The Guardian , as every Roberts cover delights in reminding us). Like all his work, it begins with a simple but extraordinary premise from which plot, character, and theme all emanate. In this specific case: what if a person could lose their head and yet go on living? On the planet of Pluse, where life is circumscribed by literal adherence to a fundamental religious code (a fusion of Sharia law and the values of the Old Testament), it happens all the time. Murder, adultery, and blasphemy, in their various forms and without exception, are crimes punishable by beheading, although it is no longer a procedure that equals death. On the contrary, technological (and "ethical") advances have made it possible for the "headless" to live long, if not happy, lives in their truncated states. Ostracised, vilified, and rejected by their families and friends, they're condemned to a postlife of drudgery, stigma, and shame; en masse they form a slavelike workforce, the essential, unseen underbelly of a "perfect" society.
Jon Cavala, the novel's protagonist, is one such headless. Accused and found guilty of adultery (which may or may not have been a rape), his spine is fitted with an ordinator, a device that will take over the function of his brain, and executed. His world goes completely dark; he loses all the faculties that go along with his head—sight, sound, taste, speech, and smell—and finds himself utterly stranded within himself. In a very real and meaningful sense, he has died to the world. He will never see it as he once did ever again; and, in return, it will choose to see as little of him as possible.
Like many newly headless, he is taken in by a group of religious zealots—the idea being that his punishment will turn him towards penitence and God—and begins to adapt to his new life. He spends his last few credits buying basic sensory equipment, which enable him to see, hear, and speak, and forms a series of protofriendships with other afflicted individuals. He develops a painful, improbable crush on the fanatical Siuzan Deluge, one of his headed helpers. What has happened to him is terrible and, to his mind, entirely unjust, but the situation does not appear entirely hopeless; a return to his old life seems possible, if not probable, and he engages in delusional fantasies about marrying and reentering society. That is, until Siuzan is raped by one of her headless charges and Jon finds himself under suspicion for the crime. The situation is intractable. Siuzan refuses to implicate any of her companions—a second conviction for a headless spells actual death—but in doing so condemns herself as complicit in the sex act. Jon is faced with a terrible choice: confess to a crime he did not commit to save her innocent head? Or allow injustice to prevail and save himself?
Like Gradisil before it, The Land of the Headless is a novel about self-delusion and curtailment, both physical and ideological. In the former, a community of "Uplanders" in homemade space dwellings chooses to cut itself off from the earth and declare its independence, in the mistaken belief that this will increase the personal freedoms of the settlers. Instead, it becomes a self-imposed imprisonment—trapped in their fragile "houses," struggling with the physiological repercussions of living without gravity and the psychological effects of their loneliness, they become the most isolated of prisoners. Although they are ideologically free, they're actually defined by their confinement, and the novel points up the tension between the symbolic and the literal implications of their autonomy, as well as the dichotomy between the transformative power of belief and the devastating contrast of reality. Land of the Headless deals with an analogous form of ostracism—the headless have not declared their independence, but a genus of it has been forced upon them. While they share a planet with the headed, they may as well be living in a different country or different time. Like the pioneers in Gradisil , they are the new citizens of a bleak land.
The loss of the head is both physical and metaphorical. Jon has not only lost his eyes, nose, and mouth, but also his identity. If we were being imaginative, we might go so far as to say his "manhood" has been severed. The story he tells us, in the first person, is of his coming to terms with it, a tale that runs the gamut from pompous moralising to painful self-disgust to pathetic optimism. He was once a poet—feckless, self-indulgent, promiscuous, and thoughtless—and, at first, looks back on his achievements in those days with a carefully guarded pride. It becomes clear however, especially given the evidence of his poetry, that Cavala was never an honestly talented writer. He had, and continues to have, barrowfuls of self-belief but nothing much to show for it. When, later in the novel, it is in his enemy's best interest to massage his ego, they create a sensory delusion for him in which he is a universally acclaimed writer, a household name on far away planets, a story he willingly falls for hook, line, and sinker. It is only after the trials of his headless afterlife, as the true implications of his situation begin to dawn on him, that he realises the arrogance of his mistake:
Most of what this individual said was taken from my own mind . . . and was an echo chamber, as it were, of my own obsessions, my anxieties of vainglories. The object of the exercise was merely to distract me . . . (p. 213)
Beheading causes a psychosomatic as well as physical break in him, and not only between the form of his old and new lives, but also between his postadolescent self-conceit and full adult independence. Only by such a drastic and violent act of severance is he made fully cognizant of his selfhood and of his responsibilities, both to himself and to others.
It seems clear to me that this transition—from that time in your life when you think of yourself as a protoadult, forever twentysomething, to the time when you have properly "grown up"—is much on Roberts's mind. It is also one of the central themes of Splinter , his second and best novel of 2007. In this book, a deliberate homage to and riff on one of Jules Verne's lesser known works, Hector Servadac, Voyages et adventures a travers le monde solaire (1877), he takes a rather similar protagonist—a 38 year old rake, equally self-deluded, who has never completely disavowed the directionless wandering of his student days—and has him experience the same kind of transition through violent dislocation.
Sometime in the early twenty-first century Hector Servadac Jnr. arrives back in the U.S. from France, where he has been working (somewhat halfheartedly, one must feel) on an academic paper on Cézanne. His motive for returning is to visit his father who, in a fit of parental eccentricity and possible senility, has sold their old family home and bought a ranch in the middle of the Californian desert. His reasoning? He is preparing for the end of the world, as presaged in Verne's aforementioned novel, firm in the belief that a space object, of some considerable size, is about to destroy all but the splinter of Earth that he is now living on. Much to his son's surprise (and jealous chagrin), Hector Snr. has attracted a group of enthusiastic followers to him, all eager to survive the imminent apocalypse on his ranch. Amongst them are Dimmi, a nubile Eastern European with whom Hector Jnr. quickly becomes obsessed (the counterpart, I suggest, of Siuzan Deluge), and Janet, a carrier of the HIV virus and another object of his prurient fantasies. All of them claim to have had visions: vivid dreams of the past and the future that seem to confirm Hector Snr.'s apocalyptic augurs. Hector Jnr. is decidedly unconvinced. The very idea of the end of the world is too ridiculous for him to contemplate:
"This end of the fricking world," said Hector, not looking at his father. He couldn't bring himself to say fucking in his father's presence. "It's an extreme thing to believe, isn't it? It's old, Dad. It's bent out of shape, don't you think? Are they all religious, the ones staying?" (p. 14)
He unconsciously mistakes his personal anger at his father, which he is unable to express in any other way, with disdain for his beliefs. If he cannot express his hurt at their failure to connect personally, as father and son, he can at least blame and alienate him for lying about the end of the world. And he clings to this atheistic contempt throughout, refusing to believe as a matter of principle, despite the fact that on his first night at the ranch, it actually happens. The world ends. Or rather, all evidence suggests that it does. Certainty is impossible to come by in the circumstances, and Roberts enjoys the possibility that the end of the world might be subtler than the fire-and-brimstone apocalypse, so much so as to not be obvious to its survivors. In this case, a terrible earthquake is followed by a blanket of thick, damp fog that lies so thickly over the desert that it is impossible to travel, or even to see your hand in front of your face. This, in turn, is succeeded by weeks and weeks of rain, and then by the advent of freakish, indestructible plant growth. Hector Snr.'s "cult" declare that they are now the only survivors of a huge meteor strike, and begin to speculate as to what their survival means—what is the object that has hit the earth? Is it sentient? Is it a god? What does it want? Some retain a scientific objectivity; others fall head over heels into a pattern of fetishistic worship. Hector is the only one who refuses to believe in it, up to and then beyond the point when the situation has been proved by the evidence of his own eyes. His is a fever of defiance, as essentialist in its creed of disbelief as any religion.
As with Jon Cavala, Hector's brand of self-delusion is a mixture of both personal outrage (at family; at society) and philosophical incredulity. Both conflate their individual struggles—against headlessness; against the end of the world—with what they perceive as the fight against the ludicrous belief systems of their contemporaries. Jon Cavala actively obscures the nature of his own crime, which we come to suspect was indeed a form of rape, with the much larger crime that the state has committed against him. In an argument with Siuzan he emphasises the barbarity of religion above that of his own fault:
"I speak of the general, not of my particular. I ask, is this the way to organise our society? This code, this penal code; it is from a medieval past, from a time when life was brutal. But life is no longer brutal. We are a space-faring, technologically advanced civilisation. We have a sophisticated and liberal culture. No other inhabited worlds still abide by so barbaric a practise. . . . For crimes that other worlds view as pastimes! As hobbies."
For the first time her expression cooled. "Murder and blasphemy cannot be described as hobbies!"
"I was not beheaded for either."
"Nor" she said, "are there civilised worlds where rape is a pastime."
This deflated me and took the conviction from my statements. (p. 10)
For Hector, disbelieving in the end of the world becomes the same as defending the integrity and rightness of his old life, just as exhorting society to a higher moral standard saves Jon Cavala from confronting his own nature. And, like Cavala, Hector holds on to his former self even in the face of its destruction, only reconciling himself to what has happened to him in the final pages of the book. For both men it takes a dreadful and extreme separation between past and present to force personal change. The literal splintering of worlds is necessary to overcome their inertia and take them forward:
He was a tight little bundle of fragments before he was a fetus, and he's a tight little bundle of fragments again now. But that's ok, that's the way of things, we become habituated to living on the sizeable splinters of our parental worlds, floating away into space, sometimes very far from the original location. (p. 208)
Yet despite such similarities in character and theme, The Land of the Headless and Splinter are very different books. So much so that a reader unfamiliar with Roberts, coming to them blind, would very probably never guess they were by the same man. They are like two sides of the same coin, piquant exercises in very different types of storytelling.
I have said that The Land of the Headless is a stylistic cousin of Gradisil , perhaps even its natural heir. Both grow out of an aesthetic of barrenness—of emotion, sensation, and setting—and prioritise a kind of inhumanness that, in the end, reveals itself to be entirely and pathetically human. They are both rooted in singularly unforgiving worlds and Roberts's prose mirrors this preoccupation. His characters and his writing often seem cold and distant, sometimes beautiful but always functional, perhaps even military. It is the prose equivalent of the forced march, and sympathy is hard come by in the presence of such thoroughly dislikeable (if entirely compelling) individuals and hard circumstances. Initially, I found it hard to enjoy Roberts's writing as a result—it is always more difficult to appreciate that which you cannot love—but further acquaintance has reconciled me. It strikes me (and I paraphrase Austen) that knowing him better, I better understand his disposition and preferences as an author. He uses style as a function of theme and narrative, and he is thoroughly conscious when doing so.
Splinter is entirely different in personality. Which is not to say that Hecter Servadac Jnr. is a more likeable or sympathetic protagonist. On the contrary, although his very modernness, his contemporary parlance, brings him closer to the reader, he is still disagreeable. No, what makes Splinter different is that Roberts writes much warmer, more rhythmic prose; not less mindful, since his writing is always heavily controlled, but more fertile. Lush, even. Whereas the style of Headless communicates crippling repression and the terrible absence of sensation in its spareness, so Splinter conveys the fecund landscape and frustrated eroticism of the end of the world through its sensual immediacy. For example, Hector's physicality is very close to the narrative's surface, sometimes sickeningly so, and he spends much of his time in a state of heightened sexual arousal. Like a textbook Freudian case, he subconsciously confuses Thanatos and Eros: his death drive, which represents his understandable urge to return to a state of calm and undisturbed existence, and his sex drive. This often causes him to express and characterise his most complex emotions in sexual terms and acts. It also inspires some of Roberts's most beautiful and sensitive writing, as when Hector turns to masturbation after an encounter with Janet ends in abrupt frustration:
A complex of emotions squeezes through him, a queer peristalsis. Was she just toying with him? How could she set him up like that, and just walk away? He feels the beginning of humiliated, and a growing anger, and yes he is still horny. But at the same time he feels anxious, and he feels insecurity growing in him, and the fretful thought that perhaps it was something about him has driven her away, that he is too dirty (washing is not something he is able to do every day), or his potato white skin is too hideous, or he is otherwise disgusting. But that cannot be right. His own desperate urging desire carried him past all that, he must have it. He must. There's no maybe here. So he grasps himself. . . . He suppresses a shout as he comes. He shuts his eyes as if he is sneezing, and—
Outward it flows. (p. 100)
Here Roberts is at his most organic, using the stop-start nature of human thought—the way it flows, then dams, and then bursts through again—to conjure the rhythm of the sex act. He makes it seem simple, and keeps it subtle too, staying clear of vulgarity and the temptation to shock and spice with taboo words. Instead, he emphasises Hector's self-disgust and his vulnerability; and because he is all id and no superego, masturbating in the kitchen with his trousers around his ankles, it makes him seem childlike. It makes him seem innocent. Compare it with the feelings expressed by Jon Cavala, in a very similar context, and the difference in the style and spirit of the novels is soon clear:
My breathing was shallow. My male organ had become aroused. This disgusted me, of course. I disgusted myself. . . . I was furious with myself, simultaneously revolted and angry and yet excited. . . . Eventually I fell asleep, but in the night a revolting thing happened. . . . What happened was this: there was an emission of fluid from my male organ, and I awoke to discover this seminal phlegm cold and crusted to my belly and thigh. (p. 30)
Cavala is by far the more restrained of the two men, although he is expressing the exact same urge that Hector feels and succumbs to. And yet, his coldness and his choice of terminology—the faux objectivity of "male organ"—complicate his self-disgust and make him appear guilty, which in turn makes him seem dangerous. Dangerous because he consciously denies his mind's part in what his penis does, and dangerous because that, in turn, suggests an abdication of physical responsibility that can (and appears to have) lead to ill-advised sexual acts. Ironically, it is his fervent denial that makes the reader draw back; it makes him somehow dirty.
These excerpts tell us a great deal about the comparative nature of sexual morality on Earth and on Pluse—the one, permissive, the other, oppressive—while, at the same time, demonstrating Roberts's breadth of expression.
It would be easy, having read only certain of his novels, to condemn Roberts as a frosty and frigid writer, but this is hardly possible in light of Splinter , in which he is all fluidity and fire. In some ways, the style of Headless (and of Gradisil too) make more sense in comparison to it—it becomes easier to see one style as a conscious affectation when held up next to its corollary. Splinter will always be my favourite of the two novels, closer to the kind of expressive prose that I love: rich and intertextual, vibrant and gorgeous. I also think that it is subtler and deeper as a result, a much more satisfying exploration of faith and selfhood. But reading Headless in tandem, I see that it has its own kind of brilliance—reflected glory, perhaps, but glory nevertheless.
Which has led me to wonder how Roberts can be a successful novelist in such differing styles, on the one hand cerebral and controlled in Headless and, on the other, emotional and fertile in Splinter ? I have sat thinking about this for a long while and, yes, I think it all boils back down to high concept. The ubiquitous "what if" is Roberts's narrative touchstone, the essential foundation to which all of his fiction, whatever its style, returns again and again. It is not possible to claim this as his innovation, since all speculative fiction is predicated to some extent on the theoretical, but (it seems to me) that Roberts uses it in a fundamentally different way to many of his contemporaries. In many SF novels (in most novels, even) the "what if" is a secondary cause, mutually dependent on character and plot to create theme and momentum. I could give any number of examples, but M. John Harrison's Nova Swing springs immediately to mind. But in Roberts's novels the "what if" functions as the first cause, the key to the whole world of his fiction—it is the primary life giver, the ignition. Metaphorically and, in Splinter , I think literally, it is akin to God, the beginning and the end of everything. I can only think of a handful of other novelists for whom this is true. (Ursula K. Le Guin is one of them. The Left Hand of Darkness is the obvious example—what if there was no such thing as biological sex? But much of her shorter fiction is relevant too.) Thus, I think it is what we might call the narrative theology of Roberts's work that makes it so exciting, no matter the dressing. It is his complicated pursuit of simple ideas that makes him one of our genre's most accomplished writers.
Victoria Hoyle works as a medieval archives assistant and researcher in York, U.K., where she lives with her partner and two guinea pigs. She reads as widely as she can, both in genre fiction and out of it, but with a penchant for the weird and small press. She litblogs at Eve's Alexandria with four friends and can be contacted by email at antigone@hotmail.co.uk.
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Victoria Hoyle is an archivist and PhD student in York, UK, where she lives with her partner and a prodigious hoard of books. Her reading tastes are eclectic. She blogs at Eve's Alexandria and you can follow her on Twitter @Vicky_Hoyle.
One comment on “Land of the Headless and Splinter by Adam Roberts”
Peter Hart
A terrifically interesting review - thanks.
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Micro-level claims reserving in non-life insurance
Wahl, Felix
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics.
Actuarial reserving deals with the problem of predicting outstanding claims payments on policies issued up to today to find an appropriate amount of capital, the claims reserve or technical provisions, to set aside in order to be able to meet obligations to policyholders. Historically, and commonly still today, this has been approached using purely algorithmic and deterministic methods, not based in any statistical models. This thesis contains five individual papers, mainly concerned with statistical models for use in the area of reserving in non-life insurance.
Paper I sets out all the components needed for the valuation of aggregate non-life insurance liability cash flows based on data in the form of claims triangles. The paper contains all necessary ingredients for use in practice, including the estimation of model parameters and a bias correction of the plug-in estimator of the valuation formula. The valuation framework that the paper takes as its starting point is compatible with the view of the Solvency IIdirective on how to compute the value of the technical provisions, i.e. that the value should equal the amount which a so-called reference undertaking would demand in order to take over and handle the run-off of the liability cash flow.
Paper II deals with the problem of estimating the conditional mean squared error of prediction(MSEP), conditional on the observed data. The paper presents an approach that yields analytically computable estimators for a wide range of different models — otherwise readily computable using simple numerical methods — and, moreover, it shows that the approach reproduces the famous MSEP formula for the distribution-free chain ladder model given by Mack in 1993. The approach is particularly useful when considering run-off triangles since itis then not feasible to perform a prediction assessment based on out-of-sample performance.
Paper III is concerned with properties of the variance of the variance parameter estimator ina general linear model, mainly in the form of finite sample size bounds that are independent of the covariates and that are such that, asymptotically, the lower and upper bounds are the same. As opposed to the other papers of this thesis, this paper is purely theoretical without an immediate insurance context — except for a small example.
Paper IV introduces a discrete-time micro-model called the collective reserving model (CRM). The model is highly accessible since, even though it is a micro-model, it is modelled on the aggregate level using two triangles, one for the number of reported claims and one for the claims payments. The paper shows, among other things, how the model gives predictors of outstanding claims payments separately for incurred but not reported and reported but not settled claims, and, interestingly, shows that the chain ladder technique is a large exposure (e.g. the number of contracts) approximation of the CRM.
Paper V is chiefly concerned with deriving closed-form expressions for moments in a class of continuous-time micro-models. It is the first paper to accomplish this task, hopefully making continuous-time micro-models accessible to a broader audience.
Stockholm: Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University , 2019. , p. 36
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-174300ISBN: 978-91-7797-865-7 (print)ISBN: 978-91-7797-866-4 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-174300DiVA, id: diva2:1360444
2019-12-04, sal 14, hus 5, Kräftriket, Roslagsvägen 101, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
Antonio, Katrien, Professor
KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Accountancy, Finance and Insurance, Belgium.
Lindholm, Mathias, Docent
Lindskog, Filip, Professor
At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 5: Manuscript.
1. Valuation of Non-Life Liabilities from Claims Triangles
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Valuation of Non-Life Liabilities from Claims Triangles
Lindholm, Mathias
Lindskog, Filip
2017 (English)In: Risks, ISSN 1670-0139, E-ISSN 2227-9091, Vol. 53, no 3, article id 39Article in journal (Refereed) Published
This paper provides a complete program for the valuation of aggregate non-life insurance liability cash flows based on claims triangle data. The valuation is fully consistent with the principle of valuation by considering the costs associated with a transfer of the liability to a so-called reference undertaking subject to capital requirements throughout the runoff of the liability cash flow. The valuation program includes complete details on parameter estimation, bias correction and conservative estimation of the value of the liability under partial information. The latter is based on a new approach to the estimation of mean squared error of claims reserve prediction.
liability valuation, claims triangles, cost of capital, parameter estimation, parameter uncertainty
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-151750 (URN)10.3390/risks5030039 (DOI)
2. Estimation of conditional mean squared error of prediction for claims reserving
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Estimation of conditional mean squared error of prediction for claims reserving
2019 (English)In: Annals of Actuarial Science, ISSN 1748-4995, E-ISSN 1748-5002Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
This paper studies estimation of the conditional mean squared error of prediction, conditional on what is known at the time of prediction. The particular problem considered is the assessment of actuarial reserving methods given data in the form of run-off triangles (trapezoids), where the use of prediction assessment based on out-of-sample performance is not an option. The prediction assessment principle advocated here can be viewed as a generalisation of Akaike’s final prediction error. A direct application of this simple principle in the setting of a data-generating process given in terms of a sequence of general linear models yields an estimator of the conditional mean squared error of prediction that can be computed explicitly for a wide range of models within this model class. Mack’s distribution-free chain ladder model and the corresponding estimator of the prediction error for the ultimate claim amount are shown to be a special case. It is demonstrated that the prediction assessment principle easily applies to quite different data-generating processes and results in estimators that have been studied in the literature.
Mean squared error of prediction, reserving methods, ultimate claim amount, claims development result, chain ladder method
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-174298 (URN)10.1017/S174849951900006X (DOI)
3. On the variance parameter estimator in general linear models
Open this publication in new window or tab >>On the variance parameter estimator in general linear models
In the present note we consider general linear models where the covariates may be both random and non-random, and where the only restrictions on the error terms are that they are independent and have finite fourth moments. For this class of models we analyse the variance parameter estimator. In particular we obtain finite sample size bounds for the variance of the variance parameter estimator which are independent of covariate information regardless of whether the covariates are random or not. For the case with random covariates this immediately yields bounds on the unconditional variance of the variance estimator — a situation which in general is analytically intractable. The situation with random covariates is illustrated in an example where a certain vector autoregressive model which appears naturally within the area of insurance mathematics is analysed. Further, the obtained bounds are sharp in the sense that both the lower and upper bound will converge to the same asymptotic limit when scaled with the sample size. By using the derived bounds it is simple to show convergence in mean square of the variance parameter estimator for both random and non-random covariates. Moreover, the derivation of the bounds for the above general linear model is based on a lemma which applies in greater generality. This is illustrated by applying the used techniques to a class of mixed effects models.
General linear models, non-Gaussian error terms, moments of variance parameter estimators, finite sample size bounds, random covariates, unconditional bounds
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-174299 (URN)
4. The collective reserving model
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The collective reserving model
Verrall, Richard
2019 (English)In: Insurance, Mathematics & Economics, ISSN 0167-6687, E-ISSN 1873-5959, Vol. 87, p. 34-50Article in journal (Refereed) Published
This paper sets out a model for analysing claims development data, which we call the collective reserving model (CRM). The model is defined on the individual claim level and it produces separate IBNR and RBNS reserve estimators at the collective level without using any approximations. The CRM is based on ideas from a paper by Verrall, Nielsen and Jessen (VNJ) from 2010 in which a model is proposed that relies on a claim giving rise to a single payment. This is generalised by the CRM to the case of multiple payments per claim. All predictors of outstanding claims payments for the VNJ model are shown to hold for this new model. Moreover, the quasi-Poisson GLM estimation framework will be applicable as well, but without using an approximation. Furthermore, analytical expressions for the variance of the total outstanding claims payments are given, with a subdivision on IBNR and RBNS claims. To quantify the effect of allowing only one payment per claim, the model is related and compared to the VNJ model, in particular by looking at variance inequalities. The double chain ladder (DCL) method is discussed as an estimation method for this new model and it is shown that both the GLM- and DCL-based estimators are consistent in terms of an exposure measure. Lastly, both of these methods are shown to asymptotically reproduce the regular chain ladder reserve estimator when restricting predictions to the lower right triangle without the tail, motivating the chain ladder technique as a large-exposure approximation of this model.
Stochastic claims reserving, Risk, Solvency, Chain ladder, Discrete time Poisson process
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-170815 (URN)10.1016/j.insmatheco.2019.04.003 (DOI)000473379900003 ()
5. Explicit moments for a class of micro-models in non-life insurance
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Explicit moments for a class of micro-models in non-life insurance
2019 (English)In: Insurance, Mathematics & Economics, ISSN 0167-6687, E-ISSN 1873-5959, Vol. 89, p. 140-156Article in journal (Refereed) Published
This paper considers properties of the micro-model analysed in Antonio and Plat (2014). The main results are analytical expressions for the moments of the outstanding claims payments subdivided into IBNR claims and individual RBNS claims. These moments are possible to compute explicitly using the discretisation scheme for estimation and simulation used in Antonio and Plat (2014) since the expressions then do not involve any integrals that, typically, would require numerical solutions. Other aspects of the model that are investigated are properties of the maximum likelihood estimators of the model parameters, such as bias and consistency, and a way of computing prediction uncertainty in terms of the mean squared error of prediction that does not require simulations. Moreover, a brief discussion is given on how to compute moments or risk-measures of the claims development result (CDR) using simulations, which based on the results of the present paper can be done without any nested simulations. Based on this it is straightforward to compute the one-year Solvency Capital Requirement, which corresponds to the 99.5% Value-at-Risk of the one-year CDR. A brief numerical illustration is used to show the theoretical performance of the maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters in the claims development process under this model using a realistic set-up based on the case-study of Antonio and Plat (2014). Additionally, the paper ends with a short numerical illustration discussing the model's robustness under violations of an independence assumption.
Stochastic claims reserving, risk, solvency, loss reserving, Poisson process
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Garam masala seems to crop up in every Indian recipe under the sun, and in more than a few from elsewhere in southern Asia. Tandooris, biryanis and tikkas all use it, in Pakistan it’s added to pilau rice, and in Nepal it’s a final seasoning for soups and marinades. It’s one of the first things you’ll need in your Indian store cupboard and you can either buy it by the jar from almost any supermarket or make your own: but what on earth is it?
What it’s not
Denise D’silva Sankhe gets it right: it’s definitely not curry powder, which is a convenience product for the Western market, and it’s not really the generic stuff out of a jar either. The traditional Indian cook will have whole and ground spices to hand, and will bring layers of spice together, dish by dish. Somewhere between those poles is a happy medium – but where?
The name’s not too helpful. It means simply hot spice mixture in Hindi, although the ‘hot’ refers not to temperature but to the effect of the spices in Ayurvedic medicine, in which they ‘heat’ the body in order to rebalance the elemental substances of the body and thus achieve good health.
The ‘real’ garam masala
In truth, you could ask a hundred people about garam masala and have a hundred slightly different answers. The exact contents of the mix and the exact process of making it vary by country, by region, even by household: looking for the ‘real’ garam masala is a doomed endeavour. What you’re more likely to discover is a recipe that shares some, though by no means all, of its elements with the others.
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Kris Dhillon, former restaurateur and author of The Curry Secret, presents his own straightforward method that’s as good a base as any. It’s mostly coriander and cumin, with a few cardamom pods, cloves and peppercorns, a brace each of cinnamon sticks and bay leaves, and half a small nutmeg, ground and blended into powder. Danilo Alfaro presents a few of the things you’ll find in variants: turmeric, saffron, fennel, ginger, garlic, mustard seeds, mace, star anise, tamarind, fenugreek or malabar leaves.
What is important, when making garam masala, is the ratios that you use: every chef and home cook will have their own preferred proportions of varying spices. While some claim that every component of garam masala should be of equal size, others disagree. That’s the beauty of garam masala, though – it’s an unofficial, semi-mathematical science.
To roast or not to roast?
Some cooks tailor the blend to the dish in hand, seasoning meats, vegetables or fish in a slightly different style. Others, like Petrina Verma Sarkar, roast the spices and add them in stages. It’s a little controversial. traditional recipes often work with raw ingredients for a fresher masala, but there’s a modern trend toward dry roasting to release the flavour and aroma of the spices. Just to complicate things further, author Anjum Anand reveals that there is a traditional reason to roast: in parts of India, ever-present damp can make the seeds soggy, thus difficult to grind and flavourless, and so a light roasting dries them out to the point where they’re worth using.
The bottom line here is that you’ll almost certainly end up inventing your own after a few goes around. Start with the basics and experiment; keep a record of what works with what and you’ll have complicated matters even further before you know it. It’s best made with fresh ingredients, like all of our products, but making up a batch will mean you’re never caught short. Of course, there’s more to a meal than a main course – stock up on our snacks and starters, and give yourself time to focus on the fun part.
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LAGOS TO ENGAGE GRADUATES OF TECHNICAL COLLEGES IN SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE
Deputy Gov. Dr Adebule,(middle), HC Wealth Creation and Employment, Mr. Babatunde Durosinmi Etti (5th left), Executive Secretary, LATVEB, Engr. Olawunmi Gasper (1st left), Director General, NECA, Mr. Olusegun Oshinowo with some of the graduands
Lagos State Government has said that it would engage graduates of its technical colleges in a ‘Maintenance Gang’ initiative to be unveiled in August this year for maintenance and renovation works of public schools across the State.
The State Deputy Governor, Dr. (Mrs) Idiat Adebule made this known today at the graduation ceremony of NECA-ITF Technical Skills Development Project for Students of Government Technical College, Ikorodu at NECA Auditorium, Alausa Ikeja.
The Deputy Governor said that aside from the opportunities available to graduates with Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, to render minor repair and maintenance services, government will further engage the 30 companies incorporated by the graduands and graduates of the other four technical colleges in the State.
According to her, the present administration in the State is determined to explore all available avenues to encourage the growth of young entrepreneurs and as such has decided to engage graduates of its colleges as against awarding renovation and maintenance works that could be handled by these sets of young entrepreneurs to contracting firms.
Dr. Adebule commended NECA -ITF for creating the platform for graduates of the state technical colleges to be competently skilled and for giving them adequate entrepreneurial trainings that would make them actualise their dreams as entrepreneurs, while also enjoining the graduands to make the best of skills acquired by justifying the huge resources that have been invested in them.
The Deputy Governor also used the occasion to advocate more support from successful entrepreneurs and business moguls in bridging the large skills deficiency gap.
“I therefore call on people of goodwill, High Net Worth individuals, Non -governmental organisations to please partner with this administration in addressing the problems of youth unemployment, restiveness and mis-directed agitations.” she added.
Adebule promised that the state government will continue to work with the private sector in delivering a robust Technical and Vocational Education aimed at producing High Quality Technical skills for them and provision of excellent services to Lagos residents.
Also speaking at the event, the Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mr. Babatunde Durosinmi Etti, urged the graduants to translate the knowledge acquired into reality by harnessing opportunities available to them in the competitive world of business.
The Commissioner also called on them as entrepreneurs and other skilled individuals across the State to access the 25billion Naira Empowerment Trust Fund created by the State Governor for young entrepreneurs to grow and sustain their businesses.
The Executive Secretary of Lagos State Technical and Vocational Education Board (LASTVEB) Engr. Olawunmi Gasper, while delivering a welcome address at the event said that the graduation ceremony symbolises a successful private and public partnership between the State Government, NECA and ITF.
According to him, “This is an example of sharing responsibilities between the public and the private sector for the vocational education and training sector. Government and the private sector are working together for the provision of qualified, competent and skilled youths in the three selected areas – carpentry, plumbing and bricklaying/tiling.”
The Executive Secretary said that the micro-enterprises will now be the new face of providing quality services in some residential estates in the State, stressing that innovative solution that can transform the economy remains indispensible considering the present situation of things across the country.
“For us in LASTVEB, we have targeted the youths by promoting youth-led businesses and the special graduation of today lends credence to this. By engaging the youths early enough in youth entrepreneurship, strong economic and business sense is being developed.” Engr. Gasper added.
The Director-General of NECA, Mr Olusegun Oshinowo described the graduands as individuals with ‘double edged sword’ who have been trained as skilled individuals as well as entrepreneurs.
He expressed optimism of a very bright future for the graduands, saying that the future of the country lies in skilled vocation and wealth creators.
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The Best Free Mobile Java Game and App Sites
Posted on June 18, 2010 by Dennis Bournique
This post, which was originally published in October 2007, is consistently one of the most popular on WapReview and as such gets updated periodically to remove sites that are no longer working and to include the best new ones. Last Update: 31-Dec-2011
Mobile pundits are starting to talk about the death of Java ME. Oracle, which owns the Java brand, isn’t doing much to reassure developers of mobile Java’s viability. But Java ME is still the biggest mobile app platform in terns of installed base and one that will be around for years to come.
Mobile carriers offer games and applications for download from their portals, for a price. But there is an alternative, an amazing number of mobile Java games and applications are available for free. Here are my favorite sites for free and legal (not Warez) Java downloads.
Free and Open Source Downloads: These range from simple games and utilities created by hobbyists to some quite sophisticated programs.
GetJar.com is the pioneer and market leader when it comes to free Java game and App downloads. It’s huge site (57,000+ downloads) that has been around for years and is now the second biggest app store (after Apple’s) in the world. Just about every freeware, shareware or demo game ever published can be found on GetJar as well as many ad-supported ones. In addition to Java programs, Getjar also has games and apps for the BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone, Symbian and legacy Palm OS platforms.
GetJar’s mobile site (m.getjar.com) is pretty easy to navigate. Apps and games are organized by categories, the mobile site’s search facility works fairly well and there are descriptions and user reviews on the download pages. The PC site (getjar.com) is also categorized and you can filter the selection by phone model or family. The handset filter works well and includes generic programs in the same listings along with handset specific ones. Each download has a description and a screen shot and most also have user reviews. Each file on the PC site also has a 5 digit Quick Download Code. As the name implies, you can enter this code on the mobile site to go directly to the download for that app or game.
Phoload is a relatively new JAVA ME “App Store” along the lines of GetJar.com. In fact, it’s organized very similarly to GetJar. There’s a full web version (phoload.com) with a categorized, searchable directory of games and applications that can be filtered to only include apps compatible with your device. Applications and game listings include a screenshot, description and user reviews and ratings. All files can be downloaded to your PC for side loading. Or you can make note of a six digit “download code” and enter it on the mobile site for a direct to mobile download. Registered users can also add titles to a “Quick Download List” which makes them appear on the mobile site’s front page.
All downloads are free, the applications and games themselves are mostly freeware or ad supported but some are trials and demos. The type of each download (free full version, free ad-supported or trial/demo) is clearly indicated in each listing on Phoload.
The mobile version of the site (m.phoload.com) offers a searchable, categorized directory of apps and individual pages for each app with screenshot, description and rating. There is also download by code feature and, registered users can access their “Quick Download List” containing applications and games they have tagged on the full web site.
Mobango is a huge mobile file sharing site that has a lot of Java apps and games as well as ringtones, wallpapers, and videos. Registered Mobango users can upload content to mobango.com and then download them to their phones from the Mobango mobile site. When you upload a file you can flag it as either public or private.
Anyone can download the public files, which number nearly 700,000, from the Mobango mobile site wap.mobango.com without logging in or registering.
Sites hosting user submitted content have a problem with users sharing copyrighted material and Mobango is no exception. Each time a user uploads a file Mobango requires the user to check a box asserting that the file is their’s to share legally. Mobango responds to take down orders from publishers as well. But manually checking 700,000 files is an impossible task and it goes without saying that there is some copyrighted material on Mobango. I don’t know what the answer is to intellectual property issues on file sharing sites. Sharing content you have created is great, sharing the hard work and livelihood of musicians and software developers is not. I hate DRM and the heavy handed approach of the RIAA, etc., but just asking people not to post or download copyrighted material isn’t going to work.
BoostApps.com, is a site I created for Boost Mobile and Sprint Nextel iDEN network users. Unlike most mobile platforms, iDEN doesn’t support direct over the air downloads of Java applications using the browser. BoostApps uses a public Sprint API to hook into the iDEN app provisioning system and send free apps directly to Boost and Nextel USA phones. As far as I know, it’s the only site that lets iDEN users send applications directly to their phones without the need for cables or a PC.
Although designed for Boost Mobile users, most of the 200+ apps and games on BoostApps.com also work on other phones. All the downloads are legal freeware, ad-supported or open source and include essentials like Opera Mini, Gmail and Google Maps as well as many games.
Mjelly mjelly.com (mobile mjelly.mobi) has a small but high quality selection of free apps (no games). There are user reviews and ratings to help you find the best apps. By default, listings are sorted by rating but sorting by Newest or Most Popular is just a click away.
Mjelly also has a funky collection of ringtones including, sound effects, old school phone ringers, cartoon and TV themes, rave and metal tones.
While it doesn’t have a huge catalog, Mjelly loads fast, is easy to navigate and is a hassle free way to get truly free content for any phone.
Mob385 has no games, it’s all freeware applications like calculators, calendars, browsers, password safes, etc. plus some wallpapers. You can download directly to your phone from the mobile site (http://mob385.com/wap/) or to your PC for side-loading from the PC site (mob385.com/java/) The PC site has screen shots and descriptions, the mobile site doesn’t but it’s fairly small (230 applications) and files are at least grouped into categories.
Mob385 doesn’t seem to be updated anymore and now bills itself as offering “Free Java midlets for old Java enabled cell phones. Most of the applications work fine with current phones…“. Although the apps are old, there are still some gems on Mob385.
Ad Supported. These sites offer commercial quality games for free. Obviously there is advertising too. In my experience the ads are only shown when a game first loads and when you exit it. I don’t find the ads obtrusive, they are simple text or banner ads that can be dismissed with a click or two. Seeing a couple of ads seems like a reasonable price to pay for a high quality game. Be warned though that if you pay for data by the KB you will be charged for downloading ads every time you play.
Hovr Both the mobile (hovr.com/wap) and PC sites (hovr.com) feature good usability with categories and descriptions and, on the PC site, screen shots. Registration is no longer required to download but from the PC site but you have to navigate past multiple interstitial ads that appear to require you to enter personal information to proceed. To get past the ads safely click the tiny “no thanks” links hidden above below or along side each ad. after the last ad click “Leave this page” in the popup that appears. The mobile site doesn’t have the interstitials and is much more user friendly.
Mobile Rated at mobilerated.com is another site that offers free ad-supported mobile Java games and apps. It’s a big site with lots of content. The PC site is searchable and pretty well organized. The mobile version at mobilerated.com/wap/lists games and apps by categories but there is no search. If you are looking for something specific and have a PC it’s easiest to find what you want on the PC site to take note of the app or game’s Download Code which you can enter on the mobile site to go right to the download.
Will these free Java games work on your phone? I’ve found that most of them do if you have a GSM phone. In the US, ATT and T-Mobile are the main GSM carriers. Sprint and Boost Mobile CDMA users can download and play these games as well. Nextel and Boost iDEN phones can run many Java games but you will have to side-load them from a PC as downloading is not supported on Nextel. If you are a Verizon, Alltel or US Cellular customer you are out of luck as these carrier’s phones do not run Java programs. Outside of the Americas almost all phones are GSM and should work. Of course, Java ME being what it is there are bound to be some incompatibilities between certain games and phones. But if you download a game that doesn’t work, it didn’t cost you anything, except possibly data charges and there are plenty more games to try.
For a current list of even more free mobile game and app download sites for all platforms be sure to visit the WapReview Directory’s Mobile Downloads Page.
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133 thoughts on “The Best Free Mobile Java Game and App Sites”
Good job on April 18, 2017 at 7:30 am said:
Good post, keep
R.R.Kumar on March 23, 2017 at 5:14 am said:
I cant download whatsapp. my phon nokia nokia asha 502 download at a movement
The message of screen iw Wang1XDL can’t be installed because there’s critical information missing from the app file .Jad)
ArthurEt on March 21, 2016 at 1:00 am said:
Hi! I am MIchael.
I’m new user on this webpage
sreelal on August 24, 2015 at 6:13 am said:
I cant download whatsapp. my phon nokia 2700clasic download at a movement phon responc s file large too be saved but my phon memory not full is empty ? wt I do??
Vladan Stamenovic on March 4, 2015 at 10:41 am said:
Nice to meet you!I need mobile browser for Siemens MC60!What is recommendation?
Dennis Bournique on March 4, 2015 at 11:17 am said:
I doubt that you will find many browsers that will work on that 13 year old phone. Try Opera Mini 4.2 and/or UCWEB 6.7
usman zohaib on October 31, 2014 at 10:02 am said:
atul on August 7, 2014 at 10:41 pm said:
i have maxx ms502 vista i want whats app to run on my phone pls suggest suitable site or advices.
raj on August 4, 2014 at 7:56 am said:
i want wwe 3d games for asha 501.some games when installed stucks showing sound option & shows something went wrong?
also want kbc 4 .
Dennis Bournique on August 4, 2014 at 7:59 am said:
That’s the way Java apps are. Not every app works 100% (or at all) on every phone.
filippo on July 8, 2014 at 3:06 pm said:
i can’t find apps and games for my samsung sgh-f480i phone can you help me please
Dennis Bournique on July 8, 2014 at 3:26 pm said:
That phone runs Java ME apps. You can find them on http://boostapps.com http://hovr.com and http://mobilerated.com
Steven jaw on April 21, 2014 at 9:33 am said:
My phone samsung gt-s3353 cant support whatsapp and also cant download an app more than 700 kb. Please help. I really need your advice.
Dennis Bournique on April 21, 2014 at 9:35 am said:
Whatsapp is only available for smartphones and Nokia S40.
The 700 KB limit is imposed by the phone’s hardware and OS.
To run Whatsapp and apps over 700 KB you need a different phone.
mahmud galadima on February 19, 2014 at 3:32 pm said:
i cant download watsapp on my nokia 202.
Dennis Bournique on February 20, 2014 at 8:41 pm said:
Whatsapp doesn’t support the Asha 202.
Arohi on November 26, 2013 at 9:43 pm said:
My mobile doesn’t have image/photo zooming option. Is there any java app that can help to zoom photos? please do reply! badly in need of one! searching everywhere :(
Dennis Bournique on November 27, 2013 at 8:02 am said:
I don’t know off hand of an app that does that. Try serching for photo gallery oor photo editor apps on GetJar Mobilerated and other app sites.
Mudasir on June 23, 2013 at 12:03 am said:
Is here any app which convert simple humane pics into fake nude?
Tomz on August 18, 2012 at 6:11 am said:
These r all old apps!
garber sunday on August 7, 2012 at 9:12 pm said:
Mr Dennis did you have any source code for me to use for my websit background!!!!!!!
And thank for the other post
Dennis Bournique on August 7, 2012 at 9:56 pm said:
See: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/colorsbackgrounds for sample code for background colors and images
pls if there is source code i can post to my mobile site for java game pls gave me!
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To find source code for mobile Java games, Google “open source midlet” or “open source Java ME” or “open source J2ME” You will find thousands of games with source code.
New PCUser on April 19, 2012 at 9:08 pm said:
Not sure where to put this post, but thought this location might have some relevance for this download concern …
I noticed on http://www.mob385.com/java/en/ostalo.shtml
that there is an app called Free Space 1.0.0 that claims
to delete unneeded files and to create more free memory
in a cell phones.
TracFone told me that when I delete a file (downloaded
and installed), I will have the same memory as prior to
doing that action. If that is not true, meaning that over time
if there is residual data left, the free memory would
decrease. In that case, would such an app as Free Space
1.0.0 be able to do what it says? (My phone is the LG 420G)
And … just as what happens in a computer with an operating
system such as Win XP, a file can be listed as being of a specific size, but the installation process requires greater
memory. That is what happened in my LG 420G when I attempted to install a file whose download jar file size came in at about
350 kb, but my phone said the installation required about 650kb of memory (which I didn’t have due to all the pictures in my Phone Common Memory, as well as a few small games).
Last … is there any way to delete one of the two “games” which came installed with the LG 420G? One game is Soduku, the
other some game involving a monkey swinging from branches, and which takes up over 300kb of space. I’d much rather have that swinging branch game be replaced with something else. A TracFone rep told me that LG put that game in the phone as something that cannot be removed. I am just checking here to
see if that information is true and if not, how I get it off the phone to free up memory.
Dennis Bournique on April 19, 2012 at 9:14 pm said:
I’m skeptical about the Free Space app. The description says it’s for Siemens phones so it probably wouldn’t work on your LG. Siemens stopped making phones around 2005. Also none of the app download links on Mob385 work.
I don’t about the LG 420G but preinstalled games can’t be deleted be deleted on moist phones.
New PCUser on April 17, 2012 at 10:50 pm said:
Spruce Chess 0.4.0 is a much better chess game for the LG 420G.
It appears to be made by the same folks who are working on Chess Buddy. It is not as sophisticated, but the game board is much much easier to use, and it even provides on the bottom of the screen the board position of pieces moved to make it easier to follow the movement of pieces.
The computer is indicating that it is “thinking” as it is reviewing its untenable “checkmate” position it is in. Mind you, the setting is at level 1 (the most beginning stage), so I take no credit at defeating the program. But the opponent’s King is in position A1 (left most corner), with only one other piece (a pawn positioned elsewhere). In that same row is my Queen, and in the next row a rook. The program’s King has nowhere to go and by now it should have displayed “checkmate,” but it is still “thinking.” At least the game didn’t stop after 10 moves like ChessBuddy 1.0.
This is the first game I have played on this version and so far, this is the only glitch I have come across. It did report several moves I attempted to make while my King piece was “checked,” and I was reminded that my attempted move was illegal. It appears that the pawn optional move of “impasse” (think that’s the right name) is not part of this program’s options for pawn movement.
So far, I’d call this game a real winner, and I love the fact that not only are the piece moves easy to figure out intuitively, but the game piece description is very helpful, and most importantly, the board fits the entire screen and game pieces are easy to identify by shape.
Surprise – ChessBuddy 1.0 is a demo version.
After 10 moves, a screen appeared saying that this was a Demo version, limited to 10 moves and that a “real version” would be available soon.
Interestingly, the menu option screen fit my phone’s screen perfectly. Only the board was very tiny. One critical point regarding the working of this game – after white (the phone user) moves, black (the computer program) moves extremely quickly – its move is not obviously locatable and takes a little bit of time to see where there is a new piece position.
When the game board’s pieces begin to fill up the board more expansively, I can see how it would be increasingly difficult to locate such a change in piece position.
For whatever reason, when I did, what I think was the same thing as before, I was able to convert the zip file to a jar file and retrieve it from Windows Explorer to send to my phone.
Interestingly, the Chess Buddy board is positioned in the upper left hand quarter of my phone screen and looks to take up about 1/2 the size of that quarter (meaning its display’s screen size is about 12 1/2 percent. All the “menu” options were listed to guide me through the game, although its instructions didn’t seem specific to my phone – I learned that the “ok” button (center navigational button) performed a necessary command of completing the “selecting a move” sequence. I liked the quality of the game’s format and options for the player to save a game, change the different levels of play and to go back and forth between viewing the menu options and changing options and returning to the same game. If only the appearance of the game board was bigger, this would be a great game on this phone.
(Any sugguestions of other chess games with a very small footprint like this that might present a bigger gameboard size on the LG 420G screen? I am thrilled that such a game exists for this phone that is the real thing, but the size thing presents a visual challenge. Even my old game boy chess set doesn’t “save” a game. This does !!)
I was also able to install the Bowling 1.1 game, which for being interactive and animated was decent for this phone AND …
the bowling lane fit perfectly on the phone’s screen !
For some reason, the creator of the game thought it clever to have an animated line similar to that of a metronome going back and forth to engage the player to position the direction of the ball’s trajectory. He is mixing sport metaphors here !!
My guess is that he doesn’t understand what bowlers enjoy about the game – it’s not a video timing thing, it’s more of fine tuning and finesse – the metronome line having to be timed at the position one wants for direction is a real pain!! From that position would have to be determined the spin of the ball.
I thought it clever for the player to have control over the spin and strength of the ball’s movement. Pin action for a simple and small program is adequate – not a WII or EA type animated program, but for a phone like this and with a small program, it is more than acceptable. The display of the scoring squares and accurate documentation of spares and strikes and pin total is a nice touch. If the metronome thing was removed and the player was allowed to “throw” a ball in a similar way a bowler goes through the few steps approaching the lane and releasing it, it would be more realistic.
For some reason, I had more trouble getting the jar file to appear with the Bowling zip file that with Chess Buddy. I noticed that after the file has been extracted, Explorer lists the jar file with a slightly different name, i.e. instead of Bowling 1.1, it appeared as Bowling. After I modified it, Explorer listed this file twice. I believe it did the same thing with Chess Buddy. I believe the most recently modified file was the only one which allowed me to access the path options to move the file by way of 7-Zip to Bluetooth to my phone.
I think that what may have made a difference this time in resulting in a successful conversion of the zip to a jar file, was that I may have not highlighted the file in Explorer before selecting View/Refresh – thus explaining why the file never appeared in a way that allowed me to “move” it via 7Z to BT to my phone.
I did take your suggestion to create a new folder in My Documents, MobileApps, to put these files for easier location.
Incidently, regarding the jad file – I had added the two additional lines, but the sequence of what I did most likely wasn’t correct. As I stated earlier, the jad file appeared in the first listing of files in 7-Zip Manager. I double clicked that jad file leading me to the next window. From there, double clicking resulted in a window telling me that there was additional information needed before the file was to be acted upon. So instead of guessing options here, I right clicked the file name, chose edit, than added the two lines, and then saved.
Maybe I had to highlight this file in Explorer, then choose View and Refresh to make it work. But as you said, the jad file is not needed.
I really miss this phone not having the option to add more memory. It does have a Phone Common Memory of 9 MB so it can handle many small files. Unfortunately, photos consume alot of memory, and I have a lot of pictures stored, which is why BT will be very useful in moving some of them off my phone to free up more space.
Speaking of limited memory, I began to explore Mobango, and the site looks very interesting. As you said, registration and logging in is not necessary to access files. When I examined the site for benefits of registration and privacy and use of service terms, I was left with this question for you – registration allows a user, I believe, 1 GB of storage space with Mobango. Is the main use of this feature for cell phone users with limited memory who want immediate access to retrieving games or apps by deleting what they have on their phone? I don’t know if what MoBango is offering is similar to what other online storage devices offer. Maybe you could shed light on this “benefit.”
And it should be noted that Mobango states that it stores personal information the user enters including one’s birthdate, gender, and sexual orientation. All I could think of is that this information is used for marketing and game creation development. At least they stated up front what they do with private information. And we all know that no one is forcing the user to enter accurate identity information.
(Editing note – in my previous post from 4/17/12 11:27am, the posted line “the compiling process to about 5 to 10 seconds”
should have been “the compiling process took about 5 to 10 seconds.”)
I take back the lack of a socially redeeming aspect to the barking dogs app – potentially it could be used to thwart burglers leading them to believe that they should keep their distance, and, the bringing of laughter and stress relief to listeners of the barking. I can imagine some other clever uses for this app. Next time I get a phone with more memory, I would use this app!
The games on freemobilespot.com are all at least 5 years old. ChessBuddy appears to be designed for the 96 x 64 px screens that where common around 2003.
Mobile Chess http://boostapps.com/games/mobile-chess/ doesn’t use data
Cellufun Chess http://boostapps.com/games/board/cellufun-chess/ I don’t think it uses data unless you choose to play against another person online (which doesn’t work)
New PCUser on April 17, 2012 at 11:27 am said:
To add to the description of the ad-sponsored site mobilerated.com … yes, there are many games and apps to choose from. To experiment, I first downloaded a small sized game appropriate for the LG 420G, Tetrix. After modifying the jar file (and editing new lines into the jad file after double-clicking the listed file in the 7-Zip Manger), the bluetooth transfer was successful. In response to launching the file, the compiling process completed in a few seconds and a listing of menu options was displayed, with the admonition that using the game involved the downloading of ads (and the description here states that the only ads that should appear take place upon opening and closing the game) which would involve connecting to the internet. I backed off due to not knowing how many minutes of time would be involved with this connection and also not knowing that only the ad display would involve the internet connection (and which you said could be dismissed quickly, something I now am aware of!). So, it seems that the game could be played offline, with minute charges only accumulating when the ad is accessed.
What concerned me more was what happened when I attempted to install a program that simulates dogs barking (my only foray so far into an app with no socially redeeming quality!). The file was named something like IQ_dogbarking or something like that.
The files were modified and sent by bluetooth to my phone. When I launched the file, the compiling process to about 5 to 10 seconds given that the file was about 300kb or so. Just after completion of this process, there was a flash display and a beep in my phone of 5 units or minutes. It was so fast all I could make out for sure was the number 5. Upon looking at the opening screen, I was told again that ads would appear and that a connection would be made with me being responsible for line charges. I backed out of the program. I then noticed that 5 minutes, had, in fact, been deducted from my line minutes.
Somehow, for this app, the launching of it, although I had transferred the jar file to my phone for internal installation, involved connecting to the network to do some sort of processing to install the app. This led me to wonder, what other apps and games involve a network connection to be installed, not to mention, the number of times the use of these things involve network connections. My reason for installing these kinds of games and/or apps is to use them OFFLINE.
With your experience of using these games and apps from mobilerated, have you had a similar experience, and to what extent are there additional minutes deducted due to ad display and use of these programs?
For high quality games (I am trying to stay away from games that require excessive use of the buttons, like using them as a substitute for a joy stick, due to my belief that the use would greatly shorten the life of the buttons) and apps, I would prefer to pay a small amount for the use of the game or even a renewal fee than to have to pay in minutes for network connections for ad display every time I open up and close the game or app. Or maybe to be given the option of how charge is assessed.
The jad file displayed the size of the program, the version, and a few other stats on the first page. Upon selecting “continue,” there was an error message stating that the information didn’t match the loaded program or something like that. I seem to have that message displayed with other jad files I have sent to my phone. Since I don’t know what other information is displayed after “continue” is selected successfully, I can say only that the information on the first page is not needed.
I did mention in a previous post that while I can execute the modification of a file in a jar form successfully by downloading, using 7-Zip to modify the file, using Windows Explorer search to send the file to my phone, zip files present a different problem for me since I cannot transform the file into a jar file by using the open archive and extract method.
There must be some step I am not doing correctly.
Dennis Bournique on April 17, 2012 at 12:41 pm said:
I’m surprised that launching the IQ Barking Phone app used 5 units of airtime before you even got the warning that it would connect to download ads. That seems like a lot. All the ad-supported games on MobileRated use the same ad-wrap technology so I suspect that they will all behave the same. You might want to avoid ad supported games. On my BoostApps.com site I try to indicate apps use require a connection. Look for “Data Connection Required: No”. Most of the games do although there are dozens that don’t. Unfortunately there’s no easy way to search for the ones that don’t.
To fix the “missing information error when launching .jad files add the same two lines:
Author: TracFone
TracFone-price: 0.0
to the jad. There is really no reason to bother or even copy the jad files to the phone as the LG 420G can install jars directly. In addition .jar files instruct the phone to download the jar from the web which you don’t need or want
Thanks for the concise and specific directions on converting a zip file to a useable jar file for sending to my cellphone.
Need some help on getting past the first few steps.
Here is what I did and happened …
From the website
http://www.freemobilespot.com/GamesBoard.htm
I downloaded ChessBuddy 1.0.
Was asked if I wanted to open or save the file,
I chose “save.” (file was listed as a zip file)
The “Save As” screen then appeared, with “Program Files”
listed as the default “save in” location. The “save as type”
was kept untouched as “compressed zip folder.”
I then clicked “save.”
The “download complete” window appeared and I clicked “close.”
Per your instructions, the file should appear in Windows Explorer. I clicked on start/all programs/accessories/windows explorer and saw a small windows display already selected for the folder “My documents.” Since the file was saved in “Program Files,” I clicked on this path within this window … “local disk (C:)” … + Program Files … but did not see any file with the name “ChessBuddy 1.0” (this was the name of the saved file within “Program Files.”
I clicked on the “Program Files” folder within this window, clicked on “File”, then clicked on “search,” typed in “ChessBuddy” which resulted in the file name displayed.
I right-clicked the file here, chose 7-Zip and then Open Archive. After I clicked on Open Archive, there was a slight
time delay followed by the display of another small window which opened up with the heading “7z C:\Program files\ChessBuddy 1.0.zip\ The content of the main window
was empty of any text.
Your instructions in step 2 referred to “in 7-zip click the .jar to highlight it …
Since this window was completely empty of text, there was no jar to highlight, so I thought I had to open up 7-Zip File Manager from the start menu, so I did that, which displayed many other files including the zipped ChessBuddy. The heading in this window for 7z said C:\Program Files\
I clicked on the file name which was listed as “ChessBuddy…”
(at this point the file name does not have the ending of “jar”)
I clicked on the button “Extract” in the 7-Zip toolbar.
A small window appeared with the heading “Extract.”
In the “Extract to” field was the name
C:\Program File\ChessBuddy 1.0\
I clicked the “ok” button in the bottom of this small window and then clicked the “x” in the “Extract” heading area of the window to close the box. The box closed and the opening 7-Zip File Manager with all the originally listed C:Program Files appeared.
I closed that box.
There was still the other 7-Zip window (with no text in the body of the window) with the heading “C:Program Files\ChessBuddy 1.0.zip\ open and I closed that box.
The “Search Results” window from Windows Explorer was still open, with the listing of “ChessBuddy 1.0” (found in C:\Program Files with the type as listed as “compressed zip folder”).
In this window, after clicking on this file name to highlight it, I clicked on the “view” menu in the toolbar, then “refresh.”
There was no visible change in the display of the file name nor description of it when the cursor was placed over the file name.
Step 6 of your instructions refers to right clicking the jar file just extracted and choosing 7-Zip.
When I right clicked this file, clicked on 7-Zip, then open archive, the next window for 7Zip has the heading of
“C:\Program Files\ChessBuddy 1.0.zip\ and has the same empty content as before.
Sorry for being so lengthy here in detail, but I wanted for you to see step by step what I am seeing by what I believe is following your specific instructions and not getting the results you described.
From what I saw, somewhere along this process, the file is not being converted to a jar file. I believe the failure takes place at the step where the file once found in Windows Explorer (which I was able to find ONLY by using the “search” command for the file name) is acted upon by the commands “7-Zip” and then “open archive.” After that step you stated I should click on the jar file to highlight it, but as I mentioned, there was NO file listed with a jar ending.
Appreciate your patience and persistence to see me through this apparent mystery and obstacle. What we are dealing with here, more generically, is the process of converting the zip file to a jar file to be acted up (not just getting the chess game on my computer!!!). I look forward to putting other useful smaller games and/or games on this phone. (I’d love to have a small thesaurus on it!!)
I just tried downloading ChessBuddy 1.0.zip from http://www.freemobilespot.com/GamesBoard.htm and I got a zip file that was 42 KB in size and contained two files chessbuddy.jad and chessbuddy.jar
If 7-Zip showed that your ChessBuddy 1.0.zip was empty, perhaps something went wrong with the download. Try downloading it again.
Also, it would be easier for you to find and work with downloaded files if you saved them in a new empty folder rather than the crowded C:\Program Files folder.
Create a directory with a meaningful name like “MobileApps” in your My Documents folder using Windows Exporer (File Menu > New > Folder) and download zips and jars there.
Had success with the first jar game I bluetooth’ed from my laptop to my LG 420G – a game called JCaro, also known as “five-across,” a more elaborate verison of tic-tac-toe. Very small file. The option choices displayed on my phone screen all worked except for the “help” feature. Had to figure out the simple game commands and moves on my own.
When I attempted to download two games from a site called UMNet.com (and the link to the page from which I refer was
http://www.umnet.com/downloads/download_software.aspx?id=10623), one being a simple solitaire card game, I was able to modify the MANIFEST.MF file and the game installed on my phone with the card display as expected. The help, menu, and option words on the bottom of the screen display on the website display of the game did not appear on my phone’s display, even though the website said this game was compatable with this phone. Only three buttons on my phone acted upon the game’s display, so I was unable to play the game.
What concerned me most, was that the download of this game and another (bowling) resulted in a display of at least five additional files along with the META-INF after the jar file is opened in the 7-Zip Manager list. I was able to edit only the META-INF content. After I saved the modified MANIFEST.MF file and sent to the archive, I sent the file over to my cellphone.
I did not attempt to send the other files.
In order for me to find the “send to” option, I have to go to Windows Explorer, type in the file name, and after its display, I right click on it which opens up in a long display of action choices, a “send to” option from which I can click on “Bluetooth” and then to my phone. I have been unable to find anyway of sending a file listed in the 7-Zip Manager listing to bluetooth. I see no option there referring to “send to.” When I right click on these files in this listing, there are other choices, such as “open, compress,…” Where is the best place to access a file so as to be able to bring up the “send to” option?
What should be done with the other smaller files that appear when a jar file is opened for a game/app downloaded from the UMNet.com site?
Here is the other site I looked at and was unable to
get my computer to display a “send to” option for the
jar file …
I attempted to download the chess and bowling games.
I noticed that when I modified the zip file received
in the download through 7-Zip, saved it, when I retrieved
any fiies listed as “bowling” through start/search,
there was a jad and a jar file, but when I clicked on
the zip file, there was only a short drop down menu list,
nothing referring to a “send to.” I had to open up this file,
save it twice. (the second save seems to go through some sort
of file listing box, with 7-Zip on the top, and once it is
saved again, it then reappears in the search listing as a jar
file, but I still do not get a “send to” option.
I did not see all the other files listed along with META-INF
like I did when I was attempting to modify files downloaded
through UMNet.
All jar files will contain additional files in the top level folder. Those are the actual game executable. Yo don’t want to modify those, files only MAINIFEST.MF.
It’s common for games to be incompatible with any given phone. The mobile Java spec is ill-defined and ambiguous. It’s always a trial and error process to find ones that work. Sites like Umnet don’t actually test their games against multiple phone models. Their compatible phones lists are based mainly on screen size and aren’t reliable.
The downloads on freemobilespot.com are zip files and require extra steps.
1. Right click the downloaded file in Windows Explorer and choose 7-Zip > Open archive
2. In 7-Zip click the .jar to highlight it, then click Extract in the 7-Zip toolbar.
3. Click OK in the 7-Zip Copy to dialog box that appears
4. Close 7-Zip
5. Go back to Windows Explorer and click the view menu and choose Refresh.
6. Right click the .jar file you just extracted and choose 7-Zip > Open archive and then modify MANIFEST.MF as usual and then close 7-Zip
7. Right click the now modified .jar file and send it to your phone.
jagan mohan on December 2, 2011 at 2:22 am said:
i want mobil tv software plz send it. i am using samsung monte
Dennis Bournique on December 2, 2011 at 8:53 am said:
Mobi TV is only available though your mobile operator. I don’t have it
maggie on October 23, 2011 at 10:14 pm said:
my phone is Nokia C1-01, i cant download msn instant messange.. how?
can u let me know the steps?
Dennis Bournique on October 24, 2011 at 8:29 am said:
Microsoft no longer offers a mobile Java version of Messenger.
There are some IM apps that support Messenger including Nimbuzz, eBuddy, WeBuzz and Papaya. I don’t know which ones will work on your phone. To try them go to:
http://m.nimbuzz.com
http://m.we-buzz.com
http://m.ebuddy.com
http://mig33.com
http://wap.papayamobile.com/
With the phone browser and click the download link or button.
Young khaled ice on October 19, 2011 at 12:45 am said:
I need games
vinoth on October 15, 2011 at 6:12 am said:
i want nokia c1-o1 live watch channel in my phone please send software to my email id
Kamogelo on October 10, 2011 at 1:39 pm said:
I love downloading apps and games
neha on October 10, 2011 at 7:25 am said:
guys plz tell me a free sites for mobile apps plz
There’s a big list of free mobile app sites at http://wapreview.com/index.php?id=200
Adi on August 5, 2011 at 7:26 am said:
hi, try out this new game promotion site for all recommended games and apps to download.
joijo on July 17, 2011 at 11:13 am said:
were can i get themes dat can change the music playter theme also 4 nokia x2-01
Mobolaji on July 13, 2011 at 6:17 pm said:
I need alot of different kind of mobile downloading website pls.
aman on July 13, 2011 at 12:48 am said:
sir’ how can i change my music player in NOKIA E75
Dennis Bournique on July 13, 2011 at 12:58 am said:
There are some alternate music players on Getjar that you could download and use. In my experience none of them are as good as the built in Nokia player.
Caneshia on July 5, 2011 at 5:56 pm said:
Hii Sirr , Howw Do iiDo Mobile IM Chat On Myi Boost Mobile Phonee ?.
Some Boost phones have an IM option under Messaging. If yours doesn’t you can use an app. BoostApps.com has several: http://boostapps.com/tag/im/
Abhijeet on May 19, 2011 at 2:17 am said:
Hi,sir plz tell me how i can watch live services with help of streaming in my nokia c1 01, 2.] tell me hw i can change my music player
Dennis Bournique on May 19, 2011 at 8:30 am said:
I don’t have that phone so I have no idea what works and what doesn’t You have to try different things to find what works
For video there are links to over 30 mobile streaming video services at: http://wapreview.mobi/dir/?id=2618
There are music players at free app download sites like http://wap.getjar.com/ http://mobilerated.com/wap/ http://mobilestore.opera.com/ http://www.phoload.com/m/
chandan on May 4, 2011 at 6:45 am said:
hi dennis sir.how r u?im back again with a topic:how to chat my skype friends on mobile.N 2700 classic?i find IM+skype app but its not good and slow also.plz suggest another….
Dennis Bournique on May 4, 2011 at 10:40 am said:
Skype has blocked all 3rd party apps and doesn’t have an app of its own that works on the Nokia 2700c. You will need to switch to a different IM service like AIM, Yahoo, MSN or GTalk and then you can use apps like Nimbuzz, eBuudy or Snaptu
mellissa on March 21, 2011 at 7:45 pm said:
Thks is a reply to shawns ques. about compatiable apps for the samsung seek and the dennis guy below him that suggested boostapps.com well i tried boostapps.com and once i sent the games to mii fone they were no where to be found. i tried it wit 2 different games and didnt get either one of them even though it said they were sent to mii fone. i didnt find them. so no boostapps.come is not compatiable for the samsung seek. but it would be nice ifi could find a website that was.
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Ad hominem tu quoque
Ironic, in other words, tu quoque
6/16/2011 Scott Aikin 1 Comment
Target stores are doing their best to fight the unions. They've made some anti-union videos to be shown during training sessions. They employed union actors to make the videos. Here's the story in Salon.com, and the author, Justin Elliot, sees the tension:
Oh, the irony! Target Corp., long locked in a battle with labor organizers, filmed a notorious internal anti-union video with union actors and under the jurisdiction of one of the biggest unions in the entertainment business.
The trouble with the observation, at least argumentatively, is that it's clearly a critical statement, but it's not clear yet what the criticism amounts to. What follows from the fact that Target used union workers to make a video against unions? The actor who is one of the spokespeople in the video, Ric Reitz, felt it was "awkward" for him, not for Target.
Tu quoque arguments, like with many of the fallacy forms, usually are deployed cursorially, and one element of this cursorial presentation is conclusion suppression. And so it has been said:
Have you ever noticed that liberals want to kill babies but save the lives of hardened criminals?
Have you ever noticed how Christians worship someone who calls himself the prince of peace, but they themselves are crazed warmongers?
What follows from either of these tu quoque cases? Not clear in either, but they are clearly critical. And so some reconstruction is in order. Perhaps with the liberals one, the observation is that the values are upside down, and so we know something about the kind of person who'd make that error. Perhaps with the Christians case, the point is about self-deception. Those are pretty charitable, but, hey, even fallacy forms deserve a little love.
So what's the charitable interpretation of the Target case? One interpretation of Target's actions is that they did not look into whether the actors were union-affiliated, or if they knew so, their being in a union is immaterial, because these employees are utterly temporary, and Target won't have to deal with them again. Store employees are different, and that's what they are out to prohibit. Another charitable interpretation of Target's actions is that they genuinely do believe that unions get in the way of good business practice, but they won't begrudge individual actors and actresses who've made the error of joining one.
How about charitable interpretations of the argument as criticism, though? Here's one: Target has a double standard. On the one hand, there are actors, and they deserve the protections that unions can provide. And on the other hand, there are the people that Target employs. Target treats them however they like. Here's another: Target will play ball with unions. They just don't like to. Here's one more: Target recognizes the quality of work that unionized workers provide, and they use them for crucial jobs. But store workers are replacable, and so get no such treatment. So far, they are just ad hominem arguments about character, but that's an improvement from cursorial tu quoque.
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How about: Target lacks principles.
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Rupert Hine - Unfinished Picture (1973 uk, intensive art prog smooth rock)
Typically, Pick Up A Bone received some good critical accolades, but sold very poorly. Still, Glover had enough faith in Hine and MacIver that he saw to it they got an advance on a second album. With the advance, Hine purchased an electric piano on which he and MacIver wrote most of the songs. As a result, the sound begins to change on Unfinished Picture, moving away from the folky Anglo-blues of Pick Up A Bone and into more experimental realms. Though recorded at A.I.R. London, the sound is also a lot more intimate than its predecessor. A lot of this has to do with the smaller cast of characters, with Hine on keys and acoustic guitars, Simon Jeffes on guitars, John G. Perry (then of Caravan, and later to join Hine in Quantum Jump) on bass and a succession of drummers including Mick Waller and Mike Giles. Even the orchestral arrangements (by Jeffes rather than Paul Buckmaster) seem smaller and more intimate. The fact that one of the orchestral tracks was recorded in a church rather than a recording studio adds to that intimate feel.
The tone of the music has changed as well. This album takes a definite turn towards the conceptual and cinematic, with a somber pipe-organ intro followed by a child’s voice saying, «One day…» Ostensibly a soundtrack to Anthony Stern’s* impossible-to-find feature film Wheel, it also takes on an altogether darker sound than its predecessor. The mix of whimsy and dark menace that was suggested on the previous album’s title track is fully realized here.
Nowhere is this more apparent than on the album’s opener, «Orange Song.» On the surface, it seems to be just a rhythmic folk guitar based tune with a swing feel, featuring some chugging cellos joining in in due time and later on, an instrumental bridge with raucous, squawking horns.
Moving swiftly on, «Doubtfully Grey» is similarly comical folk, but of a considerably less creepy nature. MacIver here equates a relationship with Darwinian evolution. And I get the distinct feeling that this particular tune was based on an actual conversation; the line «‘I don’t understand your songs,’ she said» is a dead giveaway. More MacIver wordplay, based on the song’s title, closes out the piece. The arrangement is for the most part very stripped-down, acoustic guitars and light percussion giving a slight samba feel. But a crescendo of keening strings at the end seems to pop in out of nowhere, providing a sonic link to…
«Don’t Be Alarmed,» probably the closest the album comes to the laid-back bluesy feel of Pick up a bone. This one features drums and bass reëntering the picture, with a multiple acoustic guitar arrangement. Jeffes adds some Oldfieldian sped-up guitar and some skittering runs here and there adding an odd bent to the tune.
For «Where In My Life,» we start on a sharp detour away from anything resembling Pick up a bone at all. Hine’s vocal performance is at its most ethereal, fitting the music and impressionistic text perfectly. The backing track was built up entirely by Hine’s ARP 2600 synthesizer, presumably the same one he used on Caravan’s For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night album. Back in 1973, the all-synthesizer arrangement was quite extroardinary, and it totally works for the song. It’s here that we first get a (rather skeletal, admittedly) taste of what Hine would later do on his albums for A&M like Immunity.
«Anvils In Five» is undeniably the strangest piece on the album, and considering it follows «Where In My Life,» that’s really saying something. Recorded in a suburban London church, the backing track is wholly orchestral, building in dark intensity from beginning to end, finishing on a fortissimo pipe-organ chord (played by Hine). Hine recites the lyrics in a creepy, low monotone, words inspired by the five senses. Since there’s no melody to speak of, it forces you to concentrate on the text and the arrangement. Very much a mood piece, and definitely one of the more impressive moments on this disc. It’s followed by «Friends and Lovers,» a simple, intimate piano/vocal ballad. Recorded in the same church as «Anvils In Five,» it concludes with the sound of the piano lid closing, footsteps moving from one speaker to the next and a door being shut.
«Move Along» returns us, however fleetingly, to familiar territory, as it’s another Randy Newman-esque folk-blues number. Hine even pulls out the harmonica one last time. And MacIver is up to his old tricks, returning to the faux-Southern dialect à la «Ass All.» But Jeffes, it seems, couldn’t allow any of the pieces on this album have a «normal» arrangement, so the song eschews conventional drums altogether, substituting instead a battery of Latin percussion from famed sideman Ray Cooper. Here we get our first listen to that electric piano of Hine’s, Jeffes’ subtle sustained guitar notes adding extra colour to the sound.
The outlandishly titled «Concord(e) Pastich(e)» is probably the most intricate piece on the album. Beginning with a verse accompanied only by piano, Hine starts on a second, only to abruptly stop on the line «We used to run from here to over there,» which hard-pans from one speaker to the next. Then Jeffes’ arpeggiated guitar and Perry’s bass enter, overlaid by a second guitar playing a long, slightly distorted solo. After much deliberation, the drums and organ enter. The liner notes to this particular tune proclaim «Headphones are an extreme advantage,» obviously referring to Hine’s heavily treated and barely audible recitation over the long, otherwise instrumental balance of the track. The piece doesn’t end as much as it just stops, very abruptly indeed.
«On The Waterline» starts off with just Hine’s voice backed by his own piano. But anyone worried that this will turn into «Friends And Lovers: Part 2» should be consoled by the harpsichord and cymbal (the latter courtesy ex-King Crimson drummer Mike Giles) accents entering in the second verse. Actual drumming appears in the third verse, though still in a watercolour rather than rhytmic manner. At last the piece gains rhythmic momentum over the closing «All the children cry» refrain, mainly via Hine’s piano and harpsichord, with Giles still playing off the rhythm in a jazzy manner. Again, something of a mood piece, but for those who were put off by the lack of melody on «Anvils In Five,» this should prove immensely more satisfying.
So, who should go for these albums? Fans of Hine’s 80’s output are likely to find Pick up a bone a shocking experience, since it’s so far removed from what he did later. Unfinished Picture should prove rather less so, as some tracks («Where In My Life,» «Anvils In Five») are something like embryonic visions that later came to fruition on Immunity and its successors. Indeed, many of the more experimental moments of Unfinished Picture bore fruit not only in Hine’s own subsequent work, but also in latter-day expermental and «post-rock» acts like Radiohead.
That said, while Unfinished Picture is probably the more technically impressive, influential release, Pick up a bone is definitely the more satisfying listen of the two. Mainly because it offers a far more memorable set of actual songs. Fans of offbeat and unusual songs are sure to dig both, though.
by Progbear
1. Orange Song (Rupert Hine, Simon Jeffes) - 4:05
2. Doubtfully Grey - 4:15
3. Don't Be Alarmed - 4:54
4. Where In My Life - 2:21
5. Anvils In Five - 5:47
6. Friends And Lovers' - 3:44
7. Move Along - 4:56
8. Concord(E) Pastich(E) (Rupert Hine, Simon Jeffes) - 5:56
9. On The Waterline - 6:36
Music by Rupert Hine, lyrics by David McIver except where stated
*Rupert Hine - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
*Simon Jeffes - Guitar, Bass
*John Perry - Bass
*Steve Nye - Piano
*Mick Waller - Drums
*Mike Giles - Drums
*John Punter - Drums
*Ray Cooper - Percussion
*Dave Cass - Trumpet
*John Mumford - Trombone
*The Martyn Ford Ensemble - Strings
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France’s Yellow Vests: It’s just 1 protest…which has lasted 8 years
20639 Views December 07, 2018 96 Comments Guest Analyses The Saker
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog
The most important thing to understand about France’s Yellow Vest movement is that the Mainstream Media wants you to view it as an isolated incident which exists in a vacuum, when we are much better served to look at in a continuum.
When the Yellow Vests started I was not foolish to say: “So what?”
After all, the Yellow Vest movement is dwarfed by France’s first major anti-austerity protests in the fall of 2010. When Nicolas Sarkozy backtracked on a promise to raise the retirement age France saw 7 marches in 8 weeks with (conservatively) 1.5 million marchers each time. Over just one week there were three different marches with perhaps 3 million people! The three Yellow Vest marches – and all are on Saturdays, to make it easier for people to attend – only reached 300,000 demonstrators one time. So we’re talking 10 times smaller than in 2010 per protest, and something like 30 times smaller if we compare the two movements overall.
Unsurprisingly, I have yet to read of this “ancient history” in any of the Anglophone Mainstream Media coverage of the Yellow Vests. It’s “vacuum versus continuum” in terms of journalistic approach.
I summarise the “continuum” approach in an original saying about journalism (at least I think it’s original): “A journalist without experience is just somebody with a notepad and a pen.”
Some Mainstream journalist who doesn’t know about 2010 – do they really grasp what the Yellow Vests are about? Because the Yellow Vests were definitely there back in 2010…but they remained in the car (Reflective yellow vests in your car are required by French law: in case you get a flat tire or something, you have the vest to put on for safety from oncoming traffic.).
So, if we believe the living-in-a-vacuum Mainstream Media then the Yellow Vest protests are finished: President Emmanuel Macron just canceled the diesel tax hikes. The protests are no longer necessary, right?
There is no reason why AFP, AP, Reuters and everybody else spent all that time saying “diesel tax, diesel tax, diesel tax” other than: they are either purposely misleading people by viewing the diesel tax in total isolation from previous policies, or they are a bunch of inexperienced newbies, or they just want to be proven right for repeatedly making this absurd diesel tax claim. My point: it’s all bad journalism.
Second-most important thing to realize about austerity: it has accumulated
I hear and read stories about the French in 2018 similar to what I used to read about Greece in 2012 – because austerity is cumulative.
It is not just one tax / measure / policy / reform: it is all of them combined. And we are talking about 8 years’ worth.
“Ramin, you are usually awfully long-winded. Do you get paid by the word? Even in your funny columns, you could use an editor. Just explain what you mean about this in real-world terms!”
Fine – hear ya go:
French inflation, according to my calculations, has increased by 14% since 2008: therefore, people have effectively taken a 14% wage cut in 10 years. This helps explain why “decreased purchasing power” has been the number one concern of the French year after year after year.
Salaries in France are already low to start with:1,700 euros is the median net salary, which is far lower than Anglo-US-Germanic countries.
Ok, so you have a lousy salary to start with, which has lost 14% of its value in the last decade. But inflation is not caused by the policy of neoliberal / trickle-down / austerity economics, of course.
But France does have austerity, so 14% is not the only reduction: we must account for the impact on salaries of 8 years of cuts to social services, because a key plank of austerity is reducing the size of the government. This means YOU foot the bill for many services the government used to totally provide or subsidise.
So let’s say, conservatively, because it really depends on the size of your family and what their needs are, that this has effectively lowered your yearly salary 5% overall during the Age of Austerity. Your salary is now actually worth about 20% less than in 2008.
Now let’s add in the new taxes imposed by austerity, because austerity means that the French state taxes workers and not capital, and more than ever. Did you expect that high finance would pay for their failed bets? Ha ha, you are funny – you probably say things like “France is socialist”, too. For example: two years ago they increased my council tax (the annual tax I pay for renting an apartment, so that I avoid things like getting rained on and assault-while-sleeping) by 60%. I don’t know how that’s legal or morally defensible, and I was enraged, but how could I stop them? It went from to €1,285 in 2016 to €2,134 in 2017.
So let’s say, conservatively, that the increased taxes imposed by austerity have taken just 5% of your salary over the last 10 years: your salary is now down 25% from 2008.
Of course, losing 25% of your wages in 10 years is no problem IF your wages have increased 25%.
In 2008 the government claimed the median salary was €1,580 per month for a full-time worker. In 2015, which is this year’s data from the government (why are they so behind schedule, probably because austerity means firing/not replacing government workers), the median salary was €1,692. This means that the median salary has only increased 7%.
So we can conservatively estimate that the median citizen has lost 18% of their salary in real terms since 2008, all thanks to following austerity economics.
For people making €1,700 per month in 2018…losing €306 per month is a huge, huge problem. For childless, former Rothschild bankers who married elderly chocolate heiresses/statutory rapists…€306 only means skimping on the wine tonight.
But wait, it’s worse!
Not only has austerity taken this huge cut out of your already-meagre salary, they have made it significantly more likely that you will lose your poorly-paying job due to long-standing, near-record unemployment levels in France.
This pressure exists because another plank of austerity is the reduction of and/or the refusal to spend government money on job-creating infrastructure PLUS the insistence on giving tax breaks to corporations and businessmen WITH zero strings attached (such as the promise of jobs).
And, the coup de grace, austerity means reduced safety conditions, making firing easier and loosening oversight rules – as a way to encourage hiring – so your poor-paying job is even more disagreeable.
And who has arrived on the scene immune to these pressures, and thus just oozing life, but “old Mackie” Emmanuel Macron. Well, when the shark bites with his teeth, babe, and the scarlet billows start to spread – Mackie’s got them fancy gloves, so there’s never a trace of red. Never a trace of policy-sweat, either: he controls his brand-new political party, which has an absolute majority in Parliament. France is Macron’s little austerity laboratory, and he doesn’t care about public opinion and nor does he have to.
So the “real-world terms” in France are: major cuts in take home pay, combined with job insecurity, combined with a mad neoliberal scientist who doesn’t believe he was elected to reflect the popular will but to rule as he technocratically thinks best.
Can you hear the Mainstream Media shouting to drown me out: “The problem is just the diesel tax, just the diesel tax I tell ya!”
Let’s be real journalists and do the math, and give the context, and recount the history
Want me to quickly debunk Macron’s rationale for the diesel tax, which is dutifully placed at the top of every Mainstream Media report?
France’s auto industry made a failed bet on diesel in the 1980s. Result: a whopping 80% of French passenger cars now run on diesel. Pretty clear why the diesel tax is so widely unpopular, no?
Diesel is dirtier than regular gas, but has always been cheaper – until old Mackie came along. But Macron’s “this tax is needed to pay for a necessary ecological transition” is pure bull: Instead of taxing stockholders, corporations and car dealership owners for this failed bet (i.e., the ones who profited) Macron is capitalistically taxing labor (workers, households). There are myriad other ways to make the necessary auto-ecological transition than taxing the average person…but not in capitalism.
People think France is “socialist” because they have a great social safety net, but it remains a capitalist country because they tax labor and not the 1% / management to pay for this safety net. That is the reason the median salary is so low compared with other Western nations. The diesel tax is not the only example of this – ALL French taxes are: It’s so bad that in 2018 all the wages of the average French worker from January 1 until July 27 went to the taxman, to give some real-world context. (In Iran, being so heavily socialist-inspired, 50% of the population pays zero taxes, including every farmer – the money comes from oil revenue (socialistically state-owned) and businesses.)
That’s some context for the latest austerity measure – the diesel tax -which is no different from a banker bailout because Macron wanted to capitalistically make the average person pay for the failures of high finance / alleged technocrats / the rich bosses once again.
But what about the many austerity measures which preceded this one? That laundry list is long and stinking, but I’ll make it brief because I think it matters:
The first austerity cuts were rushed through in 2011, with 2012 serving as France’s first official austerity budget. The reason: the “confidence fairy” and France’s AAA bond rating. Did the People want them? Sarkozy became the first French president not to be re-elected in 30 years.
I remember when Francois “The Ultimate Patsy” Hollande came along in 2012. He was a formerly-fat, witty, jovial, (alleged) Everyman from rural France. Surely HE would understand the popular will and do what he promised: break with the Austerity Party line enforced by Brussels, as his campaign was built around a promise to renegotiate the Orwellian-named EU Stability and Growth Pact. I really can’t express how high optimism was in May 2012 – evil Sarkozyites were traitors, and France was truly going to lead a Latin Bloc La Résistance against the arrogant Germans, Dutch and usurious Northern bankers.
Instead, Hollande broke the Socialist Party.
He backtracked on ending austerity on November 6, 2012, by announcing another round of it, and which contained basically all the neoliberal, economically-regressive measures proposed by Sarkozy during the presidential campaign. It was Obama turning into Dubya Bush à la française. The very next day Hollande announced the approval of a draft law to legalise gay marriage and adoption. Funny how I never read about this connection in the Mainstream Media, ever, even though it was a simply atrocious act of societal and political manipulation of the media agenda. That alone was enough to turn many French off of politics for years.
Yellow Vests were thus diverted to enormous anti-gay rights marches, instead of being at anti-austerity marches, but the vests still remained in the car.
How much time do you have to discuss incredibly repressive anti-government protests during the Hollande era? How about after the State of Emergency was imposed? How about the “France has free speech except for pro-Palestinians, whose marches we ban”? What about the 2014 months of protests, led by the rail workers – I dutifully filled up my car with gas (it’s such a fancy car that I was able to buy it entirely with €1 and €2 coins, LOL) in order to help provoke fuel shortages, which have only just barely begun in the current, far-weaker iteration of fuel depot blockades. What about the 2016 Labor Code reforms, when it was all-out war on Hollande?
I never did discover a Western presidential incumbent who was so unpopular that he couldn’t even run for re-election. Feel free to finally provide me with an answer to that trivia question, because for now Hollande is that punchline to that joke.
But Hollande sure did punch – protesters, that is. I don’t know what NGOs are doing but it’s not compiling this data, so off the top of my head – and after asking other journalists – I would estimate that at least 15-20,000 citizens were arrested at anti-government protests during the Hollande era, with 20-30,000 hurt (and truly countless tear-gassed and harassed by cops). Hey, you had 4,000 protesters taken to court by the government during the 2016 protests alone – how many got arrested but were not given court cases? And how many more would have been arrested had not over 600 demonstrations been banned by “liberté-loving” France during the 2-year State of Emergency, with countless others strangled in the cradle? The anal rape of a young Black man by cops with their truncheon in 2017 isn’t necessarily economic austerity-related, but it is evidence of emboldened state repression: my headline sums up the Hollande era when it comes to “Frnce’s love for freedom of assembly”: Cop violence at Paris demo against cop violence.
And how much time do you have to discuss incredibly repressive anti-government protests during 18 months of Macron? The labor code part 2 reform, the rail reform, the education reform, hospital reform, normalization of the state of emergency reform – all have been met with majority-opposition from the People and the same state violence.
So when 400 people got arrested and over 130 anti-government protesters were hurt at the Arc de Triomphe protests last week – this is not seriously different from many other violent protests over the past 8 years!
I admit, I have never seen the Arc de Triomphe tagged with graffiti, but that’s the only real novelty – the violence is totally de rigeur in French political life and anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or a liar.
Or they are hypocrites, because violence against anti-government protesters is apparently ok…in Western countries. Since 2011 I have been saying on PressTV: “If this was Iran, Cuba, China or Venezuela the West would be calling for a humanitarian intervention to save the people from such anti-democratic aggression.”
I eventually stopped saying it – I just got tired of it, ya know? Rather, the West’s hypocrisy just got acceptable. Terrible journalism on my part.
I guess I also stopped being upset over people getting hurt at demonstrations for the same reason – it became mundane, normal. More bad journalism – and bad humanity, and bad citizenship – on my part.
However, I didn’t do what the Anglophone media simply loves to do: I never blamed French protesters for the violence. My God, the Anglophones and their “Keep calm and carry on” worship of law and order at all they costs…what a bunch of sheep, eh? They wouldn’t revolt under any circumstances, I’d say.
Of course, unlike those idiot commentators I have been at innumerable violent protests and choked down litres of tear gas. Fact one: if the cops fail to stop violence it is the fault of the cops, as that is their primary job. Fact two: if the government provokes violent protests, it is the fault of the government, as it is their job to promote policies which do not inspire citizen rebellion. Fact three: France’s armed-to-the-teeth riot police are inherently provoking to the increasingly-poor and increasingly-repressed Frenchmen who come to protest the government and not to get intimidated by it, so their whole plan is designed to fail…and purposely – we talk about the violence and not the reasons nor the past. More “politics in a vacuum and not a continuum”.
Future of Yellow Vests – going on vacation, I’m betting
Of course the Yellow Vesters are going on vacation shortly – it’s December 6. The past 10 years of French history ALWAYS shows that the protesters – no matter how hot, blue and righteous – prefer taking a vacation to sustaining their political momentum. Nothing must stand in the way of several weeks off in December-January and August!
This is, of course, is why they keep losing.
So here’s a real easy test for you to see if the Yellow Vests are different: If the French are seriously protesting on the couple days on either side of Christmas or New Year’s Eve – that would be a revolution in political norms.
But I’ve seen it year after year, so I predict the protests will stop after December 16, and then re-start in January but necessarily weakened. The French sure do make it easy for the politicians they truly despise.
But maybe not so weakened upon restarting….
Beyond the Arc de Triomphe graffiti, I am seeing things I’ve never seen before – like a motorcyclist in rush hour wearing a Yellow Vest with “General Strike – Let’s Stop It All”. Anybody who knows anything knows that a general strike – the only demonstration which actually hurts the pockets of the 1% – is the only way to get any true political change anywhere in the world and at any time (barring outright revolution and rebellion).
Maybe this is the year Santa Claus is not the priority?
People outside of France ask me: will there be a revolution? Here is my stock answer:
No: a huge percentage of French are just as insanely committed and prideful about their outdated, 19th-century based system as the Americans. This is the true legacy of imperialism – unmerited arrogance about your system. Iranians use “arrogance” and “imperialism” interchangeably for very logical and obvious reasons.
But, once again, maybe not so arrogant after 8 years of austerity….
The far-left (true left) and far-right are making unprecedented calls for new elections, for referendums, for things which are rather radical. Let’s not forget that in the 2017 presidential first round vote 19.5% of the electorate voted for Jean-Luc Melenchon (just 2 points less than Marine Le Pen), whose platform included abolishing the 5th Republic. So in France you have an inordinate amount of arrogant jingoists whose parents grew up in French Algeria, but there definitely is a sizeable part of the population which knows things are fundamentally wrong about France’s Liberal-and-not-Socialist Democracy-influenced structure.
And the problem is definitely structural – it is not just the price of diesel.
Any true “Yellow Vest Revolution” would have to include a drastic rewriting of the rules of the European Union and especially the Eurozone, or else a Frexit. Both of those institutions were constructed in the heyday of the fall of the USSR , and thus at a time where socialism was at its absolute nadir. Their birth chart is significant because the two are designed with 1%-safety hatches to escape anything close to true popular democracy. The structure of these two institutions are truly the triumph of “Americanism”, and their neoliberal, self-cannibalizing socio-political thought. Indeed, the US runs on a system inspired by the English, French and Europe, but Continental Europe runs on a system inspired by the US…ironic. And unfortunate.
If the Yellow Vest movement proves to be different it will be largely because of this: they have, and they allow, no leaders or spokespeople. The Prime Minister admitted that he cannot meet with any Yellow Vests, because the ones he arranges to meet with keep getting death threats from fellow Yellow Vesters.
The reason this is so important is: the government cannot co-opt or buy off the movement.
Take French unions for example – there are nine big ones. There was a span lasting from 2010 to 2018 when they didn’t march together once, even though their members all hate austerity. Obviously, they are not united at all. What I have seen year after year in France is: there are anti-austerity strikes and hopes are high…but then the government buys off one or two of the unions with targeted concessions. Those unions say, “We’ve satisfied our members, as is our duty,” and they pull out. Thus, the strikes are now less impactful on the pockets of the 1%, and they are emboldened. Those still striking feel betrayed and see the lack of solidarity, and the strike soon collapses because too many people went back to work. It’s all as easy as pie for the ruling technocrats and 1%, whereas all an increasingly-poor average worker can say each year is: “This time it will be different.” It likely won’t be – French unions have signed off on every major austerity measure, after all.
All of that should go a long way in explaining why socialist countries like Iran, Cuba and China ban independent trade unions – for them the state IS the union.
You can be sure the Yellow Vests are certainly aware of the failure of the philosophy underpinning Western unionism, and thus they are trying to prevent being similarly co-opted or sold out. The death threats and opposition to any leadership are now given context: radicalization and the demand for new methods has accumulated, due to the accumulation of austerity; it is not merely the presence of (politically over-idealistic and step-skipping) French anarchism.
The Yellow Vest Movement also doesn’t even have a program or a list of clear demands which could be satisfied…and I say “right on”.
Their list of demands should be SO long and SO varied that it would take months just to compile it…because their demands are the combined demands of 8 years of anti-austerity protests.
Who are the Yellow Vests, after all? They are all those workers, students, pensioners, teachers, hospital staff, etc. who have been protesting and gotten only tear gas and failure for their efforts. They all have ignored demands which must be addressed, no?
So they don’t need a short & clear program which creates a quite fix because France’s problem is – just like the EU and the Eurozone – structural, cultural and endemic.
Is this a Yellow Vest Cultural Revolution, or just another failed anti-austerity protest?
People will mock me, but something like a Chinese or Iranian Cultural Revolution is clearly needed: several years of shutting down institutions and having major public political discussions in order to have both a huge rethink on societal structures and to get “Rebel Red Guards/Yellow Vests” into local positions of power.
Disagree? Ok, then answer this: How long can this go on?
I don’t mean the Yellow Vest protests – I mean citizen acceptance of anti-democratic austerity. Anything is possible, after all – give me a real figure, please: The Eurozone has had a Lost Decade (which the Mainstream Media never openly admits): will Eurozone citizens tolerate a Lost Score, like the Japanese did?
I say no: Japan is an island, ethnically and culturally homogenous, and they own their debt and cannot be foreclosed on. The Eurozone has none of these advantages.
Here’s another issue I’d like an actual answer on: How long can France have a president and a government which believes public opinion only matters once every five years? One more presidential election? Maybe you believe three more? I admit, anything is possible.
Again, I say no. The Socialist Party is smashed, the mainstream conservative party was routed almost as badly, and Macron’s party – at this rate – will be just a blip in France’s political history books, because they are even less popular than Hollande was at the same point in his term. So who is the party which will be running in 2027? We have no idea in France, much less in 2022.
So when I say that new people in local positions in power are not just needed, that is an understatement: they appear absolutely inevitable.
Another question requiring an actual answer: Where is the political party or grassroots movement which can tangibly implement the Yellow Vests’ will, once that will is known? I am not being obtuse – what is the political pathway for them?
The only alternatives which are not smashed (or soon to be discredited) and still within the realm of possibility are Le Pen and the far-left (real left).
But I don’t think such a Red-Brown alliance can happen in France, however: hatred for the National Front cannot be overestimated, and Le Pen permanently lost many by clowning against Macron in their 2017 debate instead of realising she had a chance to win. Uber-intense anti-Le Pen / Rassemblement National sentiment is the only explanation that France chose a 40-year old Rothschild banker 6 years into austerity. And we can’t overestimate the anti-leftist feeling in France: France neo-imperialist, France capitalist, France Islamophobic, etc. Melenchon came so very close in 2017, but he has the entire media landscape against him, and for many his past as a Socialist Party member until as late as 2008.
Therefore, a real political option – but only by default – is that the Yellow Vests turn into Italy’s Five-Star movement, because they lack any other route to translating their political will, when declared (or if declared, given French anarchism).
But Five-Star took 8 years to coalesce and win power – the Yellow Vests are still in month #1.
However, as my headline notes, this has essentially been the same protest for 8 years, going on 9, so maybe France as a whole is “there”? Maybe the timeline is speeded up in the digital age, too? That’s a significant psychological consideration, but Italy does not give us much hope for 4G political speed in France.
Given the 90,000 cops to be deployed on December 8, it appears that the Yellow Vests are still in “smash” mode, as they should be. Austerity has accumulated after the Great Recession, so there is much to demolish: namely, received wisdoms such as France is democratic, functioning well, rather-socialist, sovereign, etc; there’s also the pan-European ideas (beloved by the French elite) that these new institutions have been beneficial, successful, are the only thing preventing European War III, etc. Lotta nonsense to bring down to earth.
They say we can never predict a revolution, but we do know what precedes successful revolutions: years (if not decades) of nationwide, constant, family-splitting political discussion and involvement combined with drastic measures of self-sacrifice. That was the case in Russia in 1917 and in Iran in 1979 – thus their Revolutions were more aptly-termed bloodless “Celebrations”.
France is a long way from celebrating anything but Christmas, but I can report that all anybody is talking about is the Gilet Jaunes. However, we are truly only on the 6th day of this nationwide ferment, though, so…some perspective.
But, as far as my 2 centimes, I predict they will take Christmas and New Year’s off. And when they come back the same problems will be there. This is a very cynical and depressing point of view – maybe after 10 years here I have become French? – but those are the facts and the historical pattern.
What is also a fact is that the Yellow Vests may or may not change things, but that things in France and the Eurozone simply must change. And they will – someday. See, I’m not that French – I’m optimistic!
And for damn sure I am a Yellow Vest. So is everyone else I’ve talked to, and that means something big…at least for now.
Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. His work has appeared in various journals, magazines and websites, as well as on radio and television. He can be reached on Facebook.
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A123 on December 07, 2018 · at 10:22 am EST/EDT
A secure, well paying, blue-collar job!
Undoubtedly, the solution to many of France’s problems. The top two threats to that aspiration are:
-1- Immigration — More people competing for the same jobs means that employees can and will pay less.
-2- Big Government — Both direct taxes & regulation effectively sap the spending powers of wage earners.
The two problems converge in the “Benelux” where mostly non-working, non-assimilating immigrants demand money from Big Government to prevent violence. To fund that protection racket Big Government impoverishes its own citizens with austerity taxes to pay the bribes.
Given that the current EU structure motivates mass migration, both legal and illegal, it is hard to see how any French government “Real Right”, “Real Left”, or coalition can tackle the problem by itself. Fundamentally, the EuroZone (currency) and EU need to be eliminated so that anti-citizen elites no longer have the levers of power to push their agenda. There is an opportunity for the French people to join the people of Denmark, Italy, Hungary, and Poland to bring the whole corrupt system down.
Only then can the difficult task begin. Emigrating out the invasive non-French population that is crippling the nation. Once population, jobs, and taxes return to a more historically reasonable balance, real wages will allow the real French people to live as they once did.
Anonymous on December 07, 2018 · at 11:19 am EST/EDT
It is of course standard operating procedure in the Elite Handbook to Power and Privilege that when the people object to your low wages and high rents and taxes and food and fuel costs that it must then all be blamed on ‘migrants’ and ‘immigration’. After all, if you don’t give the people you are robbing someone to hate, they might grab the pitchforks and torches and climb the hill to your castle.
vot tak on December 07, 2018 · at 11:56 am EST/EDT
“that it must then all be blamed on ‘migrants’ and ‘immigration’.”
And Russian “aggression”, “propaganda” and “election interference”, don’t forget to blame the Russians…
Occidentosis on December 07, 2018 · at 2:02 pm EST/EDT
And Muslims are to get you for your freedom
A123 on December 07, 2018 · at 5:31 pm EST/EDT
This is off-topic – please take to the MFC. This article is about France and current unrest. Mod.
Denmark is rolling out a new tool to contain violent Islam:
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/12/06/liberal-nightmare-denmark-ponders-plan-to-banish-unwanted-refugees-to-an-island-once-used-for-sick-animals-700148.
Anonymous on December 07, 2018 · at 6:01 pm EST/EDT
the idea that the poor immigrant is the reason that you too are poor is laughable, The reason you are both poor are the rich, the banks and the Macrons of this world
Can we test that belief?
As an objective experiment I propose that the French government for ten years bring:
— Immigration into France to near zero, &
— Subsidies to current immigrants to zero
Then we could measure the improvement in the life of French citizens vs. citizens of other countries with permissive mass immigration policies.
Of course, the Privileged EU Elites will never allow this objective proof that their mass immigration theology doesn’t work.
As an objective experiment I propose that the French government for ten years starts the colossal task of giving back what they ve stolen and stop what they are currently stealing from the “past” colonies and for once stop interfering in affairs that don’t concern them and if they could also refrain from assasinating leaders of anti-imperliasm that the people keep voting for that would bring :
The Immigration into France to near zero
But alas western powers are more interested in having the cake and eating it as well.
Why, isn’t it our birthright as the only humans having achieved “progress” and “civilization” to steal pillage murder and massacre a whole continent snuff out any resistance subjugate people by violence for centuries and finally convince them of their inherent inferiority and that we have achieved heavens on earth aka Europe only so we could recreate our greatest achievement in pc terms modern slavery aka refugee or illegal immigrant.
Ah the sweet sweet life of our arrogance, say do you think we could finagle a deal with our lord to keep the lovely way of ours going on in the afterlife?heh cant hear you, What about the mountains upon mountains of sins of massacres rape torture and stealing we are still proud of to this day? Wellll everybody did it, right! Do you think peer pressure is an acceptable excuse to get me a pass in heaven? Besides, do you seriously think this life of luxury comes cheap? It needs a little bit of palestinian humiliation, a dash of an orphaned syrian child tears, half a teaspoon of a cries of a starving yemenis a healthy helping of a stolen innocence of childhood of a Rwandan child, after having seen all his family murdered and raped,be sure to get that one, that’s the best,also add two cups of a continent wide ethnic cleansing.
Luckily all the ingredients are in abondance, so your cushy life is guaranteed. The problem is the afterlife, if you believe in it, that is. Massacring the other unpeople doesnt count, afterall they don’t have a soul. Well I don’t either, but I have been a faithful servant to God’s chosen people so I am sure I will get a pass.
Occ,
How far back so you want to go?
If you believe French colonial conquest is a problem, do you also accept that Islamic colonial conquest is a problem?
For your experiment to be balanced — Islamic colonizers need to withdraw and provide compensation to Christian raped Yazidi slave girls, brutalized Assyrian Christian children, and the tears of faithful Christian Copts assaulted and crippled for following their beliefs.
With statistically equivalent populations in place, the question can be tested — Will those compensated by French colonials be better off than those compensated by colonial Islam?
It seems likely that the former French colonies will fare better as the French left behind commercially valuable infrastructure such as schools and ports.
A123 on December 07, 2018 · at 10:49 pm EST/EDT
Occidental,
Let us test French colonial suffering versus Muslim colonial suffering:
– The cries of raped Yazidi Christian girls
– The suffering of conquered Assyrian Christians
– The brutalization of Christian Copts
The faithful servants of the Prophet bathed in Infidel Christian blood and suffering will surely get a pass…
Occidentosis on December 08, 2018 · at 12:24 pm EST/EDT
First of all, they aren’t “Islamic” colonizers.
Since they haven’t followed the laws of Islam in how to wage war:in which you shouldn’t even harm a tree! Let alone children or women or the elderly or a defenseless man.
They aren’t the “faithful servants of the Prophet” since they haven’t followed a word of what he said! Not even the most basic of things like respecting women and giving them their rights or even electing a just leader.
Every injustice will be judge by God when the time comes.
But when it comes to injustice in the past that you haven’t participated in, if you agree with the oppressor or you are proud of what your ancestors commited then you will be judged among them when the times comes. Because you so obviously agree and if you had the opportunity you would do the same or at the very least you would keep quiet and wouldn’t object.( this is the you of exposition not you as in a123, I can’t know your deepest intentions afterall)
I know this discussion is leading nowhere with you since you believe that putting “violent” muslims in an island like lepers is a solution.
Let’s compare a similar situation first “the moslems” that you are so fond of have “colonized” Spain for 500 years, the colonization of the americas has just passed its 500th year mark:measure and compare.
Last time I checked muslims weren’t the ones who wiped out 2 continent worth of people or close to 50 millions souls!
Now let’s get on to the part where all colonized should be grateful for having the blessing of being colonized so they could experience the joy of having schools and roads.
I am speechless, so what exactly do you want me to do, should I prostate myself in front of you (unnecessary ad hominem removed – mod). maybe you could take the offerings of my most prized possessions. How could I ever repay you? Without you I would be nothing! I would still be a cannibal living among the trees with the monkeys. I am pretty sure we aren’t capable of critical thought, at least that’s the conclusion of hundred of years of racial studies that you have made. After all that’s why le musée des sciences humans still won’t give back 79 skulls of Algerian martyrs after 150 years!
PS: it’s Occi-den-tosis, it’s pretty hilarious the way you completely missed the point of my username. Repeat after me it’s occidentosis kinda like tuberculosis.
B.F. on December 08, 2018 · at 1:39 pm EST/EDT
Occidentosis
Another selective approach to history. You are offering us Moslem theory as opposed to Muslim practice. In the 8th century Arab Muslims invaded Spain, killing 480.000 people. After that they proceeded to France, where Charles Martel defeated them at the Battle of Poitiers in 732. During the 16th and 17th centuries Muslim corsaisrs (pirates) raided the shores of Europe, abducting European women. Some historians estimate they abducted over one million women. So much for the laws of Islam. Finally, historians estimate that Muslims killed 250 million non Muslims. Ask Hindus how many of them were killed by Muslims. By the way, what has ISIS been doing in Syria ? How many civilains did they butcher ?
Occ’s intentionally deceptive, selectivity has an Islamic purpose. (1)
Taqiyya (also spelled taqiya, taqiyah, or taqiyyah) is a form of Islamic deception. The Quran (16:106 and 3:28) allows Muslims to lie in order to protect themselves or to protect the Muslim community. Protecting the Muslim community, however, involves lying about jihad and portraying Islam as a religion of peace.
SImilarly, taqiyya encourages Muslims to falsely claim that Islam is rooted in the Old Testament. Except, the Old Testament prohibits both murder and suicide. Islam, as actually practiced, explicitly contradicts the Old Testament by praising murder-suicides as martyrs.
If you want a better understanding of what Muslims actually practice check out sites that translate from Arabic and Farsi into English, such as MEMRI. (2)
(1) http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2015/06/what-is-taqiyya.html
(2) https://www.memri.org
You are very selective in your approach to history. Perhaps the Arabs should return what they stole from Spain. After that the Turks should return Constantinople to Greece, not to mention all they plundered from Constantinople to the gates of Vienna, which they besieged on two occasions.
Thanks for the excellent report Ramin!
It brought to mind this from a great philosopher …
George Carlin – Its a big club, and you ain’t in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXhZyAOuyhE
“I never did discover a Western presidential incumbent who was so unpopular that he couldn’t even run for re-election.”
Its an old name, but Lyndon Baines Johnson during the national uprising against the Vietnam War and the 1950’s version of the American Empire comes to mind.
The last American Presidential incumbent to be so unpopular that he was defeated in a bid for re-election to be President just recently passed away and is now currently being honored as the Greatest Man in the History of the World. It must be difficult to be so Great that Bill Clinton and Ross Perot both looked better.
Stick around for a bit, and you might see the name Donald Trump added to that short list. Republicans will soon be begging him to withdraw from the next election.
Ramin Mazaheri on December 07, 2018 · at 11:32 am EST/EDT
You sure do make a lot of posts?
I thought of LBJ: he’s not a perfect comparison, but it is perhaps the only comparison we can make with Hollande’s situation. I’m hoping someone has another one.
I think there are too many significant differences between Holland and LBJ:
– Hollande wanted to run again, LBJ chose to withdraw
– LBJ actually served 1+ terms, due to the JFK’s assassination, so that’s an important difference
– LBJ had major health issues, and he likely would have died during his term, as he said. He only made it until 1973 anyway. Pretty coincidental timing – he died perhaps 2 days after his 1972 term would have ended.
– LBJ actually played a role in choosing his successor, whereas Hollande did not pick Benoit Hamon
– If LBJ had REALLY wanted the nomination, would he have gotten it? Modern Liberal Democratic politics certainly seems to ensure that the incumbent has a huge number of levers to pull to make that happen.
Lotta reasons why it’s not a true comparison. Who else in the West is has been so unpopular that he was flat-out unable to run again? Michel Temer of Brazil comes to mind, but Brazil is not Western.
Alejo on December 07, 2018 · at 12:00 pm EST/EDT
Ramin,
What do you mean with Brazil is not western ? Brazil is as western as Spain, Mexico or Irland. I am Argentinian and we consider ourselves westerns as well. Or where do you think we belong to if not to the West ?
MC on December 08, 2018 · at 12:18 pm EST/EDT
Ramin means ‘western’ in the cultural sense, I believe. And if so, I agree with him – the majority of us are descendents of African slaves (+80% are of non-European descent), and our ‘culture’ involves African-derived music (samba), African-slave food (feijoada, beans, vatapa… created with the rests of the food the slave-owners thrown to the slaves), African ‘religion’ (or non-religion: umbanda, candomble, macumba…), African musical instruments (agogo, berimbau…), etc…
Tomsen on December 09, 2018 · at 3:48 pm EST/EDT
But @Alejo´s claim of Argentina being West is just one more funny third world sucking up to West.
“We are also westerns, we have West deep in our hearts, we also walk around in Nike shoes, we also eat McDonald burgers, we are like you”.
Alejo can take Russians, Ukrainians, Turks, Japanese, Africans and India´s people in his hand in their sucking up to and deep wish to be Westerns.
The tragic of it all is that they sell out the best in their own culture and personality, to suck up to the worst in the Western. This is an really ugly feature. I guess its the higher salary on paper that attracts so many.
Alejo on December 10, 2018 · at 7:54 am EST/EDT
ad hominem statement removed … mod If you think that being “west” means wearing Nikes or eating in McDonalds then you should probably go back to read the history of the last 500 hundred years.According to what you said then South KOrea,Nepal and Pakistan should be considered west because people are wearing NIkes there. (I have bad news for you South Korea, Nepal and Pakistan do not belong to the west) Where do you think belongs Argentina culturally/politically ? Does it belong with Nepal, Singapore, Japan or Rwanda ? Like it or not (and I do not like Argentina being in bed with the US or Europe), the only place that Argentina belonged up until now has been the West or do you think that a country that has been colonized by Spain and received millions of italian, Spanish, French, German, Irish, etc inmigrants belongs to the Islamic, Oriental or African world ?
Go read some Argie history and then come back.
MC on December 11, 2018 · at 11:10 am EST/EDT
Economically, Brazil is in the South… as is Argentina and all of Latin America, Africa, and South East Asia… We are ‘the poor’, that is, we were ‘made poor’ by imperialism.
Alejo on December 07, 2018 · at 11:48 am EST/EDT
“Stick around for a bit, and you might see the name Donald Trump added to that short list.” Agree with all what you said except for this one. I think he will win again and to be honest, although I do not like him too much, I would love him to win because he is destroying the US at an incredible speed, much faster than I thought. ;). Go Dotard !
HDan on December 12, 2018 · at 9:43 pm EST/EDT
@Alejo
But remember when the Master falls he beforehand slaughters the slaves. Argentina again is fully back to be Empire lapdog and slap bitch, they certainly will again make a fortune out of it.
It all started when some Jews died if I’m not mistaken some years back. They really know how to play you over there and suck you dry.
amarynth on December 07, 2018 · at 11:12 am EST/EDT
Thank you so much Ramin. I was hoping you would give us some real clear sense of what the issues are and you did!
Yellow Vest for now!
This is great! Thank you
I am working on environmental issues and the take away from your article is great. No leadership!, weekend continuous marches! And all or nothing asking! It is occupy on a stepped up level. We have the same issue with the Unions, one of the few times the Unions actually stood there ground and worked with all the other groups was at the WTO in Seattle. There Longshoremen who usually refuse to have anything to do with enviros had our backs and we theirs. It lasted beyond the WTO for a few years and then stopped dead. Now they ship long shoremen to other towns to testify against regulations! I am passing this on to some groups i work with, as climate issues are in the same frame work and we need to change the whole process or never get the full support for saving the planet. Humans will save their family first! I as a mom know this, so we have to tackle the oligarch austerity 1st. In the US we have to stop the MIC.
evilempire on December 07, 2018 · at 12:47 pm EST/EDT
Maybe one aspect of the French indignation and anger is that the Satanic cabal that rules the world is co-opting identity groups and minorities and migrants to support their Luciferian agenda( by basically buying them out). So the decent, productive working people have to pay not only for the Luciferian agenda, but also for buying out the identity groups which the elites often shower obscene wealth upon, supporting thereby the lifestyles of “celebrities” whom the people perceive as criminally depraved and debauched as the elites who bought them out. Another aspect might be that the French are rising up and refusing to be “good Germans” any longer. A very partial list of atrocities that the ruling establishment has enlisted the French people in, is Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Rwanda, MH17, the Skripals… the list goes on and on. More knowledgable people could probably add numerous other atrocities.
Asnonimous on December 07, 2018 · at 1:55 pm EST/EDT
Great, very informative piece. Thank you Ramin!
And I fully agree with your assessment that “any true “Yellow Vest Revolution” would have to include a drastic rewriting of the rules of the European Union and especially the Eurozone, or else a Frexit” (I’d go further. I’d say any true revolution in Europe these days will have to start by dismantling the EU)
The piece by Coralie Delaume in Le Figaro yesterday makes it clear why this is so. http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2018/12/06/31001-20181206ARTFIG00209-gilets-jaunes-macron-a-les-pieds-et-les-poings-lies-par-l-union-europeenne.php
It’s amazing how little European citizens know about how the Union in which they find themselves was created. One day you wake up and realize that the sovereign country where you were born no longer exists, all its relevant sovereignty has been quietly taken and transferred away over decades. Gone. You are now locked in some kind of supranational dystopic nightmare and you can throw as many fits and tantrums as you want, it won’t seem to amount to more than an outraged inmate charging against the walls of its cell. You’ve been caught and locked away, you have no idea how. That’s the EU, and worse by the day.
Harry_Red on December 07, 2018 · at 6:19 pm EST/EDT
You don’t have to start by dismantling the EU to get revolutions going….You can have several national revolutions that basically cause the disintegration of the EU.
So the question is what is the chance of a Frexit ? If it will happen, how long will it take ? And what effect will it have on the EU ?
Tomsk on December 07, 2018 · at 2:22 pm EST/EDT
I’d been searching for several days for an article about the yellow vests issue. I must have roamed the internet concluding that the media were just not wanting to look at this in any depth – until your fantastic article here today.
You have contextualised this situation and have been extremely fair in appraising the pluses and possible minuses for the yellow vests.
Only in reading the detail and historical context of this event are we reminded of what is really going on and how we got there.
So well done Ramin – you have performed a service on behalf of true journalism and in doing so shown the utter poverty of msm reporting and what passes for journalism in the west.
I would just add to your fulsome description of the situation in France that if we step back we can see that this war on humanity and the vast transfer of wealth from normal people to a very few private hands is being waged across the planet on multiple populations continuously.
Sounds bleak, but then again the French government’s machinations do also reek of desperation – then there’s all that bank and government debt . . . What if the whole rotten economics system was actually teetering on the brink of total collapse as many pundits believe to be the case?
PokeTheTruth on December 07, 2018 · at 3:04 pm EST/EDT
I think to myself how foolish the proletariat are when they smash the front entrances of small business and steal property, burn tires in the streets, overturn vehicles, write graffiti on public edifices and cause a general disruption of local and regional commerce. Indubitably these people are justified in their anger and hatred of the abuse heaped upon them by the ruling elite but they are reacting in the short-term instead of using their heads and planning for the long conflict. It would be circumspect to direct their energy to the offenders themselves who look down at the hoi polloi and smirk while they continue to go about their daily lives with little concern or worry for their personal safety or the loss of their positions of power.
The yellow vest movement calls for deposing President Macron, but we hear little rant against the parliament that enables the head of state to enact the regulation of crushing debt through taxation. Why do they always point to the king as the great evil when the king is but a puppet of the wealthy that makes all the rules for which they are the primary benefactor?
In times of national, economic oppression, the people petition their government officials through the political process and wait for a positive result. But when they find themselves disappointed by: outright refusal to address the issues, delayed response, paltry counteroffer or given a diktat of threats to punish the applicants, they must conclude the political system has failed to represent the masses and therefore change must be enacted to return the people to well-being. This is called revolution and the foundation of it always begins political in nature.
Almost all revolutions have a violent component either at the beginning or because of the loss of patience somewhere in the middle through the end. The American colonies peacefully petitioned the King of England for recognition of the economic burdens put upon them by the home country and were rebuffed. Armed revolution ensued that resulted in the birth of a new nation. The French revolution followed shortly after.
The French people at this moment have jumped into the destructive phase without exploring alternative measures to put pressure on their government officials on a personal level. Rather than destroy private and public property, go to every home of a parliamentary official with one hundred or so supporters of the movement to psychologically intimidate that person. Remain on the front step and pound on the door until either he/she comes out or a call is made to law enforcement. Let the cops come and they will have to deal with this furious crowd. However the crowd must disperse at the correct time to avoid arrest so as to preserve their numbers.
Imagine this strategy happening to all 577 members of parliament across France, which calls for 60,000 protestors of the movement. We have already seen numbers in excess of 100,000 supporters. In order for this to work the organizers of the movement must demand discipline like citizen soldiers. Unfortunately at this time there is no core group overseeing the movement, so what we witness is chaos, destruction of property, arrests, etc. with little hope of returning liberty and prosperity to the French people.
God gave humanity brains to think and reason. In times of conflict the people must use their minds and curtail the zeal of their hearts to achieve the success they deserve.
Anonius on December 07, 2018 · at 6:24 pm EST/EDT
Unorganized “brain” does not do anyone any good.
You are saying “foolish the proletariat are” I would say we are all fools without proper information to make wise decisions, this is media is filling our brains with tons of dis-info.
Trangas, my latest listen to journalist, said today, and this applies to me as well, that few years back he signed on to the EU idea with both hands, today he considers himself Euro-Skeptic.
Also, you will find that, while Kazakis who used to be Communist made many valid points about Greece’s ailments, which are in a way identical to Ramin what says about France, some troll jumped on him with all kinds of vomit.
So, you see normal Joe-blo has difficult time recognizing the real problems and thus joining the right group of people, because one-proletariat who is not organized can’t do much. Unfortunately we must recognize the fact that “proletariat” gets fooled time and time again. Besides, there is more to the society than proletariat.
Anonymous on December 10, 2018 · at 12:49 pm EST/EDT
Excellent post, PokeTheTruth! I do like your idea about organization. Certainly, I would suggest that the Yellow Vsts try it. It is simple and feasible. Why not?
Blue on December 07, 2018 · at 3:17 pm EST/EDT
Diane Johnstone has a nice article that explains some the issues the French are demonstrating against as well.
http://thesaker.is/frances-yellow-vests-its-just-1-protestwhich-has-lasted-8-years/
Myself, I wonder that the police and soldiers are so well compensated in France that they are willing to bludgeon their friends and neighbours on behalf of their corporate capitalist enemies. Revolution will only occur when they realize they being playe by the true enemy of society.
Butte Bill on December 07, 2018 · at 4:06 pm EST/EDT
You are Top, Ramin!
Ramin Mazaheri on December 09, 2018 · at 5:16 pm EST/EDT
Diana Johnstone’s piece is excellent, and her work on France is definitely among the best of the best, if not higher. She clearly has a ton of experience to draw from in France – the opposite of “just a person with a pen and notepad.”
Krollchem on December 13, 2018 · at 12:09 am EST/EDT
The protests have led to the national police and military police assigned to the Ministry of Interior being getting worn out. The National police gendarmerie cannot strike because they are military assigned to the Ministry of the Interior. They now have to work without any civilian support as National police administrative union (VIGI ) went on strike on December 8th. This union consists of office staff, forensics, scientists, cooks, housekeepers, janitors etc.
https://twitter.com/vigi_mi?lang=en
The UN flagged armored vehicles indicate that Macron has called up reinforcements from the EU private army called Eurogendfor http://www.brujitafr.fr/2018/12/france-un-blinde-nomme-hermes.html
Macron appears to lack the support of many of the National police gendarmerie and the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS) of the Interior ministry. The VIGI union is appealing to the sworn officers to go on sick leave to avoid ruining their mental health. This union is also suing the Interior Ministry for hundreds thousands of hours of overtime that has not been paid.
Furthermore, they have issued a lawsuit against Macron’s senior security chief Alexandre Benalla
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807191066520306-france-trade-union-macron-aide/
and also are also calling for the dismissal of the Paris chief of police.
https://www.rt.com/news/445352-police-union-yellow-vests-france-macron/
The highly respected French firemen are now being gassed and are literally turning their backs on the government (and even disabling the toll booths).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQvAyP62r4
Cosimo on December 07, 2018 · at 3:59 pm EST/EDT
This is by far the most informative article on the last 10 years in France, and of how this simmering crisis has reached a crisis point now. I’ve read a lot of quality journalism from writers actually in Paris – not that the rest of France doesn’t count, but that’s where these writers actually live – and while they have written some very informative stuff, not one of them has come close to giving the big picture, the data on shrinking incomes, etc.
On your pessimism, I sure hope, as you must too, that you will be proven wrong. You may be right, but what is needed now is a closer look at the mechanisms which the 1% and the (((0.1%))) use to keep the 99% in a weird state of doubting their own power and failing to create vehicles to gain power.
You made a useful comment that regime change doesn’t happen in a short time, and that in Iran it took (by my count) at least from 1962-1979. You imply that institutional vehicles are required, but what shape might those vehicles take ? We need to figure this out before the 1% create astro-turf organizations to stop all this.
Obviously, the MSM plays a role in “Learned Helplessness”. The role of the MSM in France in promoting Macron from a nobody to a “serioius candidate” is something no French person would deny. The MSM includes Paris-Match and TV “hosts” like Zemmour who make nearly a half million a year. All the MSM suck about 25% of their huge budgets straight from the taxpayers veins because, you know, they need to protect the French language. Macron started as a lackluster minor minister, a Rothschild stooge, and a closet gay if we are to interpret the very real recent photos. The elite-sponsored MSM elevated this nobody into a “serious candidate” who, BTW, really loves his politically-necessary wife who just happens to be 25 years his senior. The MSM pushed this message as hard as they could, portraying Macron and Madame as if he were a young Johnny Hallyday and she a sweet young thing, on their front covers week after week for what, about 18 months ?
Anyway, I hope you think some more about how we might get out of this mess, and help us figure out what comes next, now that even the least-informed adults (yeah, adults) know all the political parties are dead-ends. This is not just in France, but also in the US where our Orange Jesus has faded into “all string, no puppet” and the Deep State scum are standing around, snickering.-
Tor Quinn-Darke on December 08, 2018 · at 12:29 pm EST/EDT
I think you will appreciate the graph by the OECG shown in Martin Armstrong’s recent blog post France Has the Highest Tax Rate in the Industrialized World & Worst Investment Record in Europe – tax as a percentage of GDP for several OECD countries.
France tops the list with a government grab of 46% of GDP.
He remarks: “Revolution seems to become possible once you cross the 40% mark.”
One more thing. I understand that Melenchon supported every one of France’s imperial interventions, including the more recent ones in Libya and Syria. He only started waffling after these wars didn’t work out so well for France, but Melenchon has not, AFAIK, ever made a clear, much less a hard-hitting statement about these wars being pure evil. He’s just trying to minimize the consequences of his support for what was at the time, obviously pure evil. So there is no hope for Melenchon nor for those of his followers who refuse to consider that they need a fresh and uncompromised leader.
The political history of France has not been a happy one, as political unity is not a French tradition.
In the 14th century the English invaded France, backed by the dukes of Normandy and Burgondy. It was only Joan of Arc in the 15th century who succeeded in unifying the French, but briefly. In the 16th century we have a religious war between the Catholics and Protestants. Instead of playing it wise, the Catholic king of France turns against the Protestants, with the result that 250.000 of them emigrated to England, many of them being highly skilled craftsmen. The manufacturing regions of France were decimated. Historians are of the opinion that had this religious war not occured, then the first industrial revolution would have been introduced in France and the chief language in the world today would be French, not English.
In the 18th century, when England was introducing the first industrial revolution, the chief question in France was whether the aristocracy should pay taxes. It, ofcourse, refused, creating social tensions. The Rothschilds used this situation, financing the French Revolution of 1789. French finances passed from the control of the crown into the hands of private bankers.
In 1968 General Charles de Gaule was overthrown as President, after surviving some 30 assassination attempts, as globalists do not like patriotic leaders. He was overthrown by the same methods that were used in 1789, which is remarkable.
In 2017 Macron, a Rothschilds banker, won the presidential election in France. He received 66 % of the vote, while Le Pen received 33 %. When was the last time such clear cut election results occured in any country ? The election was rigged, and Le Pen lost millions of votes. Eve so, the impression is that Macron probably did win, but by a slight margin. This also meant that the country was divided, a dangerous sign for the future.
What does Macron do after becoming President ? He introduces “refiorms” favoring the elite at the expence of the working class, a return to 18th century practices of the ariustocracy. He must have known what would happen. Yet he does it. Why ? To create political and social strife ? Is he a new Rothschilds revolutionary, this time functioning from the political top ?
There is an old saying, which goes like this:”When Paris cathces cold, Europe sneezes”. This is now happening. The yellow vests are being ciopied in other EU countries.
What is not clear at the moment is who is controlling the demonstrations in France, patriotic forces or globalist agents. This should become clear in the future, including the true intent of the actual demonstrations, ie. if they are a patriotic reaction, or an attempt to further weaken the sovereign status of European states, giving Brussels even more power. The latest news is that a French general could well take over from Macron. In other words a soft coup d’etat might be in the works. We shall see.
Ramin, very nice rundown on the recent history of the protest movements in France and on the “accumulation of austerity”.
Just some thoughts on the French issue:
– How long will the people keep being fooled by the people they vote for ? Won’t they eventually realize that it is not useful to operate within the current political structure ?
Obviously the most people who are protesting have it difficult economically speaking. Does that mean that in order to have a successful revolution that is sustainable and one that will produce actual results, you need more people to basically become desperate and poor ?
Grieved on December 07, 2018 · at 6:06 pm EST/EDT
Ramin – someone said you were “long winded”? LOL. I think you do have that tendency, but I have a good theory why.
I think you’re a journalist accustomed to writing punchy material, and in a short time, but here in these essays of yours you’re taking on very elaborate and often very scholarly themes. You have a lot to say, and it spills out sometimes in whatever space it can get.
Never stop doing this. I think we are all soaking in all the knowledge you are passing along. I don’t know of any other writer in my reading list who can explain the modern world in terms of the socialist successes, and the ancient predatory war of the rich against the poor, the way that you do. Michael Hudson maybe, and he’s had a lot of time to craft his prose.
You will become an extremely valuable author of books over time, I think. Then you’ll get a good editor to organize some of your “long-windedness” a little better. The points all get better the more you restate them. It’s all coming along nicely :)
Excuse me if this is an impertinent critique. And either way, keep at it – and thank you!
Grieved,
Regarding the reasons for my long-windedness: You know I think you got it!
Editors cost money, LOL, but we are all improved them. One day maybe.
Thanks so much for you kind words – Michael Hudson is absolutely indispensable, so I’m certain not in his category.
Mishko on December 24, 2018 · at 4:22 am EST/EDT
Yeah, come at us bro, and keep hitting hard with those edged
literary talents you display!
You manage to posit the horizon without weighing the reader down
with superfluous doubt and deliberation.
Clear-headed, a quality I do without at times.
Greg Schofield on December 07, 2018 · at 6:45 pm EST/EDT
Ramin Mazaheri, thank you for the not only the clearest context for this moment in French history, but also the most incisive on this as a response to the dictatorship of austerity measures against the people.
The lack of a managerial layer orchestrating the Yellow Vests, that ‘liberal democracy’ has always depended upon to corrupt, has struck me as such a fundamental strength, the lack of a specific program, is also instructive and both these things may have been mentioned elsewhere, but here I read them historically and I am overwhelmed by the strength that is in such a counter-intuitive non-policy, non-organisation.
I have seen on two many occasions the corruption of political parties always through their management, they are always called leaders and it is a lie, they never lead anything, they simply put themselves at the head of movements created by others and led by people two honest to promote themselves — cutting the tall-poppies down internally seems to me to be a very sensible plan; in this the Yellow-Vests seem to have caught the moment of our times.
I have worked in unions; in and amongst the old left parties since the 1970s in Australia. I cannot praise the memberships too highly, nor express my disgust at the so called ‘leaders’ — the political management. It took me years to understand that they have no interests in improving anything, they are loyal to nothing, they crave not power but recognition, they are the worst negotiators on earth for this reason. A few minutes of being a power broker on the larger stage is worth years of being a power broker within their organization — they are the weak link in everything — severely broken people who make barefaced lying an art form; and these were the leaders with rare exception I found in the unions and the political parties.
Your article has given me a great deal to reflect upon and I am grateful for your efforts.
one minion on December 08, 2018 · at 7:13 am EST/EDT
That was my experience as a life long union member and sometime organiser too. that the so-called ‘leaders’ in the big unions are, generally speaking, no different than any corporate apparatchik, thinking in those corporate and business terms and concerned more for the empire-building prospects than for doing the job they are paid for.
I studied quite a lot on organisations and how they function, in order to get around this obstacle and in order to use the invaluable knowledge resources of the union whilst maintaining the integrity of my small group. Its do-able if exhausting and difficult and has a lot to do with lazy thinking and the very human willingness to be co-opted by the existing power structures for personal advancement.
I was glad to read in Mr Rahmin’s piece that the gilets jaunes are also wise to this and refusing to meet with Micron at this point. I am hoping that they can maintain the momentum and actually accrue some solid gains and cohesion before taking the political/legal route.
In Australia there was a move towards professionalization of the unions in the late 1980s which led to university trained ‘industrial relations’ graduates taking over key organizational positions. At the same time many unions started special relations with the banks offering financial services to their members.
The unions also starting taking in managers as members, in the public service middle rank managers call the shots, in schools head masters are sided with against teachers. It looks and feels like full blown corporatism.
The political parties also saw this corporate infiltration, while the left wing parties had during he cold war been run by intelligence agents. Those that strong working class connections were shut down at the same time as the USSR coup, in fact before it happened.
The other left wing parties, with rare exception, mainly trostkist, do not relate to working people and seem a safety valve for young people who are shipped from one pointless demonstration to another, while the policy in effect is always pro-US foreign policy (exception is Palestine which would be impossible to sell). They have been supporting the Syrian intervention, hailed the Libyan invasion and support the mercenaries as ‘freedom fighters’ they also always find some reason to despise any actual left-wing government which all have faults, but also virtues.
Organisationally, the class cannot have the type of structures it built up since the 1920s and longer; they have been white-anted, sociologically, economically, politically and via state security.
So the yellow-vests look interesting, because it seems to be saying, remove the powerful, and then have the debates. It makes sense not to have a program, not to have any organization but rely instead on organic links between people aided by the digital medium.
The other way I look at it is after all other means of reform, reason and compromise have been destroyed, the last option becomes the only option; I know one thing nothing is going to get better for my kids until this stinking mess is removed from the pages of history.
“I am hoping that they can maintain the momentum and actually accrue some solid gains and cohesion before taking the political/legal route.” I write this on Saturday ;—; it looks like it has.
The Real History on December 07, 2018 · at 7:08 pm EST/EDT
Total Media Blackout! Paris Is Far Worse Than They Will Tell You!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0GHWSi_cXY&fbclid=IwAR0WhFdKRZDvHuf-1KQR22KsmvjzDU2s6oBt3lUUD9cxu1MiFg0Qz9xMvV8
Interesting interview from the streets of Paris. Maybe this whole Zionist spell is about to disintegrate. I was in France last summer. and I haven’t met anyone who would adhere to the mainstream news as a source of credible information. Most of people I talked to, understood that the “elected” and “pre-selected” government leaders are there to serve their masters, not the people.
Babuška on December 07, 2018 · at 7:32 pm EST/EDT
“A journalist without experience is just somebody with a notepad and a pen.”
Reminds me of a saying I heard at a 1999 Psychoanalytical Conference on Creativity, in Brisbane:
“Knowledge without humanity is like a donkey loaded with books”
I just discovered a very interesting website, although ti’s been around for years. It’s definitely left-wing, but they are making an effort to reach out to the authentic (non-corporatist) right-wingers. https://rebellion-sre.fr/
That site is where I saw this: « Quand tu croises un journaliste, frappe-le ; si tu ne sais pas pourquoi, lui le sait »
I’d translate it as “If you run across a journalist, hit him; you may not know why, but he knows.”
@Cosimo
So in furtherance, if you run across a politician or banker, jail him, you may not know why, but he knows.
Bad of me that my previous comment lacked an important bit of context. Among the French dissidents, it’s a commonplace that “all journalists are either whores or unemployed.” Obviously, it’s only the the only journalists who might deserve to be struck. Paul Craig Roberts calls them the pressitutes.
FrangloBoxon on December 07, 2018 · at 7:41 pm EST/EDT
Brilliant summing up of the situation. After paying the rent and fuel, people are left without means to fully nourish themselves or their family. The ISF; aka The wealth tax, was also readjusted in favour of the already well off. It is more than possible that the violence was instigated by gladioesque factions with the intent to discredit the protesters. Macrons’ sidekicks trumpet about these incidents at every opportunity. This is a social upheaval rather than a political ‘movement’; people are literally going hungry and in a society with a tradition of co-operative action, events do not bode well for the PTSB. P.s: Journeys of a 100+ kilometres a day are not uncommon for a minimum wage-earner
Per/Norway on December 07, 2018 · at 8:48 pm EST/EDT
“People will mock me, but something like a Chinese or Iranian Cultural Revolution is clearly needed: several years of shutting down institutions and having major public political discussions in order to have both a huge rethink on societal structures”
I would not even dream of mocking you, the exact opposite is true. I totally agree with you.
I can not see any other way to remedy Europas problems then a change of system and just punishment for those who betrayed the trust of their people.
A wise man once said – “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Europe reached that point years ago imho.
Per-S
An American revolution or second French Revolution would be a better analogy.
Emmanuel “Let Them Eat Cake” Macron has set the stage for Globalist mass-migration theology to fail. The French people want to return to historical Christian values including national sovereignty and identity.
The people of France are openly chanting to be more like Donald Trump’s America:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1056171/paris-riots-donald-trump-emmanuel-macron-paris-protests-gilets-jaunes
Latinoamericano on December 07, 2018 · at 10:19 pm EST/EDT
Mario Le Penis has been put by the ziopowers. He is controlled opposition, and his role is to divide the voting base, so a real proponent wont be able to gather enough votes. On the contrary, the ziocandidate participates united, fully ziofinanced and with the total support of the ziomedia.
Zios appointed France as a 2nd tier ziopower, which is used to loot former colonies in Africa, and to collaborate in the demolition of the Arab middle east, so Khazaria II can take over.
What is new is the choking of the welfare state that France could have built in the past, including the cultural and ethnic wiping. The soviet European Union EUSSR was setup to finish off these national states and to increase the financial powers of the zios by imposing yet another fake money: Enlil’s Euro.
vot tak on December 08, 2018 · at 1:20 am EST/EDT
Nice job by RM putting together this article.
French Police Labor Union Goes on Strike Ahead of Saturday Yellow Vests Protests
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201812081070504971-france-yellow-vests-protests-violence-police-strike/
“The French police labor union Vigi has declared an indefinite strike starting from December 8, the day when new protests of the so-called yellow vest movement against an increase in fuel taxes are expected to take place, Alexandre Langlois, the secretary general of the police union, has told Sputnik.
Langlois noted that the police were not going to join “yellow vest” protesters, however, intended to support them.
“We will go to the rally with our banners to show that we support the demand to increase the purchasing power. Any police officer not on duty has the right to join them during the demonstration,” Langlois said.”
Dr NG Maroudas on December 08, 2018 · at 2:19 am EST/EDT
Choose a boy to do a man’s job. The boy Micron tense and sweating, the vein swelling on the temple, the tie too loose, the weedy frame suddenly shrunk too small for his expensive suit. Pure schadenfreude:
https://youtu.be/bobJihgGHiw
Jacques Cuse on December 08, 2018 · at 5:26 am EST/EDT
“Any true “Yellow Vest Revolution” would have to include a drastic rewriting of the rules of the European Union and especially the Eurozone, or else a Frexit.”
Problem is that the EU regulations make a rewriting of the rules practically impossible. All member states would have to agree.
Possible the UPR party, lead by François Asselineau. Its program comes closest to what France needs. But do the French know this? Most have never heard of this party, and although it has relatively high numbers of paying party members they only received little over 0.9% of the presidential vote. The rigid French are very afraid of big changes like Frexit, dropping the € and getting out of NATO and seem afraid of the ideas of mister Asselineau.
UPR published a document explaining what would be necessary for the ‘destitution’ or dismissal of prez Macron and started an initiative to this effect. Big surprise is that most of Macrons so-called ‘worst’ opponents have already declared to be against such a procedure and thus support Macron.
https://www.upr.fr/actualite/58864/
https://www.upr.fr/tableau-des-reponses-des-deputes-concernant-lactivation-de-larticle-68/
https://www.upr.fr/tableau-des-reponses-des-senateurs-concernant-lactivation-de-larticle-68/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccBKAA5L6_0
Vive les Gilets Jaunes!
Thank you Ramin, great article! But please, please, put a French translation on the French Saker. ASAP.
Amicales salutations du Sud-Ouest,
bob de France on December 08, 2018 · at 7:28 am EST/EDT
So sad you don’t speack about UPR…
there is one political party in France(the 5th in nombers) who is totally ban from mainstream medias, witch is trying to reconciliate every non-extremist french around 3 clear goals for France :
Frexit (our laws back)
out of NATO (our foreign policy back (with a nuclear power))
back to franc (our economy back)
you forget that never will France vote massively for extremism
20%, that’s a max and a sure faillure in every second round of vote.
that’s the elite’s plan, and that’s why UPR is ban… sad you don’t mention it .. I put a link about the UPR participation for the presidential election, sorry, not translated, but you can understand why they don’t allow french people to ear what UPR says..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAoIPA7OW9w
Donald Duck on December 08, 2018 · at 9:12 am EST/EDT
When I hear proponents of neo-liberalism arguing that in time neoliberalism will work and deliver the goods to everyone, even the sans-culottes on the streets of Paris, London, Rome, Baltimore, Madrid. But actually neo-liberalism is working – working exactly as its planners intended. That is to say that by using various economic and monetary levers – low interest rates, QE – it has shifted copious quantities of money from the poor and average to the rich and undeserving.
And now throughout Europe we are beginning to bear witness of pressure from below which will eventuate in serial explosions. These may be spontaneous or led, but they are beginning to happen and will become more intense.
At one point in time, the political rhetoric was about “trickle down economics”.
The line among working people was to ask “Have you been trickled on yet?”
Anonymous on December 08, 2018 · at 9:33 am EST/EDT
Nothing says “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” like 90,000 riot police, soldiers and armored vehicles.
CBC news tell me that the police are “keeping the peace” during violent yellow jacket protests!
Susan on December 08, 2018 · at 12:19 pm EST/EDT
Again thank you for this I showed this to a group I am working with and someone asked the question where is the gas tax money going? Is it going totally for green energy? How is this tax implemented?
Arnold on December 08, 2018 · at 8:46 pm EST/EDT
By this point, it doesn’t seem to be about the particulars of the fuel tax. Macron first announced its delay and then its cancellation, at least for now. But Ramin seems to capture very well Life Under Austerity and how a user fee hear and a tax rise there and Labor Reform and Education Reform and all of its just piles up and piles up until it finally reaches the point where people can’t take it any more.
Thus, its not really about the exact weight of the final straw on the camel’s back, but about the cumulative weight of all of the straw that the camel was forced to bear.
But of course the people who want us all to burn here on earth as it gets hotter and hotter want to somehow claim that people revolting against these yet-more-taxes that was billed in the propaganda as an environment-friendly tax makes any attempt to keep the world from burning wrong. Somewhere I saw a chart of the average temperature in CA for the last 100 years, and that was scary and it easily explained why the plants are dried out. But hey, doing anything to stop that would interfere with corporate profits, so omg, we can’t possibly do that.
Its two minutes to midnight.
https://thebulletin.org/2018-doomsday-clock-statement/
Anonius on December 08, 2018 · at 12:53 pm EST/EDT
Unfortunately the video below is in Greek, but at 6:10 A. Beksis talks about “Yellow Vest French Revolution” which is as he says French ( White) Middle Class Revolution with National Character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH1FQYH2ONo
He starts of, by discussing “hush-hush” conference (just concluded) in Maroco regarding “World Wide Forced Migration” which is supposed to come to force Dec. 10, 2018.
Zalamander on December 08, 2018 · at 1:04 pm EST/EDT
If Iran is socialist why does it not proudly call itself “The Islamic Socialist Republic”? I ‘d also like to mention that while the USSR is gone, 99% of the Russian people are still socialist as are the peoples of China and Cuba. After all, socialist revolutions become internalized in the hearts and minds of the people and can never be defeated by the forces of reaction both internal and external. Viva la French socialist revolution!
mod note: no caps please
Rob on December 08, 2018 · at 3:24 pm EST/EDT
Well, I was waiting for this article. And I was not disappointed. Thanks Ramin, for the best article I’ve read on this subject in, well, weeks.
I am not French, I don’t live there but due to family circumstances I’ve been there a lot and I speak French. So, as an outstander I have some opinions about France. Btw, these are just opinions of mine so if I’m terribly mistaken please feel free to correct me, ok?
One of the most striking characteristics of France as I’ve learned is that people there have a very strong feeling about justice. Even when the whole country grows to a grinding halt due to a strike, people will shrug their shoulders and will say that ‘their cause is right’.
This has advantages and disadvantages. The working climate in France is outdated, and investments are dropping at some speed. Just reed this: https://www.economist.com/news/2014/10/24/the-big-chill
And it’s from 2014. But still actual.
It’s good that Ramin mentioned that the median wage of a French worker is just some 1700 euros. Add to that, the petrol prices soared 30% the last year. France is a large country (to European standards; Texas is 1.5 time the size of France), so a car is essential. At a certain moment hard choices have to be made to ensure food. In my country it is a saying, that it will take just a last drop to start a bucket flowing over.
For those unfamiliar with La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, a revolutionary song, let me put here a part of it:
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L’étendard sanglant est levé, (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes!
Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons!
Abreuve nos sillons!
Que veut cette horde d’esclaves,
De traîtres, de rois conjurés?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves,
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés? (bis)
Français, pour nous, ah! quel outrage
Quels transports il doit exciter!
C’est nous qu’on ose méditer
De rendre à l’antique esclavage!
Aux armes, citoyens …
Translated in English, which sounds odd to me in this case:
Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us, tyranny’s
Bloody standard is raised, (repeat)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They’re coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your women!
To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let’s march, let’s march!
Let an impure blood
Water our furrows!
What does this horde of slaves,
Of traitors and conspiring kings want?
For whom have these vile chains,
These irons, been long prepared? (repeat)
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What furious action it must arouse!
It is to us they dare plan
A return to the old slavery!
To arms, citizens …
(To feed the contrary, when I want to irritate French I just ask when was the last time that they won a war.)
The whole ‘Gilets Jaune’ movement has grown into an anger movement against the establishment. They will lose. I agree with Ramin, or better I fear, that this whole phenomenon will end up just a the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement of some years ago. Do people still remember that? Did anything change?
Of course the popularity of Macron will hit dipsh*t lows. Will that change anything? Does he care? He cares about ‘Grandeur’, about banks, about poor icebears. But not about the French. Even when they drop dead or are slaughtered off by the many ISIS militants in his country, maybe trained in their camps in Kosovo, he doesn’t care sh*t.
Years ago I’ve warned French friends that they would regret it that they chose such an idiot as Hollande. They looked at me in amazement. Well, at the end of his ‘service’ his popularity hit some 8%, that’s even lower than Poroshenko. How can it be, that in a country of famous engineers and philosophers, they choose a idiot bankers boy, married to the school teacher that raped him?
They deserve this boy, he will stay glued to his seat just as Merkel, he will be more interested in the instructions from the City of London than the well-being of his French peasants, and he will tax them farther away in poverty and serfdom. Just as his overlords want.
And the French machines, designed to load mortars with chlorine gas to hurl over Syrians are working just fine.
The only tipping point could be, that the French police will start to wear ‘gilets jaunes’ as well. I don’t see this happen in a near future.
Jacques Cuse on December 08, 2018 · at 7:25 pm EST/EDT
No Rob, the French didn’t vote for Macron but against Le Pen instead. Still, having more votes received because of this Macron was supported by only little over 16% of the voter base. You cannot seriously call that broad support and we can thus conclude that most French did not vote for the raped boy Jupiter roi soleil.
But, like in the US, the election system is very undemocratic and on top, abused by the government and its secret services. Front National was created by the DGSE specifically to manipulate elections.
“They deserve this boy, he will stay glued to his seat just as Merkel”
But the German economy is doing very well, and its people aren’t disgruntled over pay, inflation and cost of living there. It seems the EU benefits Germany the most.
Rob on December 09, 2018 · at 7:01 am EST/EDT
That the vote was mainly against Le Pen, I agree, but when voting for the other guy you will get the other guy, isn’t it? And I wonder whether Le Pen would have been that worse. I wonder whether anybody has the courage to reform the strict labour laws and rise the pension age. I can imagine an angry mob with torches and hayforks for the Elysee in that case.
About Germany, don’t be fooled by the MSM that are under strict Merkel control. Independent media have their servers e.g. in Russia for that reason.
People aren’t disgruntled? Talk to pensioners. A big taboo is the so called ‘Altersarmut’, whereby pensioners become so poor, that they have to steal food to stay alive. Municipal taxes can be high, health care costs are high – and rising. Child care costs is very dependent of the city you’re living in. If the city is not that rich, don’t be surprised to get a monthly bill of up to 800 euros.
But yes, the economy isn’t doing that bad. That’s why I have met so many Spanish and Greek colleagues here.
Layman on December 08, 2018 · at 3:33 pm EST/EDT
“Bloodless Celebration” in Russia in 1917??????
Can you get any more delusional than that?!!
It was indeed bloodless. The blood came later. Read the history of the Russian Revolution.
Thank you Mr or Ms Anonymous, I know very well what I’m talking about, unlike you or the author. You may want to read an article or two e.g.:
https://www.bl.uk/russian-revolution/articles/violence-and-terror-in-the-russian-revolution
To start with, there were two revolutions in Russia in 1917. The February one was indeed a celebration, but it was far from bloodless – over a thousand people killed on both sides. On 5 April there was a mass funeral of the victims of St. Petersburg street fights, see e.g. a photo here: http://visualrian.ru/selection/list_1080667/26881.html.
And the October one was basically an armed ceisure of power by the bolsheviks, not a celebration.
You’re right though that the biggest blood – millions and millions killed in the Civil war not to mention hunger, repressions etc. – was still to come, however this was also a direct result of both 1917 revolutions. This all needs to be kept in mind when reading pieces by socialists and other lefties – much as I admire the factual reporting of Mr. Mazaheri, his political opinions are rather detached from reality.
Snow Leopard on December 09, 2018 · at 3:53 pm EST/EDT
Layman; Would it not be more just and accurate to assign responsibility for the violence in the Russian crisis of 1918-20 on those who perpetrated it. Them being the patriarchal white reactionaries and militarists who were encouraged and supported by the world capitalist empire. How many imperialist countries invaded Russia in an attempt to violently crush the people’s will? Savage violence is the standard method of patriarchal class oppressors. It is a remarkable testament to the Russian people that they were able to successfully counterpose such savage repression with their own militant will. Sure violence was the currency of the time. World patriarchy chooses to ignore its own savage class violence and then when the working class beats them at their own game then they self righteously accuse the working class of being violent. This is the standard propaganda reaction of the class oppressor. It is a common trope that when the patriarchal class oppressor is committing violence against the oppressed classes that is not actually “violence”. It is simply the necessary maintenance of just order in the sight of the patriarchal god. However when the despised lower orders fight back then this is a violent defiance of god. Only then is “violence” morally condemned. Remember, upper class good and of God, whilst lower class evil and of the devil.
Layman on December 10, 2018 · at 12:19 pm EST/EDT
“Would it not be more just and accurate to assign responsibility for the violence in the Russian crisis of 1918-20 on those who perpetrated it. Them being the patriarchal white reactionaries and militarists who were encouraged and supported by the world capitalist empire. ”
Well of course you may assign responsibility as you see fit, depending on your own preferences and tastes. Or you may look up the actual history; in reality, during the Civil War were both the “white terror” perpetrated by the “white” and the “red terror” perpetrated by the “red”. The responsibility is on both sides. According to some historians, the number of victims of the “red terror” was 4 times bigger than that of the “white terror” (the total number of victims of the Civil War is estimated at 2.5 million people).
Lastly, I grew up in the Soviet Union and have heard and read loads and loads of communist propaganda about class struggle; please don’t bother trying to feed me with it – I know it inside out.
Layman, I agree with you, but I am not sure if the blame should be assigned to both sides, the blame goes squarely to the reds. Whites were trying to preserve their way of life and therefore they can’t be blamed for defending it.
Not that I did not know it, but today I was listening to one Greek journalist making a political speech regarding events that plunged Greece into banker’s slavery. While he was doing it, he started putting things in to historical perspective by going back to WWI and Russian revolution (1917). He blamed Anglo-German elites for the war, but the Germans for sending Lenin to Russia with an order to destroy Russia and withdraw Russia from the war, which as we know he immediately did. We also know that he plunged Russia into sea of Russian blood as well as he split Russia into the so called Republics and other autonomous regions. So, he can surely be blamed the mess with say Ukraine.
Layman on December 11, 2018 · at 1:07 am EST/EDT
I fully agree with what the Greek journalist said, but cannot agree with your original point. Many of the “whites” (not all of them) were, in fact, those who perpetrated and supported the February 1917 revolution against the monarchy and thus they are no less responsible for what has followed.
Are you Greek? – if yes: να ‘σαι καλά!
Anonius on December 11, 2018 · at 9:40 am EST/EDT
Layman, “είμαι, και εσύ επίσης”. Okay, I was talking about the Revolution in October 17 (November 7, by new calendar?). The reds unleashed severe propaganda within Russian front line soldiers. Reds had easy job because army suffered from the lack of food and other essentials. Everything was blamed on Tsar, instead of the corrupt and thieving suppliers, who always make tons of money on soldier’s misery (We could safely say that they were the same guys who tried the February Revolution). Anyway, soldiers joining the Red agitators were the ones who provided the muscle for the Reds. The guys, I call whites where the later anti-revolutionaries, like officer corps, cadets from military schools, etc. We could include here the Greek army (I am not surprised here because Tsar’s wife was Greek princess), which sent volunteers to fight the reds (I am not sure if they were truly volunteers, most likely they were “volunteered” by their higher command). I am sure that English Army joined in as well and others. Poland joined in as well, but Poland had territorial appetite for Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, etc.
I agree with you on the Revolution in February which was called The Bourgeois Revolution, and it was the first attempt at destroying the Tsardom, and when this one did not work the “dark forces” switched the colors to Red (Lenin and his friends like Trotsky and others).
Interesting monologue “Η Πανελλήνια Ιδέα”, check 9:20 minute (Δ. Καψάλας talks about righteous war),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEO5TXOpVTs
Sorry, I can’t find his video discussing the above subject, where he also calls Mussolini a communist and he explains why he was a communist.
Anonius on December 11, 2018 · at 10:48 am EST/EDT
Hmm, my reply seems to have vanished, ot maybe on hold. This video, which once again is a Greek one. At 4:40 he starts talking about “yellow vests” and goes on to talk about protest in Greece and he asks: ” why did they vanish, who controls those protest?”.
He goes on and talks about Georgia’s sneaky provocation against Russia at the time when Putin was in China for Olympic Games, Saakashvili eating his tie, Soros’s white helmets saving the same girl five times in Syria. He goes back to the Georgia’s provocation and talks about Reuters showing videos of payed actors pretending to be wounded by the Russians, swearing at Russians only to be seen shortly after walking about. At, 9:40 he talks positively about Trump’s MAGA. At 14:40 he talks about chaos-economy, neo-liberalism and globalization. He starts talking about Mancini (Freemason) and at 18:53 he goes on to explain why Russia’s Tsardom had to be destroyed by the dark force, because it was to powerful. At 20:49 he talks about Mussolini the communist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWhrbYLkgc
Dilbert on December 08, 2018 · at 4:11 pm EST/EDT
“The Gilets Jaunes are in revolt against capitalism or neoliberalism, which is a worldwide system of concentration of wealth and power into a few hands. With our pending ecological collapse and vanishing biodiversity, capitalism has failed and is reaching its end game. Unlike the neofascist science deniers, the Gilets Jaunes perceive climate change as a crisis, but they say that it is hard to focus on a global ecological collapse when you live from paycheck to paycheck. They feel that they deal with the anxiety of putting food on the table at the end of the month while the rich talk about the end of the world. Thinking about humanity’s survival is hard to do on an empty stomach.”
— Gilber Mercier “Are the Gilets Jaunes Today’s Sans-Culottes?”
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/are-the-gilets-jaunes-todays-sans-culottes/
L. MARTAKIS on December 08, 2018 · at 5:24 pm EST/EDT
1. I totally agree with your article dear Ramin Mazaheri!
2. Dictionary search.
As we are in “The Saker Blog”, I searched online dictionaries about a word in Russian to describe the “Yellow Vests” or “deplorables” and I found the word “мужик”.
“мужик” = muzhik, also, moujik, mujik.
a. boor
b. coarse, uncouth person
c. (colloquial or derogatory) man (male person)
d. (colloquial) husband
e. (historical) peasant from tsarist Russia
f. (slang) macho
3. Proposal.
It seems that “Yellow Vests” are “another failed anti-austerity protest”, so I have a proposal:
Honourable “Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron”, please consult honourable “Petr Arkadievich Stolypin” in order to learn how to suppress the muzhiks: Give them something, kill them later.
4. Prediction.
As it seems that this is not a “Yellow Vest Cultural Revolution” I have a prediction:
Honourable “Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron” will not finish his life as honourable “Petr Arkadievich Stolypin” did.
Thank you. (LM)
LM,
Sorry my friend, wrong translation. мужик means => man. keep looking.
btw, I just went to google translate and here it is:
yellow vests => желтые жилеты
vot tak on December 08, 2018 · at 8:44 pm EST/EDT
The protest has spread to Belgium.
Brussels Police Detain 450 People in Yellow Vest Rally (VIDEOS)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201812091070523399-belgium-brussels-yellow-vests-rally-police/
https://twitter.com/ShoebridgeC/status/1071507993160757248
“Rather than report on #France police attacking protesters, our media instead suggest that those who do report it (eg see tweet above) are likely #Russia ‘sock puppet accounts spreading disinformation to fuel anger by pushing a police brutality narrative’
(Dons on “maga” baseball cap)*
The Russians control the Yellow Vests protests. It is a soft coup to take over France. Why would le drain lie?
(removes maga cap)
France Probing Rumours About Russia’s Involvement in Yellow Vests Protests – FM
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201812091070535523-france-russia-yellow-vests/
“The French Secretariat-General for National Defense and Security (SGDSN) is investigating the reports on Russia’s alleged meddling in the so-called yellow vest rallies that recently raged in France, the country’s foreign minister said Sunday.
“I have heard these rumours. The Secretariat-General for National Defense and Security is currently investigating them. We will see what the results of this investigation will be. I won’t give my judgment on anything unless the facts are established,” the foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the RTL broadcaster.
The minister’s statement follows the Times newspaper Saturday reports, citing an analysis carried out by New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company, that hundreds of allegedly Russia-linked Twitter accounts were presumably fueling the yellow vest rallies by posting pictures of injured protesters and retweeting posts connected to the unrest.”
A safe bet “new knowledge” is another zionazi-gay spook/psywar front.
*A while back I joked about wearing baseball caps deducting 10 IQ from the wearer, and wearing one backwards deducted 20 IQ points. Those maga basedall caps effect brain function like wearing a regular cap backwards. Plus I suspect they announce a similar preference that getting bow tie tatoos on the back of one’s thighs expresses. As for what the effect of wearing a maga baseball cap backwards has on brain function? And what sort of personality disorder it encourages? Best not to go there…
VT,
Are you really suggesting that French elites that support Islamic mass migration theology are wearing zero-migration MAGA hats?
Let’s test that proposition….. President Trump is actively speaking for the protesters’ cause and against Macron’s brutality. (1)
“Very sad day & night in Paris. Maybe it’s time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement and return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes?” Trump tweeted after tens of thousands of people across France went to the streets to protest Macron’s government.
So the truth is… Christian yellow-vests are aligned Christian America and Christian MAGA beliefs. MFGA would be a terrible acronym, but I suspect we will see something along the lines of MAKING FRANCE GREAT AGAIN hats and vests in the near future.
Also — In case you were unaware — Italians are also beginning to overthrow their Euro Elite deep state to reclaim their Christian greatness. (2)
(1) https://www.foxnews.com/world/french-yellow-vest-protesters-tear-gassed-in-violent-clashes-with-riot-police-in-paris
(2) https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/30847-answering-atheists-italy-s-new-government-promotes-christ-in-schools
David Cagliesi on December 10, 2018 · at 1:54 am EST/EDT
Thanks Ramin,
for sharing you’re thoughs in this matter,
what’s happening in France right now is probably an outcome of a decision taken
by an foreign government or organisation with commercial interests in the french society.
As some people here pointed it out, the Revolution, and yes it looks to me like a revolution, is spreading. It may not seem like it, but I am beginning to think that this may be a remake of Great French Revolution. Mind you it did not take long before the results of Great Revolution were overturned, and placing Napoleon at the top, who later became a replacement for the beheaded king. But this aside, here is what we know or can suspect.
1. We can see 25 point demand (french picture and Russian translation): https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/4631729.html
With my poor Russian I can see serious demands (Frexit, return to Franc, dissolution of the Parliament including Macron, changes to the banking, etc, etc,). This means: yellow vests are getting seriously organized.
I also believe, that LePenn would have played the people for fools, just like other Euro-skeptics. Nothing would change with her in power (this is probably why she kicked her father out). We must remember that the word “skeptics’ does not mean “out”, as “skeptics” just want changes withing EU. See GB, May is playing games with Englanders.
2. Slowly, the protest against EU is spreading presenting us with the question: who will be next? Benelux joining makes a lot of sense as they have significant French population.
The dis-info is already in motion as Russia and Trump a blamed for the events.
Chan Pooi Hoong on December 10, 2018 · at 8:30 am EST/EDT
If this happened in China with 90,000 cops deployed to brutally suppress the protestors, the free West led by the China hater US politicians in Congress would immediately condemn and impose sanctions on China for violation of human rights.
But since it is France, this is par for the course because the free West can do no wrong.
I would not be surprised if the CIA has a hand in the protests to weaken the EU that would stifle the EU’s ability to create a SPV to bypass US sanctions on Iran. Top officials of the EU did raise the question of the USDollar in international trade. Moreover, Macron did mention the creation of an European army to defend Europe against the US, Russia and China. Nowadays it is obligatory to mention China as a threat to the free and peaceful West which had inflicted endless wars on Africa, the Mid East and Afghanistan.
thanks, ramin, for explaining so well what is happening in france.
this picture says a thousand words – fascist thugs look the same in france as they do in the ukraine – thee guys with the guns are french cops:
https://twitter.com/21WIRE/status/1072059596217434112
macron is threatening those who have used violence with punishment…perhaps he isn’t aware that he has unleased state violence against the french people and that he may actually be the one to suffer punishment for his violence.
Ramin wrote:
“… I’ve seen it year after year, so I predict the protests will stop after December 16, and then re-start in January.”
It seems that you were right, on December 15 the protests are already a third of what they were last week.
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DNA Database to thwart deforestation
by Anika Salam
-- June 24, 2018
Trees are being chopped down inconsiderably all over the world. Illegal logging has become such a huge problem these days that it needs to be stopped immediately. So, in order to prevent deforestation, environmental advocates are running a project to create a DNA Database of trees, which could help determine if the logs being sold were illegally harvested.
The experimental project is a collaboration between the Norwegian government and the United States Forest Service’s international program. Initially, the project will focus on building a database for the bigleaf maple tree on the west coast. Bigleaf maple trees are mostly used to make guitars, furniture, and veneers, and are quite popular for fetching top dollar. You can easily understand why the poachers are interested in such trees.
To create the database, the World Resources Institute has already recorded several populations of the bigleaf maple, along with the unique characteristics of each population. And, thanks to the volunteers from Adventures Scientists who helped with outdoor data collection.
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“The goal with this is that we have enough samples distributed widely enough across this geographic range that we can say we’re pretty sure that this was sample from a national forest in Washington,” said Meaghan Parker-Forney, who is a science officer at the World Resources Institute’s Forest Legality Initiative. “If somebody’s claiming it came from Northern California, we can say no, that’s actually not true.”
Your contribution matters
While the experts are gathered to create the DNA Database, it relies on volunteers and citizen scientists as well. And the best part is, you can also help gather samples for DNA testing. All you have to do is complete an online training course on how to collect samples and pass the test. besides, you’ll have to use an app while you’re in the field to collect samples. The app will ask you a few questions about the specimen you’ve collected. Your contribution could be a vital DNA evidence to prevent any future deforestation.
The Norwegian government and the U.S. Forest Service hope to expand this project to places like Indonesia and Peru, where illegal logging is extremely uncontrolled. The more people volunteer, the richer the database will be.
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