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Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of 'emancipated manhood', thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Actors: Penélope Cruz ,
Penélope Cruz 28 April 1974, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
Ben Kingsley ,
Ben Kingsley 31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Dennis Hopper ,
Dennis Hopper 17 May 1936, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
Patricia Clarkson ,
Patricia Clarkson 29 December 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Peter Sarsgaard ,
Peter Sarsgaard 7 March 1971, Belleville, Illinois, USA
Debbie Harry ,
Debbie Harry 1 July 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
Charlie Rose ,
Charlie Rose 5 January 1942, Henderson, North Carolina, USA
Antonio Cupo ,
Antonio Cupo 10 January 1978, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Michelle Harrison ,
Michelle Harrison 24 March 1975, Puyallup, Washington, USA
Sonja Bennett ,
Sonja Bennett 24 August 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Emily Holmes ,
Emily Holmes 1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Genre: Romance, Drama
Director: Isabel Coixet
Isabel Coixet 9 April 1960, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Finiteness and existence of attractors and repellers on sectional hyperbolic sets
Discrete Schrödinger equation and ill-posedness for the Euler equation
January 2017, 37(1): 295-336. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017013
Mixed dimensional infinite soliton trains for nonlinear Schrödinger equations
Liren Lin 1, and Tai-Peng Tsai 2,3,
Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z2, Canada
Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Received August 2015 Revised August 2016 Published November 2016
Fund Project: Lin is currently a postdoctor at Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Tsai’s research is supported in part by NSERC grant 261356-13.
In this note we construct mixed dimensional infinite soliton trains, which are solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations whose asymptotic profiles at time infinity consist of infinitely many solitons of multiple dimensions. For example infinite line-point soliton trains in 2D space, and infinite plane-line-point soliton trains in 3D space. This note extends the works of Le Coz, Li and Tsai [6,7], where single dimensional trains are considered. In our approach, spatial L∞ bounds for lower dimensional trains play an essential role.
Keywords: Infinite soliton train, mixed dimensional, mixed train, nonlinear Schrödinger equations.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:35Q55;Secondary:35C08, 35Q5.
Citation: Liren Lin, Tai-Peng Tsai. Mixed dimensional infinite soliton trains for nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (1) : 295-336. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017013
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Supporting Integrated Climate Change Strategies
Advancing Cross-Sectoral Climate Resilient Livelihoods
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NAP Expo Asia 2017
11 September 2017, Seoul - With the goal to build climate change resilience in Asia, representatives from more than 20 countries are now gathering in Seoul, South Korea. This landmark regional event on National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) is the first ‘NAP Expo’ for Asia, and will galvanise adaptation efforts in the region.
This month, severe monsoon rains have caused disastrous floods, killed at least 1,200 people, and left millions displaced in South Asia. Climate change has likely played a role in exacerbating the heavy rains, which have led to unprecedented landslides and floods, offering a glimpse of a potentially chaotic climate future.
At the opening of the NAP Expo for Asia, Youssef Nassef, Director, Adaptation Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said, 'We stand in solidarity with those affected by recent hurricanes and floods, and our thoughts and hearts are with them. We are reminded of the urgent need to advance concrete actions to enhance resilience to climate change, and the NAPs are one vehicle towards this end.’
The two-day event is mobilising action for the formulation and implementation of NAPs, which will help vulnerable Asian countries to adapt to climate change effectively over the long term. Delegates are sharing technical knowledge and tools, and identifying gaps and needs of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and other developing countries, as they undertake steps towards the formulation and implementation of NAPs.
Abias Huongo, Chair of LDC Expert Group (LEG), UNFCCC, said ‘A vision of the LEG is to see LDCs formulating NAPs by 2018, and at the latest by 2020. This NAP Expo for Asia will encourage this process.’
This is the first NAP Expo for Asia, following global NAP Expos annually since 2013. It is organized by the LEG, and hosted by the UNFCCC and the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea, and co-organized by the Korea Environment Institute (KEI) and the Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change (KACCC) in partnership with the joint UN Development Programme (UNDP) - UN Environment Programme (UN Environment) NAP Global Support Programme (NAP-GSP).
Mozaharul Alam, Regional Climate Change Coordinator, UN Environment, said, 'This event is a great example of partnership in climate change adaptation. The joint UNDP - UN Environment NAP-GSP has supported 45 developing countries to advance their NAPs.’
A rich array of topics is planned for discussion over two days, aiming to 'take the temperature' on the state of climate change and adaptation in Asia. Approximately 250 participants are gathering, comprising representatives of governments, UN agencies, NGOs, environmental organisations, universities, UN agencies, development agencies and adaptation experts and members of civil society groups.
Through plenary keynote sessions, thematic breakouts and an exhibition 'Marketplace', participants will consider development and economic pathways in Asia, and adaptation solutions for key systems and sectors. Overall, the value of the NAP will be underscored as crucial platform to coordinate and enhance actions on climate change adaptation, including achieving the SDGs and the NDCs on adaptation. Opportunities for financial support for the formulation of NAPs will also be considered.
Voicing the mood of enthusiasm and urgency for climate action in Asia at the NAP Expo, Howard Bamsey, Executive Director, Green Climate Fund (GCF) said, ‘Let's use this vital moment to support the most vulnerable countries at this time of great need’
In his keynote speech at the opening session, Jae Chun Choe, Co-chairman, National Assembly Forum on Climate Change said, ‘Let’s work together and with nature to preserve biodiversity and adapt to climate change threats.’
Byeong-ok Ahn, Vice Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea, said, 'This forum will be of vital importance for seeking practical measures for climate change adaptation in Asia.'
Kwang Kook Park, President of Korea Environment Institute (KEI) said, ‘This is a critical moment in the global effort to deal with the catastrophic impacts of climate change'
Thomasz Chruszczow, Chair of Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), UNFCCC, said, ‘'The Paris Agreement for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects.’
For more information: http://napexpo.org/asia/ Twitter: @NAP_Central; #NAPExpo
Contact UNFCCC: Motsomi Maletjane: MMaletjane@unfccc.int
Contact UNDP / UN Environment NAP-GSP: Esther Lake: esther.lake@undp.org
Last Updated: 14 Sep 2017
© United Nations Development Program 2019
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This is how much UAB is paying to take over the Pepsi sign
Updated Jan 13, 2019; Posted Mar 03, 2016
By Kelly Poe
Pepsi Sign 03.02.16
The Pepsi Sign over downtown Birmingham appears to be coming down. Photo taken on March 2, 2016.
(Carla Jean Whitley)
UAB is taking over one of the most controversial ad spaces in the city - and paying a lot to do it.
UAB announced Wednesday it will replace Pepsi atop Birmingham's skyline, taking over a lease for the 179- by 25-foot billboard on top of the 17-story Two North Twentieth building.
UAB will pay $300,000 to put the sign up for one year, and that price tag includes installation and labor.
The sign will feature "iconic images from Birmingham's past and present," according to UAB. Images will be rolled out in the next few weeks on UAB's social media accounts.
The sign was installed early 2014 without approval from the Birmingham Design Review Committee. Buffalo Rock, a Pepsi distributor and PepsiCo leased the sign from Harbert Realty for an undisclosed sum and term.
Harbert Realty had previously submitted proposals for similar signs in 2013, each of which were rejected. Harbert installed the sign anyway, and while some city officials said the action was illegal, the sign stayed up two years.
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Services & Hours
Allen Chapel
Pastor Barry Settle is a Southern California native, raised in Los Angeles. He accepted his call to preach in 1998 and was ordained an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
In November 2006, Bishop John Bryant appointed Pastor Barry to Willis Chapel AME, Kansas City, MO. In 2012, Bishop T. Larry Kirkland appointed him to First AME Church in Kansas City, KS and in 2016, Bishop Clement W. Fugh appointed Pastor Barry to Allen Chapel AME in Riverside, CA.
Pastor Barry earned his Bachelor of Arts from California State University Los Angeles in Economics, his Master’s of Divinity from Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, KS and his Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. His focus group is “Preaching Prophetically in a Postmodern Culture: Communicating with Contemporary Audiences,” and his Doctoral Project is the “Reformation of the African American Male in the Church Community.” He is the co-founder of the Best Man Ministry, which equips young men and men to become the men, husbands and fathers that God desires for men.
Under his pastorate, he has developed thriving ministries for youth, men and marriages as well as led retreats that have spiritually transformed the lives of many who have attended.
He is wonderfully married to the anointed psalmist/preacher Rev. Rochelle Settle and they are the proud parents of two sons, Jeremiah and Zachary, and one daughter, Madison. Personally, he is a fan of all sports and was very active early in his life, having played organized baseball and basketball as well as being competitive in other sports. He also loves to write devotions and shares daily e-mail devotions to almost 100 of his e-mail contacts. Other passions he shares are exercise, writing/blogging and engaging in social media and watching movies with his family.
Pastor Barry Settle loves the Lord and his mission in ministry is to preach and teach the uncompromising Word of God so that humanity will come to know and love Jesus Christ, and to serve God’s people wherever the Lord chooses to use him.
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Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Species
Do hairless caterpillars always turn into moths?
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Do caterpillars turn into moths?
Some caterpillars turn into moths, while others turn into butterflies. It depends on the species.
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What do fuzzy caterpillars turn into?
Fuzzy caterpillars turn into moths.
Does caterpillars change into moths before butterfly?
caterpillars do not turn into moths before they are butterflies. they turn into a chyrasilis.
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What caterpillars turn into butterflies?
caterpillars that are fuzzy turn into moths. caterpillars that are not fuzzy turn into butterflies
What do Western Tent caterpillars turn into?
They turn into moths. It takes about eight weeks for the caterpillars to start their cocoons and two for them to turn into moths.
What fuzzy caterpillars turn into butterflies?
Caterpillars normally turn into moths or butterflies.
Does a moth turn into a caterpillar?
Moth caterpillars turn into moths and butterfly caterpillars turn into butterflies.
What do eastern tent caterpillars turn into?
they turn into moths. pale whithish brownish yellowish moths.
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What kind of caterpillars turn into wasps and beetles?
Caterpillars do not turn into wasps or beetles. The only type of insect that caterpillars turn into are moths or butterflies.
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Do fuzzy caterpillars turn into butterflies?
Yes, some of them will turn into butterflies. Some fuzzy caterpillars turn into moths.
What do brown caterpillars turn in to?
Brown Butterflies or moths
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Do carnivorous caterpillars turn into butterflies?
Carnivorous caterpillars eat insects and snails instead of plants. There are a variety of these caterpillars that turn into both butterflies and moths.
Do forest tent caterpillars change into butterflies?
Forest Tent Caterpillars turn into moths not butterflies.
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What do brown caterpillars turn into?
moths, or different butterflies. It depends what it is.
If forest tent caterpillars turn into moths what kind of moth do they turn into?
They are usually referred to as Forest Tent Caterpillar Moths (Malacosoma disstria).
Do all catapillers turn into butterflies?
All true caterpillars turn into butterflies or moths. There are many other critters that resemble caterpillars, such as sawfly larvae and hoverfly larvae, that are not caterpillars.
Do all caterpillars turn into butterflies?
Yes, but some turn into moths. Before I answer I must say you should rephrase the question to: Do all species of caterpillars transform into butterflies, because the simplest answer would be no, because some will get eaten, stepped on, etc... and will not undergo transformation. As well as hawk-moth caterpillars, atlas-moth caterpillars and silk-moth caterpillars which by name they turn into moths.
What color are forest tent caterpillars in moth form?
Forest tent caterpillars turn into brown moths and green when night falls.Mostly moths are brown,white and tan but they always turn out to be green just like glow in the dark stuff you find on the fourth of July.Which was 3 days back....................................................................................................................thats all:)
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There are many types of caterpillars which are gray and fuzzy. Many of these types of caterpillars will actually turn into moths.
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How do caterpillars breed?
Generally they become Butterflies or Moths then these Adult Insects mate and the females lay eggs which in turn become larvae that is Caterpillars. The Caterpillars do not themselves breed.
Do all caterpillars change into moths or butterflies?
Yes, all caterpillars turn into either a butterfly or a moth. There are many species of caterpillars that can be found in locations throughout the world.
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Do moths really come alive during summertime like Rick Ross says in Maybach Music III?
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There are many moths with yellow caterpillars and many butterflies with yellow caterpillars as well. If it is very fuzzy, it's almost definitely a moth larva. If it is smooth or covered with spikes it could be a butterfly or a moth...
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What day of the week was July 13 1968?
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What day of the week was march 13 1968?
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In 1968 the 13 of June what was the day of the week?
the 13th of June in 1968 was on a Thursday
13 July 1967 was a Thursday. Thursday
What day of the week did July 13 1966 fall on?
July 13, 1976 fell on a Tuesday.
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Tragedy At Bring Me The Horizon Concert
A fan died at a Bring Me the Horizon concert at the Alexandra Palace in London on Friday night (November 30th) and the band reacted to the tragedy. A cause of death was not known at press time.
The group shared, "Words cannot express how horrified we are feeling this evening after hearing about the death of a young man at our show last night. Our hearts and deepest condolences go out to his family and loved ones at this terrible time. We will comment further in due course."
The venue also reacted. They wrote, "A medical incident occurred at last night's Bring Me The Horizon concert. Our thoughts and condolences are with the individual's family and we would like to express our deepest sympathy to them. We hope you can appreciate we cannot provide any further comment at this time."
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“In the year 1846, ten more families came to Wisconsin namely, Ter Beest, Loomans, Rensink, Vanden Bosch, Slyster, Rikkers, Niewenhuis, Hoftiezer, Boland, and Hollendyke. In the following year, 1847, this pioneering group was augmented by the Bruins, Boom, Veenhuis, De Groot, Veernhout, Van Eck, and Wal huizen families. Indeed a noble band of men, women, and children. Men and women who had come here with the avowed purpose of escaping religious persecution and bettering their material conditions. An excellent nucleus sturdy, industrious, and imbued with an unswerving faith in God and men they laid a foundation upon which a structure arose wherein is reflected, even today, the spirit of righteousness and truth. No wonder they felt the need for religious influence, communion, and training.”
One hundred and seventy years ago, these 10 families settled in Alto after leaving family, friends and possessions behind to escape religious persecution. Reformed believers had been arrested, fined, and even imprisoned for their beliefs. The frustration with their situation nudged them to seek a better life where they could worship freely, work toward financial stability, and serve their God. Their convictions and “unswerving faith” drove them to pursue a vision of a better life.
Human nature is to pursue comfort and stability, but God calls us to a life of sacrifice and risk (faith). It appears to me that Alto Reformed Church has again and again sent out men and women who heeded God’s call to a life of self-sacrifice and risk. This is, at least in part, who we are: a people called to equip and send missionaries.
On Mission…
I am thrilled to join you in the mission to make disciples. As you are finding out, my heart is to lead individuals, churches, and communities to be transformed by God’s grace. God’s called me to equip churches to become relevant and effective in making fully devoted followers of Jesus. As I have listened to many of you and reflected on your mission and history as a church, I am profoundly honored to join you in ministry.
I love the statement made in “The History of the Reformed Church of Alto” regarding how Rev. G.J. Hekhuis (1917-1923) inspired the church to do even more to live out what they were known for… “For years Alto had been know as a church which loved the cause of God’s Kingdom and was willing to sacrifice.” Read it again. This church is not merely a historical building, but generations of believers sacrificing for the sake of serving the poor, reaching the lost, growing disciples, equipping leaders, and planting churches.
You planted 3 churches in the first 160 years. How many could we plant in the next 10 years? You have sent out at least 25 people into full-time ministry. Can we do better? Let’s not settle for survival when God has called us to thrive!
I’m sure some of you are thinking “good luck, but I’m over my head with my kids and work.” Maybe you think you are too old or too young. Maybe you think your sin excludes you from significant ministry. Well, Peter had a family and a job, Moses was old, Samuel was young, and Paul was a horrible sinner; yet all these men were used by God. And ladies… Deborah, Ruth, Esther, Mary, Pricilla, Phoebe and a host of other women have been used by God too.
If you are in and want to be used of God, join me on Sundays as we get very practical about the path of transformation.
- Pastor Kevin
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Andromeda brings Substratum theming to unrooted Android 8.0 Oreo devices
Ryne Hager
2017/09/11 4:35pm PDT Sep 11, 2017
It took a bit over two weeks, as opposed to the promised one, but it's finally here. Substratum support for Android 8.0 Oreo, in the form of the newly released Andromeda app, has been released. It's not quite as straightforward or simple as Substratum is on a supported ROM, but it will give users on Oreo the ability to theme. And, best of all, you won't need root to use it.
For the full details, I recommend you check out the detailed coverage over at XDA, as they've gone quite in-depth and tested it under beta for some time. For the survey course version, continue on below.
What is Andromeda?
The name — Andromeda — may have been poorly chosen, given there's a much larger project of the same name involving Android manned by Google. This could result in some confusion down the road if Google's Andromeda goes anywhere, but for the time being it's just a minor annoyance. Andromeda is also not free and runs $2.49 at the time of writing. It was originally supposed to be listed for $1.99, so there may have been a mistake made with the listing, or the price may have been adjusted.
Andromeda is an add-on for Substratum. If you aren't familiar with Substratum, but you enjoy customization, then I recommend extra research on the topic. But, the short version is that Substratum is a theming engine based on Android's Overlay Manager Service, which comes from the old Runtime Resource Overlay system Sony developed for its ROMs. This history differs from the Cyanogen/T-Mobile Theme Engine (if you remember that) but the functions are similar. Basically, Substratum lets you change things like backgrounds, fonts, and other assets across apps on your device to tweak how things look. Substratum even works with a wide variety of 3rd party apps.
By itself, Substratum doesn't work on Android O — at least, without root — and that's where Andromeda comes in. It allows you to theme devices running Oreo by using your PC to elevate permissions via ADB. You see, Substratum can work in Android O via the Overlay Manager Service, mentioned above, which was recently added to AOSP and ships in Oreo. But, to work without root access, it needs Andromeda.
Stock (left) vs. a dark Substratum theme (right), Images via XDA
How Andromeda works
Andromeda is a two-part solution. You'll need to buy the Andromeda app, available here, install the Substratum app from Google Play, and download either the Andromeda scripts or desktop client from the official Andromeda thread at XDA. Then you'll need to enable USB debugging on your device, Open the Andromeda app, connect it to your PC, and run either the script or desktop client. As I said, it's not the simplest procedure. But those with basic knowledge on subjects like ADB should have no problem wrapping their heads around how it works, and the script/desktop client is simpler than doing everything manually.
It's not a terribly complicated procedure, but if you'd like a walkthrough of the process, the folks at XDA have put together quite a detailed one (as well as several others tutorials). The only real limitation of Andromeda is that you'll need to have granted the elevated permissions via ADB/your PC recently, as they're lost at each reboot. So if you install a theme and reboot, the theme will stay installed, but it can't be removed or changed until the permissions have been granted again. Once you find a theme you like, that limitation shouldn't be a big problem.
The best part about Andromeda? You can even get the blobmoji back. It won't work with system apps, but the guys at XDA have put together a how-to for re-enabling those venerated lumps of old via Andromeda/Substratum. That in itself is worth at least $10, IMO.
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One Year Since the Tidemill Occupation Began, Is the Tide Turning Against the ‘Regeneration’ Industry?
The Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in Deptford on August 28, 2018, the day before its occupation, to prevent its destruction, officially began (Photo: Andy Worthington).
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One year ago, local residents and activists in Deptford, in south east London — myself included — occupied a community garden, the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden, to try to prevent its destruction by Lewisham Council for a housing project. Strenuous efforts had been made by members of the local community for many years to persuade the council that their plans for the garden — originally part of the Tidemill primary school, which moved out of its premises in 2012 — were environmentally deranged, because the garden miligated the worst effects of the horrendous pollution on nearby Deptford Church Street, but they had refused to listen.
The plans involved not just the garden — a magical space created by pupils, parents and teachers 20 years before — but also Reginald House, a block of 16 structurally sound flats next door, which, cynically, were to be destroyed to make way for the new development, and the old school itself. Campaigners had no fundamental objections to the former school buildings being converted into housing, but the plans for the garden and for Reginald House were so profoundly unacceptable that, when the council approved the development in September 2017, campaigners began to hatch plans for the occupation.
The garden had been kept open by guardians who had been installed in the old school buildings after it closed in 2012, and when that contract was terminated, the local community were given “meanwhile use” of the garden instead. A handful of volunteers had opened it at weekends, but as time went on the numbers of people drawn to it increased, and after Lewisham Council made its decision, ironically, interest in the garden mushroomed. Numerous musical and artistic events took place throughout spring and summer 2018, and when the council called for campaigners to hand the keys back on August 29, the long-mooted plan to occupy the garden instead went into effect.
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Abandoned in Guantánamo: Abdul Latif Nasser, Cleared for Release Three Years Ago, But Still Held
Guantánamo prisoner Abdul Latif Nasser, cleared for release from the prison over three years ago, but still held, and Camp 6, where he remains imprisoned with 23 other low-level prisoners.
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Over 17 and a half years since the prison at Guantánamo Bay opened, it is, sadly, rare for the mainstream US media — with the bold exception of Carol Rosenberg at the New York Times — to spend any time covering it, even though its continued existence remains a source of profound shame for anyone who cares about US claims that it is a nation founded on the rule of law.
Given the general lack of interest, it was encouraging that, a few weeks ago, ABC News reported on the unforgivable plight of Abdul Latif Nasser, a 54-year old Moroccan prisoner, to mark the third anniversary of his approval for release from the prison. Nasser is one of five of the remaining 40 prisoners who were approved for release by high-level US government review processes under President Obama, but who are still held.
In Nasser’s case, as I reported for Al-Jazeera in June 2017, this was because, although he was approved for release in June 2016 by a Periodic Review Board, a parole-type process that approved 38 prisoners for release from 2013 to 2016, the necessary paperwork from the Moroccan government didn’t reach the Obama administration until 22 days before Obama left office, and legislation passed by Republicans stipulated that Congress had to be informed 30 days before a prisoner was to be released, meaning that, for Nasser, as I described it, “the difference between freedom and continued incarceration was just eight days.”
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Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, in an image produced for the Daily Telegraph.
It’s now two weeks since 92,153 members of the Conservative Party voted for Boris Johnson to be the new Party leader — and Britain’s new Prime Minister.
Johnson, in case you’ve just landed on earth from outer space, is an Etonian who pretends to play the buffoon (although behind it lurks a vile temper), and who, for eight dreadful years, was London’s Mayor, when he showed little or no interest in the actual requirements of the job, indulged in countless expensive vanity projects, and pandered shamefully to foreign investors with money.
Johnson’s elevation to the leadership of the UK was greeted by his former editor at the Daily Telegraph, Max Hastings, with the most extraordinary put-down of his unsuitability to be PM in an article for the Guardian entitled, ‘I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister.’
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Photos of WOMAD 2019: Awareness of the Global Environmental Crisis Hovers Over Three Days of Sunshine and Great World Music
A few of my photos from this year’s WOMAD festival at Charlton Park in Wiltshire.
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What a difference a year makes. Last summer the global environmental crisis was certainly on many people’s radar, but it hadn’t gone mainstream like it has in the last 12 months. The change has come about in particular because of the resonance of the global climate strikes by schoolchildren, initiated the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, and the actions of the campaigning group Extinction Rebellion, but the real trigger was the publication, last October, of a chilling report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warning that we have just 12 years to avert an unprecedented catastrophe caused by man-made climate change.
Awareness of the unprecedented climate emergency was everywhere at WOMAD, as you would no doubt expect at a clued-up, globally-minded, middle class festival — and it certainly helped that the day most of the crew arrived, Wednesday, was the second hottest day ever in the UK, with temperatures reaching 38.1C (100.6F) in Cambridge.
I had numerous discussions with people involved in the WOMAD organisation, in which we either briefly discussed the urgency of the environmental crisis, or alluded to it, although it wasn’t promoted specifically, except through the presence of Extinction Rebellion activists, and the conspicuous efforts to tackle waste and recycling issues. The most shocking example of out-of-control throwaway culture at festivals in recent years was, most notoriously, Glastonbury, whose aftermath was featured in truly shocking photos in 2015, but everywhere our casual addiction to plastic, and an enthusiasm for abandoning tents has led to the aftermath of festivals becoming a vivid and disturbing demonstration of how, collectively, we have become startlingly adept at turning everywhere into a vast dustbin. Even this year, at Glastonbury, where climate change and the environment were the festival’s theme, the sale of single-use plastic bottles was banned, and David Attenborough turned up to thank festival-goers for using less plastic, saying, “That is more than a million bottles of water that have not been drunk by you”, vast amounts of litter were still left behind.
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Akureyri is a town in Northern Iceland and the country's second largest urban area (after the Capital Region) and fourth largest municipality. Nicknamed the Capital of North Iceland, Akureyri is an important port and fishing centre. The area where Akureyri is located was settled in the 9th century but did not receive a municipal charter until 1786.
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The area has a relatively warm climate due to geographical factors, and the town's ice-free harbour has played a significant role in its history. Permanent settlement at Akureyri started in 1778, and eight years later, the town was granted its municipal charter by the king of Denmark (and at the time Iceland also) along with five other towns in Iceland. The king hoped to improve the living conditions of Icelanders by this action because at the time, Iceland had never had urban areas. As far as the king was concerned Akureyri was unsuccessful, because it did not grow from its population of 12. It lost its municipal status in 1836 but regained it in 1862. From then on Akureyri started to grow because of the excellent port conditions and perhaps more because of the productive agricultural region around it. Agricultural products became an important sector of the economy.
In the early 21st century, fishing industries have become more important in Akureyri as two of the major fishing companies of Iceland have become a more important source of revenue and are expected to grow further in coming years. The University of Akureyri was founded in 1987 and is growing rapidly.
Since 2004, the former municipality of Hrísey, an island 35 kilometres (22 miles) to the north, has been a part of Akureyri. Hrísey, which has a population of 210, is the second largest island off Iceland and is a site for pet and livestock quarantine. And since 2009, the island Hrísey became a part of Akureyri as well.
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2018 (18) Audi Q3 2.0 TDI [184] Quattro S Line Edition 5dr S Tronic
Arnold Clark Irvine
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MMI - Multi Media Interface control system
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3 spoke multi-function Q design steering wheel with paddle shift
Remote electric boot opening/closing
Light and rain sensor for auto activation of lights and windscreen wipers
S Line body styling
Front sports seats
Electromechanical parking brake
6.5" colour display screen Audi drive select
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Low washer fluid indicator MMI - Multi Media Interface control system
On board computer Remote electric boot opening/closing
Service interval indicator Voice control system
Audi music interface DAB digital radio module
Acoustic windscreen Aluminium window surround
Auto dimming rear view mirror Body colour door mirrors
Body coloured bumpers Chrome exhaust tailpipe
Coming home function Door mirror integrated indicators
Front and rear electric windows Front fog lights
Front lip spoiler Heated windscreen washer jets
LED daytime running lights LED headlights with headlight washers
LED rear lights Light and rain sensor for auto activation of lights and windscreen wipers
Loading sill protector in stainless steel Rear diffuser with platinum insert
Rear wiper S Line body styling
Sunband for windscreen
12V socket in rear centre console 3 spoke multi-function Q design steering wheel with paddle shift
Aluminium door sill trims Black cloth headlining
Door sill trim strips Dual zone climate control
Electric front lumbar adjustment Front and rear headrests
Front and rear velour floor mats Front centre armrest with storage compartment and angle adjustment
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Thatcham category 1 alarm + immobiliser
Diesel particulate filter Dynamic suspension
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TDI [184] Quattro
S Line Edition
5 TWIN SPOKE
By Jonathan Crouch
Back in 2015, Audi more specifically targeted the growing market for compact five-seat Crossovers with a much-improved version of its first generation stylish little Q3. In this form, the car became cleverer, smarter and more efficient, all of these being attributes that translate well into the used segment. When it comes to this kind of car, there are certainly cheaper options. The question though, is whether there are really any more desirable ones.
Sales of five-seat Qashqai-class Crossovers have certainly taken off in recent years. Nor is it only the mainstream brands that are offering us cars of this kind - family hatches with raised ride heights and a dose of SUV-style attitude. The premium makers are at it too and Audi's done well with its compact Q3, first launched in 2011 but usefully updated in early 2015 to create the car we're going to look at here as a used buy. The 2015 update was timely because by then, this model was facing much tougher competition. Its closest rival, BMW's X1, had upped its game and Mercedes had also entered this profitable market niche with its GLA model. On top of that, mainstream-brand Crossovers like Nissan's Qashqai were offering higher quality than they'd ever previously managed to provide. Nor was it escaping the attention of potential Q3 buyers that for the same kind of money being asked by Ingolstadt, they could have a slightly larger RAV4 or Honda CR-V-style compact SUV. For all these reasons, this Audi needed to evolve - and it did. It continued to be based on a Volkswagen Golf platform, with a simple 'on demand' quattro 4WD system and production farmed out to SEAT in Spain. As for what was different with this facelifted model, well the looks were slightly smarter and there was a bit more equipment, but the main changes lay beneath the bonnet. There, buyers were treated to a completely revised and fully Euro6-compatible turbocharged engine range that offered more power, yet considerably greater levels of efficiency. There was also improved safety, slightly sharper handling and as much on-the-move connectivity as you could ask for back in 2015, courtesy of the brand's clever optional 'Audi connect' multimedia system. This MK1 model sold until mid 2018, when it was replaced by an all-new second generation design.
Those who, perhaps understandably, think that Audi did little more than shrink a Q5 in a hot wash to create this model might be interested to find that it's actually based on a concept car (the 'Cross Coupe Quattro') announced in 2007, well before that larger SUV saw the light of day. That prototype seemed pretty avant garde back then on the motor show circuit, but in finished production form, this Q3 has always seemed a conservative-looking thing, though the coupe-like roofline and sharply sloped D-pillars do give its silhouette an expressive and sporting demeanour. With this revised facelifted MK1 model, Audi's design team tried to further build on this, primarily at the front where the brand's familiar Singleframe front grille is more distinctive, with a 3D-effect emphasised by chromed vertical bars on the S line variants and enlarged top corners that extend to revised headlights that use either 'xenon plus', 'all-weather' or full-LED technology, depending on the trim level you choose. Up-front, there's the slightly raised driving position this class of car usually delivers and it's easy to get comfortable thanks to plenty of flexibility, both from the supportive height-adjustable sports seats and the reach and rake-adjustable three-spoke steering wheel. Is it all classy enough? It's a fair question to ask, given fears that Spanish construction of this car alongside humbler SEATs would lead to a cheap-feeling interior. Such worries continue to be groundless with this revised model which, like its predecessor, manages to offer exactly the same high quality finish you'd get in an Audi Q7 costing three times as much. Out back, plusher variants get a power-operated tailgate that rises to reveal a 420-litre cargo area. The capacity's very usable too, with four lashing points and a reversible boot floor made from velour on one side and plastic on the other so that you can flip it over for the carriage of things like muddy boots and muddy dogs.
Most Q3 owners we came across in our survey seemed very satisfied, but inevitably there were a few issues with some cars. We found a couple of owners, for example, you complained about occasional various unwanted braking actions of speeds at around 50mph. On diesel models, check that the previous owner has taken the car on frequent motorway journeys to ensure that the diesel particulate filter (DPF) can regenerate, as this process is only triggered at high speed. A clogged-up DPF will be costly to replace. Other potential problems with the DPF-equipped cars occur if they have been shut off part way through a regeneration. The result is contamination of the oil system with fuel, which leads to the oil level rising gradually over time. This can cause damage to the engine. As usual with a premium model, check the alloy wheels for scratches and scuffs. 'S line' variants have larger alloys and are particularly prone to this. If you're looking at a quattro four-wheel-drive model, look at the tyres. Audi advises that they should all be the same make and model of tyre all the way around to maintain the car's handling performance. A recall was issued in July 2017 due to possible brake light failure when the parking brake is operated. This affects Q3s built between 02/10/2014 and 01/10/2016.
(approx based on a 2015 Q3 2.0 TDI quattro 190PS - Ex Vat) An air filter costs in the £9 to £17 bracket and a fuel filter costs in the £16 to £28 bracket. An oil filter costs in the £10 to £13 bracket. Front brake pads sit in the £33 to £45 bracket for a set (or up to around £82 for a pricier brand); for a rear set, it's £20-£44. Front brake discs sit in the £67 to £80 (or up to around £95-£132 for a pricier brand); for a rear pair, you're looking in the £57 bracket. A front brake calliper costs in the £145 bracket. A Rear shock absorber costs around £87 (fronts around £58-£87), a timing belt costs in the £20 to £40 bracket. A radiator costs in the £117-£163 bracket.
If ever there were any doubts that this car is more of a 'Crossover' - a family hatchback with SUV styling cues - than any kind of proper compact SUV, then the Q3's roadging experience should set them firmly to rest. Yes, you have this class of car's more commanding driving position at the helm, but otherwise, the at-the-wheel experience is exactly like the ordinary Focus-sized five-door model you might be driving right now. Unlike a truly capable 4x4, it doesn't roll through the bends or crash through the potholes that infest our country's terrible tarmac. Which means that virtually no acclimatisation is required if you come to Q3 ownership fresh from something more conventional. But then much the same is true of any Crossover model. In essence, that's partly the point of this kind of car: lifestyle attitude without any of the adventure-orientated mechanicals you probably don't really need. Things like the kind of weighty permanent 4WD system you get on all versions of this car's larger Q5 showroom stablemate. This Q3 may look similar to that car but under the skin, it's a very different thing, with engineering that for all the 'vorsprung durch technic' marketing is really more Volkswagen-based than borrowed from anything you'd recognise in an Audi. That means underpinnings shared with an old MK6 Golf and the kind of simpler multi-plate clutch 'on-demand' 4WD set-up you'd get in the Wolfsburg brand's compact Tiguan SUV. But you won't be buying this car with thoughts of striking out across the Serengeti. Many Q3 owners indeed, will take the opportunity to save both money and weight and choose a powerplant that will allow them to choose a Q3 without any quattro technology at all. Two engines allow this option, with the least expensive of the pair, the 1.4-litre TFSI petrol unit, actually only available in two-wheel drive form. Most buyers though, will probably want a diesel. It's the lower-powered 2.0 TDI derivative (with power output that was enhanced in this revised model from 140 to 150PS) that can come front-driven, a variant capable of 62mph in 9.6s en route to 126mph. Most owners though, tend to upgrade this variant with the extra-cost option of quattro traction, if only because this is necessary to give themselves the chance of getting a car equipped with the brand's slick 7-speed S tronic dual-clutch auto transmission that comes as an alternative to the standard 6-speed manual gearbox. There's also a pokier 2.0-litre TDI unit with 184PS that's only available with quattro 4WD. It's the same engine you'd find in a Golf GTD hot hatch, hence rapid performance that'll see you make 62mph from rest in just 7.9s on the way to 136mph. On the subject of rapid performance, if that's your over-riding priority, then as a Q3 buyer, you'll be turning your attention to the pair of high speed petrol variants, both of which come only with quattro traction and the S tronic gearbox. First up is the 2.0 TFSI model, offering 180PS. In an altogether different league though, is the flagship version of this car, the RS Q3, one of the very fastest Crossovers it's possible to buy.
Audi knows better than most manufacturers that there's never a one-size-fits-all solution to modern motoring, hence the range of options offered by its various Q-series models. This one could well be all the car you actually need if you're searching for a compact premium used crossover. Don't think of it as a shrunken version of its Q5 compact SUV stablemate. It isn't really any kind of SUV, instead offering a smarter, more up-market take on the current trend towards lifestyle-orientated Qashqai-class five-seat Crossovers. Sensible, stylish, fashionable cars that are striking such a sweet spot in the current market. As with almost any model of this kind, this one can easily manage the school run, an extended shopping trip, a weekend away or the annual family ski trip to Chamonix. The difference here though, lies in the quality, the depth of engineering and the sheer feel-good factor that you'll get by having this car on your driveway. Compromises necessary to create its relatively affordable price tag have been cleverly chosen and detract little from the extremely polished end result. One that in this improved first generation guise delivers on its promises of greater efficiency and extra technology. It's a little sharper to drive too, though could still be more responsive in that respect. Ultimately though, this Audi's priorities lie in other areas. Yes, you can certainly buy something slightly bigger and SUV-ish for this kind of money. But after trying a Q3, you probably won't want to.
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FAMILY NIGHT OUT
DISHONOUR ON YOUR COW
TAME IMPALA TO TOUR AUS
HAVE A SECOND BITE OF STYX
New Music News
RACKETT'S TOXIC NEW SINGLE
THE SWEET RETURN OF OLD BLOOD
BRITISH INDIA RETURN TO WA
EVERCLEAR 2020 AUS TOUR
TO MOJOS WITH LOVE
HTRK PERTH SHOW
Summer is coming! Except for the killer magpies, it’s the exact opposite feeling to the ‘Winter Is Coming’ refrain from Game Of Thrones, Perth is warming up and we’re coming back to life after a winter of relative hibernation. Let’s face it, one drop of rain and most Perthites will stay under the doona in front of Netflix until half way through September.
Which is what makes those first big outdoor events of the summer so very special as we all emerge bleary eyed into the sunshine and begin to live again. And, this year, on 9 November, Perth is blessed with what will be one of the biggest outdoor events of the summer, and the whole family is invited.
The Family Night Out featuring Perth Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is a fundraiser for the Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation. Around The Sound spoke to event coordinator, Kylie Dalton to find out more.
“This is out seventh event. The others were nice cosy events for up to 500-1,000 people, but this one we decided to see what we could do if we could get a big name and make it an event for even more people. That’s why we got Perth Symphony Orchestra.
“This is going to be our best family night out ever.
“It’s not just about the concert. We’re hoping that it’s the perfect balmy end of spring, beginning of summer weather. We’ve got the entire grassed area in the middle of Gloucester park. There will be food trucks, a bouncy castle, a cuddly animal farm, everything will be right there for people.
“We designed the setlist to be family favourites. The first set they play will be Disney favourites for the young kids. The dance area at the front of the stage will be packed with kids. After the first set the kids will settle down with Mums and dads on the blankets and people will be able to get up and have a bit of a boogie as well.”
The PSO’s song list includes all-time favourites from shows Frozen, The Lion King and The Greatest Showman and songs originally performed by Katy Perry, David Bowie and Taylor Swift. The supporting act is popular local musician JAX.
Cancer is the leading cause of death from disease in Australian children. One in 500 kids will develop cancer before they reach their 15th birthday. As CLCRF receives no government funding, it relies on community support – especially the money it can raise at events such as the Family Night Out.
Gates open at 4.30pm, with the musical acts starting at 5.30pm.
For more information and tickets click here.
In this article:Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation, Family Night Out, Gloucester Park, JAX, Perth Symphony Orchestra
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Wing Village Mysteries – Part 5
Wing Mysteries: Part 5
This is my fifth article in a series about Wing mysteries – mysteries concerning; people, places and situations, things that puzzled me during the reading and research I undertook for the book ‘A History of Wing Village and Its Setting 1066-2018’, published late last year, and in this particular case the research I undertook related to ‘The Cuckoo Inn’, published in January of this year.
Having previously covered; ‘The Disappearance of the Sheild family dynasty from Wing’, ‘Lord Henry of Clipstone and the Wing Church Plaque’, ‘The Location of Wing Church School 1718 to 1853’, and ‘Wing Windmills’, this month I’m seeking any information that readers might have on ‘Earl of Gainsborough Landholdings in Wing’.
If you have any information on this mystery or any of the previous topics, please contact me at davidseviour33@gmail.com
Late last year, after the publication of the ‘Wing History’, I was approached by Tom Roberts with an historically valuable bundle of papers related to his acquisition of ‘The Cuckoo Inn’ site, a site now in separate ownerships with three separate houses; 3, a newly constructed property on the site of former Cuckoo Inn outbuildings, 3A, which is Grade II Listed and dated to the early 17th Century, which was known as the Cuckoo Inn and is now the left-hand thatched, extended and restored attractive cottage, and 3B, which is also Grade II Listed and dated to 1844, built by Thomas Bagley as a “Drinking Club” and is now the right hand restored and extended stylish house.
The bundle of documents were mainly on parchment, hand-written, and in archaic legal language.
It took me a quite a while, but I was able to produce a fifteen page history entitled ‘3, 3a, and 3b, Top Street, Wing, formerly and chronologically; The Red Lion Inn, The Noel Arms and The Cuckoo Inn: Summary of the property transactional history.’ I said in my first article in this series of mysteries that several documents within that bundle, and one in particular, helped to shed some bright light on the disappearance of the Sheild’s from Wing property ownership and to provide detailed written evidence on their financial difficulties as precipitating that disappearance.
I also said that “this work produced its own mysteries, which I will return to in another article”, and now do that in relation to a puzzle or mystery in connection with Earl of Gainsborough landholdings within Wing.
Why is there a puzzle?
Throughout the 1800’s the Marquis of Exeter is the Lord of Wing Manor and is recorded as the largest landholder, followed in size of landholding by the Sheild family until they divest themselves of Wing lands in 1885, mainly to the Worrall family. (See ‘Who Owned Rutland in 1873?’ T.H. McK Clough, RLHRS Occasional Publication No 9 2010, which analyses the Rutland Entries in the national Return of Owners Land 1873 – the latter being a return required by a Government concerned about the concentration of land ownership). This return required declarations for all land in excess of one acre.
In my reading of Tom Robert’s legal papers on ‘The Cuckoo’ I came across references to Earl of Gainsborough family estate ownership of the Noel Arms in Wing. I had already mentally noted that ‘The Cuckoo’ began life as ‘The Red Lion’, then ‘The Noel Arms’ in Parish Records and that “Noel” was a Gainsborough family name. ‘The Cuckoo’ was a later name for the public house derived from ‘The Cuckoo Cottages’, three cottages, now demolished, that were sited between 3B Top Street – the drinking club of 1844 – and the highway.
Wing Manor was not in the possession of the Earl of Gainsborough who in 1873 was in possession of eleven other local Manors and owned properties in a further three, including Manors abutting Wing. All his Return listings, however, excluded Wing, it being as stated above in the possession of the Marquis of Exeter, something of a puzzle.
It is clear, however, from the Cuckoo papers that the Earl of Gainsborough owned the property in 1860. There is no explanation of how that came about but it invites surmise that all the prior recorded transactions were copyhold transactions – that is right of occupancy rather than ownership.
Some large landholders were not necessarily scrupulous in their returns to government, inventing named individuals as the landholders, presumably to obscure their own involvement. Landholders making the returns were supposed to give their residential addresses, but this was often imprecise for a variety of reasons, including multiple residential addresses and multiple relationships.
In 1860, there is an Abstract of Title on paper. This indicates the transfer of the “Public House, The Noel Arms and garden” from the Honourable H.L. Noel to the Honourable Rev Baptist Wriothesley Noel. There is a ‘Reconveyance’ on paper of the same date. The sums mentioned are £2,300 and £3,200 at £4 percent per annum and confirms Earl of Gainsborough family estate trust ownership at that date. The purpose of the reconveyance appears to be about adjusting the relative security values related to internal family loans which enabled the ‘Release’ of the Noel Arms from the internal security pledges, presumably clearing the way for its external sale.
In 1860, there is also a Conveyance in respect of The Noel Arms on parchment from The Honourable Henry Lewis Noel to William Apps, Gentleman. The background is set out as; in 1852 The Honourable William Nisserton(?) Noel, on the first part, The Right Honourable Charles Noel Earl Gainsborough, on the second part, and Henry Lewis Noel, on the 3rd part, approve a transaction as falling within the family trust discretion for disposals. In 1855, Henry Lewis Noel is identified as first part in a property transaction and the Right Honourable Reverend Baptist Wriothesley as second part. This background may or may not relate to the same intra-family transactions as in the 1860 Abstract but in addition it does clear the way for freehold disposal out of the family trust to William Apps. William Apps allows occupancy of the Inn to his married sister, Sophia Bagley, wife of the builder of the drinking club, Thomas Bagley, and thereafter gifts the property upon his sister’s death to Sophia’s daughter.
In 1877, written on parchment, there is a ‘Conveyance’ from The Right Honourable Frederick Earl Beauchamp, William Lygon Earl Longford, Baron Silchester and The Most Honourable William Alleyne Marquis of Exeter, to Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Barnett (William Apps’ niece). This conveyance sells the cottage/s adjoining the Cuckoo to Sarah after the death of her husband. It required the consents of some very powerful aristocrats because it was part of the Marquis of Exeter’s estate. It contains a plan of the property clearly identifying the cottages as abutting the Inn’s frontage and standing in front of “the drinking club”.
There was also a set of two cottages, called ‘The Nook’ sited to the rear of “the drinking club”, later demolished, but these are only explicitly identified in terms of ownership in a 1948 Abstract concerning the 1885 legal case between the Worrall’s and the Sheild’s, at which time they belonged to the Sheild’s, and so are difficult to attribute to either the Gainsborough or Exeter estates as at 1860.
So, what is the puzzle?
Why did one of the three biggest landowners in Rutland, Earl Gainsborough, hold unrecorded and highly specific land/buildings within the Manor of one of the other two biggest landowners, the Marquis of Exeter?
I cannot help but surmise that the overall site of The Red Lion Inn/Noel Arms/Cuckoo public house and its cottages, outbuildings, stables and workshops, together with the interests of the Earls of Gainsborough, Exeter and Beauchamp, together with those of leading gentry like Sheild, and the known fact of its separate “Club” facility, taken in conjunction with its seemingly chaotic transfer history, suggest that it might have been a drinking AND gambling den.
It may also be surmised that given the state of contemporary property record keeping, and the imprecise exchanges of property within this social context, probably gave rise to ill-defined legal tenure.
Can you cast any further light on this mystery?
David Seviour 3/6/2019
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Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods
DataPortal
Mitch Langford
mitchel.langford@southwales.ac.uk
Mitch Langford's Bio
Inequalities, civic loss and well-being
Inequalities, civic loss and well-being uses innovative methods, including app-based surveys of spatial mobility and data linkages, to compare place-based and individual measures of accessibility, and explore how changing patterns of civic loss and gain relate to measures of
Research Team:
Gary Higgs (University of South Wales), Mitch Langford (University of South Wales)
Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes
Overview The study carried out analysis of existing secondary sources of quantitative data in order to investigate levels of social capital within communities in relation to changing levels of provision of key public services. The study built on research conducted in Phase 1
Gary Higgs (University of South Wales), Mitch Langford (University of South Wales), Scott Orford (Cardiff University), Nicholas Page (University of South Wales)
Exploring spatiotemporal variations in public library provision following a prolonged period of economic austerity: A GIS approach
This paper demonstrates the applicability of GIS tools for investigating the implications of changes in public service provision following a prolonged period of economic austerity in the UK. Using the example of geographical accessibility to public library service points in...
Civil Society, Inequalities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | August 2019
Investigating spatial variations in access to childcare provision using network‐based Geographic Information System models
Abstract A “flagship” policy outlined in the current Welsh Government's 2016 Programme for Government aims to provide 30 hours of free early education and childcare per week to the working parents of three‐ and four‐year‐olds. However, in common with many other countries...
Civil Society, Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Localities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | August 2019
Using Geographic Information Systems to investigate variations in accessibility to ‘extended hours’ primary healthcare provision
Abstract There are ongoing policy concerns surrounding the difficulty in obtaining timely appointments to primary healthcare services and the potential impact on, for example, attendance at accident and emergency services and potential health outcomes. Using the case study...
Civil Society, Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Localities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | June 2019
Using Geographic Information Systems to investigate variations
There are ongoing policy concerns surrounding the difficulty in obtaining timely appointments to primary healthcare services and the potential impact on, for example, attendance at accident and emergency services and potential health outcomes. Using the case study of...
A “flagship” policy outlined in the current Welsh Government's 2016 Programme for Government aims to provide 30 hours of free early education and childcare per week to the working parents of three‐ and four‐year‐olds. However, in common with many other countries, there is...
Civil Society, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | July 2018
An exploratory analysis of spatial variations in organ donation registration rates in Wales prior to the implementation of the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013
Spatial variations in rates of registered organ donors have not been studied in the UK at detailed spatial scales despite some evidence of national and regional differences. By drawing on the findings from the existing literature, this study examines associations between...
Civil Society, Localities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | July 2018
Assessing the Impacts of Changing Public Service Provision on Geographical Accessibility: an examination of public library provision in Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Public libraries make an important contribution to the wellbeing of local people often acting as community hubs by reducing the isolation felt by vulnerable members of society through promoting social interaction and supporting the wider needs of local communities. However...
Civil Society, Data & Methods, Localities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | May 2018
An evaluation of alternative measures of accessibility for investigating potential ‘deprivation amplification’ in service provision
Article in the Applied Geography journal.
Civil Society, Data & Methods, Localities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | April 2018
Investigating spatial variations in access to childcare provision using network-based GIS models
Measuring spatial accessibility to services within indices of multiple deprivation: implications of applying an enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) approach
Article in the Journal of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
Civil Society | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | December 2017
The application of network-based GIS tools to investigate spatial variations in the provision of sporting facilities
Methods whereby access to facilities can be captured in order to support national policies geared towards promoting sports participation and help plan the provision of local facilities are urgently needed. Objective measures derived from the use of Geographical Information...
Civil Society, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | January 2017
Modelling spatial access to General Practitioner surgeries: Does public transport availability matter?
Existing approaches investigating access to primary health care tend to use relatively crude measures that compare supply to demand ratios for administrative units or use GIS to calculate straight-line or network distances to the nearest facility. The latter however largely...
Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Localities | January 2017
Investigating geospatial data usability from a health geography perspective using sensitivity analysis: The example of potential accessibility to primary healthcare
Network distance and travel times are two popular methods of measuring potential geographic accessibility and networks are also used in gravity model-based approaches such as floating catchment area (FCA) techniques. Although some research has been conducted to assess the...
Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | January 2017
Multi-modal two-step floating catchment area analysis of primary health care accessibility.
Two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) techniques are popular for measuring potential geographical accessibility to health care services. This paper proposes methodological enhancements to increase the sophistication of the 2SFCA methodology by incorporating both public...
Accessibility to sport facilities in Wales: A GIS-based analysis of socio-economic variations in provision
Previous studies concerned with investigating the relationship between levels of physical activity and aspects of the built environment have often led to inconsistent and mixed findings concerning associations between the availability of recreational or sport facilities and...
Measuring Assess to Primary Health Care using Two-Step Floating Catchment Areas and a Public/Private Multi-modal Transport Network
Using Floating Catchment Analysis (FCA) techniques to examine intra-urban variations in accassibility to public transport oportunities: the example of Cardiff, Wales.
Localities | August 2012
Measuring transit system accessibility using a modified two-step floating catchment technique.
Localities | February 2012
Accessibility and public service provision: Evaluating the impacts of the Post Office network change programme in the UK
Localities | October 2010
The importance of public service provision and accessibility in shaping government policies aimed at enhancing social inclusion and ensuring social justice in the UK is well founded. The capabilities of GIS for generating information to address such concerns have facilitated...
Civil Society, Data & Methods, Inequalities, Localities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes | June 2010
The use of GIS-derived accessibility measures in mixed methods research : a research agenda
Data & Methods | January 2010
GIScience, environmental justice, & estimating populations at risk: The case of landfills in Wales
Localities | January 2009
Should levels of access to essential services be measured by travel time alone?
15th January 2018 | Nicholas Page, Mitch Langford, Gary Higgs
Our researchers at the University of South Wales investigate
Civil Society, Data & Methods, Inequalities, Localities | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes
WISERD analysis helps determine whether Welsh Government can fulfill childcare commitment
6th November 2017 | Gary Higgs, Mitch Langford
WISERD’s bespoke analytical tools were used in a Welsh Government research project to assess whether the existing supply of childcare in Wales can cope with the increased demand due from a change in Government policy. The research and analysis was...
Civil Society, Data & Methods | Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes
WISERD is a collaboration between five universities in Wales and has been designated by the Welsh Government as a National Research Centre
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June 29, 2015 by wlm3
My First Jewish Wedding
For whatever reason, I’ve attended very few weddings in the course of my lifetime. As a child, I only remember one, and hick that I am, the very first rehearsal dinner I attended was my own. It may indeed have been the first time I ever sat down at a table with place cards, and I was totally ignorant of rituals involved – toasting, for example – which seemed to go on as long as the Pleistocene Age. In his toast, my father quoted Nipsey Russell’s criteria for the perfect woman: “deaf, dumb, over-sexed, and owning a liquor store.”
It was a long night.
Of course, I have gone to several weddings since and served as a groomsman in one, but until yesterday, I had never attended a Jewish wedding, and this one happened to be the wedding of my older son.
The ceremony took place at the Monaco Hotel, in Washington, DC, that city of “northern charm and southern efficacy,” to quote President Kennedy.[1] However, in this case, the setting was perfect. The hotel is right across the street from the Chinatown Metro exit. (DC’s Chinatown, by the way, boasts the highest density of Mexican restaurants this side of San Antonio). Anyway, you could hop on a train and hit the museums, which younger, single, available son Ned and I did to catch the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat‘s exhibit at the Hirshhorn. Her photographs and films create an aura of beautiful strangeness and remind you just how different and alike human beings can be, and, of course, there is nothing more universal than marriage ceremonies.
photograph by Shirin Neshat
More, importantly, you could walk from the hotel to the rehearsal dinner at 600 F Street and avoid cab/Uber fares, not to mention vehicular manslaughter. It amazes me that in 2015 that the bride’s parents still pay for the wedding and the groom’s parents pay for the rehearsal dinner, but in this case, doing so saved the Birdsong-Moores from putting a second mortgage on their house or my having to sell my prized collection of very well-used — snap, crackle, pop — LPs dating back to the early ‘60’s .
If I do say so myself, the dinner went off well, the Lebanese food was excellent, and we ran out of alcohol just about when we were supposed to be out of there.
Like I said, I’ve only been to two rehearsals before, my own and one of a friend. Judy Birdsong and I had a no-frills, bagpipe-less ceremony that my father-in-law clocked at 23 minutes. My friend’s rehearsal was much longer, but I think that was attributable to the bedroom-slipper sporting wedding director’s being in the first stages of Alzheimer’s.
A Jewish wedding is more complicated, though. At the rehearsal, Taryn and Harrison pantomimed circling around each other, first Taryn circling Harrison, then Harrison circling Taryn — sort of like a cross between flamenco dancers and prizefighters — and then they interlocked arms and circled as a pair. It was very beautiful. Then her brother Logan went over and pantomimed picking something up and reading from it, and we practiced processing and recessing a couple of times, and that was it.
Rabbis seem much more involved in weddings than Protestant ministers, or this one, the excellent Arnold Saltzman, was. Short, slightly stooped, smiling that comfortable smile that those who have made peace with metaphysics do, he looked as if he had stepped out of central casting. As it turns out, he is a big deal, has composed four symphonies and an opera and was an internationally sought-after cantor until a virus did in his vocal chords. Relaxed, he made slight jokes, even during the ceremony. When I thanked him at the rehearsal for performing the service on his Sabbath, he waved his hand dismissively and said, “This is about love.”
The day of the wedding dawned with drizzle, which eventually turned into a downpour, but for me, who had nothing much to do except practice reading a poem and memorizing my toast, it was a non-issue. The bridesmaids and groomsmen weren’t so lucky. At noon, they were off on a five-hour photo shoot in various locations around the capital.
Judy had an appointment with a make-up person at eleven-thirty and came back to the room with fake eyelashes and a Buster-Keaton-thick coat of pancake make-up. She went back to lighten it a bit, but the woman knew what she was doing because over the course of the day it faded, and by the time of the ceremony, she looked less like Joan Rivers and more like herself. Here’s a picture of her ordering at a Mexican Restaurant in Chinatown a couple of hours later.
The family pictures were taken in the lobby at 4:45, and then we went to a room for the “signage.” Rabbi Saltzman produced a certificate of marriage and had witnesses read prayers and sign documents. Judy and Taryn’s mother, Susan, also read a prayer. There’s a board, suitable for framing, written in Hebrew and English on the left-hand side and with art the bride and groom choose on the right-hand side. This board is what brother Logan had been holding in pantomime during the rehearsal.
Finally, it was time.
We walked down the hall and waited just outside the Paris Ballroom. Inside, a stringed quartet had been playing Jewish folk music. The wedding director opened the double doors, the quartet started playing again, and the groomsmen processed followed by Judy, Harrison, and me locked arm in arm, followed by the bridesmaids, and then by Taryn and her parents, Chris and Susan, locked arm-in-arm. I prefer this ritual to the Christian procedure where the groom appears from seemingly nowhere at the altar and the bride comes in escorted by only her father.
Of course, a room full of loved ones made the proceedings more emotional than the rehearsal. Parents sit in a row that would be behind the altar in a Christian ceremony, so we had a really intimate view of the proceedings. The bride and groom did their circling, the Rabbi prayed, talked, chanted; then father Chris and I were summoned to read, he a passage from the “Song of Songs” and I from the ee cummins poem “I Carry Your Heart”:
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
Like the poem, the service was beautiful. The board came out, brother Logan and mother Susan read from it. The Rabbi spoke and sang, rings were produced. First Taryn, then Harrison, read letters to each other explaining why each had fallen in love. Vows were exchanged, Harrison smashed a glass with his foot — Mazel Tov! — and they were married, man and wife without kissing. Then before recessing, they turned beaming and faced each side of the audience who flanked them rather than being arranged in rows behind.
Another nice touch is that when we the parents processed, we did so so abreast, arm-in-arm, a now joined family ourselves, the Birdsong-Moore-Antigones or the Antigone-Birdsong-Moores.
This post has gone on long enough, so I’ll skip the delightful reception, the delicious dinner, the toasts – though I have to mention the hoisting in chairs, which, is actually a lot of fun in a carnival ride type of way.
Being surrounded by people I love was so wonderful, my brothers and sister and nephews and nieces and their spouses, my in-laws, old friends I’ve known longer than Judy, the friends I’ve met since our marriage or during my career, new friends I met at the ceremony. How nice every single one of Taryn’s friends were with their warm smiles, handshakes, and hugs.
We danced the rest of the night away doing the Wa-Wa-tusi like Bela Lugosi.
I’ll leave you with the final line of my toast:
“I look forward to the birth of our first granddaughter, Wesleyanna Susan Christine Birdsong Antigone Moore – be fruitful and multiply!”
[1] Hat tip to Richard O’Prey for turning me on the phrase.
Posted in non-fiction | Tagged Hirshhorn Museum, jewish weddings, Monaco Hote, Rabbi Arnold Saltzman, Shirin Neshat | 3 Comments
Wedding Traditions, U-Street, and Boiled Peanuts
13th Street in the U-Street Corridor
We’ve fled the heat, humidity, and high drama of Charleston to celebrate the marriage of our elder son, Harrison, in DC. In fact, I’ve just put the finishing touches on a couple of toasts I’ll be delivering, one at the rehearsal party and one at the reception dinner.
Not surprisingly, wedding traditions vary north and south of the Mason-Dixon line. Traditionally, wedding receptions down south didn’t include a sit-down dinner. Mine certainly didn’t. It was held at a swanky club atop a high rise in Decatur, Georgia, but the guests stood as they munched on heavy hors d’oeuvres and sipped champagne. No one raised a glass in a communal toast. That had been done the night before at the rehearsal dinner.
My first sit-down postnuptial dinner caught me by surprise. A transplant from Chicago’s sister had married, and when Judy Birdsong and I sauntered into the reception at the Country Club of Charleston, we figured the festivities would last forty-five minutes or so, and this was back in the day of baby-sitters. Nevertheless, it was lovely and lavish and no doubt very expensive. Perhaps that’s why Southerners didn’t throw big sit-down shindigs after weddings – we were too poor.
At any rate, my first toast will be of the welcoming variety, and I’ll save the heavy Faulknerian bombast for the wedding reception. In the meantime, I’ve been gadding about the District checking out the U Street Corridor where we’ve rented an apartment (tomorrow we transfer lodgings to the Monaco Hotel where the ceremony will take place).
Scrub It Off!
The U-Street Corridor is DC’s version of Harlem, dubbed as the “Black Broadway” by Pearl Bailey back in the day, and our apartment is located on the same block as Duke Ellington’s boyhood home. Of course, there are no Confederate flags flying here, but I did notice this perhaps problematic display on the façade of the famous eatery Ben’s Chili Bowl.
Of course, in keeping with the tradition of Birdsong frugality, we’ve been riding the Metro instead of taking cabs, and what has struck me about that experience is the incredible interiority of the commuters as they stare into their cell phones or into space as they listen to music through their ear buds. It’s as if they’ve pulled the blinds on the outside world. Need I mention that in general people are not as friendly up here?
Obviously, it’s been a horrible week in Charleston, and the Confederate flag is an embarrassment, but one thing I’m not embarrassed about is hailing from the South. We’re an odd bunch for sure, but we know how to tell a story, draw out a vowel, and boil us up some peanuts. Imagine American music without the South – imagine American culture without the South.
All I can say is praise be for blacks and crackers, hillbillies and debutantes.
Posted in non-fiction | Tagged Bill Cosby, boiled peanuts, Duke Ellington, Northern and Southern wedding traditions, Pearl Bailey, U-Street Corridor | 2 Comments
Way Past Time
When I was growing up in South Carolina in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the Confederate Battle flag represented for me “the Lost Cause,” that noble, heroic, and tragic conflict fought to ensure that states had the right to govern themselves. My home state had led the way and seceded from the Union rather than suffer the indignity of having others – foreigners from New York or Ohio — impose their views and tariffs upon its sovereignty.
States Rights as the War’s rationale had been preached to me by my father and reinforced in the South Carolina history courses I took in the third and eighth grades. Those textbooks claimed that economic sanctions, not slavery, had ignited the tinderbox, and although a few bad apples taint every barrel, the vast majority of slaveowners were benign ladies and gentleman who loved Mammy and Uncle Remus. And if you doubted these truths, you could watch Gone with the Wind to see for yourself how positively symbiotic the relationship between whites and blacks had been.
So when the South Carolina began to celebrate the War’s centennial, 9-year-old-me was happy to see the Battle Flag hoisted upon the dome of the Capitol beneath Old Glory and our distinctive state flag with its palmetto and crescent moon. It didn’t occur to me that the Confederate flag’s presence had anything to do with the Civil Rights movement, and even it it had, I probably wouldn’t have cared. After all, wasn’t the Civil Rights movement a replay of the war, outsiders imposing their wills on us?
Flash forward a half a century, and guess what, I’ve learned a thing or two. For example, I’ve read the Declarations of Secession of the Confederate states. Here’ are the first two paragraphs of Mississippi’s:
In the momentous step, which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery – the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
So much for trade tariffs being the cause of the war, and if indeed, slavery is the reason the South seceded, then doesn’t it follow that the Lost Cause was evil? Here’s Robert E Lee on the subject:
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained.
As someone who teaches literature, I’ve also learned a thing or two about symbols, that they must be interpreted within their contexts — white Moby Dick doesn’t symbolize purity. e.g. It follows that symbols’ meanings change as their historical contexts change.
For example, as The Jewish Visual Library points out,
Throughout its history, the swastika represented life, sun, power, strength and good luck. In the early 20th century, it was still considered a positive symbol. During World War I, it was found on shoulder patches of members of the American 45th Division and the Finnish air force. Only after the Nazi period did its connotation change.
In the USA, you have the existential right to maintain that the original symbolism of the swastika is its true meaning, but if you decide to wear one as a lapel pin, you’re likely to be frowned upon.
Now when I see the Battle Flag, I think of Lester Maddox or George Wallace or Dylann Roof, not of Robert E Lee. As Allan Gurganus put it in a NY Times editorial in 1996, “the forces of hatred have co-opted [the flag].” Or to quote my friend and former student David Connor Jones, “I find it odd that all my erudite southern friends who still defend the flag do not have the decal on their cars, much less fly it at their homes. Why do you think that is?”
In another editorial appearing in the Roanoke Times last July, David Cox, former rector of RE Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, writes about Washington and Lee University’s removal of Confederate flags from its chapel:
Confederate battle flags, or their replicas, surrounded the statue [of Robert E Lee] from 1930 until last week, when the university removed them. To me, their absence pays more homage to the memory of its most famous president than their presence. Judging from the thousands of his letters I’ve read in exploring his faith, for all his deeds, heritage and acclaim (and animosity) accorded him, Robert Edward Lee was at heart a humble soul striving to do his duty to his God and his country. Those flags didn’t fit the person who came to Lexington in 1865.
He also adds, “Someone wrote me of a woman asking Lee what to do with an old battle flag. Lee supposedly responded, ‘Fold it up and put it away.’ Though I’ve not verified the account, it is consistent with his letters and acts of his last years. He was always looking ahead.”
Let’s follow General Lee’s example and remove the flag from the State House grounds so we can turn our attention to more meaty matters — like gun control.
Posted in non-fiction | Tagged Allan Gurganus, Columbia State House Grounds, Confederate Battle Flag, David Conor Jones, Dylan roof, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Robert E Lee | 11 Comments
Idle Speculation
A former housemate of mine, James Paul Rice, has a historical novel coming out next year based on the 1822 Denmark Vesey uprising. Being a native of the Lowcountry of South Carolina, I was somewhat familiar with Denmark Vesey, but he came absolutely alive for me as I read Mr. Rice’s novel in manuscript. Several pivotal scenes from the novel are set at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which Vesey helped to found in 1816.
It is at this church that last night’s horrific mass murders took place. The alleged murderer, Dylann (sic) Root, can be seen in a photograph wearing a jacket with two white supremacist patches, one from South Africa and the other from Rhodesia. Is it possible that the Vesey connection played a role in Root’s selection of settings? After all, he’s from Columbia, which has a number of more conveniently located AME churches. Why drive all the way down to Charleston? Did Root choose Emanuel because of its historical significance? Its connection with not only Vesey but with the Civil Rights movement? Did he know that Dr. King had preached there?
I can’t help but think of Cass Mastern’s “spider web” theory from Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men – his theory about the karmic connections of events through time:
[Mastern] learned that the world is like an enormous spider web and if you touch it however lightly, at any point, the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no more but springs out to fling the gossamer coils about you who have touched the web and then inject the black, numbing poison under your hide. It does not matter whether or not you meant to brush the web of things. Your happy foot or your gay wing may have brushed it ever so lightly, but what happens always happens and there is the spider, bearded black and with his great faceted eyes glittering like mirrors in the sun, or like God’s eye, and the fangs dripping.
Of course, I’m merely speculating, and it doesn’t ultimately matter. Nine God-fearing people are dead because of the pigmentation of their skin. Another young white male starved for attention has gotten it in the worst way. The Confederate battle flag is flying on our State House grounds at full staff as I type this and will continue to fly for another generation or two. In the foreseeable future, assault weapons will still be easier to obtain than driver’s permits. In fact, the awful headline in this morning’s Charleston paper was somewhat obscured by an advertising sticker from a gun shop. Intemperate souls will suggest that the worshippers should have been packing heat, and if that’s what it’s come to here, that grandmothers cannot go to church unarmed, then “American” can no longer be used as an adjective for civilization.
No, let me end with another quote from All the King’s Men:
After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle down to the new condition of things and feel that all possibility of change has been used up. You adjust yourself, and are sure that the new equilibrium is for eternity. . . But if anything is certain it is that no story is ever over, for the story which we think is over is only a chapter in a story which will not be over, and it isn’t the game that is over, it is just an inning, and that game has a lot more than nine innings. When the game stops it will be called on account of darkness. But it is a long day.
Posted in non-fiction | Tagged All the King's Men, Charleston, Denark Vesey, Dylann Root, Emanuel AME Church, James Paul Rice, Robert Penn Warren | 1 Comment
The Journal of a Sojourn in the Realm of Hyperliteracy
My girlfriend and I have recently booked an all-inclusive vacation package to the Realm of Hyperliteracy.
She’s 47 – hardly a girl – but she is not, strictly speaking, my partner because we do not cohabitate, and certainly the descriptor paramour stresses too much the sexual component, which though important, is not the central focus of our relationship.
I wish I could call her my fiancée, but the truth of the matter is that she is a widow twelve years my senior, and remarrying would not be financially prudent because of certain stipulations in her insanely possessive late husband’s will.
Perhaps, in the Realm of Hyperliteracy, I shall discover the perfect word to describe an exclusive sexual partner with whom one does not reside. In this case, one envies the German language’s facility to create multiple compounds. In German, one can have a steadysexmatewhodwellsapart, but in contemporary American English, one is stuck with inaccuracies like “girlfriend,” or worse, vulgarities like “main squeeze.”
As you may know, the Realm of Hyperliteracy is the brainchild of Sir Oglethorpe FitzSybil, who in the foothills of the Austrian Alps has established the perfect vacation spot for extroverted bibliophiles who crave conversational partners who express themselves precisely, men and women who recognize that singular antecedents demand singular pronouns, men and women with whom one can communicate without fear of their not knowing the definition of agitprop or schadenfreude, men and women who have read Flaubert’s Salammbô as well as his Madame Bovary.
In short, men and women who find the splitting of infinitives infinitely irritating.
The brochures have made it exceedingly clear that each visitor has been carefully screened – and endured a comprehensive exam – to insure that he (forgive the colloquialism) passes muster.
Felicity (not her real name) is taking me to Realm of Hyperliteracy to celebrate my thirty-fifth birthday. As you remember, it was exactly at three-score-and-five that Dante Alighieri awakened in that dark wood and began his journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. Although rarely celebrated as a significant birthday in the States — one never hears “Sakes, sakes alive/ Reginald is turning thirty-five” — one could argue that since it’s half of the biblical allotment of seventy years, the thirty-fifth anniversary of one’s nativity is truly a momentous milestone.
I’ve decided in the tradition of Boswell and Johnson to keep a journal of my travels so that in my later years I can recall accurately the events. Photographic equipment of all types, even cellular telephones, is strictly forbidden. Visitors are limited to one carry-on sized bag. When one books, he provides his measurements, and the wardrobes of rooms are stocked with clothing that patrons are required to wear during their stay. Need I mention that computers are verboten as well?
I wish I could say that our grand launch is going smoothly, but alas, that would be a prevarication. The passage through security was especially vexing because I had not been informed that the TSA had relaxed their security guidelines; therefore, I had unnecessarily segregated my liquids into plastic bags, and when I began removing my belt and shoes, a very unpleasant man in a uniform who was a dead ringer for Oskar Dirlewanger growled menacingly at me. He projected a heightened sense of expediency, which turned out to be completely unnecessary because we ended up sitting in the plane for a seeming eternity before our taking off.
More vexing is– I use the appellation loosely – the gentleman sitting to my left (I have ceded the window seat to Felicity). Before I feigned a nap, this contemporary Kowalski jabbered non-stop for hours detailing his numerous trips abroad, a monologue rife with indelicacies of phraseology. No, I have never visited a “tittie bar” in Amsterdam nor “had me a wheat beer in Dusseldorf.” If I had a Euro for every time he has punctuated his sentences with “you know,” I could have flown first class instead.
Even more vexing still, I’ve made the mistake of sharing with Felicity the introduction reproduced above, and she erroneously argues that the verb in the second sentence of the last paragraph should be are instead of is, i.e., the sentence should read, according to her, “Photographic equipment of all types, even cellular telephones, are strictly forbidden.” Despite that “equipment” is obviously the subject — no one says the “the equipment are in working order“– she argues that the aggregate of plurals after the subject, “types” and “telephones,” supersedes the singular subject and poetic license demands the less sonically jarring plural “are.”
“But I am not a poet,” I said somewhat hotly.
Unfortunately, she kept on, and I regrettably ejaculated in frustration the interjection “balderdash” at which she turned her head to the window and cried herself to sleep.
As I record these words in my journal, the gentleman to my left is snoring like a draft horse.
Perhaps, it is the jet lag or a hangover from the malodorous mood of the flight over, but I find the gated grounds and cluster of buildings of the Realm of Hyperliteracy to be less grand than the photographs of the brochures suggested. “Potemkin village” is perhaps hyperbolic in its censure; however, there is something, let us say, Disneyesque about the ersatz bricks that form the manor’s façade.
Furthermore, even though the hotel boasts fifty rooms, very few people – a mere nine, including yours truly and his companion – are staying here. Except for a young bohemian, whose profusion of tattoos would be the envy of Flannery O’Connor’s O.E. Parker and the bohemian’s paramour, a gum-smacker who looks as if she selected the shade of blue of her dyed hair from a Sherwin-Williams paint palette, the rest of the hotel patrons have reached, at the very least, their eighth decade.
It’s as if they’ve been bused in from that depressing poem of Philip Larkin’s.
Furthermore, we’re not allowed to leave the grounds, meaning that all meals must be taken at the hotel.
However, there is something about which to look forward. During the evening cocktail party – attendance mandatory – they’re going to stock our closets with clothes, now that the one or two outfits we packed in our carry-ons have been, shall we say, exhausted.
Well, we’re off to the cocktail party. I shan’t go into the so-called “make-up sex” Felicity and I facilitated, but let us merely convey that it was very satisfactory.
What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent
This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!
I fear that anyone reading my depiction in this journal of the events of last night will dismiss them as the ravings of a madman or consider them the product of some gothic fiction writer’s over-stimulated imagination, some imitator of Poe’s lurid attempt to out-Monk-Lewis Monk Lewis.
It began with the cocktail party, hosted by none other than Oglethorpe himself. He looks as if he’s stepped right out of, as they say, central casting, a pudgier cross between Christopher Lee and Basil Rathbone; in other words, he’s tall with slicked-back hair, a patrician English accent, and a hawkish nose.
One of the lamentable aspects of extreme old age is that the process seems to efface the individuality of its victim. I could hardly distinguish the two women and the two men from each another. They, to-a-thing, each had white hair, or some white hair and age-spotted scalps, wrinkled faces, necks, hands. Even more vexing, they all were as deaf as cinder blocks. Indeed, I couldn’t believe they had passed the perquisite exam that lies at the heart of Realm of Hyperliteracy’s application process. The multiple-choice section was exhaustive and the free response essay questions ridiculously esoteric.
So Felicity and I found ourselves forced to chat with the Bohemian and his consort who claim their names are Ataturk and Absinthe, obvious noms-de-guerre.
Both also claim to be on a tenure track at NYU. In their speech, they attempt to approximate the patois of the so-called Beat Poets, whom they revere. In other words, they consider themselves “hep cats” who find “strict grammatical formalism a mere product of class bias,” and when I admitted that I could not share his and her enthusiasm for Ginsberg and his ilk, Absinthe traced in the air with her fingers the geometric outline of a square.
After a couple of watery scotches, Oglethorpe instructed that we return to our rooms and dress for dinner.
Indeed, the closets had been stocked, and indeed the garments fit well – my tuxedo was Orlon but sufficiently tailored – but whoever provided our attire had failed to provide undergarments, and when Felicity went to retrieve a brassiere and the lower undergarment from the bag she had packed, we discovered a note on the dresser informing our clothes have been removed to the laundry.
Every single gown was diaphanous, as sheer as a provocative negligee, and I prayed to that non-presence that Emily Dickinson described in her first letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson as “a vacancy” that the two crones with whom we must dine that evening had been provided with less revealing attire.
Of course, not attending dinner was not an option. As soon as the bell chimed to come downstairs, the listening devices I had not noticed turned into speakers blasting Barry Manilow at ear-piercing decibels.
But, no, the crones, they too! They too were dressed diaphanously!
When we gathered at the table, I glanced at the female octogenarians the way one feels impelled to glance at highway carnage but quickly glanced away. Suddenly, for the first time I could truly appreciate the “Wife of Bath’s Tale.” On the other hand, there were Felicity and Absinthe, leaving not nearly enough to the imagination. It occurred to me that younger women did enjoy certain advantages that age had robbed their older sisters of. [Note to self, recast sentence without offending ending preposition].
I was seated next to Ataturk, who winked at me and said, “Oglethorpe” with the initial O vowel shortened to an “ah”
“Yes? Oglethorpe.”
“Ogle – Thorpe. O-g-l-e-thorpe.”
I felt like a fool for not thinking of it myself.
I’ve always preferred Henry James to Hemingway, but I’m finding that the latter’s stripped down style might be preferable here for the sake of journalistic expediency. I have clandestinely composed these notes in the wee hours. I must manage to get to sleep. After breakfast there’s a reading . . .
An all day reading in German of Kafka’s The Kastle with surtitles projected in English on a sheet hung from the ceiling.
I’m at the end of my rope. Rope! A rope, my kingdom for a rope! Certainly, Solzhenitsyn could not have endured this! That hook-nosed son-of-a-bitch! I’m gonna kills his ass. None of the maids speak English. There’s gotta be a way out. Tunneling? Maybe Ataturk will join my cabal, a cabal of two, tea for two, and two for tea.
Ata sez the gates are electrificated. Saw a bird fly into it and get fried. Felicity has abandoned me and sleeps now with Oglethorpe. Same deal with Abby and Ata. The old folks have died off, one a day. Ata sez we be good as dead. No way we getting outta here to write reviews of this horrorshow holiday.
A carrier pigeon has landed on the sill of my barred window. Is it a vision or a waking dream?
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Review of Elijah Wald’s “Dylan Goes Electric”
I’ve just sailed through the uncorrected proofs of long-title-lover Elijah Wald’s latest, Dylan Goes Electric: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties. The book is slated for publication on 15 July 2015, almost fifty years to the day after Dylan shocked the Newport Folk Festival by going electric, and I encourage anyone interested in popular music to check it out.
Wald’s previous books include Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues and How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of Popular Music. A musician himself, Wald possesses that rare ability to weave meticulous research into engaging narratives propelled by conversational but polished prose. It’s as if someone with an advanced degree in history and musicology who witnessed the events first hand is talking to you.
Wald begins his chronicle in 1949 with the story of Pete Seeger, yet another one of Harvard’s incredibly successful dropouts. We follow Seeger through the ‘40s and ‘50s as he becomes both an archivist of traditional music and a creator of original “folk songs” like “The Hammer Song (If I Had a Hammer)” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” The folk scene of the 50s and early 60s was no love fest, or as Wald puts it, “[The] tendencies and cliques of the American folk scene [. . .] were endlessly tangled, but Seeger served as a guide for virtually everyone, whether they considered themselves traditionalists, revivalists, agitators, or potential pop stars.” Nevertheless, even Seeger himself received criticism from the most rigid of folk purists for associating himself with the Weavers whose polished performances weren’t authentic enough for their tastes.
This static between the rawness of down-home renditions by performers like Doc Watson and the dulcet harmonies of groups like the Kingston Trio (arrayed in matching outfits) crackles throughout those decades, and Wald does an excellent job of providing a historical context, especially in his depiction of the Red Scare. Wald concludes the first chapter with Seeger’s sentencing in 1961 for contempt of Congress when he refuses to name names of associates with connections to the Communist Party.
The next few chapters detail the familiar but time-obscured transformation of Hibbing-bred Bobby Zimmerman into that self-created icon we call Bob Dylan (whose fanciful verbal autobiography had him hoboing his way across the continent). Wald provides some clarification for those early days, noting that unlike many adolescents who were ignorant of rock ’n’ roll’s R&B roots, Bobby Zimmerman through late night radio broadcasts, especially Frank “Gatemouth” Page’s No Name Jive, discovered the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Wald notes, “Dylan was getting the music direct from its southern source and valued it in part because it was secret knowledge.” Again, we see tension between the authenticity of artists like John Lee Hooker and the co-opting of roots music by white performers like Elvis and Buddy Holly. That Dylan was enamored of R&B before he became a folk singer is well-known but worth repeating, given his eventual embrace of rock ’n’ roll.
In the chapters chronicling Dylan’s hero-worship of Woody Guthrie, his move to New York, his ascent, and eventual coronation as once and future king, we see the continuation of the motif of contention among the folk music community, and at the Newport Folk Festivals of the early-to-mid 60s, these rifts widen into chasms. Wald does a masterful job of relating the events of the festivals, cataloging in detail the eclectic mix of performers that range from obscure yodelers, rock icons like Chuck Berry, blues masters like Lightening Hopkins and John Hurt, Bluegrass legends Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley, folk interpreters including the Weavers, Joan Baez, and Judy Collins. How fortunate those aficionados who could attend the workshops, scheduled but informal get-togethers where a group of performers swapped songs and provided instruction. Dig this, at the ’64 festival:
“[R]elatively small contingents gathered to hear successive guitar and banjo workshops that included Muddy Waters, Robert Pete Williams, the Hawaiian guitarist Nolan Mahoe, and [Doc] Watson, and then Mike Seeger again with Ralph Stanley, Frank Profit, and Elizabeth Cotton. Meanwhile, over two-thousand people were watching Mike’s half-brother Pete host a topical songs workshop, and although it began with older artists from Ireland, Cuba, and the United States, most of the audience was there for the who’s who of Broadside writers Len Chandler, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Malvina Reynolds, Hedy West, and Dylan.
Among the diverse crowds, we again see animosity of roots music devotees towards college-aged pop fans, and with the British Invasion of the Beatles, Stones, and Animals, folk music had in fact begun its decline in popularity. Of course, the culmination of the schism occurred on Sunday night, 25 July 1965, when Dylan, as Wald title puts it, goes electric.
Wald’s meticulous detailing of previous festivals makes it crystal clear that Newport was no stranger to amplified music. At the ’65 festival, “[t]here were more amplifiers in evidence [. . .], and they were recognized as a sign of change, but few people considered them as a sign of sacrilege.” The Paul Butterfield blues Band played an electric (and by all reports electrifying) set Saturday as an illustration of the amplified Chicago Blues made famous by Muddy Waters. This performance was part of a sonic history of the folk music presented as a lecture by Alan Lomax, and indicative of the animus inherent in the various authenticity camps, Lomax, a stickler for authenticity, and Alan Grossman, a developer of musical acts (and Dylan’s manager), broke into a a clownish bout of fisticuffs over Grossman’s objections to what he considered Lomax’s disrespectful intro of the Butterfield Band. Wald’s depiction of this incident – a sort of kaleidoscopic presentation from various, sometimes conflicting, witnesses’ perspectives – is alone worth the price of purchase. Here’s a snippet:
Lomax tried to push Grossman aside, or maybe it was Grossman who pushed Lomax. Either way, in seconds the portly prophet of tradition and the portly purveyor of mammon — “two big bears,” in Maria Muldaur’s description — were throwing inept punches and rolling in the dust.
Of course, all of the various in-fighting that Wald writes about leads up to Dylan’s performance that Sunday night. Because of the not so simple existential fact that except for edited film, all we have to go on is a jumble of individual perspectives from various people sitting in different locations with different attitudes towards Dylan and with memories perhaps corrupted by the passage of time. Wald provides us with a sort of cubist painting, sharing with us a host of individual takes, including a present-tense rendering of the film. He suggests that Dylan’s decision to go electric was impulsive. Perhaps it was a reaction to Lomax’s less than glowing introduction of the Butterfield Band whose guitarist Mike Bloomfield had worked on Highway 61 Revisited and its electric hit “Like a Rolling Stone.”
The make-up of the band also suggests a hasty decision. It consisted of a hodgepodge of musicians, some of whom were unfamiliar with the tunes. The drummer Sam Lay had heard “Like a Rolling Stone” on the radio but didn’t know who Bob Dylan was. Almost all agree the volume was ear-splitting, especially Bloomfield’s guitar, and the performance uneven (a charitable assessment) with much time wasted on stage tuning up, struggling with the tempo, getting started. According to Wald, the bassist Jerome Arnold played essentially one note throughout much of the performance. Dylan, who had grown accustomed to being idolized, heard perhaps his first boos since high school, though the boos were mixed with cheers. The proportions of boos to cheers (60/40? 50/50? 40/60?) seemed to depend on where you were sitting.
Most upset by the debacle of Dylan’s performance was Pete Seeger who is reported by some to have sought shelter in his car or by others to have run around screaming to turn down the sound, and Wald forever puts to rest the apocryphal story of an ax-wielding Seeger eager to sever the cables.
Wald manages to place the reader in the visceral world of that concert, no mean trick, and wisely avoids ever attempting to psychoanalyze Dylan, who as we all know by now is a restless soul who changes the tunes of his classics when the mood suits him. As an extra added treat, Wald slips into his prose without quotation marks phrases from Dylan’s lyrics, as in the following from the last chapter’s first sentence, “For many people the story of Newport 1965 is simple: Bob Dylan was being born, and anyone who didn’t welcome the change was busy dying.” I think we can all agree — or at least almost all of us can agree — Dylan’s genius could never be constrained within the confines of folk. I don’t know about you, but I prefer Highway 61 to Freewheeling.
Note: As I said, I read the uncorrected proofs so the book is bound to be even better than my version. It’s heavily noted, has a bibliography, and although my copy lacked an index, one will appear in the final edition. As far as errors, I only ran across a couple of typos, except for the phrase, which I hope someone catches — “the nameless protagonist of Albert Camus’s Stranger.” The protagonist’s name is Meursault.
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Folly Beach’s Cat Lady, Potential Serial Killer?
Greetings From Folly Beach, SC
There’s a high profile, eccentric old lady on Folly Beach whom I encounter practically every day feeding feral cats. I’d say she’s in her mid-to-late 80s, and even if you were to straighten out her stoop, she wouldn’t hit 4’10.” Not surprisingly, people who don’t know her name – and I don’t – call her the Cat Lady.
Every block or so she has placed plastic containers, and every afternoon feral cats gather in anticipation of her arrival. Sometimes, she has a helper, but on most days when I see her, she is alone, wearing an expression of great seriousness as she leans over dumping dry cat food into the bowls. In fact, I saw her this afternoon when I was headed to Chico Feo for a pre-supper malted aperitif. Staring off into space, she had her hands on her hips, like a diminutive, determined, female edition of General Patton. Obviously, this diurnal “mission trip” is her raison d’etre.
Of course, feeding feral cats is an environmental no-no. According to FETA (not exactly an anti-animal organization):
Many people who encounter feral cats start feeding them, but feeding alone can actually make the situation worse. Feeding ferals increases their ability to give birth to even more kittens who are destined to suffer and die premature deaths. It is essential to get these cats off the streets in order to prevent not only their own suffering, but that of their offspring. Feeding should only be done as a prelude to trapping, to get cats accustomed to eating in a certain place at a certain time.
The article goes on to state that feral cats have abbreviated life spans, suffer from a multitude of maladies thanks to non-vaccination, and even if their autism rates are super low (I just made that up), the food can also attract non-feline varmints. The Cat Lady learned this the hard way last year when a rabid raccoon took a chunk out of her, an event so newsworthy it made the Charleston papers.
Folly Beach is certainly no “Mayberry by the Sea” – its official civic moniker is the Edge of America – but even after the coon attack, the authorities, Sheriff-Taylor-like, look the other way as she putts along in her cart circumnavigating the island. Maybe they figure what the hell, stopping her would kill her, so what if scores of cats suffer or some surfer comes down with a case of rabies? Sometimes targeted human compassion trumps common sense, and going by Haruki Murakami’s brilliant novel Kafka on the Shore, feral cats dig the freedom of homelessness.
ILLUSTRATION BY SAM BOSMA from The New Yorker
One of the characters in the novel, Satoru Nakata, through circumstances too complex to relate here, has obtained the ability to converse with cats. People hire him to find their lost pets. Nakata usually begins his investigations in city parks where the ferals hang. In one incident, he strikes up a conversation with a stray and asks the cat his name. “I used to have one when I lived with people,” the cat says, “but I’ve forgotten what it was.” You get the idea [absurd mixed-animal-metaphor-cliché alert] that wild horses couldn’t drag him back to domestication.
I’ll admit that the Cat Lady has irritated me on occasion, blocking my path when I’m running late, but even if her head isn’t in the right place, her heart certainly is. Nevertheless, I sense something sinister about her, so for fun, I’m outlining a murder mystery set on Folly in which she’s a serial killer. What’s really enjoyable is deciding whom among the people on Folly I don’t like she murders, in what order, and how. Hey, it’s summer time. It keeps me off the streets, safe from a potential attack by a mad, foaming calico.
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Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Times
[ Lecture: S-5483: 15th November, 1923 | The_Hague | GA0231 | BoeddinghausL ] [ Make Corrections | Help ]
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Rudolf Steiner Archive Document
Lectures Section
This newly translated lecture is the third of seven lectures in the lecture series entitled, The Supersensible Human, Anthroposophically Comprehended, published in German as, Der Uebersinnliche Mensch, Anthroposophisch Erfasst.
Translated by Luise Boeddinghaus
This newly translated lecture is the third of seven lectures in the lecture series entitled, The Supersensible Human, Anthroposophically Comprehended, published in German as, Der Uebersinnliche Mensch, Anthroposophisch Erfasst. It is lovingly translated by Luise Boeddinghaus.
This lecture series is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn/GA 231.
Thanks to the Anthroposophical Society of South Africa, this Lecture has been made available.
Public lecture given by
Rudolf Steiner at den Haag
15th November 1923.
At present there is a general opinion that there are certain limits to human knowledge, not only temporary knowledge owing to the fact that one had not achieved everything in the time that has already passed, and one would have to leave some things for the future, but in quite a general sense one speaks today of limits of perception, limits to knowledge for humanity. One thinks that man is constituted in such a way that he can only know about certain things, while other things are above his ability to know about them; and that it is mainly the facts of the so-called supersensible world which man is supposed not to be able to perceive and for which he has to be satisfied with what is called a belief, an assumption arising out of obscure feelings and such like. Particularly the endeavours of the past centuries and of the present time, which have yielded the greatest successes in the field of natural science and which have also brought about the greatest practical results, are considered proof by contemporary humanity that one has to come to a halt at that which can be observed by the senses, which can be proved by experiments and so forth, namely the sense perceptible real world. This is, when one speaks of man, only that world which man traverses between birth and death, or conception and death.
Now it cannot be denied that natural science owes its great successes to the fact that it has limited itself to the exploration of every aspect of the sense world and does not in any way draw any conclusions from the sense world to the supersensible world. But on the other hand there is connected with this, as one believes, fully proven acceptance of limits to knowledge altogether, something inwardly immeasurably tragic for the sensitive human being, something tragic which today does not yet come to the consciousness of many people, but which lives in many human souls in vague feelings, in all sorts of subconscious sensations, making them unsure in life, even unsure and unable in outward actions, in relationships to their fellow human beings and so on. For it is gradually felt more and more that the limits at which one wants to stop in this way are not only those of an outward supersensible world, but that with these limits to knowledge, if rightly perceived, there is still something quite different involved. Man gradually feels that his own true being must be of supersensible nature, that his true being which as man gives him his value and dignity must be found in the spiritual, in the not-sensible. If one calls a halt to all knowledge before the supersensible, then one calls a halt before human self-knowledge. Then one renounces insight into the most precious, the most valuable in the human being himself.
But thereby one also undermines one's real inward self-confidence. Whereby does man feel himself to be part of the natural world which today has been so successfully explored? Only because he bears this world of nature within himself in his outer physical body. Everything that exists in our surroundings as natural substances and natural laws we carry within us, at least most of it. Through this we can feel connected with physical nature. We would not feel that we existed in this physical nature if we were not part of it with our own body, or if we could not explore ourselves as physical beings. But in the same way it is with the supersensible, with the as truly felt spiritual inner being of man, even though men do not as yet bring it to full consciousness. If we cannot feel ourselves as belonging to a spiritual world, as beings who take into themselves and bear within themselves the forces and substances of the spiritual, then we cannot accept ourselves as spiritual human beings at all. But then we must lack the self-confidence towards that which after all we feel to be our most precious, our most dignified, that by which we actually are human beings, indeed want to be human beings. This has another side to it. We feel that that which we call our moral impulses, which we call the content of our moral-spiritual forces, does not flow out of natural life, certainly not out of what takes place in muscles and bones. We feel them to be coming from a spiritual world, but we experience uncertainty about this whole spiritual world if we have to call a halt before the supersensible with our perception.
And in this way present day humanity cannot really build a bridge between that which in outer nature is to it a brutal - as I would like to call it — fact, and that which flows to it out of the most intimate spiritual inner life as the content of the moral world order. One does not have the courage to bring to full clarity what it is that the human soul has to contend with here. Natural science has worked thoroughly towards being able to say something, albeit hypothetically, about the present day creatures out of which man is supposed to have developed. One describes, at least hypothetically, how once upon a time our present world is supposed to have developed out of the world mist. Hypotheses are also made about the end of our planetary system or the system altogether to which we belong. One imagines this whole system which exists in time as somehow contracting, constituting itself out of natural substances and natural forces. One imagines physical man then emerging out of a part of these forces at a certain time. Electricity, magnetism, warmth and so on, they can be outwardly observed, there the thinking human being feels safe with the content of his consciousness. But when the need arises in him to think of that which does not come from his physical nature, the moral spiritual impulses as working in the world, when he must think of as working in the world what he brings about out of a spiritual elemental force, what now must also be in the world, when he must have experiences in the world which must not pass away together with that which passes away with the physical — then man has no stand to say to himself out of that which is accepted by the limits to knowledge: these moral forces are just as valid as that which comes out of the brute forces of physical nature.
From this there come to man today not only theoretical doubts but insecurity of the whole soul life, insecurity apparent everywhere even though people deceive themselves about this. For this is the very character of present civilization that one deludes oneself about the deepest questions of civilization. But in the subconscious these questions are nevertheless active, they express themselves — albeit not in theories, but in the whole tenor of soul, in the confidence and capability of the soul life. That is the inner tragedy which can actually be noticed in the depths of every soul, even of the most superficial. And this is where then that arises which can seem paradoxical in the present time, there arises the longing in many people just for supersensible knowledge! One might say in the spiritual realm it is just the same as with hunger and thirst. One doesn't long for food and drink when one is satisfied, but one longs for them when one is hungry. And from an inmost need present humanity longs for the supersensible because it doesn't have it. While on the one hand philosophers and natural scientists today want to prove more and more that there are unsurpassable limits and borders before the supersensible, we see on the other hand an insatiable thirst of already many human souls for supersensible knowledge, and the number of these people will get ever greater.
To come to this supersensible perception there is a point of view, or I could rather say a method of investigation of which I would like to speak to you today. But I do not want to speak to you of a method of investigation of the supersensible which today one often wants to achieve in a very easy way, but I shall speak to you of a method of perception which, although it is an absolutely intimate matter of the human soul, but in this just as scientific, indeed as exact, not only as an outer scientific result, but as the mathematical or geometric results of science itself.
But while one is striving towards such knowledge and just comes to a knowledge of that which is the supersensible in man, one immediately enters something which right from the start causes all kinds of doubts, causes uncertainties right from the start.
When we look outside we soon notice that the natural scientists and philosophers who speak of limits to knowledge are right as concerns the immediate outer perception. So we must look inside. But when we look inside and we remain within the ordinary consciousness, with that which we have in ordinary life and also in the usual science, then in the beginning nothing confronts us either than a kind of thought picture of the outer world again. When one is completely honest in one's striving for self-knowledge and asks oneself: What is there, when instead of looking out into the world you look back into yourself, what is there actually inside you? — Then one will have to realize that one finds the world inside again, albeit in a picture. What one has experienced has imprinted itself onto our life of concepts, of feeling. We experience as it were a thought picture and feeling picture of that which is outside as well. We have only directed our gaze backwards. This gives us at first nothing new, but only in a dimmed down way in picture form that which is outside too. Only as a general feeling man senses that he is present in these weaving thoughts, ideas and sensations as an I, as a self. But that is so general and undefined, that initially he cannot do much with it.
That is why in the Middle Ages, in the times when one approached self-knowledge, knowledge of the human soul, in a more intensive way, one didn't initially pay much attention to that which one can gain by a merely backward directed self-observation during the ordinary consciousness, but one tried to achieve knowledge of the soul in a different way. This different way is actually interesting, and I must start from this different, often much desired way of knowledge of the soul, so that we can understand one another about the knowledge of soul which I actually mean. But I mention beforehand that I only start from this other knowledge of soul in order to explain what I want to bring, but that I don't want to attribute a special value to it. Therefore nobody should believe that because I start from the dream I already give it value for knowledge. However, this dream life is immensely meaningful.
Those who at some stage have sought knowledge of soul through the dream life, will have noticed that in a certain sense the soul life appears much more characteristically in a dream than when one merely looks into oneself and, as one often says, wants to observe oneself. You have observed the dreams and have initially found two types of dream. As you know, the dream conjures up weaving pictures of a fantastic reality which is initially not as abstract as the thoughts we have in our day consciousness.
But the dream creates initially something which appears enigmatical, on the one side by its composition, on the other side by its content.
There are two things which man experiences as pictures in a dream. Initially pictures of experiences which we went through during our life on earth, reminiscences from life. This arises and shows us the one or other thing which we experienced many years ago. But what there asserts itself rises up next to other things in a connection with was not supplied by life. Occurrences which took place ten years ago are tied together with others which took place the other day. The most removed from one another comes together. By putting together fragments of life, dreams create impossible pictures, chaotic pictures. Everything which outer life gave to us by way of occurrences which we experienced is conjured up to us in dream in a chaotic fashion. That is one kind of dream. The other kind is that in which our own bodily condition is conjured up before us in a kind of symbolic image. Who would not have dreamt of suffering from the heat of a boiling hot stove? He has seen the flickering flames; he awakes and has strong palpitations of the heart. Or we dream that we are walking past a fence. We see how one or two poles are damaged and then we wake up with toothache. In the one case, when we dreamt of the boiling hot stove with its heat, it was a picture of our heart which was palpitating strongly. In the other case, when we dreamt of the fence, it was a picture of our row of teeth which somehow gave us pain. And someone who can penetrate more deeply into these things knows that a certain area of dreams is characterised by inner organs being shown to us symbolically in the dream. However, one must be quite knowledgeable about all the facts which come into play, if one wants to recognise in the symbols what actually expresses itself of the inner being of man in them. Then one will find that there is hardly an organ or an inner process which cannot be conjured up for us inwardly by dreams.
Now former psychologists who have worked with dreams have developed a very valid view about the relationship of man to dreams. They said to themselves: that which we bear within us, we can only feel, but we do not see it, we don't have it in front of us like an outer object. But when we have our own heart beat in front of us in the picture of a boiling hot stove, then we have at least a picture in our consciousness that we make for ourselves, that looks like the picture of an outer object. We have to be separated from the outer object if a picture of it is to arise in us. That which one is oneself, even if it is one's own body, one feels, one feels it sometimes painfully when something organic is not in order, but one does not look at it. When one looks at something in picture form one must be outside of it. And so the former psychologists, which still existed in the 19th century, argued: If I am dreaming in symbols about my own body and its processes, I cannot be in my body, for then I would not experience it. Therefore I must be outside my body in such a case. The picture in any case shows me something of an independent soul-spiritual life over against the body. And furthermore they argued: When I dream in any, however hidden way, of reminiscences of life, then the outer natural existence as it is would have to present itself to me. But there something is constantly changing; there the dream conjures up for me the most fantastic relationships. There again I must be inside, for nature as it usually surrounds me would not be able to show me the occurrences which I have experienced with it, nor the occurrences of human life which I have experienced, in quite a different order.
In this way something was put together of which one could say: It was a valid conviction for these former psychologists, that there they caught something of the soul in a condition where it is separated from the physical body. For firstly man cannot be united with his body if the occurrences of the body, even though only in symbols, in the dream appear to be separated. He must then be outside his body. But again, we must also be inside the reminiscences of our experiences, be together with them, when we have the second kind of dream, for nature does not alter the connection in which experiences have occurred. That we must alter ourselves. Therefore we must be outside, outside our body, when we have the first kind of dreams, and in the same way we must be inside our experiences in the second kind. That means we must actually be outside our physical body with our experiences of soul when we dream. In so far that which former psychologists said to themselves is absolutely indisputable, one cannot say anything against it.
But something else has to be said. The dream cannot give me any sure knowledge about the self. It can lead us to the way of how one can come to such a certainty. Because what we are inside during the time between going to sleep and awakening when we are outside the body: that, which the dream is showing us there, that we certainly are not; for those are on the one hand pictures of our bodily interior, even symbols of this bodily interior, thus that again which is taken from our bodily interior. How can we, when sleeping we are outside our body, be the same which we are in the interior of our physical body? So something else must be the case. We must be something outside our body, but that does not assert itself. We are initially not able to lay hold of the actual nature of the soul in the sleeping state. That conceals itself and masks itself at first; it surrounds itself with pictures of its own bodily nature and shows itself in relationship to its own life in arbitrary compositions of its experiences. The former psychologists have rightly deduced that we are outside our body when we dream, but that the dream shows us something about this being which is outside our body, that is not the case, although they believed it. Because it doesn't show us anything except what we have formerly experienced within the body, and our own body in symbols. Therefore if we are something outside our body, then this is masked in the dream, then the dream is wearing a mask in respect of this. If we want to discover our own being, then we must be able to take this mask off the dream, that is off the soul — for the dream is this mask. — Up to here a more intimate view of the dream leads us onto a path. As former psychologists realised that the dream ultimately doesn't show anything besides what it takes out of the sense world, they of course also had their doubts. And just as one could not believe to have certainty by means of an ordinary backward looking self-observation, so one was also not satisfied with that which the observation of the dream world could give one. Over against this there now appears that which I always call the anthroposophical world view or anthroposophical way of investigation. This initially maintains: If the dream shows us that we are something outside our body, then it proves itself to be too weak by itself to show, to reveal its own being. To reveal itself it uses bits and pieces of reminiscences of life, of symbols of its own bodily nature. Therefore we have to strengthen the soul life so that we come to that which in the soul life stands masked before us in the dream. This one can do. One can do it by copying the dream in full consciousness by a systematically exact so-called meditative life as I have described it in my book “Knowledge of Higher Worlds” and other writings. But not copying it by artificially creating dreams, but awakening in the soul in full consciousness that which in dream arises spontaneously from the subconscious. One comes to this by accustoming oneself to proceed in the same way as the dream proceeds spontaneously — to proceed by imagining things which one knows well symbolically in inner meditation. The dream conjures up symbolically for us our own bodily nature.
One now practices — as neither our own inner being nor outer nature give us symbols — strictly systematically to imagine symbolically. In this way concepts are by force of will brought into a symbol by us, just as the dream conjures it up or us spontaneously. It must be created by inner activity, but that means, the dream must be strengthened.
In outer life we give ourselves over to passive observations and perceptions. Then the inner activity is shadowy. Everyone really senses how shadowy the abstract concepts are, how the thoughts are given over to the outer world and then proceed in a shadowy way. Everyone speaks of the shadowy thought compared to concrete reality. But when one now rises to imagine symbolic things, one has to create these symbols.
And when one is a fully conscious human being and no fool, then one knows that one makes them oneself. Then one is by no means a dreamer but a normal waking person, nay even more than a normal waking person. To the dreamer the symbols come spontaneously, to the waking person the conceptual images come through outer stimulation. The waking person who makes alive within himself that which dreams give, who places before the soul symbols with all inner strength and imitates the dream in full consciousness, awakens himself as it were to a higher activity of thinking and imagining and with this to an altogether higher activity of soul than one has in ordinary consciousness. That however must then be really practiced quite systematically.
And likewise the other side of dream can be imitated. We take experiences from our life that can be separated from one another by years. We can combine them in such a way that the one stands next to the other, but now not chaotically as in dream but from a point of view which may perhaps be from fantasy, but which we quite consciously determine, which is not imposed on us by our inner being, but which we ourselves create inwardly. And in this way we gradually educate ourselves to remain in an inner life of soul; to remain strongly in a life of soul which proceeds totally from the inner activity.
Today one usually underestimates what actually happens there with the human being when he does such exercises, because one does not love the inner activity of thinking, because one already finds it very active when one lives in thoughts induced by outer observation. But he who in all seriousness becomes a true imitator of dream in full consciousness, experiences that he strongly intensifies his inner mobility of soul, that he definitely strengthens it. But he is, if he is no fool but a sensible human being, fully conscious that he himself is making all these pictures and life associations, that is, that he is living in illusion. With a dream one first has to wake up in order to realize the illusion of the dream from the point of view of waking life. The dream can only be unmasked from the point of view of waking; the dreamer imagines the content of the dream to be reality, although his feeling for reality is not such a fictitious one. He who becomes an imitator of dream becomes aware of how a living inner being, something active, quickening is awakened in him, but how he has a content which is absolutely self-image, illusion. Therefore he comes to the point of not bothering with that which is present in him as content, but to concentrate on that which works within him, is active within him. In short, that which we usually only have as a general feeling of ego or self becomes a strongly felt inner activity. If one wants to become a spiritual scientist and not a vague mystic, one must remain conscious and exact. But if one persists in this one will also come more and more to experience the nature of the illusionary. One knows: You imagine nothing, but you have an imagination. Through this one will also the possibility one day to develop the capacity of soul with which one truly doesn't imagine anything and is yet as active as one has learnt it in the imitation of dream.
I point you here to an activity of soul which must absolutely be cultivated by the investigator of spirit. One usually believes, and those who judge things superficially often say it: spiritual investigation is something where man gives himself up to his thoughts and fantasies — that is easy, while to do research in the laboratory, the clinic and the observatory is difficult, something where you have to renounce things. — But this is not so. Because that which one has to acquire as such an inner capacity of soul requires at least just as much time, nay sometimes much longer time of inner work than any outwardly acquired scientific ability as is common in natural science today. Those who want to gain knowledge about that which is here called spiritual investigation should not raise the objection: In natural science one must not be a dilettante if one wants to have a say, there one must really understand something. — What the spiritual investigator alleges is usually regarded as though it were gained effortlessly compared to that which in natural science is reached with much trouble. But it is only the path which is different. In natural science outer observations and facts are used to come to a conclusion, while the spiritual scientist must first develop his own inner capacity for observation. He develops it as an imitator of dreams but in such a way that in the meditative activity that which in dream is conjured up is overcome by him. In dream we do not become conscious of an activity, the images of the dream conjure it up for us; but on the first step of supersensible knowledge the illusion is totally perceived. One knows: you don't imagine anything — but one notices the inner strengthened, empowered activity and in the end learns by a lot of practicing how one can call up this activity without first needing an illusionary activity for this, without first having to imitate the dream. So it is in imitation that one develops this capacity of soul. Once the capacity is there, one knows what one can do with it. Because then one is in a state where one has an empty but very much awake consciousness, but also inner activity. After one has discarded the illusion of this activity, one has initially no content. But the state in which one lives just as one gets to the point of developing the capacity of inner activity without initially also having a content, this state demands a strong inner struggle. And actually this struggle which one needs for this is the touchstone and test whether this spiritual investigation is an honest and true one. For at that moment when one just gets ready to live with empty consciousness, with normal waking consciousness without this waking consciousness having a content, at this moment an unspeakable pain, an unlimited privation spreads itself over the whole soul life. All that one can otherwise experience as pain in the world is really insignificant compared with this spiritual soul pain which one experiences at this moment of cognition. And one has to overcome this pain. For it is this pain which is the expression of a force which has its physical counter image in all sorts of forms of deprivations: in hunger, which instructs us to eat, in thirst, which forces us to drink and so on. Now we feel something in the soul which has to come towards us and we feel it as an unspeakable pain. But when we live for a while in this pain, when we feel our inner being itself as one filled with pain, that is, when we are for a while pain, when our own human being is for our consciousness for a while nothing else but a conglomerate of pain, then this consciousness no longer remains empty, then this consciousness fills itself, and it now fills itself not with sense content which we receive through eyes, ears and so on, but it now fills itself with spiritual content. And we receive as the first thing which comes to us as spiritual content in this way our own spiritual being as a unified spiritual organisation — but living in time, not in space — as it extends from birth or conception up to the present moment to which we have lived the earthly life. Just as we can look into a spatial perspective and see objects which are far away again in perspective, so we can learn to look from the present moment of our life into our own past. We don't see the bodily at that moment, we only remember it, but we have to remember it, otherwise we are destroyed in our consciousness. But he who wants to become an investigator or spirit may not become a person inclined to fantasy nor a confused mystic, he must use his consciousness and his good sense just as a mathematician would for a mathematical problem. But just as we normally see objects of space in perspective, so we now look into a time perspective.
Everything that we have experienced in our existence now stands before us in a time tableau, but in a living time tableau. But not only that which we ourselves have experienced now stands before us thus, but also that which shows us how we have come into being, how inner spiritual soul forces have built up our body from birth or conception, how the sculptural forces are which have worked on our body. We see ourselves outwardly. But that which we see there, through which our own soul life stands before our soul, that now also differs qualitatively from the experience of this time tableau.
When one looks back on one's life in the usual way, one experiences the happenings as they come towards one: one experiences for instance how a person has come towards one, how he has approached one, lovingly or with hatred, how he did this or that as he came towards one. One experiences oneself in this memory picture in the way the outer world has come towards one.
In this other memory picture however, which now stands there in real pictures of which one knows that they reflect the own spiritual nature of the human being just as the usual memory pictures reflect the outer nature, in this other memory tableau is reflected to us how we have approached the outer world. There is shown how one was oneself when for instance one approached another personality. How in our soul forces unfolded which found their satisfaction, their delight, their happiness just through that personality. One really looks at oneself how one was as earthly human being. And then one sees how now in the reality both sides in which the dream was masked flow together.
Now the dream becomes a fully conscious reality. It even becomes more than the ordinary consciousness sees. One initially sees the spiritual entity which lives inside the body, which during sleep is independent of it, indeed which is the creator of the body. This one sees. And then one realises, this spiritual entity also contains, but in a spiritual way, metamorphosed, something like the laws of nature but — you are already protesting against it — in a spiritual existence. Into that which one here experiences the moral world is already entering. In this the moral laws are already present in such a way that one now knows: in the same way in which one's own spirituality works, the moral laws are working. There the moral laws begin to stand with equal validity next to the laws of nature.
But with this one only gets as far as the experience of man's own spiritual existence in earthly being. If one wants to go further one has to develop still other capacities in the soul. — The particulars about this you can read up in the above mentioned books, for this can only be achieved by the practicing of many details. Here only the principle shall be described. — Imagine that at a certain time of day you are remembering back to the morning when you got up, or woke up. If you try hard, the course of the day up to this moment can stand before your soul. Now if you don't place the course of the day in such a way before your soul that you start with the morning, then go on to the experiences of the forenoon and so on, but if you place the course of the day backwards before your soul, so that you start at the certain time and now trace it backwards, then you can also say that you get up to the night when you have slept. But there you then don't add anything, there something remains empty, and that which connects again with the backwards imagined happenings is the last experience before going to sleep, and then you can again place the course of the previous day before your soul.
In short, when the human being remembers in this way in ordinary life, there always remain gaps between the conscious experiencing — the gaps which we lived through unconsciously during sleep. Now in order to go further with the exercises which can link up with this backward experiencing, it is necessary to develop a very strong sense of reality. Such a sense of reality is initially not very prevalent among present day people. It is even something which is not all that easy to achieve, because in relation to remembering people usually remain with that which in some way is closely connected with their personality. In their thoughts they do not connect the threads towards the outer world so strongly, that these threads to the outer world connect with their memories. The human being usually has no inclination at all to live in the outer world, in reality in the outer world, with his memories. How much this is the case, of this one can convince oneself in daily life. I have known people who for instance have seen a lady in the morning who had interested them very much, and when one asks them: What colour was the lady's dress? — they don't know it. Therefore it is as though they had not seen the lady at all, for if they had seen her, they would surely also have seen the colour of her dress. How tenuously is one thus connected with the outer world, if in the afternoon one doesn't even know what colour the dress of a person was whom one had seen in the morning! Indeed, I have even known people who had been in a room and who didn't know afterwards whether there were pictures in the room or not.
One can have the most unbelievable experiences in this regard. Therefore he who wants to acquire a sense of reality must first train himself to live fully also in the outer sense reality, so that that which he passes by stands before him as it is out there in the real world. Truly, the investigator of spirit does not become a man of phantasy; he must acquire a sense of reality to the point that it cannot happen to him that he doesn't know in the afternoon what dress the lady was wearing to whom he was speaking in the morning. He must really be able to live with a sense of reality already in the sense world.
Only when one trains oneself to connect that which one remembers of things to the outer world of reality, then one develops the sense which can achieve a fruitful remembering back for such a spirit knowledge. Because for human beings' usual capacity of remembering the memory picture before the last going to sleep can very easily be joined to that after the last awakening. Without any difficulty people simply leave out that which lies between these two pictures as a night-abyss, they tie the picture of the first happening after waking up directly onto the last happening before going to sleep. They usually don't even notice with a lively consciousness that something lies between the two. But if one wants to acquire such a consciousness that one connects that which one has experienced inside with the picture which is there from the outer world, then one must realise that that which one experiences in the morning after waking up is connected with the whole of nature which makes an impression on us, is connected with the rising sun, with all the impressions one has through the rising sun and so on — and that which one has as the last happenings before the last going to sleep is connected with something which in nature doesn't belong together, namely with that which one experienced after the last awakening. There one will notice with the pictures that are standing next to each other: there is something missing! — But by practicing this, by awakening again capacities of soul that don't exist in ordinary life, one gains the strength that as one looks back to where one now has the first picture after the last awakening and wants to proceed to the last picture before the last going to sleep, one now does not see a stretch of darkness in between, but sees that this darkness is beginning to light up spiritually, that something places itself into this darkness.
Just as in the day waking states one only follows that which one has experienced, so there suddenly comes something in between the first experience after the last awakening and the last experience before the last going to sleep of which one now says: you remember something — only something which you haven't known before. It is just the same as in normal remembering, except that one hadn't known anything before of that which now surfaces. Now one begins to remember that which one has previously missed by sleeping through it, even while sleeping through it in dreamless sleep. The empty time which one is conscious of between the last experience before going to sleep and the first after waking up, this is now filling up. And just as our ordinary consciousness is filled with the experiences of natural existence, so our consciousness is now filled with that which surfaces like a remembrance, but of a remembrance of which one now knows that one has experienced it in the unconscious.
Our consciousness is now filled with the soul content which hasn't taken part in the outer experiences but has withdrawn from the outer experiences, has gone asleep. Now one learns to recognise how the sleeping soul is in reality when it doesn't have the strength to bring its experiences which it has during sleep in the spiritual world to consciousness in such a way as man in day waking life brings to consciousness the happenings of physical life. Now one really gets to know the inner being of man as spirit and soul, and at this moment one sees beyond the earthly life. And one will only now be able to connect that, which one sees in the described way like a great but concrete memory tableau of one's earthly life up to this point, to that which one was as a soul-spiritual human being in a purely spiritual world before one descended into this physical world through birth or conception.
And in the same way another experience joins this one. If one develops another capacity together with all this during one's practicing, a capacity which normally is not seen as a capacity of knowledge but which is one too, if one develops that which is love of soul, full devotion to that which meets one, so strongly that this love remains with one even when one now looks at one's own self, that one can love that which appears as something new in the soul with a truly devoted love — then the possibility develops to free oneself in the waking state in full consciousness in one's inner experiencing from the bodily. But at this moment when one has freed oneself from the bodily in one's inner experiencing, one knows how it is with the human being when he lives his life without his body. And in a picture the fact of the passing through the gate of death, of dying, stands before one's soul. If one has once realised what it means to experience oneself free of the body in one's spiritual forces, then one also knows what one is in the spiritual existence after one has left the body and has passed through the gate of death. And one also gets to know the environment which will then be there for man. One learns to know how together with the body when it has been laid aside that falls away which connects us to the sense world. But that remains, which formerly has fashioned us as a human being, the soul-spiritual of man.
In this way one gets to know the experiences which one has had with other people. But that which was within these sense experiences, how soul has found soul, what happened in the relationships with other people, those that were closer to one and those who were more distant, that which happened in space and time — the eternal-spiritual one gets to know, how it rids itself of the earthly form of experiencing.
And more and more the soul now experiences that which was spiritually present within it as relationships to other people. And that which otherwise is only the object of belief, certainty of knowledge. This human beings experience when they themselves have passed through the gate of death. That which the human soul usually longs for as immortality, only enters real human knowledge in this way. But only by recognising the truly eternal in man by exercising our forces to such an extent that we recognise this eternal in our existence in the pre-earthly, spiritual-soul existence, we also gain that for ourselves which gives us certainty about life after death. There is no longer a word for the pre-earthly as something eternal in the human soul in today's civilisation because we only know the one half of eternity, we speak of immortality. Older languages had the other side, the not-yet-being-born, that is, our existence before we entered earthly life. But only both sides — not-yet-being-born and immortality constitute eternity. And it is a fact that man has to pay for his longing for immortality, that it becomes a mere belief if he wants to forgo knowledge of not-yet-being-born, because he will only understand eternity when he recognises both sides of eternity, the not-yet-being-born as well as the immortality of his being in unity. With this then man has advanced to a real taking hold of that which he is, to a real self-knowledge.
I have to emphasise again and again on such occasions that such a spiritual investigation can indeed only be made by someone who has acquired the relevant capacities by exercising or in another way through destiny, but when the results of such an investigation are made known, they can be as plausible to everyone as for instance the results of astronomy. And just as one doesn't have to be a painter in order to experience the beauty of a picture — for if that would be necessary, only the painters would be able to experience it — just as little does one necessarily have to be a spiritual investigator oneself in order to take up the knowledge of spiritual investigation, although one can become one up to a certain degree, because man wants truth and not confusion and error. Just as one can stand before a painting and admire its beauties with one's healthy judgement, so one can experience that which is presented by spiritual investigation, if one does not oneself put obstacles in one's way, such as prejudices and the like. One can understand it when one dedicates oneself to it with one's sense of truthfulness, and the accusation of those who say of the adherents of spiritual science that they only believe blindly is absolutely unjustified. Especially in the present time Anthroposophy will be able to give human souls if by using their sense of truth or by investigation in the indicated way to come to a self-knowledge of the human being, that for which they pine as I have said in the introduction to today's lecture. Even though this demand of the times does not yet come to consciousness in many people, even if it only shows itself undefined or even just in unfitness in life — it is there in that which expresses itself so clearly in the civilization of the present time. Natural science and many philosophical word views speak of insurmountable borders of knowledge. With this the border which leads to man himself is insurmountable. But man cannot in perpetuity do without true self-knowledge.
In to-morrow's lecture I shall continue where I have left off today and depict the ethical-religious life, how it is enriched and made more inward within the human being. With this I shall then to-morrow give the application to the immediate practical life. In today's lecture I wanted first to show how this demand of our time, which as a demand of heart and soul appears in ever more and more people in the present civilisation with its boundaries to knowledge, can be met by a real spiritual knowledge, by a knowledge of that which man wants to know about his own immortality and that which is connected with it, nay must know, because only in this way a true self-knowledge can be achieved, and only with this true self-knowledge a getting hold of oneself and a feeling of self can be connected. Because only through this man will be able to stand before his own soul with its eternal nature, that he acquires knowledge of how he as spiritual-soul being is woven into the spiritual-soul sphere of the world, just as he has his existence in the physical world a physical being. Only when he has acquired a knowledge of himself as spirit amongst spirits, will he also be able to acquire true inner security. Only when the human being knows his worth and dignity in the world, he stands in the world with that consciousness of himself as man, which out of an undefined feeling he can acknowledge as the only right human consciousness. And only because human beings will seek again for such a light of self-knowledge and spiritual knowledge of the world, only through this the hunger of the present time for a true penetrating of the own human nature will be able to be satisfied. For humanity will not be able to manage with all the demands of the progressing civilisation unless it realises: self-knowledge of man cannot be anything else but knowledge of spirit, for man can only feel himself as true man if he recognises himself as spirit amongst spirits, just as he can feel himself in his transient earthly existence as physical being amongst physical beings.
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The SS William B. Woods, a Liberty ship built during World War II was named after William B. Woods, an Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, and Ohio General Assembly member. The ship was laid down on July 21, 1942, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1490) by J. A. Jones Construction, Brunswick, Georgia. The ship was sponsored by Mrs. Emil J. Kratt and after the launch on April 7, 1943, the ship was allocated to the A. H. Bull & Company, Inc. on May 31, 1943. Most of the sailors and shipbuilders associated with the liberty ship have been exposed to asbestos as a high amount of asbestos was used in the ship’s engine rooms, turbines, and boilers. Tragically, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-952 near Palermo, Italy on March 10, 1944.
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You can be a writer and an editor. You just can’t be both for yourself.
It’s hard to catch your own mistakes. You know how your work is supposed to sound, read, and what emotions you want it to capture. So when you go to edit yourself you still have all these things in mind. You’re too attached to your work and aren’t able to look at it with a different set of eyes.
Who could use an editor?
Everyone: bloggers, journalists, students, authors — both those traditionally published and self-published — technical writers, and the like.
Newspapers and magazines have editors for their writers, and so do all major publishing houses.
Editors save you the embarrassment.
No one likes to make mistakes especially when there are a lot of people looking. If you’re seeking to get your manuscript into the hands of thousands, or even just a few hundreds of readers having an editor will benefit you. Your editor will catch grammatical mistakes you did not realize you made because you were too focused on writing a great plot, and check for clarity to ensure your message is understood well. A good editor will suggest to you how you can strengthen a sentence by omitting a word, and even assist you in using all of your punctuation correctly.
The worse feeling for an author is finally having their book in front of readers, only to realize errors in their writing after it is too late to fix them. I am sure your readers will appreciate having a writer who not only cares to tell a good story, but also takes time to ensure it’s delivered correctly.
I’ve read too many reviews on Amazon.com from readers who have bought self-published books stating the message was good, but the writer should have invested in an editor.
Personally, poor writing and a lack of editing will discourage me from purchasing an author’s books in the future. If a writer could not invest in their book, why should I invest in it and read through the errors?
With all of this in mind, I encourage you to have someone edit your work. It’ll help you become a better writer as you learn to correct your “writing slip-ups,” and gain respect from your readers.
As a side note: if you are in need of an editor, or proofreader, please contact me via my contact tab. I am accepting submissions.
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Survey says: Aspen residents are mostly happy with city services
News | November 6, 2013
The results of the 2013 city of Aspen resident survey were released last week and mirror a continuing trend of positive feedback for the services Aspen provides.
This year, the survey again says that Aspen residents enjoy a high quality of life and feel safe. The first survey was offered in 1997.
The majority of those polled also reported a strong level of satisfaction with the services the city provides. Some of those services include the Aspen Recreation Center; the Wheeler Opera House; parks and trails; street maintenance and plowing; housing; police; and utility billing.
“The city of Aspen takes resident surveys seriously and uses the results to measure departmental performance,” said Barry Crook, assistant city manager. “We also use the surveys to see where change needs to occur in the way we do business.”
The survey was mailed to a random selection of 1,200 registered Aspen voters and had a response rate of 23 percent.
Among the respondents’ biggest concerns were water levels in the Roaring Fork River, building height and mass in the downtown core, and construction impacts.
The city did respond to the water-levels issue by redirecting water back into the river from the irrigation ditches the city controls.
“We also tried to encourage others with irrigation rights to follow our lead,” Crook said.
Crook said construction concerns are cyclical and that Aspen is in one of those cycles where there’s quite a bit of construction going on. He said the city has made sure the construction companies stick to their construction-mitigation plans, encouraging those companies to minimize truck traffic and work within designated hours of operation.
“We also increased the costs of parking spaces to the construction companies,” Crook said. “We wanted to send a signal to them to consider carpooling and increase awareness to the impacts their vehicles have.”
Crook noted that the issues of building heights and mass are long-standing issues of concern in Aspen.
It speaks volumes about living in Aspen when some of the residents’ worst complaints concerned crossing Main Street or picking up after dogs.
Residents have voiced concerns about canines for years, Crook said, and the city has responded by providing poop bags throughout Aspen.
“It’s tough,” Crook said. “People love their dogs, and most try and pick up after their pets as well as keep them on-leash in certain areas. Our trail rangers and community officers are riding a tough line trying to enforce dog laws. We hear both sides, with one saying we need to do more enforcement and the other side saying we’re too aggressive. The bottom line is we’re trying to get people to do the right thing and pay attention to what their pets are doing.”
The city also is aiming to make it safer to cross Main Street, especially in the evening.
“We’ve proposed some ideas and will continue to do so until we find the safest solution,” Crook said. “We recently tried using some low, directed lights in a crosswalk that wouldn’t blind drivers. Some council members liked it; others didn’t.”
Survey respondents also could provide feedback about Aspen services. Of the 95 who chose to include a response, 1 in 4 indicated they would like to see improvements to transportation-related services, such as parking, traffic safety and traffic enforcement for cars, bikes and pedestrians.
“I think the people living here are fairly happy with the services the city provides,” Crook said. “Judging by the survey in the past few years, it would be more of a story if people were unhappy here.”
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Japanese equities have had a tough year with the TOPIX index falling by 9% from its January peak. So why should investors view it as an investment opportunity? Sophia Li, Portfolio Manager, First State Stewart Asia and Amaya Assan, Research Manager, Square Mile Research and Consulting, discuss.
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Posted by Ryan Ellis on Monday, March 4th, 2013, 11:16 AM PERMALINK Follow @ryanlellis
The following joint letter was issued to Capitol Hill this morning:
Dear Congressmen:
We, the undersigned groups and conservative movement leaders, write today to express our support for H.R. 495, the “Free File Program Act,” sponsored by
Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) This legislation would make the private sector “Free File” program permanent. We would urge you to co-sponsor this pro-taxpayer, anti-IRS power grab legislation.
It’s no secret that the IRS and big spenders in Washington, D.C. want to socialize all tax preparation in America. The (ironically-named) IRS Office of Taxpayer Advocate has been pushing for IRS preparation of tax returns for years. There’s only one reason proponents want to do this—tax revenues. If the IRS invites a conflict of interest by adding “tax preparer” to its role as “tax collector,” it’s a near-certainty that everyone’s taxes will rise. In fact, higher tax revenues are a major selling point of mandatory IRS-prepared tax returns.
The “Free File Program Act” is the best hope for preventing this taxpayer nightmare. Since 2003, sixteen private sector tax software providers have voluntarily banded together to provide free tax preparation services to low- and moderate-income families with simple tax situations. 70 percent of all taxpayers—more than 100 million families—have access to this voluntary, private sector initiative. To date, 37 million tax returns have been processed by Free File, saving taxpayers $129 million in administrative costs.
H.R. 495, the “Free File Program Act,” would permanently authorize this free and voluntary private sector effort. More importantly, it directs the IRS that it “shall not compete with the private sector in providing these services to taxpayers, nor acquire, develop, or deploy enabling systems to duplicate or replace private tax preparation services.” Never again would taxpayers have to worry about the IRS filling out a Form 1040 for them against their will.
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Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990, USA) Review
12th November 2018 Ken Wynne Leave a Comment
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) (95 minutes)
Directed by Jeff Burr.
Written by David J. Schow.
Based on characters written by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper.
Starring Kate Hodge, Ken Foree and R. A. Mihailoff.
Follows The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Followed by Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)
18 (BBFC) / UNRATED
Having bought the rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre slasher franchise from The Cannon Group, New Line Cinema, “the house that Freddy built”, began production on a new sequel with the intention of “going back to hard-core horror”. Unfortunately for us gorehounds, New Line Cinema toned down scenes from the original script.
The producers then wanted Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III to be granted with an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). When TCM III was presented to the MPAA, they rated the film X (equivalent to an NC-17 rating today), requiring over four minutes of cuts to gain an R rating approval and a widespread theatrical release.
Years later, TCM III eventually had most of the original cuts reinstated (New Line Cinema cut the original negative due to time constraints, so some scenes are still thought to be lost forever), and yet TCM III is still not the grim toned, ultra-violent return to form that New Line Cinema intended. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III when it was first released in the United Kingdom (years after it was rejected for theatrical release). It is a solid, underrated sequel in the franchise. But knowing what it could have been, had it not been cut to shreds (in both script and negative), TCM III leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Traveling between California to Florida, through the dirt roads of Texas, Michelle (Kate Hodge – Tales from the Crypt) and Ryan (William Butler – Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood) stop at the Last Chance Gas Station, where they are introduced to Tex (Viggo Mortensen – A History of Violence) – who kindly offers them directions – and the station’s sleazeball owner, Alfredo (Tom Everett – Death Wish 4: The Crackdown), who peeps on Michelle whilst she uses the restroom. Tex realises what Alfredo is doing and a fight soon breaks out between them.
“She likes it. She likes it just fine. Just ask her!”
Tex berates Alfredo and tells him to shut up. Alfredo responds by grabbing his shotgun, aiming it at Tex, and pulling the trigger; seemingly killing him as Michelle and Ryan flee in their car.
“You shut the fuck up, motherfucker. This is my place! I’ll do whatever I want here in my place!”
It is not long before both Michelle and Ryan find themselves lost with a flat tire – the directions provided by Tex taking them further into the Texas desert. Stopping at the side of the road, Ryan heads to the trunk to grab the spare, when he is ambushed by Leatherface (R. A. Mihailoff – Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings) – named because of his dead skin mask – swinging a chainsaw effortlessly in Ryan’s direction. Narrowly avoiding the steal blades of the saw, Ryan and Michelle drive off unscathed… That is until a bloodied Tex leaps in front of their car. Who will survive and what will be left of them? There’s roadkill all over Texas…
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III attempts to bring back the franchise to its unhinged roots, where the saw is family and dire situations lead to viscera. Scriptwriter David J. Schow was no stranger to blood and guts – having written splatterpunk novels, including The Kill Riff (1989), and worked on the screenplay for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989). If only his and director Jeff Burr’s vision had remained intact.
New Line Cinema had approached a few potential directors before settling on Jeff Burr (From a Whisper to a Scream, Stepfather II) a few weeks before shooting began. Burr agreed to direct the film, suggesting that they shoot on 16 mm in Texas, just like the original TCM, and hire Gunnar Hansen to return as Leatherface. But Hansen wouldn’t return, Burr was fired by New Line Cinema, and then rehired after they released no one else wanted to take on directional duties this late into development. Thus began the legacy of Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
R. A. Mihailoff was hired as Leatherface and is genuinely horrifying in the role – preceded by actors Bill Johnson in TCM 2 and Gunnar Hansen in the original TCM. Kane Hodder also provided stunts as Leatherface, Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB EFX Group provided the special effects and prosthetic make-up, and Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead) had a significant role to play – becoming the de facto lead midway through TCM III’s running time. Despite its tumultuous shoot TCM III had all the ingredients horror fanatics and gorehounds craved. Then it was hit with the aforementioned X rating…
Even after TCM III was edited down to ensure a widespread theatrical release test audiences didn’t react well to the sequel, encouraging New Line Cinema to completely reshoot the ending without Jeff Burr’s knowledge. This unfathomable ending was the final nail in the coffin and upon release TCM III was met with harsh criticism. Regardless TCM III made a profit and – in its unrated form – is still worthy of your time. It is a return to the roots of the franchise, with all the gore you expect from a film with the title Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
It may not live up to the incredible, albeit pure nonsense teaser trailer that New Line Cinema cobbled together prior to development of the TCM III, but Jeff Burr’s sequel succeeded in its original intent – to make Leatherface fucking terrifying once again! “Some tales are told, then soon forgotten… but a legend is forever!”
“So, how do you like Texas?”
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Friday Open Thread – March 13th
Posted on March 13, 2015 by sundance
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
277 Responses to Friday Open Thread – March 13th
F.D.R. in Hell says:
Let’s get this out of the way first…
Paraskevidekatriaphobia!
http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/1336121/paraskevidekatriaphobia—or—friday-the-thirteenth-done-come-on-a-friday-this-month-
I wanted to post the strip itself, but this is the best I could do. I managed the “woohoo” guy and a cartoon, in another thread, but it’s early days for this skill. Rough edges.
Eleanor in Hell says:
Eleanor! Howdy! and thank you.
WTF? 😯
I complimented her eyes a few threads back, remember? She’s just doing me a return favor.
LOLLOLOL! Eleanor is here too?
Dixie Darling says:
LOL! I had to sign in to say that was really funny!
taqiyyologist says:
I’m in stitches this AM! 😆
rashomon says:
She GOTCHA,” Frankie. She really GOTCHA!
If I’d have been old enough in ’56 I’d have voted for Pogo, though he seems to have influenced a whole barrel of cartoon characters to run starting in ’60.
Mary, by chance were you the spelling bee champion in school?
No, but thanks for the implied compliment!
In any event, THAT word above ^^^ would stump just about anybody.
surprised its not in moderation 🙂
New skill (I sincerely hope):
❤ ❤ Hurrah! ❤ ❤
Thank you, magister. Although it didn’t work so well with Churchy…
canadacan says:
He is a great teacher
Appropriate–as usual!
And I have to say “thank you” to CJ, too–sorry I forgot!
We’re getting closer and closer to actually stating the truth.
Don’t forget that Hilla the Hun has the goods on BHO.
I’ve been wondering when that shoe was going to be thrown.
They’ve all got the goods on each other. I’d like every one of them to spill the beans all at once.
What a document dump THAT would be. For the ages.
Yep. It would probably look something like this:
There’s also a satisfyingly appropriate section in C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength (chapter 16, “Banquet at Belbury”).
nivico says:
Ahhh you beat me to it 🙂
Last month was a Friday 13th, too… consecutive Friday 13ths are rare.
One more this year …in November. 😈
I’ll never look at my, er, Clogs the same way again. No wonder I scare people when I wear them.
I was wearing my Crocs while wifey and I were out chainsawing yesterday and no worried looks from the neighbors – must be my trusting face and mild demeanor.
kinthenorthwest says:
Two in a row, and both are an awesome gift from the Lord…
like the Blood Moons
more of those coming up, too
If America had an authentic President, this would not happen…
Exactly FDR!
TKim says:
The secret service lapses keeps me up at night. If they fail at their main job this country would be unrecognizable for many many months.
“…this country would be unrecognizable for many many months.”
Uhhh, we’re already there. 😦
BTW, don’t let it keep you awake. Were something to happen, The United States of America will continue on.
Monroe says:
Secret Service is just cover show. Obama has a private security firm that manages his security. By any chance someone got too close to the President, the masses would panic but continuity would occur bc ValJar and Soros would still be pulling strings.
😥 I am afraid you are right. 😦
John Galt says:
Donovan, Ogilvie, Clancy, Connolly
Gee, who could possibly anticipate drinking.
F.D.R. Great commentary of the culture of the SS.
TexasRanger says:
Washington is “Disintegrating” From Within Iranian Says
Referring to the GOP Letter by Republican Senators As Evidence of Decline.!
TEHRAN – Iran’s highest leader – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a sharp response Thursday to a letter to the country’s leadership by Republican lawmakers, deriding it as an indication that Washington is “disintegrating” from within.
http://nypost.com/2015/03/12/iran-supreme-leader-weighs-in-on-republicans-letter/
I thought Khamenei was very sick. Was the Senatorial missive so upsetting that he came back from the brink to address it?
people just come and go
people just float
gone with
in the long black coat…
someone is beating
on a dead horse. B. Dylan
BTW,,where’s Putin been lately?
BTW,,where’s Putin been lately? – gloating
a lot of dramatic theories swirling around.
sick?
a coup?
There’ve been a lot of ‘accidents’ to Putin enemies over the short term – maybe he’s busy signing condolence cards.
sittin on the dacha ..
watchin the tide roll away
carrying out the bodies…
(you missed my play on words there)
thought I was adding to it, or was I redding it wrong?
Just stalin for time so I could check the Georgia reference…
you’re too much…my bad.
“stalin for time”
that’s good, I must say.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
“Dacha” is very good, smiley! Carry on.
It’s good dacha caught that
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Health,
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a public appearance Sunday March 8th amid rumors about his health, as a relative dismissed the claims as gossip meant to derail ongoing nuclear talks with world powers.
State television aired pictures Sunday of the 75-year-old Khamenei addressing a group of environmental officials and activists at his residence in central Tehran. He appeared to look comfortable and healthy in the footage.
His comment about “Washington is “Disintegrating” From Within” was reportedly made in a meeting he held in his home with his President Hassan Rouhani and senior clerics on Thursday March 12th.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/irans-ayatollah-khamenei-makes-rare-public-appearance/
Don’t believe anything that you read,
and only half of what you see and hear.
Do you know what Helen Keller did when she fell down the well?
Let’s not go there.
(kicked the bucket)
I know, I shouldn’t have.
(Screamed her fingers off)
Helen: 100% skeptic, apparently.
I particularly like the liberal pundits who are saying SEN Cotton’s letter will force the Iranian Assembly of Experts to elect a hardliner replacement when Ali Khamenei goes to room temp. Their lack of understanding of the Iranian Revolution and the system of government the Ayatollah Khomeini established – after all they think our Supreme Leader’s an inspired visionary – despite what history and the function of the religious authority in Iran are. They completely ignore, as a matter of convenience and self-delusion. the inconvenient truth that what they see as a boogeyman hardliner the members of the Assembly of Experts see as a link in the continuous chain of Islamic government that Khomeini established. They look at each sop of rapprochement that the ‘civilian’ government holds out to the West as a nugget of hope while the religious authorities that really run the country (the progs don’t read foreign Constitutions any more than they do ours) see them as delaying tactics that give them wriggle room to herd more non-Moslem sheep into the abattoir waiting room. It’s OK for a Moslem to lie to the dhimmi, almost a religious obligation, and the progressive pundits believe all their told. I’m sure that when the time comes they’ll be the first one happily dancing into the free showers.
Couple of pertinent articles from Heritage:
“Why Tom Cotton’s Letter Did Not Violate the Logan Act”
Paul J. Larkin Jr. / March 12, 2015
http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/12/why-tom-cottons-letter-did-not-violate-the-logan-act/?utm
“History Shows Obama Doesn’t Need Congress to Seal Iran Deal”
Melissa Quinn / March 13, 2015 /
http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/13/will-white-house-pursue-treaty-executive-agreement-iran-heres-need-know/
I’ve seen other interpretations re the Iran deal and Congressional approval. While BHO apparently does not need Congressional approval to sign an executive agreement, on something so very important to the stability of the world, he definitely should consult with other than fascist leftys. But of course, that’s not gonna happen such is his hate.
This is a war between the far left and the far right. Those Senators who signed that letter had their legal beagles test its legality just as did Cotton’s crew. They aren’t going to pout any oftheir well-compensated body parts into a pencil sharpener and I’m betting they had legal staff from the Party looking at it to just to make sure it wouldn’t bite them in the wallet. The POtuS’s minions has been bandying about the term treaty while he calls it (now) a non-binding agreement. I believe the whole thing was political on teh POtuS’s part, he fielded the concept of a treaty without saying treaty to see if teh Republicans would cave – they didn’t.OK, so he now goes for a non-binding agreement that carries no force. If Iran caves (hides its program) he can claim victory until the farce is exposed by the next Administration in which case he can say that ‘if the Senate would have let me have a treaty none of this would have happened.” This guy would be playing 3-Card Monte or selling cut-rate Rolexs out of his overcoat on some Chicago street corner if he hadn’t sold what soul he has to walking Satanic influences. He doesn’t want a stable world, he wants Obama’s World.
He’s wrong. The disintegrating began with Obama, not congress.
Oh YEAH! Just wait until Ayatollah Obama gives Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a piece of his mind!
“Grandstanding Freshmen Senators (Tom Cotton vs John Kerry)”
by Humberto Fontova | Mar 13, 2015
“My reaction to this letter is utter disbelief. In my 29 years as a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, I’ve never heard of or even heard of being proposed, anything comparable to this. If I had—not matter what the issue and who was President– I would have certainly rejected it.” (Sec. of State John Kerry reacting to the letter drafted by freshman senator Tom Cotton, signed by 47 Republicans and addressed to Iranian leaders.)
(snip)
This precedent, of course, involves Democratic freshman Senator John Kerry, who far from “certainly rejecting” a very comparable letter– not only signed it, but followed up his signature with a personal visit for a friendly chat and handshake with the U.S. enemy to whom it was affectionately addressed.
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2015/03/13/grandstanding-freshmen-senators-tom-cotton-vs-john-kerry-n1970255
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/12/fcc-cites-soros-funded-neo-marxist-founded-group-46-times-in-new-regs/
Babs, I’m sorry I posted all those Hillary comments and ‘toons.
Yes, I read the part about the FCC cracking down on blog-speech.
Please, be a good girl and go back to Mah Jongg with the Andrews Sisters. 😎
The Andrews Sisters are in H***?
Yes. Something about an incident involving a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. 🙄
“Say no more, say no more” (h/t MP).
And here I was thinking nothing could beat yesterday’s thread!
FDR…that’s just a nasty rumor to deflect suspicion….the “incident” didn’t involve Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
Bugle Boy was set up to take the fall.
it was actually Company B.
Thanks for setting the record straight.
“There Will Never Be Another You.”
And Barney Frank went to Congress…go figure
(never someone with two first names)
Who? Have you turned your back on a fellow Dem?
You -never- turn your back on ol’ Barney. 😯
I particularly liked the way he and Dodd (all ‘we gotcha back, common person) and the bankers crawled into bed just before Barney retired. They had our backs, alright.
NO NO NO the good looking sweet Andrew Sisters! In Hell!
The Hollywood Canteen! Those babes were shaking!
Some things aren’t funny FDR
You’d be surprised who’s down here.
Trust me, it doesn’t take much to earn free passage across the River Styx.
Free? When did Charon start waiving the obolus?
[waiting…]
Sorry for the late answer. I was busy celebrating Noruz early in Washington, DC.tonight at the Dirty Martini on Connecticut Avenue. 🙄
The Styx is now free. Lucifer took the other rivers off the silver standard. It’s now one BitCoin to cross the Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Lethe.
The Iranians welcome visitations from the dead for their New Year celebrations?
Good thing I don’t have travel plans for down there. No Bitcoins.
Mah Jongg!!!!! HAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!
Ve are selectifly filtering zee blog speech to ensure truth. Ve are ze guffernmint und ve know truth, ve vill tell you ze truth. Ze blogs zelektifly pull pieces out und redefine zem like zat unfortunate inzident where ze Zenator vas found in a rural Maryland motel mit a zuitkase of beer und two sheep. Ze Zenator vas a member uf ze Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry und vas just doink rezearch.
OK Ms Smith, did I meet the Common Core requirements in foreign language, politics and modern journalism?
Ya Vol! Do you think my barn boots will past for those black boots worn by the SS? Hate to buy a leather pair, checked with Johnston&Murphy don’t seem to have them on line……yet!
thefirstab says:
Doink……. I’m not pronouncing it right, so what?
Mark Steyn. No other intro needed:
Tweet of Defeat
http://counterjihadreport.com/2015/03/12/tweet-of-defeat/
Thinking back on it, I probably shouldn’t have told Henry Luce that her face would stop a clock.
Thought it was a Train?
Ix-nay on the ain-tray. There’s someone following me. 😯
Ah, you know it won’t last…
After all, it only an eternity in H3LL..
Yes, I have a couple of groupies on Circle 2. 😈
Made with a hammer and sickle…. literally…
Shhh… ix-nay on the ammer-hay ickle-say.
I’ll be in dutch with “ER.”
What makes you think that Eleanor doesn’t understand Pig Latin?
Because it’s not Esperanto.
Kie estas la necesejo?
rsmith1776 says:
A piece of work alright.
I’m more of a Dante ex-wife pinnacle guy myself…
yankeeintx says:
Well, at least they didn’t give Eleanor any horns 🙂
Now THAT’S some subliminal (or not so subliminal) marketing.
So many things our children do not know today…A lot because they are no longer around, and some because we do not show them.
Reminder to share with your kids, your grand kids the history that is all around, cause it is slowly disappearing. Share with them the stories of your youth, and your parents youth.
“So many things our children do not know today…”
You quoting our grandparents now?
Hey I’m a great grandma LOL
I remember mine 🙂 I’m lucky.
I know mine. I should call her.
“I should call her.” YES, YES, YES, taqi. Call her! NOW!!
BTW, thanks for posting my comic yesterday.
Elvis Chupacabra says:
I recall my granny showing me a “button hook” used to fasten button-up shoes. My grandad had a “foot adz” they used in shaping wood for building timber bridges and wooden oil derricks, which they built without paper blueprints. They also had a wheat scythe that belonged to one of their grandparents. They showed me how these things were used, which was a great mystery to me then.
Now, I proudly show off my fine old Leica 35-mm film cameras, my rotary dial pay phone and a 4-barrel Bosch carburetor!
When my oldest daughter wanted her own phone in her bedroom, I found one of those old hotel room pay phones. I refused to give her any change though…
labrat says:
My friend’s 5 y/o grandson came to her office and didn’t know what her telephone was. He was fascinated with it.
Oh there are so many changes just in the last 20 years.
One of the sillier “dozens” I remember was “Yo mamma’s so fat, she wears a VCR for a Beeper.”
That one doesn’t work anymore, because nobody knows what a VCR or a Beeper were.
True. LOL
BEEPERS!
Fer cryin’ out loud!
When I graduated, only doctors, nurses, EMS and drug dealers had those.
Three years out, most teenagers had one.
Now, most grade-school kids have a phone which is a computer a few orders of magnitude more powerful than the best we had when I graduated. In their pocket.
Say this to a kid: “Dual tape deck with high speed dubbing and DNR.”
Kids are so cute in a way today….
If you mention anything like black and white TV they then start asking how as the San Francisco earthquake or did you like Lincoln, or where your friends on the Titanic…LOL
in the late 80s my ex got the new latest and greatest computer with a whole 500 megs of memory and it cost $5,000…Luckily his company supplied his at home computers, and I got his hand me downs.
Look back at the changes in the last 50 years……that will really curl your hair.
Sandisk has a 200 Gigabyte micro-SD card coming out this quarter.
It’s the size of a fingernail.
I remember when we got a whole megabyte on an 8″ floppy disk and were like Hory Shet!
5 1/4″, I mean. Nobody ever got a megabyte on an 8″ floppy.
Not publicly anyway
Trash-80s, then Apple IIs and VisiCalc — changed my world. I remember trying to convince a development manager at IBM that the desktop computer was going to be the ultimate tool of the 80s; he didn’t get it.
doodahdaze says:
I gave a friends kid a compass. He was fascinated. He walked around the pasture for an hour trying to figger it out.
KIDS REACT TO ROTARY PHONES
An oldie but goodie:
oh cool !
The Olympians
The Hidden Hand
EnterTheDragon says:
Please research/cover the Kelly File story on Obama taking the Iran issue to the UN, not Congress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wf3LPptZVE
more BS
doesn’t The US Constitution trump the UN ?
doesn’t The US Constitution also limit this power grab/abuse of authority?
isn’t time the un goes the way of atlantis?
You know I do feel that Obama feels that he is king and does not have to answer to anyone but himself.
Why wouldn’t he? Congress is deferring to him as though he were a king.
Well, we know from Medillin v. Texas that neither the UN World Court or an International Treaty can trumps a State Judicial System. Also, the President cannot order a State to abide by such a ruling. That case was argued in the Supreme Court by our own Sen. Ted Cruz. (then Solicitor General of Texas).
Mornin’ infidels!
where’s the run-on sentence about gender equality ?
texan59 says:
While a part of me is enjoying the death rattle coming from Hillz, the other part of me…….the one that can see and hear has pretty much had enough. Of her, and John Ellis. Mornin’ ma’am. Coffee’s on down below. 🙂
Mornin’ T!
Me, Mrs. T, and the boys are headin’ to the big city tonight to see Dennis Miller and BOR. Should be entertaining to say the least. Better turn on my Spidey-senses whilst milling about in that bastion of liberalism of SA. 🙄
Morning Ms. WeeWeed, Stella, Sharon, Tex, Nye, and All. Great morning! Had to do some early barn work, scraping the old used dirt out. Ready for new residents, later this month or April. Have to wait until the pastures’ thaw, grass is growing. Sitting on the back porch, enjoying my coffee, looking at the cracks in the concrete in need of repair, there’s always tomorrow!
I posted this late last night, about Holder’s replacement. There are currently 4 Senators from our side supporting her, which puts the vote at 50-50 with the tie-breaker going to Uncle Joe. If your Senator is one of these 4, I suggest y’all get on the horn. 👿
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/loretta-lynch-nomination-close-116032.html
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott, Marmion
BREAKING: Loretta Lynch Caught in Deceptive Disclaimer
By Sidney Powell | 03/11/15
http://observer.com/2015/03/breaking-loretta-lynch-caught-in-deceptive-disclaimer/
“Lynch, Caldwell and Weissmann are a triumvirate of trouble for the rule of law. The three of them go way back in the Eastern District of New York, and they apparently share the same vision for truth and law enforcement—the rules don’t apply to them. They are all licensed to lie.”
JUST SAY NO TO LYNCH!
Lindsay Graham is not one of my senators but I have no qualms about emailing him to tell him no…..
Coffee up y’all. It’s Friday. Enjoy. 🙂
Thank you Tex. be safe in your travels.
Okay, I’m packing. I’ll meet you all there. Uh, where is it, by the way, not that it really matters, I’m ready to go.
Beauty. That’s an invitation to relaxation.
Since there have been a number of names we’ve called the mental midgets in the ME, I think it might be a good idea to do as this General does. “Daesh” 😆 😆
http://chicksontheright.com/blog/item/27768-find-out-what-derogatory-name-a-top-u-s-general-calls-isis
I just call them islamists.
Good morning to all! Thank God! Coffee!
IS enjoyed an after dark parade of their military vehicles though downtown Mosul last night. CENTCOM wasn’t invited, so they crashed the party.
Evidently CENTCOM spent most of yesterday investigating an internet rumor that coalition jets bombed an Iraqi Army post in Anbar killing 38. Of course it was really pumped by the anti-american press. It took most of the day to establish that it was an IS truck filled with over 300 artillery shells.
Oh those funny boys from CENTCOM! They do have a sense of humor! Now they are thinking like Warfighter’s! Thanks John!
The amazing thing is that someone inside Mosul provided the heads up to CENTCOM.
So these means no cheap government surplus Toyota trucks?
Those look like Tundras, no less.
Apparently the “young lady” who got her *ss stomped in NY is enjoying her time in the spotlight. At least according to this article. Boys and girls, we are living in an upside-down world. 🙄
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/victim-brooklyn-mcdonald-attack-brags-fame-online-article-1.2146897
cohibadad says:
I wonder how the media chooses which incidents of black mob violence to publicize. That one was no more remarkable than most that Colin Flaherty posts. And I’m not sure why they call her a victim, didn’t look like any victims. She ended up on the ground getting the final beatdown but they were all active participants.
You’ve heard the saying, “They ain’t got no sense.” Well, here you go, an example. SMH
Her face doesn’t look any worse for wear…
“In McDonald’s beatdown, herd instinct took over: expert”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/mcdonald-beatdown-herd-instinct-expert-article-1.2147899
So is there going to be a disparate “herd instinct” impact defense?
Dr. Stoopid hangs up her TV gig. 🙄
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/12/nancy-snyderman-resigns-from-nbc-news-months-after-breaking-voluntary-ebola-quarantine/
She should have been jailed.
hoosiergranny says:
Dear “Dr. Nancy”,
After writing and deleting a scathing note telling you how I’m currently feeling, I decided to take a different approach. You have an amazing opportunity to turn your life around and get back to the basic values that this country was founded upon.
Take some time to review what all has happened in your life lately and determine how you would like your daughter to remember you. Perhaps if you would base your opinions and actions upon fact rather than rhetoric or bias, you would be better received. Just a suggestion.
And keep in mind that the good Lord gives and takes away. God Bless.
hoosiergranny
P.S. OK. I can’t deny that I’ve been looking forward to this moment for a long time.
Just when you think the murdering thugs of IS have hit bottom. They come up with a new nightmare. IS IEDs now come with a chlorine chaser.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-militants-resort-to-using-chlorine-gas-bombs-to-attack-soldiers-in-iraq-10102773.html
Chemical Warfare, not good, next step is Nuke ’em!
Where are all our treaty peeps at? Pretty sure that breaks a few conventions…
Got this Colonel,
Les, Arms agreements and conventions only restrict the civilized world from defending itself from the uncivilized. They are the panacea of those who think you can work everything out by talking it over. That’s why we “negotiate” while people are slaughtered by thugs.
The only good news lately was that it was an A-10 that strafed IS in Deir ez-Zur, Syria yesterday.
Coming to a subway, church, or synagogue near you? These random folks seem to find the most hellish warfare from every age in history. But let’s forget the danger all freedom loving humans are in. We need to have a national conversation on race. .
Sarc tags disappeared! Oops!
Center, right hand side of image. There is a face at the right hand side of the cloud.
Michelle Obama celebrates Iranian Spring holiday in OUR White House. Obama must think the Islamist takeover of Islam is a done deal.
Link: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/03/12/michelle-celebrates-iranian-holiday-white-house/
Please tell me she was in a full burka.
IIRC, that particular Persian (Iranian) spring festival (Nowruz) used to be in protest to islam.
pan·der
ˈpandər/Submit
gerund or present participle: pandering
gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.).
“Obama is pandering to Islamic fanatics”
synonyms: indulge, gratify, satisfy, cater to, give in to, accommodate, comply with
“Obama panders to Iran”
See “quisling”.
Oh, she thinks that burkas are only for the lower class. She is above the level of a person who would be expected to wear a burka.
The White Hut and entire USA are in dire need of de-worming.
Sometimes I just feel like this –
Yep, I can relate.
That looks like so much fun!
I think they had The Rapture and nobody made the cut.
You may have something there………
That’s funny, doodahdaze, and yet it’s not funny at all. :-]
I wish that wasn’t funny.
Lois Lerner started harassing our guys way back when. Politico had the goods on her and sat on it as well. The Chicago Way did not start with Bronco Bama. 👿
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politico-sat-on-allegations-lois-lerner-had-prior-history-of-targeting-conservatives/article/2561408
Why is Lois still breathing free air? She should be in the big house, LEAVENWORTH, KS.
Seems that the blowback for the 46 senators who signed the open letter to the mullahs is pretty much isolated to inside the Washington beltway.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/beltway-reaction-aside-iran-letter-a-win-for-gop/article/2561461
manickernel says:
Maybe since they outfoxed the fox?
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/reaction-to-gop-letter-exposes-attempt-to-outfox-congress-on-iran-deal/2015/03/13/
Comparing 1965 to 2015.
The big difference I see is the American flag in 1965 and the lack of American flags in 2015.
Yep, not one American flag that I can see in 2015.
Huge difference. The marchers in ’65 wanted to be included in the country. In 2015, not so much. They want to be treated differently – read better- (and held to a lower standard). It’s pretty frustrating.
lilbirdee'12 says:
A repost from midnight last night..some may have missed. Want to name a movie? The funny and creative minds here in the Tree have any ideas? Col. Ken?
Bigelow does Bergdahl. Yep, she announced last year she wanted to make the movie on our well known deserter and she’s making it a priority now. Soooo, maybe the movie will take the place of the report WE should have been told about back in Sept. 2014; since Ms. Big has such great contacts, don’t ya know ! Any treepers want to choose a good movie title for this blockbuster hit ?
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/bowe-bergdahl-movie-kathryn-bigelow/18058
“The Traitor wore Falsies”
“I was an Afghani War Bride”
“The Gay, the Bad and the Unshaven”
The Taliban and the Traitor.
A Man and his Beard
Don’t Do This
What a Creep!
Five Terrorists and a Traitor
A Rose By Any Other Name is still a Traitor
A Used Man
The Devil Wore Pantsuits
Obama’s Other Son: the Bergdahl Conspiracy
I like that one.
Zeros’ Last Trade
Trading Terrorists~~Five Beards At a Time
mcfyre2012 says:
On March 04, a dog was found shot and tied to railroad tracks here in the Tampa Bay area. After an extensive search, the owners were caught…turns out the dog “wasn’t mean enough,” so they decided to get rid of it. The owners? A 21-year-old, an 18-year-old, and also two 17-year-olds. More of Obama’s sons…with arrest records to boot (must have been why their pictures were buried in the printed version of the paper).
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/two-adults-arrested-in-shooting-of-dog-left-for-dead-tied-to-railroad/2221080
Innocents suffer when the diversity tolerance is high.
I was afraid to read this.
Read at the bottom how the pup got her new name.
Surveillance cameras can serve a good purpose.
Penalties for animal cruelty are not harsh enough.
Irish Eyes says:
Nice looking dog, so glad this appalling story has a happy ending. Love that Cabela’s sent her a huge gift package. Looks like she’ll get a good forever home.
The FSA and YPG eliminated 74 IS thugs in Kobane and Til Tamr yesterday.
Imagine what they could have done with a little air support.
Moishe Pipik says:
NPR this morning took a break from bashing Israel to “talking” about Ferguson. All these experts talking about “microagressions” and “systemic racisim” as if any of this had to do with an at-large robbery suspect (Michael Brown) who punched a policeman in his face, grabbed his gun, and charged at him.
carterzest says:
I heard that as well and was yelling at my car radio until I finally had enough and changed the station. It is disgusting that they, as well as all of the other alphabet media networks, are still carrying on with the “unarmed Black teen” meme.
Yes! They’re still saying “unarmed teen.” Once a person reaches for someone’s gun, it’s a stretch to call him “unarmed.”
Maybe it should be “a teen who would like to be armed.”
I prefer “effing thug”
National Postsanity Radio.
Michael Dixon says:
Erick Erickson is subbing for Rush today, and is electrifying the airwaves.
He Kicked Ass.
The Periodic Table of Videos – University of Nottingham
http://www.periodicvideos.com/
I watched the one on Knighthood. What a darling man. I would loved to have had him for a professor. I never took chemistry. I would probably have failed at that.
wondering999 says:
auscm, you don’t have to put up with judgment on your Chemistry skills. The nice people at Khan Academy keep improving their website 🙂
Each video is fairly short. I love them, and one of these days I’m going to get around to their Accounting class too
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/
I’m childishly giggling over Scott Ott’s “…festering bag of pus …” [9:10]
Hillary’s Bizarre Press Conference Over Email Scandal
The voting masses in America may be topping off at Peak Ignorance.
Hillary looks like and lies like:
What is the JEOPARDY? And why am I always mentioned?
Chances are good that I won’t be a-visitin’ tomorrow so here you go:
A loooooong day, so:
On Thug Cat, there are thugs everywhere. Thug cats, dogs, birds, mice, rats, squirrels, gator, moles, etc. Don’t forget E. O. Wilson’s ants. AND…children, grandchildren, others extended relations and spouses (former and present). Ya gotta tame them.
I, for one, start laughing far too early. Bad show. Very humiliating for one trying to be a True Thug. Likely to get you shot. Or peed on.
We need a Counter-Thuggery Agency at Federal level. Preferable with agencies on the international, continental (not the dance), nationwide, regional, state, county, township. city and neighborhood level. Should solve the problem. Experience sezzzz.
Found this via IOTW and I agree with BFH, if it happened they would have recorded it.
http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/03/12/uw-investigates-sae-fraternity-racism-allegations/70240858/
I have to see “proof” before I will believe what these black “victims” are saying, since we have seen so many lies.
I think they’re on a witch hunt now against SAE.
I’ve been seeing videos posted by what some of them have been saying, but the media could care less because as we know blacks are never racist, they’re just beaten down. After the OU football player had his video go viral, he called in the media to defend himself, he apologized for the language but used the excuse of how hard it is for a black boy and of course brought up Brown and Martin.
“I think they’re on a witch hunt now against SAE.” Yes, I do, too.
We have our share of crazies in Oklahoma as well. This bill was nothing more than to protect bakers and wedding venues and eventually Churches because we all know that is around the corner.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/oklahoma-dem-amendment-christian-businesses-must-post-notice-of-anti-gay-discrimination/
Oklahoma Democratic state Rep. Emily Virgin wants Christian businesses to post a public notice of discrimination if they intend to claim that they have a religious right to refuse service to LGBT people.
State Rep. Chuck Strohm (R) introduced a bill, the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act, earlier this year that would allow businesses like wedding cake bakers and photographers to deny services if it was “against the person’s religious beliefs.”
State Sen. Joseph Silk (R), who introduced a similar bill in the Oklahoma Senate, told The New York Times recently that new laws were necessary because the LGBT movement was “challenging religious liberties and the freedom to live out religious convictions.”
The amendment to HB1371 introduced by Virgin on Tuesday would require religious businesses to come out of the closet.
“Any person not wanting to participate in any of the activities set forth in subsection A of this section based on sexual orientation, gender identity or race of either party to the marriage shall post notice of such refusal in a manner clearly visible to the public in all places of business, including websites,” the amendment states.
Great. They have to post that they don’t serve LGBT. That will be like putting a bulls-eye on their business.
Exactly, the bill was not about discriminating it was about religious beliefs and a business not having to bake a cake or provide a wedding ceremony for a gay couple. So this idiot wants to risk their safety in order to follow their religious beliefs.
I think she represents the Norman area so I guess we can thank those smart college students who won’t get their butts to class for electing her.
It was just a ploy though to kill the bill.
Here is what has happened to Sen. Silk and his family since he introduced the bill. The last paragraph is the same tactics used by all leftists.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/lgbt-activists-issue-death-threats-children-oklahoma-state-senator
The LGBT activists have shown time and time again that they want to persecute, trample on people’s rights, and take people’s businesses if for any reason their behavior and choices are not agreed with. My family and I, like many others before, are testimonies to their hate, intolerance, and forceful nature of this movement. The sad thing is, no one is attacking their behavior. They have the right to be gay…but if you disagree with them, they will do everything in their power to ruin your life.
Look at the picture of his kids, they threatened to kill babies.
Bar! Beer!!
There for that!
I’ll have a case of what he’s having please!
32 taps. Nice. One of our places has 20.
Obamageddon lurks.
But there was positive news for the Zionist Union on that score too, with a poll of Israeli-Arabs showing the overwhelming majority would favor their united Arab party joining a center-left coalition government.
Jeb is going to try the “compassionate conservative” trick again. Walker is countering with the “passionate conservative” line….I like it.
What kind of kid spray paints swastikas inside a synagogue? I bet if a kid spray painted a pig on a mosque it would be considered a hate crime.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/swastikas-painted-inside-st-louis-jewish-center/
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your love and salvation to all. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Here’s a walk down Memory Lane
Who remembers these for gym…LOL
{Hand up} Aren’t they lovely?
Auntie Lib says:
Not only had to wear them, but had to iron the damn things every week. Hated them!!!!
Ironing was the worse Part for me too..
Q: – Why did Helen Keller have a burn mark on one side of her face?
A. – She answered the iron.
I know, I know…Eleanor’s going to p!ss in my Cheerios tomorrow morning at breakfast.
Remember this well !!!!
oh, what fun it was, lol
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/im-going-to-kill-you-white-boy-racist-slits-mans-throat-in-queens/
According to the NYPD, at around 2:20 a.m. yesterday, a 24-year-old man and his girlfriend were walking near Seneca Avenue and Gates Avenue “when the suspect, who was walking with a female acquaintance, ran up to the victim and said ‘I’m going to kill you white boy” in Spanish. The suspect then slashed the victim’s throat with an unknown object.”
The suspect fled with a female companion, who the police say acted as a lookout. The victim was taken to a hospital where he needed multiple stitches to close the wound to his throat.
The police describe the male suspect as being 25-30 years old and approximately 5’8″ with a medium build. The female suspect is described as being 25-30 years old and approximately 5’4″.
Ah, so they were both black, huh?
stormtigerzx says:
In light of all the bad news, it is so easy to become discouraged & give into despair, just wanted to show a story that can give evidence that God is still in control & works all things for good even in the most heart breaking circumstances.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?=GvhuUEx2UhM
Youtube search:: Incredible Body-cam footage shows dramatic rescue of Utah “Miracle baby” Lilly Groesbeck video
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/police-body-cam-video-shows-miraculous-rescue-of-baby-lilly/
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Friday November 2nd – Open Thread →
Vice-President Mike Pence Discusses Leftist Political Origin of Central American Migrants…
Posted on November 1, 2018 by sundance
Vice President Mike Pence tells FOX Business’ Trish Regan the migrant caravan heading toward the U.S. southern border was organized by leftist groups in Honduras, and central America, and is partially financed by Venezuela.
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214 Responses to Vice-President Mike Pence Discusses Leftist Political Origin of Central American Migrants…
Louisiana Tea Rose says:
Sure wish he would have gone a step further and called out Soros!
scott467 says:
Or give him the summary execution he so richly deserves.
Newton Love says:
I would be happy to pay to see George Soros executed for his many crimes against the Jews and Mankind, via death by baseball bat. Don’t waste money on a bullet.
Guy-Blanc Déploré says:
Given our President’s sense of showmanship, I’d think an excessive number of Hellfire missiles all converging in perfect timing on target, followed by video of the strike released from the White House would be more the style. (and more fun, too)
mostlyogauge says:
Like what President Ryan did in “Executive Orders”.
SwampRatTerrier says:
Did he Nuke the MOB MSM MEDIA too in that movie?
USMCLt says:
Whitey Bulger treatment.
The post “Baby Blanket Bingo” on the website howtobeyourowndetective.com covers the tie between Bulger and Mueller and wonders if Mueller had Bulger Arkancided to keep him quiet. It also has a great analysis of the 14th Amendment argument against anchor babies.
cattastrophe says:
This is best summary I’ve seen. https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-von-spakovsky/trump-right-ending-birthright-citizenship-constitutional
mcclainra says:
Drawn and quartered should come ‘back into style’. These crooks deserve that or worse.
Some people may not know what “Drawn and Quartered” actually means. Please see the picture below that is the last stage where the quartering happens.
A fitting demise for these crooks.
farmhand1927 says:
Have patience…..
As for Leftist involvement in the caravans, Project Veritas released videos last night revealing Hit and Run Beto’s campaign is providing supplies with the usual caveat of “Shhhhh, we don’t want anyone to know”. Gosh, this must mean Obama and Beto’s Hollywood pals and LaBron James must be a-ok with lawless invasions, too.
Q&A says:
Beto married well – John McCain well, John Kerry well. His father-in-law is a real estate billionaire twenty times over. Lots and lots of $$$$$ floating around Beto.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/media-blackout-meet-robert-francis-beto-orourkes-billionaire-father-in-law/
IN other words you are explaining them as Male WHORES………..
Female whores also. Prime example would be George Soros’s much younger wife.
I just don’t see any female falling in love with Soros. MONEY is SEXY indeed.
It certainly makes the girlfriend much more attractive.
@farmhand1927: Well the various nationals in the approaching invading caravan have filed a lawsuit in US Federal Court against president Trump and his border policies claiming among others that they have a right for asylum in the US.
These are the same individuals who refused asylum in Mexico.
I wonder who these attorney(s) are who filed this lawsuit? Is there a Avenatti in the picture?
Since when do have foreign nationals trying to invade the US illegally a claim or right to file suit in this country while they still miles away?
Cali, I posted a link earlier this morning on this story on the Presidential thread. It was early (maybe 6:30 or 7?) so you might be able to easily find it if you are interested. Troublemaker10 then replied to my post with another link giving more details and info on the group behind the lawsuit.
I read on another web site that the Nexus Company is paying for the low-yers.
Can anyone confirm that?
In case you wanted to know who was actually putting up the money for this legal clown show…..
$400+ a month till they see the judge x’s 5000 x’s avg wait time of 9-12 months = $20,000,000
https://www.librebynexus.com/gps
KAY123 says:
The O zero, is/has always been a crook.
Birds of a feather flock together, they are all
crooks. Surprise….Surprise..!!
Obama – The Illegal Alien President
Peppurr says:
FOXnews – fails to hardly even mention Soros’ name. I think I heard Hannity only mention it once. Why is that?
Leftist political origin? That would be the DNC. A bit further north than Venezuela, but, same idea.
Tom Feral (@TomFeral) says:
Probably the DNC and some of their little friends in the CIA.
YL Calif says:
HERE IS THE DIVIDE IN AMERICA OVER THE CARAVAN:
* The Left is only worried about possible harm that may come to the foreign women & children in the caravan (propaganda from MSM)
* The Right is concerned about the hundreds of AMERICANS that have been and will be killed by illegals.
Clivus Multrum says:
The left would like nothing more than to see our military using force against their third world mob. They are nothing but cannon fodder to them.
The Right should also be concerned about the infectious diseases that invaders bring and the cost not just to us but the bankruptcy it will bring for our children and grandchildren.
Left isn’t concerned about America.
treehouseron says:
I fully support Vice President Mike Pence, love him, and will happily vote for him in 2024 if he receives President Trump’s endorsement.
GO PENCE! WE LIKE PENCE!
I’ve given him some crap before,but he sounded real solid on this tonight.
Yeah, I didn’t like Pence when Trump was under attack during the “Grab ’em” incident. Pence ran as fast as he could to his safe space while Chris Christie worked hard to prep Trump for the upcoming debates. But he’s supporting Trump now.
Ospreyzone says:
Exactly. I smell fear in the man. When push comes to shove, as it will in political warfare, my gut says he would deny PDJT 3-times before the cock crowed.
Will Hunt says:
He does not have the backbone necessary to withstand the torrent of abuse and attacks. I fear that Trump is unique and singular in this regard.
Guillermo Maguire says:
Agreed. He is showing he is a good follower, not a leader
tomf says:
Attention, attention, will all members and would be shooters of the circular firing squad please assemble forthwith and take aim at the Vice President of the United States.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Good one!
That Joisey guy in Montana has fight in him. He wouldn’t run from President Trump.
Nor would Lou Barletta.
Pa Hermit says:
I find it hard to believe that Lou is behind that coattail’er Casey. Casey hasn’t done much for our state. I’ve written him many times on where he stands on an issue and the response is always the same: ” Thank you for contacting me, if it comes up for a vote, I’ll keep your view in mind.” He always carries water for the Left and nothing more!
tdaly14 says:
He’s always supported Trump, just didn’t know how to handle that tape response. It was actually Priebus that freaked out, not Pence. Pence also voted against the Wall Street bailouts, when most Republicans did.
Joshua2415 says:
Mike Pence went weak in the knees over the Freedom of Religion bill as well when the gay mafia ganged up on him as governor of Indiana. Hopefully some of PDJT’s spine can be grafted into him over the next 6 years..
Huge fan here. One of the most solid decisions our VSGPOTUS ever made was Pence as VP.
KittyKat says:
codasouthtexas says:
Better decision than our AG! For sure!
LOL! LMAO!!!
“Don’t pull the elf’s ears – you might wake him up!” 😉
I sure hope you’re right, wolfmoon1776. I still remember seeing he was NOT POTUS’s choice, but was part of a ‘deal’ with the RNC, GOPe, establishment to support POTUS in the race and election. I will have to see more evidence that he is to be totally trusted. My spidey-sense is on when it comes to him.
I am sure that broad GOP support factored very much into Candidate Trump’s decision to go with Pence, but I seriously doubt that Pence was forced upon POTUS. In fact, I tend to believe those rumors are the work of the other side, trying to divide us. I have seen some detailed whoppers about Pence which always revolve around “evil Pence”, and they stank badly of Hollywood writers moonlighting as disinformation artists for the Democrats.
I have an increasing sense for WHY the VSGPOTUS picked Pence, and those reasons always point toward wanting somebody of the highest moral and spiritual caliber to assure the success of the endeavor. In other words, rather than pick somebody to make himself look good (which people tend to do), Candidate Trump picked somebody who WAS good – perhaps even better than himself. And since George “I cannot tell a lie” Washington was not available, he picked the next most honest guy – Mike Pence.
There are many other reasons why Mike Pence was a superb choice, but I think that down at the core, the “long play strategic” reason was to repel dark forces and insure success by picking somebody of the highest character. And interestingly, after that choice is made, so many other advantages of Pence fall into place.
As Trump said, his main reason in picking a VP was continuity – somebody to replace him – (subtext: carrying on the Trump MAGA agenda) – and Mike Pence IS the guy! If Mike Pence made President Trump a promise to keep up the MAGA agenda, he is good on his word – it is just THAT simple! That kind of trust is worth far more than “ticket balance”, or “it’s a woman”, or some other reason. Pence is KAG! in the flesh! 😀
pocaMAGAjunta says:
Any suggestion that a man of high moral standards and impeccable character doesn’t have a backbone, fails to understand what it takes to live the life that Pence has chosen for himself and his family.
I sense that the blessings of his example will lead many who have gone astray, and will heal the damage done to our people, and our country will once again be indivisible under God.
NYGuy54 says:
Wait…I thought the President’s kids preferred Pence and that’s what got him in.
Good thing Trump didn’t have a daughter named Chelsea!!! 😉
don’t forget to tip your waiters folks.
Oh, I still remember basking in the glow of the aftermath of the Pence-Kaine debate. Trump never looked so smart as that moment when people realized HE had made a FANTASTIC decision and Hillary had already bombed.
I remember Republicans feeling awkward about who to congratulate more – Trump or Pence. People were thinking “This is Pence’s moment – let’s not be TOO effusive in our Trump praise!”
When the problems are THAT GOOD – oh, THAT was winning. 😀
and Kaine is still an idiot.
Scary. The man is a SCARY idiot. Maybe it was the “Carter factor”. Hillary didn’t want another leftist player – just a dupe that her people all agreed they could “handle”.
And still way in over his head. Glub glub…
Don’t forget your helmet, Timmy!
scrap1ron says:
And don’t lick the bus windows.
LOL! Attention Corey Stewart Campaign.
Brian L says:
I don’t think he has the charisma.
PS82 says:
Pence was in on the hit job of Gen. Flynn. Don’t trust Pence any further than I can toss him. His prevarication on true origins of the current caravans doesn’t help, either.
Pied Piper says:
Venezuela is financing something? Did I read that right?
Trumpstumper says:
Read it again. Kinda goes like this…
Sundance explained it a coupla days ago.
nikkichico7 says:
China 🇨🇳 🤨‼️
Wedgewood, Spode ….. 🤫
No doubt, when our President spoke to Xi yesterday, thus was ‘discussed’.
I thinkkso too 😝👍
Corelle 🙂
Oh my yes 🤗❤️😎
Stillwater says:
Set the video to double speed. Pretty funny… 🙂
I have no idea how to do that; to speed up or slow down a video, unless downloaded first. Guess I will look that up. TY for the ‘hint’.
Start playing the video then pause.
Click on the wheel icon to the right off the “CC” icon.
Click on the “Speed” option on the menu that comes up.
Change the speed from “Normal” to “2”.
Then resume playing video.
OMG! 2x speed is great. Like in “The Hunt For Red October” when Jonesy plays his recording at 10x speed: “Now that’s GOT to be man made, Captain”. Funny as hell listening to and watching it, but you really get a feel for what China has been doing to this country for decades. They have been screwing us big time. President Trump really knows how to hit a point home. He understands what has been going on, and has a plan to fix it. He has been saying the same things in the same way for decades. More people should listen, really listen, to him.
Chicoms paying.
Y’all Know What Time It Is says:
Doesn’t China and to a lesser degree own Venezuela now?
Yes. With Russia to the tune of about 49% of all Venezuelan oil production. That’s officially. It’s likely more. Maduro is likely in one or both back pockets.
Venezuela is financed by CHINA….
Now does it make sense?
PS DO NOT BUY CITGO gas!
NJF says:
They always, always go too far.
BREAKING: Group of migrants travelling on foot from Honduras file federal lawsuit against Pres Trump and others. "Trump’s professed and enacted policy towards thousands of caravanners seeking asylum in the United States is shockingly unconstitutional." https://t.co/m79NT1Xci7
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) November 2, 2018
Yeah they over played their hand a long time ago. The pendulum is beginning to swing back the other way now.
They’re not coming into our country.
“BREAKING: Group of migrants travelling on foot from Honduras file federal lawsuit against Pres Trump and others. ”
They did NOT!
WHY won’t the *&^$ing media tell the TRUTH?!?
If they’re traveling on foot in Mexico — right now — then they CANNOT possibly have filed lawsuits in America… what part of that physical REALITY are you having trouble with?
So next question: WHO actually filed the lawsuit?
THAT would be some HELPFUL information, fake news media.
Then follow up on whoever that is, and who is paying them.
THAT would be even MORE helpful to know.
“”Trump’s professed and enacted policy towards thousands of caravanners seeking asylum in the United States is shockingly unconstitutional.”
Oh, so now the barbarian horde consists of American Constitutional Law experts?
Does that strike anyone else as slightly implausible?
Perhaps… oh, I don’t know… MAYBE complicit Leftist slimeball lawyers are speaking and acting on behalf of the invasion force?!?
They should be detained in the EXACT SAME TENTS being set up for the barbarians.
Every last one of them.
And if they complain at all, they should be disappeared to Gitmo for the next six years.
45 lawyers from the U.N. are traveling with the marchers.
The U.N. has demanded that Trump not stop their access to the U.S.
The U.N. is increasingly looking like another Enemy of the People of the World.
HonorDefendBuckeye says:
In an effort to be a bit lighthearted, my 1/1024 Indian identity says, “UN – Heap big time enemy – many, many moons ago.”
Now that will get me condemned by the thought police.
Throw u.n. out of the U.S., ASAP!
Increasingly?
If they looked any MORE like an enemy of the People of the world than they already do, they would be Borg.
I thought the UN was the Borg. I guess I have some reading to catch up on.
Ha! Too true!
Deplorable Patriot says:
What tipped you off? 😉
Seriously, our military is reported to have been double crossed by the UN as long ago as the Korean War. It was never really meant to be anything other than overlords for the rest of us.
HA!!!
Oh, yes – I can see it. The UN CANNOT be trusted. That bad Korea outcome makes a LOT of sense if the UN was the loose gear.
Always has been, since its inception. Just not obvious until recently. I would love to see POTUS et al totally defund them, and make them leave the US, lock, stock, and barrel. We do NOT need them here. If I remember correctly, a lot of this started with Woodrow Wilson and his League of Nations which morphed into the UN, and has NEVER been about any nationalists. Very globalist, and in the past year, their tentacles exposed to human trafficking and drugs, to name a few. A tool of the rich and powerful……….
Wouldn’t mind those buildings back! 😉
They always have been.
Their first (altbeit temporary) Secretary General back in 1945 was convicted Soviet Spy Alger Hiss… ’nuff said…
Ooops. Albeit…
As opposed to Al Borland, who wouldn’t put up with this non-plaid nonsense… 🙂
HA! I did not know that. LOL! Oh, my. END OF STORY.
The UN has always been an enemy of the US!
Has been since at least the bombing of the marine barracks in Beirut 35 years ago where they made all the marines keep their guns put away.
Same M.O. used in Chattanooga.
SPIT!!!
Wow. You’re right. Gradual disarmament.
I’m going to start calling it the United Soviet Nations.
Now this has me really concerned!! But by the way, how DARE they!!!? This IS not their country!!!! This burns me 😡
I hope that the MS-13, or other violent types, like the convicted murderer who was deported from the US back to Mexico a few years ago, who recently joined the caravan, well, I hope that those violent criminals kill most of the 45 lawyers from the UN that are traveling embedded in the caravan.
That would be a start, to get rid of those lawyers. Would sure save the cost of their imprisonment!
Hmmm. Just thinking this would be a good time to scrub off/out those MS-13 gangstas and the drug Cartels… kind of like killing three (or more) birds with one stone…
Heyyyy, Piglosi… Here’s some collateral damage for ya’ …
Alligator Gar says:
Oh, no, to her the invaders are “angels” and show the face of God. Remember her ranting about the MS13 ganstas and the UACs and saying this garbage. Plastic Piglosi….what a crock with obvious signs of dementia. Yet this old hag keeps getting elected even though she thinks Bush2 is still president.
45 lawyers! The President is right. There really are dangerous criminals in the caravan.
Who, the 45 lawyers?
The U.N. is an international “lawyers’ aid” organization now? Why am I not surprised.
They should be stopped FIRST.
The lawyers are the most corrupt and corrosive people in that whole barbarian horde.
Would be nice if the lawyers get swept up with the horde and housed in the “processing center” tents for the duration of their stay. Since they have been traveling with them and could have been exposed to all kinds of communicable maladies, it would only make sense from a public safety standpoint.
Once they deal with Venezuela, Myanmar and most of Africa, we will begin to consider their admonition.
Well then they couldn’t have been the ones who filed the lawsuits, because they’re in Mexico.
Unless you can now ‘phone in’ a lawsuit against the president of the United States?
What, do you call in to the DNC helpline?
Press ‘1’ for lawsuits, press ‘2’ for rent-a-mobs, press ‘3’ for donations to the Clinton Foundation?
I am no legal expert/lawyer, thank God, but this smacks of HIGH TREASON in my book!!
guitar107 says:
UN… isn’t that rich?
Why don’t the UN parasites escort the “caravan” to the worker’s paradise in Venezuela?
Doesn’t the U.N. law say they can only claim asylum in an adjacent country?
motreehouse says:
Here are the email addresses of the “lawyers” who filed this suit taken from the actual lawsuit as found on shannon breams twitter
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5026840/11-1-18-Pineda-v-Trump-Complaint.pdf
julie@goodgeorgialawyer.com
mwilliams@ndhlawyers.com
dlepierre@ndhlawyers.com
jmshoreman@verizon.net
mightyconservative says:
@”goodgeorgialawyer”. A bit of puffed self-importance there.
Lactantius says:
Non-citizens attempting to breach the sovereign border of the United States do not have “standing” in any U.S. Federal Court. Neither do U.N. lawyers.
There is a bizarre law, the so-called Alien Tort Statute of 1789, passed by the first Congress which authorizes foreign individuals anywhere in the world to sue in US courts for money damages for alleged violations of international law. The Alien Tort Statute clearly empowers federal judges to hear lawsuits brought by foreign individuals who were personally harmed by U.S. violations of international law or US treaties.
It is less clear whether Congress sought to place any limits on which violations are applicable. All that said, there is no U.S. violation of international law to which the U.S. is a signatory which illegal aliens trying to break through the border could use.
To even infer such foolishness is to reveal how far down the rabbit hole the Progressives have fallen in thinking that any personal offense by anyone in the world is open to litigation in the U.S. Federal Court System. But why not? We pay huge sums of money to “determine” if an illegal alien has the “right” to stay in the country. Federal Courts conducting Chinese fire drills is a litigant’s best ally. Gone are the days when Judge Roy Bean, the law west of the Pecos River, would tell a murderer: “We will conduct a fair trial after which we are going to hang you.” He was absolutely correct. A fair trial of a totally guilty party is merely an homage to lady justice. But we have long since come to believe that if one person has a slight doubt, the perp goes free.
Some Progressive judge will take a petition from the illegal aliens and order President Donald J. Trump to send a welcome wagon to greet the mob. Which President Trump will not do and then the judge will have to ….. what?
In a sense they’re doing what the European Commission (EC: the self-perpetuating, unelected rulers of Europe, answerable to no one) are doing over here: the time-dishonored principle of “it’s easer to as forgiveness than to ask permission”. A sort of governmental scope-creep, if you will.
Where there’s a vacuum of leadership, the crooks will creep in. And have, over here, at least… All of these treaties, agreements, etc. are an attempt to put the UN at the top of the heap, and impose global government (governance, they call it), and install a one-world government. The same way that the EC/EP insinuated its Satanic tendrils into the governments of the various European countries and emerged as the de-facto government of them all…
Guess who is a so called Constitutional lawyer ( who lost his
license years ago for perjury) is a community rebel rouser, and
a hater of this country? If i have to tell you….you should be
disqualified from voting!
missilemom says:
The Lawyers facilitating this need to be detained and or stopped from re-entering the USA.
glissmeister says:
Logan Act. For real.
steph_gray says:
Well that’s just ridiculous. How could they have any standing in American courts?
Guy had diabetes, and had to have his left leg amputated, but the Dr mistakenly amputated rightvleg, and, after realising error, went back and amputated left leg.
Guy sued, but case thrown out, cause conplainant didn’t have ‘standing’ ; didn’t have a leg to STAND on.
Thats the kind of case these idiots got, but doesn’t keep em from trying.
A foreign horde is filing federal lawsuits against POTUS “and others” while hiking in Mexico… WTF, lol.
Exactly. Very similar to the lib/soc/prog/dem support of the transgenders. Just a bridge too far.
He violated their rights to enter America and get Free Stuff?
Venzuela Democrats
As DJT has said, the democrats are the party of crime.
People laughed, but it was the truth.
But you repeat yourself.
Right to reply says:
Surely the person/persons filing the suit are named on said suit?
churchmouse says:
They are. Someone posted the link to the lawsuit above:
Six? Out of all those thousands they only found six who were stupid enough to let these lawyers talk them into a no-win situation with the U.S. Government? The whole premise of the lawsuit is based on them trying to come in to ask for, no make that demand, asylum when in fact they are coming for jobs and freebies.
Ah, I just found this https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-white-houses-decision-to-terminate-hondurans-temporary-protected-status-may-aid-lawsuits-against-its-immigration-policy
A group of people in the migrant caravan is suing the U.S. government in federal court. None of them is a U.S. citizen or a permanant resident, and none of them is physically in the U.S. or has ever been physically in the U.S. I give up. How is this real? https://t.co/0Ys3l6g1nq
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) November 2, 2018
Judge shopping.
Wondering if we can impeach some of these Obama judges……
TigerBear says:
In reality, yes they can be impeached, but rarely happens.
https://constitutionallawreporter.com/article-03-section-01/impeachment-of-federal-judges/
Thanks! Very interesting!
Massive support by un-American progressives (and their money) apparently.
At one time, before Trump, I actually thought the Koch brothers were conservative as the Left always was after them, but they are not, in any way. They appear to be as evil as the other rich and powerful trying to destroy the US, and hope they go down with the rest.
Mostly they’re trying to be “progressive” enough (courting favor) so fellow leftists won’t take and redistribute their stuff when that time comes around.
America First says:
In the same way the leftists and their activist judges are going forward pretending like President Trump is not the actual President in their many ridiculous decisions against his administration’s actions, they are going forward pretending like they have already succeeded in rendering the US not a sovereign nation, without the authority to protect our nation, our citizens, our borders, or enforce OUR laws.
The entire caravan should be apprehended INSIDE Mexico by the American military, immediately denied asylum (since they’d all declined Mexico’s offer of asylum) loaded onto planes and delivered to Honduras. We’ll be nice and land the plane in Honduras.
Infiltrators. Unlawful infiltration and conspiracy to unlawfully infiltrate foreign nationals.
And look at the American entities and “activists” conspiring to do so. Worse still (for them) is the pursuit, financial solicitation and profiteering by American persons (corporate and human) using a RICO-style nexus of government programs, institutions, political activity and philanthropy to monetize the organization and operation and the conspiracy and collusion with foreign governments and foreign persons to subvert the laws and protection of the United States and its citizens
RoddREpub says:
Land the planes? I’m thinking buy lots of parachutes!
Or better yet, NO parachutes, and make them all jump or fall out. Whatawaytogo!
Geoff Goedde says:
I think 2-4 years living in tent cities, awaiting their trial, to then be deported will discourage most of these “invaders.”
We’d still have to pay to feed, clothe, educate and provide medical care. Better to have them sit on the ground and have a judge do group asylum hearings.
Still beats the alternative by billions
…may we undo the damage the left has wrought upon our nation…with God’s will…and in His way….
> “may we undo the damage the left has wrought upon our nation…with God’s will…and in His way.”
As a former US Marine, I have a soft spot in my heart for flame throwers.
Line them up, and hose them down.
I hope you had a chance to catch Thomas Wictor before he was booted from Twitter and Gab was deplatformed. He’s the only Flame thrower expert I ever knew! 🙂
I have lost all tolerance for the left.
Corey “Spartacus” Booger needs to have the first Napalm shower.
108 House Democrats discover that the executive branch controls the military during a national emergency. https://t.co/YUxqu2l5Us
— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) November 2, 2018
Democrats are itching to join the “press” as “enemies of the People”, it would appear.
It’s one of those mysterious questions no one has been able to answer: what’s the difference between the press and the democrat party?
> “… what’s the difference between the press and the democrat party?”
The size of the pile of Donkey poop left on the Parade Grounds.
This is what happens when people vote for ‘identity’ reps; the first black, the first female, the first female veteran, the first moslem, etc. Or vote for a person b/c their parents, grand-parents and their parents before them voted.
Oh, and BTW, please do not call the ‘press’ the enemies of the People. As our VSPGPDJT said it is the ‘FAKE NEWS’ who are the enemy of the people.
True about the REAL press. Fake News may try to pretend they’re press, but they’re not.
I’m going to start looking at the individual press through the lens of “Percent Fake”. CNN anchors will have a very high percentage. Daily Caller very low.
108 House Demonrats need to be deported to Honduras.
Finally ! https://t.co/sGfYURCt91
— Orland Ca Law 101 (@OrlandCa1) November 2, 2018
Ka-BOOOM!
dawg says:
Im sorry, but can someone translate that for me? I read it, but am not sure what exactly this order is forbidding….
If I’m reading this correctly, Soros and his evil spawn just got nuked.
Sounds fabulous, but WHO IS GOING TO POLICE THIS EO?????
Uh, I would think banking institutions, for one.
Deplorable_Infidel says:
1Kings 9:15 ¶ And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
Here is the entire passage in Ezekiel that gives some background of the conditions:
Ezekiel 22:23 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
This is too good. Beto O’Rourke has been financing the caravan as well.
https://www.hannity.com/media-room/beto-bombshell-new-video-shows-staffers-used-campaign-funds-to-illegally-aid-migrant-caravan/
Conspiracy.
To unlawfully infiltrate.
Agents of foreign governments, some of whom are citizens of those governments.
Commie.
Of course, he “knows nothing” about this like SGT Schultz:
anotherworriedmom says:
So, based on the EO, can the Treasury Dept freeze Beto’s campaign funds?
Cheri Lawrence says:
Excellent he finally made the point about asylum and safety in Mexico! This is obviously not the issue. The agenda is clear to us all! I just wish we could stop with the bleeding hearts. This is an invasion, nothing less!!
appraisher says:
An unruly mob carrying the flags of their beloved countries and marching through 2 or 3 other countries that have offered them sanctuary that they’ve refused, to belligerently force their way into a sovereign country, for the expressed purpose of forcing the citizenry of said sovereign country to pay for their new lives, are not “immigrants”, “migrants”, “refugees” or “undocumented”, they are a FOREIGN INVADING FORCE…and should be treated as such.
They are intentionally threatening every citizen of the United States, by telling us that we will not stop them from their goal. To call this diseased, uneducated, belligerent, criminal mob of foreigners, that have no intention of becoming productive Americans (they already have a country), refugees or immigrants, is to spit in the face of every true refugee or immigrant that came to the US legally, with the intention of becoming a proud American and to make America a better place…like my family.
They are instruments of foreign governments and their policy. They could not be doing what they are doing without a certain degree of proxy and agency extended by the foreign governments enabling and engaging in the conspiracy to unlawfully infiltrate citizens of foreign governments into the United States.
We should be identifying all American corporate and philanthropic entities conspiring to facilitate infiltration of foreign nationals. Time to seize their funds and investigate thoroughly,; to arrest and indict their corporate officers, subordinates, sycophants and cohorts, foreign and domestic, engaged in the apparent conspiracy to infiltrate foreign persons unlawfully into the United States.
We should also seek the recovery all federal and state monies entrusted to “the resettlement industry” which were diverted by them to facilitate the conspiracy. Given the human trafficking dimension and prospective money laundering issues typically arising from such apparent organized crimes, shouldn’t the government be pursuing the arrest and indictment of corporate officers, trustees; seizing assets, trusts and endowments that have become involved?
I say hit them where it hurts. It’s time the pseudo-elite and self-annointed ruling class get their comeuppance.
CountryDoc says:
I like Pence. He’s a nice guy. But I don’t see him being able to be as effective a PDJT. Tone of voice is pleading, begging. Body language is appealing — as if he’s trying to convince Trish Reagan – who already gets it. Contrast this to PDJT. Who says what he sees, and can consistently back up what he sees. Does what he says. Our presidents body language, tone of voice, and words say , “I see you”, “I know what you are doing” “I’m not going to let America and her constitution be maligned, and don’t F&*k with me”. The compassion is visible in the astronomical degree of self sacrifice he is making with no visible benefit to himself other that a stronger country for himself and the working citizens of his country. His compassion is visible in the FU of his labor, and the common man, and minorities who are all benefiting in real, hard, numbers that are undeniable.
Pence’s answers to why the democrats are sending the caravan is “They have become more liberal”. That’s not an answer, it’s a label. The reason the democrats are sending the caravan is that they are trying to destroy this country and give the power in the money to the really, all powerful, globalist people and corporations.
We need Lions. Compassionate, good, bad ass, ferocious, running, attacking, proactive, hunting lions.
Contrast Pence talking to Trumps statement on immigration today. That’s the difference.
6079 Smith W says:
God bless Vice-President Pence, but this faux-news interviewer succeeded in controlling the discourse by repeatedly interjecting MSM talking points and the Vice-President’s responses were underwhelming at best. Thanks be to God, our great nation has summoned forth indomitable, not-so-easily-subdued leaders like Donald J. Trump and James N. Mattis.
Here’s a twofer….
Vice President Pence was/is the perfect counter balance to the President.
This interview in particular was a ‘softer side’ and compassionate response to questions.
Not just alfa males watch these interviews. Compassion is needed here (along with firmness)
Ms. Regan teed up the questions perfectly.
Message delivered and received quite nicely.
The circular firing squad needs to stand down.
Mick Mulvaney 2024
Speaks quickly and lucidly. Takes no prisoners in press conferences and Q&A segments.
CNN_sucks says:
Thank God for Mulvaney taking a part reducing our deficit.
I want Mulvaney to campaign in Ohio against Cordray.
Someone should blow the lid off the corruption, theft and redistribution at the CFPB, and make the Ohians aware of Cordray’s total and complete corruption.
I concur with with everything said here, and would add that Pence was the centerpiece of the takedown of Gen. Flynn. Pence is just as much a fraud as all the other bought-and-paid-for RINOs. Pence will be no replacement of Trump. No one will. Once Trump is gone there will not be another like him. As such, Trump’s presidency is not so much about fixing things as it is about waking us up as a nation. Because once he is gone, it will be our responsibility to fix what is left. And we had better be awake for that.
lydia00 says:
Democrats want war. They want Trumpto declare Marshall Law or use force. They want blood at the border. They might even encourage illegals here to fight. There is a reason the caravan is mostly young men. No one who is lecturing us about compassion has to live around the chaos, disease and violence. They are oligharchs.
They might, however, have underestimated our compassion meters. Mine is full for my family, extended family and community. It opens up for Americans in a disaster. But that’s it. I am done.
My take on it is: if their Antifa gangs and pussy-hat counter-gangs were capable of insurrectionary violence on a national scale, our globalist enemy would have preferred that option. That strategy for sabotaging our midterm elections having failed, they have resorted to the much more expensive and even more desperate option of enlisting a mercenary army of murderous thugs, terrorists, and human traffickers with the intent of storming our borders.
Akindole says:
…They might even encourage illegals here to fight…
That’s pretty funny right there.
They’ve really stepped up to the plate in their country of origin, no?
Democrats want power, however they can get it.
I guess they didn’t notice that Trump fights back.
The people funding the caravans should look at Avenatti.
#ImWithStan
Good to see VP standing by THE CHIEF. Wish we saw more of him…very well spoken…
Raven_AU says:
“We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come,”
~ Former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard.
Most of our invaders were coming via Indonesia and in some cases escorted to the boats by the Indonesian military . . I kid you not.
The people smugglers make a fortune from telling these people that they’ll be accepted when they make landfall. And of course, once at sea, the ‘migrants’ deliberately fudge engine trouble in the expectation that our Navy will pick them up. And early on, that’s exactly what happened.
Later, we declared that anyone arriving illegally would never . . repeat, never be permitted into Australia. This was advertised extensively both locally and in these enabling countries.
That advertising was targeted directly at the people smugglers business model; the theory being to dissuade the ‘migrants’ from spending their money on something that wasn’t going to be successful. Apart from a couple of stragglers along the way, we haven’t had a boat make landfall for years now.
45 U.N lawyers embedded? What a joke? What are they going to do? FIle a coupla lawsuits? In what jurisdiction? Where are they licenced? Vanuatu? Nauru? Tonga? I say shoot those troublemakers first.
Pyrthroes says:
However politically expedient, what counts here are acts and deeds, not words. Rehashing Honduras-Venezuela complicity, likely with Soros’ incitement and financing, plus UN kleptarchs’ blatant anti-U.S. interference under guise of “human rights” [spare us], is a mug’s game.
Once Trump and Mattis have stopped this BS in its tracks, levying realpolitik consequences on all concerned, let’s pass on to China’s million-man Uighur Turkish (Muslump) “re-education” concentration camps, where truly murderous abuses occur hourly.
Whatever verbalizing blonde bombshell Trump appoints to hurl calumnies at UN despots in Turtle Bay’s flatworm congress assembled, the brute fact is that “this here shootin’ down of Deputy Sheriffs has just naturally got to stop” (“Badman’s Blunder”, 1960).
The GULAGs aka HeadHunters who rule our unlawful refugee programs encourage this b.s. asylee lawlessness, because they are not winning on the refugee side anymore.
They get paid by the head to change your cities and towns and bring in the cheap labor the globalists want. If they can’t get them through one manufactured crisis they will engineer a new one.
https://www.hias.org/tagged/briefing-call
I want to hear President TRUMP tell them, YOU ARE FIRED!
covfefe999 says:
Can President Trump temporarily ban asylum entries? We can ship the people to Canada or Mexico.
F the Democrats. They are wrecking our country. I’m deeply sorry that I ever voted for any. It will NEVER happen again. I don’t care if all of my GOP candidates are Satans, I will be voting for them.
I will NEVER vote for a Democrat for the rest of my life. NEVER..
Dear VP Pence,
I think, NO, I KNOW, You Are A Big Deal Too!
Thank You and your family for serving our country, again, and for serving at the side of our FEARLESS President!
Creepy Joe can’t hold a candle to you and neither can Oprah! WE WILL NEVER FORGET that Oprah first SOLD us The Kenyan, and then tried to SELL us ILLary. She is no Friend of America.
“She’s not coming over to your house! You don’t have to like her.”
~Oprah Winfrey
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/oprah-winfrey-on-clinton-230148
WRONG Oprah! The White House IS OUR HOUSE, The People’s House, and it is back where it belongs, to stay!!!!!!!!!
#ElectionsHaveConsequences
$MAGAOn
Vote GOP on Tuesday!
I don’t know if the razor wire has been deployed but if it has, then rubber bullets and lots of them with direct orders to shoot any and all who try to set foot on this side of it.
Well, they have NO STANDING!
What Is Legal “Standing”?
“Standing” is a legal term used in connection with lawsuits and a requirement of Article III of
the United States Constitution. In simple terms, courts use “standing” to ask, “Does this
party have a ‘dog in this fight?’” Standing limits participation in lawsuits and asks whether
the person(s) bringing a lawsuit, or defending one, has enough cause to “stand” before the
court and advocate, since not anyone can go to court for any reason.
To have standing, a party must show an “injury in fact” to their own legal interests. In other
words, has the party itself “suffered” some sort of actual harm? (In constitutional law, this
generally refers to one’s legally protected rights and freedoms.) If the party cannot show
harm, the party does not have standing and is not the right party to be appearing before the
http://www.adfmedia.org/files/WhatIsStanding.pdf
Since these people ARE NOT CITIZENS AND ARE NOT IN THE USA they have ZERO Standing. It is very dangerous to allow OTHER NATIONALS not in the USA standing before our courts.
The Supreme Court on the legal Standing of an illegal alien. Standing is based on the PRESENCE WITHIN the JURISDICTION of the USA.
“….The Fourteenth Amendment provides that
[n]o State shall . . . deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
(Emphasis added.) Appellants argue at the outset that undocumented aliens, because of their immigration status, are not “persons within the jurisdiction” of the State of Texas, and that they therefore have no right to the equal protection of Texas law. We reject this argument. Whatever his status under the immigration laws, an alien is surely a “person” in any ordinary sense of that term. Aliens, even aliens whose presence in this country is unlawful, have long been recognized as “persons” guaranteed due process of law by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. …”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/457/202
(I hope Ristvan comments with a more educated point of view.)
And those UN and other lawyers???
Charge them with HUMAN TRAFFICKING and confiscated ALL their assets per President Trump’s Christmas E.O. I am sure there are at least one or more kid(s) genetically not related to any adults and that many of the women have been raped.
Give them the Manafort treatment!
About the United Nations and the World Bank and IMF.
FDR sold us out!
In the 1930s FDR agreed to hand US sovereignty over to the United Nations AND he confiscated personally owned gold and gave it to the international bankers using Executive Order 6102.
Former World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy tells you point blank that the EU is the template for the desired World Government and it has been in the plans since the 1930s.
To govern this globalized world, writes World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy, existing institutions will need to be reformed
(www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=9174 )
In the same way, climate change negotiations are not just about the global environment but global economics as well — the way that technology, costs and growth are to be distributed and shared…
Can we balance the need for a sustainable planet with the need to provide billions with decent living standards? Can we do that without questioning radically the Western way of life? …
At the same time, globalization is blurring the line between national and world issues, redefining our notions of space, sovereignty and identity. As we saw during the recent financial crisis, economic turbulence in one country now sends shockwaves worldwide.
Countries claim the right to use national resources as they see fit. But the byproduct can be greenhouse gases or disappearing fish stocks or raw material shortages — which impact the interconnected world we share….
This raises a final challenge: How to provide global leadership? Mobilizing collective purpose is more difficult when we no longer face one common enemy, but thousands of complex problems
The reality is that, so far, we have largely failed to articulate a clear and compelling vision of why a new global order matters — and where the world should be headed….
All had lived through the chaos of the 1930s …including the defeated powers, agreed that the road to peace lay with building a new international order — and an approach to international relations that questioned the Westphalian, sacrosanct principle of sovereignty — rooted in freedom, openness, prosperity and interdependence.
Lamy is quite blunt in stating national sovereignty is passe.
…more than half a century ago that the Frenchman Jean Monnet, one of the shapers of post-war Europe, said, “The sovereign nations of the past can no longer provide a framework for the resolution of our present problems. And the European Community itself is no more than a step towards the organizational forms of tomorrow’s world.” His assessment was as valid then as it is now….
(wwwDOT)theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8216
Lamy indicates that an European Union like super state is the goal.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ~ H.L. Mencken
Pascal Lamy takes ‘Practical Politics’ the next step, by telling us the “new enemy to unite us” is needed to create Legitimacy, one of the three legs needed to implement a global government…
It gives me great pleasure to be here today to participate in this thematic debate on the United Nations in global governance, an issue of the utmost importance given the urgency of the global challenges we are facing… As for legitimacy, I see two avenues to strengthen it. First, domestically, by increasing the visibility of international issues and giving citizens a greater say….
(wwwDOT)globalpolicy.org/globalization/globalization-of-politics/global-governance-and-the-three-sisters-2-17/50398-lamy-urges-raising-un-ecosoc-profile.html?itemid=id#951
There sure as heck is no greater threat for uniting citizens together then the threat of ‘catastrophic climate change’. is there?
And if that doesn’t work you can always over throw the government and install your chosen puppet.
Melissa 🐝 (@jackieblue1967) says:
Yes, they do indeed have a leftist political origin – I spoke to a friend who is Honduran, and actually living in Honduras right now and he said they are being funded by 3rd party groups, and intending to come here to push Socialism! He said he opes Trump doesn’t let them in. He said they are all lower class people – freeloaders. He sees this first hand, so I think it is credible.
“¡Mira, Free Sh*t!”
Zippy says:
There is no need for left wing groups to organise and fund caravans. MOST 3rd world immigrants vote heavily to the left. Just one chart linked below. I’ve seen others showing the stats for non-Hispanics:
In regard to what some federal judge might rule in order to “hamstring” the POTUS:
The courts do NOT have supremacy over the other two branches. A judge issuing an injunction against an executive action is extra-judicial and meaningless. The injunction must be wholly based on the law and the judge must thoroughly and adequately show how the law compels the injunction.
Nowhere in the Constitution is there language giving the courts the power to rule on law and give the court the power to constrain the actions of judicial branch or the legislative branch or the executive branch.
While the Supreme Court gave itself the power to have the final say on the “meaning” of a law [Marbury v Madison – 1803] it has zero power to enforce its decision. The court is impotent and President Andrew Jackson scoffed at the judicial branch: “The courts have made their decision; now let them enforce it.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privileges of their corps.” Jefferson would have had a stroke over justices finding Constitutional power emanating from the penumbra of certain parts and pieces of the Bill of Rights. [Justice Douglas used this language in Gitlow v Connecticut]
Article III of the Constitution gives Congress the power to limit the jurisdiction of the federal courts below the Supreme Court and to limit their appellate jurisdiction. But Congress has willingly allowed the courts to say what the law means. It saves members of Congress from take the risk of making tough decisions in writing legislation.
If the President were to ignore a court injunction, there would be no “Constitutional crisis” other than the one in which the courts have to explain where they found the Constitutional power to override the actions of the executive branch and/or the President.
President Donald J. Trump has the power and, perhaps, the moxie to shove the Progressive judiciary back into the bottle.
The Progressive judges have just one power in this: they can beg the House of Representatives to vote articles of impeachment against the President. Isn’t that quaint? It would be just the way the founding fathers wrote it in the Constitution.
Where is justice for the United States? We don’t want more
anti-United States protesters who love us just long enough
to get benefits……. then protest, riot, hate on us with La Rasa
types…..and fly their own countries flags in our faces.
SEND THEM HOME !!!
Then they claim asylum from crime, then bring their crime MS-13
drug culture, drug cartels, thievery, and use us as their bankrollers.
We hired Trump to STOP THIS INSANITY…….and what does he do???
Birthright rights? No they don’t have any. Never did. This has always
been a Leftist-Globalist mockery of our Constitution.
Look up ” WILKINS vs ELK 1894″ that explains the use of the use of
14 th Amendment. In no way was born on American soil a birthright….
much less to vote.
Our FOREFATHERS would roll over in their graves to know how the
greatest Document ever created on this earth has been twisted,
shredded, and Demonized…… when in fact every nation one Earth
would LOVE TO HAVE THAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT. Except the
Communist leaders want their peasants to be slaves which enrich
them…….not the peasants, themselves.
Look up ” WILKINS vs ELK 1894″ that explains the use of the
14th Amendment. In no way was, “born on American soil,” a birthright….
for anything, not even to vote.!!!
shredded, and Demonized…… when in fact every nation on Earth
I have read the suit filed for some group of marchers in the US border bound caravan now in Mexico and it is a farce with more holes than Lorraine Swiss cheese. The “lawyers” cite the 5th Amendment as if the border hoppers are already being held in US territory. It gets sillier from there.
We visited this whole mess in 323 U.S. 214 – Korematsu v. United States (No. 22) – Argued: October 11, 12, 1944. Granted, Korematsu was decided under the conditions of being involved in a war declared by Congress and is not a precise parallel.
However, people Hellbent on entering our country illegally are readily seen as an “invasion” even if they are neither armed nor declared enemy combatants. What we are being told to do in this law suit is to accept the illegal entrants as “per se” citizens and to assume that they have the Constitutional rights of a citizen of the united states and due all the privileges and immunities of a bona fide citizen. If that is the case, why would it be legal to have borders, let alone an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service?
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The Evils Of Big Pharma Exposed
Drug Companies
What’s wrong with America is what’s wrong with Big Pharma. And what’s wrong with Big Pharma is what’s wrong with America. This circular reality is aimed to be thoroughly covered in this presentation. This is the story of how Big Pharma seeks enormous profits over the health and well-being of the humans it serves, and how drug companies invasively corrupted the way that the healthcare industry delivers its vital services.
This is neither a new nor unique story. In fact, the story of Big Pharma is the exact same story of how Big Government, Big Oil, Big Agri-Chem Giants like Monsanto have come to power. The controlling shareholders of all these major industries are one and the same. Big Money belonging to the global central banking cabal own and operate all the Fortune 500 companies in addition to virtually all national governments on this earth. The Rockefellers privatized healthcare in the United States back in the 1930’s and has financed and largely influenced both healthcare and Big Pharma ever since.
The history of the last several centuries is one in which a handful of these oligarch families, primarily from Europe and the United States, have been controlling governments and wars to ruthlessly consolidate and maximize both power and control over the earth’s most precious resources to promote a New World Order of one totalitarian fascist government exercising absolute power and control over the entire global population. This group of oligarch families have systematically and effectively eliminated competition under the deceptive misnomer of a free enterprise system. Modernization is synonymous with globalization, privatization and militarization. Subsequently, an extremely small number of humans representing a privileged ruling elite has imposed a global caste system that’s hatched its long term diabolical plan to actualize its one world government. Sadly at this tumultuous moment in our human history, it’s never been closer to materialization.
Here in the early stages of the twenty-first century, a ruling elite has manipulated our planet of seven billion people into a global economic system of feudalism. Through pillaging and plundering the earth, setting up a cleverly deceptive financial system that controls the production and flow of fiat paper money using the US dollar as the standard international currency, they have turned the world’s citizens and nations into indentured servants, hopelessly in debt due to their grand theft planet. With Russia and China spearheading a shift away from the US dollar and petrodollar, and many smaller nations following their lead, a major shift in the balance of power is underway between Western and Eastern oligarchs. Thus, by design escalating calamity and crises are in overdrive at the start of 2015.
By examining one aspect of this grand theft planet through the story of Big Pharma, one can accurately recognize and assess Big Pharma’s success in its momentum-gathering power grab. Its story serves as a microcosm perfectly illustrating and paralleling the macrocosm that is today’s oligarch engineered, highly successful New World Order nightmare coming true right before our eyes that we’re all now up against. By understanding how this came to manifest, we will be better able to confront, challenge and oppose it.
Every year a handful of the biggest pharmaceutical corporations are a well-represented fixture amongst the most powerful Fortune 500 companies of the world. The twelve largest drug manufacturers and the eight largest drug delivery companies (or otherwise known as the drug channels companies) that include drug wholesalers, chain pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers (so called PBM’s) consist in total only 20 of the top 500 global corporations in the world. Thus, despite making up only 4% of the total Fortune 500 companies in 2014, both Big Pharma’s highly profitable revenues and absolute economic and political power in the United States and world are unprecedented.
The median revenue of the drug channels companies that made 2014’s Fortune 500 from the most recent available 2013 figures was $95.1 billion with a median profit as percentage of assets of 2.9% over the year before. The top 12 drug manufacturing companies held a median revenue of only $17.5 billion but a median profit of assets level of 10.6% over 2012. Though the channels companies like CVS (the top channels company and #12 on Fortune 500), Walgreen (#37) and Rite-Aid (#118) overall maintain higher revenues and positions in the Fortune 500 list, their profit margins are not nearly as immense as the pharmaceutical manufacturers that are almost four times more profitable.
Big Pharma’s top eleven corporations generated net profits in just one decade from 2003 to 2012 of nearly three quarters of a trillion dollars - that’s just net profit alone. The net profit for 2012 amongst those top eleven amounted to $85 billion in just that one year. The majority of these largest pharmaceuticals are headquartered in the US – including the top four, Johnson & Johnson (#39 on Fortune 500 list), Pfizer (#51), Merck (#65) and Eli Lilly (#129) along with Abbott (#152) and Bristol Myers Squibb (#176). The healthcare research company IMS Health projects worldwide sales of Pharma drugs to exceed one trillion dollars by 2014. With that kind of obscenely powerful money to throw around, what Big Pharma wants, Big Pharma nearly always gets.
Just as the oligarchs buy, own and control national governments to do their sleazy bidding, Big Pharma as an extension of those same oligarchs does too. Perhaps what makes Big Pharma unique in the US is that the industry outspends all others in laying down cold hard cash into its lobbying efforts – another word for bribing governments that includes not only US Congress (and parliaments) but its US federal regulator, the bought and sold Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It poured $2.7 billion into its lobbying interests from 1998 to 2013, 42% more than the second most “Gov. Corp.” bribe which happens to be its sister industry insurance.
And it’s this unholy trinity of the medical establishment (personified by the American Medical Association), embedded insurance industry that wrote Obamacare into law and Big Pharma that makes the United States the most costly, broken, corrupt, destructive healthcare system in the entire world. The structured system is designed and layered with built in incentives at every tier to make and keep people sick, chronically dependent on their drugs for survival that merely mask and smother symptoms rather than cure or eradicate the root cause of disease.
Plenty of empirical evidence exists that confirm concerted diabolical efforts have been made to ruin the lives ofpioneering heroes who have come up with possible cures for cancer, AIDS and other terminal illnesses. Obviously their work poses a serious threat to medical status quo. Hence, their treatments have all been effectively suppressed by conventional medicine. Bottom line, if humans are healthy, the healthcare industry does not survive. Thus, it’s in its own inherently self-serving interest to promote illness in the name of wellness.
Also because natural healing substances cannot be patented, Big Pharma has done its sinister best to squelch any and all knowledge and information that come from the far more affordable means of alternative health sources that explore ancient traditional cultures’ medicinal use of hemp along with thousands of other plants and roots that could threaten drug profits and power of Big Pharma and modern medicine as they’re currently practiced and monopolized.
Another cold hard reality is pharmaceutical drugs especially when consumed to manage chronic disease and symptoms cause severe side effects that also damage, harm and kill. The most prescribed drugs of all are painkillers that typically are highly addictive. Big Pharma with the help of their global army of doctors have purposely and calculatingly turned a large percentage of us especially in the United States into hardcore drug addicts, both physically and psychologically addicted to artificial synthetic substances that are detrimental to our health and well-being. More than three quarters of US citizens over 50 are currently taking prescribed medication. One in four women in their 40’s and 50’s is taking antidepressants. Though the US contains just 5% of the world population, it consumes over half of all prescribed medication and a phenomenal 80% of the world’s supply of painkillers. Those who admit to taking prescription drugs on average take four different prescription drugs daily. Taking massive amounts of prescription drugs has caused an epidemic that’s part of a sinister plan to squeeze yet more profit out of a system designed to keep humans chronically unhealthy.
Even more alarming is the fact that death by medical error at near a quarter million people annually has become thethird largest killer of US citizens behind heart disease and cancer. Other more recent studies have estimated upwards of up to 440,000 have died yearly from preventable mistakes at hospitals. Blind obedience to Big Pharma and a conventional medical system too dependent on surgery and technology has inflicted more harm than good on the U.S. population.
Because doctors now are forced to rely so heavily on drug companies for information about what they prescribe, they’re ill equipped and ill-informed in their lack of adequate knowledge and training to understand what all the interactive drugs are doing to toxically harm their human guinea pigs they call patients. We are finding out that thecumulative and synergistic effects of poly-prescription drug use is frequently a lethal cocktail to millions of human beings on this planet. Combine that with the negative effects of our air, water, food and alcohol/illicit drugs, and the health dangers increase dramatically.
Look at the current damage done by over-prescribing antibiotics. Studies have learned that too much antibiotics cause trans-generational permanent DNA damage. The 20,000 times a year in the US alone that antibiotics are prescribed are highly toxic and damaging to the nervous system. On top of that, they simply don’t work anymore. The epidemic of trans-mutated bacterial infection and parasites that invade and infest the digestive tract in particular killing good bacteria and spread to other internal organs have become highly resistive to overuse of antibiotics. Big Pharma and doctors know all this yet they are responsible for antibiotic overconsumption by uninformed Americans.
Then look at what we are now learning about Big Pharma vaccines and the wanton reckless endangerment of children and pregnant mothers with toxic levels of mercury causing increased rates of autism, brain damage and even death. The criminal cover-up by Big Gov. and Big Pharma is egregious. Flu vaccines have recently been exposed that are totally ineffective along with the horrific damage being done to humans worldwide. Instead of preventing and decreasing illness, vaccines too often have had the opposite effect, exponentially increasing illness, causing irreversible damage and even death to thousands of unsuspecting victims mostly living in Third World nations. India’s Supreme Court is currently looking into charging Bill Gates with criminal harm to many of its citizens especially children injured or killed by his global vaccine program.
A growing number of critics believe Gates’ true aim is to eugenically reduce the world population from seven billion down to a “more manageable” size of half to one billion people. With the precedent of a well-documented history of horrifying eugenics practiced on the poor and most vulnerable in the US up till the 1980’s, oligarchs have been scheming to kill most of us on the planet for a long time now. With last year’s West African outbreak of the most deadly Ebola virus ever, and it being patented as bio-warfare, and mounting evidence that it was purposely started by a joint US military-university research team in Sierra Leone causing its global spread, more people than ever have perished and a growing segment of the population suspect that it is being used as a weapon of mass destruction to effectively depopulate the earth. We can largely thank the demonic partnership between Big Pharma and US Empire for that.
To further control the global health system, Big Pharma has largely dictated what’s been taught in medical schools throughout North America, heavily subsidizing them as a means of dictating the conventional dogma that’s standard curriculum down to even the textbooks. Several years ago a revolt at Harvard amongst med students and faculty went public. For a long time now doctors have been educated primarily to treat their patients with drugs, in effect becoming drug pushing, pharmaceutical whores, mere foot soldiers in Big Pharma’s war on health. Starting in the final year of med school, Big Pharma insidiously hones in on young med students, seductively wining and dining prospective physicians, showering them with money in the form of educational handouts, gifts, trips and perks galore to recruit its legions of loyal, thoroughly indoctrinated drug peddlers around the world. Thousands of doctors in the US are on Big Pharma payrolls. Typically early on in their careers physicians are unwittingly co-opted into this corrupt malaise of an irreparable system that’s owned and operated by Big Pharma.
And here’s why the drug companies control the global healthcare empire. Since 1990 Big Pharma has been pumping at least $150 million that we know about (and no doubt lots more we don’t know about) buying off politicians who no longer represent the interests of their voting public. Thanks to Big Law via last spring’s Supreme Court decision, current campaign financing laws permit unlimited, carte blanche bribery power for America’s most wealthy and powerful to fill the pockets of corrupt politicians with absolutely no oversight. Though the corporate buyoff of other nations around the globe may not appear quite so extreme and blatantly criminal as in the United States, international drug companies make certain that every national government allows full access and flow of their prescription drugs into each nation, including rubber stamped approval by each nation’s regulatory body to ensure global maximization of record setting profit. But because far more money is spent on the healthcare industry in the US, twice as much as the next nation Canada and equal to the next ten combined, it’s no surprise that hapless Americans end up having to pay far higher exorbitant costs for their made-in-the-USA drugs than anyone else on the planet. The average US citizen spends about $1000 on pharmaceutical drugs each year, 40% higher than Canadians.
Big Pharma also invests more dollars into advertising than any other industry in America, transmitting its seductively deceptive message direct to its consumers, explicitly giving them marching orders to request specific drugs from their doctors. In 2012 alone, pharmaceutical corporations paid nearly $3.5 billion to market their drugson television, radio, internet, magazines, saturating every media outlet. Their message – pleasure, relief, peace of mind, joy, love and happiness are all just a pill away. No problem or pain in life can’t be conquered by a quick fix - compliments of Big Pharma.
Much of Big Pharma’s success over the last couple decades has been the result of specifically targeting special new populations to con and win over, resorting to creating new diseases and maladies to entice troubled, stressed out, gullible individuals into believing there’s something abnormally wrong with them, that they are among always a growing segment of our population who quietly suffer from whatever discomforting symptoms, deficits, dysfunctions, ailments, syndromes and disorders that enterprising Big Pharma connives to slyly invent, promote, package and sell. This unethical practice has been called “disease mongering.” Drug companies today operate no different from the snake oil salesmen of yesteryear. Saturating the market with their alluring, promising ads, check out any half hour of national network news on television targeting the baby boomer and geriatric crowd and you’ll notice 95% of the commercials are all brought to you by none other than Big Pharma. Of course they pay big bucks for slick ad marketing campaigns that shrewdly target the oldsters most apt to suffer health problems in addition to being virtually the only Americans left still watching the nightly network news. Three out of four people under 65 in the US today recognize that mainstream news media is nothing less than pure Gov. Corp. propaganda.
Also in recent years Big Pharma has become deceitfully masterful at repackaging and rebranding old meds at higher prices ever in search of expanded consumers. It’s a lot easier and far less money to engage in this unethical industry-wide practice of recycling an old pill than to manufacture a new one. Prozac became the biggest drug sold until it was learned that it caused so many people to kill themselves or others, especially adolescents. Then Eli Lilly deceptively repackaged and relabeled it under the less threatening name Sarafem at a much higher price tailored to target unsuspecting women seeking relief from menstrual pain. Like Prozac as another Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor antidepressant, Paxil was suddenly repackaged as the cure-all for shyness under the guise of treating social anxiety. Taking full advantage of knowing that millions of humans feel unsure of themselves dealing with strangers and groups, Big Pharma to the rescue exploiting people’s nervousness by clinically labeling it as social anxiety and reintroducing the antidepressant pink pill as their panacea to personal happiness, lifelong self-confidence and success in life. This most prevalent industry pattern of reusing the same old drugs all dressed up with new custom designed names for new purposes on new custom designed populations for yet more price gouging is nothing less than resorting to a predatory practice of criminal false advertising.
Perhaps as sinister as any aspect of the drug business is how Big Pharma has completely taken over the FDA. A recent Harvard study slammed the FDA making the accusation that it simply “cannot be trusted” because it’s owned and operated by Big Pharma. With complete autonomy and control, now pharmaceutical companies knowingly market drugs that carry high risk dangers for consumers. But because they so tightly control its supposed regulatory gatekeeper, drugs are commonly mass marketed and before the evidence of potential harm becomes overwhelming, by design when the slow bureaucratic wheels turn issuing a drug recall, billions in profit have already been unscrupulously reaped at the deadly expense of its victims. Additionally, doctors, pharmacists and patients rarely even hear about important recalls due to dangerous side effects or contamination. Yet hundreds of Big Pharma drugsare recalled every year. Many FDA approved drugs like FenPhen, Vioxx, Zohydro and Celebrex kill hundreds before they’re finally removed from the shelf. This withholding the truth from the professionals and public consumers is yet more evidence that Big Pharma protects its profits more than people.
This evil practice that keeps repeating itself is proof that Big Pharma is a criminal racket. It no longer needs outside independent research demonstrating a drug’s efficacy to be FDA approved. Currently research is conducted and compiled by the pharmaceutical industry itself to fraudulently show positive results from methodologically flawed drug trials when in reality a drug proves either ill effective at doing what it’s purported to do or downright harmful. Research outcomes only need to show that the drug outperforms a placebo, not other older drugs already available on the market that have proven to be effective at lower cost.
Similar to shady personnel moving seamlessly in and out of governmental public service to think tanks to universities to private law to corporations to lobbyists, the same applies to heads of the FDA moving to and from Big Pharma. Unfortunately this is how our government has been taken over by special interests. Yet this rampant conflict of interest goes unchecked.
Because Big Pharma sometimes outright owns and largely controls today’s most prominent medical journals, spreading false propaganda, disinformation and lies about the so called miracle effects of a given drug is yet another common practice that is malevolent to the core. 98% of the advertising revenue of medical journals is paid for by the pharmaceutical industry. Shoddy and false claims based on shoddy and false research all controlled by Big Pharma often get published in so called reputable journals giving the green light to questionable drugs that are either ineffective or worse yet even harmful. Yet they regularly pass peer and FDA muster with rave reviews.
But because Big Pharma’s never held accountable for its evildoing, it continues to literally get away with murder, not unlike the militant police, the CIA, Monsanto and the US Empire that willfully and methodically commit mass murder on a global scale or through false flag terrorism having its mercenary Moslem allies kill innocent people as on 9/11 and France’s recent “9/11.” Since all serve the interests of their oligarch puppet masters toward grand theft planet and New World Order with total impunity, the world continues to suffer and be victimized.
Nearly five years ago the Justice Department filed and won a huge criminal lawsuit against Pfizer, one of the largest pharmaceutical corporations in the world employing 116,000 employees and boasting an annual revenue of more than $50 billion ($53.8 in 2013). Fined $2.3 billion to pay off civil and criminal charges for illegally promoting the use of four of its drugs, the unprecedented settlement became the largest case of healthcare fraud in history. The crux of the case centered on Pfizer’s illegal practice of marketing drugs for purposes other than what the FDA originally approved. While the law permits a wide leeway for physicians to prescribe drugs for multiple purposes, Pharma manufacturers are restricted to selling their drugs only for the expressed purposes given them by FDA approval.
The 2003 lawsuit would never even have been filed had it not been for whistleblowing sales rep John Kopchinski who forced authorities to investigate what’s been a common Big Pharma practice, selling drugs for off-label uses. While back in 2001 the FDA had approved a 10 mg dosage of Bextra for arthritis patients and for menstrual cramps, Pfizer sent Kopchinski out with instructions to give complimentary 20 mg samples of Bextra to doctors, thus willfully and illegally endangering patient lives, particularly because in 2005 Bextra was taken off the market due toincreased risk of heart attacks and stroke. The truth is Big Pharma will do anything to boost its money making big profits, including killing innocent people.
But the story doesn’t end here. This legal case potently illustrates how the US federal government has been co-opted and conspires with Big Pharma to knowingly do harm to American citizens. When the story broke in the fall of 2009 of this record fine levied against Pfizer, assistant director Kevin Perkins of the FBI’s Criminal Investigation Division touted how the feds mean business going after lawbreakers within the pharmaceutical industry, boasting that “it sends a clear message.” But it turns out that that false bravado was an all-for-show facade.
The truth is the US government will knuckle under to Big Pharma, Wall Street and Big Banks every single time, even when it knows these “too big to fail” criminals repeatedly violate laws intended to protect the public. And constantly bailing them out at overburdened taxpayer expense only causes them to become more brazenly criminal, knowing they will always be protected by their co-conspirators the feds.
Back in November 2001 the FDA had stated that Bextra was unsafe for patients at risk of heart disease and stroke, rejecting its use especially at higher than 10mg doses on patients suffering from post-surgery pain. Yet Pfizer went ahead anyway marketing its product for any doctor who “used a scalpel for a living” as one district manager testified. It was learned that Pfizer deployed multimillions of dollars to its well-paid army of hundreds of doctors to go around “educating” other MD’s on the miracle benefits of Bextra. Again, misusing doctors as pitchmen to sell inflated false claims is employing the medical profession as Big Pharma’s industry whores.
By the time Bextra was finally taken off the market in April 2005, after killing a number of at risk patients that never should have been prescribed the painkiller, Pfizer had already made its cool $1.7 billion off the drug being illegally sold for purposes the FDA had expressly forbidden. Here’s where Big Pharma rules over Big Gov. Because by law any company that’s found guilty of fraud is prohibited from continuing as a Medicare and Medicaid contractor, which of course Pfizer is and was, the feds under the morally bankrupt excuse that Big Pharma’s also “too big to fail” made a dirty little secret deal with Pfizer in the backroom law offices of the federal government.
Just like US Empire uses the “national security” card, so do the banksters, Wall Street and Big Pharma use their “too big to fail” trump card to get away with their own crimes against humanity. It’s a rigged world where an elitist cabal of cheats and thugs mistreat fellow humans as owned commodities and indentured expendables. Money and power mean everything while human life means nothing to them. So the secret deal was cut where on paper only the fake Pfizer subsidiary Pharmacia and Upjohn that never sold a single drug would be found criminally guilty so the conveniently contrived loophole would spare Big Pharma Pfizer’s from its alleged death. Records show that on the very same day in 2007 that the feds worked out this sweetheart deal with Pfizer, this hollowed out shell company as Pfizer’s backdoor nonentity was born. How convenient as Big Gov. and Big Pharma got to live happily ever after together in criminal conspiracy against their own people they’re supposed to serve and protect, kind of like the way police forces across this nation are “serving and protecting” citizens.
Then with drug profits so obscenely high, even with a slap on the hand penalty fee of $2.3 billion, Big Pharma’s net profit for just one quarter easily can pay it off. Three years later in July 2012 the Justice Department handed down yet an even bigger fine of $3 billion to UK’s global healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline for the same exact crimes. As long as Big Pharma continues raking in such enormous profits, fines into the billions mean nothing since they’re paid off in a few months’ time. Not until CEO’s and top executives of Big Banks, Big Wall Street and Big Pharma start going to jail to serve long term sentences for their crimes, it’ll conveniently remain business as usual. And as long as Big Pharma owns Big Gov. Corp., just like the oligarchs own everything there is to earthly own, nothing will ever change for the better unless we as citizens of the world demand accountability and justice that punishment rightly fit the corporate crime.
Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled “Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.” It examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a masters degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field for more than a quarter century. He now concentrates on his writing.
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Home Youth Olympic Games 2018 YOG : One-stop guide to Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games 2018
Youth Olympic Games 2018
YOG : One-stop guide to Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games 2018
When do they start?
The Opening Ceremony will take place October 6th, competitions will begin October 7th and run through October 18th.
Elite sporting teenagers from around the world will descend upon Buenos Aires to test themselves against their peers.
Singapore hosted the inaugural Summer YOG in 2010. The multi-sport event already has unearthed several global sports stars.
Former participants include snowboarder Chloe Kim, boxer Joseph Parker, diving’s Tom Daley and Spanish badminton Olympic champion Carolina Marin.
YOG is an elite sporting event for young people around the world.
The event aims to develop athletes and the community through the Olympic values, promoting sport as an educational tool.
The sports programme is based on that of the Olympic Games, with a few variations.
There are 32 sports on the summer programme for Buenos Aires 2018, with some exciting new additions.
The four sports making their debuts on the Olympic stage include roller sports, dance sport, karate and sport climbing.
When and where is YOG? :
As with the Olympics, the Youth Olympic Games take place every four years. Lausanne, Switzerland will host the next winter version of YOG in 2020.
The Buenos Aires 2018 opening ceremony will be on October 6th and the event will finish October 18th.
Argentina is known for its love of dance and the opening ceremony will fully embrace its energetic, Latin spirit.
More than half a million spectators are expected to attend the street-party style opener at Buenos Aires’ famous obelisk landmark.
The venues :
The action in Buenos Aires will be spread across four main locations: Urban Park, Tecnopolis Park, Green Park and the Youth Olympic Park.
In addition to sports facilities, each park will feature a mixture of artistic, musical and educational activities for fans.
The stand-alone venues include the Hurlingham Club for golf, while BMX and roller speed skating will be hosted by the Paseo de la Costa.
Sailing medals will be decided at at the Club Nautico San Isidro, and rugby sevens at the nearby Club Atletico San Isidro Sede La Boya.
YOG provides a platform for the most 15 to 18-year-old athletes around the world to compete.
Over 4000 teenagers will represent about 200 National Olympic Committees in the Argentinean capital.
Buenos Aires 2018 will be the first gender balanced Olympic event, meaning equal numbers of male and female athletes.
But YOG is not just a development event for athletes.
You also will find young reporters, ambassadors and athlete role models on hand to ensure the Olympic spirit extends beyond the competition.
Swimming supremo Chad le Clos and gymnastics Olympic double silver medallist Danell Leyva are two ambassadors who will be welcoming athletes and fans in South America.
How and where can I get tickets?
The Youth Olympic Pass is your way to gain entry free of charge to the four Youth Olympic Parks and Stand Alone venues at Buenos Aires 2018.
Registration is here and, once you’ve done that, you need to pick up your pass from one of the Pick Up Points.
Your pass will let you:
Enter all four Youth Olympic Parks, stadiums and stand-alone venues every day.
Attend the sports competitions.
Participate in over 1,200 cultural and educational activities
SOURCEOlympic Channel
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How Elvis Presley birthplace became a historical landmark
If there is one person most responsible, other than Elvis, creating the Elvis Presley Birthplace Park in Tupelo, it is Oleta Grimes who was the daughter of Orville Bean who helped Vernon build the home Elvis was born in.
Previously Elvis donated money to the City of Tupelo to create a children’s playground around his birth home. Over a period of time the city park evolved into the centerpiece of Tupelo’s tourism. The house is now one of the most visited attractions in the state of Mississippi.
Without the help, and dedication of, Mrs. Grimes this park may not have been created. Here are the facts.
All of this land once belonged to Mrs. Grimes’s father, Orville Bean.
The Presley family were among the sharecroppers on Bean’s dairy and cotton farm. After marrying Gladys Smith, Vernon Presley borrowed money from Mr. Bean to build this dwelling, next to his parents’ house.
On January 8, 1935 Gladys Presley gave birth to twin boys at home; Jesse Garon who was still born, and Elvis Aron. Young Elvis lived in this house only three years.
Mr. Bean had, and remains to have, the reputation of being; a harsh man (i.e. the story concerning Vernon and his brothers and a true case of redemption), ruthless at business, shrewd, but also had the ability (on certain matters) to be able to forgive and to help members of the community (as he did to the Presley family concerning Elvis birthplace).
His daughter Oleta Grimes was known to have a good heart, be a good neighbor, and a loving and caring member of the community, In fact she became the fifth grade teacher at the community school, East Tupelo Consolidated.
In 1945 Elvis and Shirley Gillentine were chosen to represent their school in the Mississippi-Alabama talent show a fact that Gladys Presley did not know until after Elvis returned home that same day.
Shirley won first prize, Elvis placed fifth and the photograph of Elvis standing on stage, blonde hair and glasses, is essential to Elvis’ story and gives us some insight into the Presley family (please see the photograph contained in this website). Three years later, Elvis moved to Memphis with his mother and father.
In 1956, the Presley family returned during the annual fair to a parade and a sold out concert featuring the now “worldwide talent”…Elvis Presley.
To rise from severe poverty to worldwide fame in these 11 years is truly an original American Story. .
This day was deemed “Welcome Home Elvis Day” where Elvis performed at the same fairground in front of 14,000 people (a crowd larger than the population of the town) wearing a velvet shirt customized for Elvis and given to him by Natalie Wood.
When Orville Bean died and Oleta Grimes inherited his property. And here is where the story of the Birthplace Park begins.
At the Birthplace Park today the story is usually told that Elvis happened to drive past the land of his birth, during his drive to his hometown for the “Welcome Home Elvis Day” and noticed a ‘for sale’ sign.
Elvis was visibly moved and we walked the grounds, peeked into the windows, and then sat upon the step while wiping tears away recalling all his family had gone through and the fact that his twin brother had died during delivery (i.e. stillborn).
As Elvis was being reminded that “we have to go” Elvis decided to buy it and create the park. But the 1957 Fair show was billed as a benefit show for the “Elvis Presley Youth Center” to be built on the land.
Elvis donated his performance fee to buy the land. Elvis did like to visit the old neighborhood. Oleta recalled with fondness that Elvis would visit her husband’s store and their home. At any rate, she sold the land to the city of Tupelo with the intent to create the park.
The first step was to clear the land of the assorted outbuildings and homes on the park property, except for the one that Elvis was born in.
Some people have said that the city “got in wrong” and tore down Elvis’ birthplace. For whatever reason(s) they want you to believe that tourists now visit a replacement house.
The facts are that Gladys Presley was present during the 1957 events along with many of Gladys’ friends and female relatives along with Oleta Grimes. Hence, they did not mistake which house Gladys gave birth to her twin sons.
Eventually the city government did build something close to what Elvis wanted; an indoor recreation hall, a baseball diamond, a swimming pool and a playground. The little house sat unused from 1957 until 1971.
That year the East Tupelo Garden Club, including Oleta Grimes, took it upon themselves to restore the house. Interestingly if you look at the oldest known photo of Elvis birthplace, compared with the “restored photos”, you will notice several things. Among them are; the house itself was physically relocated, there was no swing, and there were handrails to the three steps.
Kindly, Vernon helped them and even gave them a felt hat to place upon the mantle. Elvis knew of these efforts but took no role in part because his beloved mother, Gladys Love (Smith) Presley, had died approximately one year after the initial dedication and his heart was forever broken.
Yet, on several occasions he would come down at night to look around carrying his infamous black police flashlight. Often he was speechless and his emotions varied and his bond was evident.
By now thousands toured the Birthplace Park. Fan Appreciation Day had become a media event for Tupelo. Oleta was not the leader of this event for Janelle McComb was (note: Janelle would become a close friend of Elvis’ and even wrote a poem, for a gift from Elvis to Lisa Marie, that; Elvis loved, made tears come to his eyes, and he proudly gave to Lisa Marie (and remains a cherished possession of Lisa Marie – as it should be).
She had the assertiveness and political skills to turn the Birthplace Park from a part time effort into a tourism destination.
Someone like Janelle was needed to do that, but at the same time she did not share attention easily Oleta Grimes was near the end of her life when that photo was taken, she lived to be one hundred.
She did very few interviews, never asked for the spotlight. That’s too bad, she was too quiet. She had a lot of stories to tell.
Part of the money raised from the banquet and shows (Elvis would do two shows at Ellis Auditorium) was given to the Elvis Presley Foundation. The Foundation had the responsibility to create a park on the land adjacent to his birthplace.
The Elvis Presley Birthplace Foundation and the city of Tupelo share responsibility for maintenance and operations of the Birthplace Park.
We encourage everyone, when they have a chance, to visit this wonderful landmark as well as; visit Graceland, go to www.Elvis.com (the official Elvis Presley website), and support the endeavors of Lisa Marie – her husband – and their family.
by Jeff Schrembs on February 9, 2014 • Permalink
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Posted by Jeff Schrembs on February 9, 2014
https://theelvisexpert.com/2014/02/09/how-elvis-presley-birthplace-became-a-historical-landmark/
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France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration
Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of “defending terrorism.” The comedian, Dieudonné (above), previously sought elective office in France on what he called an “anti-Zionist” platform, has had his show banned by numerous government officials in cities throughout France, and has been criminally prosecuted several times before for expressing ideas banned in that country.
The apparently criminal viewpoint he posted on Facebook declared: “Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.” Investigators concluded that this was intended to mock the “Je Suis Charlie” slogan and express support for the perpetrator of the Paris supermarket killings (whose last name was “Coulibaly”). Expressing that opinion is evidently a crime in the Republic of Liberté, which prides itself on a line of 20th Century intellectuals – from Sartre and Genet to Foucault and Derrida – whose hallmark was leaving no orthodoxy or convention unmolested, no matter how sacred.
Since that glorious “free speech” march, France has reportedly opened 54 criminal cases for “condoning terrorism.” AP reported this morning that “France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism.”
As pernicious as this arrest and related “crackdown” on some speech obviously is, it provides a critical value: namely, it underscores the utter scam that was this week’s celebration of free speech in the west. The day before the Charlie Hebdo attack, I coincidentally documented the multiple cases in the west – including in the U.S. – where Muslims have been prosecuted and even imprisoned for their political speech. Vanishingly few of this week’s bold free expression mavens have ever uttered a peep of protest about any of those cases – either before the Charlie Hebdo attack or since. That’s because “free speech,” in the hands of many westerners, actually means: it is vital that the ideas I like be protected, and the right to offend groups I dislike be cherished; anything else is fair game.
It is certainly true that many of Dieudonné’s views and statements are noxious, although he and his supporters insist that they are “satire” and all in good humor. In that regard, the controversy they provoke is similar to the now-much-beloved Charlie Hebdo cartoons (one French leftist insists the cartoonists were mocking rather than adopting racism and bigotry, but Olivier Cyran, a former writer at the magazine who resigned in 2001, wrote a powerful 2013 letter with ample documentation condemning Charlie Hebdo for descending in the post-9/11 era into full-scale, obsessive anti-Muslim bigotry).
Despite the obvious threat to free speech posed by this arrest, it is inconceivable that any mainstream western media figures would start tweeting “#JeSuisDieudonné” or would upload photographs of themselves performing his ugly Nazi-evoking arm gesture in “solidarity” with his free speech rights. That’s true even if he were murdered for his ideas rather than “merely” arrested and prosecuted for them. That’s because last week’s celebration of the Hebdo cartoonists (well beyond mourning their horrifically unjust murders) was at least as much about approval for their anti-Muslim messages as it was about the free speech rights that were invoked in their support – at least as much.
The vast bulk of the stirring “free speech” tributes over the last week have been little more than an attempt to protect and venerate speech that degrades disfavored groups while rendering off-limits speech that does the same to favored groups, all deceitfully masquerading as lofty principles of liberty. In response to my article containing anti-Jewish cartoons on Monday – which I posted to demonstrate the utter selectivity and inauthenticity of this newfound adoration of offensive speech – I was subjected to endless contortions justifying why anti-Muslim speech is perfectly great and noble while anti-Jewish speech is hideously offensive and evil (the most frequently invoked distinction – “Jews are a race/ethnicity while Muslims aren’t” – would come as a huge surprise to the world’s Asian, black, Latino and white Jews, as well as to those who identify as “Muslim” as part of their cultural identity even though they don’t pray five times a day). As always: it’s free speech if it involves ideas I like or attacks groups I dislike, but it’s something different when I’m the one who is offended.
Think about the “defending terrorism” criminal offense for which Dieudonné has been arrested. Should it really be a criminal offense – causing someone to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned – to say something along these lines: western countries like France have been bringing violence for so long to Muslims in their countries that I now believe it’s justifiable to bring violence to France as a means of making them stop? If you want “terrorism defenses” like that to be criminally prosecuted (as opposed to societally shunned), how about those who justify, cheer for and glorify the invasion and destruction of Iraq, with its “Shock and Awe” slogan signifying an intent to terrorize the civilian population into submission and its monstrous tactics in Fallujah? Or how about the psychotic calls from a Fox News host, when discussing Muslims radicals, to “kill them ALL.” Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred – other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?
For those interested, my comprehensive argument against all “hate speech” laws and other attempts to exploit the law to police political discourse is here. That essay, notably, was written to denounce a proposal by a French minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, to force Twitter to work with the French government to delete tweets which officials like this minister (and future unknown ministers) deem “hateful.” France is about as legitimate a symbol of free expression as Charlie Hebdo, which fired one of its writers in 2009 for a single supposedly anti-Semitic sentence in the midst of publishing an orgy of anti-Muslim (not just anti-Islam) content. This week’s celebration of France – and the gaggle of tyrannical leaders who joined it – had little to do with free speech and much to do with suppressing ideas they dislike while venerating ideas they prefer.
Perhaps the most intellectually corrupted figure in this regard is, unsurprisingly, France’s most celebrated (and easily the world’s most overrated) public intellectual, the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy. He demands criminal suppression of anything smacking of anti-Jewish views (he called for Dieudonné’s shows to be banned (“I don’t understand why anyone even sees the need for debate”) and supported the 2009 firing of the Charlie Hebdo writer for a speech offense against Jews), while shamelessly parading around all last week as the Churchillian champion of free expression when it comes to anti-Muslim cartoons.
But that, inevitably, is precisely the goal, and the effect, of laws that criminalize certain ideas and those who support such laws: to codify a system where the views they like are sanctified and the groups to which they belong protected. The views and groups they most dislike – and only them – are fair game for oppression and degradation.
The arrest of this French comedian so soon after the epic Paris free speech march underscores this point more powerfully than anything I could have written about the selectivity and fraud of this week’s “free speech” parade. It also shows – yet again – why those who want to criminalize the ideas they most dislike are at least as dangerous and tyrannical as the ideas they target: at least.
Photo: Chesnot/Getty Images
Correction: This post originally identified Dieudonné as Muslim. That was in error, and the article has been edited to reflect that correction.
This Muslim woman says Glenn Greenwald is supporting the campaigns by the “honor brigades”.
These are campaigns coordinated by authoritarian Islamic states, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other conservative Islamic movements, to shame and silence criticism of Islam – including from Muslims like herself – and efforts to reform the worst, most violent and oppressive aspects of the religion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-the-honor-brigade-an-organized-campaign-to-silence-critics-of-islam/2015/01/16/0b002e5a-9aaf-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html
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I would not quite subscribe to the mindset of much dissimilar Plato, Hoover and Pope Francis; but I can see as part of our (“Westerners'”) collective blind spots how we insist in portraying the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks against a satirical magazine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo
simplifying it as a “Liberté de la Presse” vs. religious fanaticism thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_suis_Charlie
// __ Vigils held around the world after Paris terror attack:
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11331836/Je-Suis-Charlie-Vigils-held-around-the-world-after-Paris-terror-attack-in-pics.html
Our lack of empathy towards other people and our typically Western “our sh!t smells better than yours” (and when in doubt our guns will prove us right) kind of self-centeredness, doesn’t let us see that, as Plato, Hoover and Pope Francis clearly understand there is “freedom of speech” and then there is “freedom of speech”, there definitely is more to it than satire and “freedom of speech”.
And, of course, not “all of us”/Westerners think the same. U.S. high ranking artists and politicians such as icon Tony Bennett and NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg in a “stop the b#llsh!t already” manner have tried to burst the bubble that the media carefully guards about anything relating to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, especially when it comes to how we should think about it:
// __ “They Flew the Plane in, But We Caused It”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/tony-bennett-on-911-attacks-they-flew-the-plane-in-but-we-caused-it/
// __ Mike Bloomberg: Iraq Is Like 1776 Only This Time, ‘We’re The British’
freerepublic.com/focus/news/1902554/posts
but all the media does, going back to business as usual, is attacking them.
// __ Tony Bennett apologises (sort of) as he clarifies his remarks blaming the U.S. for 9/11 attacks
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039506/Tony-Bennett-apologizes-sort-9-11-remarks.html
In a sense many of our new, unexpected incidents are unintended consequences of “globalization”. Charlie Hebdo is not anymore a regional satirical magazine feeding the (peculiarly Universal) French anarchism, novel prize winner British-Indian Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses are definitely about more than poetry and, no, not the kind Ayatollah Khomeini would like …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy
“Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression…” No, Glenn. The inspiration for that massive presence in the streets of Paris was a whole lot more than a call for “free expression,” though that too was part of it of course. It’s impossible to reduce what brought people out to a single banner, but among the many elements motivating this massive turn-out, I’d say simple solidarity with the murdered victims and a wish to express our sadness – something like laying flowers on a place where a violent crime has been committed – were as important as anything else. PS. He may have began his career as one, but the hysterical anti-Semitic activist Dieudonné hasn’t been anything you might call a “comedian” in years.
As spontaneous sexual arousals are considered by doctors to be a sign of biological health, I think a sense of humor shows you have a healthy mind. We, societally speaking, need cartoonists, comedians, satirical periodicals. They make political bs by our rulers a bit more palatable through sarcasm and satire:
// __ Queen Will Leave Behind Long Legacy Of Waving
youtube.com/watch?v=n5pkDB7zEeo
// __ Leno: ‘We Wanted a President That Listens to All Americans – Now We Have One’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/06/08/leno-we-wanted-president-listens-all-americans-now-we-have-one
// __ Tom Tomorrow on the Rupert Murdoch scandal
http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TMW2011-07-27colorlowres.jpg
but they are always about more than merely jokes. They also scratch the surface of our dogmas, remind us of the collective blind spots of our morality and the struts on which our beliefs are supported.
That is why Plato (obsessing over virtues and our conscious pursuit of them) in his crappy, classist model state societies ruled by “Philosopher-Kings” was very careful about prescribing what was considered kosher, politically correct art and “the role of artists” “in order not to ‘corrupt’ minds” and also why FBI director (for 37 years, through 6 U.S. presidents until his death) J. Edgar Hoover as part of his personal obsession with Chaplin (who believed (as I do) comedians are above politicians) directly questioned him on scenes in which someone kicks a police officer’s butt while arriving in Ellis Island right after showing a picture of the statute of Liberty and took upon himself smearing Chaplin’s public image in all kinds of ways ranging from accusing him of being a Jew (as a way of rationalizing why he was some “commie” (Yes, Chaplin was accused of being a communist, which in the days would amount to accusing someone of being a “terrorist”!)) to fabricating child abuse cases against him which even though proven bogus on physical grounds were enough “to make him pay someone else’s way” … until he was eventually expelled from the U.S.
Even Pope Francis making use of his hard-won celebrity status has said that “freedom of speech has its limits”
// __ El Papa sostiene que “la libertad de expresión tiene límites”
Our lack of empathy towards other people and our typically Western “our sh!t smells better than yours” (and when in doubt our guns will prove us right) kind of self-centeredness, doesn’t let us see that, as Plato, Hoover and Pope Francis clearly understand: there is “freedom of speech” and then there is “freedom of speech”, there definitely is more to it than satire and “freedom of speech”.
We all live now like rough rooming siblings and IMO we will have to learn to live like that and accept it, even like it at some point, and see it as something entirely natural.
Jiddu Krishnamurti said: “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
I think what we really should eventually understand, is that there is nothing wrong or “violent” with being what you are in the same sense that there is absolutely nothing wrong or “violent” with other people being (what they are). As part of our personal being/becoming, sein/werden intrinsic vital dynamic we are all tacitly conditioned and exposed to some extent by our viable options and/or choices (at times not to cast our votes or die or do) to various realities throughout our lives which will pretty much personally conform who each of us is. As they say: “it is not what it is, but how you take it, what you make of it”. In my case I have been “culturally” exposed to my mother (people laugh when they hear me say that), to growing up as part of a family of high profile political dissidents, artists/musicians, anarchists in a police state (Cuba of the 60’s), having chosen to study Physical Sciences and going to school in Germany, and having lived in the U.S. for more two decades. We tend to illusively make a big deal about who we are/how we see ourselves, when in fact your being, say Sudanese, Bangladeshi, Mexican, Scottish or all those things you may be is basically determined by the fact that your mother happened to give birth to you in a certain place at a certain time … yet there is always more to it which one does and is for one self.
We are critically failing to see a (not that) subtle yet very important aspect of political satire, which also speaks tones about our own (Westerners’) arrogance. What on earth makes us think that we should do them the favor of making jokes for/about themselves? Notice, how on all previous cases of political satire we are cracking jokes about ourselves (who could possibly do it better?). What makes us believe that Muslim people are not sensitive enough to see what is wrong with their own rulers and question them satirically or otherwise?
The vertically incisive and visceral outrage sparked in Muslim countries by the “art as social activism” happenings of Egyptian Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (????? ????? ??????)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliaa_Magda_Elmahdy
calling for men to submit images of themselves wearing veils “in an attempt to create awareness over hypocritical attitudes” and releasing a picture of herself menstruating on the flag of ISIS wearing only shoes, while another woman defecated on it
timesofisrael.com/egypt-feminist-defecates-on-is-flag-in-the-nude/
couldn’t be matched by Charlie Hebdo, Hollywood or FEMEN.
As the gringo maxim goes: “mind your business!” and we very much should! Moreover, Gandhi said to his fellow countrymen while fighting the (external) evils of the British occupation not to forget their own internal evils (the caste system, corruption, religion intolerance …) in fact, he very much saw both evils as connected, complementing each other, part of the same.
We all tend to insist on taking our own pictures from our good sides while making sure we take those of others from their worst possible side and rationalize anything that doesn’t fit well that principle. We prominently show ourselves awarding Malala a novel prize without thinking of the many Malalas (girls and boys in Muslim and many other countries) we have killed with our bombings and the many more Malalas working under subhuman conditions so that “we live our way”
// __ Gap Unveils New ‘For Kids By Kids’ Clothing Line
youtube.com/watch?v=OXb3dzNLebk
The British love to dangle the historical importance of their Royal Society on our faces and want for us to see them all as Michael Faraday’s, Charles Darwin’s, John Lennon’s, Princess Diana’s … clones. Richard Feynman’s Tips on Physics preface relates the following apparently “enlightening” and “self-evident” story:
“At a lonely border post high on te Himalayan frontier, Ramaswamy Balasubramanian peered through his binoculars at the People’s Liberation Army soliders stationed in Tibet — who were peering through their scopes back at him. Tensions between India and China had been high for several years since 1962, when the two countries traded shots across their disputed border. The PLA soldiers, knowing they were being watched, taunted Balasubramanian and his fellow Indian soldirs by shaking, defiantly, high in the air their pocket-sized, bright-red copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao — better known in the West as ‘Mao’s Little Red Book’ Balasubramanian, then a conscript studying physics in his spare time, soon grew tired of these taunts. So one day, he came to his observation post prepared with a suitable rejoinder. As soon as the PLA soldiers started waving Mao’s Lettle Red Book in the air again, he and two fellow Indian soldiers picked up and held aloft the three, big, bright-red volumes of The Feynman Lectures on Physics … Now, twenty years later, whose red books are still being read?” From the foreword of Feynmans’s Tips on Physics”.
What they don’t tell you is that Richard Feynman even though a junior physicist at the time (who was persuaded to join this effort to build “‘the’ bomb” before Nazi Germany developed their own) was deeply depressed and radically changed his view of Physics and everything as well as how he took his moral responsibility after seeing “the fruit of his (and many other people’s) work”.
// __ Feynman on his role in the Manhattan Project and its aftermath
youtube.com/watch?v=6no328q_VGQ
Such prominent U.S. medical institutions as the Presbyterian Hospital in NYC were sending blood anticoagulant injections to be administered to people in death row (among them political dissidents) in China, which organs were being harvested for transplant in U.S. hospitals (as reported (if very marginally) even in the US). Chinese execution officers didn’t even care about removing the senders from packages which was what led a reporter to investigate what was going on. The only official statement of that institution (Hippocratic indeed!) was that: “Physicians’ business is to take care of their patients”. Yes, I know, I know that must be a lie because a freedom-loving Christian government/people would never do such things that is why such stories never see the light of day.
The French were not a bit tolerant with those considered to be aiding the enemy during the time they were occupied by Nazi Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
and in a “Red Terror”, “popular justice” way executed without trials thousands of people and while incriminating artists, they didn’t respect that they may have been compelled by their muses to exercise their “freedom of speech/expression” …
Why the -constant- double standard? Is it part of our Christian “… as we forgive ‘those’ who sin against us”? Now as anyone could see “those”, “them”, “the other” are the ones “who sin against us” among many other aspects relating to sins, reminding us of our own.
Absolutely nothing happened when USS Vincennes shot down the Iranian Airbus 655
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
which killed 290 people “by mistake” (yeah, right!). Now, about that “mistake”, the U.S. Navy are not angry Eastern Ukrainian separatists they have the technology to monitor a fly farting on the moon, that plane was flying on its schedule its usual trajectory, (it was even within Iranian airspace when it was shot down!) and it never ever did any aggressive move towards the U.S. military in any way (who seemed to have “gone fishing” to those waters. Do Iranian military vessels “go fishing” right in front of U.S. coasts?). However, compare the technicalities of that incident with the plane downed by pro-Russian separatists in the Ukraine. They couldn’t stop posting pictures everywhere and pointing fingers at Putin and his family. Even though it was very clear that Kiev actually caused that accident for political capital
// __ US intelligence: rebels likely shot down MH17 ‘by mistake’ – as it happened
theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/mh17-eu-foreign-ministers-mh17-sanctions-russia-live-updates
// __ German TV. 10.4.14. Who were the Maidan snipers? Ukraine.
youtube.com/watch?v=zDPJ-ucnyPU&hd=1
very well knowing pro-Russian separatist would not be able to notice it wasn’t theirs and allowing the plane through its air space exactly over the area of intense fighting after making their own planes fly higher and higher …
Why is that? Because 290 “ragheads” were just killed “by mistake”? Because those types of incidents cannot be used against pro-Russia Putin?
The thing is that to us in the West, by courtesy of our “responsible” media outlets, those “mistakes” don’t even factually happen or mean anything.
// __ Encouraging Words of Regret From Dean Baquet and Weasel Words From James Clapper
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/06/06/encouraging-words-dean-baquet-weasel-words-james-clapper/
Has anything changed with “freedom of speech” “responsible” media outlets in the U.S. (and extensively Western media conglomerates)? They, as machines designed for manipulation and brainwashing constantly reinventing themselves as technology opens new venues to them, are more critical to govern “We the people” than the NSA and even political institutions themselves. They are very selective about what and how they present and frame what happens out there, in order to keep people’s minds fenced and “happy”. When they present abuses and terrorism by the USG and their “freedom-loving” followers they do it as if they were “in response to”, a “closed case of justice prevailing over ‘evil'”, “serving the ‘greater good'” … (TM), but when it is about terrorism not sponsored by the USG, we already know how stories go. They can’t quite control reality, but its perception is so easily controllable!!!
“embedded” reporters, who couldn’t notice any of it or do any Math. Manning, however, is serving a 35 year sentence for doing their work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Collateral_Murder,_5_Apr_2010
There you can see “our” “freedom-loving” patriots in action or wait shouldn’t you be watching the latest sharia-based execution? or keep following the latest bs about some celebrity or royal family?
Satyagraha,
Neil Schipper
Two days ago I submitted a comment that challenged the Charlie Hebdo / Dieudonné equivalence (or near equivalence) argument from a perspective that I have not seen anywhere else in the media / blogosphere. (I’d examined all the comments mentioning Dieudonné in this thread to see if the point had already been made.)
In a subsequent comment I called attention to an episode involving the Charlie Hebdo writer Maurice Sinet who, as GG reports, had been fired in 2009 for a single supposedly anti-Semitic sentence (an episode which, again I have not seen mentioned in recent discussions that point out that firing **).
If GG and others don’t find my offerings worth acknowledgement, or the effort to rebut, c’est la vie, as they say.
But I didn’t expect my comments to be held up for at least a full day (perhaps two) causing them to first and only appear well under a bunch of screens’ worth of subsequent comments.. on a thread where many consecutive comments are separated by less than 20 minutes.. on an article championing unfettered you-know-what.
I know I shouldn’t presume too much — technical glitches, busy moderators and all — and I know that in GG’s living room, GG makes the rules. Still, I have to wonder if that very living room contains an odor reminiscent of Stalinism.
** Different, but, still interesting material about the Sinet firing from people actually attuned to the French scene by Pierrick P. here and by Constance here.
Tarja Caisasdotter
That free speech is more or less a mirage in those western countries that most loudly try to stuff the its virtues down the throats of those who do not appreciate some of our not-allowed-to-be-questioned dogma is good to be reminded of in these days when the brainwashing machine is at full-throttle.
It is challenging in this context to know any means by which any fair-minded disallowance of some speech can possibly be effectuated. Speech that works in the favor of the powerful is more than allowed; it is promoted. Speech that works against the powerful is silenced or smeared. To put a law in place is to look to those who have caused the problem to solve it — it’s like putting the wolf in charge of the hen house.
As someone who has the fate of being one of the hens, the only useful response is to keep in mind the nature of those who run the place.
When the people enforcing the laws are self-serving, the result of any law (regardless of the words it is written with) will be to serve what those same people see as their interests.
“…Should it really be a criminal offense – causing someone to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned – to say something along these lines: western countries like France have been bringing violence for so long to Muslims in their countries that I now believe it’s justifiable to bring violence to France as a means of making them stop?…”
Uh, yes absolutely. Why would even ask such a stupid, brainless question?
The Rev. Dr. Watson
Muslims of the world saw the leaders of the West(controlled by America) march against Islam in Paris. They believed that it was purely a racist hatred march against Islamic culture. They believe that it showed the power of the Zionists. This is why President Obama(puppet master) did not join in. The question is: Why are these leaders provoking the Muslims? Their economies are going into deep recession, so this ethnic strife is to take people’s mind off of the economy. They are using Nazi tactics, since they are the new Nazis. GET OUT OF THE EU.
Sal U. Lloyd
He gets arrested but not Madame Le Pen for saying ebola should wipe out all of Africa???
The confusion can be cleared up very easily. Free speech is legal, but not when you yell fire.
Generally and, in the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack and similar incidents, very specifically speaking, those “cartoonists” making fun of a people/religion are a very essential part of the brainwashing people systematically get in order to justify the abusive engagement and genocidal extermination of “rag heads” (as Muslims are semi-officially referred to by the USG)
Basically, we Westerners see it as some “freedom of speech” vs. “those savage crazy ‘terrorist’ assassins … (TM)” thing
Even “freedom of speech” “responsible” media outlets effectively admit they are part of some farcical bs, when they accept such a joke as “embedded” reporters and refuse to publish anything -truly- questioning daddy government (as with Snowden revelations) or involving the powers that be. They are very selective about what and how they present and frame what happens out there in order to keep people’s minds fenced and “happy”. For example, when they present abuses and terrorism by the USG and their “freedom-loving” friends they present it as if they were “in response to”, a “closed case of justice prevailing over evil”, “serving the ‘greater good'” … (TM), but when it is about terrorism not sponsored by the USG, we already know how stories go. They can’t quite control reality, but its perception is so easily controllable!!!
Take a history book or one of those “serious”, “responsible” newspapers in the U.S. and try to make sense of what they are saying (you may at times go LOL). If you prorate the figures on a social scale you will see that the USG and their “freedom-loving” fiefdoms have greatly surpassed the genocidal ratio of Nazi Germany during WWII, however not a single “freedom of speech” media outlet questions any of this either factually or morally. They are all part of the same farcical “freedom of speech” theatrical bs
Gringos can’t help but find mass obedience shows in North Korea and prayer calls by Muslim people downright stupid and very disrespecting to what they have been conditioned to see as “personal individuality”, “personal freedom of choice”, … but then they spend watching TV one third of their waking time of their entire lives and they fail to see anything wrong with that and any relationships with those mass belief demonstrations. That clearly shows how effective is the work of those “cartoonists” and “freedom of speech” media outlets.
Amazing article! Real mind opening. I truly believe that the way to true world peace is by identifying the contradictions and hypocrisies. Glenn demonstrates that he is a true champion of free speech.
I did more research on Dieudonne and I was impressed with his courage and brilliance of daring to “go there”. It is clear to me that he purposefully pushes the envelope in order to demonstrate the farce/illusion of “free speech”. I believe that most artist quickly figure out what they are allowed to say or not say and they censor themselves… In my search I found an excellent video to further demonstrate the double standard in France: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-3cmEOZ02w
Sebastian Jimenez
Glenn, you’re are making an unsupported and wrong assumption in this passage, just because it supports your point:
“Think about the “defending terrorism” criminal offense for which Dieudonné has been arrested. Should it really be a criminal offense – causing someone to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned – to say something along these lines: western countries like France have been bringing violence for so long to Muslims in their countries that I now believe it’s justifiable to bring violence to France as a means of making them stop?”
What Dieudonne was trying to say when he wrote ““Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly” he was trying to say that he feels like a terrorist because he has been treated like public enemy number 1 in France for making controversial jokes for many years. He said so himself. He certainly wasn’t trying to say “something along the lines of: western countries like France have been bringing violence for so long to Muslims in their countries that I now believe it’s justifiable to bring violence to France as a means of making them stop?” He wrote that post right after going to the massive march in France against extremism, I don’t see how you could prove that he actually meant what you say he meant with his post.
Of course it helps your point better to take his remarks as a justification of terrorism rather than as a personal feeling of disgruntle with the french government, because you want to show that the value of free speech in democratic societies is so important that even the most radical and most unpopular of opinions, such as one that defends or justifies terrorism (Muslim-Islamist terrorism that is), should be allowed to be expressed freely. But you shouldn’t go as far as making unsupported assumptions to illustrate your point. It is a journalistic mistake.
Nonetheless, the fact that the French government arrested him for saying something that they took to be a defense and a justification of terrorism, when it was not, does raise serious problems with the way these type of hate speech banning policies work. It shows how unreliable and how dangerous these policies are because it vests too much power on authorities to define people’s remarks as they please, and shows how likely is this power to be abused to ban opinions, or people, that these authorities don’t like.
ghost0 Sebastian Jimenez
“What Dieudonne was trying to say when he wrote ““Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly” he was trying to say that he feels like a terrorist because he has been treated like public enemy number 1 in France for making controversial jokes for many years. He said so himself. He certainly wasn’t trying to say “something along the lines of: western countries like France have been bringing violence for so long to Muslims in their countries that I now believe it’s justifiable to bring violence to France as a means of making them stop?” ”
a/ What if he had ?
b/ Why, then, did he delete the post ?
Sebastian Jimenez ghost0
To answer your first question: even if Dieudonne had meant what Glenn thought he meant with the facebook post, Glenn really didn’t offer any evidence to support his interprfetation of Dieudonne’s message. He chose that interpretation for pure convenience, not for accuracy. Furthermore, it’s not only that Glenn didn’t show evidence, it’s that it is really unlikely that his interpretation of Dieudonne’s post is accurate. First reason for the unlikeliness of Glenn’s interpretation of the post I already mentioned: Dieudonne went to a march agaisnt extremism right before posting that on fb. I don’t know, maybe its just me, but a guy that goes to a march against extremism probably wouldn’t want to say anything to defend extremism or justify it. Second reason, the whole semantics of the post indicate that he wanted to say that he felt like Charlie Coulibaly, in other words, that he felt like a terrorist — as a way to mock the french government for how they treated him — not that he actually felt sympathy for the shooters. He said, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly, not #JeSuisCharlieCoulibaly. And lastly, to put this in the coffin, this post in Dieudonne’s facebook wall following his arrest: “I’m being seeing as a Charlie Coulibaly, when I’m no different than Charlie Hebdo, for a year I’m treated like public enemy number 1, when I only sought to make laughs”
And now the second question: why would he delete the controversial post following his arrest? Maybe because a lot of people, including the french government and Glenn Greenwald, are taking his post to mean a completely different thing that what he actually meant.
“even if Dieudonne had meant what Glenn thought he meant with the facebook post, Glenn really didn’t offer any evidence to support his interprfetation of Dieudonne’s message. He chose that interpretation for pure convenience, not for accuracy. Furthermore, it’s not only that Glenn didn’t show evidence, it’s that it is really unlikely that his interpretation of Dieudonne’s post is accurate.”
GG didn’t make any personal interpretation as to the meaning of Dieudonné’s post. He reported what the French investigators concluded :
As for my questions :
a/ remains unanswered : what if he had indeed meant “Half of me is feeling sympathy for a terrorist”. Did he, i.y.o., have to be arrested in that case ?
b/ He’s not a rookie in the ‘provocation business’, far from it. He knew what he was doing, and which reactions to expect. If he wanted to make a point, he shouldn’t have deleted his post.
Oh, I see what you’re getting at with the first question. Of course he shouldn’t be arrested if he had meant to say something along the lines of “I feel sympathy for a terrorist, this attack is minuscule in proportion to what France and its allies have done to Muslim countries in the past”, like a lot of the other 54 people who were arrested that day actually did. But the fact is that he didn’t mean to show sympathy for a terrorist nor the attacks on France. The fact that Dieudonne got arrested when he was not even trying to defend terrorism raises different problems with and concerns about these hate speech banning policies than what Glenn mentioned in the article. If Dieudonne had meant to “defend terrorism” and got arrested because of it, then the problem with the hate speech banning policies in this case is what Glenn talks about in this article: that the policies will only go after unpopular opinions that the authorities do not agree with. But because Dieudonne did not mean to defend terrorism and still got arrested for it, the problem with the hate speech banning policies in this case is that they are incredibly susceptible to misinterpretation — accidental or intentional — and therefore, are ineffective at actually disseminating between “acceptable” and “awful” opinions. So even someone with not such a radical opinion would be liable to get arrested with the use of these policies. But yes, I take your point about how Glenn didn’t make any personal interpretation in his article and that he only used the French government’s interpretation of the post as a means to say “even if Dieudonne had meant to defend terrorism, his arrest wouldn’t be justifiable”. It just seemed to me that the article didn’t make that distinction between what the French government interpreted Dieudonne’s post to mean, and what he actually meant.
B) Yes he is not a rookie in the business, correct me if I’m wrong but while he had been in trouble with the authorities before — got fined for “hate speech”, got his shows taken down for anti antisemitism, and so on — this was the first time that he was arrested for something that he said. Scratch that: for something that he didn’t even mean to say. Maybe he didn’t want to get arrested to be able to keep working freely on his comedy, or maybe he actually didn’t want people to think that he was sympathizing with the attacks.
Alan Snipes
Yes, Glenn, but the west is considerably more tolerant than the Muslim countries. Apparently you have not heard about the flogging of a citizen of Saudi Arabia who dared started a blog criticizing his government. So Muslim countries do not believe in any dissenting speech at all, as opposed to the west. If Muslims do not like western culture, no one is forcing them to live in it.
Cindy Alan Snipes
Saudi Arabia’s legal malaise is not typical of Muslim countries, any more than America’s barbaric death penalty and extrajudicial killing is typical of Western nations.
My Info Cindy
http://www.atheistrepublic.com/blog/abbassyed/homophobic-islam
Cindy I am sure you are well aware of the human rights abuses committed against homosexuals in many Muslim countries.
Cindy My Info
Yes, I’m also aware that (for example) the US imprisons more people than anywhere else in the world, and that it imprisons a higher proportion of blacks than South Africa did during the height of apartheid. What I said was that Saudi Arabia’s particular legal malaise is not typical of Islamic nations any more than America’s characteristics define the whole of the West. I can list some more of the US’s peculiar failings, if you like, and illustrate some of the related but perhaps lesser abuses of the allied nations, too, but I see no purpose in following your lead by dwelling on something merely tangential to the point.
Cindy Cindy
Come to think of it, perhaps there is after all a purpose in the tangential, for if you (like Bob Jones below) wish to play the extrapolation game, perhaps it can be illustrative:
The original issue was Saudi Arabia punishing a blogger, and your extrapolation from the persecution of homosexuals – who are (broadly speaking) unjustly incriminated – is that therefore all Muslim rule is as repressive as under the rule House of Saud. This (although Iran is horrific, too, for example) is not an accurate extrapolation since Saudi Arabia is peculiarly brutal and oppressive in countless more ways than the average Muslim country – and this despite being one of our leading allies in the region.
Now although the US has an appalling record of late regarding its treatment of reporters*, the sensible purpose here is obviously not to compare the Muslim world with the West, but to avoid typifying the two cultures by the worst of both.
To illustrate, the Western nations allied with the US all racially profile, disproportionately monitor and otherwise persecute Muslims, and Britain, Canada etc. join in the butchering and more indiscriminate-than-generally-known airstrikes in the middle east, but the US stands alone in the field of the execution of indefinite detention, rendition, torture and drone strikes and so on.
While Iran is similar to Saudi Arabia in its cruelties, just so Israel is very similar to the US in its vicious and disproportionate assaults on Palestine; and while other Western nations, as noted, participate in the worldwide bulk-but-distinctly-racially-profiling surveillance state structure, the House of Saud AND the government of the US remain far and above the very worst faces of their respective cultures.
*http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php
The reference to reporters in my post above, properly linked this time:
http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php
Steb Cindy
What you fail to realize is that you cannot name ONE country with the perfect judicial system. As a matter of fact, tell me where that country is so I can move there. You and sometimes Mr Greenwald are inclined to equate the US justice and social systems with those of Saudi Arabia because the US judicial system does not meet your level of perfection. This is in my opinion a naive maneuver from you and a cynical one from Mr Greenwald. If you are against the death penalty, drone strikes, military spending etc..you can convince the people to change those policies in the US. You can bash policymakers like you and Mr Greenwald do every day in the US. Now please let us know whether it is allowed to challenge the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iran, Bahrain, Brunei? That is the difference that you fail to realize and that Mr Greenwald has successfully blurred among his readers.
Bob Jones Cindy
According to the Amnesty International report on reported executions between 2007 and 2013 where China tops the list, the number 2 spot goes to Iran (2,032) well ahead of number 3 Saudi Arabia (502) and number 4 Iraq (425). Then you have the US with 259, followed by Yemen with 165…
Cindy Bob Jones
None of which changes my point about the US’s sordid death penalty, extrajudicial killing, torture, etc. being atypical for the West.
Sillyputty Cindy
“None of which changes my point about the US’s sordid death penalty, extrajudicial killing, torture, etc. being atypical for the West.”” – Cindy
Bob Jones makes an important distinction regarding death penalty/executions being far more prevalent in other nation states around the world when compared to the United States. That the US has more of its citizens imprisoned per capita (at least according to official reports) is a stark reminder that killing someone isn’t the only way to silence an individual – and certainly isn’t if there is a profit to made – as has become even more the case in the United States since it has increased the corporatization & privatization of incarceration.
In other words, the government/corporate prison industrial complex can make money off of the prisoners only while they are still alive and inside. Releasing or killing prisoners is bad for US federal and state governments and bad for this business model. Federal and state prison workers lose out in this scenario, as do the for-profit prison corporations.
Which leads to the idea that extrajudicial killing is almost certainly just as ubiquitous as torture on our the planet. The United States does not seem to be unique here, either, although, like incarceration and torture, the US kills others extra-judicially with a distinct capitalist-flair and a jingoistic attitude – all while blatantly mocking international law. Most other nations at least try to shy away from the limelight – the US is, for all intents and purposes trying to, if not institutionalize, at least to decriminalize all of these acts – and so far it’s succeeding.
A recent Amnesty International Report Specifically on Torture outlines the horrifying ubiquity of torture worldwide. It specifically underscores that torture is a global crisis.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/amnesty-international-global-crisis-torture-exposed-new-worldwide-campaign-2014-05-13
* Amnesty International has reported on torture or other ill-treatment in 141 countries over the past five years.
* New global survey of more than 21,000 people in 21 countries across every continent reveals fear of torture exists in all these countries.
* Nearly half of respondents fear torture if taken into custody.
* More than 80% want strong laws to protect them from torture.
* More than a third believe torture can be justified.
“Woe to a nation which, being more civilized, is still led by ancient atrocious customs! “Why should we change our jurisprudence?” say we. “Europe is indebted to us for cooks, tailors, and wig-makers; therefore, our laws are good.” – Voltaire
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/voltaire-the-works-of-voltaire-a-contemporary-version-in-21-vols
Ricardo Camilo Lopez Bob Jones
> According to the Amnesty International report on reported executions between 2007 and 2013 …
If you are talking about such figures:
theguardian.com/world/datablog/2014/mar/27/death-penalty-statistics-2013-by-country
(which source you could have included BTW) and you prorate those figures by the countries populations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population
Country 2007-2013 population pro rated (*10,000)
China Thousands 1,367,750,000
Iran 2032 78,052,300 26.034%
Iraq 425 36,004,552 11.804%
Saudi Arabia 502 31,521,418 15.926%
North Korea 70 25,155,000 2.783%
USA 259 320,220,000 0.809%
Somalia 57 11,123,000 5.125%
Sudan 51 38,435,252 1.327%
Yemen 165 25,956,000 6.357%
Japan 41 127,070,000 0.323%
You will see that the US isn’t really on a high ground when compared to Somalia or even North Korea even while considering “freedom-loving” to be worst than “freedom-hating” executions.
Also, in order for China to keep the #1 place there must have been more than 36,000 executions. I wonder how many of them were political dissidents, which organs were being harvested for consumption in US hospitals as has been reported (if very marginally) even in the US. Such prominent U.S. medical institutions as the Presbyterian Hospital in NYC were sending blood anticoagulant injections to be administered to people in death row and they didn’t even care about removing the senders from packages which was what led a reporter to investigate what was going on. Yes, I know, I know that must be a lie because a freedom-loving Christian government/people would never do such things …
Ricardo Camilo Lopez Ricardo Camilo Lopez
“freedom-loving” to be BETTER than “freedom-hating” executions …
Bob Jones Ricardo Camilo Lopez
No, of course, the US is by no means on the high ground in this regard. Duh… The point of my reference to the Amnesty International report was to disprove Cindy’s bizarre contention that “Saudi Arabia’s legal malaise is not typical of Muslim countries.” The more complete list that you provided further proves my point: 6 out of the top 10 countries in reported executions are Muslim ones.
Cindy Ricardo Camilo Lopez
Bob Jones –
Since Saudi Arabia is demonstrably far more brutal and oppressive than most other Muslim countries, my claim is not bizarre at all.
And again, nothing you’ve presented changes the United States’ position as uniquely corrupt in the West as a parallel to this.
Kim G Alan Snipes
Just because Muslim countries are intolerant is no reason to think it’s fine that we in the West degrade our free speech principals? Right? The goal of liberal, western democracy is not to be just a smidgen better than the worst places on earth; it’s to be fair, open, and just regardless of what others might do.
I personally was shocked by the arrest of Dieudonné, especially given the context of the “free speech” march, and I totally agree with Greenwald: if speech is free, then it’s free. Any exceptions means it’s not.
.. Charlie Hebdo, which fired one of its writers in 2009 for a single supposedly anti-Semitic sentence in the midst of publishing an orgy of anti-Muslim (not just anti-Islam) content.
People are trying to make a lot of hay from that firing of Maurice Sinet (aka Siné). Hypocrisy!
The CH editors included lots of “poke the Orthodox Jews” and “poke the Zionists” material, in addition to “poke the fundamentalist Muslims”; this is all very well documented. And yes, the Olivier Cyran letter does indicate the proportions changed after 9/11. Well, a lot of things changed after 9/11.
But the firing resulted from Siné’s attempt to “poke” a high born political prince for marrying Jewish money“. The editors did not want their magazine to go there. Hypocrisy? Not sure.
Now, I’m not that brilliant, but this was easy to find:
.. 1982 radio interview, shortly after a terrorist attack on Jews in central Paris, in which the cartoonist said: ‘Yes, I am anti-Semitic and I am not scared to admit it… I want all Jews to live in fear, unless they are pro-Palestinian. Let them die.’ Siné later apologised.
” ‘ Anti-Semitic’ satire divides liberal Paris”
If any Charlie Hebdo writer ever said or wrote something along these lines:
Yes, I am anti-Muslim and I am not scared to admit it… I want all Muslims to live in fear, unless they are pro-Enlightenment. Let them die.
.. even if they later apologized for it, we probably would have heard about it.
Glen Greenwald, have you ever come right out and argued in favor of having the bar set differently for Muslims vis-a-vis Jews?
Adrian Neil Schipper
To be fair “pro-enlightenment” basically means “I’m not going to kill you for offending me”. I have problem with murderers living in fear.
On the suppression of Dieudonné generally, and the notion that differential treatment of Dieudonné & Charlie Hebdo is a slam dunk case of hypocrisy:
Muslims and Jews in France navigate a society as minorities knowing that some of those around them (or at least parents thereof) had been active, willing participants in acts of physical destruction against members of their minority communities.
Consider a an entertainer whose show featured prominently, sweaty, leering, jeering remarks that conveyed that accounts of organized killing that took place in Algeria or Morocco in (nearly) living memory, were — ha-ha, tee-hee — contrived or overblown, and, that this entertainment was clearly appealing to, providing delight to, frustrated, disaffected white nationalists.
The French authorities, I believe, wouldn’t have it. And with considerable justification.
So, Glen Greenwald, rethink. Everyone (maybe excepting a few crank libertarians) accepts some notion of limits. We don’t argue about allowing sex-with-cadaver magazines at the supermarket (though there would be buyers).
johnny sin
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/15/the_lefts_charlie_hebdo_dilemma_how_to_feel_about_the_magazine_its_cartoons/
As this article points out, Charlie Hebdo had done satire criticizing and mocking Isreal’s oppression of the Palastinians. And the French government’s racist policies. Listening too Glen Greenwald and Jeremy Skahill you would think they were Fox news commentators
What really & first of all is out of place in our times, are the cartoons with Muslims as subject. Since decades they are waged wars on; massacres, torture & the destruction of the basis of their existence are inflicted on them. In Palestine we witness a slow genocide.
As to the one cartoon alluding to the torture practices, they offend the victims anew. Torture & especially the pervert torture is humiliating & it is intended so; everything should be done to protect the victims. Charlie hebdo could have used Cheney or Brennan for this cartoon. The cartoons are not only a blatant affront but also unintelligent. The latest edition of charlie hebdo is just a new provocation.
Dieudonné’s arrest shows once again the malevolence & distortion of the people who are ruling us.
BDBinc
…Nor should the french false flag crack down on free speech be used by the media to divide us into “west” and ‘east’ for the “zionist” warmongers.
Greenwald doesn’t understand why Holocaust denial and such – Dieudonné’s bread and butter – is a crime in France and other parts of Europe. Greenwald means to ignore 20th century European history and decries the damn French for not doing the same. Greenwald doesn’t see the difference between mocking religious figures who may or may not have lived a very long time ago and – Dieudonné’s schtick – attacks on Jews coupled with the contention that 6 million of them were not in fact murdered by the Nazis. Greenwald’s anti-Semitic cartoons were just that – anti-Semitic as opposed to blasphemous – and he really doesn’t see the difference? A true believer, he is, and so desperate to cut off his nose to spite his face that he happily brings succor the enemies of reason and progress. Oh, they love him now over at the white supremicist “Occidental Dissident” website as well they should: “Glenn Greenwald might be a homosexual Jew, but I love the guy.” Of course you do, Hoss – that homosexual Jew is fighting your fight these days. Greenwald calls Dieudonné a “comedian” here. He started out as one, but for quite some time now he’s essentially a hysterical anti-Semitic activist who’s been deluding the brain-defficient followers making him rich (sound like Ron Paul?) with one of the oldest lies in the book. His shows are political rallies more than anything else, and his obsession with Jews ended up drawing him into Front National circles and making that movement’s historical leader Jean-Marie Le Pen the godfather of one of his daughters. With people like Greenwald’s going all Voltaire on him, Dieudonné knows there’s hope, knows there’s a “progressive” true-believing sucker born every minute who will jump to his defense with the kind of specious reasoning Greenwald’s giving us. I’m reminded of the the evangelicals ever desperate to save America from baby-killers and homosexuality – that hard-core, 1 or 2 issue hysteria not matter what damage is caused is postively Greenwaldian. He has bent over backwards so far, twisted logic to such an extent that with friends like that, the left certainly doesn’t need any enemies… Orwell would have had a grand old time with him.
Kim G Bob Jones
So you really think then that Dieudonné should rightfully have been arrested for a mere “tweet?” Frankly, if what you say is right, then I don’t like the guy either. But once you support arresting people for mere tweets, then you start down a very slippery, dangerous slope. That’s why free speech has to be absolute, no matter how awful. Because otherwise, no speech is free.
albert Bob Jones
You should double-check your figure. The 6 millions figure, first off, comes long before WWII. (do some research). And then with legitimate historical revisionism, based on more accurate data, the Polish government changed the number of Jews killed at Auschwitz from 4 million, to 1.1 million. So dont continue to parrot the same the number. This is Not to diminish the horror and incomprehensible injustice, those are get scapegoated as a means to launch wars went through, (and still go through today) -but they were attacked, historically, for some of the same reasons Muslims are being scapegoated today: non-assimilation. We do know that 20 million Russians died during World War II, making up the largest demographic of any nation, slaughtered by the Nazis. (who btw, were a product of transnational corporations, Wall St banks, -aka, the status quo).
GeoffK
There is a huge difference between speech, however obnoxious, which is critical of or even hateful, toward a group, religion or country, and speech which, on its face, appears to support violence or other unlawful acts, against members of that group, religion or country. The latter may not really be “speech”, but may be more in the nature of a verbal act, which, at the very least, ought to be investigated. This is especially true when the “speech” appears to be directed toward people or groups which have recently committed serious acts of violence.
In addition, I don’t believe any nation, however committed to free speech, is required to sit quietly and do nothing while sympathizers of a violent group issue broadsides which seem to encourage the murder and mayhem we have been seeing in Europe recently and in France, in particular. Early in the American Civil War,a congressman from Ohio went around making speeches in support of the secessionists. President Lincoln had the man arrested and suspended “habeas corpus”, even though he had no legal right to do so; he subsequently ignored an order by the Chief Justice to free him. Congress did not finally approve suspension of “habeas corpus” until 1863. But, given the circumstances, who can say that Lincoln was wrong? As another Supreme Court Justice, Robert Jackson, who also served as a prosecutor at the Nuremburg war crimes trials, said, “The law is not a mutual suicide pact.” I think he got it exactly right.
Benito Mussolini GeoffK
who can say that Lincoln was wrong
When faced with adversity, he completely abandoned all the principles on which the republic was founded. I believe this follows a universal human pattern – ethics are a luxury which can be indulged when one is comfortably in control of the situation. But fundamentally their purpose is to make one feel better about oneself – to aspire to nobility by pretending to be noble.
But principles should always pre-empted by the imperative of survival.
Steve Pesce
Brilliant, as usual. One thought you might consider is this. There’s ample evidence that media figures are not critiquing the Muslim religion, but are actually simply attacking Arabs for their religion. No one is suggesting an American athlete who converts to the Muslim faith is suddenly a danger to commit terrorist acts. What they’re really talking about are Arabs from the Middle East region. It’s straight up racism.
Jett Rucker
The law in France that criminalizes certain remarks about the Holocaust is called the Gayssot Act, after its sponsor. As far as I can see, (some) Muslims in France merely resorted to these murders as perhaps the most-effective means available to them to appeal for THEIR OWN Gayssot Act.
After the Muslims get THEIR Gayssot protecting the Prophet, some other group will want one for their favorite prophet/mythology. Maybe THEY’ll murder 12 people, maybe they’ll murder less, maybe more.
The POINT is to get a Gayssot Act to keep public discussion agreeable for everyone, all the time. Lock ‘n’ load! We gonna get US a Gayssot!
Internet Borg #3,245,535
Interested readers are referred to Deudonneè’s wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieudonn%C3%A9_M%27bala_M%27bala
The truth is that Greenwald is a Nazi sympathiser. He defended white supremacists in court, he responded to the attacks by printing reams of anti-Semitic hatred, and now he praises another bigot. Neither of them face being murdered for what they do. Personally I’m starting to understand how the Americans felt after 9/11. Je Suis Charlie Maintenant!
Would you then agree on the murder of Muslims or Jewish in tne name of freedom of speech? You seem to ignore that Dieudonné has a well known anti sionist activist. The reason for his arrest is the apology of violence and terrorism. What has that got to do with freedom of press and speech ? This is exactly what we all have to be careful of : not playing the game of Islamists who want to raise people and communities against each other in Europe. We have to be responsable more than ever for what we say and write. I would be so pleased if one kept a better sense of judgment and get the bigger picture of all this. And beware of all this shit on the net !
“his ugly Nazi-evoking arm gesture”
Say what? The Quenelle (English: dumpling or sometimes penis) gesture is not in any way similar to the Nazi heil Hitler type salute. Any hand gesture can be made into a heil hitler salute if you change the position of your hands.
Crazy reasoning like the following appeared in the press after one of Dieudonne’s surges in popularity and was used to support his arrest, but as I point out the reasoning is hysterical and plain nutty. You see in France backward is slang for forward so the Quenelle is a hiel Hitler:
Is ‘Quenelle’ Backwards Version of Nazi Salute?
Popular French Reverse Slang Offers Clues to Odious Gesture
http://m.forward.com/articles/190967/is-quenelle-backwards-version-of-nazi-salute/
Other myths:
He appeals mostly to North and Black Africans aka Muslims. Beyond the obvious racism of the comment, the audiences seen in videos of him are white (hint: white kids can afford his ticket prices).
He is not funny. Actually he is the only funny French comedian.
As as a final comment, the thing that really upset ‘the establishment’ was his Holocaust pineapple song and dance, watch it and tell me that’s not comedy:
Dieudonné – SHOAHNANAS (HolocaustPineapples) with Eng …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUhbTRs5RUU
“Fuck the police ! Fuck France ! Police son of a whore ! […] The Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly were right. They’re good guys. I am a terrorist ! Allahu Akbar ! I’m gonna bomb the Champs-Elysées !”
Also sprach Ossama, an illegal immigrant from Algeria who has been living in Germany lately, and claims he has been visiting France as a tourist for the past ten days. He also threatened a Jewish nurse, referring to Hitler “not having finished the job”.
After an immediate summary trial, the man was sentenced today to an effective fifteen-month prison term for “praising terrorism”.
The newspaper reporting the facts underscores this is not an isolated case : following an injuction from the minister of Justice (Mrs. Taubira), French courts have ruled on similar cases with utmost intransigeance since the Charlie Hebdo attack, some of which involved alcoholics or mentally ill people.
http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2015/01/16/apologie-terrorisme-justice-exemplaire-dexception-257145
The law repressing the act of praising terrorism was voted November last year. According to this law, if they were French, people like Noam Chomsky or Norman Finkelstein would go to prison for presenting Hamas as a resistance movement. Other examples are legion, of course…
-Mona- ghost0
France has never been a bastion of free speech, at all. As this orgy of arrests and prosecutions shows. The French simply detest religion and distinguish between mocking religious belief and figures on the one hand, and mocking the religious minorities per se on the other.
So, if you want to blaspheme, France is the place to be. Anything else that anyone finds offensive, that can get you fined and/or locked up.
Libete -Mona-
France sounds AMAZING to me. Imagining NO RELIGION TO ANNOY ME. THAT would be heaven.
ghost0 -Mona-
And did the girl strip naked in turn, or did the veil make her feel so secure she left the room ?
freedom of speech ghost0
Do you really think that is ok to kill people because you disagree with them ? Please explain why ? and why are you so angry ? which country are you from ?
ghost0 freedom of speech
Learn to read, my dear, and don’t contaminate my comment with your emotions, please.
Folks, some of these French just are super intense about their secularism. Today a Paris law professor was so outraged by the presence of a veiled student, that he stripped naked in front of his class and announced he was practicing the religion of “naturalism.” En francais: http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/les-news/actu/detail/article/la-violente-reaction-d-un-professeur-de-l-ecole-du-barreau-devant-une-etudiante-voilee-10605/
Hans Bavinck
Dieudonné’s one-man-show in Metz, programmed for tonight (Friday), has not only received last-minute approval, but the court also ordered the city to make the planned theater available.
Things are not always as black-and-white as they seem.
I think this confirms what I’ve said all along: that the prosecution of Dieudonné for his tweet was the work of the Executive branch, but that the Judicial branch won’t play along.
He does, however, still face court cases relating to one sentence in his show, in which he wished that the gas chambers had prevented the birth of a Jewish critic, relating to tax evasion and relating to the use of donations to pay fines which is prohibited in France, you’re supposed to pay them yourself. But none of those are likely to put him in prison.
Leveller
Thanks for ignoring my earlier comment. I see that free speech is highly evident here (sarcasm all MINE) It’s been over 8 hours since I’ve commented – still a no show. But if this site is anything like I think it is…. This comment will get posted and not my original post. Free speech – apparently the appearance of reality is all that really matters. Thanks
Sillyputty
On the subject of how violent jihadists/terrorists are created, and why Glenn Greenwald isn’t one.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/i-live-in-terror-of-the-fanatic-who-has-only-read-one-story-whether-hes-an-islamist-murderer-or-glenn-greenwald-9984017.html
-Mona- Sillyputty
That’s pretty fucking funny. The guy has a way with words and this just is some premo good bullshit:
We were given some insight into this on Newsnight earlier this week when Evan Davis, growing nicely into his job, interviewed the lawyer, journalist and associate of Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald – a man strikingly deficient in the musculature necessary to essay a smile.
Leading Greenwald with expert gentleness into the gated hell that is his mind, Davis put the case for differing viewpoints. Nothing could have been more instructive than Greenwald’s dead expression – his mouth fixed in the rigor mortis of absolute conviction, his eyes unanimated by the pleasure of conversation or the excitement of controversy. Doubt honours a man, but this was the face of someone whom no ghost of a second thought dares visit. No consciousness of absurdity either. As for the humanity whose civil rights he champions with such icy rigidity, for that he had nothing but contempt. We are merely, if we don’t think what he thinks, the playthings of the powerful. This is the terrifying paradox of zealotry: no one hates humanity more than those who believe they know what’s best for it.
Sillyputty -Mona-
I know, Right? The extent to which people contrive and conflate to kill the messenger is raging rampant these days!
No one else than Sam Harris better fits that description, but you’d be amazed by the amount of egotistical bitches out there…
Cindy ghost0
For those just joining the discussion, Sam Harris is an anti-Muslim bigot.
“For those just joining the discussion, Sam Harris is an anti-Muslim bigot.” – Cindy
Hypocrisy is the claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions, behaviors, virtues, motivations, or other characteristics that one does not actually hold.
It is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another.
In moral psychology, it is the failure to follow one’s own expressed moral rules and principles.
Recent studies in psychology have identified cognitive biases and distortions that predispose humans to readily perceive and condemn faults in others, while failing to perceive and condemn faults of their own.
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.” – Voltaire
That interesting comment doesn’t alter the fact that Harris is an anti-Muslim bigot, nor the fact that Voltaire was an anti-Semite.
“Contrary to the assumptions under which some Harris defenders are laboring, the fact that someone is a scientist, an intellectual, and a convincing and valuable exponent of atheism by no means precludes irrational bigotry as a driving force in their worldview. In this case, Harris’ own words, as demonstrated below, are his indictment…”
“This {Harris’ criticism} is not a critique of religion generally; it is a relentless effort to depict Islam as the supreme threat. Based on that view, Harris, while depicting the Iraq war as a humanitarian endeavor, has proclaimed that ‘we are not at war with terrorism. We are at war with Islam.’ He has also decreed that ‘this is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with millions more than have any direct affiliation with Al Qaeda.’ ‘We’ – the civilized peoples of the west – are at war with “millions” of Muslims, he says. Indeed, he repeatedly posits a dichotomy between “civilized” people and Muslims: ‘All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.'”
– Glenn Greenwald
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-harris-muslim-animus
“The extent to which people contrive and conflate to kill the messenger is raging rampant these days! – François-Marie Arouet
I believe all of you calling this hypocrisy are sick individuals.
We have freedom of speech in the West. We can insult people if we want. INCITING VIOLENCE does not fall under the realm of freedom of speech. He has repeatedly made hate speeches, while the cartoonists are simply satirizing what Islamic radicals have ADMITTED to. How can you not see the difference?
Here’s another way: Charlie Hebdo satirizes what Islamists admit to in order to convey to the world the suffering Islamists are inflicting upon their people and US. What this “comedian” does is advocate for the murders of a minority group and the West, which ultimately results in deaths because the Islamists have proven and admitted they wish to kill said minorities and Westerners.
Any attempts to draw a parallel between what a the satirical cartoonists did and what this monster did is shameful.
Furthermore, leave Israel out of it… your antisemitism is showing. Your bringing up Israel PROVES you are antisemitic. The attacks he condones were in FRANCE, no matter how badly the loser wants it to be about Israel.
God bless Dieudonne! He is a really funny guy and attacks ALL sacred cows!
Why should anyone expect that France actually believes in ‘freedom of speech’? Didn’t they build and give away the statue of Liberty? And then build a smaller one for themselves.
So, in speech-loving France, three school workers are being fired for refusing to observe a moment of silence for Charlie Hebdo; one is going to be charged with “apologia for terrorism”: En francais: http://t.co/Io9iqV9iMm
Diogo -Mona-
I know French legal protections for free speech are not great. But don`t similar issues happen in the US too, in universities in particular?
-Mona- Diogo
But don`t similar issues happen in the US too, in universities in particular?
While at the moment there is an egregious case of a Palestinian-American professor having been fired even before he began teaching due to Zionist pressure on the board of trustees, they know they will lose in court and just think it’s worth the damages award they know they’ll be ordered to pay. But “hate speech”codes and the like have consistently been rejected by courts at public universities. The American university is very much a traditional zone in which free speech is particularly cherished and expected.
What does occur in the U.S., is we have a heinous statute prohibiting “material support” for terrorist organizations as known by being on a State Department list. Our Supreme Court grotesquely upheld this law only a few years ago; this is an enormous error that should someday be reversed, but in the meantime many Muslims are rotting in prison for “crimes” like offering the Hezbollah channel in a cable TV package.
Pelagius -Mona-
Mona….. You may have forgotten that in 2005, DePaul University in Chicago denied Norman Finkelstein tenure and dumped him from the faculty after pressure from the usual suspects, including the Jewish Federation of Chicago and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (actually the Anti-Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith — the league that specializes in defamation and the smear).
In 2006, Yale denied University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole a senior appointment to teach there, despite being approved by both Yale’s sociology and history departments. According to several Yale faculty members, the denial was “highly unusual.” Juan Cole throughout his career has been critical of Israel in his lectures, writings and blog. The pressure against Cole was reflected by Alexander Joffe, writing in the ‘Middle East Quarterly': “Cole suggests that many Jewish American officials hold dual loyalties, a frequent anti-Semitic theme.”
You are right about the Zionist-instigated and un-American U.S. statute that purports to define and criminalize “giving material support to terrorism.”
formmatters43 -Mona-
Wow, a post machine i get stuff from, thank you
And dont forget the loving works of the underground, Americas FBI>
that hire 18 year old, strong, intelligent, attractive, ambitious, young ladiie(s?)
(they found this one in community college at 16— i believe)
to target young white males, and see if they would like to—exercise their discontent and frustration–
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/14/exclusive_eco_terrorist_freed_10_years
This is about poking people into how they should submit/behave–
To a narrative that gives space to long sustained commercial growth….
Je Suis Sinet
Mathew hp
The real problem all together is religion itsel, though I believe in real freedom including religion. I could only imagine what a better place the earth would be without it based on most wars/arguments/assassinations, and even political unrest is caused by the simple differance in what many different people believe. I believe the only thing worth believing in this life is the survival of whatever lies ahead of us as a human race and no god is going to help us do that. So in the midst of this I disagree with both sides of this argument.
What is so disconcerting for me is that so many people don’t see the truth in this issue and others where liberty and freedom are at stake. This suggests to me that “free thinking” or freedom of thought and ideas will never be politicized because on the whole real thinking (by the congeries) doesn’t exist. “Freedom of speech” can exist where people aren’t capable of thinking, but “freedom of ideas” cannot exist where freedom in speech is absent.
if we didn’t have free speech you wouldn’t even know this guy had been arrested. and neither would his lawyer or his family
CH is free to publish their cartoons and I am free to hold the cartoonists in contempt for the contents of their cartoons.
Diogo Didi
Except that many of them are dead, so not too free.
“Failing to understand the obvious link between last week’s events and France’s policy in the Middle East, he also reiterated the West should have bombed Syria in 2013, after the alleged chemical attack by the Assad forces.” `ghost0
“Alleged”?? Not according to *Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain..
‘Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels..’
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/16/us-syria-crisis-usa-idUSKBN0KP0FO20150116
*ht `mother agnes mariam
A Boots? We Don’t Need No Stinking Boots On The Ground Production
ghost0 suave
I coincidentally fell across your reply. Perhaps next time you quote me, if you ever do, you’d be so kind as to do so beneath my comment, so as to allow me to answer.
Perhaps you’d also be so kind as to provide me with your sources regarding Scahill and Hussain supporting the theory Assad was behind the August 2013 chemical attack, so that I can read their arguments for doing so.
I took a quick look around and all I could find were 1/ Scahill’s refusal to attend a conference in presence of one Mother Agnes, who denied Assad’s involvement and accused extremist “rebels” instead; 2/ a Sep. 1, 2013 op ed by Hussain on the al Jazeera-English website, in which no specific blame is uttered.
I do know, for instance, Carla Del Ponte, fmr. chief prosecutor at the International Penal Court and member of the UN’s investigative commission on Syria at the time, accused “rebels” of using sarin gaz in Syria in May 2013. The swiftness with which she was disavowed with authoritative arguments by most major Western powers left no doubt as to the official ‘pravda’.
So, if Scahill and Hussain’s irrefutable evidence is somewhere out there, lease show me the URL’s.
two_cents ghost0
As did Seymour Hersh as laid out in two articles in the London Review of Books. Quoting intelligence and other sources he says the sarin attack was a covert action planned by rebel factions supported by Turkey to push Obama over his “red line” so the US would attack Syria. In the articles he provides rationale why Erdogan was desperate and felt ‘driven’ to do so. See “The Red Line and the Rat Line” (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line) and previously in ‘Whose sarin?’ http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
suave ghost0
`ghost0..
Pardon my tact. I was using François Hollande’s sentiments w/ respect to the alleged transgressions as the basis of my point. I cannot provide you w/ irrefutable evidence to their conclusions on the matter, for at this point in time, none exist. The truth is that in my research, Mr. Scahill and Mr. Hussain have yet to address this pertinent issue (sarin gaz), while at the same time, professing that Mr. Assad oversees a “slaughtering, murderous regime..” The fact that they haven’t responded to the numerous queries is suspect (imho), and fails the common-good. Mr. Hussain has disturbingly promoted a *US vs Syria war in prior articles, and has yet to justify his reasoning for it. Mr. Scahill rudely threatened to pull out of the conference you referenced, and in doing so, successfully removed Mother Agnes Mariam (peace activist) from said event. To this day, he has yet to respond as to whether his reasoning was based on her refutes that question the legitimacy of the Western-powers evidence, or for that matter, his reasoning, period.
My unverified snipe was an attempt (..as you can see, useless) at goading them into validating their beliefs, since principled means have failed to get them to produce qualified answers.
Appreciating the reference to Carla Del Ponte (..and her swift disavowing), and your contributions on the whole.
Aloha`..
* https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/14/pkk-one-administrations-terrorist-anothers-freedom-fighter/#comment-82541
“I am very ashamed of my insults of others, if it means anything to you, but in my defense (!) I ‘ve only tried above all else to be honest, and suppressing my temper is probably worse than exposing and undoing it in this way, of which you are a part..” -Cindy
Humbling, but to date you have yet to atone for your blatantly disrespectful utterances. Here’s some sound advise. Have your Zen-Master enlighten you to the fine art of ‘khamati’ during your next session.
Caring..
Cindy suave
Thanks for your concern, but I don’t think I need to ‘atone.’ My shame is to do with not meeting my own standards, or my teacher’s. My responses are not ‘blatantly disrespectful,’ though they’ve been unnecessarily tinged with anger and may have hurt some feelings – this is a source of regret to me, not shame as with not meeting standards.
You sound like a prim and proper little grandmother, but I’m sure you’re a very nice one.
electriczen
if Charlie Hebdo staff can have their lives permanently ended for their offensive caricatures, noxious expressions of support for the Charlie Hebdo murderers
can be arrested and held indefinitely.
beth krois
This article (written by a Paris based journalist in early 2014) gives a well researched and interesting view of Dieudonne: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/01/the-bete-noire-of-the-french-establishment/
Free speech is a sham.
It is allowed ONLY if it attacks Islam and Muslims.
As The New Yorker is reporting, at least as far as the French go, arresting Dieudonnee whilst simultaneously being all “JeSuisCharlie” is consistent, as soon as one understands that — as reflected in their law — they see attacking religion as almost always justified:
Charlie Hebdo, for its part, has survived forty-eight trials over the past twenty-two years, according to Le Monde, and has lost a total of nine times, generally for “injure”—personal defamation—rather than hate speech, after, for instance, describing a journalist as “a complete and utter cretin” and a right-wing politician as “the bitch of Buchenwald.” But attempts to punish the publication for religious insults have generally failed, whether it was referring to Pope John Paul II as “un pape de merde” (a shitty pope) or publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
French intolerance of religious belief and practice, however, may foreclose Muslim immigrants from smoothly transitioning into French society:
Although the French are in no mood for compromise at the moment, they might want to reflect on the fact that America’s Muslim minority, which is free to wear headscarves or not, is far more integrated into American life than France’s. The immediate response in France to the recent massacre has been more forcefully to push its “our way or the highway” form of assimilation, which has, frankly, not been working. This past week, when the French school system enforced a minute of silence for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack (generally under “Je Suis Charlie” signs), incidents were reported at some seventy French schools—mostly ones with large Muslim populations—where students resisted the observance. While many French see this as siding with the terrorists over the victims, this is not necessarily so. The French state was, in fact, forcing those students to pay homage to a publication that had, in their view, mocked their religion. If it is legitimate for Charlie Hebdo to publish offensive cartoons, it must be legitimate to object, peacefully, to its doing so.
I can’t even imagine public schools in the U.S. forcing all the kids to pay homage to Andres Serrano for Piss Christ. That’s the stuff of Fox News’s dreams.
suave -Mona-
‘How to fight hell-fire, w/ hell-fire..’
re: public schools
‘Satanists Victorious In Wild Scheme To Disrupt Florida School District’s Bible Plan’
The Satanic Temple and Freedom From Religion Foundation were planning on handing out Satanic coloring books..
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/14/florida_school_district_holds_plans_to_allow_distribution_of_bibles_due_to_satanic_temple/
Hans Bavinck -Mona-
Comparing Arab integration in France with that in the US is not quite fair. Most Arabs in France are or are the children of uneducated low-income workers. Those in the US are more upwardly mobile – they are selected for that.
Mexicans in France are better integrated than those in the US for exactly the same reason: those who come to France are not orange pickers but university professors.
As far as the headscarf controversy is concerned, I can only say that I used to live in a majority-immigrant neighborhood in the city of Toulouse, and every single one of the Muslim schoolgirls and young women I knew supported the ban. Without it, their parents would force them to wear headscarfs to school. And there is a difference between schools you may have in the US with one or two headscarfs, and those you will find (and could have found in France without the ban) in many European countries with 90% of the girls wearing the scarf.
At the time the opposition to the ban – by Jacques Chirac, who had duly consulted leaders of, and was much beloved of, the Muslim community – was led by two upper class French-Jewish girls who had converted to Islam. The “masses” were actually rather relieved, at least that’s what I saw around me.
-Mona- Hans Bavinck
Without it, their parents would force them to wear headscarfs to school.
As between parents and the state, parents should have the authority to determine how modestly their children must dress. Moreover, my understanding is that this law also applies to adults, who certainly should be deciding whether or not their heads need to be covered in public.
But thank you for the points about Mexican and Muslim immigrants to our two countries. It does make sense that the more upwardly mobile and educated immigrants will respond differently to a host country.
The headscarf ban applies only at school. The ban on niqabs and burkas applies everywhere. I opposed the second ban because it was unnecessary provocation; there were almost no burkas in France, I’ve only seen one once in 25 years in this country. That was typical Sarkozy, a guy who has really made a mess of things by confusing the formerly clear dividing line between moderate right and far right.
I can see your point when it comes to letting parents decide, but that’s just not the French way. The State is a third parent, as it were, and it was acting against segregation – secularism was just an excuse. Chirac who passed the ban in his later years (though not when young) felt very strongly about minorities and republican values. It is certainly so that Muslim women in France, having not covered their hair during their formative years, are also much less likely to do so in adulthood than their counterparts in Holland or the UK. Also, I have spoken to French-Arab parents who were glad of the headscarf ban, because they didn’t really want to impose headscarfs or hijabs on their daughters, but would for social reasons have felt obliged to if the excuse of the law had not existed. It’s really a rather complicated issue but in terms of results, I would argue that Muslim women in France feel more free than those in other countries because they enjoyed the protection of the State when they were girls. Chirac even today is very popular among the Muslim minority.
Also, I have spoken to French-Arab parents who were glad of the headscarf ban, because they didn’t really want to impose headscarfs or hijabs on their daughters, but would for social reasons have felt obliged to if the excuse of the law had not existed.
That’s an appalling abdication of responsibility; endorsing the authoritarian principle that the state decides how your children should dress, all so that one need not have to deal with the issue oneself.
To accept the state should be making such decisions means one is foreclosed from complaining in principle about the heavy-handed intrusion when the state makes a decision one does not like.
Don’t get me wrong — I cannot get used to Western Muslim women covering themselves with scarves. I’ve discussed it with some of them, and try hard to accept their statements that it is, for them, a matter of personal choice; a dedication to their culture that they agree with.
But I don’t see Muslim men running around in the West covered up like that. Nor am I aware of “modesty police” going after males in the more theocratic Muslim nations.
Nevertheless, it is indeed a matter of parental, and when adult, personal choice. Certainly not the state’s.
CraigSummers -Mona-
The goal may not have been to assimilate immigrants into society – at least originally. “Multiculturalism” was introduced and encouraged by the left (certainly not the right) to preserve cultural values brought by immigrants – and to provide a sense of pride as well as preserve a connection to the past for immigrants. Indeed, all cultures are created equally and one culture is not better than the next – just different – so why not encourage people to embrace their past? Multiculturalism in theory has the opposite intention of assimilation. Assimilation may not have been the goal at all. Canada has embraced multiculturalism with success, but other western societies like Europe with a large influx of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa has struggled. The US faces a similar problem with their large population of Mexican immigrants. Enclaves develop where assimilation becomes more difficult. The language barrier is preserved and with high unemployment, assimilation becomes much more difficult. The net result in many cases is generational poverty.
The New Yorker – a liberal rag if one ever existed – seems to be jumping off of the multiculturalism bandwagon trying to blame the French for problems with assimilation. Multiculturalism is a great concept in theory, but has failed to a large degree in practice.
The New Yorker also seems to forget that the murders were not simply about insults to the prophet Mohammed, but that four random Jews were targeted and murdered as well which had nothing to do with insulting Islam – at least not by the French Press.
“…….The French state was, in fact, forcing those students to pay homage to a publication that had, in their view, mocked their religion. If it is legitimate for Charlie Hebdo to publish offensive cartoons, it must be legitimate to object, peacefully, to its doing so……”
Peaceful protests are a right in western society – and while there is no way to know exactly how many students participated or agreed with the protests, seventy schools is a considerable amount. The objections to observing a minute of silence for an act by people who used murder for social and political commentary (Jewish murders included) just shows how far many Muslims are from being assimilated in European culture. Ultimately, the blame must go to the French elite. They need to be more sensitive to multiculturalism.
Kristin CraigSummers
” Indeed, all cultures are created equally and one culture is not better than the next – just different – so why not encourage people to embrace their past?” HAHAHHAHAHA! Omg you are hilarious. Do you know why the Spanish massacred the “culturally rich” Mayans and Aztecs upon first landing on their shores? The Spanish witnessed the “culturally rich” natives sacrifice women and infants to their witch-gods. They witnessed the disgusting blood-lust, the bestiality, the real deal savageness we have only seen in theatrically produced horror films using CGI which can’t even display most of what the natives did as it would not legally be allowed to be shown even in a fabricated cartoon form. The Spanish were SO disgusted by what they saw, and knew there was no rehabilitating these “animals” they gave all those horrid sadists an instant death penalty. It would be too gruesome to even describe what the natives performed on a daily basis.
-Mona- CraigSummers
Peaceful protests are a right in western society – and while there is no way to know exactly how many students participated or agreed with the protests, seventy schools is a considerable amount.
Not coerced protests in community schools. Especially not when citizens see the incidents differently — some Muslims may see blasphemy as the overriding issue, and should not have to support that.
In the U.S., school children may not be coerced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. That is morally correct policy.
And of course you don’t like The New Yorker. In Craigworld, The Weekly Standard is sophisticated.
“…….In the U.S., school children may not be coerced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. That is morally correct policy…..”
A moment of silence is not the Pledge of Allegiance. Regardless, I never made a statement either way on supporting the silence except to mention it’s their right to protest. I just suggested that there is a problem with assimilation when Muslim students from 70 schools object to showing respect for the those killed by an Islamic terrorist attack – even if they disagree with how the cartoonist depicted Mohammed. They should feel far more offended by the way that Islamic terrorist depict Islam.
The New Yorker puts out exceptional articles – just with a tweak to the left…….
I just suggested that there is a problem with assimilation when Muslim students from 70 schools object to showing respect for the those killed by an Islamic terrorist attack – even if they disagree with how the cartoonist depicted Mohammed. They should feel far more offended by the way that Islamic terrorist depict Islam.
I’ve seen how Charlie Hebdo treats Catholicism, the pope, the trinity & etc. My assimilated mother would give those people a moment of silence right after she accepted I was never going to be a Catholic again — which is to say, never.
Katia -Mona-
Excuse me Mona, but who has died in an attack because of Pass Christ ? Could you show respect to the 12 victims? Could you compare what is equivalent? The minute of silence was not for newspaper but for 12 people including two policemen and a doorman who died because of 2 terrorists who massacred everybody, armed with kalashnikovs, just because of cartoons ” that offended their prophets. I am an atheist and for me all of this is surreal, so I m glad my laic country has been so far respecting freedom of speech about religions that are considered as opinions. About the horrific Dieudonné, don’t imagine him as a victim. He plays all the time with this freedom of speech to make his fans believe he is persecuted by French law. Just to let you know as somebody said earlier: speech promoting antisemitism is forbidden, it is not about religion but historical facts and also a population. Dieudonné is the one who is invited by Iran and congratulates the president for his freedom of mind, who says that “Zionists“ killed Jesus… All this kind of stupidity that I recommend you to listen to in his interviews, but in his shows. He is also trying to make his hands believe in the fact that the recent attacks were a conspiracy, despite the propaganda video of one of the killers and their previous friends talking about their beliefs…. If you stand for this man, please check what kind of a sinister guy he is by listening to his interviews. In those times of hatred, in France where antisemitism, antifrench and also anti Muslim feeling grow, we don’t need one guy like that.
FannyD
What a pity to read such things when we are having trouble in our own country explaining people and moreover children the difference between Charlie Hebdo’s and Dieudonné’s sense of humor.
Dieudonné was a loved humorist back in the day. You will certainly find numerous videos where he’s funny, even about the jews, but the latest are not so fun anymore. The reason he’s pointed out now is because almost all he “laughs” about is jews. And when you listen to him, you can’t quite say if he’s joking anymore. He’s not considered a comedian anymore, he’s considered a polemicist. When you attend his show, it’s not like any humorist’s show, it so looks like an assembly.
Charlie Hebdo sure makes fun of muslims… as well christians, jews, fat people, skinny people, the government, anyone really. When you take a look at interviews of the cartoonists, you discover the sweetest and most tolerant people, who want to make us laugh about and question everything.
Both Charlie Hebdo and Dieudonné have been sued several times : both have sometimes been acquitted and sometimes sentenced. Yes it has been considered sometimes Dieudonné was making a joke, but sometimes that he was just incitating to hatred. Sometimes justice said Charlie Hebdo was going too far as well.
We all understand, contrary to integrists of any kind, that we need to be able to laugh about and question anything. But I’ve never laughed to a joke about gay people when I know the person in front of me is homophobic. Told by a non-homophobic person, the same joke could make me laugh. It doesn’t have the same resonance.
You have the right to make fun of the attacks, the dead etc.: yesterday’s issue of Charlie Hebdo just did. But we know how they feel about it. Expressing pure hatred and advocating destruction doesn’t bring anything good to any society. Sharing such opinions publicly, morevover through the Internet where it can be shared and stays written for good, can only help enroling more lost kids in this spiral, and plunge our country in chaos. Therefore I agree with our french laws and the government those people deserve to be stoped.
Freedom of speech is valuable to us and that’s why you can’t call sunday’s gathering a sham. Apologizing or deniying a crime (and meaning it) however is an offence and should be punished. Every right comes with limits and duties, otherwise it’s just anarchy. Even freedom has limits: it stops when you reach the limits of others’ freedom.
Roberto Vivacqua
Dear Mr. Greenwald,
I would like to congratulate you on your brilliant essay about the hipocrisy of the so-called “free-speech” mainstream media propaganda, which simply Loves to put the tag of “terrorist” (it’s like a dogma, repeated and repeated as Goebbels once suggested…it works!!) on every vision and act differrent than that supported by their occidental christian-jewish views.
It is insane indeed to testify all this non-sense rethoric about the “evil” of this recently arrested french reporter on a point of view of him that just criticized the jewish community, as charlie did one thousand times againt the islam and the muslim communities without ANY criticism.
As Norman Finkelstein (he an exception, a conscious jew, as mr .Chomsky, on this massive propaganda commanded by the unseparable pair, us-israel) put it on one of his masterpieces, “the hollocaust industry”, in the recent past every sort od critic against the jews or israel is “anti-semitism”, everything is related to the hollocaust, and no one can mention any word contrary to the views deffended by the us and the zionists, or is right away “anti-semitism”!. Where is the free speech? Why do hundreds of thousands (even that the mass media loves to put the numbers out of reality spreading that millions and so forth were there!) of french do not think of the other side of the story, and defend the freedom of this and many other french journalists who have the right -I add, the obligation!!!- to criticize the genocides,destructions and humiliation of so many muslim countries, as recently in Irak, Afghanistan and Gaza, just for a few examples?!!
Regarding the protests against the new Gaza Massacre or Genocide, mr. Holland then opposed the pacific demonstrations against the terrorist state of israel, arguing that there were crimminals inbetween and related non sense!
It is time for the world to open up its eyes wide, otherwise the number of civilian victims and of devasted countries will go further up, and this huge injustice will not cease at a short-term perspective.
Congrats on your brilliant work, as always
Bob Jones Roberto Vivacqua
Oh you poor thing – it’s so hard to be an anti-Semite these days! Thank God you and Dieudonné have your “conscious jews” along with Dieudonné’s buddy Jean-Marie Le Pen out there to fight Jewish world domination and save all those “devastated countries” from all those “destructions and humiliation.”
It hurts to read this article and some comments that imo reflect a lack of context and a way to put freedom of expression on a pedestal without using rational thought. Article 11 of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (still a foundational document for the current French Constitution): “The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.” There are limits to freedom of expression, everywhere, and there should be, even if as little as possible; words can lead to the death of people. These limits are not the same everywhere; hate speech is accepted in some places and not in others. In continental Europe, the memories of the 2nd WW (and of the hate spewed by the press in the 1930’s) have helped build a paradigm where spreading an exclusive, hateful ideology is condemned while attacking metaphorical sacred cows to press forward an inclusive, human-centered ideology is allowed.
It does not invalidate other points raised by the author, such as the efforts at political exploitation of the tragedy and of its consequences. Regards!
Rise Up Times/Sue Ann Martinson
This article has been very popular on RiseUpTimes.org: KATIE HALPER: 46 EXAMPLES OF MUSLIM OUTRAGE ABOUT PARIS SHOOTING THAT FOX NEWS CAN’T SEEM TO FIND. It appears that Fox News is not the only network and its pundits “unable” to find this information.
An essay on the socio-poilitical aspects of Charlie Hebdo in support of claim the satire magazine is not racist: http://www.understandingcharliehebdo.com/
Note the explanation for the cartoon of the pregnant Boko Haram sex slaves (which Glenn reproduced in a prior column); the authors point out the humor is actually at the expense of the rightwing French who are militating to cut welfare support.
Lenoxus -Mona-
The intent of the humor, even if crystal-clear, doesn’t make everything okay.
In that cartoon, the four comically pregnant girls are drawn with identical, angry, masculine, racially-caricatured faces. Perhaps this is just an extension of the satiric intent as in: this is how supporters of the Front National might draw the girls. In that case, why not at least show a right-winger depicting or imagining the image? Because it would be too on-the-nose, perhaps? Well, there’s a conversation to be had there.
But here’s another wild idea: Why not a cartoon in which the girls are trying to enter France and some anti-immigrant folks are accusing them of being pregnant parasites? After all, the joke is presumably that while even conservatives don’t actually believe that about Boko Haram’s victims, such a belief is a natural emotional/logical extension of their stated arguments and dog whistles. Hence, showing a conservative stating such a belief amounts to humorous exaggeration, not pointless depiction of reality. And this way, no one “needs” to be drawn as a big-mouthed Sambo.
Ultimately, though I agree they weren’t trying to champion right-wing ideals, they were courting controversy for its own sake. And that’s not necessarily what the world needs. (Should-be-unnecessary disclaimer: The cartoonists bore absolutely no responsibility for their own murders, which were entirely the fault of Islamic terrorists. Also, the Koran’s a lousy book.)
I was reading this with a sceptical mind, but Glenn is quite right. There is a very clear double standard in the west (and probably anywhere on earth) when it comes to free speech. Some ideas you are simply forbidden to state. We in western countries are no better than the regimes we like to criticize.
Bruce Marcus
There is nothing that I disagree with in both this article, and the previous one publishing anti-Jewish cartoons. My private response to the hypercritical blather of the last week was total immersion in Lenny Bruce, who was constitutionally incapable of sparing any group, sect etc. But, I am confounded by one aspect of your writing in both articles. You keep referring to the “West” and “free speech in the West”, I can only assume you intend one of either two positions about relative free speech East and West, neither flattering to you,nor probably your intention. So, I guess that I am soliciting a response from you to explain your usage. In context it would appear that either you distinguish free speech as only a Western problem, because you believe it isn’t an issue in the East, where. in fact it hardly exits at all. Or, you retain a vehemently paternalistic Western view of the East that excuses any absence of free speech in the East because, what would you expect from “them”. It would not be without merit, while turning your spotlight on the limitations of true free speech in the West, to point out that there are very few countries in the East, if any among the less secular Muslim countries, where any discussion of issues like these would be possible, unless they were entirely one-sided. For myself, I am most comfortable cursing all their houses, along with Lenny.
Perfect! Not sure that I would go so far as to say JesuisDieudonne, but your analysis is splendid
liliAyuda
it is all bullshit it is to find a reason to attack middle east and create a civil war in muslim countries specialy Arabians they have always hate muslim and always defend Juwish and second reason for the petrole and gas ad some of the Europeans and americans commandant have profit by selling arms and some owns oil companies that they let them work there after every war and some owns constructions companies so after they destroy it they bring their companies to rebuilt again the country and some have only some percentage in thus companies and others because of religion and racism
I am Dieudonne 1000 time
altohone
I was very disappoint with how Jon Stewart covered this on the Daily Show last night.
He too swallowed the “interpretation” of the French “investigators”… and the specious anti-Semitic charges.
At least he covered the free speech hypocrisy well.
AtheistInChief
Great stuff Glenn!! But can someone at The Intercept please cover the Albuquerque PD?? or maybe The Intercept can hire Max Blumenthal, who has done phenomenal work on the APD?? I don’t mind reading about it on AlterNet, but it would be great if we could have that coverage on TI as well.
bonneville AtheistInChief
Glenn covers drones, hypocrisy of drones, drone-like subject matter, NJ Muslims under NYPD surveillance, internation ethics, and NSA docs dropped figuratively in his lap. Is this Albuquerque thing somehow related to any of that and, if so, can it be reasonably accessed over the web from the comfort of suburban Brazil?
AtheistInChief bonneville
I’m not asking Glenn to cover it. I’m asking The Intercept to cover it, like they covered Ferguson, MO. I’m just trying to bring it to his attention. If I had twitter, I’d tweet instead. Kindly excuse the inconvenience.
While trying to unpack this wide-ranging subject introduced first by the atrocities surrounding the murders of and associated with the writers/cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, and then with, what I initially felt, were gratuitous “defending terrorism” charges against the Facebook post of the French citizen Dieudonne, I sought out other perspectives.
Twitter, although great for practicing ones brevity, leaves much to be desired as a conversational platform; however, it is well suited for finding out about early breaking points of view from a wide range of cultures all around the world. My travel eventually led me to a tweet of Diogo Pinto (@joaodiogopinto), who posited that not only was the arrest of Dieudonne in France for his Facebook post, and I’m paraphrasing here, “normal,” (it’s happened before – he goes to court, he wins sometimes, some not) but that also Dieudonne’s Facebook comment clearly, in Diogo Pinto’s words, “conveys hatred and/or promotes/condones violence,” a position that is illegal in France and “elsewhere.”
I shared my view with Mr. Pinto that A) no reasonable person would find that Dieudonne’s words rose to that level at all, and B) even if they did, it’s clearly unequal treatment (un-egalitarian) to arrest someone for what is clearly an opinion – not an idea that a reasonable person would consider to promote or condone violence.
In the end we parted ways after I pointed out his position was a non sequtur, in that you can’t be egalitarian & authoritarian at same time. After all, the slogan “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” (Liberty, equality, fraternity) was used during the French Revolution and is still used as an official slogan of the French government today, or so Wikipedia tells me.
Which led me to ask: is this “Diogo Pintio” the same “Diogo” that has posted a few times here, and if so, what does he represent in the real world that could lead to these incongruous assertions? This is what I found per to Wikipedia, and subsequently confirmed at his twitter listed website:
João Diogo Pinto is Secretary General of the European Movement International (EMI), one of the largest pan and pro-European civil society organisations with currently more than 70 Member Organisations, bringing together representatives from European associations, political parties, industry and business associations as well as trade unions.
Mr. Pinto is also a member of the steering committee of the Spirelli Group, whose manifesto explicitly promotes “fighting against nationalism and intergovernmentalism. By supporting the aims and principles laid out in the manifesto, Spinelli group followers try to speed up the process of European integration and promote federal Europe.”
Even if the “Diego” posting here is not the same as the Mr. Diogo Pinto I conversed with on twitter, the latter’s comments fall resoundingly on the ears as hypocritical and duplicitous, to both his organizations mission statement which proclaims to be against such “[French] nationalism and intergovermentalism” as well as to the idea that, in a ” pro-European civil society” the citizens should be presented with such un-egalitarean treatment as Mr. Dieudonne is, and in his specific case, for over a decade.
In other words, Mr. Diogo Pinto, by all he proclaims publicly to represent, should be fighting for the rights of Mr. Dieudonne, and not against them.
Of course, I could be completely wrong n my appraisal and interpretation here – as such I invite clarification in order to straighten me out.
“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.” – Voltaire
Cindy Sillyputty
For those just now joining this discussion, Voltaire (quoted above) was an unrepentant anti-Semite, or perhaps even a ‘monster’ in his own terms.
Don’t let this distract you from Sillyputty’s point, just please keep it in mind when Voltaire is quoted approvingly.
“perhaps even a ‘monster’ in his own terms” – Cindy
Honestly – you do not think that the message, your message, my message, his message in context of the discussion being had has validity irrespective of the messenger?
“There is a utilitarian case for free expression. It recognizes that the freedom to speak must also be insisted on for the person who thinks differently, because it is pointless to support only free speech for people who agree with you. It is not only unprincipled to want that, but also self-defeating. For your own sake, you need to know how other people think.” – Christopher Hitchens
I think the same fountain can’t produce both bitter and sweet water.
In biblical terms: http://biblehub.com/james/3-11.htm
I respect that you think differently, yet without repentance for bitterness being demonstrated I just can’t agree with you that Voltaire meant well.
“I think the same fountain can’t produce both bitter and sweet water….In biblical terms…” – Cindy
Cindy – Regarding your idea that the same fountain can’t produce both bitter and sweet water – it is arguably the case that it can and does, as you have proved here in discussion with others:
“I hadn’t considered you were actually stupid. Read the following carefully.” – Cindy to Mona
“Try critical thinking. You’d be good at it, but it requires consistency, self-honesty and humility, which you apparently lack currently. Okay. Now I’m done, unless you petulantly and disingenuously blurt out something else in need of clarification.” – Cindy to Mona
“Your being stubbornly defensive about yourself and your dubious, unstable position in this regard is childish and reprehensible.” – Cindy to Mona
“You should indeed be sorry. You are really demonstrating how pathetic you can be when cornered. Your attempts at muddying the issue with this latest disjointed hysterical jabbering are almost amusing.” – Cindy to Mona
“What about “that is beside the point” remains unclear to you?”… “(blah blah fucking blah) this separation exists.”…No, this ‘ignorance’ exists, you ninny.” – Cindy to Gator90
Don’t let this distract you from Cindy’s point, just please keep it in mind when Cindy is being hypocritical.
“The sweet water speaks for itself.: – Sillyputty
I think ultimately I’m being very sweet there, though I regret hurting those I perceive as self-deluded. You should read what I wanted to say.
I did NOT, however, spout racist, bigoted drivel, like Voltaire did.
formmatters43 Cindy
“Their round eyes, their flattened nose, their lips which are always large, their differently shaped ears, the wool of their head, that very measure of their intelligence, place prodigious differences between them and the other species of men.”-Voltaire on black people
So maybe, the brother–persecutes–monster quote gets a little muddy…..??????
Well, maybe we can just look at the constitution and the bill of rights as stalwart and enlightened works of political liberation, written by great old, wise, white guys…….
Who probably thought like Voltaire, that blacks could not ascertain,or were not spiritual cognitive enough to enjoy, (because of their inferior breeding and being of a separate species—-so they should be used as–, grunts, laborers, servants, human tools)…….
; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Yet, dont you see this same intellectual tripe being swung around today….ITS INEQUALITY STUPID…
“I think ultimately I’m being very sweet…” – Cindy
Perhaps Voltaire did as well. But that is really not an argument, except to your authority, which makes it fallacious; while your next is a straw man argument, and equally fallacious and beside the point:
“I did NOT, however, spout racist, bigoted drivel” – Cindy
Perhaps. But saving us all from the even more bitter well of your thoughts (“You should read what I wanted to say”) and then have us drink the less-poisoned waters of your well instead, simply because you feel others others are “self-deluded” is what many would I would to epitomize self-delusion and, again, hypocrisy.
I will post what I wrote (but did not post) several days ago regarding this:
“On the one hand it’s seems insensible when discussing humans and how they think and feel and express themselves on every facet of life they rightfully have an opinion on, and still be able to reconcile some positions they take with other ideas they also hold (as in Voltaire’s writings you specifically referenced); while on the other hand, humans are anything if consistently sensible on every facet of life they rightfully have an opinion.
This incongruity pretty much explains what I saw while you were “refuting” the position of Mona’s arguments with what can charitably be said to be poor manners. My first reaction was: “How can one sensibly divorce this new puerile Cindy from the comments and thoughts of Cindy-past?”
Admittedly, I have not read all of your comments, but I do look forward to them, as I find them on the whole to be thought provoking and to add to the discussion.
As for the new (to me) puerile-Cindy comments? Not so much, initially. But that’s my problem, not yours.
So in the end, your insensible comments (to the beholder) or mine, or Voltaire’s, or Greenwald’s can be just as readily divorced from their more sensible ones (again, to the beholder) so long as the context in which the comments were made is clear.
” If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. – Noam Chomsky
Jack Lewis Cindy
I find it odd that you would quote the bible (reducing a person to a well in a failed metaphor) when it comes to antisemitism.
You surely know that the new testament is filled with extremely prejudicial statements about Jews right?
Voltaire in that respect pales in comparison.
Not sure what you’re trying to say. You despise me? You despise Voltaire? You think I despise Voltaire?
I’m just putting an asterisk next to his name, that’s all. I hadn’t thought about it before, but many people need similar asterisks, just so people can be reminded that truly grotesque blind spots delude even the most respected views.
Yes, I have poor manners, but I’m no bigot.
The modern age has certainly influenced me (now 24) to be a typically occasionally vulgar anti-authoritarian, and indeed part of my respect for (some) old-fashioned and traditional things is borne of my work-in-progress rebellion against the sheeplike, uprooted, aimless crassness of my generation – although there are actually some things about us I like to express which very few older people seem to appreciate.
The “You should read what I wanted to say” was meant humorously. I’m genuinely surprised you find me ‘puerile,’ perhaps its my jokes.
Jack Lewis –
Exactly, and the New Testament is known to be both bitter and sweet, direct and interpolated, derivative and allegorical, historical and mythical… it needs no asterisk for its ‘bon mots’ for everyone knows the source even if their opinions about it differ.
Voltaire is renowned for many things, but at least in the groups I hang out with, not for being an anti-Semite. It seems everybody here knew already, and had forgiven him for it, but my friends and I were pretty shocked, I can tell you.
So maybe I’m just talking to those as unsophisticated as I, pointing out that which all you wise people already knew for ages.
“The “You should read what I wanted to say” was meant humorously. I’m genuinely surprised you find me ‘puerile,’ perhaps its my jokes. – Cindy
The point that I have been trying to make with comments, quotes by Marx, Hitchens, Voltaire, Greenwald, you, et al. is that all people, excluding the truly mentally incapacitated, are puerile, rude, childish, boorish, prickish, confused, gentle, lovely and kind.
Given that you agree with that premise just stated – and specifically and only regarding Voltaire’s ideas in this context – was he truly mentally incapacitated? Or is it that, like the French with Mr. Dieudonne, you simply don’t care for some of Voltaire’s ideas and wish to censor them (maiming the messenger, if you will) as you did in your comment above warning others that, according to you, Volataire was an unrepentant anti-Semite (but don’t let that cloud your judgement)?
“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.” – Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
I’ve been as clear as I can. I’m not going to repeat myself. What I wanted to say, I’ve already said.
AtheistInChief Cindy
This whole conversation was very entertaining. Enjoyed it thoroughly.
You guys are both capable of bitter and sweet water.
“I’ve been as clear as I can. I’m not going to repeat myself. What I wanted to say, I’ve already said.” – Cindy
Which exactly is what? I’ll share my views on the response I gave to the specific post above, which actually was in context to the article in question. I would like yours as well. Please disregard Voltaire’s ideas if that proves an insurmountable issue:
“France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration” – Glenn Greenwald
Sillyputty: Blah, blah, blah…(all in context to the article and what it brought up): i.e., Arresting/condemning some people’s ideas after celebrating solidarity for other people’s ideas.
Along comes another commenter (without addressing the blah, blah, blah – only the quote): “X (Voltaire) is quoted to support Y (Sillyputty’s argument). Since X’s ideas are morally suspect, therefore Y’s ideas can probably or possibly or may be considered suspect, too. Right?”
In other words, another commenter is condemning Voltaire’s ideas after offering no refutation of other people’s ideas on the subject at hand which isn’t an good idea at all.
It’s what I would call the control, repression, or oppression of an idea. Which is what the article, in my view, is arguing against.
In even more other words, because this commenter considers Voltaire (or Dieudonne, or Hitchens, or Greenwald, et al.) ideas suspect, it therefore renders the preceding argument (or all of Dieudonne, or Hitchens, or Greenwald, et al.) preceding arguments suspect – at least a little bit – for just hanging around with that suspect Voltaire’s idea in the first place.
Because it’s guilt by association, you see.
So in the end, the trite parable about bitter and sweet water coming from the same spout was, intentional or not, noxious and counterproductive to the discussion taking place. The only point made was that even self-proclaimed “very sweet” meaning people will go to great extent to reinforce their confirmation bias at the expense of actually having a productive dialogue.
What was done here isn’t even close to a suitable argument – it is poisoning the well of discourse by killing the messenger’s messenger.
“… The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another … No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.” – Mortimer J. Adler
And this, kids, is the textbook definition of a ad hominem attack.
formmatters43 Jack Lewis
sillypuddy-
i know your wanting engagement from Cindy because she pissed you off–and sure as hell she will hold her own in response….
But how can you conflate Cindy and the French government together? The French Government wants to silence a French citizen….should we have a talk about the tyranny of the powerful????Or am i reading your trap wrong???Or is Cindy just guilty of pissing you off???
Sillyputty formmatters43
“i know your wanting engagement from Cindy…because she pissed you off. – formmatters43
To your first point: No, I don’t unless it’s mutually productive. To your second point: Not at all. This is a for the most part a free country/comments section. If I became angry at letters on the screen I’d be out of computer screens by now.
“C’est La Vie” – Voltaire
Diogo Sillyputty
No, I’m Brazilian, not Portuguese.
formmatters43
–”The vast bulk of the stirring “free speech” tributes over the last week have been little more than an attempt to protect and venerate speech that degrades disfavored groups while rendering off-limits speech that does the same to favored groups, all deceitfully masquerading as lofty principles of liberty.”——-
“Disfavored groups” and “favored groups” dynamic explored-
I will start the bidding with this–
I believe, in the context of the modern time “now”, this dynamic is about shoring up an old pattern, that was never meant to stay fixed or permanent (environmentally, intellectually, economically). Its about trying to maintain “The Peace” with violence. Its about keeping the Queen relevant. Its about keeping time, when there is no longer a clock.
This digital era is the last containment layer. Inequality, and the triumph of it, is the epoch of a “shared Global civilization” ie–”Globalization”…
Did slaves help make the British empire?
I bet slaves were given certain freedoms to speak their mind, dependent upon the temperament of their owners.
Pedinska
New Zealand spy chief Ian Fletcher quits
an Fletcher, the country’s top spymaster, has unexpectedly resigned.
Fletcher has been the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) director for three years.
During that time the agency has endured a series of scandals over surveillance and revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Minister Responsible for the GCSB, Chris Finlayson, said Fletcher was stepping down for family reasons. […]
His appointment was mired in controversy after it emerged he was a former schoolmate of Prime Minister John Key, who urged him to apply for the position. […]
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/Redacted-December-2014-Agency-Accountability-Board-Report.pdf
Via @ggreenwald.
Bill Wolfe
Breaking – the so called “terrorist” from Ohio that was going to kill people in Washington DC was initially investigated by the FBI for a Tweet. He as then surveilled and likely subject to entrapment. Regardless, case shows that FBI is monitoring and enforcing Twitter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/15/christopher-lee-cornell-the-man-who-allegedly-plotted-to-attack-u-s-capitol-fulfilling-the-directives-of-violent-jihadists/
he’s not muslim to begin with, he’s christian.
Here’s a fairly even handed summation of the issues surrounding the responses to the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Dean Bowles
Your points are sharp and concise and have shone a light on the hypocrisy of the so called fee speech, one rule for us and another for them it seems. Duality is a state of mind seen as exceptable by those in power or those seeking power in the west. Whilst i myself do not support either side of this crazy argument i see the merit of what you say. I can only add that were are all of one blood, we all breath the same air and we all drink the same water. Whilst are skin may be of many hues we all want to grow old as we watch are children grow up into adults themselves. Shame on us if we poison are children and twist their outlook of the world which has such beauty in it and such depth of love for one and all that she allows us such a space to develop and grow in yet all we do is hate her and poison her with our industrialisation and toxification of the environment that sustains us into the next realm. We all seem too busy with ourselves that we forget we only have one home and it is the only place that can support us yet we walk blindfolded into destruction and mayhem all too eagerly, shame on us when are we going to learn from the mistakes made throughout history!!! War only profits those who propagate it, those who own the war machines and its denizons of hell…..
– In 2009 Siné made the terrible mistake of jovially suggesting Sarkozy’s marriage to a Jewish woman (which incidentally did happen) would be followed by a conversion to Judaism for financial reasons. This was perhaps the only time in Charlie Hebdo’s history that a cartoon deflected its attention from the overwhelming majority of anti-Islamic, anti-Third World (and homeopathic amounts of anti-Catholic) viscerality. The result? Siné was fired by this very “anti-system” and “subversive” newspaper and barely escaped Dieudonné’s present situation.
– In 2013 Hollande became the only European leader who, for some reason known only to him (and perhaps to Ms Gayet) staunchly defended entering the Syrian Civil War on the side of the opposition, which is dominated by the same stripe of individuals who bite livers our of corpses, open up new smiles under people’s chins and visit cartoonists with Kalashnikovs. Apparently Charlie Hebdo was not interested in devoting a cover to Hollande’s imbecility. It had more pressing assignments to complete, such as portraying a Caribbean-born minister looking like a monkey.
– In 2014 Abel Ferrara tried to distribute his film “Welcome to New York” and the pressures not to do so were such that the film ended up in VOD, without even making it to the theaters. The reason? Its indictment of the French political and cultural elite for what it is. Exemplified in both DSK and the dubious origin of his wife’s family fortune (awkwardly dismissed by the wife as anti-Semitic when in fact no mention of Judaism was made in any form, explicitly or otherwise).
– In 2015 Dieudonné makes a joke which would have been even celebrated as a “boutade” had the victims been Muslim or black or Asian, and he ends up in dire legal straits at the same time as practically all adult Parisians rush to their vat of Kool-Aid standing hours in a cue to buy one more issue of Charlie Hebdo, all in the name of -guess what- “freedom of expression”.
Call me picky if you must, but it looks to me like “freedom of speech” is a codeword for something else.
The people who are trying to turn this world into a giant Jonestown full of zombies (minus the final denouement) are working extra hours lately I think.
History books are going to be very nasty towards France, by the way.
Stork811
Awwwwwww!!! You pedophile worshiping assholes butthurt because your freedom of speech was violated???? Too bad the cartoonist can’t bitch about it, they were killed by some scumbags that didn’t want them expressing themselves!!! Ironic isn’t it???
Jetlo
France supports Charlie Hebdo for mocking Prophet Muhammed & opened a criminal investigation on Comedian Dieudonné for free expression. Strange really
I as an American citizen exercising my right to free speech in the same vein as the cartoonists and publishers
supported around the world and so loudly in France within the hallowed halls of Charlie Hebdo would like to make a couple of satirical
The French are lazy and stink like old horse, and would rather loudly sip wine while ignoring anti Islam
hate speech as funny and satire.
Jesus was a middle eastern Jew (ya know the tanish skin toned less Caucasian folks) that hung out with hookers
and likely smoked plenty of KGB while reeking of petrulli oil wearing Birkenstocks which lead him to believe he
had some pretty cool ideas about spiritualism. He hung out with a lot of dudes who all probably like to smoke with
him and participate in weekend and evening outings together.
The KKK had a dream too, it looks a bit like theirs may have been realized.
What the hell do you expect to happen when you piss off a bunch of religious zealots.
Fuck big brother five eyes and any form of domestic surveillance.
Anti vaxers should all go swimming in the river of Ebola blood running through Sierra Leone, and stay there.
All of those involved in torture, and the sudden disappearance of the report should be assassinated.
France has demonstrated the sham of free speech more perfectly than one could hope for.
Its free only when paid for by the blood of those who defended it. Free speech is only truly free if ALL speech
is free. Like it or not (preferably not) hate speech, anti establishment speech and anything that goes against the
status quo needs to be defended as vigorously and vehemently as that funny thing that guy over there said. Is my hate
and disdain for Miley Cyrus any less valuable than my love and joy for the wonderful sounds of Jimmy Page? Is my
dislike of Kim Jung Un any less important than the belief that Muhammad should not be depicted? No, it isn’t. Is my
pleasure for seeing Manchester United destroy City any less valuable than the pleasure one might express at having
the divine avenged? No, it isn’t.
It should not, SHOULD NOT, be a crime to express and idea, or an opinion. If the idea is harmful and someone acts
on it in a way that negatively impacts others should he or she be held accountable? Yes, they should. If the person
who felt the original spark of inspiration directly and really communicated and coerced the other person to cause harm
then, and only then is the speaker at fault. Some wacked out druggie singer going on about suicide on an album would
not be responsible for the poor coping skills of the kid who listened to the album. The Bishop who interacted
with his congregation and told them that Christ compels them to seek out the heretic and burn him is no less responsible
than the Imam who tells his followers to go into a crowded market and blow themselves up.
Hate speech is no less valuable than speech that slides into the cultural norm. Without knowing the hate, the reason
for it, and the people sharing it no one has the ability to learn from it. The censorship of ANY speech diminishes
the value of ALL speech. Without speech that is truly free, how can we ever understand one another and come to a
shared understanding and valuing of ideas. Any government that attempts to legitimize one form of speech over another
is a government to fight against.
ADHill
The person who has written the most thoughtful articles on Dieudonne (long before the Charlie Hebdo shootings) is Diana Johnstone. This link is particularly useful for debunking the notion that his hand gesture is definitely a sort of Nazi salute (which has spread without much discussion across the English-speaking media, most of whom I suspect have not actually seen the gesture):
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/01/the-bete-noire-of-the-french-establishment/
Dieudonne is guilty of all sorts of tastelessness, but this gesture at least is not clearly one of them. This second article by Johnstone (one of the most reliable reporters, for me, on modern French society) is also useful:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/24/blasphemy-in-secular-france/
/V Francais!
Catflap
Rem acu tetigisti.
Copacetic article, Glenn,
kingofequality
where are my 2 comments from yeasterday? and why is this comment section dominated by a handful of commenters? the manipulation is worse than yelp reviews.
Klcity
Just to modify one information about Dieudonné, he is not muslim but christian, he does not practice however.
Anyway you’re right it is not normal to arrest him while everybody claiming in France that we have to defend free speech…
Pericles21
Thank you, Mr. Greenwald. There does (has) seemed to be an ‘odour’, even if subtle, of insubstantial, frivolously adolescent, litigable slander in some of Hedbo’s cartoons. Although ‘free speech’ is one thing, should slanderous publications be defended and treated as sacred? And if all such publications and public utterances are to be evenly and unbiasedly supported (or prosecuted), then some of ‘Hedbo’s’ past creations should at least have been spotlighted as passing over a threshold into capricious slander. One wonders if, with greater skill with words or cartoons, the ‘Hedbo’ murders could have been prevented without the messages being lost. This writer does not have that kind of skill but this writer does claim the privilege, from the gallery, of imagining that ‘Hedbo’ could have reached for higher satirical intellect and better exercised its artistic talent.
sittingonaritz
so i’m thinking of starting an, ahem, “satirical” magazine loaded with poorly-drawn cartoons of big-lipped,
nappy-haired, fried chicken-eating non-caucasions. i’ll have snazzy rebel flags on the cover of course,
and we’ll call it ‘cracker.’ the first cartoons will have these black-face dudes being crushed by a load
of watermelons, yelling “ah cain’t breeve!” oh, my stars, that’s funny!
you think when some offended black panther firebombs my office, the world’s politicians will turn out
to march in defense of free speech? i’m hoping to jesse and al and eric marching right up front
with little signs saying “I BE CRACKER”
Last time I checked the United States allowed Nazis in the South to have parades and the Westboro Baptist Church to picket funerals. While France has restrictions on speach, so far as I”m aware, the US does not. So not sure the generic “west” is any more useful a term than “Muslim nation” unless you’re trying to polarize. (I don’t mean to imply the US is so great, we are probably far more racist than France but whats in the law books is what’s on the law books and I think lumping France with the US or Canada is as useful as lumping Saudi Arabia with Libya in terms of cultural norms) Oh yeah…and aren’t people in France mostly upset because MURDERERS SHOWED UP AND KILLED A BUNCH OF PEOPLE?!!
free speech doesn’t apply when you are talking about jews and israhell. U can only praise about them or you’re molested to the means. Point proven.
Asia for the Asians
Africa for the Africans
White countries for everyone
That’s White Genocide
The pope joins the debate about free speech in the context if Charlie Hedbo. Apparently he too did not get the memo that the whole affair is not at all related to free speech. Glenn should explain it to him that he is off-topic or just pretending, since this is just about racism and western hipocrisy.
rrheard Diogo
Here’s the funny thing about the Pope (and I admit, as a humanist, I admire many of the positions he’s taken since becoming Pope).
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/15/pope-francis-limits-to-freedom-of-expression
Asked about the attack that killed 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo – targeted because it had printed depictions of the prophet Muhammad – he said: “One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people’s faith, one cannot make fun of faith.
“There is a limit. Every religion has its dignity … in freedom of expression there are limits.”
He gestured to Alberto Gasparri, who organises papal trips and was standing by his side, and added: “If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It’s normal. It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”
But it’s funny because he gets his own religious scripture, principles and dogma wrong. I’m pretty sure the Holy Father forgot these verses when he advocates others taking offense (or instructing others never to satirize or mock the faithful) at those who would criticize faith or one’s mother. If your faith is strong and pure in either/both any insults to that “faith” should be like water off a duck’s back. At least according to scripture.
Mathew 5:38-40
“You have heard that it was said, ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’ “But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. “If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also . . . .”
“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things, but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence.
“Never pay back evil for evil to anyone.”
Peter 3:9
Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing
tombrowns' schooleddaze' rrheard
I do notice that the quotes you provide are ones focusing on the right action(s) following a personal injury or insult from another.
Acts against the dignity of God are different.
However even Jesus made a whip and used violence to drive the Bankers out of the temple.
Mathew 21:-12 to 13.
12And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. 13And He said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER'; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
Compare Matthew 10:34 “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.
Luke 22:36 Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.
tombrowns' schooleddaze' tombrowns' schooleddaze'
About the analogy about insulting ones mother
it should be understood that this relates to the Mother church )ie ones faith.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Church
In Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, a mother church is the church “considered as a mother in its functions of nourishing and protecting the believer”.[1]
rrheard tombrowns' schooleddaze'
@ Tombrowns’ Schooleddaze
You’re wrong in your understanding of the scripture you cited and you’re attempting to project an analogy upon the Holy Father that he himself wasn’t using. The only “analogy” (or maybe simile) he was making is that “religious faith” is like the “the sanctity of the reputation of one’s mother to her child in the child’s mind” i.e. it is so universally, consistently and firmly held by so many that to mock or ridicule it is to engage in unproductive provocation. The Pope was obviously making the point that if the Pope’s best friend insulted the Pope’s mother, even he the Pope would punch him in the nose. Now I don’t honestly believe the Pope would do that nor does he believe anybody should as a normative or moral matter. But he is making the point about understanding as a fellow human being how certain “provocations” are universally understood and how strongly some relationships are felt.
But again, all joking aside I would like to believe the Holy Father does understanding Christ’s message. He was just making a point about certain universally held convictions. Because no commonly held understanding of Christ’s purported beliefs imagines him doing physical violence to any man or woman who had the temerity to insult Christ’s faith or his mother. In fact the biblical instances of Christ counseling (in his own words through various authors of the Bible) exactly the opposite (peace and non-reaction to provocation) are simply too numerous to cite.
If you honestly believe Jesus physically struck people with a whip I don’t think you understand “metaphor” or analogy as used commonly in the Bible. Consult some linguists and religious scholars that aren’t loopy right wing loons and they’ll explain it to you.
In fact, the Pope was recently quoted as saying “no religious faith should ever be the source or justification for violence.” I look for the cite because he just said it yesterday or the day before.
liberalrob rrheard
ROFL, that Pope…he’s a character. How’d he ever get elected?
Wnt rrheard
It is easy for me to be critical of this, as of Pope Francis’ earlier comments on drug legalization, because I feel like if the Pope visits America, if he wants to visit the spirit of America, the beating heart of America, then he should visit the prisons, the maximum security units, the solitary confinement units, and show us whether the blessed essence of his spirit is really capable of standing up to the demons that have been riding us and shepherding our nation into horror. What then would he say of this? But I think that he walks a line here between religious advice, compassion, and pragmatic politics. He knows that churches, even Catholic churches, will burn before this is done. How many priests will be martyred if he does not confess to a petty violent impulse, even if he would control it? I hope he does not really mean that punching people is good, but rather, that it is not a new concept. I hope he does not want censorship, but rather, wants Christians to always be thinking how to make other people feel their love, and as such, not be so careless of their feelings. Whatever the case may really be, I’m sure he’ll continue to pope and we’ll continue to argue for the perfection of free speech as an ideal on the Internet, and hopefully, we won’t get into a shooting war over the difference.
RichP Diogo
Judging by his actions, this Pope is like his predecessors, in that he provides spiritual support for the killing of Muslim civilians. The RC church provides chaplains to give spiritual support to the killers. If he was consistent with the teachings of Jesus, he would mandate those chaplains consistently counsel US military people to refuse to kill. Further, he would at least threaten to excommunicate and withdraw sacraments for the killers, including last rites, until they stop, confess, and repent.
This could certainly be explained by the hypothesis that the pope is like the leaders of the US military, in that their prime motivation is to maximize the size and revenue of the organization, to the detriment of the stated mission.
Kitt Diogo
@Diogo
RrHeard pointed out specifics as to why your statement about the pope’s comments on the “debate” in regards to Your Opinion about Glenn’s writings about the Charlie Hedbo issue(s) lacks any context and even presents the pope as being either ignorant or disingenuous in his assessments. But it’s really more simple than all of that. It comes down to this: what difference does it make that it was the pope or it was Joe or Jane blow who said something presenting the issue as, “it is not at all related to free speech?” Just because you think the pope’s words are more meaningful or have some authority over mine or Glenn’s or yours, they in fact, don’t. I don’t know if the pope “got the memo” or not, but as rrheard pointed out, he sure did ignore a lot of available information as he “joined the debate” or expressed his either ignorant or disingenuous opinion.
Diogo Kitt
It is a matter of fact, not of opinion. If significant portion of the global population starts a debate about free speech, then it is about free speech whether you or Glenn like it or not. As they say, you are entitled to your opinions, but not your facts.
That was one feather weak and non-responsive reply. You are entitled to your opinions, but you would do well to state one, if you actually have one, rather than just staple some words together and call it a day.
liberalrob Diogo
Apparently you missed this paragraph, so let me helpfully quote it for you:
The target of Glenn’s article is “mainstream western media figures.” Not the Pope, who is not employed by CNN or any other western media organization. You are off-topic.
OT: Jesselyn Radack tweets that CitizenFour has been nominated for an Academy Award.
Good job Ms. Poitras, et al.
suave Pedinska
CitizenFour (Official Trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGwAvd5mvM
From a french perspective, I’d like to say that I agree with most of what this article is saying, but you should know that contrary to what you’re claiming, Bernard Henry-Levy is widely regarded as a pompous imbecile. Also, most of that Je Suis Charlie thing was more about finding a way to express grief about the murders than to actually defend views regarding freedom of speech.
And on a more personnal note, I’d add that you could do without the heavy french-bashing undertone which makes it harder for people like me who happen to agree with what you’re saying to completely back up your position.
Good piece otherwise.
thelastnamechosen
Please display in the blasphemy section.
– Race is a Religion
Race is one of the stupidest ideas ever. It is completely opposed to evolution, science and basic logic. Even when given a blank canvas and no expectations, proponents of race still can’t come up with a system that is even logically consistent with its own made up rules. You people are making the religious look like rocket scientists.
At least religion was smart enough to come up with the Omniscient God thing to explain away contradiction and plain stupidity, the best Race can come up with is “Social Construct”, which is just a bullshit way to say bullshit. In its favor, the term “Social Construct”, while not ready to tell the truth, is tired of lying.
– Race is The Religion
Despite the taboos and consequences, Nazism and blasphemy against Islam are common and plentiful compared to attacks against Race itself. Race is the most venerated of all religions. Race is the God above Gods. The common thread. Our universal stupidity. And as such, its critique is the most taboo of all.
How great the consequence to see so many cower as one! But what do they fear? Retribution, or giving up power?
– Free Will versus What is cast in stone
Again, Race is one of the stupidest ideas ever. It’s proponents and those in quiet acquiescence will be rightly spit on for generations for this cruelty and cowardice.
But if you are stupid enough to choose to believe that race is real, then there is a huge difference between blasphemy and racism. When we ignore that the Religion of Race is driving many aspects of the free speech debate these days, we get a very incomplete picture to say the least.
The true comedy is that when forced to confront the issue, Race is not declared a Religion, but Religion is declared a Race.
All praise the new God.
Side note: Just because I don’t believe in Race does not mean I don’t believe in racism. I don’t believe in god, but I believe in religious bigotry. Now a question for you: Why would you ask me the first question, but not the second.
DaNavy
I came to the conclusion years ago that being pro free speech means, to me, supporting the rights of others to say whatever they want. as a black person, I can say, without a second thought, I support the rights of racists to spew the ugliness about POC, free from prosecution or retaliation from the government. Free speech doesn’t mean free of consequences. You might lose your job or your friends, but not your freedom. What France to this “comedian” is unbelievably hypocritical.
Terrible article.
Yes, France has laws against hate speech. Personally, I’d do away with those laws – in part for the pernicious way they can be manipulated and arbitrarily enforced. But it’s silly to say that unless you are a free speech absolutist, it is somehow hypocritical to value free speech. There is still a world of difference between speech that calls for killing others and speech that criticizes ideas (offending people who happen to hold those ideas sacred). Anyone who can’t see the difference simply doesn’t want to.
JLocke
So..you have a rash of anti-Islamic attacks in France:
The Independent – Wednesday 14 January 2015 – “Twenty-six mosques around France have been subject to attack by firebombs, gunfire, pig heads, and grenades as Muslims are targeted with violence in the wake of the Paris attacks.
France’s National Observatory Against Islamophobia reports that since last Wednesday a total of 60 Islamophobic incidents have been recorded, with countless minor encounters believed to have gone unreported.”
…combined with a crackdown on hate speech…except apparently, anti-Islamic hate speech:
“France’s crackdown on hate speech is hardly surprising but after so many marched to support Charlie Hebdo’s right to offend, it is a jarring disconnect.
Dieudonné is notorious for his anti-Semitic standup acts, and has been convicted before. But the comic’s alleged crime this time? He posted — briefly, before deleting it — a Facebook notice that declared “as far as I’m concerned I feel like Charlie Coulibaly,” a reference to the gunman Amédy Coulibaly who killed a police officer and four people at the supermarket. Offensive as that posting was, does it rise to the level of a crime? Prosecutors evidently feel it does.
And so does so much else. The French justice ministry has issued a directive ordering police and prosecutors to crack down with the “utmost vigour” on anyone who is perceived as glorifying terrorism, or who expresses racist or anti-Semitic views. That’s a wide net, and these crimes can draw years in prison. Interestingly, given the mood in France, the ministry didn’t see the need to specifically order a crackdown on anti-Islamic incitement.”
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2015/01/14/french-crackdown-on-hate-speech-goes-too-far-editorial.html
JLocke JLocke
I’m looking for evidence of Dieudonné’ past crimes, came across this…
“Shoananas, Holocaust & Pineapples”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iX1-E65BYA
paraphrasing, he seems to feel it unfair that the French state mandates that he, a Cameroonian Frenchman, must “remember” the holocaust.
bahhummingbug JLocke
The Pope, on a papal visit to the Philippines in the Pope mobile, just said there are limits to free expression, that you can’t disrespect peoples ‘faith'(s) and if, e.g., you call his mother names he will punch you in the face.
*note. In case you get any ideas, if you call my moma names … she will punch you in the face.
JLocke bahhummingbug
“there are limits to free expression”
Absolutely. And when those limits are applied unfairly, hypocritically, mendaciously, in furtherance of discrimination against one group, or to justify wars of aggression, it is important to point that out.
ghost0 JLocke
According to what I’ve read, Mister Bergoglio did say it’s wrong to be disrespectful to other people’s faiths, but he immediately added free speech is essential, and killing someone for such an offence is inadmissible.
Blasphemy or no blasphemy, then ? That’s a decision for every individual to make in conscience, he implies as only Jesuits can.
And this might be good news : in 2012, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) lobbied to get the UN to insert the offence of blasphemy into international law.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-protests-religions-blasphemy-idUSBRE88I1EG20120919
Back then, the Vatican (led by Bergoglio’s predecessor, Ratzinger) backed their request.
Ultimately, the OIC made a U-turn.
Earlier, the UN’s general Assembly had already voted a resolution (non-binding in international law.) on “combating defaming religions” (A/RES/62/154), wherein every word mattered, the word ‘blasphemy’ did not appear, but the need to prevent discrimination against Islam in particular was stressed.
http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/62/154
Bergoglio’s stance might indicate the Vatican is not willing to support any bill making blasphemy an official offence.
suave bahhummingbug
`bah..
Word on the streets has it that said utterances were pontificated aboard the ‘papal plane’..
‘I’m goin insane, startin the hurricane, releasin pain..
I’m gonna knock you out
Huuh!!!..’
-LL Cool J
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimZj8HW0Kg
Gator90 JLocke
What a fucking asshole (Dieudonne, not you JLocke). But it should not be a crime to be an asshole. Thank heavens there is usually no “asshole fine” in the US.
Pedinska Gator90
Thank heavens there is usually no “asshole fine” in the US.
Sorta like the can you put a quarter in every time you cuss? If there were, we’d be able to retire the national debt in less than a week.
I mean, just think of all the assholery they’d get up to just trying to define the terms of assholery. Boggles the mind….:-s
Here’s a good introduction to Dieudonné. (in French) Apparently he’s “provocative”.
Dieudonné – “During the second world war, there was a genocide, which I condemn, even though I was not responsible”
Dieudonné -(on using a Jewish stereotype to condemn Israel’s policies) “I used a parody of a Jew? What is a Jew? There is not ONE sort of Jew.”
Dieudonné – “First and foremost, freedom of expression is important to humour.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPcr2Goozgg
Hans Bavinck JLocke
And Hitler once said “Good evening madam, lovely sunset isn’t it?”, and on another occasion, “Happy New Year, children!”
Not to compare Dieudonné with the guy with the mustache, but if you want to study whether or not he’s antisemitic, you have to quote his worst statements, not the most innocuous ones.
Here are a few, from his very first antisemitic years (he wasn’t always antisemitic, he became so when he wasn’t granted the money to make a documentary about slavery – which he thought was discrimination because Claude Lanzmann had been allowed to make “Shoah”. It never occurred to him that no matter how famous you are, you have to prove you’re capable before getting public monies. I met him once and he was very arrogant, not paying attention to all us lesser mortals who weren’t even television celebrities… and that was when the collective I belonged to had achieved something that attracted media attention and he had just shown up to steal the limelight.)
“Jews are a people who cheaply sold the Holocaust, who sold suffering and death to create a country and make money.”
“There’s a powerful lobby which has the monopoly of suffering and which doesn’t admit our existence… the Jewish lobby really hates blacks! Because in the collective subconsciousness, blacks bear the suffering, the Jews can’t accept it, because it’s their commerce!”
“Israheil !”
And don’t get me started on how his social world has changed, this guy who once agitated against the far-right Front National and now spends his time with their most revisionist elements.
He’s antisemitic all right.
The comment for which he is being prosecuted, though, was not antisemitic, that’s the strange part. There’s nothing all that wrong with what he tweeted and if the court is as independent from government as it’s supposed to be (and that’s an if in France, even if things are better than a few decades ago), he’ll be let off the hook.
I agree with Glenn that the French government really screwed up on this on.
usuarioanonimo Hans Bavinck
He does not seem to be denying the Holocaust or the suffering or death of the Jews in it, but seems to be making a point similar to Dr. Norman Finklestein about the Holocaust Industry, i.e. that certain political movements have opportunistically disgraced the memory of the suffering and those who were exterminated for cheap political gain and agendas of power. So, this may very well not be hate-speech.
Similar to the above, the cheap exploitation of the memory of the holocaust for iniquitous political ends. And he said Jewish lobby hates blacks, not that Jews hate blacks. It’s not the best choice of words, but again, this is not so extreme to look at perceived rivalries of political power.
He’s equating Israel with Nazi Germany. If you look at the occupation, the ethnic cleansing, the “mowing the lawn” of civilians in Gaza, the Gestapo night raids, the torture, the propaganda, a rational argument could be made that this is a fair comparison, in kind, at least, if not (yet?) in degree. It’s not anti-semitic, because one could easily make the same characterization of the US currently. Amerikheil!
Israel does not get a pass on its current atrocities be constantly drawing on the memory of the holocaust. Unfortunately Isreal has done more to drain the well of goodwill for the Jewish people than anything else by far.
Dahoit usuarioanonimo
shhh.Truth is cyanide in the world of BS.
Remember when they(he) shot Larry Flynt and they had massive parades in Kansas?Missouri? defending press freedom?
AtheistInChief usuarioanonimo
@usuarioanonimo
Norman Finkelstein criticizing Jews is not the same thing as Dieudonné doing the same. Finkelstein gets a pass. Not only is he Jewish, he’s clearly an academic, who’s not trying to incite, but to self-reflect. Mel Gibson, doesn’t get to criticize Jews. If he has issues, and wants to discuss something, he better come from some place other than where he’s been coming from. As someone who was born a Muslim, I get to criticize Muslims without being called an Islamophobe, but surely Bill Maher has to be a little more careful. It’s just the way it is, because these phobias exist.
Clearly there is such a thing as Antisemitism. In that light, while he should be allowed to say whatever he wants, I should be able to call Dieudonné an Antisemite, and please for the love of god, not drag Finkelstein into the same category as Dieudonné. But of course, you’re free to do so.
Gator90 usuarioanonimo
@Usuarioanonimo — Assuming the accuracy of the provided quotations, your analysis would be more persuasive if Dieudonne had attributed the exploitation of the Holocaust to “certain political movements,” as you put it, rather than to “Jews” as “a people.” As phrased by him, it is a strikingly ugly sentiment (albeit one he should be free to express).
usuarioanonimo usuarioanonimo
To AthiestInChief (below): I don’t think it’s a useful standard at all to say that only somebody of a certain race, religion or ethnicity or whatever has a right to criticize their own group. If Mel Gibson’s or Bill Maher’s criticisms were accurate, they are just as valid as a Jew’s or a Muslim’s. If they are based on the basis of prejudice, then they are invalid because prejudice is a demonstrably stupid way to evaluate people. To say only a Texan has a right to criticize Texas, is to legitimize ad hominem arguments against the arguer instead of directly addressing the validity of the arguments.
To Gator90 (below): An Iraqi could say “the Americans invaded us”. This does not mean they have an irrational hate against all Americans so much as used sloppy language. Every quote can’t be held to the standard of a legal document.
I concede that the “Jews are a people…” is certainly getting into questionable territory, but, remember, these statements were being cited by Hans Bavinck as his “worst anti-Semitic” statements cherry-picked over a period of years in order to condemn the guy all-together as an anti-Semite. In that light it is not clear to me that, based just on what’s here, that the guy is expressing irrational hatred or rational, if sloppily worded, objections.
Hans Bavinck usuarioanonimo
You make good points. But I gave only his earliest antisemitic comments and those were, believe it or not, from the period when he still at times associated with Jewish artists, met with representatives of the Jewish community and even visited Auschwitz. He has radicalized since and his friends are mostly to be found in the far-right Front National – including its former leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen who once called the Holocaust a “historical detail”. He has claimed that Jews ran the slave trade – not part of it, all of it – with America and has expressed the wish that the gas chambers had prevented the birth of one of his critics.
But anyway the point is not really there. The comment for which he is being prosecuted is not in my eyes antisemitic let alone impermissible; the prosecution is a ridiculous one.
You’re absolutely correct, that it is not useful to set standards for criticism. My point is, that since prejudice exists, if one is going to criticize somebody other than oneself, maybe s/he should be careful to point out legitimate grievances, as opposed to resorting to statements that only highlight traditional ideas of prejudice. That’s what I meant. Bill Maher or Mel Gibson should be able to say whatever they want, and great if they actually make valid points.
Also, this idea of criticizing Jews, or what is a Jew, or what is a Muslim, is meaningless, and is pure prejudice. One can have a position on the politics or policies of Israel, but that cannot be a criticism of Jews. It’s like criticizing Muslims for the insanity, or even the existence, of Saudi Arabia, and every vile thing that it does.
This guy is not criticizing. What exactly is he criticizing? He’s just being an asshole, of the worst kind, in my opinion.
I’m just trying to point out that if it’s not legitimate criticism of another, it’s probably bigotry. I mean, think about the statement that “Jews ran the slave trade.” No! Traders ran the slave trade. Some were Jewish, and some were not. Finkelstein wrote about the Holocaust industry, and talked about hucksters. He was talking about the hucksters who made millions, who were Jewish. He wasn’t talking about his mother, also Jewish, who only made $3000 for her time in a concentration camp. So let’s talk about the hucksters, and the terrorists, and the people of bad faith. Let’s not talk about Jews. Let’s not talk about Muslims. Let’s call that what it is, prejudice. Not legitimate criticism.
Thanks for the rational responses AthiestInChief and HansBavinck. I have no issues with any of your new statements. I don’t really know this Dieudonne guy. My suggestion is that all speech should always be legally protected (except the “fire!” in the crowded movie-house kind), but hate speech or offensive speech should be socially condemned, i.e. Charlie Hebdo have a perfect legal right to publish Mohammed’s pecker or whatever, but they should exercise some respect and restraint and not be a-holes about something that some people hold to be sacred. There should be standards of decency, but you can’t enforce them with a fine, a jail, a gun or a fatwah.
I don’t think I made my point clearly above. I want (almost) total legal protection of speech, but not social approval of all speech. All this celebration of printing this really offensive anti-Islamic stuff is not the answer. You don’t do it, not because of intimidation, but because it’s disrespectful and undignified in the first place, even though you have a perfect legal right to do so. Of course it will still happen, but there is something very childish and self-serving about this orgy of Islam-disparaging free speech.
LaPaz101 Hans Bavinck
It is not a good idea to take a few sentences here and there out of context to talk about a guy that has been demonized by many Over the years. He has never been found guilty of Anti-Semitism. I have listened to Dieudonne for over a decade from the time his partner was Elie Semouni, a sephardic jew .Many people will admit that he is the funniest comic of France whether they share his views or not. he has an ability with the language that many don’t have.The only people that are not laughing at his jokes are usually the people in power who feel under attack. He has been making jokes about blue, green and orange people for 2 decades or so. His saga started on a tv show in December 2003 when he made a sketch dressed up as a racist settler. On the same evening he started to received hateful messages. The show presenter sent him some insulting racists text messages and was condemned by the court .The next day he was on the front pages of a lot of newspapers etc. This was a guy who was playing in the largest theatres of Paris, like L’Olympia, the zenith and he was often on tv, suddenly he was uninvited, demonized, he even apologized in a show and wrote a sketch called “mes excuses”. ” my apologies”..Some were still not happy, over the years he started to provoke more as a response to all this censure and shows after shows were cancelled , death threats followed by more protests in front of theatres etc etc. For a time he was playng in a bus. He has even been once assaulted in Martinique by 2 zionists who were later arrested. Last year his one man show called “Le mur” “The wall” was cancelled in Nantes by special decree when the actual prime minister, Valls, the new “Franco”, who was then minister of Interior . his decision was influenced by powerful people who had complained that this show was antisemitic because of a hand gesture called “Quenelle” that in fact meant ” the hell with the corrupted system”, was compared to a nazi salute. Wow !! simply shocking!!. Followed a media massacre of the guy. His one man show is not anti semitic according to all of his worst critics who saw it and nothing hateful is mentioned in his sketch, judge by yourself it is on youtube. The government succeeded in Nantes that afternoon of January but Dieudonne’s team of lawyers fought other cancellations and won. The government actions created a lot of anger in France, there were days of protests by people who were simply fighting a tyranny and as a consequence his popularity increased tenfold . He even thanked the French government for the free publicity. It was great to see that some people were not just a bunch of brainwashed sheep, although a couple of public figures asked that he’d be hanged for this “quenelle”. It was sad though to see that a huge part of the media was supporting the government in his persecution. The government tried to close his Facebook acct ever since and succeeded in closing his youtube channel. He has been supported by a few courageous public figures who have stood by him and took the risks to also be ostracized They defended a guy who had caused no harm to anyone, simply dared to say things that 2 lobbies in France don’t want to hear. In France nowadays any public figure who criticizes Israel is categorized as anti-Semitic. It is ok to make fun of Islam and demonize Arabs. This is what is called ” deux poids , deux mesures” a law for the marginalized and one for the People in power. Thank you Glen for writing about this situation, your article is a breath of fresh air, as it has been impossible to find one single English newspaper last year who talked about the censure of this comic without repeating what the french state media were saying word by word. It is necessary that the world knows what Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite means in France nowadays.
Gator90 Hans Bavinck
@Usuarioanonimo – For the sake of argument, I will assume there is some ambiguity in the statement “Jews are a people who cheaply sold the Holocaust” (though I think it is quite clear). At this point, AtheistInChief’s idea about the credibility of the messenger comes into play for me. Thanks to a kindly provided link, I have seen Dieudonne dance about and shake his ass while singing gleefully about the Holocaust. As a result, I am not inclined to give him the benefit of any doubt or resolve any ambiguities in his favor. He is an anti-semite and world-class asshole. (Furthermore, I’ve seen no evidence that he is funny. At least Mel Gibson made some decent action movies.)
In your previous comment, you made the excellent point that one could easily compare the US to Nazi Germany, just as people compare Israel to Nazi Germany. But, interestingly, virtually no one ever does compare the US to Nazi Germany, whereas with Israel, it is a constant refrain. For this reason, when people (particularly non-Jews) make the comparison in regard to Israel, I tend to suspect an underlying malice.
usuarioanonimo Gator90
There is a difference b/t the standard AthiestInChief first proposed (e.g. only a Jew can criticize Israel) and looking for additional evidence in a persons behavior to determine whether they are bigoted. The latter is of course valid, and what you said about gleefully singing about the Holocaust is more convincing evidence. He is very probably an anti-Semite and a world class a-hole. HoWeVeR, if he was doing it in a comedy routine, even if it wasn’t funny, we have to reserve some criticism. Isn’t this exactly what everybody is defending Charlie Hebdo for? That satire or humor gives you the right to do and say really offensive things? As horrendous as the Holocaust was, the world (ought) to operate on principles that can be applied fairly.
If people compare Israel or the US to Nazi Germany, one just has to look at the validity of the comparison. What’s true about it, and what’s not? Facile comparisons like this are never a perfect fit. But there may be elements to it that are true and useful for reflection. The biggest problem I have with the reactive claims of anti-Semitism is that it immediately dismisses the validity of any criticisms or anger into, by definition, irrational hatred. But (in terms of worldly values) there can be rational as well as irrational anger. A significant portion of the Palestinian and Arab (and global) anger at the Israelis is rational, i.e. about what Israel is doing.
So to always deflect this to anti-Semitic is worn quite thin. It is a terrible disservice to cry wolf. It’s just like how false rape accusations are so egregiously damaging to those who really do get raped.
I hope I don’t come off as anti-Semitic. It’s actually quite the opposite. I hold the Jewish people to a higher standard because of the excellent ones I’ve had the privilege of knowing and because I would aspire for them, after what they went through as a people, that their state would never ethnically cleanse, torture, massacre, degrade and harass, etc. a vulnerable group. It is certainly very understandable that the Jewish nation suffered an enormous trauma that it is still suffering from. But what Israel has become is also enormosly disappointing. I wonder if this sort of disappointment or frustration (i.e. of all people to behave this way, the Jewish nation) is at least part of what you suspect as underlying malice when you see Israel singled out for criticism.
AtheistInChief Gator90
However I came off, I never meant to say that only Jews can criticize Israel. I criticize Israel all the time, and sometimes when I’m pissed, quite vehemently.
My point in this case was that this guy is not criticizing. He’s making blanket prejudicial statements. I’m with you, when you say that calling everything anti-semitic has worn thin of late. But that doesn’t mean you can’t call it anti-Semitism when it actually is that. Also, his act is a bit different from the magazine’s. Putting on a Black-face is no longer satire. I can do it if I wish, but it would be in poor taste, because it would probably be universally considered racist. That is how this guy feels to me.
For my part, I give Israel no quarter. But I’m careful how I talk, and think about Jews. There is just a history involved, and it cannot be ignored. Same thing with Blacks. There is just a history involved. So saying this like “Jews ran the slave trade” and not mentioning that there were Muslims involved in it as well, and blacks involved in it, and Whites benefiting, seems particularly pernicious to me. I’m not saying I’m going to ban his speech, but I will definitely do everything in my power to discredit such a source. It’s useless to society, and unhelpful.
I fully understand your frustrations with the State of Israel, but I’d suggest that you think about Israel as a state, with the motivations of a state, and the political problems of a state, which no doubt can lead to bad things, but a state, nonetheless. I don’t even look at Israel as a Jewish State. If it were a Martian State in that region, with similar politics, it would be behaving the same way. And that Martian state would be trying to get every Martian on earth to support that state. Doesn’t mean you blame all Martians for the actions of that state. And that is what most of us tend to do when talking about Israel. We involve every Jewish person on the planet. And every Jewish person that I went to school with, or worked with, had nothing to do with Israel. Just my personal experience.
Gator90 Gator90
You don’t come off as anti-semitic. But with that said, your notion of holding Jews and Israel to a “higher standard” is quite bizarre to me. We have to be better than gentiles because we’ve suffered at their hands? Should black Americans be held to a higher standard than white Americans? Should Armenians be held to a higher standard than Turks?
Israel’s ethical obligation to treat people humanely is no greater (or less) than that of the US, or France, or Ecuador.
Certainly there is ample reason for anger and disappointment at Israel’s moral failings. For those emotions to be magnified among gentiles based on Israel’s status as the “Jewish state” strikes me as irrational and unfair.
As a “conscious Jew” (to borrow a stinging phrase from upthread), I am heartbroken by what Israel has become (and perhaps always was). But that’s my heartbreak, not yours.
@AthiestInChief – re “only Jews can criticize Israel” I was pointing to your first comment, not where you clarified (at least for me) your position. I also agree that there is indeed still anti-Semitism. I never meant to imply that that was not a component of reality. That was what was meant by the cry wolf rape analogy: the abuse of it actually hurts those that suffer from real instances of anti-Semitism. I also don’t hold every Jewish person responsible for Israeli state actions. I don’t think I said that and didn’t mean to imply that either. The most interesting question you raise is: Is Israel a Jewish state? I think coincides with Gator90’s post, so I’ll address it below.
@Gator90 – I didn’t mean to say that Jews or Israel should be held to higher moral standards as a matter of law or anything. I was just expressing my personal irrational biases to suggest an alternative underlying attitudes to why you suspect Israel is singled out: basically irrational respect rather than irrational hatred. I do realize it is irrational and that it violates my own conscious beliefs on the subject. Of course I don’t believe that Jews are inherently superior to the rest of humanity. That would be a very pernicious view in itself.
I do dispute very much your dividing the world into Jews and Gentiles and reserving the right to make ethical judgments or to have heartbreak about Israel to Jews only, conscious or not. I do not see the basis in that at all.
You contest my calling Israel “the “Jewish State”” as irrational and unfair. I see that I certainly did say that. As I explained above in this post I certainly do not hold all Jews responsible for Israel’s actions (I don’t think I said this, but if I implied it I apologize). I don’t even hold all Israeli Jews responsible. I know many Americans who are mostly powerless to oppose the psychopathic behavior of the US gov’t). But is it fair to disassociate completely Israel from the Jewish nation? Israel and its American supporters could talk about Judeo-Christian values (read non-Muslim) when convenient, and deny any Judeo component when convenient. It is my understanding that Israel was founded for the explicit purpose of providing a homeland for Jews, has preferential immigration policies for Jewish people, gets a lot of political and financial support from Jews abroad, has preferential laws for Jewish citizens, wants to declare itself a Jewish state, etc.
In the end I think you are both right. I think it is an unfair principle to associate Israel with Judaism or the Jewish nation broadly. The only caveat to this is that it seems that Israel itself is one of the biggest purveyors of this association (such as selling the Holocaust) when it cynically serves its purposes. In order not to have it both ways I think Israel needs to disassociate from the Jewish nation and become a secular democracy. Fair?
I agree Israel should become a secular democracy (with the West Bank and Gaza included). The whole concept of a “Jewish state” is deeply and inherently flawed. Eventually it will come undone; the questions are how long it will take and how much blood will be spilled in the meantime.
The Holocaust, for many Jews, remains an open wound. Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is a great way to rub salt in it, precisely because, as you suggest, Israel cannot be completely disassociated from Jewry. I think many (though by no means all) of the people who make such comparisons are fully aware of this and take unseemly pleasure in it.
I didn’t divide the world into Jews and gentiles. Several thousand years of history did that.
Nete Peedham JLocke
France likes to revel in its history of Napolean, who was CERTAINLY not a terrorist…because he dressed up in a suit.
This is topical. From 2013. After saying that Dieudonné should have an upcoming show cancelled because he is anti-Semitic and racist and will cause unrest, Clothilde Chapuis, when asked about Charlie Hebdo, says,
“ oh but that is different”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKliQth8cVU
irwa JLocke
dieudonné explained that the meaning for ” i am charlie coulibaly ” was : he is only doing comedy like charlie hebdo ( from which he knew some people ), but feel like he is treated like coulibaly. that’s the most obvious meaning so I guess he will be okay.
Today, the French president made a speech stressing the fact French Muslims have “as many rights and as many duties as any other citizen”, adding they “need to be protected”. In other words, the whole “Charlie” com operation of the French media is backfiring already. Failing to understand the obvious link between last week’s events and France’s policy in the Middle East, he also reiterated the West should have bombed Syria in 2013, after the alleged chemical attack by the Assad forces. Useful to know might be that there was a time when Foreign minister Fabius officially supported the al Nusra Front (al Qaeda in Syria). In its December 14, 2012 edition, French daily Le Monde reported Fabius’ comment on the US decision to place al Nusra on the terrorist watchlist : it’s silly, he said, “because, on the ground, they’re doing a good job”. Then, all of a sudden, in May 2013, he proposed to do just that (consider them as a terrorist organization). Here’s what last sunday’s freedom-of-speech demonstrators should be asking : in how far has France financed its own demise ? Where the AK47 assault rifles used against the cartoonists part of the stock France had provided the “Syrian rebels” with ? Not a word in the French press about that, of course…
Mary Toigo "Watching"
What a joke….aren’t these the very people who were defending the anti-religionists, insulting everyone. They have to be kidding…of course….par for the course. “Do what I say…not what I do. It is too..tool..too much!
Although there are important differences between “East” and “West,” I’m not a fan of reducing what are actually diverse and complex cultures into those monolithic terms. They are convenient, yet ultimately simplistic, concepts to think with because they play on stereotypes rather than reality.
Michael Katims
The problem with Greenwald’s argument here is that he implies the west’s approval and even affection for Charlie Hebdo’s content. But that just isn’t true. The actual content of the publication makes (and has always made) establishment publications like The New York Times terribly uncomfortable. And they’ve been essentially anti-racist. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/11/1357057/-The-Charlie-Hebdo-cartoons-no-one-is-showing-you). Now that the publication has vowed to continue their editorial policy (and their lampooning of religious fanatics) everybody’s looking for a graceful exit. (See also, http://academeblog.org/2015/01/14/the-je-suis-charlie-movement-ends-wednesday-2/) But Greenwald is right that the “free speech” elegies when speaking of Charlie Hebdo are hollow and false coming from people who prosecute “hate speech” whenever they find it convenient to their political agenda and never when it’s inconvenient.
Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore
An absolutely brilliant article in every sense of that word. Additionally, well argued, beautifully written and to anyone other than the intellectually challenged or brain-dead undeniably wholly convincing. I’m tempted to fall about myself in uncontrollable laughter when France and free speech are used in any synonymous sense; since the two are diametrically opposed to and in conflict with each other. And hate crimes legislation in France, and especially in relation to the European holocaust – not the only one historically carried out even by Germany that implemented TWO in what’s now NAMIBIA that preceded at the start of the 20th Century the European, and setting aside just temporarily the Trans-Atlantic Slave Holocaust that lasted not for 6 years but almost FOUR CENTURIES and in which France was a major player (Who with a conscience and a true knowledge of history can forget HAITI?) – has everything to do with the collective guilt and nagging demons of consecutive French regimes, the French authorities per se and the overwhelming majority of the French populace. For it was they who massively informed on, rounded up and sent to their horrific deaths millions of their own UNTERMENSCHEN (Undesirables); far more than the Germans managed to do, and with a rabid enthusiasm and passion that startled even the German NAZIS who’d initiated this policy of liquidation. Unsurprising then that the French would dearly love for the rest of the world to forget their barbaric and NAZI streak and encompassing DNA in this regard, and to this end have fraudulently jumped on their sanctimonious soapbox to claim the moral high ground which they have no claim to; whatsoever! And their arrest of Dieudonne for his innocuous and satirical tweet and expressing his same riggt to freedom of expression while the same hypocrites are in the full glare of the global spotlight claiming to uphold free speech yet being racially selective about it says all that one needs to know about French hypocrisy and blatant double-standards. That’s what I think, anyway! Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore.
Sam Harris sure is one dumb motherfucker.
mark robson
France introduced a law concerning opinions on ‘terrorism’ (hope they managed to define that word in detail) in November 2014.
This law effectively outlaws public comment condoning ‘terrorist’ acts. Includes press, audiovisual, and internet:
Article 421-2-5
Créé par LOI n°2014-1353 du 13 novembre 2014 – art. 5
Le fait de provoquer directement à des actes de terrorisme ou de faire publiquement l’apologie de ces actes est puni de cinq ans d’emprisonnement et de 75 000 € d’amende.
Les peines sont portées à sept ans d’emprisonnement et à 100 000 € d’amende lorsque les faits ont été commis en utilisant un service de communication au public en ligne.
Lorsque les faits sont commis par la voie de la presse écrite ou audiovisuelle ou de la communication au public en ligne, les dispositions particulières des lois qui régissent ces matières sont applicables en ce qui concerne la détermination des personnes responsables.
Just visited The Intercept through this weeks Democracy Now show. Long live independant journalism!
Moreover, ‘the West’ doesn’t have these kinds of laws. Certain European countries do.
That’s ridiculous. CH savaged Catholics too, and often in much worse terms than Muslims.
This guy said he identified with the guy who massacred as many Jews as he could. This is arguably an incitement to race murder. CH, for all its puerile antics, never did anything like this
I’m against this creep’s arrest. it makes him into some kind of martyr. But it cannot be compared to what CH ever wrote, even in its must insanely visious.
overthrow-r1b
Between this and the other free speech criminalization article, I think I’m going to have to stop commenting altogether. How can we trust some unsupervised r1bs to be able to gauge sarcasm, or a joke? You ever try telling a joke to a cop? What about a simple typo or predictive text error that completely changes the meaning of a statement?
Not to mention a hacker simply posting something in your name; and if they claim they have the ability to detect if it was a hacker then those are the same people who have the ability to bypass detection.
Frankly what concerns me the most is that I don’t even understand what Dieudonné was saying. It could have been interpreted so many different ways.
Wnt overthrow-r1b
Do you have to stop just because a handful of lunatics attack a few people? That is the question for Charlie Hebdo, and it is the question for all those on the Internet who see cases like this, Justin Carter, Barrett Brown, Mark Marek, etc. Prosecutors who ignore the universal and inalienable rights of man have no basis in law or reason — their attacks are as rare and unfounded as those of al-Qaida, and have precisely the same legal and moral validity. Unfortunately, cowardice isn’t actually a virtue, and while just about everyone has a limit to how brave they can be, I don’t think this should be too much for most.
overthrow-r1b Wnt
I think you’re unfamiliar with my commentary. The context of my statement is based on other things I’ve written.
Dieudonné’s comment looked like something Mother Teresa would’ve said, like he was saying “we’re all victims” or something. It’s not in itself even intelligible.
All these people charged with typing one wrong word were obviously unaware it was problematic, and little racist groups of r1bs are the last people on earth who should be in position to monitor and charge them for it.
Freedom of Speech is selective, if you abuse, insult or mock Islam it is freedom of speech but if same thing happens with other religion it is termed a Crime, is this west’s Equality phenomenon?
Xxx ghtyio
You should change the title that gets pushed when shared on Facebook identifying Dieudonné as muslim.
David Schiffer
Great, about time. Put these nazis where they belong. Those who think that these nazis should be free to spread their hatred, feel free to move to mihammedanistan with them. Cause here we do not need them.
I find the article quite refreshing …thanks a lot Glenn…
Personally I find quite difficult to have the right to insult someone in the name of the freedom of the press/speech…especially if I am aware that what I am saying or writing is going to offend someone…I hate what the Israeli government is doing in Palestine, does that justify me in supporting antisemitic cartoons? …Mah!!
Definetly I am more sacco than Charlie…
But then…I also find the ‘sniper’ a criminal and not an American hero…I seem to have different set of values than some of the commentator here…
Jack Meadows lata
Quite right about Israel and what they are doing to Palestine and it’s people.
The hypocrisy has a very high stench to it.
Mind you this comedian arrested in France has the look of a Moslem… nuff said.
Try writing anything detrimental about Israel in the ABC forums. It will not get posted.
I call that censorship.
Fry lata
@lata: wouldn’t you agree that it must be legal to express views that differ from your own? Even if they _strongly_ differ from your own? That is the essence of free speech.
@Glenn: thanks for your work. You are a voice of reason.
lata Fry
@Fry:…Of course I do…I do not think my comment imply that I do not…
Go tell to some of my ( especially french ) friends giving me the cold shoulder because I say openly that I am not Charlie…there seems to be a sort of short circuit in their minds…I am not Charlie=I support the killing of the cartoonist.
This sort of mental laziness makes the debate a bit difficult and frustrating…
liberalrob lata
“You’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists.” –George W. Bush
It’s tribalism. Either you’re part of the tribe, or you’re outcast.
Dave lata
Well…you just insulted Chris Kyle by calling him “not an American hero”. I don’t know how you square difficulty with a right to insult someone by insulting someone in the very same post (your “But then…” caveat granted). Personally I think it’s good that insulting people is protected. If you disagree and your views were made law, I guess you’d have to turn yourself in to the insult-police for your insult against Chris Kyle.
Not to mention the insult you just made against Israel (“I hate what the Israel government is doing in Palestine”). And in the new free speech police state, the word “hate” will surely land you on a watchlist or jail. May want to use a different word. “Disagree”? “Dislike”? Might still be deemed an insult. Maybe “fully respect their actions but would caution against overdoing it”. Then again there, the law may focus on the word “but”. Disagreement would be insult.
Nete Peedham Dave
Oh, right. Chris Kyle is an official hero, because he worked for America’s official heroes, and dressed in that official hero garb.
Dave Nete Peedham
My personal opinion is that Chris Kyle is an immoral murderer. My point was that Iata insulted him, which in Iata’s own view, is perhaps something that Iata should go to jail over. (and it doesn’t seem to matter whether the insult is accurate.)
lata Dave
@Dave: Chris Kyle is not an American hero…where is the insult?
And where this I said or imply that people insulting other should go to jail ?
now I am going to insult you by writing that you also seem to be taking short cuts…
muntaba Dave
If that is not the meaning you intended, then your first comment was poorly worded.
“Personally I find quite difficult to have the right to insult someone in the name of the freedom of the press/speech”
not ‘having the right’ to do something implies that it is forbidden….
liberalrob Dave
Having the right to do something doesn’t make it mandatory, either. The statement was perfectly understandable.
@Dave: English is not my first language please bear with me…
If to say that Chris Kyle is not an American hero is to offend Chris ( or am I offending you? ) then I should withdraw from the discussion as I do not know what to offend means anymore…someone has to rewrite the word in the dictionary…
Sometime – unfortunately – the word ‘hate’ is used just as a figure of speech, but I accept your point, so again :
I deeply disagree with the policy of Israel in the territories ( see I do not even write ‘occupied territories’…) does that justify me in supporting antisemitic cartoons? ( is it any better ? )
…I hope at least my punctuation was not offensive of the English ( American ) language…
You must be an interesting person to converse with…
I wonder if Chris Kyle considers himself an “American Hero.” I doubt it. I can’t come up with the name of a single one of our “heroes” who, when asked, declared themselves to be heroic. If someone doesn’t consider themselves to be a hero, is it an insult to them to say they aren’t?
Don’t let the grammar police get to you. Your English is just fine.
lata liberalrob
@liberalrob: “Don’t let the grammar police get to you. Your English is just fine.”
…totally off topic, but I wanted to thank you for this…
stanely21
Good god, what kind of stupidity is this? That was the worst attempt at an equivalency argument I’ve ever heard. This man Greenwald appears to have no idea what the founding principles of democratic societies were. I mean, he seems to really BELIEVE what he’s saying, and he was educated in American schools!
Kitt stanely21
Are you, stanley21, aware that you didn’t explain anything at all about what you’ve based your “good god” explosion on? What, specifically, are the “founding principles of democratic societies” you are failing to describe or define, and how, exactly, then did “this man Greenwald” show to you that he has “no idea” what those “founding principles” are?
Nete Peedham stanely21
You’re upset because he criticizes your sacred cows…the Democratic Party, President Obama, and Israel. Right?
melektaus
Great post. This is the common attitude in the west. Insult fashionable groups such as Jews and Blacks, go to prison and be harassed. Insult demonized groups such as Muslims and Asians, a parade will be held in your honor. You see this kind of hypocrisy especially in white liberal circles. I can give many examples but just recently after the Hebdo attacks there were those who called for genocide of all 1.6 billion Muslims on the NPR comment boards. Those who complained had their posts deleted. The original post advocating genocide remained uncensored. I complained to the moderators and then ombudsmen with no results. I’ve seen other posts advocating for the genocide for other groups such as Chinese and all the comments complaining about the racism were deleted while the original offending post still remain. Then the west has the audacity to criticize countries like China for violating free-speech. I live in China. I have never seen anyone sent to prison for “hate speech” or for a view they expressed. The west is much worse in violating people’s right to free expression than China or many other countries they denounce as lacking in liberty. Free speech in the west is a sham.
Good god, what kind of ignorance is this? That was the worst attempt at an equivalency argument I’ve ever heard. Does Gleen Greenwald really have no idea what the founding principles of democratic societies were? I mean, he seems to really BELIEVE what he’s saying. And he was educated in American schools! wtf?
RichP stanely21
America has many different school systems. None of its countries are democracies; most are republics with democratic trappings. The schools Greenwald went to, according to wiki, were in locations where none of the levels of government were democracies.
You totally missed the point. In USA and many other places, it is practiced as legal and acceptable by the vast majority, to incite the murder of many thousands of innocent people, as long as those people are Muslims in foreign lands. It is also practiced as legal and acceptable by the vast majority to carry out those murders, as long as one does it as a member of a government organization.
Dale Gribble
What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Stop being hypocrites
Hashem GHA
I would rather say the terrorist is a puppet controlled by Zionists and former colonial masters . The tactic of divide and rule has always worked ! Let the fear prevail until it has matured for a new war as industrialized countries arms industry goes around , the oil flow in and Zionists gets its 4000 years old religion promise and dream of the Great Israel in the Middle East for the chosen people realized through divide and rule tactics of their!
The First World War did not give the Zionists what they were after . Then came Theodor Herzl and founding political Zionism and created his first puppet Hitler, that way they got their own created world map, the Zionists and Rothschild made a contract to economic and political help England against Hitler, in return they would receive land of Palestine as England then had as its colony . After ww2 they created the United Nations with five veto votes as a safety valve for themselves and gave the Zionists the land of Palestine under the contract between England and the Zionists and Rotchschild. But it is the land of Great Israel their 4000 years old religion requires them to have as the chosen people, and that by sacrificing the Goyim ( non- Jewish = animals according to their holy books) by cutting the throats of those on the holy land Great Israel! So this is just the beginning!
IF YOU’VE GOT HATE FOR JEWS OR MUSLIMS IN YOUR HEART OR YOU ARE A FEMINIST AND HATE MEN OR MALE CHARACTERISTICS, CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE A VICTIM OF MIND CONTROL, THE ULTIMATE TERROR!
comuteated
After you start the “waron” you’ve begun the process of capitulation where you surrender your civil liberties and join the terrorists.
So many comments, not sure it’s worth adding anything, but…
Something no-ones seems to have pointed out so far is that non Muslims may be shocked about ‘rude’ caricatures of Mohammed, so feel some kind of ‘understanding’ of why fanatics might react so strongly. But at base, ANY depiction of Mohammed is not allowed, and considered blasphemy.
And the original ‘publish or be damned/killed’ caricatures – in CH or elsewhere – were reacting against THAT self-censorship, against the “right to not be offended”, they definitely weren’t motivated by a desire to piss off Muslims.
Another thing I find disingenuous of GG is that in his ‘other blasphemous cartoons’ post, most of the Jewish-related ones are mostly definitely NOT blasphemous, but related to Jews and politics, and Protocols-related conspiracy theory stuff. Whereas the initial CH cartoon he posts is 100% blasphemous, but says NOTHING disparaging about Arabs, or Muslims.
It seems to me that a lot of blurring of distinctions is taking place, mostly by denying that motivation or context have any importance or meaning. As some other commenters have pointed out, both above and below the line here there is a lot of “I, an American with little or no knowledge of French or France, will now proceed to pass judgement on a situation about which I know little or nothing”.
RichP Ben S
Is it legal to yell fire in a crowded theater if one’s motivation is performance art?
DonaldB RichP
Antonio RichP
Heck, it’s even legal, period. This is one of the most misused, and patently false, restatement of law, in that Schenck was overturned years later, but more importantly the case law on the 1st Amendment generally moved way past it.
Free speech is really quite simple: everything is allowed. Cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Robert Maplethorpe’s photo of a crucifix in a jar of urine, cartoons of hooked-nose Jews eating babies, Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, Hustler Magazine’s satire of Jerry Fallwell having sex with his mother in an outhouse – in a free society it’s all allowed. Sorry Mr. Greenwald, freedom of speech is an absolute right – not some minor piece of legislation that journalists like you can chip away at and qualify to fit your notions of political correctness. Voltaire and the other leaders of the French Enlightenment understood this, as did the authors of the Bill of Rights. It’s sad that two hundred and fifty years later, people like you still don’t get it.
As I read through the comments and the squabbling with those who appear bent on TI’s destruction, there surely doesn’t seem to be a lack of “Free Speech”, at least here there doesn’t. However, when listening to paid commentators and their “expert” guests stirring the “FEAR” pot, the impression I’m left with is one of “fear” that we could soon start seeing our “Free Speech” rights slipping away under the guise of heightened security. Speak up people while we still have that right. The authors of our Constitution argued over whether listing our rights was a good idea or was even necessary. To them it was self evident and went without saying. Their wisdom won the day and we now at least have a document to which we can refer when questions arise as they are today. Our leaders today cannot be counted on to do the right thing and must be forced by the people to do so. Can the people find their backbones, re-engage their minds, and start participating in their own future? As a group “We the People” have abdicated our responsibilities in allowing a “long train of abuses” to become the norm. Recently I have met several people who have decided to leave the USA in search of a better society. None of them are leaving to find work but have become disillusioned with what the USA has become. Not so sure that’s the solution but it might be for them. I don’t recognize this country anymore.
Phil Ferro jgreen7801
@jgreen7801-
AMEN! The current operating form of this country ( USA ) is not the country of old. We The People have allowed us to deviate to a post constitutional way of life. It’s going to get worse. I challenge anyone to determine the number of laws they live under both statutory and regulatory in every level of government. The total number will probably be between 15-20,000? Then determine how many is personally known. At best people personally know of 5 laws. So what’s the point of the 19,995 other laws if people don’t know they exist? Actually, they shouldn’t exist. This country equally oppresses people, and that is unconstitutional.
Deck Hughes
How does a person express support the killers of innocents at the supermarket? What kind of person would have anything but contempt for these terrorists. Shame on this so called “comedian” who is a demagogue and a supporter of murder.
General Hercules
The big problem, Mr Greenwald, is that you are being totally delusional about the current state of affairs of nations and religions. The main problem facing the Muslims is really not about being able to post whatever they want in Facebook. Posting and liking in Facebook really should be the least of their priorities. Their main problem is providing food and shelter to millions of people belonging to their faith. What are they doing about it? Do they sit down and discuss ways that they can provide a better quality of life for themselves? Do they tell each other that they will stop killing each other? Do they tell the people who supply them weapons that they don’t want weapons, and instead would like to have food and medicines? If they don’t do it for themselves, then who will? Do you really think that giving this cartoon Dieudonné all his rights to post his thoughts, that too in a worthless forum as Facebook, will contribute to the greater good of his Muslim community?
Unless Muslims get their priorities right neither Allah nor his Charlie Messenger can do them any good, peace be upon all of them. Mr Sufi here is one of the very few sane voices that speak on their behalf, and if they were to listen to him instead of the likes of Baker Al Bugdaddy, they would definitely find a solution for themselves. Once they establish some peace they can then start thinking about having more freedom.
So, Mr Greenwald, please stop inciting them, whatever be your motive. I see that you folks have direct access to those thugs. Call them up and advise them what is best for them. You guys have stopped publishing Mr Snowden’s files. No worries – just do the world a favor and get those blokes to stop their own killing. Then perhaps the rest of the world will start respecting them and stop killing them and their freedom.
Ed Surrey General Hercules
Your comment sounds as though Muslims voluntary choose to live in perpetual poverty and violence. “What are they doing about it? Do they sit down and discuss ways that they can provide a better quality of life for themselves?” Let’s ignore the severe repression and violence inflicted on the vast population of Muslims by authoritarian governments–vast majority of which are militarily, economically and diplomatically kept in power by the US and European countries.
mac coon General Hercules
Speaking of delusional, are you ignorant, willfully or otherwise, of the destruction wrought by American hegemonic crimes in the middle east and elsewhere? Not even to mention the cultural and societal disintegration, which is obviously part of the overall scheme to dominate the area (and the world!). And then all the horrific carnage. You’re speaking from your plush armchair from inside your fat cat ivory tower about matters you can’t even fathom, and you’re even sanctimonious about it? ‘Merikkkans. a depraved culture of morons indeed…
Syed Rizwan General Hercules
Ouch! i know you are a bit butt-hurt when facts are rubbed into your face. BUT when you ask the Muslims to get rid of poverty, terrorism and to get food and medicines.
My question to you is WHO is responsible for it in the first place, it is you guys, America and its European stooges who is the garb of freedom and establishing democracy has been placing puppet dictators and autocratic regimes to meet their own ends. After WW2, it was the west who in thirst for Oil resources assassinated the Saudi King Faisal, tried to install the puppet kingdom of Pahlavis in Iran, snatched Palestine and carved out the terrorist state of Israhell!! and to also interfered in the politics of Egypt, Iraq, Libya where people were still recovering from the European colonization which robbed them off their resources in the first place. In the seventies due to YOUR cold war. The NATO played politics in the middle-east to counter Russia. Afghanistan was used as a battlefield between Russia and USA, which in turn devastated the country more. And don’t you dare tell me that Uncle Sam was doing it for Peace, Oh Hell No! It had its own agendas for all this and didn’t gave a shit about civilians who were killed in your wars. Today the middle-east is a hell hole because of you guys where still politics are being played in Egypt, Libya, Syria and the GCC Kings are obeying Uncle Sam orders and the masses are suffering.
So Chuck my suggestion is unless the west stop interfering in the middle-east for their own vested interests there will be no peace and your people will be targeted. That is truth of life, stop living in denial as if you guys had nothing to do with it.
Dave General Hercules
What on Earth are you talking about? Is there a food shortage in Indonesia or something, that is being exacerbated by the Muslim worldview? A food shortage in Yemen? Do you think Muslim terrorists are murdering Westerners in order to provide food and shelter to their local communities??
General Hercules Dave
So why are they killing people? Some of the ISIS guys are actually westerners who are killing the local people there. And I was referring to Iraq Syria and Afghanistan when I mentioned food and shelter, not the other countries you have listed. Wonder why you left out Saudi Arabia.
BT General Hercules
Iraq, Syria & Afganistan – all of them are victims of butchery and sanctions orchestrated by the “chosen, developed and free” peoples.
toolishly Dave
Agreed yesyes
Wnt General Hercules
Famine is almost always the result of political hatred, not a genuine failure to produce food. Even in the U.S. we saw this for a moment, after Katrina, when Geraldo Rivera and the Anarchist Black Cross were on the ground handing out supplies, while FEMA just couldn’t seem to manage to do anything, and the local cops were too busy shooting blacks for trying to cross the Danziger Bridge — for which they STILL cannot be prosecuted, most recently because it is supposedly ‘unethical’ for a prosecutor to comment about publicly known facts in the case anonymously in a newspaper chat forum. But all famine in the U.S. is like that – often it is literally illegal to hand out food to the homeless – and the exact same thing is true whether you look at Haiti or Somalia or any other godforsaken place where the de facto government stops and steals assistance to keep it from getting to the wrong people.
But the genocidal hatred for groups of people is a product of ignorance, and ignorance is the product of a failure of information or thought, and that is a product of censorship. When people think carefully about a matter, they usually still disagree strongly about what beliefs people hold, but they hate the belief and not the person, strive to educate rather than eradicate.
Wherever censorship rears its head, no matter how grotesque the material, no matter how trivial the penalty, the result is the same: people die. This is true even when states prohibit child pornography and create a multi-billion dollar black market in kidnapping children and videotaping their abuse. It is certainly going to be true when you try to sow fear and alienation in a vast religious community that, despite the deficiency of its belief system, has been almost entirely peaceful and even showed up as life-savers in the Hebdo-related standoffs. This should be so obvious that it is hard not to conclude that the French authorities are deliberately sowing the wind in the hope that they can tame the whirlwind. If they drive Muslims and other less-than-white Frenchmen to the point where there is an attack every day, think of all the money the top security people will make! Yeah, it sounds stupid, but my country invaded Iraq with a plan to rewrite their copyright law so they’d be paying more royalties on old movies. One thing security people never seem to lack is a hubris beyond all expectations.
avelna2001 General Hercules
Their main problem is providing food and shelter to millions of people belonging to their faith. What are they doing about it? Do they sit down and discuss ways that they can provide a better quality of life for themselves? Do they tell each other that they will stop killing each other? Do they tell the people who supply them weapons that they don’t want weapons, and instead would like to have food and medicines?
Perhaps this should apply to the religion known as American Exceptionalism™
but remember: jews are “powerless” and perpetual “victims”. i’d elaborate but since i’m not behind 7 proxies i’ll leave that to someone using the tor browser (y’know, the one that helps to avoid censorship and overbearing government power.)
as for the “jews are a race/ethnicity” line of “reasoning”, i’ll leave the ideological and anthropological decimation of those fucking idiots to shlomo sand and/or anyone else with an intellect surpassing a gibbon with a head injury. “hebrew” or “ashkenazi”, fine. those can be seen as ethnicities. “jewishness” is a culture and judaism is just another anachronistic abrahamic cult with writings lifted from roughly 500 other esoteric sources. kinda like christianity and islam.
also: fuck the charlie writers and cartoonists. there’s a reason the rag was about to go under right before this mess started. the art sucks, the “jokes” aren’t even deserving of the title and the whole thing has the same stench of bourgeois liberalism that wafts from the ever-open jaws of bill maher and sam harris on an hourly basis. the more cynical side of me wonders if the remaining staff are basking in the free publicity.
of course, as i’m writing this jon stewart is doing his usual, milquetoast opening bit and has called dieudonné “anti-semitic” roughly 400000 times so far. not sure about the actual number. i’m not a scientist. if you believe in “free speech”, that’s fine. just remember it’s useless when most people are too fucking insipid to take advantage of it. otherwise the term has a much depth as “hate crime” or “terrorism”.
Brother Nathanael asks, “Did Mossad Do Charlie Hebdo?
https://www.youtube.com/user/zionget
I fail to understand what the French actually wish to achieve. Any idiot columnist is allowed to publish a “hate” article on Muslims or ridicule the Prophet of Islam and gets away under the umbrella of freedom of speech. On the other hand if Muslims of France or the world protest in a civilised manner they get booked for promoting hate and terror. Law can’t be two pronged. Snake’s tongue is; specially the one who initiate hate. First we catch the culprit who started the trouble, then we take care of those who get involved. I think that’s the basic principle, but I am not French and don’t know much about the country either.
LayZ
Oh, brother. Greenwald is fast becoming the terrorist Aplogist-in-Chief. Dieudonne is a racist Jew-hater who has been charged; Charlie Hebdo were political commentators who were brutally murdered.
So odd that these killings, and the subsequent protests against them, provoke from Greenwald all kinds of venomous attacks against Western governments, white racism, etc. — not because these things are wrong, but to show the killers weren’t so bad. It’s the essence of apologism — and it’s sickening.
Sol Trickey
Excellent researcher and writer, sharp sbd articulate. Bring the facts Glenn
Mohammed bin Mohammed bin Mohammed
Is there any proof or primary source that the reason why he was arrested was because of that particular Facebook post and nothing else? I never used to be this skeptical but the internet viral media likes to make shit up.
Our own deranged Zionist, CraigSummers, has been jumping the shark tonight, almost as entertainingly as Alan Dershowitz did a few nites ago on the Lawrence O’Donnell Show. The slimy, lying Dersh got his tale handed to him by O’Donnell:
Towards the end of their discussion, O’Donnell pivoted to the Paris shootings, mentioning that his guest had earlier appeared on NewsmaxTV for a segment that has been billed online as “Alan Dershowitz: France reaped what they sowed in the Paris attack.”
Dershowitz denied that is what he said, but O’Donnell confronted him with an actual quotation about France: “They reward every terrorist.” From there, the pair got into a heated argument.
“It’s a crazy thing to say,” the MSNBC host declared in a clip first flagged by BreitbartTV. “They do not reward every terrorist do you want to say they’ve rewarded a few terrorists? Are you really going to sit here and say they rewarded every terrorist?”
“Virtually every terrorist who has been convicted and sent to prison in Paris has either gotten out,” the law professor pushed back. “[France] voted for Palestinian statehood for a country that was built on terrorism. They have done everything to avoid joining the fight on terrorism. I feel terrible for these people.”
That set O’Donnell off further, as he noted that many countries have supported such statehood. “So most countries in the world are Alan Dershowitz bad countries?” he asked.
Dershowitz replied: “Terrorism is rewarded. Europe is part of the problem. France is part of the problem. I feel terribly sorry for the victims, but France is part of the problem. Maybe this will give them a wake-up call and have them join the war against terrorism rather than becoming part of the problem of facilitating and rewarding terrorism.”
O’Donnell warned his guest in return: “I will advise you, just for the credibility of your own judgment on anything else you ever say publicly, don’t ever say that France rewards every terrorist.”
Through the crosstalk and shouting, Dershowitz said, “Sir, I don’t need your advice on this issue,” just before the segment ended due to time constraints. O’Donnell expressed his regret that the law professor had failed to apologize for his statements.
The video clip is here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lawrence-odonnell-and-alan-dershowitz-explode-over-whether-france-reaped-what-they-sowed/
AmericanGestapo14 -Mona-
How about joining the war against fucking 15 year old sex slaves? I guess that’s for the Justice department to sort out…
Nete Peedham AmericanGestapo14
The Catholic Church?
Rolling with the times AmericanGestapo14
You mean in the White House?
The Franklin Coverup Scandal
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/Franklin/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm
Rolling with the times -Mona-
Many of you here in the comment section seem to have read nearly everything ever written, by man or beast. But just in case anyone is curious, Dersh vs Finkelstein on Democracy Now is always fun.
Dershowitz–Finkelstein Debate (Democracy Now!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKvRzgCPd4Q
Syed Imran Hasan -Mona-
Fucking double standard people of West. Syria’s ambassador to UN very well said that when ISIS attacks Syria, they are called fighters and when they attack France, they become terrorists. Bloody hypocrites French people.
You do realize that France is not part of the USA Glenn? And do you realize that means that they get to define freedom of speech the way they want, and you don’t?
Do you realize that their definition of freedom of speech includes criticizing IDEAS, not PEOPLE? Anti-semitism is illegal because it’s about racial features they can’t change. Criticizing ideas is fair game because they’re mental constructs. This tool led them from the tyranny of the kings and the catholic church. It is as important to them as the second amendment is to your country. So perhaps get off your high horse, and learn something about the culture you are so quick to blame.
Dieudonne isn’t a clever French comedian, trying to make us think about some societal problem, he’s widely considered to be racist, and that is what he was arrested for. He’ll go to trial, and if he wins his case, good for him. But simply because he looks like a minority doesn’t give him a “get of jail free” card.
Charlie Hebdo was making fun of Islamic fundamentalism, because they make it even harder for a country like France to absorb the largest muslim and jewish population in Europe. If you think they’re doing badly, remember the last few centuries of European extermination of other cultures. It shouldn’t be that hard… 1999 in Yugoslavia.
either i’m reading this wrong, or the subtitle on your homepage under the article’s title has a typo.
“It also shows why those who want to criminalize the ideas ****they like**** are at least as dangerous and tyrannical as the ideas they targeted.”
you mean they “don’t like”? or maybe something else entirely. the sentence confuses me
Glen, you’ve just exposed yourself.
You are a rabid self hating Jew and a far, far left extremist. This “comedian” who you defend wrote that he feels like a terrorist, he invented this inverse Nazi salute, he is actively inciting hate and attacks on Jews, yet you defend this, while taking offence at criticism of the Muslim religion. You are psychopath and a sham.
You insist that Jews get special treatment. Really now? Persecution of Jews in Europe far surpass that of Muslims in just plain numbers, let alone proportionate to their populations. How many murderous terror attacks have Muslims suffered in Europe?
I no longer have sympathy for any of your causes. You are exposed.
You’re reading the french events (including Dieudonné) from an american point of view. You do not contextualize. This is not journalism. Here’s what’s wrong in your article :
– Freedom of speech in France is not absolute, and has never been. Insults, diffamation, supporting killings and terrorism, antisemitism, islamophobia, homophobia, etc, are all reprehensible under a 1881 law. You really have to understand this to understand what’s going on here. Yes, French justice has the power to determine what is and isn’t hate speech. Not the government, justice. And any law that tried to favor a group at the expense of another has been censored by the Constitutional Council, just like the law on the armenian genocide.
– We walked on sunday for freedom of speech, not for the freedom to hate and discriminate. Charlie Hebdo, like Dieudonné, was convicted a few times for “insult” (including towards the “harkis”, a muslim community). Not all of us were “Charlie” (I’m not), but rather marching for the right to be insolent within the limits established by law. It was a reminder, not a free pass for intolerance. Because we were marching for freedom of speech doesn’t mean we support any speech, especially the ones punishable by law. Just take a look at the French part of the internet for a moment, and google “je ne suis pas Charlie”.
– Dieudonné’s show was forbidden because the State Council (highest juridiction) knew its content (he had already played it in several towns) and deemed it hateful. That’s how it works here, and has been for decades.
– Antisemitism and islamophobia are equally condemned by justice. 2014 saw a huge number of prosecutions, including political figures, for hate speech towards the muslim and arab communities.
– All the anti-muslims events that followed the Paris shootings were seriously condemned, all major political protagonists called not to confuse muslims and radical islamists.
– The arrest of Dieudonné isn’t a “threat to free speech”, it’s French justice doing its job to delimitate the boundaries of free speech. Just like it was doing its job when Charlie Hebdo was prosecuted numerous times. You are one-sided on this.
– “That’s because last week’s celebration of the Hebdo cartoonists was at least as much about approval for their anti-Muslim messages as it was about the free speech rights that were invoked in their support.” 99 percent of the people who marched on sunday didn’t read Charlie Hebdo, and didn’t have a clue what was inside the pages. And yeah, of course the 4 million people on the streets were anti-muslim, sure. That’s absurd.
– “Think about the “defending terrorism” criminal offense for which Dieudonné has been arrested. Should it really be a criminal offense ?” Again, you fail to understand how French justice and French free speech work. It has to be, and always has been, it’s not something new for us, it’s part of our identity as a republican country.
– Bernard-Henri Lévy is considered a fraud by a large number of people. Please investigate before saying something like “France’s most celebrated public intellectual”.
Please read this :
https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fpixels%2Farticle%2F2015%2F01%2F14%2Fcharlie-dieudonne-reseaux-sociaux-la-foire-aux-questions-de-la-liberte-d-expression_4555964_4408996.html&edit-text=&act=url
https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fles-decodeurs%2Farticle%2F2015%2F01%2F14%2Fde-charlie-a-dieudonne-jusqu-ou-va-la-liberte-d-expression_4555180_4355770.html&edit-text=&act=url
CraigSummers, speaking of cartoonists! Palestinian Mohammad Saba’aneh is one, and he’s been locked up in an Israeli prison from time to time. You know who pointed this out in the context of “The March of the Parisians?” Jon Stewart. Apparently, he had a whole episode about the anti-Muslim bullshit circualting around these events, as well as the hypocrisy of various peoples and countries.
Read about it and see a clip here: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/references-palestinian-cartoonist
Fair enough Mona. I can hardly defend jailing a non violent political cartoonist. I just hope the timing of his “humor” is a little more sensitive to the murdered.
But let’s be clear, Craig. Muslims have a rational motive for hating Zionist Jews; unlike Europeans who believe in deranged, antisemitic conspiracy theories, Zionist Jews have actually viciously attacked Arabs, stolen their land, and hold hundreds of thousands in an apartheid state with open air prisons.
Without remotely justifying the attack in the kosher Paris store; this is not Dreyfus continued. Something rational is behind it.
El -Mona-
Just because you spew lies doesn’t make them true.
LayZ -Mona-
MondoWeiss is an Arab propaganda website, despite its Jewish name, & is therefore worthless. Stop using all the wrongs in the world to apologize for these murders. It’s idiotic.
Frenchwoman gets pushy with UK’s prissy Sky News. One minute vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbwcBYT0DI&app=desktop
What I find disturbing in articles such as this one is not the defense of free speech no matter what, but rather the sort of leniency towards Dieudonné, who’s not only a documented antisemite, but also associated himself with neo-nazis whose intentions regarding the near future in Europe are very clear: civil war and the mass murder of muslims and jews.
Let’s be very clear: I’m not trying to defend the french conception of “free speech”. But north-american writers should nonetheless try to understand that some things cannot be legitimately accepted in countries that have had a very dark history of state antisemitism and participation in the jewish genocide. That history, whether we like or not, has left deep scars.
Side note: apparently, Dieudonné has recently converted to Islam but he’s not very vocal about it. From my perspective, it is very odd to define him as a muslim comedian, because this never really had anything to do with his activism.
Not sure why my first email was not posted – trying to set the record straight on Olivier Cyran statement on CH: There was a response issued by a muslim female journalist on CH staff regarding claimed racism: http://www.cercledesvolontaires.fr/2013/12/22/si-charlie-hebdo-est-raciste-alors-je-le-suis-reponse-de-zineb-el-rhazoui-a-olivier-cyran/
“To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.” (Isaac Asimov)
Pedinska Cindy
Dieudo isn’t muslim. 100% ignorant thread, comments, and article.
J. J.
Hello Mr. Greenwald,
Thank you for highlighting this. It’s interesting that I haven’t heard a peep “free speech advocates” at many of the mainstream outlets. It seems like they adopt the “free speech is free unless we don’t like you” motto.
On another note, what three sources of information (websites, papers, magazines) would you recommend if someone doesn’t want to be misinformed and deceived.
The Charlie Hebdo attack finally set Valls free to do what he had long dreamed of.
That is option 1.
Following last wednesday’s events, Dieudonné received very credible death threats, which, if materialized, might unleash a small civil war. So, in order not to lose face, considering his previous stances on the comedian, Valls granted him this form of “protective custody”, in which case the charges will vanish as soon as things return to normal, if they ever do.
In both cases, his fans will make a lot of noise…
Hans Bavinck ghost0
Interesting take. Personally I think the French PM felt he had to reassure the anguished Jewish community by taking some strong action, and what better target than Dieudonné against whom Valls has a personal vendetta? But this will blow up in his face because I can’t see the court accepting the blown-up charges. Valls is once again showing his true colors as the left’s Sarkozy. I hope Montebourg beats the sh*t out of him in the 2017 socialist primaries.
PS I intensely dislike Dieudonné whom I once had the misfortune to meet; this was when I was part of a collective that squated the former prefecture in Toulouse, and Dieudonné showed up to steal the limelight. His arrogance, disdain for anyone who was not a television celebrity and indifference to the local reality were astounding. He wasn’t antisemitic back then, but became so when he couldn’t get the funding for a six-hour documentary on slavery. Instead of admitting that he had no documentary-making credentials, he blamed it on the Jews, and ever since he’s been locked into that role as his former public was replaced by a new, revisionist one. Nonetheless, even I have to admit that the tweet he was arrested for was not in any way an incitement to violence and should not have been sanctioned.
ghost0 Hans Bavinck
You’re right about several things :
a/ his ego : you just have to take a look at his Facebook page to understand how much he thinks everything revolves around him.
b/ the documentary project : I wasn’t there when he went to see some producers to get it financed. I don’t know what they answered (Did they indeed say only the Hlocaust was a subject of interest ?), but he sure blamed it on the Jewish community very quickly. The problem is Jewishness has become an obsession to him, in his online videos and in all his shows since then.
In the past, other stand-up comedians made fun of Jews (and even the Holocaust) in a much more subtle (yet ferocious) way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWMYDhIzvkI
Note that, nowadays, anti-anti-Semitism lobbies would have those banned too, as one A. Jakubowicz, president of LICRA, told a reporter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZGL18nG24c
c/ These are trumped up charges (which, by the way, are not “incitement to violence”, but “praising terrorism”), and everyone, government included, knows it. That’s why there might be more to it. You said it yourself : some within the French Jewish community are scared. But others within that same community (the JDL, for instance) have been ready for the clash for a long time. As Dieudonné is a bit of a “tête brûlée” (a hothead), he would probably have accentuated provocations in the coming days, giving Jewish extremists a “reason” to act. What Charbonnier, Charlie’s late editor in chief, said (“I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.”), Dieudonné reiterated multiple times…
Of course I agree with most of what you have said, but I think you have been pretty dismissive of Dieudonne, and your link to his noxious statements provides essentially nothing except another journalist’s opinion. If you have the time, you might be interested in this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyAdgwji7i8
As for the “quenelle”, it’s obvious that this gesture can be interpreted any way you like depending on how you form it, which is probably the intention : The ambiguity of the gesture provides a way to express anti-semitism in a secretive way, and this is why people like Levy are so upset. This is precisely the kind of point you have been making about the cartoons so I’m sort of surprised that you have glossed over it.
I believe to characterize Charlie Hebdo as “obsessively anti-Muslim bigotry” is a misrepresentation of what they are. Admittedly, I do not read Charlie Hebdo, but here is the article on which my belief is based: http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/olivier-tonneau/110115/charlie-hebdo-letter-my-british-friends . Furthermore, I did see their cartoon showing a graphic sexual threesome between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which I’d imagine is quite offensive to Christians. So I do believe that they were rather firmly anti-religion rather than anti-Muslim in particular. A lot of their cartoons mock not even Muslims but extremist Muslims, as in the the new Charlie Hebdo cover, where Muhammad himself is shown in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo. The message of that as I see it is that Muhammad would not have approved of the murderers.
Incitement to violence is a crime in many places, and this does not seem in general unreasonable to me, but what seems clear is that the boundaries to the freedom of speech are more subtle than Glenn Greenwald believes (or appears to from this article — I am not a regular reader). I think that the arrest of Dieudonné is a bit excessive, but where that boundary should lie is not immediately intuitively clear. What if he had said he approved of the terrorists? What if he had said to all his viewers “Go and be terrorists”? What if he were at the head of a mob inflaming passion and leading them into murder or lynching (without committing it)? I am sure that many very clever people have thought about these questions, and I do plead ignorance as to their answers, but I believe that somewhere there a line can be reasonably drawn between what should be allowed and what not. The difference is that some speech does incite violence and some does not. Perhaps that Fox news commentator should have been in trouble instead, while Charlie Hebdo cartoons certainly do not incite violence.
I must agree with Mona. I wish the western media had republished the cartoons in solidarity, and I do believe they didn’t out of fear. Islam is an idea and ideas can be wrong. A great way to show that an idea is wrong is to ridicule it to pieces. That is what free speech is for: to winnow ideas. But inciting violence or hate? I do not have the absolute faith of Glenn Greenwald (and I guess many people here) that this is within the purpose of free speech. I do support free speech to a great degree just because I fear slippery slopes. The US seems to be doing alright without prohibitions against hate speech, but it does have some laws against inciting violence.
I recently read a book called the Lucifer Effect. It studies “how good people turn evil.” And it describes an inevitable spiral into evil in Zimbardo’s prison experiment. First you put some people into positions of power over others, then you take the victims and you deindividuate, then you dehumanize, and lo what you you get is torture and debasement and even violence. That inevitability is terrifying, and this makes free speech scary, since if the media conspire (and they can, all being owned by the same guys), they can pick a minority (and minorities are already usually in positions of less power), deinvididuate them (“they’re all the same anyway”), then dehumanize (“they’re just like animals”), and then what you’ll get (inexorably, according to Zimbardo) is evil. Real evil created by free speech. So to sum up, I think free speech is dangerous not because it can be offensive (a rather trivial thing) but because it can lead to dehumanization and persecutions. And then there are also consequences to banning free speech, so free speech, which seems so obvious to many people, seems instead very subtle to me.
Alpha X
Great Work Glenn!!
Many countries have limits on freedom of speech, freedom of expression etc…Freedom of expression in USA or France or Germany does not allow anybody to demonstrate fully naked in front of the White House, the Assemblee Nationale or the Bundestag. Because of their history some countries do have some limits on freedom of speech. Germany has, in my opinion, a valid reason to limit freedom of speech when it come to Nazi propaganda. Maybe the German society aims at limiting the capability of Nazis to recruit young individuals (even teenagers) because of the great damages they did in the past. The same applies to France when it comes to incitement to violence. However, this is Mr Greenwald in action. As a lawyer he clearly understands that they will be limits to freedom of speech or expression but he has to disregard the validity of these limits to maintain his popularity among his crowd. Mr Greenwald is very good at distorting the truth as well. He attempts to portray CH as an anti Muslim newspaper while CH has history of bashing everybody specifically the extreme right wing party Front Nationale, which has made it clear there is “a Muslim problem” in France.
I have a question for you Mr Greenwald. I doubt you read it the first time because your moderator has not published my comments for awhile. Is it better for the Judiciary to stop a parent who is instilling the idea of violence to his/her child at a young age or to stop the child when he/she is well armed in Syria or Iraq and killing others?
Part of the problem is that many in the modern age have no concept of personal or cultural dignity whatever, and think being gratuitously offensive is a precious part and parcel of the civilized world – so while it is obvious that no one should be punished for non-violently challenging orthodoxies generally, actual loathsome contempt for others (that is indeed felt as such by traditionalists, including the majority of peaceful ones) – can sneak in under this supposedly progressive wire and cause waves of distress in a community.
For many traditionalists across the world, “Oppression is more easily endured than insult” (Junius), and the feeling of being disgraced feels like something almost intolerable – even if this angry resistance to the insult can ultimately be overcome in the average person by calming down and finding some kind of perspective.
For my part, I think it is a shame society has degraded to the point of promoting inflammatory, gratuitous offense at all ( and this is outside the fact that the State will take advantage of this “liberty” as Greenwald points out), but in some ways I’m a very old-fashioned 24 year old.
When liberty become license, it loses its moral authority in my view
liberalrob Cindy
For my part, I think it is a shame society has degraded to the point of promoting inflammatory, gratuitous offense at all
It has always been thus. People suck. The tragedy and shame is that we have not succeeded in extirpating that impulse in ourselves, despite millennia of “civilization” and innumerable wars over which fairy story gets you through the night.
Cindy liberalrob
I believe egotism and the (erroneously) perceived need to be seen as ‘correct’ has worsened with the confusion of liberty with license.
Your reduction of all supernaturalism to ‘fairy stories’ is understandable, but do you care at all that it insults, for example, me? (I’m Zen Buddhist)
suave Cindy
(I’m Zen Buddhist)
In Training??
re: “Nic, seriously, you are either a fucking idiot or an estranged establishmentarian.”
The Eightfold Path..
3. The Right Speech
‘Buddha asks his followers to speak truth, to avoid slander and malicious gossip and to refrain from abusive language. Harsh words that can cause distress or offend others should also be avoided..’
Very much ‘in training’! My teacher said unless I lose my bad temper I won’t understand anything, and told me to work through my issues with politics with those I respect, and then come back to him. So here I am!
By the way, Zen is a little less precept-obsessed than other forms of Buddhism.
I am very ashamed of my insults of others, if it means anything to you, but in my defense (!) I ‘ve only tried above all else to be honest, and suppressing my temper is probably worse than exposing and undoing it in this way, of which you are a part.
…do you care at all that it insults, for example, me?
Not really, no; I get insulted all the time and nobody cares, why should you be exempt? “Supernaturalism” insults my intelligence. It belongs in comic books, not public policy analysis. I’m sorry you feel I’m insulting you when I say that but that’s my opinion. Religious beliefs are based on irrational, unprovable assumptions that all too often are self-serving; and religious differences are one of the primary causes for violence in the world. All over which fairy story written 2000 years ago by men long dead you believe to be true. It’s ridiculous.
bonneville liberalrob
liberal rob, you don’t even get that 2015 is still the Dark Ages; you even sophistically and irrationally suggest that wars, etc. somehow disprove the existence of the Creator.
(While Ptolemy counted 1,056, Tycho Brahe cataloged 777, and Johannes Kepler counted 1,005):
“That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;” –Genesis 22:17
PaulRB bonneville
Sure, quoting the bible will win a lot of non-believers to your side. Sure. Ain’t it great to live within your religious bubble? (where truth and reality is outside the bubble. Maybe the bible should be called the bubble.)
liberalrob bonneville
Yummy word salad…
AAC Cindy
The well-bought up person in me agrees with you. But the thinking person in me says when does liberty become license? Who decides where the line is – a governing body (national or international?), a religion (whose?), a belief system (whose?), gender(whose?), class(whose?), ethic group(whose?) cultural mores (whose?), manners (whose?), a censorship board? Better people learn that one can only be insulted if one chooses to be – that is freedom.
TheScaleman
Why would a used 166 page paperback book cost so much? Has this book been banned by the USA govenment?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1468094580/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all
leek TheScaleman
Amazon allows third-party sellers to use software to automatically outbid each others’ prices, causing them to go up like that spontaneously.
That particular book is free with Kindle Unlimited.
Greg Gibbs
You guys censor comments. I made two, no swearing, not insulting, not published. Cannot find my name on a page search. Really?
Kitt Greg Gibbs
You guys censor comments. I made two, no swearing, not insulting, not published. Cannot find my name on a page search. Really? –Greg Gibbs
No, not “really.” You have two other comments on this thread other than the one that I’m replying to.
Steb Kitt
Since the Intercept staff never explains why so many comments are missing, then commentators have to assume that moderators just censor them. None of my comments for the last ten days have been published. I will be surprise if this one gets published.
-Mona- Greg Gibbs
There’s no censorship to speak of here. Certainly not for naughty words or viewpoint. Sometimes comments, especially from new accounts, get stuck in the filter and have to be released by management.
bonneville -Mona-
Not only is there censorship here to speak of, there’s also removal of clean, effective, pointed commentary. At least one of even Glenn’s was removed earlier last summer–somehow, some how–after a short response to the at-least-three-paragraph post. Later, only a weeks ago, wasn’t there also conversation in the threads that another one of his disappeared?
-Mona- bonneville
“Removal” of commentary is that on one occasion Glenn deleted his own comment within seconds of posting it. It’s his comment; he’s entitled. At some sites everyone has that option for 10 minutes to an hour. You can at Twitter.
As for others, you have been banned here 3-4 times, and the bonneville account is gonna go too, if your volume of lunacy creeps back up. Rants about the Illuminati, Brother Nathanael’s madness, how Hitler was a leftist & etc., that Occupy is some Stalinist plot blah, blah blah… that shit Glenn tolerates only in limited quantity. You frequently exceed his limits, and no doubt will again.
We know that an in-excess-of-three-paragraph comment of his disappeared minutes after I posted a brief response to it in early summer. That’s 1 right there. Then there was a commotion in a thread a few weeks ago where people were wondering where a GG comment disappeared to.
Then there was an NPR thread in the same summer where a confederate of yours is wailing into thin air at a phantom commentator; then there was removal of TheIntercept.com comment archives (used to prove commentator quotes) very shortly thereafter.
Then there’s Mona, who thinks someone who joins a German Workers Party, then forms a Sozialisten movement, somehow really wasn’t (but was actually convincing conservatives to be “Socialist”)–while she also sees history repeat itself where progressive-leftist descendents yet again attempt to rewrite sympathizer history after the embarrassing fact by claiming that Obama’s “under the radar” gun-control promoting to Sarah Brady, and his workers-permit granting to 5 million illegal aliens, and his partnership with the SEIU on compulsory health care insurance law participation–and his repeated WH meetings with that leadership as well as with Al Sharpton–and Salon’s Joan Walsh’s gushing and singing his praises, and the Guardian’s consistently sympathetic portraits of him, are actually starkly right wing.
I never claimed Occupy was a Stalinist “plot,” or even Stalinist; rather I claimed it was hapless, immature, aimless, vacuous, and socialist.
You’re even fully aware of the Intercept’s legacy of commentator post redaction under new editorship early last year.
feline16 -Mona-
Mona and Bonneville –
“No censorship here?” I’m not so sure. I have tried repeatedly to post a link first in one thread, then three times in Jeremy Scahill’s first Charile Hebdo related post – twice to attempt to reply to Bonneville, tnen once as a stand alone post. None have shown up. I just tried to post to Jeremy’s latest post to post the same link, but that hasn’t shown up either, and my reply to Hans, written a bit after that – on this thread – has indeed shown up.
I’m not sure what other conclusion I can draw.
-Mona- feline16
It’s not censorship. There is a certain name I cannot – not even using Tor – post here in comments. Instead of typing “name,” I must type “[email protected]” if I want it to post. This makes no sense, and TI hasn’t done anything to forbid using this name.
In addition, yesterday I tried to post a comment with 3 links again — never saw the light of day.
The commenting software sucks, and Glenn is promising that very soon, wunnerful new replacement comes.
suave feline16
`felinesixteencandles..
`Mo makes a valid point w/ respect to this archaic commentating software being the culprit. One cannot be 100% sure whether or not posts are legitimately being discarded, but it is of my humble opinion that this is not the case. Having perused Mr. Greenwald’s hallowed-halls since 2010, I can respectfully state that it is a rarity when an individual’s contributions get ‘moderated’ (Although, he has been known to ‘change his mind’ on the rare occasion.. happy face) I can also vouch for the fact that you are also given numerous chances to politely refrain from abusing the privilege before actually getting bounced..
feline16 suave
Hi Mona and suave –
Well, I get that the commenting software is pretty bad, but I still find it VERY strange that none of those posts has shown up – across three different threads. I think the problem with the first two may have been I mistakenly had two links n it. But not the rest. And all were trying to post the SAME link. Did I misspell my e-mail that many times?
If it wasn’t repeated attempts to post the same thing, it’d be much easier to dismiss as just software problems.
CraigSummers
Mr. Greenwald
“……The apparently criminal viewpoint he posted on Facebook declared: “Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.” Investigators concluded that this was intended to mock the “Je Suis Charlie” slogan and express support for the perpetrator of the Paris supermarket killings (whose last name was “Coulibaly”)…..”
This was a “kosher” market. Jews were targeted for political assassination, Mr. Greenwald. Coulibaly went to that market for one reason – to murder Jews. JEWS, Mr. Greenwald (just in case you missed that in the news).
“…….It is certainly true that many of Dieudonné’s views and statements are noxious, although he and his supporters insist that they are “satire” and all in good humor…..”
Really? Mocking targeted and murdered Jews is in “good humor”? You cannot dignify hate any better than that.
Interestingly enough, your partner, Scahill, posted an article which also fails to acknowledge the targeting and murder of the Jews in Paris (although he did – probably by mistake – note that the market is “kosher”):
“…….“I support what Umar Farouk has done after I have been seeing my brothers being killed in Palestine for more than sixty years……” (Awlaki)
This is a classic case of blaming the victim – but par for the course for the Intercept. The Intercept has become a propaganda bonanza for Islamic terrorists.
Finally, I have not looked back on the arrests of Dieudonné, but he does not appear to be violent or a threat to anyone. It makes no more sense to arrest him for any of his hate driven rhetoric than to arrest David Duke for his.
That’s some real funny stuff, Mr. Greenwald.
Guy CraigSummers
It’s about as much in good humor as Charlie Hebdo’s cover mocking dead Egyptian protesters (http://p1cdn01.thewrap.com/images/2015/01/Charle-Hebdo-2.jpg). Shove your double standard up your ass.
Craig goes totally mental:
You Zionist fruitloop, Scahill is reporting on AQAP and it’s taking responsibility for the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices. Since it disclaims any responsibility for the attack at the kosher market, Scahill reported that, too.
The Intercept has become a propaganda bonanza for Islamic terrorists.
You are so unhinged on authoritarianism and Zionism, you literally cannot think straight.
I’m thinking all too clearly. If you don’t want me to accuse you of promoting propaganda then don’t post propaganda – like Awlaki’s heartfelt story of the Palestinians – after a terrorist attack that targeted innocent Jews at a kosher market. Who wouldn’t accuse Scahill of blaming the victim in that case (well, except you)? It’s all in the timing – and they understand exactly what they are writing. That’s the first I have seen by Scahill (I think), but it wasn’t very impressive.
If you don’t want me to accuse you of promoting propaganda then don’t post propaganda – like Awlaki’s heartfelt story of the Palestinians – after a terrorist attack that targeted innocent Jews at a kosher market.
Craig you lunatic, it’s not all about Israel all the time. Scahill is reporting on the AQAP claims, and reports that Awlaki is somehow involved in current events. So, Scahill is reporting what is known about Awlaki in terms of any operational role in anything. WTF else should Scahill be doing, you deluded freak?
Scahill has had a great scoop, but all you note is a quote about Palestine within a very long post that is one of Scahill’s several on AQAP and Paris matters. UNHINGED.
rrheard -Mona-
@ Mona,
Craig isn’t a lunatic. My guess is paid hasbarist. His schtick is too well honed, too consistent in its method, and too focused generally on a single issue. My guess is he’s paid to post here given the frequency and regularity with which he criticizes almost every single piece by Glenn. He wouldn’t be the first of Glenn’s critics who appeared to fit the bill of paid hasbarist.
rrheard is correct Mona. I’m not a lunatic, but as I have told you since day one a couple of years ago, the fringe left is obsessed with Israel. If Scahill thinks that mentioning: “….I [Awlaki] support what Umar Farouk has done after I have been seeing my brothers being killed in Palestine for more than sixty years….” will distract from his broader point, then he shouldn’t mention it, should he? However, I fully believe that this IS Scahill’s broader point i.e., the moral of his story – especially coming on the heels of a targeted attack to murder Jews in Paris. This ain’t rocket science Mona.
By the way, I have asked my Jewish handlers for a significant raise – or I begin to support the Intercept. That should scare ’em!
-Mona- -Mona-
However, I fully believe that this IS Scahill’s broader point i.e., the moral of his story – especially coming on the heels of a targeted attack to murder Jews in Paris. This ain’t rocket science Mona.
Yes, because rr is wrong: you are unhinged. You are insanely paranoid and obsessed with the notion the Glenn, Jeremy & others are out to get the Jews. Jeremy’s not reporting a great scoop on and from AQAP, no, he’s attacking HEBREWS!!!!!
Kitt -Mona-
“By the way, I have asked my Jewish handlers for a significant raise – or I begin to support the Intercept.”
Even your sense of what you try to present as humor is as interesting as watching a cow chew cud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRHcEQYBQPw
Even you ought to be able to understand the propaganda emanating from Scahill and Greenwald. It’s constant. In Greenwald’s last article concerning the Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris, Greenwald writes:
“…..In particular, the west has spent years bombing, invading and occupying Muslim countries and killing, torturing and lawlessly imprisoning innocent Muslims, and anti-Muslim speech has been a vital driver in sustaining support for those policies…..”
Islamists attack us for revenge. How many fucking times have we seen that same post by Greenwald even as he ignores the brutality of Muslim on Muslim violence? So when Scahill posts the same BS concerning Awlaki’s opinion of Israel, it is clearly written to promote the same kind of propaganda. It’s Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians which “justifies” the murder of Jews in Paris. It has no bearing whether those particular Jewish people are even Zionists. It’s simply justified because they are Jews. That’s enough. Collective punishment of all Jews is justified. What could be more obvious than that Mona?
Greenwald cannot even bring himself to condemn the attack on the Jews – or even mention that it happened because Scahill and Greenwald think exactly alike on that issue. It’s a little like showing a dead Palestinian teenager at the head of an article while leaving off a dead Jewish infant. It’s pathetic, but he has never done anything to change my mind on this issue.
It has no bearing whether those particular Jewish people are even Zionists. It’s simply justified because they are Jews. That’s enough. Collective punishment of all Jews is justified. What could be more obvious than that Mona?
What is obvious is how unhinged a brain on Zionism is. Everybody with a double digit IQ, Craig, grasps that Muslims have a particular bone to pick with the Jewish state. The State for Jews. The State that says it is for ALL Jews.
This bone does not revolve around bogus Protocols and feverish banking conspiracies. No, this bone has to do with actual attack and land theft, ethnic cleansing, open air prisons and maintenance of an apartheid state, all enforced with a world class military partly paid for by the United States. It has to do with the deaths of 500+ Palestinian kids last summer.
That kind of thing is going to drive a small subset of young (Arab) males to murderous militancy. In the world of young men this has pretty much always been true.
Let me put it this way Mona – to stay on point. Greenwald is shockingly indifferent to violence directed at Jews.
Jay -Mona-
Glen Greenwald articulating the spectrum of violence against a broad swath of humanity and condemning it, rather than picking your “favorites” for special attention, makes him indifferent toward The Jews? Seriously? So, it you don’t select the Jews for special treatment every time violence happens, you are indifferent to the Jews?
Condemning violence includes condemning violence against the Jews as well as violence by the Jews – and every other “special” group. You seem to want to cherry pick and have the position of “the most favored super special category”. Your favorites do not have to be the center of everything!!
Gator90 -Mona-
@Mona – Israel may say it is for all Jews (free speech, right?), but it is not. It sure as hell ain’t for me.
@ Craig:
Greenwald is shockingly indifferent to violence directed at Jews.
Bullshit and a lie. Glenn as been universal, if my memory is correct, in consistently condemning all violence against any innocent civilians anywhere.
What you mean by “shockingly indifferent” is that he doesn’t by into your hasbarist propaganda that requires that if anyone is to be critical of any nation’s (or group’s) actions anywhere then they must be critical of all nation’s actions equally and at the same time. What it also fails to account for is differences in the moral quality of the justifications for, scale/degree and form of violence (i.e. history, imperialism, economic hegemony, political disenfranshisement . . .) and relative power differentials between parties.
You of course are clearly smart enough to understand these distinctions in Greenwald’s work which is why of course your critiques are generally ideologically blinkered pure unadulterated illogical hasbarist bullshit.
And if you were at all a moral and honest interlocutor on this subject you would understand that notwithstanding the fact there is “plenty of blame to go around” for the I/P conflict, it is Israel that seems capable of justifying any amount of Palestinian revenge or “security enhancing” deaths for every single Israeli killed. In fact Israel has killed Palestinian civilians at a rate of about somewhere between 7 and 15 to 1 for every Israeli “civilian” killed (although this is a bit of a misnomer since the vast majority of Israelis are/were active IDF members or reservists).
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/14/5898581/chart-israel-palestine-conflict-deaths
What Israel is doing, and has been doing to Palestinians for decades, is cowardly and morally repugnant. Israel is under no ‘existential threat’ from anyone in the Middle East (or any group of Middle East nations) so long as America is in its corner and Israel possesses the atomic bomb. And that reality will continue until such time as Israel has alienated the entire world because of its actions, with the American people falling last naturally as we did with South Africa’s apartheid regime.
So the question becomes, when will the nation of Israel stop shitting its pants (at a threat that is lower per year to Israeli civilians than Americans dying due to their cars striking deer (since 2000–78 Israelis (civilian/military combined) on average die per due to the I/P conflict while 200 Americans die per year striking deer with their cars)), give back some of what they stole, and stop bombing the living fuck out of a defenseless people with no organized military who “fight back” against Israel’s actions with homemade weapons and rocks?
It’s a compliment for you to refer to me as a “paid hasbarist”. After all, Greenwald is a paid “hasbarist” for issues that are important to him.
“……What you mean by “shockingly indifferent” is that he doesn’t b[u]y into your hasbarist propaganda that requires that if anyone is to be critical of any nation’s (or group’s) actions anywhere then they must be critical of all nation’s actions equally and at the same time…..”
I didn’t bring up Israel in my comments. I brought up “Jewish” people – the ones targeted for murder by Islamists. They were – as I keep saying – targeted for one reason – and that is because they are Jewish. There is a difference between Israel and Jews. Some Jews may not be Zionist and many Jews don’t support the policies of Israel in Gaza or the West Bank. Targeting all Jews for the policies of Israel is collective punishment and despite what Mona says – is unsupportable. We would certainly not support the murder of Muslims in Indonesia (or anywhere) for the creation of Kosovo.
What made the actions by the “comedian, Dieudonné” so offensive was by supporting the murderer, Coulibaly, he specifically supported the targeting and murder of Jews – which had nothing to do with mocking the prophet.
Greenwald never even mentioned that Jews were the target of the murder by Coulibaly, even going so far to mention how:
“….[Dieudonné] his supporters insist that they are “satire” and all in good humor. In that regard, the controversy they provoke is similar to the now-much-beloved Charlie Hebdo cartoons (one French leftist insists the cartoonists were mocking rather than adopting racism and bigotry….”.
Dieudonné (the “comedian”) was not mocking anything. He was supporting murder. Where is the humor? Greenwald is not only callous and indifferent toward the murder of Jewish people, he is calculating. This same argument can be applied to Scahill who did what is a chicken-shit way of addressing an issue for Intercept staff. He hid behind a quote by Awlaki (an advocate of murder of a Seattle cartoonist):
Of course, this represents the most cowardly of inferences – blame the victims.
Thanks (I got this in the wrong spot the first attempt)
Thanks Kit
I found your video entertaining with a good political message…..eat more chicken.
CraigSummers CraigSummers
altohone CraigSummers
“investigators concluded” is the problem.
“I feel like Charlie Coulibaly” doesn’t imply mocking of one and support for the other, or support for one and mocking of the other… and certainly doesn’t say either directly.
The interpretation chosen by the investigators (with probable influence by a politician) is laughable.
They are reading into it something that isn’t there.
On a side note, the AP article about his arrest didn’t even include the FB statement (a curious omission) that supposedly (not at all) shows support for the terrorists, but swallowed the conclusions of the investigators hook, line and sinker… just like you Craig.
Your choosing to be outraged at the investigators interpretation of what he wrote makes sense, since what he actually wrote doesn’t justify it… nor arrest.
CraigSummers altohone
“……“I feel like Charlie Coulibaly” doesn’t imply mocking of one and support for the other, or support for one and mocking of the other… and certainly doesn’t say either directly. The interpretation chosen by the investigators (with probable influence by a politician) is laughable…..”
Only if you are not a Jew. His history of antisemitism is irreconcilable with your “interpretation”. And his timing was impeccable. Should he be arrested? Not in my opinion based on what I know.
“Only if you’re not a Jew”?
Are you using a different dictionary?
From his comments I’ve seen so far (see above by JLocke), they weren’t anti-Semitic, so his “irreconcilable history” is suspect.
Of course, I haven’t seen or read everything he has done, but the examples offered thus far to support the claim do not do so.
Let’s see the quotes that support your claim.
The guy may be a jerk who isn’t very funny and thus delves into controversial and provocative material for self-aggrandizement, but that again is different than being anti-Semitic.
I appreciate your reply. I’ve copied the opening couple of paragraphs from Wikipedia:
“…….On 1 December 2003, Dieudonné performed a sketch on a TV show about an Israeli settler whom he depicted as a Nazi. Some critics argued that he had “crossed the limits of antisemitism” and several organizations sued him for incitement to racial hatred. Dieudonné refused to apologize and denounced Zionism and the Jewish lobby.[3]
Dieudonné approached Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the National Front political party that he had fought earlier, and the men became political allies and friends.[4] Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson appeared in one of his shows in 2008.[5][6] Dieudonné described Holocaust remembrance as “memorial pornography”.[7] Dieudonné was convicted in court eight times on antisemitism charges.[8][9] Dieudonné subsequently found himself with increasing frequency banned from mainstream media, and many of his shows were cancelled by local authorities.[5][10][11][12][13][14] Active on the internet and in his Paris theater, Dieudonné has continued to have a following.[15] His quenelle signature gesture became notorious in 2013, particularly after footballer Nicolas Anelka used the gesture during a match in December 2013. His recent appearances and videos are often rants in which the “Jewish lobby” and “Israel lobby” are characterised as controlling things.[16]
After Dieudonné was recorded during a performance mocking a Jewish journalist, suggesting it was a pity that he was not sent to the gas chambers,[17] French Interior Minister Manuel Valls stated that Dieudonné was “no longer a comedian” but was rather an “anti-Semite and racist” and that he would seek to ban all Dieudonné’s public gatherings as a public safety risk.[18] The ban on his shows has been upheld by French courts.[19]……”
Clearly Dieudonné is a nutcase with a history of anti-Jewish bigotry. His statement of support for Coulibaly was crass and callous. It apparently reflects his desire to see Jews murdered. Yea, he is an antisemite.
altohone altohone
Opinions from others are not “quotes”, and are little better than “investigators interpreted”. The one quote provided “memorial pornography” falls into a similar category as above… jerk.
The guilt by association angle is problematic as well.
The illegal Israeli territorial expansionism, the ethnic cleansing to make space for settlements, and the propaganda campaigns to justify it all do bear a striking resemblance as well.
If he was convicted 8 times, what did he say that led to those convictions?
And again, repeating the “interpretation” as a “statement of support” doesn’t make it true. Nor your conclusions about it.
And since you admit that you don’t think he should have been arrested for his recent comment, I have to question the previous legal proceedings. Maybe even you wouldn’t think they were justified.
I can be convinced, but not by you being convinced.
Personally, so you understand where I’m coming from, I see Israel as a fait accompli… a done deal… so railing against Zionism is for the delusional.
However, I do denounce the proponents of Greater Israel, settlements on Palestinian land contrary to law, other Israeli policies and the actions of the Jewish lobby… all of which harms both America and Israel in my opinion … and none of that makes me anti-Semitic.
PaulRB CraigSummers
Anyone who kills because they are offended by something should be killed IMMEDIATELY in retaliation. Plain and simple. That goes for Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc. All this other nonsense you’ve written is fine and dandy if it isn’t immediately preceded by a MASS KILLING. The MASS KILLING negates all your arguments.
Hans Bavinck CraigSummers
Dieudonné himself explained his statement as meaning “I am a satirist (Charlie) but also often accused of bad things (Coulibaly)”. That is not incoherent. The French authorities are basically prosecuting him not for support of terrorism, but of saying something that could be (mis)interpreted as such.
He’s an awful guy but his arrest for this one is shameful and I’d be very surprised if the court doesn’t throw the case out.
harry law
Professor Norman Finkelstein had this excellent analogy on his blog…
The Nazi publication Der Sturmer, edited by Julius Streicher, was notorious for its obscene anti-Semitic caricatures.
Imagine if a pair of Jewish brothers, distraught at the death and destruction that had befallen the Jewish people, barged into the newspaper’s offices and murdered members of its staff.
Would we hold up as martyrs and heroes those who chose to mock the deeply held beliefs of a suffering and despised people; to degrade, demean, insult and humiliate Jews in their hour of trial, when the world they had known was disintegrating around them?
Imagine if a million Berliners turned out to mourn the political pornographers.
Would we applaud this display of solidarity?
Streicher was sentenced to death in the Nuremberg Trial.
It is not reported that many in the enlightened West shed tears.
Beth Leary
So grateful for your refreshing voice of truth. It is a lighthouse in an ocean of lies. Please stay safe.
treea
I have never read a more compelling and intellectually indisputable article in my life. You have opened my eyes to the disgusting and ever horrifying realisations of the oppressive nature of the Muslim community at the hands of our world leaders. Witnessing the socialisation they are forcing on people that hating Muslim people is okay is despicable and they need to be put in their place and held accountable. In years to come this whole Muslim repression will become, in its own way, the next holocaust. Innocent lives lost at the hands of leaders who deem them unworthy.
barncat
Greenwald then and now
The main issue that is raised by the attack on Charlie Hedbo is self-censorship, and therefore freedom of speech. Dean Baquet, for example, decided not to publish the CH cartoons, even though he considered them newsworthy, because of safety concerns (as well as a general unwillingness to offend Muslims). The point of publishing the cartoons in “solidarity” was for publishers to encourage each other to rise above this (reasonable) fear. Greenwald argues that the solidarity action wasn’t really about freedom of speech because no one calls for solidarity when an antisemitic or Muslim speaker is persecuted or prosecuted for their speech.
The key point is that Greenwald is denying the significance of the distinction between fear of violence and fear of other consequences that cause self-censorship. From the previous column:
But there are all kinds of pernicious taboos in the west that result in self-censorship or compelled suppression of political ideas, from prosecution and imprisonment to career destruction: why is violence by Muslims the most menacing one?
That should be the main argument, but Greenwald is further insisting that the distinction between violent and non-violent consequences is really a cover for anti-Muslim bias, and this is made clear by his reading of Douthat, Chait and Yglesias. They are explicitly defending CH because of the deadly attack against it, and Greenwald insists on using this as evidence of bias:
In fact, Douthat, Chait and Yglesias all took pains to expressly note that they were only calling for publication of such offensive ideas in the limited case where violence is threatened or perpetrated in response (by which they meant in practice, so far as I can tell: anti-Islam speech).
So, on this occasion when eight journalists were murdered (by Muslims), and US publishers are fearful of publishing the images that provoked the murders, Greenwald is choosing to make the issue anti-Muslim bias rather than self-censorship and freedom of speech. That’s the difference between the Greenwald of today and 2006/7.
Is consistent application of free speech principles essential to freedom on speech? Yes. But the only way to show that the CH solidarity advocates are being inconsistent is to challenge the violent/non-violent distinction. And to do that it isn’t necessary to accuse them of bias. It really comes down to the question of what constitutes “self-censorship” and what are its main causes. That is, if one is primarily concerned with freedom of speech instead of protecting Muslims against bias.
barncat barncat
Margaret Sullivan wrote today about Dean Baquet’s decision not to publish the new Charlie Hedbo cover. She had this to say about his previous decision not to publish the cartoons:
Mr. Baquet made a tough call, which included safety concerns for Times staff, especially those in international posts. (Those concerns are far from frivolous; just days ago, a German newspaper’s office was firebombed after it published the cartoons following the attack, and now new concerns have arisen about reprisals.)
CraigSummers barncat
That’s a great comment.
barncat CraigSummers
Boss Beak barncat
You comment seems to presume that Muslims do not have to fear violence. The West has has had no issues condoning and perpetrating, at the state level, violence against the Islamic world for the last 60 years (more likely the last 1300).
The crux of Mr. Greenwald’s argument is condoning speech that singles out one social group while condemning speech against another is /not/ free speech, merely a confirmation and perpetuation of existing bias. Though there may be an issue of self-censorship, there is also a very cynical double-standard as demonstrated by Dieudonné’s arrest.
Caleb Powell
Terrorist sympathizer Glenn Greenwald. .Figures.
“That’s because “free speech,” in the hands of many westerners, actually means: it is vital that the ideas I like be protected, and the right to offend groups I dislike be cherished; anything else is fair game.”
I think you have far less evidence than you may think to publish such a generalisation and I predict this opinion of yours will have very little credibility among reasonable people. Think of an opinion or an idea and you will find Facebook groups, organisations, and even political parties in the “West” who support it and discuss it freely.
To call Dieudonne’s views noxious is an understatement. This is a man who promotes the most vile conspiracy theories against the Jews, links them with the French establishment, and thus creates a dangerous atmosphere which informs opinions of people like Coulibaly.
“[The march] (to call it a celebration is an ugly and unjust spin on the event) was at least as much about approval for their anti-Muslim messages as it was about the free speech rights that were invoked in their support – at least as much.”
I think you intentionally confuse approval of their right to write an anti-Muslim message as approval for their anti-Muslim message. Again this is your opinion, unsupported by even one shred of evidence in your article. Their messages were also anti-Jewish and anti-Christian which you fail to emphasise with as much vigour.
“western countries like France have been bringing violence for so long to Muslims in their countries that I now believe it’s justifiable to bring violence to France as a means of making them stop?” A false equivalence. Saying something is justifiable is quite different from glorifying a terrorist or his actions, and more so different if the glorifier is a public figure with a criminal record for promoting and inciting hatred against a disfavoured group (which you belong to Mr. Greenwald but seem to disfavour).
““Shock and Awe” slogan signifying an intent to terrorize the civilian population”
Signifying that according to your own opinion to help drive your point. It could also be interpreted as terrorizing the terrorists.
How real is the “Nazi” allegation about the “quenelle” anyway? Reading Wikipedia it sounds to me like it’s more a variation on the old American hand-on-raised bicep gesture for “fisting”, and I’m not inclined to take a French prosecutor’s word for anything right now.
Paul D Wnt
Agreed. The quenelle is just the French version of the “up-yours” gesture used in the US and UK. There is nothing anti-Semitic about it and the likening of it to a Nazi salute is just the work of the Israeli propaganda agents.
ghost0 Wnt
Among Dieudonné’s followers and companions, there are the real anti-Semites, and there are those who simply oppose the establishment.
The latter take selfies of themselves making the ‘quenelle’ gesture in all kinds of places. In their case, it means “fuck the system”.
The former tend to focus on locations where said gesture, if interpreted as the president of a French organization combating anti-Semitism and other forms of racism (always in that order) means it to be, is indeed hurtful to the Jewish community, for instance in front of the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp, or in front of the Jewish school where, in 2012, madman Merah shot two kids and their father at point blank, all while filming the “event”.
So, it all depends on the interpretation and the context…
That said, as, in France, everything has to be black or white these days, the system only allows the second interpretation, namely that of a (don’t laugh) “fist inserted deep inside the dead bodies of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust” (end of quote) – A. Jakubowicz, president of the LICRA
As a result, a few kids caught making the gesture at school were expelled for a few days. Others lost their jobs because of it. And there’s even a Jewish group (led by JSS News founder J. Simon-Sellem) which, after breaking into Dieudonné’s computers, contacted the employers of all those of whom they found a “quenelle” picture.
Simply stated, they’ve all gone mad…
Gator90 ghost0
Apparently some European Jews are sensitive about gestures that are evocative of Nazism. Go figure.
-Mona- Gator90
Notwithstanding some events in Germany (ahem), France has long been arguably the most antisemitic country in Western Europe. Not sure why.
ghost0 Gator90
I’m feeling sorry for you, man. I gave this man a rational answer to his question, without taking sides.
Now, tell me : which Jew, in my comment, do you find most sensitive ? The one alluding to the Holocaust victims with these words : “fist inserted deep inside the dead bodies of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust” ? Or the snitch ?
I actually do sympathize with your point. When my oldest was in 6th grade, he caught on that his parochial school teacher was fixated on (virtually non-existent) Satanic cult worship among teens. As a result, I got quite a few calls along the line of: “Mrs. Holland, Christopher is drawing ‘666’ and Pentagrams all over his notebooks. Skulls as well. What are we going to do?!”
Several times I told her that the more she made an issue of this, the more she’d see it from him, and that I was absolutely certain my son was not a practicing Satanist. She wanted him to see a priest, which I was totally certain would only amuse him. (Christopher took a lot after me.)
Kids get the notion that certain words or symbols drive the adults bonkers, and that then becomes their favorite thing to say and write. the adults react as expected, and the cycle repeats itself.
ghost0 ghost0
You just told him you didn’t believe in all that BS, because you were a “soft atheist”, right ?…
There are a few stories about kids attending black masses, though. Some even wrote about it.
Defrocked priests wearing red capes, half-naked women yelling as if possessed, their menstrual blood flowing on the pentagram, and the altar boys in the middle. That’s how Rosemary’s baby was born, isn’t it ?
weknowtheirdream
This a video of Breaking the Set, where Abby Martin talks about 2,000 killed in Nigeria, during the same time period.Nigeria’s leader ignored this killing, while sending his condolences to France.The very fact that el-Sisi FM posed with leaders of ‘free’ West, should be enough to clue you in.
But, the real message is in the words of Chris Hedges, which takes up most of the show.It is not a matter of ‘free speech’, but of grave economic injustice.Listen to him, and remember those images of night-time fires, burning just outside Paris, in those Stalin-esque ghettos, where Muslims were rioting, a couple of years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnf6KfEroE
Boss Beak weknowtheirdream
+1, bump, upvote.
http://youtu.be/lmbgU_iHvFQ
Turkish daily braves Muslim backlash to print Hebdo cartoons
A leading Turkish daily on Wednesday printed excerpts from the first issue of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo since Islamist gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on its offices, defying a growing outcry in the Islamic world. […]
Along with a Charlie Hebdo editorial about how it would not give into the attacks, the excerpts in Cumhuriyet included cartoons satirising Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram and IS.
Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Utku Cakirozer described the printing of the four-page pull-out as a display of solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, recalling that several reporters from his paper had been murdered in the past.
“We took care to show the maximum respect for religious sensibility and freedom of belief in our society, not just among Muslims, but Christians, Jews, and those who don’t believe,” he told a news conference in Istanbul. […]
Although a small group of Islamist students earlier protested outside the Ankara offices, there were no reports of unrest so far.
http://www.france24.com/en/20150114-turkish-daily-braves-muslim-backlash-print-hebdo-cartoons/?aef_campaign_date=2015-01-14&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_linkname=editorial&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter
The French leftist letter about Hebdo is way the hell more convincing than the other link to properly contextualize, and the left really needs to stop this kneejerk shit as it will only bite them in the ass down the line. I suppose thanks for including both points of view.
However, Greenwald is absolutely right in the thrust of his point. While I do see some consistently minded individuals who have taken the same position on both these cases, there’s also a lot of hypocrisy flying around. Dieudonne is an imbecile who’s comedy doesn’t rise to the level of real satire in the way Hebdo does – his sole, solitary claim to fame is the cheeky way in which he manages to dance around his own bigotry and earn the ire of the French government. So: take away his claim to fame. Government actions are as effective – hell, probably much more so – than guns when it comes to impeding on freedom of speech.
SimpleJohn
I’m an admirer of GGs generally lucid opinions which is why I’m still disappointed at how his original response to the Paris killings was to make the implausible claim that to publish e.g. anti Israel views would be to invite the same level of threat as to publish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.
Ben SimpleJohn
I don’t know how you interpreted his original article that way. He was saying that the anti-Israel comics would not be lauded as true bravery and necessary free speech as the anti-Muslim comics have been perceived by western audiences as a whole. He didn’t say that they would invite violence, but rather that they would invite ire for the same people who lauded similar comics about Islam.
Vox got no threats for posting Charlie Hebdo cartoons, dozens for covering Islamophobia
Writers at Vox have indeed been bombarded with threats for our Charlie Hebdo coverage. But not one of those threats has come from a Muslim or in response to publishing anti-Islam cartoons. Revealingly, they have rather all come from non-Muslims furious at our articles criticizing Islamophobia. […]
Though we do enjoy a readership among Muslims inside and outside of the United States, some of whom have not hesitated to express displeasure or worse at our coverage of stories such as the Israel-Palestine conflict, none has seen the Charlie Hebdo cartoons as worth sending an angry email or even an annoyed tweet, much less a threat of violence.
Our coverage of Islamophobia has brought a very different response. Articles decrying anti-Muslim bigotry and attacks on mosques have been met with dozens of threats on email and social media.
The most common states a desire that jihadist militants will murder the offending writer: a recent email hoped that Muslims will “behead you one day” so that “we will never have to read your trash again.” Some directly threaten violence themselves, or imply it with statements such as “May you rot in hell.”
Others express a desire to murder all Muslims — one simply read “I agree with maher Kill them all” — also often implying the emailed journalist is themselves Muslim. One pledge to attack Vox writers begins, “Fuck you and any cunt who believes in allah.” […]
Ironically, these threats are typically couched in arguments that Muslims are inherently irrational and violent. Further, threats made with the explicit intention of silencing journalists from discussing Islamophobia are positioned as necessary “defenses” of free speech against the threat of Islam. The people making the threats seem unaware that they are themselves seeking to curb the very free speech they pretend to uphold. […]
More to the point, though, the discrepancy between the kinds of threats that we are supposed to have received for our Charlie Hebdo coverage and the kinds of threats we actually did receive points to larger issues.
The possibility of radical Islamist threats against American outlets has received wide attention; there are media stories, solidarity rallies, and meetings of government officials. […] Meanwhile, the demonstrable and ongoing threats from anti-Muslim extremists — a well-known phenomenon among American journalists who write about Islamophobia or are themselves Muslim — has received next to no attention. […]
That distance between the kinds of threats we are supposed to have received and the threats we actually did is a reminder of how easy it can be to misjudge our own society and its problems.
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/14/7541095/charlie-hebdo-muslims-threats
-Mona- Pedinska
Nasty and vile, but none of those dispatches constitute “threats.”
Pedinska -Mona-
The article itself spoke to that:
Any journalist or activist who has written or spoken publicly about a controversial subject will be familiar with the arithmetic of threats and fear. Add the value of speaking out, subtract the costs of silence. Multiply by the likelihood that the threats are empty, divide by the chance that they are not.
In our case, that arithmetic works out. The people who threaten us are crazies and there is no indication that they are representative of any greater whole or are considering doing any more than sending an email. But we are not the only outlet being targeted, and receiving dozens of threatening emails can have a real effect on journalists, even if we suspect the threats will come to nothing.
But I would note that your dismissal is a much easier position to take when you are not the target. And would agree with BenjaminAP that the bigger point the article makes is the discrepancy between the assumptions and the reality they experienced in terms of the feedback they have gotten.
As for Joe’s point re: narrative pushing, are you accusing them of lying about the responses they have received?
But I would note that your dismissal is a much easier position to take when you are not the target.
I’ve been threatened online. Those are not threats.
And I said nothing about them “lying.” I think they are calling communications they received threats, but they are not threats. Threats could be sent to the FBI — I don’t think the FBI would act on those communications.
I know you have. And you have shared some of that nastiness with us here and on twitter. And it was clear from the article that they didn’t post all – nor even, perhaps, the worst – of the threats they received, so I’m not sure how you can issue such an across-the-board dismissal. We simply don’t know the extent of the threats, though I suspect there were some that an editor would be inclined to take a pass on publishing.
And I said nothing about them “lying.”
Don’t take everything on your own shoulders, Mona. Though I chose to address two posters – actually three, since I mentioned BenjaminAP as well – I clearly indicated that I was addressing Joe with that question:
As for Joe’s point re: narrative pushing, …
However, wrt the definition of “threat”, I don’t think Merriam Webster, or any other reputable dictionary, includes the FBI in it’s inclusion criteria for what might constitute a threat. Also, the article bits I quoted above stated:
Some directly threaten violence themselves,
Neither you nor I know what the threats are that are referenced here nor whether or not any specific threat has been forwarded to the FBI or other law enforcement. So opining on it is making assumptions for which no evidence exists that we are privy to and I am baffled and surprised that you are making such assertions.
And it was clear from the article that they didn’t post all – nor even, perhaps, the worst – of the threats they received, so I’m not sure how you can issue such an across-the-board dismissal.
Well then I don’t know how a reader is supposed to assess their claims, if they are going to say they’ve received many threats but not one of their published examples actually is such!
The issue of threats also has enormous free speech implications, and it’s common for partisans to hurl accusations of having committed a threat and to seek sanction — this is big on Twitter. All I’m doing here is taking exactly the same position I do there — that I just took with that #gamergate lawyer freak, Mike Cernovich — as to what actually constitutes a threat. Vox has not published anything that is that.
I’m sorry if I misunderstood your point to Joe as applicable to me. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m excitable on this topic. :)
I think we can agree to disagree on whether or not they received threat. Irrespective of that, the main point was the fact that the *noise* – however one might be inclined to characterize it – was coming from the opposite corner of the ring from that which had been expected.
And yeah, I know you’re excitable. ;-}
Joe Pedinska
Even for Vox’s hilariously low standards, this is a reach in terms of narrative pushing.
BenjaminAP Pedinska
Way to bury the lede Mona.
not one… threat(s) has come from a Muslim or in response to publishing anti-Islam cartoons.
<blockquote<That distance between the kinds of threats we are supposed to have received…
Vox blasphemed, but receives no threat. Huh? I thought Western Civilization was under attack?
-Mona- BenjaminAP
I thought Western Civilization was under attack?
Not because of anything I’ve said.
No, what’s been under attack is Western media on the narrow issue of blasphemy against a specific religious figure. A small, shadowy group of religious fanatics has terrorized the media into self-censorship on that topic. This is not the world’s biggest problem, but it is a problem.
BenjaminAP -Mona-
This is not the world’s biggest problem…
*bitter laughter*
Gator90 BenjaminAP
“Vox blasphemed, but receives no threat. Huh?”
I admit this is surprising. I was under the impression that the people who deem such blasphemy a killing offense monitor every American internet site, no matter how obscure, and employ a rapid response team to issue immediate threats. Perhaps I was wrong.
BenjaminAP Gator90
My sentiments exactly. These rare acts of violence do not amount to a “Wahhabi CIA”. Western Civilization is safe and secure.
Nobody here has suggested that the people who punish perceived blasphemy with violent death are omniscient, omnipotent, or great in number. But they don’t have to be, in order to suppress free expression through fear. For people who value free expression, this is concerning. (You may deem the fear irrational, but naturally people are likely to refrain from saying X if there exists some possibility, even a small one, of getting killed for saying it.)
I admit this is surprising.
No, because notwithstanding some cowardly types like Dean Baquet, the media has rather broadly published the Charlie Hebdo blasphemy. This is in contrast to ’06 with the Danish Cartoons, when almost no one did. Including a New Guy on the scene who, at the time, thought they should be published in defense of the right to do so. He didn’t post the Danish Cartoons either, and I didn’t want him to — because I was afraid.
bahhummingbug -Mona-
Iirc, the New Guy on scene was working @ Salon and, notwithstanding the New Guy’s vaunted editorial independence, they, Salon, may have had something to say about publishing the (rather crude) Danish cartoons. I don’t think the New Guy was the least bit ‘afraid’ of publishing the cartoons … maybe a touch of high overhead, low brow syndrome./
@ gator. It’s a little early in day for Dick Cheney impressions, isn’t it?
He didn’t post the Danish Cartoons either, and I didn’t want him to — because I was afraid.
Glenn published. What changed? Why are you no longer afraid?
Bahhummingbug – “Dick Cheney impressions”
Now that’s just mean.
Iirc, the New Guy on scene was working @ Salon
Nope. Sole editor and proprietor of “Unclaimed Territory” here: http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/
Because after the Charlie Hebdo massacre so many people published at least one of the blasphemous cartoons there occurred strength in numbers. This did not happen with the Danish Cartoons, which, again, Glenn did not publish at his private blogspot site, even tho he endorsed that they ought to be published. Nor did I want him to. Big guys with money and protection should have been the ones to go first.
Fat Joe Pedinska
Vox is apologizing for the murders, it’s that simple. Sad that you are so consumed by your hatred for state oppression that you can’t help yourself but support anti-Semitism.
tombrowns' schooleddaze'
A tenet of three religions, the ten commandments includes the requirement ” Not to take the Lords (for some here lord’s) name in vain.”
Pussy Riot entered a church and were sacrilegious. The right of free speech and the right of being free to worship were not compatible in this situation. The congregation should be able to carry out there faith based rituals without ridicule in their own church. Pussy Riot should have seen that their desecration was wrong, criminal and not “free speech”.
However all the West said was that Putin was curtailing free speech by prosecuting artists.
How free is speech?
Here, it would seem that one must speak with solidarity, by reuttering another’s words or drawings even if one does not agree to them as a sign of how free one is when speaking. That price is too high minded.
Jonathan Turley has a great piece in WaPo examining how schizophrenic and downright hypocritical the French (maybe not others joining in, but absolutely the French) frenzy of #JeSuisCharlie really is.
Indeed, if the French want to memorialize those killed at Charlie Hebdo, they could start by rescinding their laws criminalizing speech that insults, defames or incites hatred, discrimination or violence on the basis of religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, sex or sexual orientation. These laws have been used to harass the satirical newspaper and threaten its staff for years. Speech has been conditioned on being used “responsibly” in France, suggesting that it is more of a privilege than a right for those who hold controversial views.
It was the growing French intolerance of free speech that motivated the staff of Charlie Hebdo — and particularly its editor, Stéphane Charbonnier — who made fun of all religions with irreverent cartoons and editorials. Charbonnier faced continuing threats, not just of death from extremists but of criminal prosecution. In 2012, amid international protests over an anti-Islamic film, Charlie Hebdo again published cartoons of Muhammad. French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault warned that freedom of speech “is expressed within the confines of the law and under the control of the courts.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-it-means-to-stand-with-charlie-hebdo/2015/01/08/ab416214-96e8-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html
The fact that millions of ordinary working class French people came out to protest killings – does not make it a ‘sham.’
Here Glenn confuses “France” or the French Government with the people of France. Quite a mistake. People are shut down for free speech frequently in many countries, but shooting people because you do not agree with them? That is what the march was about. I do hope you condemn the arrests in Turkey too, or the flogging of a blogger in Saudi Arabia. Yes they should not arrest this comedian. I doubt they will sever his head from his body with a guillotine however. After all, this is not Saudi Arabia.
The real problem here is that Greenwald is a lawyer and not a social activist who has to perhaps make a revolution in Egypt.
kingofequality Greg Gibbs
neither the fact that there were millions nor the fact — if it is a proven fact — that they were working class prove nothing about whether they were united under any principle, never mind under anyone’s notion of “free speech”.
if the muslim “extremests” could just criminalize islamophobia or any tastless pointless mocking of anything islam and arrest charlie hebdo, they wouldn’t have to shoot the “journalists” at hebdo.
two issues are at stake here.
1) equality (among the members of a society) is the philosophical foundation of justice in that society, which is the necessary condition for true lasting peace in the society, which then allows all the members to be free from persecution and oppression by other members.
2) most people do not understand and/or accept equality as the universal premise about humanity, but want to achieve what only follows that which they have rejected.
thus, the ultimate question is not about the substance (what constitutes equality or freedom or rights etc?) but about the process (what do you do with the majority who do not understand or accept — for whatever reason — the very first principle of democracy?).
seriously? The difference between the newspaper crass insulting and what Dieudonne said, is that Dieudonne is inciting violence. When he says he is ‘Charlie Coulibaly’ he is saying he supports is against the murder of ‘Charlie’ Newspaper but supportive of Coulbaly, who murdered 4 Jews before being stopped. This is not any stretch of the imagination because this is the same man who invented the concept of taking a selfie in front of Jewish community centers, synagogues, etc while performing the nazi salute. The man is a racist. I don’t like the crass insulting humor the Hebdo magazine frequently has (about everyone, not only muslims) but there is a difference between insults (the Hebdo magazine) and expressing support for a hate crime (Dieudonne).
Matthias, son of Deutoronomy of Gath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_hlMK7tCks
“You have been found guilty by the elders of the town of uttering the name of our Lord. And so as a blasphemer you are to be stoned to death.
– Look, I’d had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was: “That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.”
– Blasphemy! He said it again! Did you hear him?”
Lavon Affair
Lets look at the common sense facts –
• -Millions of people with smart phones and only one CLUTCH video of 2 gunmen “killing” (of all cops on video) a muslim. Hmm. No blood is even more sketchy. Shit, there was more video from the 1997 North Hollywood bank robbery with the 2 dudes w/ Ak47’s….and there were no smart phones back then!
They are “jihadis” on a suicide mission with no explosives and no suicide “lets see allah” pact. BUT they made sure to forget their ID at the crime scene. Hmm.
• -The police commissioner of Paris and his last dozen underlings have committed suicide in the past year. Hmmm.
• -France votes PRO – Palestine at the UN hearing.
• -France is PRO peace in Ukraine and wants sanctions ended on Russia.
The cartoonists do both anti-israel cartoons and anti-muslim cartoons but have only fired one cartoonists for “anti-semitic” cartoons. Hmm. Hypocritical?
• -The cartoon magazine was practically bankrupt. Now they are being awarded $1 million by the French Govt. Wowza! What a coincidence.
• -Ultimately who does this serve? Follow the money trail. France will be fighting Syria and bombing 100x more muslims in the middle east shortly as a result of emotional reaction to media hype. More cartoons will be published. Anti arab and anti muslim sentiment will increase astronomically. THINK LOGICALLY. Do you play chess? Think about this and dont come back to me and say “We’ll crazy terrorists dont think.” nonsense.
Syria is who’s enemy? Israel.
Who controls the media? Dual citizen Israelis / Christian Zionists.
Who has a history of false flags against their allies? ISRAEL.
LAVON AFFAIR people.
Wake up. Just another LAVON AFFAIR.
BTW – where was all the outrage when Naji Al-Ali was assasinated by Mossad in London? He was a Palestinian cartoonist. Hmm. How quickly people forget.
The problem with Greenwald’s writing and/or logic is that it never really goes anywhere. If the point is to illustrate the “hypocrisy” of the
“West,” fine, he’s preaching to the choir. Ultimately, he’s just criticizing the media coverage of the event, though, not what the event meant to the people of Paris that showed up. As far as I’m concerned, Greenwald, while talking a big game, has unusually small optics.
I think free speech is important (let me repeat that – I think free speech is important), although it’s probably not as high on my list of relative values as it is on Greenwald’s. For one thing, we’ve never had total free speech, and free speech that links a person to possible criminal activity has never, to my knowledge, been 100% protected in that the person expressing such beliefs could feel assured of safety from suspicion from the state. So perhaps I support “free-ish” speech, because functionally that’s all we’ve ever had. But that’s a personal preference.
That said, I do worry about how free speech will play out in a globalized environment. For one thing, our reaction to violence from threatening outsiders seems non-proportional. Maybe I’m just naive, but to me it seems as if the human mind is meant to deal with visceral, sensory information of the type that you see in a shocking new story, not data and numbers. Freedom of speech took a hit in WWI and II and during the Cold War, but all of those were pretty significant threats. They could have gone very differently. Violence from radical fundamentalist Muslims has probably affected Westerners less, in the last decade, than the IRA did during The Troubles. And yet the way this conflict is often framed, many people seem to see it as a veritable War Of The Worlds, with armies of underground jihadists who won’t stop until every last Western man is enslaved and every woman is shrouded in a burka. We all love Ireland now (Yay for Ireland, let’s make the rivers and beer green and get super drunk in silly hats on St. Pattys Day!! We’re all Irish!), so that horror – as awful and life-ruining for many as it was at the time – ended when time and the moment moved on, not in WWIII. But there was another after that, and there will still another after this one, and on and on. If free speech is contingent upon moments in time when everything is perfectly peaceful, it’ll never happen.
Second, while I do not think the West created anti-Western sentiment amongst Islamic groups, the lack of perspective-taking that tends to take place when people do the wide-eyed pearl clutching thing and wonder what is wrong with those people, why it must be that barbaric religion that makes them so backwards – is hard to watch, and borders on narcissistic, to my mind. Again – I am not of the “the West creates terrorists” mentality, I say we have no way of knowing that, but my intuition says it’s not the case – but it doesn’t matter. It’s simply a matter of being equally hard or even harder on yourself than you are on other people, which to my mind is a test of character. And that applies to all areas, including speech.
An addendum to my above comment, since Harris and his philosophy so often come up here – I am not talking about people who simply hypothesize that religion has harmful behavioral consequences. I think the term ‘religion’ should be replaced with ‘ideology’ in those conversations, but while I do have my criticisms of those philosophies I think they are useful lines of inquiry overall. I am talking about engaging in the act of demonization wherein there is an unspoken axiom that certain problems only exist in other societies, as opposed to being human problems that exist wherever you find humans, including our own society. (I think there is a reverse version of this – angel-izing, if you will – where some groups seem to posit that all problems are caused by the West and everyone could go about their holy noble way if exported materialism wasn’t blocking their innate goodness. I think that is also silly, obviously. My point is more that humans behave similarly under similar conditions, because we are all human).
Mad Rat
I found at least ten persons on Facebook and even more on LinkedIn whose name really is “Charles Coulibaly”. Do they risk going to jail now when introducing themselves in French?
NattyB
What bothers me most about the “quennelle/Dieudonné” controversy is that, to take the detractors of the symbol literally, it’d mean that a lot of French/Belgian athletes of African and/or Muslim ancestry, are some how racists or pseudo-neo nazi’s or some s–t like that. To me, as a soccer fan, seeing all these players wrongfully be accused, and immediately apologize (like Dwight Howard when he tweeted #FreePalestine and then apologized: “previous tweet was a mistake. I have never commented on international politics and never will” and then, “I apologize if I offended anyone with my previous tweet, it was a mistake!” http://www.thenation.com/blog/180702/dwight-howard-and-freepalestine ), just says to me, that these players don’t have Free Speech and they are not permitted to create their own symbols absent state sanction. They’re apologizing out of fear and marketing reasons, when in fact, they absolutely are not “nazi-sympathizers” and the reason they embrace the quenelle symbol, is the reason they give, which is, it’s a statement of anti-establishment, not to different in form and substance as the black power fists. That’s how I view it and how the proponents and adherents describe it.
Just look at this ridiculousness:
Only after Dieudonné did his quenelle at Jewish symbols (which, deserves criticism), did all his enemies proclaim the use of it, in all instances, to be de facto anti-semitic. So the result is, all these people, with origins in the Banlieues, who are Black and/or Muslim, believe this symbol, and employ such symbol, as a symbol of solidarity, empowerment and f— you to the state, are all stained as racist anti-semites. That’s f—ed up. And yes, if I was any of the player’s agent’s, I’d tell them not to invoke the symbol either.
The chairman of the regulatory commission, Peter Griffiths QC, said in delivering the decision: “Even though we have found that there was an aggravated breach of FA [rules] we are satisfied that when the player sent the tweet on 28 December 2013 congratulating Anelka, in his mind he believed he was congratulating Anelka on what he perceived to be an anti-establishment gesture as opposed to one associated with antisemitism.
“But we are also satisfied of two further factors relevant to his culpability: 1) That he was certainly aware before he sent the tweet that the quenelle gesture was very much associated with Dieudonné; and 2) That he had, by then, acquired at least some knowledge of the controversies surrounding Dieudonné in the autumn of 2013 and that these had included, rightly or wrongly, allegations concerning antisemitism.”
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/sep/19/benoit-assou-ekotto-suspended-fined-fa-quenelle
Did you catch that? The FA acknowledged that the practitioners believed they were using a symbol of anti-establishment, but apparently, the “controversy” around it should’ve put him on notice not to ever invoke the symbol, or, in this case, congratulate Anelka for invoking it after a goal.
Here are a bunch of other very famous players, all French/Belgian and/or of African and/or Muslim background, who have had to apologize and/or face sanction for a symbol they believe to be anti-establishment in nature.
Benoît Assou-Ekotto (starts for Cameroon, born and raised in France, excerpted above, fined 50K GBP and suspended 3 games for congratulating Anelka)
Mamadou Sakho (started for France at the 2014 World Cup and plays for Liverpool, says he didn’t know it was anti-semitic) and Samir Nasri (French national, frequently plays for national team, starts for
Manchester City, world class player, says he didn’t know it was anti-semitic): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/10542383/Samir-Nasri-and-Mamadou-Sakho-pictured-performing-same-controversial-quenelle-gesture-as-Nicolas-Anelka.html
Romelu Lukaku (started for Belgium at the world cup, plays for Everton, apologized for defending Anelka’s quenelle) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2544475/Kick-Out-ready-axe-Lukaku-defending-Anelka-quenelle-gesture.html
Yannick Sagbo (Ivory Coast international though born and raised in france, plays in england, suspended 2 games for congratulating Anelka) http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/12/hull-city-yannick-sagbo-ban-quenelle-tweet
Yannick Noah (crooner, French tennis legend, father of NBA star Joakim Noah and also happens to be mix-raced like his son) http://jssnews.com/2013/12/31/yannick-noah-sa-quenelle-et-ses-souvenirs-dun-israelien/
The list goes on and on but it’s essentially Black/Muslim Francophones who consistently are being told they’re racist anti-semites by powerful institutions who lack the moral authority to prescribe such pronouncements.
For once, I am going to accuse Glenn of understatement. It’s even more corrupt than he says.
To begin with, Dieudonné (whom I intensely dislike, having once met him and having found him arrogant and egocentric, and whose antisemitism is beyond dispute) did not tweet anything particularly wrong. “I feel like Charlie Coulibaly” may be interpreted as a self-association with the terrorist who gunned down 4 Jews in Paris, but Dieudonnés own explanation is perfectly coherent: he said he felt like a satirist (that is, Charlie) who was being treated like a terrorist (that is, Coulibaly). And since the public prosecutor KNOWS this explanation, what Dieudonné is being accused of is not “apology of terrorism” but “statement which can potentially be misinterpreted as an apology of terrorism”.
Second, the French PM Manuel Vals has a longstanding grudge against Dieudonné and has acted on it, improperly so in my eyes, as minister of the interior. Now that he is PM he should stand far away from all prosecutions. It seems likely that he is personally behind Dieudonné’s arrest; that would be an unjustified breach of the separation of powers principle.
This is made worse by, third, the fact that the French government is publicly worrying that the recent murders of Jews combined with earlier ones will lead to an exodus of the Jewish minority. They have to show that minority that they mean business in cracking down on antisemitism, and what better target than Dieudonné? But prosecutions should never be made for unrelated political ends. Manuel Vals, however, for all his efficiency is not a man of principle, and I think it is quite likely that this kind of consideration played a role in the arrest.
BUT none of this reflects badly on the marches, in which I participated, which were held in France. It was not just freedom of expression that was being defended. People were conscious they were defending the Republic itself not against one threat but against two: (1) terrorist acts to punish free expression, and (2) any over-reaction to such terrorist acts which would undermine the Republic in other ways (most notably, any coming to power of fascism). Which is why so many people held up signs saying “Fraternité”, or in other ways expressing solidarity with minorities. The marches were not anti-Arab in the least, nor selective.
As regards the firing of the cartoonist Siné by Charlie Hebdo, I have already expressed my belief that this had nothing to do with Siné’s mockery of Jews; it was retribution against his mocking of the Sarkozy family, which was intimately connected to Charlie’s then-chief editor. And I have also already said that this should not be blamed on the later editor, who died last Wednesday, nor on his staff, none of whom were implicated in that instance of press corruption.
France, it should be recalled, may be mostly atheist but it has a Catholic tradition. Do not look for the kind of purity one may find in Protestant countries. And that is precisely why street action is so important. The separation of powers doctrine, as well as the independence of the press, are not always lived up to.
Virgil Caine Hans Bavinck
Thanks for your interesting perspective :-)
Pedinska Hans Bavinck
Thank you for your comment Hans. We can only benefit from such inside perspectives and there is much to consider in your comment that hasn’t been explained elsewhere (that I have seen, that is).
Thank you for the insight of an actual French person. So many have been jumping to judge Charlie Hebdo based on exposure to a handful of cartoons outside of any context of French politics, culture or even knowledge of the language.
Even that former employee Glenn links to, he’s disgruntled; others report very differently than he does. Charlie Hebdo is crude, but it seems the magazine has simultaneously mocked Muslim religious figures and practices while also strongly defending their rights as immigrants and to civil liberties. To them, this is apparently not inconsistent, and they politically oppose the anti-Muslim fascists in France. They are sympathetic to Palestinians.
I am really leery of imposing an American/UK template over them, whereby Charlie Hebdo becomes the equivalent of our Islamophobic “New Atheists.” Different people, different outlooks, different cultures.
Thank you. In reaction to Glenn’s earlier post, which showed many anti-Israel cartoons and accused Charlie Hebdo of never publishing any, I pointed out that this was false; this one on the Gaza war for example was made by the murdered editor of the magazine: http://anniebannie.net/2014/07/21/la-situation-a-gaza-par-charb-charlie-hebdo/
Yes, Charlie Hebdo was (even in my eyes) often guilty of cultural insensitivity, but that was their right, and they were as you say strongly pro-minority. Their main target has always been the far-right Front National.
The French tradition of satire, oft-misunderstood including by Glenn, was explained very well by Olivier Tonneau. It’s a long read but if you’re interested in the subject-matter well worth it: http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/olivier-tonneau/110115/charlie-hebdo-letter-my-british-friends
feline16 Hans Bavinck
Hans –
Thanks for sharing our perspective. It was very enlightening and very much appreciated.
the pair Hans Bavinck
nicely done…though i’d give more importance to the “anti-overreaction” protestors if they recieved more than a sentence or two in the major press outlets. i agree with their message (especially being in canada after the ottawa shooting) but it’s being aimed squarely at a brick wall.
also, whether you care for dieudonné or not, this whole thing reminds me of jon stewart and his banal obession with right wing media types; few if any people outside of the “choirs” of either ideology would hear about their “offensive” and “dangerous” views if not for someone like stewart or vals yelling “look how noble i am for disagreeing with this awful wretched thing!!!” from the mountaintop of a tv show or political office.
i know of dieudonné through his connection to alain soral, but i doubt many outside of france heard of him before this just i never would have heard about all the inane right-wing ferguson comments on fox/cnn/etc if not for stewart and his ilk.
This artible is biased and wrong. Just wrong. You should be ashamed of saying these things. It s dirty to just use false information to make your point seem real.
Actually the people who act that biased way is the very people who do not share Western values, and the Dieudonné is the perfect example.
The people prostesting his arrest seem to undertand free speech as we do in the West when it defend their ideals – hate the jews for example.
When Dieudonné does an anti semitic sketch or when he says holocaust is just memorial pornography or he says to a jewish journalist that it was a pity he wasnt sent to gas chambers. The muslims in France turn to our western values to give him the right to say whatever he wants, but when we want to apply the freedom and limits of free speech to their hate speechs like praising a murder and terrorism, then we, in the west are biased.
Another interesting thing is that Dieudonné says for a living horriblel things about the Jews, his life is to provoke them, but the only things the Jews ever did against him was to sue him, within the law. No violence, no blood, no death, no hate.
That shows muslims are the problem, not us. Their level of intolerance is just beyond imagination, at least in France. They never use the law or the rules. If anyone says anything they don’t like from non extremists, regular muslims you get violence ( broken doors, cars on fire, property damages on the streets), from the extremists we get last week ( blood, death, hate).
Why can’t they act in a civilized way? why can’t they do like all the other religions and use the law when they feel offended?
We defended Dieudonné’s right to say these horrible things when he got sued by associations.
Free speech means you can say whatever you want as long as it does not lead people to participate in acts that lead to real harm to other people.
When he said he is like the terrorist that just killed so many innocent harmless people, he is not only using his image to defent acts of violence but also saying he agrees with what was done. If he had said something offensive about another point of view or ideology it would have been ok – like he has done for work!
When the cartoonists make fun of everyone, there is no physical harm, no incentive to murder or act in violent ways, except if you are someone who do not think other people have the right to say whatever they want even if it offends you, and the ones who lack that ability are not Westerners as facts have shown.
Now when he says he is like a terrorist,
How could you compare a speech ( and gesture like heil hitler ), calling people to murder, and denying shoah ( this is not free speech, this is history denial and so lie )
with a free speech ????
I support Glenn Greenwald’s right to not be coerced into publishing or promoting something he doesn’t damn well want to.
bahhummingbug Cindy
Well, it’s said discretion is the better part of valor, cindy loo. One should never confuse the right to publish with an obligation to publish (h/t greenwald.).
*Even hath it been said: “Not everything that a man knoweth can be disclosed, nor can everything that he can disclose be regarded as timely, nor can every timely utterance be considered as suited to the capacity of those who hear it.”
Jaafar
Charlie Hebdo has not been about freedom of speech. They fired one of their journalists in 2009 for making certain comments of the son of Sarkozy who was president at that time:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/4351672/French-cartoonist-Sine-on-trial-on-charges-of-anti-Semitism-over-Sarkozy-jibe.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/03/france.pressandpublishing
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2015/01/10/charlie-hebdo-fired-cartoonist-for-anti-semitism/
BenjaminAP
Glenn I thought that was a really interesting exchange with Hayes on twitter, re: Dieudonné
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/555411907780542466
GG: 1) Prosecution is pretty serious suppression of speech; 2) No way would anyone link themselves to him even if killed.
CH: Agreed on first, but mass murder is, um way way way worse and the reason we’re having this entire conversation
GG: No. One could make a reasonable case that state imprisonment is worse threat to free speech than crackpots murdering.
CH: larger, more systematic, absolutely, but as for “worse” I disagree in a way that Twitter won’t do justice to.
Hayes’ view seems fairly emblematic at this point. Liberals think they’re under attack. GWOT logic.
But the question Glenn still, after days, won’t answer is the one I’ve been tweeting to him, to wit:
@MonaHol · 3h 3 hours ago
@ggreenwald @chrislhayes @HeerJeet makes no diff *global media has been terrorized w/ threats & actual deaths in2 not publishing blasphemy?
This is not, as Glenn would have it, about “crackpots murdering.” It’s about enough extreme religionists threatening to kill, and actually killing, that the global media has been terrorized into not publishing what these extremists consider blasphemous, not even when such a thing is newsworthy. At one time Glenn supported the media’s defending its right to publish this material by collectively doing so.
It’s about enough… threatening to kill
Empirically speaking, when is it “enough”? Or take me through the process of your Gestalt. When does it become “global”, in your mind? These attacks are extremely rare. Labeling the rare individuals who carry them out a “global threat” swallows Dick Cheney’s insane logic quite whole.
not even when such a thing is newsworthy.
There’s the rub. Most media isn’t afraid of publishing. Publishing has no context. They’re “afraid” of making news about it. That’s the difference. It’s not a story “they” want to tell, and fear for “their” physical safety, rational or irrational, is not the necessary impediment. “The news” is a complex of fears. Glenn published. Glenn told a story.
They’re “afraid” of making news about it.
What they’re afraid of is this (about the Danish Cartoons):
Numerous violent plots related to the cartoons have been discovered in the years since the main protests in early 2006. These have primarily targeted editor Flemming Rose,[93] cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, the property or employees of Jyllands-Posten and other newspapers that printed the cartoons,[94][95] and representatives of the Danish state.[96] Westergaard has been the subject of several attacks or planned attacks and now lives under special police protection. On 1 January 2010, police used firearms to stop a would-be assassin in Westergaard’s home.[97][98] In February 2011, the attacker, a 29-year-old Somalian man, was sentenced to nine years in prison.[a][99][100] In 2010, three men based in Norway were arrested on suspicion that they were planning a terror attack against Jyllands-Posten or Kurt Westergaard; two of the men were convicted.[101] In the United States, David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were convicted of planning terrorism against Jyllands-Posten and were sentenced in 2013.[102]
CNN pixelated those Cartoons because it didn’t want its station bombed.
Which is an editorial decision, based on a complex of fears that are not, ipso facto, rational.
I don’t know what that means, but I do know you were wrong when you said: ” Most media isn’t afraid of publishing. Publishing has no context. They’re “afraid” of making news about it. That’s the difference.”
Media has been afraid of bombs and guns.
The fear is irrational. Western civilization is not under attack.
The fear is irrational.
No, it is not. Reread the Danish Cartoon history I published, then consider that 12 people in Paris were just executed, and then read the AQAP announcements Jeremy Scahill has been publishing right here at TI.
Western civilization is not under attack.
Mr. Strawman, meet Mr. Non Sequitur.
liberalrob -Mona-
Yes it is. Just not by the terrorists. Western Civilization is under attack because our leaders are wetting their pants over not being able to prevent random lunatics from killing a bunch of people; if the voters start wondering what are we spending all this money on if this kind of thing is still happening, the gravy train might end. The entire GWOT is a massive CYA operation so they can tell the public “see, we did everything we could” when those tragedies happen.
The fear is not irrational, it is quite well-founded. But it’s also the price of living in an open society.
BenjaminAP BenjaminAP
Put it this way. Real solidarity involves other cartoonists making editorial choices in line with Charlie. Or in the words of Olivier Cyran, quoting Thomas Deltombe.. “Encoding racism to make it imperceptible, and therefore socially acceptable”.
Foghorn BenjaminAP
Our first amendment offers protection from government prosecution, but not from murder. Other laws protect us from murder. The modern concept of free speech, between private parties, is nothing more than a prohibition against murder.
When you publish inciteful cartoons, and people become incited, you should not be terribly surprised.
Andy Chertow
good post Glenn
at the risk of quoting a religious person, this came to mind
“the truth is an offense but not a sin, is he who laughs last is he who wins” (Bob Marley)
There was a time, maybe, when America had something to teach the world. You could see a clear intellectual purpose and thought.
I’m not sure that is true anymore.
It’s hard to imagine Muslims having this conversation-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlpOU-jEUA
It’s hard to imagine Americans having this conversation now-a-days.
shantonu Si1ver1ock
Why? Do you listen to NPR? People have this sort of conversation all the time here in the United States. It’s also ironic because Adler is saying that people do not really have the conversation (that he himself is having).
Also, why is it hard to imagine Muslim’s having that conversation? Do you mean people who live in the Middle East? If so, do you speak Arabic? If not, then how do you know they aren’t?
liberalrob Si1ver1ock
It’s not hard for me to imagine Muslims having that conversation. Merely being an adherent of a religion doesn’t disqualify one from being able to have a rational discussion (on issues not directly addressed by the dogma of that religion). And Americans could have that conversation too, if they wanted to. A lot of them don’t want to.
America has always had a lot to teach the world. Unfortunately, recently those have mostly been lessons on how NOT to do things.
the pair Si1ver1ock
pics or it didn’t happen.
mammique
For a deep understanding of the Dieudonné case I invite you to watch this exhautive documented interview of Jacob Cohen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzHtFW-mC6vGh07g8RK7sUITTYsQYBlN0
Here is a sample where he explains who is Dieudonné: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqUIdXGmiBU&list=PLzHtFW-mC6vGvXNqFcGU2cxa_1pieWOvh&index=7
Ygo
Will no go for this.
Dieudonné (now knowed as Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala) is/was (?) an humorist teaming up with Elie Semoun back in the 90′, thus they split for unknown reasons..
Now, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala is running a controversial ‘comic’ show lasting for a couple of years, targeting mainly Jews and blaming France for their colonial years the slavery in French west indies and is now teaming up with a far right ideologist : alain Soral. So Dieudonné has a record.
I am not sure but strongly believe that his point of view, this mix up,has a certain audience. He has an impact on youngster from the former French colonies (West Africa mainly), the youngster being the second or third generation of the Muslim former protectorate (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco), all mainly leaving in the suburbs of the cities. So, taking is voice out of the internet brouhaha, at least for a while (not sure they can actually charge him or detain him for long), it’s a nice favor the French authorities do in order to take this agent provocateur out of the play.
Ps: sorry for my french, i am !
Diogo to Glenn:
For someone who once thought it was a good idea to publish the Danish Cartoons in solidarity, you sure seem way too resentful of everyone who partook in this campaign. What exactly is your motivation here?
My guess is that he is (rightly) revolted by the grotesque hypocrisy of the hordes who suddenly have discovered the (self-serving) glories of free speech and the right to blaspheme. The French themselves do not, remotely, have a hard on for free speech; it is barely a value for them.
Charlie Hebdo itself seems disgusted with many pouring out in support. One of their surviving cartoonists has said he “vomits” at his “new friends.”
His “new friends” in this case was specifically the right wingers, I don’t think they were disgusted that many poured in support. And besides of the motivations of some people, when free speech becomes a topic celebrated by millions all over the world, it is a good thing, it helps solidify it as a value to be protected and defended, which should help for the other cases that did not benefit of the outpouring of support. You know, like how the American declaration of independence was done under huge hypocrisy due to slavery, and yet later served as inspiration to abolish slavery. Or how the Nuremberg trials created a precedent against aggressive war, even though it shielded the Soviet Union who started the war with Germany by invading Poland. The point is not to use the contradictions/gaps/hypocrisy to undermine the good side of the contradiction, but to make it whole. That is something that I feel Greenwald never understood, and if people were there influencing the declaration of independence/nuremberg trials with this type of denunciation, they would’ve probably kill those events, undermine their moral legitimacy. But I digress…
You know, like how the American declaration of independence was done under huge hypocrisy due to slavery, and yet later served as inspiration to abolish slavery.
If you think #JeSuisCharlie is going to result in anything like the Declaration of Independence or the First Amendment, I don’t really know what to say. It’s really that stupid.
Do you grasp that the French actually have animosity toward free speech, and that for them the value of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons is celebration of their (mandatory) secular culture?
Hate speech laws in Europe are not going to disappear. Draconian strictures on the press by most of those world leaders who piled into Paris to support Charlie Hebdo will not cease. Indeed, these laws are being executed right now; Dieudonne is being prosecuted.
No, the value here is that publications worldwide have reprinted the blasphemous Charlie Hebdo cartoons. I support a movement to break the terror-effect that has silenced the media vis-a-vis such blasphemy since at least 2006. But I see no other merits to the #JeSuisCharlie campaign, and a great deal of hypocritical co-opting for evil ends.
I’m not saying it will result in anything like the Declaration of Independence. That was merely an analogy, to show there is a historical process by which values and principles are realized. At any moment, there may be contradictions, hypocrisy in how societies recognize such values. The point is how solve these contradictions are solved – one “side” will win over the other. It makes no strategic sense in trying to undermine the moral legitimacy of the one side you are for based on the existence of other side.
The Charlie Hedbo was an important moment in the free speech debate. This is the first time in the digital communication, social media era where free speech was debated globally in such a way. I can tell you for a fact that the majority of Brazilians, certainly the younger ones, have not been exposed to such discussion before in this manner. And that matters.
the pair -Mona-
wow…quite a condescending tone considering the previous poster never said anything of the sort.
and i doubt that “secularism” is “mandatory”. banning muslim headwear is draconian indeed, but even those in muslim countries like iran see the niqab and especially the burqa as embarrassing relics. there are also bans on speech favorable to nazi ideology and use of their symbols in many countries. as glenn said, it’s not just secularism, it’s “hate speech is okay if we all hate the same thing”.
Glenn says that the celebrations last week were not at all about free speech. But he is wrong. It may be true that the leaders, the media were being hypocritical about it. But the undeniable fact is that the event spearheaded a sincere debate about free speech, a debate that Glenn himself is taking part.
And there is no reason to doubt the sincerity of the majority of the common people who expressed their support, even if their support is imperfect, even if they fail to show the same support in other situations. Regardless of this imperfections, when that many people decide to express support for a value like free speech, it is a good thing. If someone strategically wise and is honestly committed to promote a certain value that is not always respected, they should use the moment of affirmation of that value as a tool to advance that value in the other situations; and not do the opposite: use the other situation to undermine the moral legitimacy of the moment of universal affirmation of that value.
To make an analogy, should the legitimacy of the US Constitution had been undermined at the time of its creation because slavery existed, or should slavery be abolished based on the legitimacy of the Constitution?
The debate spearheaded by the Charlie Hedbo attack had a significant impact on the free speech debate here in Brazil, where “leftists and progressives” have a momentum in passing laws curbing free speech and instituting controls over media content. The people pushing for this agenda use the same type of cynical arguments that Glenn uses here: it is all a sham by just closeted bigots to oppress people.
Glenn focuses so much on governments and big media and forgets that the debate about ideas is also carried out by regular people and his ideas help shape public opinion, and not just in the US. He seem to have changed his attitude about defending free speech, including against the PC police. At the very least, he changed his priorities, passing the opportunity to lend his voice to the chorus of expressing the defense of free speech, choosing instead to denounce EVERYONE in the WEST as hypocrites. I really don’t understand what he is going for here. It seems petty, not a principled attitude.
Glenn wrote:
The vast bulk of the stirring “free speech” tributes over the last week have been little more than an attempt to protect and venerate speech that degrades disfavored groups while rendering off-limits speech that does the same to favored groups, all deceitfully masquerading as lofty principles of liberty.
About that he is absolutely right.
But I insist that the blasphemous cartoons should be widely republished as a defensive means for the global media to protect its right to publish blasphemy — especially after 12 journalists/cartoonists were just executed for doing so. The media can and should take measures to remove control of what they may publish from the hands of a small coterie of religious zealots.
But the protests over the massacre have not really been about that issue. They are about infusing more steroids into the war on “terror,” which is to say the war on Muslims and civil liberties.
No, he is not right. What is the “vast bulk” that he is referring to? There were hundreds of articles all over the world, how does he or you know what the vast bulk was all about? What does “rendering off-limits speech that does the same to favored groups” supposed to mean? That the protests were causing criticism of Catholicism/Judaism off-limits? That is nonsense!! Even if that is how French rules work, the protests did not make that so, on contrary, they created the opportunity for people to raise precisely that issue!
I’ll tell you what I witness: a lively debate about free speech, with opposing opinions on: whether there are legitimate limits to free speech, whether the courts should have stopped the magazine’s “excesses” before this happened, whether it is ok to ridicule “disfavored groups”; whether it is ok to make fun of religions, whether this will feed Islamophobia, whether CH is racist, etc etc. That was all over my social media feed. BTW, Glenn was having a debate about free speech to this day in the context of this tragedy. So how can you deny that this is about free speech??!!!
Are there people, government, willing to manipulate this? Of course. But by saying that the protests are “about infusing more steroids into the war on ‘terror’ “, you are inferring about the unspoken motivations and thoughts of millions of people that you or Glenn have not way to know about. I’m not that presumptuous (or, may I say, out of touch). When everybody is having a conversation about free speech, I tend to think that the conversation is indeed about free speech.
Arthur Edelstein
One episode I think is particularly relevant, is the French government’s banning of protests against Charlie Hebdo cartoons in 2012:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/charlie-hebdo-cartoons-france-protest-ban_n_1902834.html
“France confirmed on Friday it would allow no street protests against cartoons denigrating Islam’s Prophet Mohammad that were published by a French magazine this week.
“Interior Minister Manuel Valls said prefects throughout the country had orders to prohibit any protest over the issue and to crack down if the ban was challenged.
“‘There will be strictly no exceptions. Demonstrations will be banned and broken up,’ he told a news conference in the southern port city of Marseille.”
It stands to reason that if peaceful protests are banned, some people will, unfortunately, feel compelled to resort to violent actions to express their anger. Additionally, what example is the French government setting, threatening to disrupt peaceful free expression with violence (i.e., break up demonstrations)?
This is not a zero-sum game. One can abhor the arrest of Dieudonné and still carry a “JeSuisCharlie” banner. Let’s not forget that mainstream figures will not hashtag #JeSuisDieudonné because he has only been arrested not murdered for his statements. I disagree with hate speech laws both in the US and in France, where I now live, but the French government has a very large problem. Jewish people have been shot by Muslims here. Schoolchildren have been murdered. The Jewish population is justifiably frightened. I can’t blame them. There is a virulent and murderous strain of anti-Semitism that has infected part of the Muslim population here. Sure, it’s related to Israel’s appalling policies in Gaza and the West Bank but France has supported the Palestinian cause and French legislators have voted to recognize a Palestinian state. The Jewish community in the US may be touchy about operas (The Death of Klinghoffer) but in France they really have something to worry about. When Dieudonné fans those flames, which he does, it is very much akin to shouting “Fire” in a crowded theatre. France has a legal basis for banning his speech which they have done before, not always successfully, as he has often prevailed on appeal. Secularism is a bedrock principle in France. You could say that the Republic was founded on freedom from religion. That is why headscarves had to be banned in French schools as crucifixes and kippas always were.
If Dieudonné confined himself to criticizing Israel he wouldn’t have a problem but he doesn’t. He denies the existence of the Holocaust which was an actual fact. By denying it happened he creates an alternative fantasy that is not just “hurting feelings” but encouraging a sense of paranoia and persecution in the Muslim community that can and has resulted in the loss of life. It’s hard to believe that’s not his intent.
On the other hand, Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons punctured a belief, that is, that Muhammed was a holy prophet. Belief, not fact. It was blasphemous in a country that has disavowed blasphemy as a legally actionable principle. That’s why the 2007 lawsuit against Charlie Hebdo collapsed. If the Muslim community here felt that there subsequent cartoons were racist, they had every right to bring another lawsuit and keep bringing them, thus calling attention to their outrage.
Another edit
The blurb on Facebook still describes the comic as Muslim. Makes sharing the article difficult. Recommend fixing right away.
Ps :sorry for my english i am french !
noboddy's business
Hi, French reader here. Dieudonné is not a muslim at all, please correct this as fast as possible, it undermines the article who otherwise is full of truths. Dieudonné says himslef he’s a christian, though before the whole crackdown on him he spoke very little of it.
avelna2001 noboddy's business
I believe he called him a comedian, not a Muslim.
Pedinska avelna2001
Must have been referenced in an earlier version than what you, and I, read.
ygo noboddy's business
In a may 2013 interview with a french newspaper Dieudonné define himself as “Je suis un islamo-chrétien” or islamic-christian. Quite an intriguing concept. So If someone knows whats this stand for, please shoot ! http://blog-picard.fr/dessous-chics/non-classe/dieudonne-%C2%AB-je-suis-un-islamo-chretien-%C2%BB/
noboddy's business ygo
Hi again, my comment was posted as when I shared the article the title still showed “muslim comedian”. Dieudonné is on a lucrative crusade against the state and the zionist lobby. His whole battle is made of important truths, state oppression, brave stances, and sadly opportunistic choices one can hardly tell if they are made to piss off everyone, make money, or because he believes in them.
Islam and Christianity share a lot of ethical values, solidarity, forgiveness, non violence, and that are the rules he claims to live by.
It’s also a good way for him to kick on Judaism once again by associating 2 of the 3 major monotheist and showing he’d welcome any religion but not judaism because he doesn’t think it holds up to the same values.
Seeing as he frequently presents himself as a christian in his own “newsreport” and jokes on people thinking he’s a muslim, I’ve no doubt that the islamo-christian term is just a cheesy catch-phrase.
I still have an immense respect for the guy as a humourist, and think what the french goverment and zionist lobby has been doing to him for close to 10 years now is outrageous. And listening to our prime minister blab about antisemitic crimes in france and how our nation must stand up against this (close to non existent) evil, while no official speeches were made after the many attacks on Mosques and against muslim people in the wake of the Charlie massacre, and our police still controls brown and black people 6 to 10 times more often than whites clearly shows the double standard and hypocrisi he started fighting against.
Mike Sulzer
I would like to emphasize what Mona mentioned earlier. In Glenn’s previous post, MajorGreek commented that the CH material is in support of extreme secularism, not free speech. That is, CH is concerned with satirizing religion when it might be a threat to the secularity of the French republic, not with free speech as such. Thus the justification for the arrest today is something very different since it can be interpreted as encouraging terrorism.
I think this is all wrong. In the first place, such material in defense of secularity does not appear to be allowed equally across all religions. Islam and Christianity are unlimited targets of opportunity, but Judaism requires care. If so, then this is wrong. In the second place, the comment that got this comedian arrested seems to support equality, a concept just as important as secularity. What can be more equal that “if you attack us, we attack you”?
-Mona- Mike Sulzer
I think this is all wrong.
As do I, and I said so to MajorGeek. S/he and other French people defend blasphemy, the ban on the veil & all that as essential to “fraternite.” They believe this is essential to “Frenchness,” which must be secular.
While I insist on understanding how the French generally see the blasphemy issue, I do NOT agree with them. Aggressive secularism at law is inimical to individual liberty. The issue must be one of free speech, but the French are not particularly interested in that.
24b4Jeff
“That’s because “free speech,” in the hands of many [word deleted], actually means: it is vital that the ideas I like be protected, and the right to offend groups I dislike be cherished; anything else is fair game.” Says it all. Otherwise, good job, Glenn!
To imply that the entire free speech march was a scam because the majority (out of millions of people!!) is not protesting this case is the exactly the same as saying that Greenwald is a hypocrite for denouncing this case but not joining the march last week. I`m sure a lot of people are hypocrites, many others are ignorant, others are not equally motivated by both situations, but making the assumption that the it was just a huge scam by a huge mass of people is hugely problematic. It also sounds a bit petty.
Gog Diogo
What is a scam is French *leaders* (including the especially scary Manuel Vals) pretending to care about freedom of speech and at the very same time sending people they don’t like to jail under the new “apology of terrorism” laws.
The millions of people in the march cannot be called “hypocrites” because they are not the ones sending people with unpopular opinions to jail for years after speedy, totalitarian “trials”; but French leaders sure can be described that way.
Diogo Gog
So you think the French president is deciding who should go to jail?! Do you have any understanding about how the judicial system works?
In a free country that values free speech, I do. Not sure how it works in France though.
By the way, are pro-Palestine marches and the BDS movement still banned over there, or has the French president decided to allow them again?
the pair Diogo
you mean the one where legal authorities act on the laws written by politicians and their owners? obama, hollande, harper and their ilk have no say in who does or doesn’t serve time? or was nixon pardoned by some judge i’ve never heard of?
Thelma Follett
Now you’re talking, Glenn! I was beginning to get a little worried about you……
Sam Hopkins
It’s not so crazy to think that if speech is to be regulated, it should be regulated by the state and not by random people with guns. Well, it is a little crazy because it means you don’t really believe in free speech.
Jon K.
Then perhaps it’s a mistake to think it was just a free speech march, since it was also a statement in defiance of terrorism. But you have to erase terrorism to have free speech. Hebdo was about free speech but was also anti-terrorism. Free speech allowed them to publish. Terror tried to censor them but it back fired. The big joke is on the terrorists because both IS and AQ now want to boast of this ignorant crime. I assume they both are lying. They practice every other type of sin.
Glenn, thank you for all your work and for your passion. I for one have learned and been enlightened by you over the past couple of years. However, IMHO I think the lawyer in you is getting the better of you. While I believe that you are factually correct in most if not all the arguments that you make, I think you are wrong in appreciating the threat that Islamic extremists present to modern civilization. It isn’t that Chrisian or Jewish extremist are any less threatening or by definition any extremist is less so. It is that Islamic extremist form such large majority of societies around the globe and across all levels of society – from ruling class of Saudi Arabia to the working person in Iran. In EVERY Muslim society, including the most “modern” Turkey, meaningful population of minorities have simply been eliminated – any minority, religious or alternative free thinkers. People who aren’t constitutional lawyers or have to balance more variables than personal purity will often do things and say things less eloquently than yourself or other intellectuals like yourself. However, the threat is REAL and it is coming from how Muslim majority societies choose to treat minority groups (any minority) living within. The fear is as real as the destruction of Rome when a small group of extremists called the Christians took control and humanity was set back for 1,500 years. You’re absolutly correct that how the western society is dealing with the threat is stupid, unsustainable and a total failure. However, my advice to you is that you use your soapbox more intelligently to help save the modern civilization from another religious extremist movement in less then two thousand years.
What is missing from headlines major news headlines like “French comedian arrested for inciting terrorism is context” is the context. By now all media clearly state that Dieudonné has been arrested for posting ““Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.” But only one has noted the context.
In a separate post, the comic wrote an open letter to France’s interior minister.
“Whenever I speak, you do not try to understand what I’m trying to say, you do not want to listen to me. You are looking for a pretext to forbid me. You consider me like Amedy Coulibaly when I am not any different from Charlie,” he wrote. [Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/01/14/french-comic-arrested/21742057/
Greenwald, together with the link to his previous piece, has the courage to write these articles which at the very least should stimulate intellectual curiosity – which is really what a news correspondent should do. When I read it with an open mind, I do not see favoritism to one religious group or another, but rather some high-level observations on perhaps “freedom of speech” bias that he sees. He may be wrong or he may be right. But that is the gist of stimulating intellectual curiosity and true freedom of speech.
Problem is, with this rhetoric Greenwald is giving comfort precisely to those groups who want to restrict free speech protections, like most of Brazil`s left/progressive movement (which appears is negatively influencing Greenwald`s views lately). This is a moment to double down on the affirmation of free speech that gained momentum with the Charlie Hedbo`s case, not undermine the entire thing.
Brazil`s left/progressive movement (which appears is negatively influencing Greenwald`s views lately)
I have been wondering about this on the issue of free speech.
It seems clear that GG’s views on this subject have changed with time. While I am, of course, the last person to criticize anyone for changing his or her mind, it would be very interesting to hear why GG changed his.
barncat Gator90
Isn’t it clear that he’s prioritizing protection of Muslims over defense of free speech? That wasn’t the case in 2006/7.
Doug Tarnopol -Mona-
No, it’s just that Greenwald sticks to the concept of free speech, is all. It’s not hard to follow or understand, and we don’t need to invent spooky Brazilian anti-free-speech fumes to account for it. Read the article again; and the former one on Hebdo. He’s utterly on-point about what free speech is, the new, added principle of valorizing any given free speech in the act of protecting all free speech, and how tellingly selective it all is.
I know that he’s actually making more than one point here; is that the problem? Too complex for ya? :)
-Mona- Doug Tarnopol
No, it’s just that Greenwald sticks to the concept of free speech, is all.
In February of 2006, about the Danish Mohammed Cartoons, Glenn wrote: “As I’ve said before, I believe the press ought to publish those cartoons as a means of defending their right to publish ideas free of intimidation and attack.”
He seems to be changing his mind about that, tho he won’t directly address the question.
Moreover, and to my surprise, he recently endorsed expelling a member of Brazil’s congress for the man’s rape insult stated to another member in the context of a report concerning (among other things) rape.
Gog -Mona-
What does the Brazil thing have to do with “Freedom of Speech”?
For your information, free speech means that the government cannot prosecute you for your opinions and ideas (exactly what is happening to Dieundone); not that you won’t suffer any consequence from them.
Moreover, if I remember correctly, in Brazil the decision to expel this member of Congress or not was a political decision determined through a vote in parliament. So, nothing to do with free speech or “hate crimes” laws.
So, nothing to do with free speech
It has everything to do with free speech, as well as the voting rights of the congressman’s constituents. To expel him is to deny his constituents the right to choose their elected representative based on his speech.
i’m pretty sure he cited more than one incident in that article. and saying “i disrespect your prophet(s)” is hardly the same thing as “i’ll fuck your ass whether you like it or not, slut”. many places have laws against making threats of bodily harm or death and, ideally, those are fine.
Glenn Greenwald Diogo
This is a moment to double down on the affirmation of free speech that gained momentum with the Charlie Hedbo`s case, not undermine the entire thing.
This makes zero sense. I am steadfastly opposed to the criminalization or suppression of all ideas – whether from Charlie Hebdo or this French comedian. That’s exactly what I thought in 2000 and 2005 and 2010.
I’ve changed my mind on all sorts of things over the years – Abraham Lincoln said “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday”. That includes the affirmative obligation of media outlets to publish anti-Islam cartoons in “solidarity” (as opposed to because they’re newsworthy”).
But one thing I haven’t changed my mind on is the free speech issues I’ve written about today.
There’s no point in pretending that this last week’s movement was about “free speech” when it so plainly wasn’t.
-Mona- Glenn Greenwald
Oh good, a direct answer. You have changed your mind.
Which means, you are now wrong.
I’d say he’s right. Moreover, though he didn’t say it and might not agree, I do think context matters as well. I certainly don’t think that now is the time to add to the potentially vicious cycle, with all that’s at stake. You may label that Spineless Appeasing Cowardice. Fine. “Hitchensu Akbar!”
At some point, and maybe we’re there now, this will become the global equivalent of shouting “fire” in crowded theater.
How many lives is yet another insulting picture of Muhammad worth? Sure, they have the right. Sure, the right is important — crucial, even. Happily granted.
But only a rigid fundamentalist ignores all context. France can’t, and shouldn’t, ban it — as they do other speech, hypocritically, which is, like, sorta telling.
Hebdo and the moral-panicking, blind supporters they have picked up in droves (aptly ridiculed by that Dutch Hebdonian), might have used their fifteen minutes to explain where they’re coming from and why.
Here’s something more useful Hebdo might have done: Publish, in Arabic, a sober, un-Hebdoian explanation of why the West believes so much in free speech. Including all the hypocrisies, in France, and elsewhere, but really explaining what it is, why it’s important, and all that. Firm, but polite — explaining why “we” do it. A bit about the history of French satire since the revolution, etc.
And invite responses.
And the only satirical cartoon would be something that satirized both their compadres’ death and especially the moral panic of craziness that blew up around them.
And maybe, like, some understanding of how the West has battered and humiliated and exploited the Arab-Muslim world, concentrating especially on France.
Other than that, no art; just words. How’s that for a switcharoo; how’s that for a shock? Wanna really shock? Go serious and empathetic. Maybe link to this to show what the two cultures can achieve together: http://vimeo.com/80222634
Oh, well. Ain’t gonna happen.
There are many options between “cowardly appeasement” and further provocation. This isn’t a schoolyard fight. How many lives should we risk, right here and now, over this? Please do give me a number.
As anyone who’s been in any kind of stable relationship knows, it often doesn’t really matter how “right” either party is. Certainly not how my wife and I approach these things: we deal with the inevitable conflict, irrationalities (shared or not), mistakes, and all that with patience, empathy, and tolerance. Neither of us really cares who’s “right.”
But that kind of approach requires, like I said, empathy — the empathy between peers who are fighting for something more than self. Too few of those on either “side” of this silly, but increasingly dangerous, binary.
Is it just all about narcissism? Or do we really want to live together?
Mona Williams Doug Tarnopol
Doug Tarnopol:
A thoughtful, humane comment. Thank you.
Diogo Glenn Greenwald
It was about free speech for a lot of people, man! It spearheaded a huge, deep debate about free speech, limits on free speech and so on. It certainly did have an impact on the free speech debate here in Brazil, where “leftists and progressives” have a momentum in passing laws curbing free speech and instituting controls over media content. The people pushing for this agenda were this same type of cynical argument that you’re using – all, it is all a sham, everyone is just closeted Islamophobe and racists. You seem to forget that ideas, debates are not only about the big media, governments, etc. Regular people are also paying attention and you are helping shape public opinion, and not just in the US.
It is ok to change about publishing cartoons in solidarity, but I think you also changed your attitude about defending free speech against the PC police. At the very least, you changed your priorities, passing the opportunity to speak up about that and choosing instead to denounce EVERYONE in the WEST.
John Glenn Greenwald
While it’s true that the stated purpose of the movement may have been largely impure or insincere, freedom of speech (much like any enlightened principle) can find it’s place in any situation, even if that place is commenting on the irony of the whole situation.
pear Glenn Greenwald
“Seriously?? If it had nothing to do with broader values of free speech and free expression, why did it attract millions of people and the leaders of dozens of countries around the world, when virtually no other cases of MASS MURDER do? And why was it the site of numerous people proclaiming support for free expression, with many others using it to declare a “war against civilization”?”
You contradict yourself.
There’s is truth in what you are saying: anti-hate-speech laws cause self-censorship, and the public outcry was greater than it would have been had, say, the staff of a anti-western newspaper been massacred. But have more trust in the people who say they rallied behind CH for the right reasons.
There’s a perfectly sensible reason why people would rally behind CH and not the comedian: the massacre of a newspaper staff is shocking and – in my limited knowledge – unprecedented in modern times, at least in the west. Police harassment for online speech is, sadly, an everyday event. Rallying behind everyone who is censored online would be a full time job; rallying behind groups suffering massacres is, thankfully, a rare task. Hopefully, someday, there will be mass demonstrations against online censorship, but the fact that that hasn’t happened doesn’t make hypocrites of them all.
There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the murders generated such outcry and the arrest did not: mass murder of journalists happens extremely rarely (I personally don’t know of any other situation where it happened). Arrests for criminalized speech online happen on a regular basis. So not only did the CH attacks do more damage, they forcaused much more shock. Hopefully people will protest in mass against online censorship, too, but that will likely take a particularly egregious abuse of power before it happens.
In general I wish Glenn Greenwald would take a more sympathetic view of the protesters and take them at their word. Yes, it is true that the protests would likely have been smaller if the attack had happened against a newspaper that most French had strong opinion against or was otherwise perceived to be not on their side, but that doesn’t mean that the same kind of demonstrations wouldn’t have attracted millions.
[Note to comment reviewer: I submitted more-or-less the same comment two days ago and it was never posted to the site. If you still have the original, please post that, my memory of it is that it was worded a bit better. If the problem was with the fact that I’m using a throwaway email account (which I do check for a few days after posting, btw), then I suggest you update your policies to allow throwaway email accounts – surely, in the wake of Snowden’s leaks, your site should support attempts at remaining anonymous online. If the message was simply misfiled into a spam folder, then I just hope this one gets through.]
Doug Tarnopol
Hey, Glenn: it was brought to my attention that this dude isn’t actually Muslim. Wikipedia says nothing about it (which is not, as you’d say, “dispositive”). And doesn’t really super-undermine your point, if true.
I haven’t read the article yet; just the headline, but when I posted it on the Book of Face, an actual French Muslim friend of mine made that retort.
Doug Tarnopol Doug Tarnopol
Oh, I see you were changing it as I was commenting!
Technical note, Glenn: The new URL still generates the word “Muslim” in the title when posted to Facebook. At least on my system. :)
Pierrick P.
1) You argue that westerners – french in this case – love “suppressing ideas they dislike while venerating ideas they prefer” citing an example of a writer fired from Charlie. Yes, Philippe Val fired Siné in 2008, about a sentence regarding French President’s son Jean Sarkozy which, Philippe Val argued as a motive for firing, was “anti-semitic”. But it was Philippe Val, and only him, who thought it was anti-semitic (and some jewish organizations).
Three things to consider :
* Siné argued from the beginning that he was not fired for this sentence but for editorial disagreements with Philippe Val, and that the “anti-semitic” claim was just a red herring for editorial disagreements with Philippe Val regarding Clearstream (and Val could not fire for this reason) ;
* French courts considered Siné was fired abusively (yeah, we have laws protecting against that), that the speech could not be considered antisemitic, that Siné was exercing his right to satire, and Charlie was fined for Philippe Val decision ;
* Philippe Val was named just the year later head of a national radio. The press largely attributed this nomination to a pressure by Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. He is a friend of both.
So basically, this can only be considered “suppressing or venerating ideas they prefer or dislike” by twisting the fact really hard: this had nothing to do about anti-semitism, and the motive of Philippe Val is, to say the least, questionable.
2) The Dieudonné case is a bit more complicated. He was well-liked until a bad stand-up on french TV where he dressed as a nazi, which made everybody feel weird, and he was criticized for that. It could have been okay, but then he associated himself politically with racists and negationists – for provocation he argued – but it made a lot of people starting to see his stand-ups much more as a political platform than a humorous stand-up. And it went downhill from here. And yes, that didn’t help and he was convicted multiple times for hate speech.
3) It’s true, there is one ex-writer of Charlie Hebdo, that thinks that the newspaper, created in 1968, is now islamophobic since he left. I disagree with him. There are more covers than before about mocking islam, for sure, but there is also a rise of a kind of terrorism that claims to be islamic since 9/11, which made it a perfect opportunity for this newspaper, who ridicules all beliefs… to ridicule islamic belief. But looking at covers before 9/11, one could have argued easily that the newspaper was “christianophobic” using the same arguments.
4) Hahaha, that was a good one! Bernard Henri Lévy is not “France’s most celebrated public intellectual”. I have absolutely no idea where does that comes from. He is often ridiculed (Botul / the rice bags / Desproges etc.), and is largely more considered a public figure than an intellectual — although I guess he would love to be considered as one.
5) Basically, you misinterpreted a lot of facts to claim that free speech in France is not really free speech. And it’s true. We have anti-negationist laws, we have hate speech laws etc. and I’m against most of those, so I could easily support your case. But the examples you chose to illustrate your point are real bad, and it seems like you just wanted to do french bashing.
You have rambled on and on…he is a known anti-semite..the cartoonists were taking the piss out of everyone… so how dare you compare
Go Ra
What are you talking about? He is not muslim but atheist this uncle believe in everything, himself and nothing. Dont tell me the politics are Christian cause hate is not reigious type.
Why has the comedian been arrested for his free speech. It was his right to use freedom of speech.
As a Jewish guy, with barely any relatives left due to the Holocaust, I know there is close to a zero percent chance that Greenwald will ever defend Jews even one hundredth as much as he defends Muslims.
As a Jewish guy whose few relatives that do still exist are suffering from antisemitism right now, I know that Glenn Greenwald will never be in my corner.
If something offends Muslims or Islam, Greenwald will pounce on it.
If something demonizes Israel, Greenwald will almost always support it.
If something harms Jews, Greenwald will either whitewash it, or go silent on it.
Let’s cut to the chase. Radical Jews don’t advocate killing non-jews. Radical Muslims advocate killing all non-Muslims. If radical Muslims would just live and let live, anti-Muslim sentiments wouldn’t exist.
OK, I’ll try again.
In the summary under the headline for this article on the main page, who is trying to “criminalize the ideas they like”?
Shouldn’t it be “don’t like”?
Or am I just too sleep deprived for coherent thought today?
Gee.
Helpful bunch here today.
What is missing from headlines major news headlines like “French comedian arrested for inciting terrorism” is the context. By now all media clearly state that Dieudonné has been arrested for posting ““Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.” But only one has noted the context.
Long ago, I realized to my disdain, that the world is full of hypocrites and if not hypocrisy, then illogical and inconsistent thinking. We are all doomed because most people are morons with limited thinking capacitites who are in the majority and have the power to rule over the rest of us.
I think this argument should be made and it’s fair enough to point out this double standard. But take issue with this:
“Despite the obvious threat to free speech posed by this arrest, it is inconceivable that any mainstream western media figures would start tweeting “#JeSuisDieudonné” or would upload photographs of themselves performing his ugly Nazi-evoking arm gesture in “solidarity” with his free speech rights. That’s true even if he were murdered for his ideas rather than “merely” arrested and prosecuted for them.”
First, no one has an idea what the reaction would be if Dieudonné were murdered. I can easily make an argument to the contrary since it’s simple conjecture. Speaking of conjecture, perhaps I’ll try a bit of mine own. What are the odds, you you think, that he will be murdered for his statement? Look, arrest, incarceration, sacking from employment all are terrible especially for thought crime. I just take exception to equivalence because everyone knows there isn’t one.
I have plenty of problems with US policy, EU legal restriction on speech, Israeli policy toward Palestinians, but cliaming there would be no outcry for Mr Dieudonné when we don’t really know is unfair. On top of which I think we can confidently say his life is not in danger in France, I think that’s a salient distinction.
Glenn, perhaps it is the word “solidarity” is getting in the way. I insist, as you once did vis-a-vis the Danish Cartoons, that the blasphemous (of Mohammed) Charlie Hebdo cartoons should be widely published to make clear that Western media will not be terrorized into self-censorship of “blasphemy.” (Jeremy Scahill has documented that AQAP cites — repeatedly — blasphemy against the Prophet, not racism, as the “reason”” for executing 12 people.)
Do you believe that media should collectively defy terrorist attempts to prevent the publication of materials deemed blasphemous?
Glenn Greenwald -Mona-
Glenn, perhaps it is the word “solidarity” is getting in the way. I insist, as you once did vis-a-vis the Danish Cartoons, that the blasphemous (of Mohammed) Charlie Hebdo cartoons should be widely published to make clear that Western media will not be terrorized into self-censorship of “blasphemy.”
Should French journalists run around making Dieudonné’s Nazi-inverted arm salute, and expressing solidarity with the Paris shooters, to show they will not be terrorized into self-censorship by the French state?
Where are your #JeSeusDieudonné tweets?
Nazi salutes are not blasphemy. Blasphemy is a religious infraction; it only hurts some imagined god. The West has fought long and hard for the right to commit blasphemy unmolested.
Again: Do you believe that media should collectively defy terrorist attempts to prevent the publication of materials deemed blasphemous?
JLocke -Mona-
“Blasphemy is a religious infraction; it only hurts some imagined god”
1 It is mere-mortals who decide what is and isn’t blasphemous..
2 Whether of not a mere-mortal categorizes a message as blasphemous, if the message hurts anyone, it hurts real people, not imaginary, or real gods.
Definition of blasphemy includes insulting “sacred” things. It appears that this was an insult against a sacred symbol – i.e. Mr. Dieudonne’s actions fall within the definition of blasphemy. Perhaps the solution is to narrow the definition to suit the argument? Or, should Mr. Dieudonne file a lawsuit while he rots in jail?
-Mona- Jay
Mr. Dieudonne’s actions fall within the definition of blasphemy
No, they don’t. Not as defined in good faith by reasonable people.
Why do you find Mr. Hebdo’s actions as protected speech, but not Mr. Dieudonne’s?
What scholarly authority did you use to arrive at your definition? Absent consistent and enforceable rules for everyone, it is tyranny. Is it not?
Huh? I promise to quit the Internet if you can cite an authentic quote of me saying Dieudonne’s speech under current discussion should not be protected.
Okay! I must have completely misunderstood the point you were trying to make.
So, you agree that both forms of expression should be fully protected?
Benito Mussolini -Mona-
Race, religion, culture – it’s merely a pragmatic choice of the best wedge to create an us vs. them scenario. All human societies define themselves this way. As Condoleeza Rice stated, ‘we need a common enemy to unite us’.
suave Benito Mussolini
‘we need a common enemy to unite us’ -condy
Was she referring to the fan-base of Texas Christian University (tcu)??
https://twitter.com/AmandaBusick/status/554844375935488000/photo/1
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CTPatriot -Mona-
Leaving aside the argument over what speech should be legal or acceptable and what shouldn’t, how can you possibly think that blasphemy against some imagined god does not hurt the people who ardently believe in it, and does not then play a role in stoking the fires of bigotry against that group of people? How do you think Christians in this country would react if cartoonists started putting out images that mocked or ridiculed Jesus? How would Jews react if cartoonists put out images mocking the torah, Moses, etc.? Do you think they would not immediately scream anti-semitism and try to get those cartoonists fired?
One has to recognize that along with free speech comes the responsibility of recognizing when things that you say or write are going to be hurtful to someone, and could result in backlash against you, and could also result in actual physical harm to the group you attacked by helping to turn them into the hated “other” as was so effectively done to German Jews in the 1930’s and 1940’s. I chafe when I see the cartoons of that era which mocked Jews and helped create stereotypes that, to some extent, live on to this day (as someone who is Jewish, this is something I know from firsthand life experience).
As an anecdote to provoke some critical thinking, I remember how much I loved Polock jokes when I was in high school. The stereotypes they created left me believing that Polish people were really stupid. They became “the other” to me because of those jokes. Then I went off to a college that happened to have a high percentage of students who came from Polish immigrant families. A number of them became my fraternity brothers. I quickly learned that those jokes were (a) not true and (b) very hurtful to them. They were no longer “the other”, but my brothers, my best friends and some of the hardest working, smartest, most amazing people I had met. It was a powerful lesson for me. Just as it was being only the second Jewish brother in the house and seeing how my example helped to destroy the stereotypes many of my brothers had about Jews. Because just as I had never known people who were Polish before, they had never known anyone that was Jewish.
In situations like that, you learn that living together in harmony requires understanding and sensitivity towards others and knowing what hurts them, particularly when they are a minority within the group. It seems to me that the same thinking should apply when it comes to blasphemous imagery and commentary.
-Mona- CTPatriot
How do you think Christians in this country would react if cartoonists started putting out images that mocked or ridiculed Jesus?
You mean like Piss Christ? Or perhaps you mean The Last Temptation of Christ? Or maybe you mean the play Corpus Christi? Then again, you could have in mind the mockery of the Last Supper in the movie M*A*S*H?
Blasphemy is a violation of a mere idea. It does not insult the attributes of a people, the way racism or sexism do. It is fundamental to a liberal collectivity that ideas may be criticized and even mocked.
leftahead CTPatriot
Mona: It is every bit as fundamental to a liberal collectivity that the attributes of a people, as well, may be criticized or even mocked. Or any other damn thing we choose to criticize or mock. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the only distinction you’re (unwittingly) drawing between blasphemy and racism/sexism is that the latter offends you but the former does not. That happens to be how I feel about them, too, but the free expression of any idea is equally deserving of our defense.
leftahead wrote;
Or any other damn thing we choose to criticize or mock. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the only distinction you’re (unwittingly) drawing between blasphemy and racism/sexism is that the latter offends you but the former does not.
Racism and sexism offend me, it is true, and blasphemy does not, that is also true. But that is not the distinction I make. Rather, I remove blasphemy from the category of “hate speech.”
But I ardently believe that both blasphemy and hate speech ought to be protected speech.
Benito Mussolini CTPatriot
Blasphemy is a violation of a mere idea
Some people can be as strongly attached to their religious identity as to their racial identity or sexual identity or their nationality, or even more so.
For example, race is an artificial human construct which has little or no scientific basis. Historically, we have used certain physical characteristics to define a particular group as a race. In actuality, all humans share the same basic genetic traits, and the distinctions we make are essentially arbitrary. In the US, due to the history of slavery, race has a special emotional resonance. An outsider, unaware of context, could easily assert that racial stereotypes were simply funny, and that since race was a ‘mere idea’, no one should take offense.
A person’s religious beliefs can define them. You have a right to mock those beliefs, but should not be surprised if you stir up strong emotions. Many wars have been fought for religion. Mere ideas can be quite powerful.
barncat CTPatriot
You have a right to mock those beliefs, but should not be surprised if you stir up strong emotions.
No one is surprised by that. The problem is the violence.
In the US, due to the history of slavery, race has a special emotional resonance. An outsider, unaware of context, could easily assert that racial stereotypes were simply funny, and that since race was a ‘mere idea’, no one should take offense.
It is empirically demonstrable that some people have very dark skin and negroid features. Hating people for such things is to hate them for physical traits, and is irrational. It is empirically demonstrable that some people are female, and that some people couple with their same-sex. These are facts.
The idea that invisible daddies inhabit the sky is irrational nonsense, and no fact; a mere idea that I am free to dismiss as nonsense. Notions of what the invisible daddy wants humans to do, or not do, ha ve been a source of enormous conflict and harm, all based on mere assertion.
People are free to worship their respective invisible daddies. But other humans are free to strongly criticize those evidence-free beliefs, even to the point of ridicule and mockery. Our human world has been, and still is, strongly influenced by these irrational beliefs; it is not wrong to put them up to harsh criticism.
@Mona
For some people, skin color may be fundamentally important. For others, it may be their most deeply held religious beliefs. Properly insulting them requires study on a case by case basis. You are glibly assuming that your own values are universal.
You are glibly assuming that your own values are universal.
No, I’m asserting that skin color is real. Sky Pixies are not.
Skin color is real. A person’s religious affiliation is real. The significance of those things is subjective.
Mona: why can’t you just answer the questions I asked?
.Mona: why can’t you just answer the questions I asked?
Sure, since after days of trying to get you to answer mine, you finally have.
There is no global fear of publishing Nazi salutes because of terror threats. Films, plays etc. depicting this are not under attack. So no, no one needs to publish Nazi salutes in “solidarity.”
By contrast, since at least 2006, the global media has been terrorized into not publishing blasphemy against a particular religious figure. More than 20 years ago, a novelist had to go into hiding for writing what was also deemed to be blasphemy against this figure.
Ahmed Glenn Greenwald
Maybe some outlets have not published the cartoons because they just find them distasteful?
You say there is no global fear of publishing Nazi salutes because of terror threats, and that might be right, but there is global fear of publishing Nazi salutes because of having your career ended or even having to face legal action.
Glenn Greenwald Glenn Greenwald
Mona: I’ll try it one more time:
I’d like a yes or no, please, or an explanation why one can’t be given.
If you don’t think there is extreme self-censorship going on as a result of these kinds of prosecutions, try going into a Muslim community in the west and asking if them if they feel chilled in their speech.
as one person said below, “blaspemy” can allude to anything deemed offensive to any ideology. for example, if you don’t think the israeli narrative hasn’t reached the status of “sacred” for many westerners then this must be your first time reading greenwald. ditto for anyone who dares to insult the “great god” of capitalism or our “saintly” troops.
but then i could just chalk this up to internet semantics and stop caring.
Right next to your #JeSuisMattHale tweets.
The French do not, remotely, stand for free speech. This isn’t news, and you and I have both had contempt for them on that ground since forever. For them, the value of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons is the celebration of BLASPHEMY. Whether you understand it or not, their whole knot of “liberte, egalite, fraternite” is founded on extreme secularism with a deep suspicion of religious claims. (As a people and state, they aren’t even consistent in this, but the leftists at Charlie Hebdo, by all evidence, have been.)
But for ME, the reason to republish the blasphemous cartoons, is because it is a species of speech that ought to be free, like many others species, including hate speech. Fuck the French — the issue is whether we — you and I and others — are going to let murderous fanatics all over the globe deny us the right to publish blasphemy.
Blasphemy against your own god is an act of rebellion (against religious authority). Blasphemy against someone else’s god is an act of provocation. In other words, it is an attempt to create an enemy.
I’m not sure why everyone seems so surprised when the attempt succeeds.
-Mona- Benito Mussolini
Oh bullshit. Jesus is not god. Virgins don’t give birth. There is no Sky Pixie named God the Father, Jehovah or Allah, and Mohammed is not the Pixie’s Prophet.
Human beings have a fundamental right to say these things.
barncat Benito Mussolini
Blasphemy against someone else’s god is an act of provocation. In other words, it is an attempt to create an enemy.
That’s not the only possible interpretation. The publication of the cartoons can be interpreted as an assertion of freedom in the face of a threat to that freedom:
[Flemming] Rose wrote the editorial which accompanied the [Danish] cartoons in which he argued there had been several recent cases of self-censorship, weighing freedom of speech against the fear of confronting issues about Islam, so he thought it was legitimate news story. ~Wikipedia
Mussolini:
Surely you don’t mean that Charlie Hebdo was attempting to provoke a deadly attack against itself.
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini
I have no knowledge of what they intended. They certainly have a right to create enemies by insulting whomever they wish. However, the old adage about choosing your friends carefully and your enemies even more carefully, does apply.
The role of the state is to protect the citizens against those enemies. It pains me to admit the state sometimes fails. However, by increasing its powers of surveillance, monitoring and policing, it should be possible to rectify this situation. The problem is that some people don’t trust the state with these increased powers. But how can people be free to insult whomever they like (in a manner the state approves), if the state cannot properly protect them?
thelastnamechosen Benito Mussolini
The problem is that respecting one person’s god disrespects another person’s god.
You can’t please all of the Gods all of the time. Which is generally why people pick only one to submit to at a time.
Kay -Mona-
Core of the problem is not blasphemous cartoons ,it’s just an exaggeration. The Islamist radical think that Sharia law should be implemented world wide and censorship of blasphemy is just part of their struggle.
Is reposting what many take to be racist, incendiary shit in this current context the sole way in which to show solidarity? That, and, of course, the holy hashtag. I thought GG was doing just what you suggest — solidarity with the principle. He’s just not getting on board with re-tweeting (or otherwise re-disseminating) what he takes to be racist trash or joining in the moral panic and fake, cheap Insta-bravery and epic hypocrisy that has settled over the land like fetid stench.
He’s carving out his own position, defining what he means and why. Takes more than a hashtag or tweet. Frankly, I happen to agree with him. I know, I know: he’s a cowardly appeaser. Whatever.
People. in human affairs, just as in science, there is usually more than one variable flying around.
Or, as my old prof used to say, “There are two, and only two, kinds of people in the world: those who constantly set up mutually-exclusive binaries…and everyone else.”
Those who want things simple are at least living next door to fundamentalism. Which I’d say is irony except that it’s exactly what should be expected. Rigid minds need each other to feed off of, just as they need mirrors in which to bask in their own reflected glory.
As Orwell noted somehwere, it’s the grammaphone mind that is the problem, not which particular record is playing at the moment.
It’s hard to disagree with the general thrust of this post. I agree with this part in particular:
“Perhaps the most intellectually corrupted figure in this regard is, unsurprisingly, France’s most celebrated (and easily the world’s most overrated) public intellectual, the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.”
A terrible philosopher. Mortimer J. Adler is much better. Especially his book “Aristotle for Everybody”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_J._Adler
Sandrahn
Glenn brings up the oft-repeated absurd distinction that anti-Muslim bigots use: “Islam is not a race” but “Jews are a race or separate ethnicity.”
For me this is the single most ignorant argument used by Islamophobes. As Glenn points out, there are caucasian Jews, African Jews – there are Asian Jews – the Jews of China and India most certainly are not the same “race” or “ethnicity” as the Jews of Ethiopia or Eastern Europe.
Jews are NOT a race nor a collective unified ethnicity – yet there is such a thing as anti-semitism. European religious bigotry against Jews in the medieval period INVENTED anti-semitism and RACIALIZED Jews into a separate “other” – transforming Jews into one undifferentiated indistinguishable mass embodied with certain physical/cultural/social stereotypes we are all familiar with – regardless of the fact that Jews are in fact a racially ethnically culturally diverse group of people. That’s the nature of all types of bigotry-to erase distinctions, complexity, humanity, individuality.
The reason that critics like Glenn and others push back against bigotry of Muslims is that is very clear what we are witnessing: the RACIALIZING of Muslims into a separate “other” – regardless of the fact that they are a racially, ethnically, culturally diverse group of people. We are seeing the same process occur before our eyes over the last 2 or 3 decades.
Bigotry is bigotry. And any rationalizations to explain double standards are not worthy of any respect whatsoever.
JLocke Sandrahn
Absolutely. Scientifically speaking, there has long been consensus that there is one human race. Anyone making an argument such as “Islam is not a race” is being misleading, or hasn’t followed the last few decades of modern science. The term “racism” is a sociological one and is applicable to anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim bigotry, just as much as anti-African bigotry. African humans are no more a separate “race” from Europeans than are Jews and Muslims separate from “whites”.
“Genetically speaking, studies have shown that there is much greater genetic variation within a given human population (e.g., Africans, Caucasians, or Asians) than between populations (Africans vs. Caucasions), indicating that human variation cannot be subdivided into discrete races.
It is history, not science,that reveals how the concept of different human “races” arose, how the term has become widely misused, and how it continues to pervade our planet. In fact, the word race has come to symbolize the division of humanity into segments, divisions that often lead to conflicts. Over centuries, people have used the word to divide us into black, white, yellow, red, and other distinctions in order to fulfill selfish goals and objectives. Whether those goals were to subjugate various groups of humans, deem them inferior or simply discriminate against them, the reality is that billions of people have been directly affected as a result of the misuse of the word race.
The end result, in its extreme form, has led to a plethora of existential crises such as segregation, slavery, violence, wars and genocides. One classic example is the dehumanization of millions of Jewish people by Germany and other European nations during the 1930s and 40s, and the colonization and slavery of Africans by European and North American nations is another. ”
http://www.livescience.com/47627-race-is-not-a-science-concept.html
Wnt JLocke
To me these distinctions seem vacuous. As practiced by the Nazis or even by society at large, the Jews were stigmatized for Jewish ancestry. Converting to Christianity did not get anyone a ticket out of Auschwitz or a place in a non-Jewish American college fraternity. But the feelings of modern anti-Islamic speakers are almost entirely ideological: they are more than eager to take up the cause of a Coptic Christian or even a Zoroastrian so long as the person himself doesn’t look up to Muhammad. While, yes, there are some ignorami who will simply look down on Arabs in general, they aren’t representative IMHO. So yes, neither Jewish nor Islamic religion is a race, but a belief anyone can change — though this is a contentious statement in the case of the latter, as you are defending the right to apostasy, something that can draw the death penalty even in “non-terrorist” Islamic states. But the targets of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim sentiments are on one hand a race, and on the other a religion.
Mirimir Sandrahn
Defining Jewishness is complicated. It’s a hot topic in Israel. Perhaps many of “the world’s Asian, black, Latino and white Jews” will be distinguished as merely descendants of converts, and not truly Jewish. So in that sense, maybe there is a Jewish race. But it’s arguably an increasingly exclusive one ;)
Fabrice Epelboin
“free speech”, is probably the most important cultural gap there is between the USA and France. Until now, it wasn’t such a problem, because without social media, there wasn’t really any way for many peoples to use free speech.
Good luck launching such a debate in France. Chomsky was labelled as a fascist here in France for having a first amendment advocacy point of view.
We have nothing like the first amendment, neither in our constitution, nor in the french culture. :(
The Republicans must be the only ones who still believe that Obama wants to close the Guantanamo torture camp, so they are drawing on the Paris shootings to argue that the innocent people held in Cuba by Obama should not be released:
“At a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Ayotte argued the administration’s increased clip of transfers was dangerous because it could allow detainees to re-enter the terrorism fight, citing the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.
“It’s one thing to make a campaign promise,” she said, “but if you look at the security situation that we’re facing around the world right now, now is not the time to be emptying Guantánamo with no plan for how and where these individuals are going to go, no assurances of security of those who have been released.””
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/republican-senators-guantanamo-114223.html#ixzz3OnnVDwkB
I love this part “ if you look at the security situation that we’re facing around the world right now…”
Apparently violence anywhere in the entire world, including among French people in Paris France, constitutes “the security situation the US is facing”, and is cause for America to continue to hold prisoners, kidnapped abroad, tortured, held without trial, indefinitely.
calhouri
Pleased to see Levy getting the zetz from Glenn. I have always found him, as the French say, insupportable. Pompous and utterly infatuated with his own BS. Never was so happy as when that famous French satirical provocateur (forget his name) gave him the” entarte” (i.e. a cream pie in his smug kisser). First time I’ve had occasion to comment on Gleen since his Salon and Guardian piece. Keep the great (if lonely) work, mon ami!
Some here would have Mr. Dieudonné file a lawsuit! Dismiss the irony with statement of nuances. The capricious enforcement of an rules is the definition of tyranny. As difficult it is to face for our friends from the left and the right, it is not just France, it is right here at home as well.
them’s fightin’ words
An old-time expression interjected after one is on the receiving end of a harsh criticism. A fight will usually occur as a result.
Northerner: You’re a dumbass from the south, and so is your slave beating mother.
Southerner: (draws gun) Them’s fightin’ words!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=them%27s+fightin%27+words
notmyfault
I guess free speech is just for certain people.
wiltmellow
Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred – other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?
States have an interest in regulating speech.
Some speech can even be criminal. (Fraud, slander, incitement come to mind.)
However regulating ideas through the regulation of speech is like regulating sugar intake by regulating Big Gulp containers. It cannot be effective and even if it can be effective, it imposes such a burden on individual liberty that enforcement must become either comical or tragic. (See loosies for example.)
Ideas will somehow seep through the words no matter how repressive the State becomes.
The several millions of people who demonstrated against the attack on Charlie Hebdo speak far more loudly than a few lunatics who think they can control ideas through killing those who express those ideas (a more extreme example of State criminalized speech).
If I was scoring the radicals, I’d score the CH attacks a resounding defeat while scoring the subsequent arrest of a persistent advocate a huge success.
the pair wiltmellow
several of those “millions”, i’d safely guess the majority of them, spoke nothing but empty rhetoric and vapid slogans. mostly it was a typical display of the western ideal of “look how righteous and good i am when the media tells me to be”.
as for “lunatics who think they can control ideas through killing those who express those ideas”, that’s just too easy to ridicule and i have standards to maintain.
Those who demand equal rights should not accept rights that are unequal.
If the the utterance of a word is a crime, what is the thought? If this magazine can publish articles which are toxic to some groups why are the groups not allowed a retort. Just because someone does not agree with a point of view it does not make that view wrong.
Dietser
Just arrest all those people in France backing Israel for their actions against palestinians. Those are the ones who “defending terrorism” . HYPOCRITS
Fat Joe Dietser
Can you get the Arabs to leave the poor Hebrews alone? They’ve finally gotten a place to live of their own, so they shouldn’t be bothering you anymore. The ones you haven’t killed can just go there. Perfect for everybody.
avelna2001
I would like to think that the absence of any US political leaders at the Sunday Paris march was because the US was aware of how hypocritical it would have been to have participated. Too bad that’s not the case.
Sanskrit Jones
I agree that free speech is a tenuous thing, yet let’s be honest about both sides- do Jews control the media in the US -absolutely. Yet the notion that Islam is the religion of peace is load of crap. Look at the attitudes reflected in the pew trust survey regarding Muslim views worldwide. The Jewish media doesn’t have to work hard to make Muslims look like savages- they do a great job of it on their own.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/
The vast majority believe in murdering those who leave the faith. Rupert Murdoch can’t make that shit up folks.
http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/gsi2-overview-7.png
In terms of Dieudonné’s arm gesture being “obviously Nazi-evoking,” I think this article published by Diana Johnstone (before any of this Charlie Hebdo stuff happened) is at least worth considering. Dieudonné has clearly done a number of tasteless and offensive things, but I don’t know if this gesture is one of them, and he doesn’t seem to deserve to be linked with the Nazis:
On his recent tour of French cities, videos show large, packed theaters roaring with laughter at their favorite humorist. He has popularized a simple gesture, which he calls the “quenelle”. It is being imitated by young people all over France. It simply and obviously means, we are fed up.
To invent a pretext for destroying Dieudonné, the leading Jewish organizations CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France, the French AIPAC) and LICRA (Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme, which enjoys special privileges under French law) have come up with a fantasy to brand Dieudonné and his followers as “Nazis”. The quenelle is all too obviously a vulgar gesture roughly meaning “up yours”, with one hand placed at the top of the other arm pointing down to signify “how far up” this is to be.
But for the CRIF and LICRA, the quenelle is “a Nazi salute in reverse”. (You can never be too “vigilant” when looking for the hidden Hitler.)
As someone has remarked, a “Nazi salute in reverse” might as well be considered anti-Nazi. If indeed it had anything to do with Heil Hitler. Which it clearly does not.
Hahahahahaha ! He is not muslim … -_-
Glenn, are you really not going to distinguish between bigotry and inciting violence?
I guess this is the problem:
The Prime Minister Manuel Valls made an impassioned attack on the comedian in the National Assembly on Tuesday. He called him a “peddler of hate and said there should be no confusion between the ‘impertinent’ satire of Charlie Hebdo and ‘anti-semitism, racism and negationism’.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/quenelle-comedian-dieudonne-arrested-for-apology-for-terrorism-9976667.html
There is “confusion” about what is the difference between some of Charie Hebdo’s cartoons which are undoubtedly, in my mind racist, and some of Dieudonné comments, which again in my mind, are unquestionably racist. So I think that highlighting the hypocrisy of holding a march for one while prosecuting the other is a valid critique.
Both of these articles from the NYT this week:
– PARIS — French Jews, already feeling under siege by anti-Semitism, say the trauma of the terrorist attacks last week has left them scared, angry, unsure of their future in France and increasingly willing to consider conflict-torn Israel as a safer refuge.
– PARIS — Last week’s terrorist attacks without doubt set all of France on edge, but the sense of wariness, even siege, has grown increasingly profound among France’s Muslim population — the largest in Europe — which seems braced for a potential backlash, both political and personal.
I don’t think the problem is “Islam’s incompatibility with the west” any more than in the 30s it was “Judaism’s incompatibility with the west”. I think the problem is France’s bigotry towards minorities, all minorities. They’ve been ashamed of, covered up their Nazi collaboration, AND their colonial war crimes.
eddie-g
I don’t think there’s any other topic where Greenwald is more coherent and compelling. I know you’ve made me think very carefully about my own views on free speech.
And I distil them now as follows – publishing offensive words and imagery is NOT a noble free speech gesture. Defending the rights of those who publish views or images that you find personally offensive, is. That’s the standard by which we
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An Estimated Canadian DSGE Model with Nominal and Real Rigidities
Staff Working Paper 2001-26 Ali Dib
This paper develops a dynamic, stochastic, general-equilibrium (DGSE) model for the Canadian economy and evaluates the real effects of monetary policy shocks. To generate high and persistent real effects, the model combines nominal frictions in the form of costly price adjustment with real rigidities modelled as convex costs of adjusting capital and employment.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E32
New Phillips Curve with Alternative Marginal Cost Measures for Canada, the United States, and the Euro Area
Staff Working Paper 2001-25 Edith Gagnon, Hashmat Khan
Recent research on the new Phillips curve (NPC) (e.g., Galí, Gertler, and López-Salido 2001a) gives marginal cost an important role in capturing pressures on inflation. In this paper we assess the case for using alternative measures of marginal cost to improve the empirical fit of the NPC.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Economic models, Inflation and prices JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31
On Inflation and the Persistence of Shocks to Output
Staff Working Paper 2001-22 Maral Kichian, Richard Luger
This paper empirically investigates the possibility that the effects of shocks to output depend on the level of inflation. The analysis extends Elwood's (1998) framework by incorporating in the model an inflation-threshold process that can potentially influence the stochastic properties of output.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Inflation: costs and benefits JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E32, E5, E52, E58
Implications of Uncertainty about Long-Run Inflation and the Price Level
Staff Working Paper 2001-16 Gerald Stuber
This paper surveys recent developments in the theoretical and empirical literature on the economic implications of uncertainty about the longer-term outlook for inflation. In particular, the linkages between inflation, long-run inflation uncertainty, and aggregate economic activity in industrial economies have become considerably better understood during the past decade.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Inflation: costs and benefits JEL Code(s): E, E2, E22, E3, E31, E4, E44
The Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates: How Important Is It?
Staff Working Paper 2001-6 David Amirault, Brian O'Reilly
This paper surveys the literature on the zero bound on the nominal interest rate. It addresses questions ranging from the conditions under which the zero bound on the nominal interest rate might occur to policy options to avoid or use to exit from such a situation. We discuss literature that examines historical and country evidence, and literature that uses models to generate evidence on this question.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Credibility, Inflation targets, Transmission of monetary policy JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E5, E52, E58, E6, E61
On Commodity-Sensitive Currencies and Inflation Targeting
Staff Working Paper 2001-3 Kevin Clinton
Two aspects of the recent monetary history of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand stand out: the sensitivity of their dollars to prices of resource-based commodities, and inflation targeting. This paper explores various aspects of these phenomena.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, Inflation targets, International topics, Monetary policy implementation JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E5, E52, F, F3, F31, F4, F42
Technical Report No. 89 Seamus Hogan, Marianne Johnson, Thérèse Laflèche
The Bank of Canada uses core CPI inflation, the year-over-year rate of change of the consumer price index excluding food, energy, and the effects of changes in indirect taxes, as the operational guide for monetary policy.
Content Type(s): Technical Reports Topic(s): Inflation and prices JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31
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December 12, 2017 in Banking
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If you’re fed up with high bank fees, poor service and low interest rates, you may want to switch banks — or leave your bank for a credit union.
There was a time when choosing a bank was not a hard decision. “You used to just decide if you wanted to get a toaster or a microwave when you opened a new account, or go to the bank with the most convenient branch,” says Mitchell Freedman, founder and head of MFAC Financial Advisors Inc. in Westlake Village, California.
But steep fees and strict account rules abound, so comparison shopping is a must when switching banks.
“Today, bank fees can hit you in ways you never thought about, so you need to carefully compare your continuing costs of banking.”
The following questions can help you sort through the choices and find the bank that fits your needs.
1. How large a balance is needed to avoid fees?
A checking account that requires the customer to maintain a minimum balance to avoid monthly service fees doesn’t work for everyone. Let’s say you have a minimum balance requirement of $1,500. That’s pretty steep, especially if you’re paying bills and making everyday purchases from your checking account.
In addition to the monthly service fees, ask about other fees before you change banks. How much does the bank charge if you bounce a check? Is there a fee to close the account? What’s the charge to stop payment on a check? What’s the fee if you deposit a check from someone else that bounces?
“Be aware not only of the upfront price of opening an account but of continuing requirements,” Freedman says. “Some accounts require a direct deposit or a recurring payment through their site to avoid monthly service fees.”
2. How high are the fees for out-of-network ATMs?
“Most banks and credit unions participate in a network of ATMs, but if you rely often on an ATM for withdrawals, you should check on the fee for using an out-of-network machine,” says Susan Weinstock, an expert in consumer financial protections and former director of a consumer banking project at The Pew Charitable Trusts.
“Usually there’s no fee for using one in your bank’s network, but your bank or credit union should disclose the fee it charges for using another network,” she says. “There’s also a fee from the ATM owner, and that will be disclosed on the ATM itself.”
Freedman says consumers who travel often may want to open an account with a national bank that offers ATMs around the country.
“ATM fees may be less important to people who don’t use them a lot or who choose a bank or credit union with an ATM convenient to their work or home,” he says.
3. What are the overdraft protection options?
You hope you never have to rely on overdraft protection, but be sure you understand your options and their cost before you switch banks.
Weinstock says many consumers don’t understand that not signing up for overdraft protection can be a good thing. Your debit card will be declined or your check will bounce without it, but there’s no fee if you opt out of overdraft protection.
Overdraft fees for non-sufficient funds, or NSF, are big revenue for banks. People who overdraft regularly pay about $450 a year in overdraft fees, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
“If you opt in for protection, the cheapest way to do it is usually to have funds transferred from a savings account, a line of credit or a credit card,” Weinstock says.
Consumers should compare the transfer fee, overdraft penalty fee, maximum number of times an overdraft penalty fee is applied per day, minimum amount required to trigger an overdraft fee and extended overdraft penalty fee charged for each day the account is overdrawn.
“Overdraft protection is a double-edged sword,” Freedman says. “It can be terrific and enable you to lower your risk of a bounced check, but you could end up paying a high transaction fee and a hefty interest rate if you sign up for a line of credit.”
4. How soon are deposit funds available?
Some banks put a hold on certain types of deposits, but some deposits are credited instantly.
Federal Reserve regulations require that the first $200 of a non-“next-day” check be available the next business day after it’s deposited, but banks vary in how soon the rest of the deposit is available.
“Fund availability is extremely important, especially for people living paycheck to paycheck,” says Weinstock, who notes that some banks’ business day ends at 2 p.m. “… You need to check that information in their disclosure boxes.”
Ask about the bank’s process for handling deposits and withdrawals. Most banks process a deposit first and then the withdrawals from the same day, but others credit the deposit last.
“Some banks handle the largest withdrawals before smaller ones that come in on the same day, which can make it more likely that you’ll overdraw multiple times,” Weinstock says.
5. How much interest is paid on deposit accounts?
Interest rates on deposit accounts are low, so some consumers may be tempted to skip this question. But Weinstock says you should find out whether your account pays interest.
“The problem is the interest rate changes often,” Weinstock says.
You can ask how often interest rates are changed and whether there are minimum balance or other requirements to earn interest before you switch banks.
Banks that try to attract more deposits will offer special, high-interest accounts to customers who meet certain usage requirements such as multiple debit card transactions and direct deposit.
“Credit unions have been proliferating in recent years and often have lower fees and higher interest rates for deposits,” Freedman says.
6. Are mobile banking and online bill pay offered?
While most banks offer online bill-paying services, not all offer mobile banking options. You need to determine how you use your bank to decide which features matter most to you. Some customers need a bank with longer branch hours because they need in-person services. Others want the option of doing everything online, Freedman says.
“While technology has made banking convenient, there’s also a higher risk of identity theft,” Freedman says. “Part of being a wise shopper should be to ask about what protection is in place against fraud. Some financial institutions will alert you to unusual activity, but with others, you may not know anything is wrong until you receive your bank statement.”
You may want to compare the mobile apps from one financial institution to another to see which ones are the most functional for your needs before you switch banks.
7. Are rewards programs offered?
Once you’ve asked about some of the basics such as bank fees, overdraft protection options and ATM fees, you may want to compare rewards programs available on some checking accounts and savings accounts. Some banks offer rewards only on their credit cards, while others offer rewards to debit card users also.
“You need to be honest with yourself as to what’s important to you and how you use your bank accounts,” Weinstock says. “Do you keep a cushion in your account or take it down to the last penny? Do you regularly have direct deposits made? These things will impact the type of account you choose and the financial institution you choose.”
If you do qualify for a rewards program, Freedman recommends shopping for one that matches your interests before you switch banks.
“My wife loves cash-back rewards, but I am a fiend when it comes to accumulating airline miles,” Freedman says.
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“ONE OF THE GREATEST, MOST NOBLE AND SUBLIME POEMS WHICH EITHER THIS AGE OR NATION HAS PRODUCED”
MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. London, 1669.
First edition, fifth title page, of Milton's poetic masterpiece, his dramatic vision of Satan's expulsion from Heaven and the temptation of Adam and Eve. The excellent Macclesfield copy, with the arms of the Earls of Macclesfield in gilt on the front cover of the morocco binding by Hatton. "Rare" (Wickenheiser). $45,000.
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“TINY ECSTASIES SET IN MOTION”
DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. Boston, 1890, 1891, 1896. Together, three volumes. Rare Emily Dickinson collection, consisting of first editions, first printings of the first three books of her poetry. Only 500 copies of the First Series were printed, 960 copies of the Second Series, and 1000 copies of the Third Series. All three volumes are in original publisher's bindings. $29,000.
IMPORTANT SECOND APPEARANCE OF SHAKESPEARE’S COLLECTED POEMS, 1709, IN BEAUTIFUL COSWAY BINDING
SHAKESPEARE, William. A Collection of Poems. London, 1709.
Scarce first issue of the second appearance of a collection of Shakespeare's poems, preceded only by the very rare 1640 edition; this is the first collection to include "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," omitted in the 1640 edition. Splendidly bound by Riviere & Son in a Cosway binding with watercolor miniature portrait of Shakespeare—after the Droeshout portrait of 1622—inset into front cover, as well as a depiction of Venus and Adonis inset into the rear cover, both finely hand-painted on ivory by Miss C.B. Currie, one of the inventors of this style of binding, and protected by glass. $25,000.
"MA FACE PERDUE TA FACE ÉPERDUE / ENSEMBLE FONDU INTIMES CONFONDUES…"
PICASSO, Pablo and CESAIRE, Aime. Corps Perdu. Paris, 1950.
Striking first edition of this powerful celebration of black pride, number 42 of only 177 copies (out of a total edition of 219 copies) on Velin de Montval and signed by poet Aime Cesaire and artist Pablo Picasso, featuring poetry by Cesaire and 32 beautiful illustrations by Picasso (one etching, one etching and rupoint, 10 aquatints, and 20 engravings with burin). $24,000.
THE POETS OF AMERICA, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL BOUND IN, INCLUDING AN INSCRIBED WHITMAN ENVELOPE
STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence. Poets of America. Cambridge, 1885. Two volumes extended to six.
First edition, number 84 of 150 large paper copies, extra-illustrated with many engraved portraits and an extraordinary collection of autograph material from 54 different authors bound in. Very handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by the Monastery Hill Bindery. $19,000.
INSCRIBED BY DYLAN THOMAS TO U.S. POET LAUREATE STEPHEN SPENDER
THOMAS, Dylan. Twenty-five Poems. London, 1936.
First edition, first printing, presentation copy of Dylan Thomas' second book of poetry, inscribed to prominent literary figure and United States Poet Laureate Stephen Spender: "Stephen Spender. Dylan Thomas." $17,500.
"IN MEMORY OF THE MAD FEMALE NEIGHBOR OVER MINETTA'S"
GINSBERG, Allen. Howl. San Francisco, 1956.
First edition, first printing, one of only 1000 copies, of Ginsberg's definitive anthem of the Beat generation, inscribed on the title page to his longtime friend, Helen Elliott, a member of the New York literati and an ex-girlfriend of Lucien Carr, on of the dedicatees of the volume: "For Helen in memory of the mad female neighbor over Minettas—Alan." $17,500.
"BY DESIRE OF THE OWNER OF THIS BOOK, I APPEND MY NAME, WITH PLEASURE"
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. London, 1844. Two volumes.
First edition, mixed issue, one of only 1500 copies printed, warmly inscribed by Barrett's husband, the poet Robert Browning, after her death: "By desire of the owner of this book, I append my name, with pleasure. Robert Browning. March 25-'86." The copy of Louise Whitfield Carnegie, a prominent philanthropist and the wife of Andrew Carnegie, with her bookplates, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Zaehnsdorf. $17,500.
"A FECUND CROP THINE ACRES YIELD, WHICH I GATHER IN A SONG"
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Poems. Boston, 1847.
First American edition, second issue, presentation copy, of Emerson's first collection of poems, inscribed in the year of publication to the adopted daughter of Abel Adams, one of Emerson's closest friends and most trusted advisors: "Abby L. Adams from R.W.C. 25 Dec. 1846." $16,000.
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ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets. London, 1940-42. Four pamphlets.
First separately published editions of each of Eliot's Four Quartets, in their original paper wrappers, signed by Eliot on the title page of "Little Gidding." $15,800.
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Vellum Binding material made from specially treated calfskin—durable, with a distinctive ivory color and smooth appearance. Can be tooled in gilt or blind. So-called Japan vellum (or Japon) is a type of thick paper that has been polished smooth and given a glossy finish to resemble vellum.
Verso The back or reverse side of a leaf or page. (See “recto.”)
Woodcut Illustration or textual decoration made by cutting away from the surface of a block of wood until the reverse of the image is left in relief; this is then inked and pressed to the paper to leave the image. The woodblock, or multiple blocks, can be fit into the page along with the type, allowing text and illustrations to be printed in the same print run and share the same page (not possible with engravings, which require thicker, damp paper and much more force; nor with lithographs, which require a different printing process altogether). Woodcuts preceded moveable type and are the earliest known printing technology.
Wood-Engraving Engraving made with the graver or burin on the cross-section of a piece of boxwood; the harder wood and finer tools allow for more delicate, finely detailed images, while the block can still be set in the page alongside text and printed on the same stock as the text. While much older, wood engravings enjoyed an important renaissance in the late eighteenth century through Thomas Bewick and continued in popularity thorugh the nineteenth century.
Wormhole Tiny pinhole-sized trails left by bookworms as they eat through a text block. Much more common in older books printed on handmade papers with a high rag content than in books printed on manufactured papers made from wood pulp with a higher acidic content.
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Episode 1 - Trapped Beneath the Sea (1)
Mitch is becoming more interested in the private investigation business. Although he loves life guarding, he feels that he wants to try something else. And being a private investigator has always been one of Mitch's dreams. Therefore, he ends up starting a detective agency with Garner. Logan has together with his Aussie friend Gator, designed a line of Aussie beachwear. In order to get the clothes sold, Logan acts as if he is interested in Beth Campfield, the daughter of a man that can be a possible buyer. But Gator doesn't like Logan's way of making the deal happen. He feels like Logan is getting all the credit for their work. When a girl gets bitten by a rattlesnake, Caroline and Logan have to make a quick rescue and call an ambulance. Meanwhile, Neely Capshaw returns to Baywatch. Stephanie was forced to rehire her when she dropped her lawsuit against the County, Baywatch and Matt. When C.J. finds out about Neely's return, she gets real upset, and the two girls immediately get into a
Logan alerts headquarters about the accident at the oil platform. After that, he dives down to rescue Stephanie and Tom and bring them to safety. Inside the platform, Cody is forced to rescue Neely who is stuck under a ladder. Then they locate Fern and Larry and finds out that Larry is trapped and can't feel his legs. When the lifeguards and the Coast Guard arrive, they plan to lift the platform because the only way to get in is from underneath. The Coast Guard boat has a bowing tender with a cargo boom that can take 15 tons, and with the help of that, they plan to lift the platform. Newmie and Barnett check on the lifting while Mitch, Stephanie and Logan enters the platform from underneath. While they are inside the platform, the chains break loose and they have to make another lift. Before they leave the platform, the lifeguards have to put Larry on the ladder and use it as a backboard. When everyone is safe except for Mitch, the chains almost break loose again, but Newmie is able to
Episode 3 - Hot Stuff
Kaye Morgan is volunteering at the Malibu School for the Blind, and Hobie is helping her with the kids. The kids are supposed to boogie-board, but one of the kids Charlie doesn't want that. Instead Mitch gives him a metal detector to play with. Hobie also follows the kids Charlie, Peter, Melissa and Bonnie on a hike in the woods. But disaster is about to strike. A shattered bottle thrown from a passing car has ignited a dry brush, and by that created a huge wall of fire that blows through the canyon threatening hundreds of homes and also the kids on their hike. Especially Charlie who lost his sight in a fire. When they are about to return to the school, Charlie disappears and Hobie is forced to find him before it's too late. By doing so, he is forced to leave the other kids behind, but they are later taken care of by Kaye. When Mitch finds out about the situation, he heads out to rescue Hobie and Charlie. He arrive just in time to do so. Meanwhile, Logan thinks that Caroline and Cody h
Episode 4 - Surf's Up
Diablo Cove is one of the most popular surfing areas in Los Angeles. But unfortunately because of a storm drain, the water has been polluted and by that endangered the health of those surfing there. Cody and Neely take water samples there and discover dangerous levels of E Coli bacteria. But two teenagers named Stick and Daryl surf there anyway. When one of them gets sick and must be rescued by Cody and Neely, they discover that his back is completely covered with nasty rashes. After that, the lifeguards close the beach. After the close down, Mitch contacts Dave at the Surfrider Foundation. The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit organization created to clean up shoreline pollution. Dave has wanted the storm drain diverted for years, but the county always refuse. At the beach where the Surfrider Foundation is having a meeting, Stephanie meets her ex-husband Billy again. He has retired from his job in New York and moved back to L.A. He did so when he suffered from a minor heart attack.
Episode 5 - To Everything There Is a Season
Mitch's mother Irene comes to Los Angeles for her annual visit. However, this year Mitch and Hobie realize that everything isn't what it used to be. Irene not only forgets her carry-on bag on the plane, she goes onto the wrong plane as well. Because of this Mitch thinks that something is seriously wrong with her. Later Irene shows up at headquarters, telling Mitch she can't remember where Hobie's school is or the name of it. Mitch convinces Irene to see a doctor. It turns out that Irene has Alzheimer's disease. She wants to tell Hobie herself. She does that while they are walking in Venice and when Hobie goes to get some hot dogs, a mom and her child comes up to her asking for direction. When Irene doesn't remember the answer to their question, she gets confused and runs away. Hobie runs to headquarters and tells Mitch about it and he organizes a search. Meanwhile, Irene gets robbed by two guys and her purse is later found by Hobie, J.B. and Connor. Mitch is finally able to find Irene
Episode 6 - Leap of Faith
C.J. returns from France without Matt. She, Stephanie and Caroline are training some Junior Lifeguards. In order to improve the girls' lifeguard skills, they separate them from the boys. During an exercise where the girls are supposed to rescue a dummy, they get distracted by the boys instead and no one even notices the dummy who sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Then they decide that the only way to teach the girls teamwork, is to take them to Catalina. Unfortunately for them, Neely invite herself and C.J. and Caroline become furious. But the two of them decide to give Neely a chance. When two of the girls, Erika and Taylor get caught in a strong current and ends up trapped in a cave, the girls have to act as a team in order to get them out. The rescue is a success and the girls learn what teamwork is. Mitch is surprised when he receives a letter from the Superior Court. They are requesting him to appear for the reading of a will. According to the letter, Mitch has been named benefici
Episode 7 - Face of Fear
One of Hobie's friends almost die while he surfs at a place known as ""The Shredder"". Mitch gets real shaken up about the incident and tells Hobie that he could have been the one who almost drowned. Mitch closes down that section of the beach to keep anyone else from being killed there. But Mitch's signs doesn't stop Hobie's friend Isaac from going there to surf. He thinks he will get his father's attention by doing so. Hobie tells Mitch about it and he and Stephanie are able to rescue Isaac before he injures himself badly. When Mitch tells Isaac's dad about it, he gets upset and tells Mitch to mind his own business and then he leaves headquarters. The next day when Mr. Klein calls Mitch and Hobie and asks to speak with Isaac, Mitch figures out that something is wrong. Isaac didn't spend the night in their home. Mitch asks Mr. Klein to meet him at ""The Shredder"". When Mitch arrives, he is able to rescue Isaac just in time. After this incident, Isaac and his parents start with therapy to
Episode 8 - Hit and Run
From headquarters, Caroline sees that the local surfers are getting territorial again. When Mitch is forced to make a rescue, the locals and the victim's friend end up in a fight, but Logan breaks up the fight. Logan is still pursuing his business venture of Aussie swimwear and he has an important meeting with a major clothing manufacturer. But since his car is with a mechanic, he has to borrow one of the other lifeguards' cars. No one is willing to let Logan borrow their car, but Logan takes Cody's car without permission, when he has found out from Newmie that Cody is on a 24-hour-shift. Unfortunately for Logan, he gets involved in a collision which injures a pregnant woman. Logan quickly gets out of his car and tries to rescue the victim. When the police arrive, he tells them that the driver took off and that he saw the whole thing from the beach. The next morning, the police arrive at headquarters in order to take Cody down to the station. When he is about to leave for the police st
Episode 9 - Home Is Where the Heat Is
Matt has come back from France for his 10 days as a lifeguard. But he is vague when it comes to his relationship with C.J. Matt and Neely's reunion is explosive because both of them really hate each other. Mitch puts them in the scarab in order to find out if they can work together. Meanwhile, a group of commando pirates boards the yacht ""Monarch"", owned by millionaire Price Rreynolds who is on his honeymoon with his wife Jill. The pirates are demanding a $ 50 million ransom for the couple. They place the couple on the collapsed oil platform with handcuffs and air for six hours. The Captain of Reynolds' scarab has been thrown overboard and is later picked up by Matt and Neely in the scarab. He is suffering from hypothermia. But before he passes out, he is able to whisper the word ""Monarch"". When the Coast Guard has picked up the Captain, Matt and Neely head for the yacht only to find themselves in the hands of the pirates. Mitch and C.J. get worried and go out looking for them. When
Episode 10 - Sweet Dreams
After finding an abandoned baby in his tower, Logan wrongly assumes he's the father and decides to raise it. Cody participates in the trials for the Olympic swim team.
Episode 11 - The Incident
Caroline blames herself after a victim drowns after a nighttime rescue. Spurred on by Neely, Caroline takes a walk on the wild side.
Episode 12 - Beauty and the Beast
After swimmers are attacked by an alligator living in a storm drain, Mitch, Logan and Cody hunt for the creature. C.J., Caroline and Neely compete to become the cover model for Inside Sports magazine.
Episode 13 - Desperate Encounter
While vacationing in Mexico, Mitch and his new girlfriend witness an attempted murder and are then hunted by the killers. Country and Western singer Jesse Lee Harris helps Logan and the Baywatch lifeguards raise money to save a ranch that rescues endangered horses.
Episode 14 - Baywatch Angels
When Logan is terrorized by a mad man, Caroline dreams that the detectives from TV show, Charlie's Angels, arrive at Baywatch to help him. In her dream, Caroline is Kelly Garrett, C.J. is Jill Munroe and Stephanie is Sabrina.
Episode 15 - Bash at the Beach
Hulk Hogan enlists the help of Baywatch to save a youth recreation center from being closed. In a charity match, Hulk challenges fellow wrestler Ric Flair. Stephanie learns she has developed melanoma (skin cancer) from her years of working on the beach.
Episode 16 - Free Fall
Mitch's life flashes before him (in flashbacks from previous episodes) when his parachute fails while sky-surfing. Tabloids follow CJ's relationship with a football player.
Episode 17 - Sail Away
Stephanie wants to participate in the annual lifeguard sailing regatta. But she has no one to do it with. Therefore she is recruiting lifeguards for the job. She ends up with a crew that consists of her, Caroline, Cody, Neely and Newmie. The Baywatch team is competing against South Bay. The Captain there is Kurt Daniels, Neely's old boyfriend. In order to make the competition more exciting, Neely and Kurt make a side bet. If Baywatch wins, Kurt will be Neely's slave for one day, and if South Bay wins Neely will be Kurt's slave for one day. During the sailing race, everything works smoothly for Baywatch, but disaster strikes when they are going to make a turn. The wind suddenly picks up and the boom of the sail knocks Caroline into the water. But Neely rescues her, and the Baywatch team end up winning the race by stealing the wind for South Bay. Kurt ends up as the big loser and ends up cleaning Baywatch headquarters. Meanwhile, everything is going smoothly with Mitch's adoption of Joey
Episode 18 - Lost and Found
Mitch and Caroline help reunite an amnesiac Vietnamese refugee with her American GI father. C.J. and Cody help a wheelchair-bound comedian realize his dream of swimming in the ocean.
Episode 19 - Forbidden Paradise (1)
Mitch, Stephanie, C.J., Matt, Caroline and Cody travel to Hawaii to train with Hawaiian guards. Once there, Stephanie finds romance with a Hawaiian lifeguard, Logan decides to compete in a surfing competition and a fishing trip becomes dangerous for Mitch and Matt.
Mitch and Matt are saved by Hawaiian islanders. Stephanie helps an unlucky camera man find love. Logan proposes to Caroline.
Episode 21 - Last Wave
Kaye is reunited with an old flame, a surfing champion surfer, arrives at Baywatch for a local surfing tournament, however, disaster strikes. Stephanie undergoes surgery for her melanoma as her friends patiently await her fate. Caroline catches Logan with Neely.
Episode 22 - Go for the Gold
While Stephanie is training Cody in underwater search-and-rescue techniques, Cody finds a Spanish medallion. He has the medallion appraised and the shop owner offers Cody $3500 for it. But he doesn't accept it and is convinced that he will find more gold at the bottom of the ocean. He is convinced that a Spanish galleon is buried somewhere at the bottom of the ocean. He asks Stephanie for permission to go out searching. But Stephanie is concerned that his training will suffer if he does so. Anyway, she agrees to join him and search for the possible gold treasure. Meanwhile, a couple of drug-dealers named Lucas and Naomi has dropped a storage pod full with drugs nearby Cody's and Stephanie's diving area. They find the storage pod first and when Naomi and Lucas arrive, they try to kill Cody and Stephanie with spear guns. But Stephanie and Cody manage to reach the surface again. There they find Lucas who has left Naomi to die underwater. Cody goes down to rescue her even though he knows t
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Mailbag Of Thrones
Melisandre’s return, “Where the fuck is Ghost?,” and other burning Game Of Thrones questions
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We learned a lot from Game Of Thrones’ eighth-season premiere, “Winterfell,” like how overly protective large adult dragon sons are, how you can spruce up any castle with a stylish corpse swirl, and that Bran has no time to waste because he needs to sit around all day waiting for one guy to show up. But the episode raised plenty of questions, too, and in this Mailbag Of Thrones we’re answering yours about empty castles, Melisandre’s return, would-be betrayers, and a Jon and Daenerys show down. And as always, be sure to send any questions that arise during or after this week’s episode to mailbagofthrones@avclub.com.
James asks: At last count, Horn Hill sits lord-less. Could Sam inherit his family’s lands/titles now that the Wall is down and the Night’s Watch is effectively gutted? Alternatively, could Horn Hill be Bronn’s long-promised castle in exchange for sparing the Lannister lads?
Also, between the Hound’s new ax, Arya’s requested toy, and the Winterfell Industrial Complex cranking out dragonglass weapons, there was a definite “equip the party before the boss fight” vibe to the first episode. Could we see Melisandre or some other character introduce other “lost” weapons (Dark Sister, Blackfyre)?
After that exchange between Sam and Daenerys, she’ll probably give him anything he wants to patch things up between them, especially since he saved Jorah. Even if the Night’s Watch does exist at the end of the show (which it probably won’t), there’s an excellent chance she will free Sam of his vows and name him lord of House Tarly. He could even end up becoming warden of the south, a title Jaime Lannister offered to Sam’s father, Randyll. The Tyrells are extinct and someone needs to fill the role.
If Jon (or another Stark) end up king this is even more likely. Sam is a trusted ally and the last living male Tarly. That’s why this is one of the few castles in Westeros we hope Bronn doesn’t end up with, because it means either a) Sam dies or b) Cersei wins and rewards Bronn for killing her brothers.
The night is dark and full of terrors, but we aren’t prepared for either of those scenarios.
Photo: Helen Sloan (HBO)
As for Melisandre, let’s wait one more question.
John asks: Does Melisandre return? If so does she come alone or with an army of religious zealots? What about Nymeria? I get the feeling we’re going to see some kind of “Battle Of The Five Armies” à la Tolkien—does Nymeria lead one of those armies?
All of those fanatics in Meereen, who Tyrion asked to spread the word of Daenerys to the Lord Of Light’s followers in an effort to keep the peace while she was missing, are still out there and their story is unfinished. Lots of them are also in Volantis, where a red priestess made Tyrion uncomfortable with an intense stare down, and that’s where Melisandre told Varys she was going when she left Dragonstone.
Image: HBO
Melisandre said she will return to Westeros to die, and when she comes back she will have an army of her fellow believers to fight the Night King. While Melisandre thinks it might be Jon, they believe the Mother Of Dragons is the Lord Of Light’s chosen one. With the incredible powers we know Melisandre has, an entire corps of red clergy will make for one massive reinforcement for the living, especially if Winterfell falls and the living must flee.
It’s doubtful they will come bearing any lost weapons like Aegon The Conqueror’s lost sword Blackfyre though, since the show has never given those items much attention. A sheer wall of fire will still be pretty cool.
As for Arya’s direwolf Nymeria showing up: My gut says yes, she will, in a huge, heroic moment (though not leading an army, just a small wolf pack). But the part of me who screams “Where the fuck is Ghost?” every episode is less certain.
Jeff asks: I’m struggling with this, but, who do you think has more romantic chemistry: Dany and Jon or Anakin and Padme?
The fact this is a totally fair question says a lot. In some ways Anakin and Padme’s relationship seemed more authentic in Attack Of The Clones than Jon and Daenerys’ has on Game Of Thrones. The series didn’t “show” a lot of the work before they shacked up together, instead they “told” us they were into each other via Davos saying Jon kept eyeing her over. That didn’t feel honest, and that was before Jon bent the knee after spending the whole season explaining why he couldn’t.
But in Jon and Dany’s defense, neither of them has ever mentioned sand, and they could have. Dragonstone has a lot of sand. So rough, so coarse.
Lewis asks: In all of the seasons, someone is scheming against someone and inevitably someone backstabs someone else. With all of our main characters in the same place, who do you think will be this season’s Littlefinger?
Bronn is a sellsword, so even if he does kill Jaime or Tyrion (which would be amazing, but I don’t think will happen), it can’t be that much of a shocker.
I think Euron is going to listen to his niece and realize he picked the losing side, abandoning Cersei in King’s Landing. He already got what he really wants anyway. But picking Euron to backstab someone feels like it violates the spirit of the question.
Of all the people at Winterfell, Varys feels like the best bet. The show already had an intense conversation between him and Daenerys over this exact topic, so it was foreshadowed. He then had serious questions about her being like her father following the burning of the Tarly men. When Varys learns Jon Snow is really Aegon Targaryen, rightful heir to the Iron Throne, he could decide Jon is the best bet to unite the Seven Kingdoms and bring peace to the realm. Do I think he will? No, but I wouldn’t rule it out either.
The biggest problem for anyone at Winterfell who plans on betraying someone else is: where can they go? Who would Cersei welcome into her inner circle at this point?
Matt asks: What is Bran’s motivation for telling Jon about his parentage in episode one? If he’s so focused on defeating the Night King, why throw this wrench into things by potentially splitting these allies?
Bran seems to be the only human/Three-Eyed Raven who is completely focused on beating the White Walkers. The fact he told Jon is proof telling him must be important to winning the Great War. Even if it makes things more complicated for the tenuous alliance at Winterfell, Bran obviously knows it is ultimately what is in everyone’s best interests, even if it brings personal pain.
Bran just Doctor Strange’d Jon Snow’s Tony Stark. “There was no other way.”
Zack asks: With Jon/Aegon having the best claim to the throne, and his aunt Daenerys thinking she’s the rightful heir, what are the chances we see a three-way dragon battle royal this season?
Jon would never want the Iron Throne enough to fight Daenerys over it. Even if she were willing to go to war with him he wouldn’t engage.
But we could see a good old fashioned, de facto House Targaryen dragon dance if Daenerys is killed and turned into a wight by the Night King. (Give it to me.) We still wouldn’t get that three-way battle royal you asked about, because she’d then be aligned with the Night King, but Jon versus undead Daenerys in a dragon fight would be amazing.
It would also redefine what a “lover’s quarrel” can be, even if they don’t have the chemistry of Anakin and Padme.
Mailbag Of Thrones answers what Bran knows and who will die (and un-die) in the final season
Let’s close up the Mailbag Of Thrones with Arya’s next face, Jon’s cock, and Rhaegar’s sons
Wights, Lightbringer, and the prince who was promised might all lead to a tragic conclusion for Game Of Thrones
Michael Walsh doesn't understand how the stock market works, but he can tell you all about Valyrian steel, Hogwarts, and the problems with time travel in Back To The Future.
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Age Of Heroes
Superman returns, but he forgot to bring the action and the fun back with him
Screenshot: Superman Returns
Tom Breihan
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Age Of Heroes Age Of HeroesWith Age Of Heroes, Tom Breihan picks the most important superhero movie of every year, starting with the genre’s early big-budget moments and moving onto the multiplex-crushing monsters of today.
If Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins was the first movie to really take superheroes seriously, then maybe Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, released the following year, was the first movie to take superheroes too seriously. Singer even took the non-serious parts of his story too seriously. In retrospect, it’s hard to imagine what everyone involved thought they were doing with Superman Returns.
Singer’s movie is a genuflecting homage to Richard Donner’s first two Superman movies, both blockbusters from a bygone age, right down to the corny old-timey humor. But it’s also a strange religious parable about a godlike figure willing to give up everything to save a planet that isn’t even his home. It introduces a version of Superman who’s been rejected by the woman he loves, and it introduces weird questions about timetables and paternity that really didn’t have to be there in a superhero movie. It’s close to three hours long, with a grand total of one crowd-pleasing action scene. It’s a total tonal clusterfuck, a head-scratcher of galactic proportions.
Maybe the only way to figure out Superman Returns is to compare it to all the Superman movies that didn’t happen. The original Christopher Reeve series had burned out after the 1987 flop Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, though there was some talk of another sequel. Sometime in the early ’90s, the film producer Jon Peters, a notorious Hollywood dirtbag who may or may not have been the inspiration for Warren Beatty’s character in Shampoo, was somehow granted control over the Superman franchise, and he embarked on one abortive Superman movie after another.
Kevin Smith, hired at one point to write a Superman movie for Peters, tells a pretty amazing story about the things that Peters wanted to put in the movie. He didn’t want Superman to fly. He didn’t want Superman to wear the Superman costume. He wanted Superman to fight a giant spider. He wanted Brainiac, the movie’s villain, to fight a polar bear when he went to invade Superman’s Fortress Of Solitude. He wanted Brainiac to have a robot sidekick and Lex Luthor to have a pet space dog. Everything he wanted seemed to push the aesthetics of terrible ’90s blockbusters to some newer, dumber apotheosis.
There were a whole lot of versions of the big Superman reboot. Tim Burton was going to direct the movie, and Nicolas Cage was going to play Superman, a combination so bizarre that I kind of have to sit down when I think about it. McG and Brett Ratner were also on board to direct Superman movies. Akiva Goldsman and J.J. Abrams wrote scripts. There was going to be a Batman-fighting-Superman movie. There were going to be violent versions and kid-friendly versions. At one point, Robert Downey Jr. was going to play Lex Luthor. At another point, Chris Rock was going to be Jimmy Olsen. Warner poured millions into developing all these different versions of Superman movies before ultimately shutting all of them down. So maybe, even in all its puffed-up absurdity, Bryan Singer’s take on the character was the back-to-basics version—the pure and undiluted version of Superman, the same way Batman Begins was the pure and undiluted take on Batman. Or maybe that was the idea, anyway. It’s all I can do to explain how a big-budget superhero movie as paralyzingly boring as Superman Returns could exist.
Singer’s version of Superman is very much a tribute to the 1978 Richard Donner take on the character. Singer uses the tremendously rousing old John Williams theme whenever possible, and he sets his opening credits flying through space, just as Donner had done. He even uses a whole lot of footage of Marlon Brando, as Superman’s father Jor-El, declaiming airy and distant pseudo-wisdom while projected on cave crystals. Brando had died two years before Superman Returns opened, and his presence in the movie is genuinely perplexing; the actor hadn’t cared much about his role in those first two Superman movies, and his waxen take on Jor-El was one of the aspects of the movie that aged the worst. To lace that droning voice all through Superman Returns, like audio Ambien, was almost a perverse choice. Maybe it was just a case of Warner Bros. wanting to get more return for all the millions they’d paid Brando.
Bringing Brando back was just one odd choice among many. Singer also brought back the idea that Lex Luthor should have an airhead comic-relief female companion, one who would develop a huge crush on Superman and eventually betray Luthor. So: Why? Why take this piece of screwball late-’70s comedy and attempt to replicate it in a 2006 blockbuster? Why subject Parker Posey to that? Why subject us to that?
In Brandon Routh, Singer found a blandly charismatic and good-looking unknown who looked a whole lot like Christopher Reeve, which was presumably one of the job requirements. (Routh’s biggest pre-Superman credit was a year on the soap opera One Life To Live.) In Kevin Spacey, he had his own version of Gene Hackman, a decorated veteran brand-name character actor who, at the time, was beloved. (Singer had already directed Spacey as a vaguely Luthor-esque figure in The Usual Suspects.) Singer’s versions of small-town Kansas and bustling Metropolis looked a lot like what had been in the first Donner movie, too. His Clark Kent was a similarly hapless slapstick figure. All of this works, to one degree or another, but it’s anachronistic karaoke. Donner’s aesthetic had been pretty old-fashioned in 1978. Twenty-eight years later, it seemed almost alien. Maybe that was the point.
But if Singer was making a tribute to those Donner movies, he also had ideas about Superman’s mythic properties. In Singer’s movie, Superman spends a whole lot of time floating through space in a Jesus Christ pose. He lifts an entire kryptonite-infused crystal continent into space, risking his own death as cosmically awestruck music plays. He listens to the cries and travails of the mass of humanity below him. He agonizes over Lois Lane, just as Lane agonizes over him. In those Donner movies, Christopher Reeve never had to take on all that weight. It probably would’ve drowned the movies if he had.
The flirty banter between Superman and Lois Lane was one thing that Singer left in 1978. Instead, Singer opened his movie with expository text about how Superman had disappeared for five years, looking for the remains of his home planet. He came back to a changed world. Lane had moved on, gotten engaged, had a kid. All of this is supposed to highlight Superman’s status as a godlike outcast here on Earth—a being who gives his life over to humanity without ever quite understanding humanity. But it mostly leads us into a thicket of unanswerable questions. Like: When, exactly, did 22-year-old Kate Bosworth, playing Lois, meet Superman? How old is she supposed to be? How old is the kid supposed to be? Why is James Marsden, a guy who looks so much like Superman that it gets borderline confusing sometimes, playing Lois’s new fiancé? (Shout out to Marsden for really committing to the role of “guy who is already in a relationship with the main superhero’s love interest in Bryan Singer movies from the ’00s.”)
It’s never really a question of whether the haunted-looking moppet is actually Superman’s kid. That part is obvious. What’s not obvious is: Is it okay that a 5-year-old just straight-up kills one of Luthor’s henchmen? And why doesn’t kryptonite hurt the kid? Why does Lois bring her 5-year-old on her investigative-reporting yacht break-in in the first place? (“This was a bad idea,” she says at one point. Yeah, no shit.) Is it possible that Luthor’s whole plan, to grow an entire continent out of Kryptonian crystals, is even goofier and dumber than the plan in the first Superman movie? And if so, why does Spacey play it so seriously? And when Superman’s powers are stripped and Luthor is beating him up, why doesn’t this more-serious Luthor just shoot Superman?
More questions: Why does the entire cast only feature one person of color, and why is that person, Kal Penn, an almost-entirely-silent Luthor goon? And how come Superman never reflects on the idea that everything bad that happens in the movie is indirectly his fault, that Luthor was planning on killing billions with stuff from the Fortress Of Solitude? Does it really never occur to Superman that Earth might’ve been better off if he’d never shown up?
Bryan Singer directed two very good X-Men movies, so we know that he knew how to make a superhero movie. But Superman Returns is such a massive across-the-board miscalculation that it’s almost baffling. If Singer was so committed to bringing back the spirit of the old Superman movies, how did he miss the idea that Superman is supposed to be a figure of fun, a wholesome and colorful adventurer? Who thought that a dour, brooding Superman was what anyone wanted? (Who still thinks that? Why does that keep happening?) There’s one scene where Singer shows how much fun his version of a Superman movie could’ve been: The ridiculous but visceral sequence where a space shuttle is about to drag a 757 into space and Superman has to safely land the thing in the middle of a baseball game. It’s not that a new Superman movie would have to be all supremely goofy thrills like that. But couldn’t it have had a few more?
Superman Returns did good business, though its budget was so huge that it probably barely broke even. It got decent reviews. But I remember walking out of the theater utterly dumbfounded—bored into catatonia and unsure what had happened in the last 90 minutes of the movie. If anything, it’s even harder to watch now. Singer and Spacey have both been accused of some horrific sexual abuses. Immediately after production, an assistant sued Jon Peters, who served as producer on the movie, and a jury ordered him to pay her more than $3 million. That effectively ended his career, though he still likes to brag that he collects millions for sitting at home and doing nothing whenever Warner Bros. makes another Superman movie. That’s as good a reason as any to stop making fucking Superman movies.
Other notable 2006 superhero movies: Before taking on Superman Returns, Singer had been developing X-Men: The Last Stand. Instead, that job went to noted hack Brett Ratner, who turned what had been a miraculously strong franchise into noisy confusion. Ratner tried to fit the entire Dark Phoenix saga and a story about a menacing “mutant cure” into one movie, and the result was both shallow and hectic, a film that kills off major characters like it’s nothing. There’s some good stuff in there, like Kelsey Grammer as Beast and Ben Foster as Angel. But these days, I mostly just remember it as the first major Hollywood movie to explicitly reference a meme.
2006 also gave us a few superhero-themed comedies. There’s the indie dramedy Special, in which Michael Rapaport played a hero whose powers may have been hallucinations brought on by the experimental drug he’d been taking. And in Ivan Reitman’s antic flop My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Uma Thurman plays a powered-up woman who’s obsessed with Luke Wilson, her former flame. In one scene, she throws a shark into his apartment.
Stan Lee, on some kind of sabbatical from Marvel, created Lightspeed, a superhero who got one TV movie that nobody remembers. Tim Allen starred in Zoom, a massively unsuccessful family movie about a school for superheroes. And the year’s most consequential comic-book movie was almost certainly Zack Snyder’s 300, which was very much not a superhero movie.
Next time: Sam Raimi brings his time on the Spider-Man franchise to a close with Spider-Man 3, a case study of what can happen when a director and a studio don’t get on the same page.
It’s a bird... It’s a plane... It’s Superman, the first big-budget superhero movie
The modern era of the superhero movie begins in earnest with X-Men
The Superman movies paved the way for comic-book blockbusters
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HOME > Lot 14 - 1994 Jaguar XJS Convertible
Lot 14 - 1994 Jaguar XJS Convertible
A cherished example in outstanding condition
Comprehensively serviced throughout its life almost entirely by Jaguar main agents
89,000 fully documented miles from new
The perfect colour combination of navy blue coachwork and cream leather interior
‘It’s superbly engineered, sensationally quick, very refined and magnificent to drive – a combination of qualities that no other car we’ve driven can match at that price’ – Motor Magazine.
Launched in 1975 after 10 years in development, the XJ-S perhaps suffered somewhat from simply not being an E Type. A little harsh perhaps as it was never the cars designer, Malcolm Sayer, or his boss Sir William Lyons’ intention to produce a direct replacement for the 1960s icon but rather come up with a continent-crushing GT. Safety concerns particularly in the key US markets resulted in jitters over the future of convertible cars which ensured the new model remained a fixed head coupe for the first 13 years of its life until a fully open version was launched in 1988. At that point the public got and ‘got’ what Jaguar were really trying to achieve; in one fell swoop the controversial flying buttresses of the fixed roof were consigned to the bin marked “ugly bits that we didn’t really want in the first place” and duckling became swan. For a nation that had produced the Lotus Elite, Aston Martin DB4 and St Pauls Cathedral we really lost the ability to ‘do’ roofs in the 1970s…
Five years prior to this aesthetic transformation, Jaguar’s new six-cylinder AJ6 engine in 3.6 litre guise was inserted into the XJ-S range and while not quite as powerful as the legendary V12, it gave a very good account of itself with a ‘sportier’ character and lighter weight which arguably infused the GT car with a sharper feel. Towards the end of the XJ-S’ life, in 1992 the car was re-engineered and given a mildly tweaked appearance. The AJ6 engine was taken out to 4.0 litres while mechanics and their knuckles rejoiced in the repositioning of the rear brakes closer to the outside world next to the wheels as opposed to the differential. These cars are the pinacle of XJS (the hyphen was also engineered out with these revisions) development and are considered the most desirable. Just as well then that this beautiful XJS is a May 1994 car and is hence ‘the one to have’.
To our eyes (and we understand to many of others’ too) this is one of the best colour combinations; Navy Blue with a matching roof which contrasts beautifully with the cream interior. The paintwork itself not only looks to be original but it carries barely a mark or imperfection, belying its 23 years of age. Deep, even and with a good shine it looks fantastic with only a couple of light ‘brushes’ on a rear wing which are barely visible in the photographs we took of the area. The painted element of the rear bumper has a slightly more noticeable wear mark and though it is perhaps a polish away from being invisible, it is shown in the photo gallery for reference. The chrome-work present is deployed subtly, does a great job of setting off the rich, dark blue paintwork and is in almost perfect condition throughout. Its condition is indicative of plenty of attention from sponge and chamois though the silver effect on the boot badges has been perhaps over-cleaned and is now wearing slightly thin as is the black finish to the wiper arms – yes we are being hyper critical but we need to find something negative to say, no matter how small!
The navy blue mohair hood is generally in good condition as is the glass rear window. There are just a couple of areas of wear in the fabric which are likely to have originated when the car was driven with the hood stowed, leading one to surmise that the XJS has for the most part been exercised in fine weather conducive to top down motoring.
On inspection we checked the Jaguar’s bodywork in all the areas known to be susceptible to rust and could find nothing of any significance. The photo gallery shows one tiny ‘bleb’ in the corner of the scuttle panel which the previous owner had apparently monitored and found to be virtually unchanged during their ownership over the past three years. Panel fit is excellent throughout though Jaguars of the time were never up to current Audi standards even when fresh off the Browns Lane production line. Dark colours are the enemy of dents and dings, highlighting them mercilessly so it is most encouraging to see that this car looks as straight as a die from any angle. The exception is the tinniest dimple near the rear near side corner of the boot lid – if you can spot it in the photographs you have better than 20/20 vision.
The XJS’ cream leather (not the easiest colour to keep looking perfect) seats are in similarly well cared for condition and still beautifully supple. The rear seats look to have never been occupied though given their dimensions, this is perhaps not so surprising, while the passenger chair is almost untouched and the drivers’ perch shows just the lightest of creasing with no wear or, heaven forbid, tear. The matching padded hood cover is also in virtually unmarked condition. The carpets are protected by over-mats (over the over-mats!) and have suffered very little in the last nigh-on quarter of a century.
All is neat and tidy in the engine bay with a complete set of factory stickers, labels and identification plates. While no attempt has been made to cosmetically ‘buff-up’ this area, the impression is of a regime of careful maintenance rather than obsessive polishing and preening.
The boot of the XJS is a very good size (not unique to this particular car admittedly) but everything is in good condition and the factory tool kit, jack and wheel brace are accompanied by Jaguar top-up bottles for both screen wash and anti-freeze; a barometer of the care and attention this car has enjoyed even well past its 20th birthday. The factory CD changer is still in place but we were unsure if it was still on speaking terms with the in-dash element of the sound system.
Factory standard fit alloy wheels are wrapped in premium brand rubber almost new at the rear and with a good amount of life left in the fronts. The wheels are themselves in good order with only minimal kerb rash or corrosion.
The underside of the car appears, beneath a light coating of road grime, totally solid and rot free with only the lightest of rust stains showing on wear points such as jacking plates. For the most part the factory applied sealants and protective finishes are intact and still performing their intended function. Suspension components are also similarly road used with just a localised coating of surface rust where original paint finishes have been chipped or worn away and the exhaust system appears to be affected in much the same way. Please examine the photographs to get an accurate impression of the XJS’ undercarriage.
Driving the XJS is a delightful experience with all the controls functioning as they should. The major items such as engine and automatic gearbox also appear to be in fine fettle with the box changing through all the gears just as it should while as can be seen in the photo gallery, the engine when only slightly below full operating temperature and at a sub 1,000 rpm idle shows a very healthy 5 bar (70+ psi) oil pressure and there is not a whiff of smoke on start up or when running.
The thick history file contains a virtually full set of MOT certificates and copiously stamped service book both of which confirm the cars 89,000 miles from new. Of the eighteen service stamps, all but five were applied by Jaguar main dealers; this XJS has not only had a lot of care and attention lavished upon it over its entire life (four services in the last 5,000 miles, just when one might expect maintenance to tail off somewhat) but this has been done by the right people too. There is also a veritable library of Factory manuals and handbooks tucked inside the original Jaguar wallet.
Overall our impression of the Jaguar was of a car that has been cosseted, looked after and sensibly used throughout its life; one that has fortuitously avoided falling into the hands of owners who while they may be able to afford to buy one, can’t then do them justice in the crucial area of maintenance.
Having emphasised that the XJ-S was not a direct replacement for the E Type and pitching one against an early six cylinder car would only serve to demonstrate their different relative functions and strengths, back to back one with a later V12 S3 E and you might be surprised how similar they are in the real world. Perhaps the biggest contrast is in their relative current values where we make the exchange rate a very healthy five or six to one in the later car’s favour. For everyone who tutted disapprovingly as Flat Floor (often more accurately no-floor) project cars sailed past the £100K mark, might we suggest that the HMS XJS is just about to sail and you would be wise to embark now.
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Chassis Number: SAJJNAFD3EJ193656
Engine Number: 9EPCNA194006
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BetterPoints motivated Birmingham citizens to use the city’s parks
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BetterPoints motivated 80% of previously inactive people to become active when Birmingham City Council commissioned us to encourage healthier living.
The council’s Wellbeing team needed to demonstrate the value of ‘informal activity’ that fell outside the scope of structured exercise. They collected insights into the socio-economic profiles of park users, the relationship between activity in parks and Indices of Multiple Deprivation, activity levels by group and individual changes over time.
The team commissioned our services to motivate behaviour change for healthy activity and encourage people to make the most of the city’s many parks, whether by running, cycling, walking dogs or simply exploring the outdoors with their family.
We gave them a web portal branded for their Active Parks programme, an app for their citizens to capture data and reward them for using the parks, a reporting dashboard, stakeholder engagement and project management. We also gave them an extensive monthly dataset, which they could cross-reference with their Customer Knowledge and Corporate Strategy team.
Birmingham City Council could now perform valuable economic analysis of early intervention on a range of health and social issues. The success of the pilot led to a partnership with the city’s Corporate Strategy team to lay the groundwork for a multi-year programme across the whole city.
The programme was so successful that what started as a six-month pilot in 2014 kept going for two years.
In that time, programme participants burned a total of 35 million calories, traveled 1.6 million miles and made 12,000 park visits.
47% of them were from highly deprived groups (measured by cross-referencing postcode data with Indices of Multiple Deprivation), 50% said their overall health improved and 66% said BetterPoints made them more active.
Over four months, 80% of the research group went from inactive to active as defined by Sport England.
‘Inactivity is a major concern for us in Birmingham and we are on a journey to understand what we need to do to shift behaviour to get people more active,’ said Karen Creavin, Head of Birmingham Wellbeing Service.
‘Part of that journey of behaviour change has been in the work we have done with Betterpoints. Their approach moved 80% of the research group from inactive to active, and generated data that was extremely valuable in relation to how people use their parks.’
Our system is evolving rapidly and can respond effectively to pretty much any behaviour change challenge that’s thrown at it.
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Alembic Pharmaceuticals receives USFDA approval for Febuxostat tablets
The drug is therapeutically equivalent to the: reference listed drug (RLD), Uloric Tablets, 40 mg and 80 mg, of Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited has received approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) Febuxostat Tablets, 40 mg and 80 mg. The approved ANDA is therapeutically equivalent to the: reference listed drug (RLD), Uloric Tablets, 40 mg and 80 mg, of Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. (Takeda).
Febuxostat Tablets are xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibitor indicated for the chronic management of hyperuricemia in adult patients with gout who have an inadequate response to a maximally titrated dose of allopurinol, who are intolerant to allopurinol, or for whom treatment with allopurinol is not advisable. Febuxostat Tablets are not recommended for the treatment of asymptomatic hyperuricemia.
Febuxostat Tablets have an estimated market size of US$ 578 million for twelve months ending December 2018 according to IQVIA. Alembic had previously received tentative approval for this ANDA.
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Veteran strikers could hold promotion key - Phillips
ALBION striker Kevin Phillips believes fellow 'golden oldie' Andy Cole could be the catalyst which gives Blues the final push towards the Premiership.
Chris Lepkowski
Cole, aged 35, is expected to make his Blues debut in this Sunday's game against Coventry after completing his move from Portsmouth last week.
Phillips was a squad-mate of Cole's during their spell with England during the early part of this decade.
The 33-year-old Baggies hitman, who has already scored 15 goals this season, believes Blues' new loan signing could be the final piece in Steve Bruce's promotion jigsaw.
Phillips hopes Albion can join Blues and his former club Sunderland, who themselves signed 35-year-old Dwight Yorke earlier this season, in the top flight next season and prove that football is anything but a young man's game.
"Birmingham have made a fantastic signing in Andy Cole," said Phillips. "He could be the difference between them clinching promotion and missing out.
"I think he'll be a great bit of business for them. Sunderland have gone down that route too and it's also paying off for them too.
"I want to achieve the same for West Brom. If we do manage to do it we can hold our hands up for the older players union."
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What’s In a Social Media Profile?
–Would That Which We Write Under Any Another Description Read as Sweet?
by Martin D. Hirsch
Pondering how we identify ourselves online can be an interesting exercise.
A recent article on one of the social media platforms I write for reminded authors to make the most of their profiles and to be mindful that the way they describe themselves greatly influences prospective readers.
I figured I’d better take a closer look at mine. Does it read “more as a bio on the back jacket of a book than as a social media profile?” the handy guide asked. Does it nail my narrative, embellish my brand, convey the way I think about myself and what I hope to offer readers? I wondered.
Here’s what it says:
“Lapsed singer-songwriter, 35-year accidental company man, citizen of The Woodstock Nation, avid essayist, occasional poet, aspiring author, dogged evolutionary.”
I put the words under my mental microscope and began examining them. And then examining why I was examining them. I began thinking of myself as someone entering a new tribe that I wanted to understand and be understood by. It occurred to me that I usually prefer to stay independent of labels and unaffiliated with groups or movements. But this particular type of platform, by and for writers, is different – it’s a place where I feel I’ve found a home and feels right for now.
Joining a New Tribe
In a way, I felt like Kevin Costner making his way into the world of the Lakota Sioux and feeling grateful acceptance when the wise medicine man, Kicking Bird, validates his membership in the tribe by giving him a name: Dances with Wolves. What would Kicking Bird have named me? Wrestles with Thoughts? Overthinks a Lot? Searches for the End of Searching?
They all ring true. But I’m not seeking my place in the Lakota Soiux. I’m seeking my place in an online writers forum. And the profile exercise is an interesting and constructive one. It’s making me confront who I am at this transitional phase of my life.
I’m turning 68 soon, and dealing with a multidimensional life transition: the end of a three-decade-long career in corporate communications that culminated in 16 years as an expat in Switzerland; my return in 2017 to a much different country than the one I left in 2001, a month before the towers fell; the start of the next to last chapter of my life, the portal between mature adulthood and fragile old age.
How do I define this place? The word “retirement” sends some people into a rage. And it’s the kiss of death if I’m interested in continuing to work, others have cautioned me. In a previous iteration of my profile, I called myself a “Mother of Re-Invention,” which I shortened to “Reinventionist.” But it seems the reality is more like an evolution, so I edited it to “dogged evolutionary.”
It strikes me that my current profile while falling short of perfection – another of my characteristic traits — tells readers everything they need to know about me, with these few exceptions: I’m a lifelong boxing fan; I’m a kung fu novice and a chi gong neophyte; I’m a Jewish guy who adores his Chinses wife; I’m a child of suicide, and I’ve been in therapy on an off for the better part of 50 years.
Why and What I Write
All of that informs my writing, but I neither have nor desire a particular niche. I want simply to write about what interests and inspires me and hopefully readers, too. When whatever I’ve written and will write from here on out is read, my wish is that readers will conclude what Kicking Bird did when he expressed his observations about Dances with Wolves:
“I was just thinking that of all the trails in this life there is one that matters most,” he said. “It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail and it is good to see.”
If my writing reflects a profile that comes anywhere near that, I’ll be grateful. Hope to see you on the trail.
Martin D. Hirsch
Martin Hirsch started building his own communications consulting practice in 2017 after a career spanning almost 35 years with one of the world’s leading international healthcare groups. He’s led internal and external corporate communications, brand and reputation management, and crisis and issue management. Working in both the United States and Europe, he has advised multiple CEOs and collaborated with colleagues all over the world. Martin’s strengths include executive consulting, strategic message development, content marketing, storytelling, communications training, public speaking, mentoring talent, and inspiring organizations to advance beyond their limitations.Lately he’s been helping clients by writing keynote speeches for top executives, developing strategies for pitching new business and explaining complex issues, ranging from how to apply new digital health tools in the pharmaceuticals industry to making sense of the rapid and complex changes challenging employees to maintain their equilibrium at major corporations. Martin also works as a faculty adviser at the New York University School of Professional Studies, helping graduate students with their Capstone Papers. His speaking engagements have included presentations at the IABC World Conference, the European Association of Communications Directors Summit, the Corporate Communications International Leaders Forum, the European Commission Communications Directorate and the Rotterdam School of Business Reputation Forum Netherlands. More recently, he was a panelist at the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association conference on expat issues held at Pfizer headquarters in New York. Martin’s writing, including essays, letters and poems, has appeared in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Europe. You can read his blog on MUSE-WORTHY, here on BIZCATALYST 360°. He received the American Association of Journalists and Authors 2018 Writing Award for Best Personal Story Blog.
Joel Elveson
Great article, Martin! It’s great to see you writing again. Everything you say makes perfect sense. My social media profiles (especially LinkedIn) emphasize Independent Executive Recruiting by Joel with nary a word about writing. Sadly, the need for green pieces of paper necessitates this which sadden me because I love to write. In terms of style, I draw on philosophy, politics, poetry, literature, and music. My first boss in the mortgage industry believed you should have one product that you can sell and offer better than anybody. Hsi philosophy was right and wrong at the same time. Writing has to have a uniqueness to all of us. Not being locked into one style I feel is best but we each have to go with what we feel is best. Being 68 does not bother you? In March I will turn 64 which scares the heck out of me as it brings me one year closer to death. “Will you still need me? Will you still feed me when I am 64”-The Beatles.
Telling about yourself is very beautiful and equally useful because it allows us to look at our life and emotions with detachment. With the definition of our profile we tell, through the five senses, the fundamental stages of our life or through the objects that represent us. We talk about us through something physical, tangible: a place, a color, a person. Let’s take that something and explain why it is or has been central to our life. The rest will come by itself like a flood.
Larry Tyler
Great advice. I too am starting a new story in my life where I will only be writing and doing Photography. I will have to revisit my profile.
Raissa Urdiales
Love this because it represents that life truly is a journey that each day reveals new hope and inspiration for that day and things to come. One thing I learned along the way is that you can always do what gives you inspiration and the knowing when what inspires you has changed. The days of corporate titles is over for me….I’d prefer to stay with the title of Artist and Writer. In the end I believe those were my birth titles that were side-tracked somewhere along they way. Thank you for sharing yourself with others.
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CEW’s Next West Coast Program Is “The Evolution of Beauty Retail”
Cosmetic Executive Women has slated “The Evolution of Beauty Retail”—a panel discussion with top executives from Beauty Collection, Target and HSN—for its West Coast Women & Men in Beauty Series Nov. 19 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica, California.
Shawn Tavakoli, CEO of Beauty Collection, Christina Hennington, vice president merchandise manager of beauty and personal care at Target, and Anne Martin-Vachon, chief merchandising officer at HSN, will each detail how beauty brands can catch their attention, get placement and sell through.
The moderator will be beauty and lifestyle expert Martha McCully.
“The landscape of beauty retail is growing and changing rapidly," says Carlotta Jacobson, president of Cosmetic Executive Women. "The opportunities this creates for new and small brands is exciting but increasingly challenging to navigate," adds Jacobson. "Our expert panel of speakers will provide invaluable insight into successful retail launch and sales strategies.”
The event is open to CEW members and nonmembers. New York City-based CEW is a nonprofit professional organization with more than 5,500 female and male executives in the beauty and related industries. It also hosts events for the beauty community in Los Angeles.
A members-only cocktail party begins at 6 p.m. The presentation is set from 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
The last CEW West Coast Women & Men in Beauty Series event, "How To Become a Sephora Star," June 13 sold out.
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Human Rights and Private Law
Privacy as Autonomy
Editor(s): Katja S Ziegler
Hart Publishing
Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law
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About Human Rights and Private Law
Privacy today is much debated as an individual's right against real or feared intrusions by the state, as exemplified by proposed identity cards and surveillance measures in the United Kingdom. In contrast, invasions of privacy by private individuals or bodies tend to arouse less concern. This book attempts to fill the gap by looking at the horizontal application of human rights after Douglas v Hello, Campbell v MGN and Caroline von Hannover v Germany. It provides a conceptual and theoretical framework and also considers specific particularly sensitive areas of law relating to privacy protection, such as intellectual property, employment and media law. It provides comparative perspectives by relating Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which serves as a focal point, to UK, Dutch, German and European Communities law.
Several common threads are revealed running across jurisdictions and different areas of law and aspects of privacy. The most notable is the definition of privacy in terms of the autonomy of the individual, a notion associated with the liberal state in the classic sense but now acquiring more content as a human right also linked to ideas of social justice.
1. Introduction: Human Rights and Private Law - Privacy as Autonomy
KATJA S ZIEGLER
Part I Cross-Sectional Issues: Human Rights and Private Law
Part I.A Privacy as a Human Right in Conflict with Other Human Rights
2. The Core Business of Privacy Law: Protecting Autonomy
HANS NIEUWENHUIS
Part I.B Public-Private Law Cross-over: Horizontality of Human Rights
3. Human Rights and Private Law
LORENZ FASTRICH
4. Horizontality and the Human Rights Act 1998
ALISON L YOUNG
5. Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights, Privacy and Social Justice
AURELIA COLOMBI CIACCHI
Part I.C Privacy and Tort Law
6. A Right to Privacy?
NW BARBER
7. Privacy and Tort Design
RODERICK BAGSHAW
8. Damages as a Remedy for Infringements upon Privacy
SIEWERT LINDENBERGH
Part II Restraints on Privacy by Private Parties: Specific Issue Areas
Part II.A Contract Law
9. Privacy of Contract
HENRICUS J SNIJDERS
10. Discrimination in Private Law – New European Principles and the Freedom of Contract
DAGMAR COESTER-WALTJEN
Part II.B Labour Law
11. Protection of Employees' Individual Rights in the Employer-Employee Relationship
MICHAEL COESTER
12. Privacy, Employment and the Human Rights Act 1998
MARK FREEDLAND
Part II.C Freedom of Expression and Personality Rights: Intellectual Property Law, Media Law
13. Constitutional Protection of Authors' Moral Rights in the European Union – Between Privacy, Property and the Regulation of the Economy
JOSEF DREXL
14. Private Control/Public Speech
LESLIE KIM TREIGER-BAR-AM AND MICHAEL SPENCE
15. The Princess and the Press:Privacy after Caroline von Hannover v Germany
“...this book makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on privacy...a well-coordinated collection of thoughtful and informative essays.” – Elspeth Reid, Edinburgh Law Review, Vol 13
“…this is a very useful contribution to the growing literature on what is emerging as a key battlefield of ideas.” – Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association, vol. 18 no. 1
Katja S Ziegler is Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at the University of Leicester.
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The UK and European Human Rights
25 January 2018, Paperback
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Constitutionalism and the Role of Parliaments
07 June 2007, PDF eBook
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Home Game Reviews Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica Review
Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica Review
Review of: Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica
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Last modified:Mar 22, 2019
Dungeons and Dragons has, clearly, been the preeminent role-playing game on the market for decades. Fifth edition has been a critical and commercial success and the folks at Wizards of the Coast continue to produce additional content for D&D fans.
That said, outside of a couple one-shot campaigns, I’ve played basically no role-playing games. Yet I’m digging in today to the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica because my passing interest with D&D has come crashing head first into my life-long love of Magic the Gathering (MTG). I hoped this guide would provide spark to my gaming group that, like me, leans more toward MTG than role-playing.
Ravnica Guilds
For those that aren’t caught up on their Magic the Gathering flavor, Ravnica is one of the most popular settings for the collectible card game. The Ravnica world revolves around ten guilds—made up of each color pair from the card game. Each guild has their own characteristics and flavor that translates well to a role-playing setting. The Azorius, for instance, are the lawbringers in Ravnica. They make up the judges, senate, and enforcement officers throughout the districts. Perhaps the other end of the spectrum is the Rakdos. The Rakdos thrive on mayhem. They disregard societal norms and prefer to just throw crazy parties with death-defying acrobats and fire jugglers providing the entertainment.
The Guildmaster’s Guide spends nearing 100 pages detailing the ins and outs of each of the 10 guilds. In additional to a thorough discussion of the guild’s background, it suggests classes and races that fit well into the guild membership. There are also ranks in each guild that your character can achieve, giving them additional flavor as they work up from a nobody member of a guild to perhaps the leader of the Rakdos circus.
The details of each guild are explained from backstory to enemies and allies.
The Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica adds five new races straight out of Magic lore. For your Ravnica setting you can create a centaur, loxodon, minotaur, simic hybrid, and vedalken. Of course, you can use humans, elves, or really any of the existing races other D&D material as well.
The race section of the guide includes suggestions for races based on which guild affiliation you are entering. The calm, nature-guided loxodon would be out of place in the science-focused Izzet guild, but perfectly suited for a Selesnyan character. This chapter also gives you suggestions for a classes by guild as you would be more likely to encounter a barbarian in the Gruul guild than, say, the necromancy-focused Golgari.
In sum, the guide gives you plenty of ways to go about creating a character. While you aren’t necessarily tied down by any of the suggestions, if you have a particular class, race, or guild you want to play, the book can lead you to creating a character that will fit well within the framework of the Ravnica world.
There is one short introduction adventure to get your campaign off on the right foot.
Exploring Ravnica
Ideally your adventuring party will be made up of characters from a guild—or maybe two—allowing your DM to create an adventure based on the overall goals of that guild. This does make it difficult to have player characters from all of the different guilds involved as many have diametrically opposed world views and would be hard pressed to create a story where they are working together. But if your DM wants a challenge, that would be a good one.
The Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica includes a short introductory adventure that is perfect for getting off the ground. There isn’t any additional fully-fledged out adventures but there is a section for each guild to help the DM after the introduction is over. These sections are unfortunately short, giving only a few suggested villains and story hooks but little else to help an inexperienced DM
The last couple chapters include item and NPC stats for various treasures, villains, and helpful strangers you could encounter wandering through Ravnica. DMs will find these useful to weave into a story using characters that are present in both Magic the Gathering and the world they are creating for the players.
Stats for dozens of NPCs are provided.
The Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica is over 250 pages of material that experienced DMs who want to run a campaign in the MTG universe will no doubt find extremely helpful. The book is well organized, full of amazing artwork, and contains endless amounts of backstory about the guilds of Ravnica.
The biggest shortcoming is that it fails to be a good entry point into D&D for experienced Magic players. It is way more likely to be successful for a D&D player to get introduced to the world of Magic rather than the other way around. If you have little to no experience with running a Dungeons and Dragons campaign the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica isn’t really going to hold your hand through the process.
Final Score: 4 Stars – A great resource if you want to run at D&D campaign in Ravnica.
• Tons of backstory on Ravnica.
• New races and character suggestions based on guilds.
• Well organized and beautifully illustrated.
• Only a short introduction adventure is included in the book.
• MTG players wanting to give D&D a shot will need a lot more material.
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2019 Hampton Inn-vitational
Letters from Alumnae
Bryant downs Quinnipiac to win Hampton Inn-vitational
Quinnipiac (1-9) 12 17 26 14 1
Bryant (7-4) 25 25 24 25 3
Photo by DSPics.com
K: Sherwin, Morgan - 12
B: Jones, Lydia - 5
D: Rodriguez, Alejandra - 13
K: Julia Flynn - 17
B: Grace Richmeyer - 4
D: Erika Ward - 19
SA: 3 Players (#12, #13, #20) - 1
SMITHFIELD, R.I. – The Bryant University volleyball team won the Hampton Inn-vitational crown for the second-straight year with a four-set win over Quinnipiac Saturday night at the Chace Athletic Center.
Freshman Caroline Kennedy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) was named Hampton Inn-vitational MVP, while redshirt-senior Julia Flynn (Pembroke, Mass.) and sophomore Erika Ward (Rochester, Mich.) were named to the all-tournament team.
Bryant 3, Quinnipiac 1 (25-12, 25-17, 24-26, 25-14)
Records: Bryant (7-4); Quinnipiac (1-9)
Location: Chace Athletic Center (Smithfield, R.I.)
Coach Garlacy's Comments
"It was an incredible weekend. We hit over .360 in two of three matches and got contributions from so many different players on the weekend. It's a great weekend to build on going into our final five non-conference matches before NEC matches begin. We have amazing young women who want to leave a legacy behind for our program, and I'm really happy with the effort they put forth this weekend to keep improving as we approach conference play."
Set 1 – The Bulldogs hit .438 in the opening set to cruise to a 25-12 win. Flynn tallied seven kills in the set.
Set 2 – Quinnipiac led 8-7 before a 7-1 run gave Bryant control of the set. The Bobcats cut it to 15-13 before another 7-1 Bulldog spurt pushed the lead to eight. Kennedy racked up six kills in the set.
Set 3 – Bryant led 17-16 in the third before Quinnipiac turned the table with a 7-2 run to lead 23-19. The Bobcats held a 24-20 advantage before the Bulldogs rattled off four straight points to tie the set, but Quinnipiac held on for a 26-24 win to force a four set.
Set 4 – Five straight Bryant points put the Bulldogs ahead 11-6 and Bryant would lead by four the rest of the set en route to a 25-14 victory to win the match in four.
Stats/Notes
Flynn collected 17 kills, five digs and two blocks.
Kennedy recorded 16 kills for her 10th double-digit kill output in 11 collegiate matches.
Senior Kirstyn Sperry (Phoenix, Ariz.) collected 35 assists, while senior Julia Malet (San Rafael, Calif.) added 20.
Ward notched 19 digs, while senior Kristin Kingi (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) added 13.
Freshman Jenna Knight (Scottsdale, Ariz.) recorded a career-high four kills.
Bryant hit .362 in the match – the Bulldogs' second match of .350 or better this weekend.
Bryant improves to 28-6 all-time against Quinnipiac and 13-1 in the Division I era.
The Bulldogs improve to 40-5 (.889) at the Chace Athletic Center since the start of the 2015 season.
Bryant takes the short trip down Douglas Pike Tuesday to face Providence. First serve is slated for 7 p.m.
Follow Bryant University volleyball on Twitter and Instagram to get an inside look at the program.
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Hyatt is the latest hotel chain vowing to cut mini shampoo bottles from its rooms, and it’s as good for the environment as it is for business
Taylor Borden, Business Insider US
Say goodbye to tiny shampoo bottles.
Pierre-Yves Babelon/Getty Images
Hyatt released a statement on November 12 saying it is doing away with mini bottles of toiletries across all 875+ of its properties by 2021 in an effort to eliminate single-use plastics.
The move by the major hotel chain is just the most recent example of the hospitality industry leaning into sustainability.
In addition to being environmentally responsible, experts say it’s a good tactic to drum up business with millennials.
Tiny toiletries are being squeezed out of hotel rooms.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation is the latest hotel chain to do away with mini shampoo bottles in the name of sustainability. In a November 12 statement, the chain announced it would transition to larger, more eco-friendly bathroom amenities in all 200,000 of its hotel rooms by June 2021 at the latest. The decision plays into Hyatt’s larger sustainability action plan, which also includes responsible food sourcing.
“Plastic pollution is a global issue, and we hope our efforts will motivate guests, customers, and indeed, ourselves to think more critically about our use of plastic,” said Hyatt president and CEO Mark Hoplamazian in Tuesday’s press release.
The change comes after other major hotel chains have made similar promises.
InterContinental Hotels Group, which includes Holiday Inn and Kimpton brands, announced in July that it would offer toiletries in bulk-size dispensers in all 800,000 of its hotel rooms by 2021. The Washington Post reported that the company expects to reduce plastic waste by 200 million little bottles a year.
Marriott International followed shortly after. In August, it vowed to completely eliminate plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and bath gel from its hotel rooms by December 2020 – an expedited timeline. Marriott is the largest hotel chain with 7,000 hotels and 30 brands ranging from SpringHill Suites to Ritz-Carlton. It estimates the change will result in 500 million fewer discarded small bottles a year – or 1.7 million pounds of plastic.
The environmental change is not only responsible – it’s good for business
A global online survey conducted by Nielsen in November 2018 found that 85% of millenials reported that “it is ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ important that companies implement programs to improve the environment.” And, as previously reported by Business Insider, millennials are willing to spend more on travel than any other generation, making the age group the hospitality industry’s most impactful target market.
“… As the ‘typical’ hotel guest morphs from a boomer to a millennial, concern for the environment is now a top-10 ‘must-have’ in a hotel stay,” Chekitan Dev, a professor of marketing and branding at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration told the Washington Post in an email, regarding InterContinental Hotels Group’s July decision to reduce plastic waste.
Christophe Thomas, the general manager of the SLS Beverly Hills, which was just rated the best hotel in the world by the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, echoed Dev’s sentiment on responsible travel in an October interview with Business Insider. He identified the key strategies the hotel relies on to capture millennial interest, including “being connected to the local area” while remembering that “we are citizens of the world.” The hotel, Thomas said, does so with strategies as subtle as using local produce in the hotel’s restaurants because “it’s responsible behavior to be local.”
Business Insider Today spoke with nonprofit organization, Clean the World, on its plan for an eco-friendly future, as hotel chains eliminate single-use plastics.
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Mike & Stacy Siers
Siers Real Estate Group, Outer Banks, NC
About Kitty Hawk, NC
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina is a peaceful beach town that is rich in history and beautiful landscapes. Most famously known as the birthplace of aviation, the same welcoming spirit that greeted the Wright brothers over a hundred years ago, lives on today. This town offers several charming, year-round communities, as well as attractive vacation rental properties. The town is careful to keep a healthy balance between development and natural landscape, allowing the area to feel less developed than other neighboring communities. The oceanfront still holds on to older cottages from yesteryear and offer a mix of luxury properties to mid sized cottages and condos.
History of Kitty Hawk, NC
Long before the Wright Brothers came to visit, Native American tribes inhabit the land. The town was originally named “Chickahawk” in the early 1700 by the Native Americans, meaning land to hunt geese. In the late 1700s, the name was later referred to as Kitty Hawk by the locals.
Centuries later, the Wright Brothers ventured to the town in 1900 to test out their gliders. The wind and tall sand dunes were the perfect conditions for their invention take flight. After the first flight was achieved in 1903, the town went back to its laid back, quiet way of life. The town was gradually developed over time and is now a popular vacation destination.
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For immediate release: July 6, 2016
Windsor, ON – 1980’s pop soul singer and songwriter, Billy Ocean will take The Colosseum stage on Sunday October 30 at 8pm.
Grammy award-winning British R&B singer, Billy Ocean, is best known for his hit songs "Caribbean Queen", “When The Going Gets Tough”, and “Suddenly. He has released 10 albums, selling more than 30 million records. Ocean's music has hit No. 1 in the U.S. and the U.K.
Ocean’s most recent album; Here You Are: The Best of Billy Ocean includes his interpretations of classic songs that had been important to him throughout his life. Included on the album are songs from artists such as Bob Marley, Sam Cooke, and others.
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Airbus horror as footage shows plane engine disintegrate mid-flight from Paris to Los Angeles
Terrified travellers saw one of its engines 'blow out' as it flew over the Atlantic Ocean before making an emergency landing
Passengers were left in a state of panic when an engine of the Airbus plane from Paris they were travelling on disintegrated in mid-air.
Videos and pictures posted on social media by horrified travellers show a large section of the back of the engine is missing from the Air France flight, which was forced to make an emergency landing.
Airbus is part built at the company's large production site at Filton in Bristol, where it employs 4,000 people.
Those aboard the plane described how during the flight everything had felt normal until the suddenly engine was on fire, reports the Mirror.
This photo shows the damaged engine next to a functioning one (Image: Twitter)
The "shocking uncontained engine fire" occurred on the Airbus A380 aircraft, travelling under flight number AF66 and with 520 passengers on board.
Crew members diverted to Canada's Goose Bay airport on its journey from Paris to Los Angeles.
Pictures from inside the plane showed what terrified passengers saw (Image: Twitter)
One worried traveller said on Twitter the engine had "blown over the Atlantic Ocean", leading to the emergency landing in Canada.
Another, named Daniel McNeely, said: "I’m on board. One of our engines is slightly blown apart. Just glad to be on the ground."
The destroyed engine (Image: Twitter)
He later added, alongside a photo of the engine: "I think the engine has seen better days."
Air France confirmed there was "serious damage" to one of the plane's four engines before before it landed safely.
The engine blew up over the ocean (Image: Twitter)
Air France said in a statement on social media: "AF66 landed safely. Customers taken care by Air France and rerouting solutions on going.
"Technical issue identified, AF66 diverting per precaution to Goose Bay YYR for technical checks."
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Passenger Daniel McNeely saw the engine fail from his window. (Image: Twitter)
They later added: "Air France confirms that the crew of flight AF66 decided to divert to Goose Bay airport following serious damage on one of its four engines.
"The plane landed safely at 3.42pm and the regularly trained pilots and cabin crew handled this serious incident perfectly.
"The passengers are currently being assisted by teams dispatched to the location.
"Air France is currently working to re-route the passengers to Los Angeles via one of its connecting platforms in North America."
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Peter Cowan also shared an image of the engine and wrote: "This is the reason ground crews had to pick up pieces of the plane off the runway after landing."
Goose Bay airport is a small site not normally equipped to handle such large aircraft, according to passengers.
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The Timeless Baby Names You've Overlooked
By Laura Wattenberg
If you could shop for baby names in the grocery store, today's parents would all flock to the produce aisle. Everyone's looking for the freshest, most colorful options. Yet baby name shopping is a future-looking business. The name you choose has to stand the test of time, sounding as good thirty years from now as it does today.
That means "shelf life" may be as important as freshness. What would be the naming equivalent of a jar of honey -- long-lasting and eternally appealing? The answer is names that have already stood the test of time for generations. Names like James and Elizabeth don't go in and out of fashion like hem lengths. They're timeless, and happily, they're not alone. You can find timeless names at all levels of popularity, even some with the potential to surprise.
All of the names below have been given to at least 5 American babies per year every year since 1900, without any sharp popularity peaks that would date them. [For you hardcore name geeks, my criterion was SQRT(maximum normalized frequency)/SQRT(minimum normalized frequency) ≤ 3.] These names are all over the style map but they're all timeless, and not a James or Elizabeth in the bunch.
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01/28/2015, 9:22PM
32 Beautiful Baby Names With an 'X' Factor
By The Stir Bloggers
Originally appeared on The Stir.
Not too long ago, the letter X was avoided like the plague when it came to naming babies. But no more: X is now the the letter many parents strive to include. And while Angelina Jolie is partly responsible, -- with kids Maddox, Pax, and Knox -- the X trend has been slowing gathering steam since long before Brangelina's babies were born.
"Since the 1870s, the percentage of babies getting x-names has risen tenfold," says Laura Wattenberg, founder of the baby naming site Baby Name Wizard. "The overarching reason is that X is the letter of the alphabet with the most attitude."
Toss in the X-games, X-Files, and X-Men, and that only reinforces the idea that X is edgy and special, that something "x-tra" parents crave in a name. Here's how you can hop on this trend yourself.
Alexander: The ancient Roman conquerer Alexander the Great gives this name a noble ring; in the U.S., it's been one of the top 25 baby names since 1991. It's also spawned a ton of nicknames, like Alex, Zander, Xan, even Sasha (what parents Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber call their own Alexander).
Max: This name is often short for longer verions -- Maximus, Maximilian -- but is also a popular name in its own right, chosen by celebs from Cynthia Nixon to Christina Aguilera. Meanwhile skater Scott Hamilton doubled up on the X-factor by naming his son Maxx.
Xavier: Long popular as a middle name (often following Francis), Xavier is increasingly getting first name status (just ask Donnie Wahlberg and Tilda Swinton). The X-men comics also introduced a hip new spelling: Xzavier.
Jaxon: This name is part of a new trend where parents sub in "x" where it's normally not -- Jaxon instead of Jackson. In certain areas of the southwest, Jaxon has even surpassed the popularity of Jackson and becomea a top five baby name! Plus it comes with a cool nickname: Jax.
Axel: This name has that heavy metal rocker sheen, thanks to Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose. Will Ferrell picked this name for his third son; Tiger Woods chose it as a middle name for his son Charlie. And get this: in spite of its rock 'n roll roots, it means father of peace.
Dexter: This is the name of a serial killer in a popular Showtime series, but that dark reference only seems to add to this name's edgy appeal. Diana Krall and Elvis Costello named one of their twin boys Dexter, which can be shortened to Dex.
Rex: Natascha McElhone, Niki Taylor and Coldplay's Will Champion and have Rexes in their families, and for good reason: this name means "king" and carries a cool yet regal air.
Phoenix: Named after a mythic bird that symbolizes immortality, this name has the celebrity sheen via Joaquin and the later River.
Xerxes: If you want double the X-power, consider this name, which means "hero of heroes" and once graced not just one, but two Persian kings.
Maddox: After Jolie chose this masculine name for her adopted son in 2003, Maddox has skyrocketed in popularity. It's also fueled the craze for all names with 'x,' in both Jolie's family and in general.
Pax: Jolie's Vietnamese-born son was given this name, which is Latin for peaceful.
Knox: Jolie and Pitt (whose great-great-grandfather was named Hal Knox Hillhouse) gave their son this name, wich is Scottish for "round hill," althoug you're probably more familiar with the more modern reference of Fort Knox.
Bronx: This rough-n-tough borough of New York made baby name fame when Rockers Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz named their son this.
Lexington: This is a "place name" (a town in Massachusetts and Kentucky), but also has a cute nickname, Lex.
Baxter: It means "baker" but sounds so much cooler.
Felix: Latin for "happy and fortunate," this name was picked by Gillian Anderson and Elizabeth Banks for their baby boys.
Alexandria: This turned the ho-hum Alexandra into a more distinctive "place" name, after the ancient city in Egypt. David Bowie and Iman named their daughter this name, which was shortened to the sweet nickname "Lexi."
Alexis: This name shot to popularity with Dynasty's Alexis Carrington in the 1980s, and has had staying power ever since as a sleek, sexy name. One popular variation is Alexa.
Maxwell: Long considered a boy name, Maxwell has become equally popular among girls after Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Sloane chose this name for their daughters.
Maxine: A more feminine "Max" name with political clout, thanks to California Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
Moxie: Penn Jillette named his daughter Moxie Crimefighter... which is a bit much, but Moxie has, well, a lot of moxie in its own right.
Beatrix: It's "Beatrice" with an edge, with respectable roots thanks to children's book author Beatrix Potter. It also doesn't hurt that Quentin Tarantino's trendy Kill Bill movies starred Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) kicking butt.
Bellatrix: J.K. Rowling gave this name to an evil witch played by Helena Bonham Carter in her Harry Potter books; plus it means "female warrior" and is one of the stars in the constellation Orion. Plus you can shorten to Bella.
Pixie: So cute -- and it's also Swedish for sprite or fairy.
Roxy: Also spelled Roxie, this name has showgal glam (think Roxie Hart from Chicago) but has also appeared in kid shows like Hannah Montana and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Xena: It's TV's famous warrior princess! It's also Greek for welcoming.
Dixie: This sassy name is also a "place name" for the states south of the Mason Dixon line, but it's more than that going for it: Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill and wife Lily Aldridge named their daughter Dixie Pearl in 2012.
Oxsana: A snazzier spelling of Oksana, the name came into our consciousness due to Ukrainian figure skater Oksana Baiul. It's also Russian for "praise to God."
Calixta: A more exotic form of Calista -- and also a character in the short story "The Storm" by Kate Chopin, so it has some literary appeal.
Lux: It means "light" in Latin... and also just begs for this baby to be pampered with cashmere booties and jewel-encrusted pacifiers.
Roxana: She was the wife of Alexander the Great, and the name is Persian for "little star."
Nyx: In Greek mythology, Nyx is the goddess of night... and a very daring name for a girl.
What do you think of baby names with an 'X'?
01/25/2015, 6:00AM
The 16 Girls’ Names Everyone Wonders About
Jan 22nd 2015
Is Bellatrix a traditional name, or did J.K. Rowling make it up? Is Sookie short for something? And how do you pronounce Quvenzhané?
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Let this list satisfy your name curiousity. I've compiled a list of the girls' names that everyone wonders about -- the names that send us scurrying to the internet to learn more, or to settle a bet. I identified those hot-button names based on the ratio of visitors the name attracts on Namipedia vs. its popularity as a baby name. If everybody's looking it up and nobody's using it, that's wonder-land.
The most wondered-about names for girls: (See the boys' list)
Abcde. Nope, it's not just an urban legend. Since the late 1990s, about 20 American girls each year have been given this alphabetical name, pronounced "AB-si-dee." The wordplay isn't for everyone, but it does lend Abcde a spirit of fun that stands out in the sometimes self-important realm of contemporary names.
Bellatrix. From the Latin for "female warrior," Bellatrix is the name of a star in the constellation Orion. It wasn't considered a given name until Harry Potter introduced the wildly villainous Bellatrix Lestrange, who was part of a celestially named family tree (e.g. Andromeda, Sirius, Regulus). This could be a smashingly stylish name if it weren't for the mad murderatrix.
Eilonwy. Writer Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, including The Black Cauldron, drew on Welsh myths. Ultimately, though, the stories, characters and names were his own creations. That includes the name of Princess Eilonwy, which resembles Welsh names like Aeronwy and Eirwen but is the stuff of dreams.
Greer. Greer became a girl's name thanks to 1940s film star Greer Garson. Greer was originally her second middle name, from the maiden name of her mother; it's believed to be a form of MacGregor. Actress Greer Grammer has carried on the name's Hollywood tradition. Fittingly, it's Ms. Grammer's middle name as well.
Kinga. Kinga is a classic Polish and Hungarian name honoring St. Kinga, a medieval queen. The name's standard-bearer in the United States is television host Kinga Philipps, born Kinga Szpakiewicz in Poland. Pronounce it with a hard g.
La-A. Yep, this one IS an urban legend. It's impossible to prove the total non-existence of the "dash don't be silent" name, but the many circulating versions of the tale are classic examples of urban legend, and often nasty-minded ones at that. For a deeper look, please see the past post "Ledasha, Legends and Race."
Malala. By the age of 17, education activist Malala Yousafzai had been the subject of a documentary, survived an assassination attempt, written a best-selling autobiography, and received the Nobel Peace Prize. Not surprisingly, this remarkable young woman's name has attracted attention as well. Malala is a Pashto name meaning "grief stricken." Ms.Yousafzai was named after after a Pashtun hero who rallied troops in the 1880 Battle of Maiwand.
Paget. This old English surname is a diminutive of page, pronounced to rhyme with gadget. As a first name, it's all about actress Paget Brewster. Her parents were reportedly inspired by 1950s starlet Debra Paget, née Debralee Griffin, who in turn took the stage name from an aristocratic ancestor in her family tree.
Phryne. The epicenter of Phryne curiosity is Australia, home of the roaring-twenties Phryne Fisher mysteries. The Honourable Phryne (FRY-nee) is beautiful, wealthy, stylish and adventurous. She's named for a legendary courtesan of ancient Greece, who was similarly known for her beauty, wealth and boldness. Phryne was the courtesan's nickname, meaning – brace yourself – "toad."
Quvenzhané. Quvenzhané Wallis was the youngest person ever nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and she also turned heads with her mega-Scrabble-value name. Her parents built it off of parts of their own names, Qulyndreia and Venjie. If your curiosity is about the pronunciation, it's kwa-VEN-zha-nay.
Rapunzel. We all know the second half of the fairy tale Rapunzel, with the tower and the hair. But the key to the name comes earlier in the story, before the titular heroine is born. Her pregnant mother is beset by cravings for greens she spotted in a private garden: rapunzel, or mâche. It has never caught on as a baby name.
Sansa. The most-researched names from Game of Thrones are fashionable-sounding girls' names. Many parents are hoping to find that an appealing name exists outside of the fantasy realm as well, making it an easier sell as a baby name. While you can hunt down examples of women named Sansa, realistically this name is pure Westeros. If it helps, Arya is a traditional Sanskrit name meaning "honorable."
Sookie. Year in and year out, True Blood's Sookie Stackhouse is name-curiosity royalty. Sookie is just a good old-fashioned nickname, a pet form of Susan. Creator Charlaine Harris knew the name via a friend of her grandma's, and felt it had a nice Southern feel to it. Outside the supernatural realm you'll usually see the spellings Sukey and Sukie, as in the nursery rhyme "Polly put the kettle on/Sukey take it off again."
Taissa. Actress Taissa Farmiga comes from a large Ukrainian-American family, and her six older siblings all have names that cross over smoothly from Ukrainian to English. Taissa (tah-EE-sə) also fills that bill, though it's more often written as Taisia or Taisa. The usual origin cited for the name is "dedicated to Isis."
Veruca. A veruca (or verruca) is a wart. We're only discussing this as a name thanks to the marvelously twisted mind of writer Roald Dahl, who named the spoiled brat in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Veruca Salt." An alt-rock band later named itself after the character, and Buffy gave the name Veruca to an alluring werewolf. But Dahl's wicked little joke remains the name's essence.
Zuzu. "Zuzu’s petals!" Those two words from the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life represent the joy of everyday life itself. Zuzu was the main character's daughter, but how did a small-town girl with siblings called Pete, Janie and Tommy end up with such an exotic name? Probably the same way Sookie Stackhouse got hers: as a pet form of Susan. Zuzu comes from Zuzana, a Czech/Slovak form of that name.
On to the boys' names you've been wondering about!
20 Loveably Frumpy Names from the Good Old Days
By Laura Emerson
Some of today's most popular names are what we think of as old fashioned: Noah, Emma, Eva, and Henry were all favorites from the late 1800s. It's in that spirit that some parents have branched out in search of something not just stylishly old, but rare and retro.
If fanciful up and comers like August and Adelaide aren't boldly old fashioned enough for you, these names might be just right. They aren't shy. They are proudly, profoundly, over the hill names worn by generations past and now your little one. These names use a touch of frumpy to their advantage, balking at the lyrical modern choices that are mainstream. But they aren't altogether unattractive. We think some of them may just show more life in the next years as people dig for name relics that show creative spirit and wisdom beyond their years.
Amos: What do you get when you mix biblical, old-fashioned, and questionable cultural associations? An enigma of a name that is waiting for a clean slate. It's possible that Amos is poised to break free from the nursing home and the reputation of a long-ago radio and TV show. It has strong roots, it's simple, easy to pronounce, and it's got an ever-popular "A" beginning. Amos is nowhere near the popularity of names like Aiden and Abel, but it has a sound worthy of consideration.
Bernice: There's nothing modern about this name. But Bernice does have some unexpected glamor, in the form of an ancient Queen of Egypt (spelled Berenice), a famed Hawaiian princess, and a character from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (whose name may be a homage to the Egyptian queen). The name was at its most popular in 1921, and today it's very unusual. Some may consider Bernice's sound to be outdated, but between its royal heritage and the sweet nickname Bea, there's a certain charm to this antique choice.
Clarence: Some of us would love this name if it was just a little bit, well, altogether different. Similarities to the feminine Claire could have helped this name (like Elliot and Ella), but instead we're just indifferent. The ending of this name adds a bit of a geeky feel, and without any obvious nicknames, Clarence is stuck in limbo. It does bring to mind the angel in It's a Wonderful Life, which adds some feel-good qualities to the name. Creative options for a nickname could include Clark, Larry, or Aren.
Cordelia: We aren't sure why poor Cordelia has never moved past her antiquated image. She's Shakespearean and was used in the name-inspiring TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and yet...she's still sitting in the rocking chair knitting. We love her multisyllabic flow, and with nickname options like Cordie, Delia, and new favorite Cora, this not-so-shabby name should be a no-brainer.
Clyde: Part outlaw, part grandpa, Clyde refuses to be properly categorized like a silvery old man sporting a fauxhawk. We're putting him in the frumpy column just for this post, and the numbers will back us up, as Clyde hit a peak in the 1890s. But Clyde's bad boy image, thanks to notorious American robber Clyde Barrow, combined with its so-out-it's-in sound is giving this name an edge. In 2013, Clyde made a sliver of an appearance in the top 1,000 at a triumphant rank of 999.
Edith: In the 1800s, Edith was living large. An Old English name that means "wealth, fortune," Edith once lived up to its meaning with royal sophistication. But something happened along the way. In today's naming climate, Edith will strike most as either unfashionable and elderly, or hip and vintage. A Downton Abbey character is adding more appeal to this name, and the nickname Edie aims to please. Those who can't quite pull the trigger on Edith can go for Eden, but they may be missing out. Edith is on an upswing in England.
Estelle: Are names like Esther, Stella, Esme, or Isabel on your favorites list? Take a second look at Estelle, a French import that hasn't had a good day since the roaring 20s. While Americans lost interest in this name quickly in the last century, we're just starting to take notice again after a few spunky grandmas have faded from pop culture, including actresses Estelle Getty of Golden Girls, and Estelle Harris of Seinfeld (who shared a first name with her character, Estelle Costanza). We think its only a matter of time before this name tosses the walker in favor of a tricycle.
Frances: Over the past 20 years, the feminine name Frances had not been doing so well. Its unisex sound wasn't helped by one unfortunate nickname from the past: Fanny. But parents have started to see some charm in Fran and Frannie, and when Pope Francis was inaugurated in 2013, it gave the name Frances a bit of a boost. She may be the very definition of a loveably frumpy name, but that's part of her charm.
Gertrude: With plenty of consonants to stumble over, Gertrude's sound is boldly archaic. After the second world war, Gertrude's strong German roots made it difficult for parents to love this name, and with short and peppy names coming into fashion, it disappeared from the top 1,000 girls' names altogether in 1966. Today, there's not much room for names with a decidedly clunky sound, even though this one does have saintly and literary namesakes. Nicknames Gertie and Trudy don't offer much solace, and your daughter might just insist on going by her middle name if you choose this one.
Gus: Gus just can't get it together. So many of us seem to love this name, but parents are looking to names like August for a longer, formal sound with more options. So while the actual numbers are showing Gus to be an old-time dud, it's really an unexpected hit. If you're looking for a little encouragement to go for a short, old-fashioned name, you got it—use Gus and you'll delight and surprise the masses.
Harold: It's been a century since Harold was last popular. The name literally has "old" in it, which is fitting with the image this name brings to mind for a lot of people. On the flip side, Harold has some classic and kingly qualities, and the nickname Harry is starting to sound cute to American ears once again. While most aren't looking for a name that's been declining in use (Harold is hanging out in the high 800s), this regal, antiquated name could be just the right kind of different for your son.
Hubert: On the whole, Hubert strikes us as a dusty relic of a name. It's been missing from the top 1,000s since 1987 and it doesn't look good for this name to come back. That being said, Hugh has some potential and Bert isn't unheard of. If you want to thumb your nose at today's naming trends, Hubert will make the statement you're looking for.
Iva: As Americans embrace Ivy, a charming nature name that is much more popular now than ever before, the truly vintage Iva has been left in the dusty name chronicles of the 1890s. Iva has the grace of Eva and Ava, but it hasn't experienced any of their modern day success. Its Slavic roots give this name a certain unexpected glamor, and parents who are looking for a more unique take on today's popular old-fashioned choices shouldn't be afraid to add this one to the list.
Millicent: Millicent may be a bit off-beat, but it has a sound that's full of frills and charisma. It's a unique choice that feels boldly old-fashioned, enough for some parents to avoid it and go straight for the irresistible nickname Millie. If the similarity to the word innocent is throwing you off, think of it as a sweet coincidence that makes Millicent on par with virtue names like Felicity or Grace. This one is ready for more use!
Myron: A name with ancient Greek roots, Myron has been around forever. In the US, this name reached a peak in the early 30s, and fell into oblivion by the 21st century. While Myron has some obstacles to overcome, like its grandpa image and a seemingly built-in southern drawl, its sound could be compared to names like Milo, Miles, and even Cameron. We think there could be some hope for this one yet.
Myrtle: In theory, this name should be red-hot. It's a vintage nature name with appearances in books like The Great Gatsby and the Harry Potter series. It shares a name with a Carolina beach and comes from a flowering plant. So what's the problem? The biggest obstacle poor Myrtle has is its lack of flow, jamming one consonant after another together (and a sometimes-vowel), with no relief until a single silent e at the end. It also happens to rhyme with turtle. But Myrtle may be ideal if you're looking for a sturdy name that's a perfect picture of days gone by.
Opal: With gem names like Pearl and Ruby on the rise, Opal is a throwback name worthy of consideration. Despite its "grandma" status, Opal is sophisticated and charming, and manages to carry a tasteful ring to it that more parents are bound to discover.
Otis: This bygone moniker brings to mind an elderly man clad in suspenders, driving a golf cart around the retirement condos in Florida. But that's exactly why this dinosaur of a name is ready for a little excavating. Modern parents looking for freshly fossilized names can add this grandfatherly choice to their lists, alongside Silas, Cyrus, Augustus, and Elias. In case you sense a theme, it's the striking ending of this name that gives Otis potential.
Walter: A cherished choice once considered a classic, Walter has tons of famous namesakes and a dapper sound. It's the most popular choice on this list by far, but it still has a small town soda-fountain feel that makes us think of the good ol' days. Its popularity was at an all-time high in 1892, giving it an antique feel. The nickname Walt feels stylish, while Wally seems fit for a big box discount retailer.
Wilbur: It's the fictional namesakes that make this name a lock for a hopelessly rural old-man name, including the owner of famed talking horse "Mister Ed" and the pig from Charlotte's Web. But even without those characters, the sound of this name would still be pretty frumpy to our ears. Perhaps the most famous Wilbur is inventor and aviator Wright, who was born in 1867. So if you're looking for a name that is so old it's new again, Wilbur will express your sense of humor if not your style.
For more unusual baby names from the past, check out 20 Forgotten Victorian Names to Put on Your List.
The 14 Boys’ Names Everyone Wonders About
You’ve wondered yourself. You’ve read about a Sherlock or Django or Caillou and thought, "what IS that name, anyway?" This list is designed to satisfy your curiosity.
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To identify the names people wonder about the most, I've turned to visitor statistics for our own Namipedia. Most of the top-visited name pages are hot baby name choices, like Amelia and Liam. But mixed in among those are names you'll seldom encounter in real life.
When the ratio of web searches to actual babies is sky high, that's a point of mass public curiosity. Where does the name come from? What does it mean? Is it a "real" name, or did the author invent it? And does anybody actually dare choose it for their baby? Read on.
The most wondered-about names for boys:
Atreyu. Writer Michael Ende invented the name Atreyu for a young hero in The Neverending Story. In the book, the name is translated as "son of all" in Atreyu's fictional native language, meaning that the boy was raised by his whole village.
Atz. Atz Kilcher is the patriarch of the Kilcher clan chronicled on the reality series "Alaska: The Last Frontier." Kilcher's full given name is Attila Kuno Kilcher, but he's settled so fully into the nickname Atz that he passed that name on to his son.
Baelfire. Even if you don't recognize the name Baelfire as a character from the enchanted world of "Once Upon A Time," you doubtless pegged this as a fantasy name. The "ae" combo is the favorite vowel of fantasy authors, and the spelling Baelfyr is the name of a Celtic Folk Metal band. (A "balefire" was a bonfire or funeral pyre.)
Caillou. The Canadian cartoon character Caillou (kiy-OO) is named after the French word for "pebble." Caillou is not traditionally used as a baby name.
Castiel. This name struck a chord from the moment the Angel Castiel first appeared on the tv series Supernatural. It was an artful choice: Gabriel, Michael and Raphael are angels, and Castiel seems to fit right in. But there is no Castiel in Judeo-Christian traditions. If you stretch the point you can track down a Kafziel/Cassiel among the dozens of names identified as angels in mystical texts over the centuries.
Django. Gypsy guitarist Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt is a jazz legend. His nickname comes from the Romani word for "awake." In the 1960s Django became a popular character name in spaghetti Westerns; apparently the Gypsy name sounded like a cowboy to Italian screenwriters. Director Quentin Tarantino paid homage to those films by choosing Django as the unlikely name for his avenging African-American slave in the film Django Unchained.
Finnick. An etymology hunter may find the name Finnick as an occasional variant of the place name/surname Fenwick. As a given name, though, it's the invention of Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins. Her full character name Finnick Odair manages to be unfamiliar while giving off Irish vibes. Some parents are drawn to the name as an extension of Finn, despite the "finicky" sound.
Jebediah. Nope, there's no Jebediah in the Bible. The Simpsons dreamed up this pseudo-pioneer name for their city founder Jebediah Springfield. If you like the nickname Jeb, it can be a contraction of Jacob or an acronym from the initials J.E.B. Alternately, if you like the biblical pioneer style there's always Jedediah.
Kenai. The 2003 animated film Brother Bear featured native Alaskan names which continue to spark curiosity. At the top of the list is Kenai (KEE-niy), a Tenaina word for field which is also the name of an Alaskan city. Kenai's cinematic brother Sitka also bears a city name, based on the name of a native Alaskan tribe.
Niklaus. Niklaus is a Swiss form of Nicholas, but that's not what sends hordes of visitors to Namipedia. We're talking vampires, people! Niklaus Mikaelson is a powerful supernatural hybrid character from the tv shows The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.
Roxas. Roxas is a literally heartless character in the Kingdom Hearts video game series. The character came into being when protagonist Sora briefly lost his heart – note that Roxas is an anagram of Sora + X. (Sora is a Japanese name from a word for "sky.") Both names have seen occasional use in the U.S. since Kingdom Hearts became popular.
Sherlock. Sherlock is an uncommon surname from roots meaning "bright hair" or "shorn hair." Nobody knows why Arthur Conan Doyle chose the name for his great detective Sherlock Holmes, but its spiky idiosyncrasy suits the character. (Consider that Holmes' more ordinary companion Watson was christened John.) Sherlock's big brother Mycroft also bears a rare surname. Mycroft has the form of a place name, meaning roughly "the field by the stream mouth," but there's no Mycroft to be found on the map.
Tarek. An alternate form of the Arabic name Tariq, which refers to a night visitor or guiding star. Tarek El Moussa, the host of the real estate reality series "Flip or Flop," was born in Egypt.
Zidane. In the world of humans, Zidane is an Algerian surname associated with soccer legend Zinedine Zidane. In the world of video game Final Fantasy IX he's a charming thief with a prehensile tail. One or both of these heroes boosted Zidane to become an occasional American baby name choice since the year 2000.
We Can Build It! The Perfect Name!
Come with me, down into my secret Mad Name Scientist laboratory. On my workbench are piles of baby name popularity stats, and letters from A to Z. From these, we shall build the statistically ideal name!
We want a stylish name, tuned to current tastes. Let’s start by limiting our input to names that are rising in popularity (a score of at least .2 on the Baby Name Wizard hotness scale). That still leaves data on more than 20,000 names to work with, representing well over a million babies. Next, we’ll split the data for boys' and girls' names to zero in on trends for each sex.
Now the real fun begins.
We need to give our names shape. In our collection of millions of fashionable babies, six letters is the most popular length for both boys’ and girls’ names. But which six? To find out, we can take apart all those trendy little names letter by letter, then try reassembling them.
Looking at the girls’ pool, we could simply put the most popular first letter first, the most popular second letter second, and on until we have a whole name built of only the choicest parts! Here’s the result:
Aaiaea
Hmm. Not quite what we’re looking for. But hey, that Dr. Frankenstein didn't hit it out of the park on his first swing either.
The problem, of course, is that letters aren't independent of one another. Trends are about arrangements and flows of sound. To capture the trendy flow, let’s anchor the name with the top first and last letters (name endings carry a lot of style power). Then we can work in toward the middle conditionally, choosing the trendiest letters based on their neighbors. That experiment produces:
Arilia
Now we're geting somewhere. Arilia could be pronounced like Amelia with an r, or like the combo Ari-Lia. Either way it's a "liquid name" with stressed long vowels, a smooth creation that flows off the tongue.
Turning to the boys’ side, the final letter is obvious: N, the defining sound of this whole generation of boys. The top initial is J, the timeless favorite across eras from Joe to Jaxon. Moving in letter by letter, we’ll build the statistically ideal boy:
Jacion
This one looks like a perfect strike. I’ve never come across the exact name, but last year Jayceon was America’s fastest rising boy’s name, with Jase #2. Then there’s Jackson, and Mason, and on and on.
Even if you don’t plan to run out and name twins Arilia and Jacion, there’s plenty to learn from this little experiment. Arilia and Jacion represent the name-sound environment that your child will be trying to fit into – or stand out in. If you’re worried that the name Aurelia sounds stuffy or “old-ladyish,” this should be good news. But if you’re counting on the unusual spelling Gracin to make your son’s name distinctive and memorable, you might want to think again.
01/08/2015, 11:01AM
20 Trendy Baby Names Ending in a 'Double T'
Scarlett. Bennett. Elliott. Notice a trend? Baby names with a double "T" are where it's at these days.
"Even if parents don't like the same style of name, we're liking the same sounds," says naming expert Laura Wattenberg, founder of Baby Name Wizard. And right now, ending a name with a crisp, clear "T" is sounding pretty good.
The reason why isn't clear, but "more than ever before, parents are looking for fresh names," Wattenberg says. "We don't want to name our kids 'John' and 'Mary.' We want to sound creative. Standing out from the crowd has become more important than fitting in."
Read on for names ending with a "double T" sound that you'll want to consider for your baby boy or girl.
For Girls:
1. Alliette: Beautiful without being precious. Try "Allie" or "Ettie" as a nickname.
2. Britt: A more athletic, confident version of Brittany.
3. Charlotte: This Old German name continues to be hot right now, and for good reason. It's elegant without being fussy.
4. Claudette: Claude's a hard sell. But add the ending "TT" sound and you suddenly have a light, musical name that trips off the tongue.
5. Johnette: Derived from the French name "Jeannette," Johnette has an endearing tomboy charm.
6. Merritt: It means "boundary gate" in Old English, but we think Merritt has far-reaching appeal. Smart, steady, and sweet.
7. Olette: A unique gem of a name. You'd never guess it originated from the Norwegian "Olaf."
8. Scarlett: Strong on Southern charm and beauty. Try Carly or Scout for short.
9. Violette: A delicate flower of a name, with just a hint of mischief.
10. Viviette: An unusually pretty name for a baby girl. Plus, you get the bonus of "Viv" or "Vivi" as a nickname.
For Boys:
1. Abbott: Derived from the Aramaic "abba," which means father. But we just like how it sounds: friendly and approachable.
2. Beckett: Whether this name makes you think of writer Samuel Beckett or one of the main characters on the TV show Castle, you have to admit, it has far-reaching appeal.
3. Bennett: A snazzier version of Benjamin, Bennett continues to rise in popularity.
4. Elliott: Equal parts smart and sweet, this name is inherently lovable.
5. Everett: Thoughtful and steady, Everett's a solid choice for a baby boy.
6. Hewitt: A common English last name, we think Hewitt has enough charm to also come first.
7. Padgett: An unusually strong, serious name.
8. Prescott: Although it comes from the English name for "priest's cottage," we think Prescott sounds like a leading man.
9. Riott: It's not for everyone, but if you're looking for a strong, unique name that guarantees your son will stand out, Riott's the natural choice.
10. Witt: The natural (and adorable) successor to another "double-T" name: Wyatt.
Which name ending with a double-T is your favorite?
01/06/2015, 11:34PM
"Frozen" Inspired Baby Names: The Nordic-Chic Names That Are Hot This Winter
Across America, kids and parents alike are still singing the praises of Disney's hit movie Frozen, and it doesn't seem that we'll ever let it go. The characters are magical, relatable, and truly loveable, the story is a fairy tale with a twist, and we love its sentimental throwback appeal. Not to mention the music from Frozen is catchy, heartfelt, and inspiring enough to spawn a countless number of parodies on YouTube.
We've already imagined that the power of this unstoppable animated tale reaches beyond the usual confines of a mundane-but-cute kids movie. Frozen is permeating our culture, including the names we choose for our children. While we won't have stats for 2014 until just before Mother's Day, we could already see the uptick Elsa was showing just after the movie was released. And Elsa was a strong contender for Name of the Year, though in the end the winner was a name influenced by Frozen as well.
The movie did give us a taste of some intriguing Nordic names, but take a look with us at our favorite options beyond Frozen's few characters. You'll find that America has been influenced by names from the North for several years now, and they are bold, charming, and fit for the gilded pages of a fairytale storybook.
Aksel, Axel: This name may sound perfect for a rockstar or a muscle-car mechanic, but it has deep Nordic roots and a grounded history. The Danish form of the biblical name Absolom, Axel has been around Europe for centuries, a favorite in Denmark and beyond. We know and love it from a few modern references, including the main characters in steampunk favorite Journey to the Center of the Earth, and the movie series Beverly Hills Cops, plus Guns N' Roses' rocker Axl Rose. This name goes far beyond a straightforward troublemaker name into the territory of a storied Scandinavian crossover hit.
Astrid: Americans are ready...Aren't we? For some, the bold sound coupled with fears of teasing potential can create hesitation for parents (no thanks to The Office). But don't cross this gorgeous, powerful name off your list just yet. With royal connections including the current Princess of Belgium, Astrid is dignified but not without a sense of cheerfulness. Author of the Pippi Longstocking series, Astrid Lindgren gives the name a sentimentality that we all adore.
Britta, Britt: These peppy names herald from Sweden, home of the celebrated Saint Birgitta. If you love the sounds of these names like we do, be prepared to convince your friends and family that Britt has nothing to do with the name Brittany, and Britta has nothing to do with water filters (spelled Brita). Do America a favor and use these names anyway; we think they are bright and cheerful, with cross-cultural appeal and charm.
Elin: A Scandinavian and Welsh form of Helen, this name was brought to our attention during a messy celebrity divorce. Tiger Woods' glamorous ex-wife, Sweden-born Elin Nordegren, gets credit for earning our sympathies and inspiring our baby names at the same time. It's about time we noticed this lovely name, and since classic favorites like Ellen paved the way, we think Elin can sit comfortably next to Eden and Ella.
Elsa: Before Elsa was a princess of Arendelle and a misunderstood Snow Queen, she was a charming variation of Elizabeth (or a form of Alice in Spanish) gaining more popularity in the US. With use across the globe and a favorite in Sweden, Disney made a perfect choice with Elsa's name. It's easy to pronounce and has a long history, though it's especially famous for a character in Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin (this opera gives us the “Here Comes the Bride” processional). That's a lot of attractive qualities packed into just four little letters. We predict this name will continue its upward trend, with more parents choosing Elsa for their little princesses in 2014 and beyond.
Finn: You may think of Finn as having Irish roots, but it's also an Old Norse name referring to a Finn, or someone from Finland. Any way you look at it, it's hard not to love this light-hearted little name that has a sense of boyish independence, bringing to mind Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But Finn is also a modern Hollywood favorite, with notable characters in shows like The Sopranos, Glee, Vampire Diaries, and movies like Cars and The Lego Movie. Finn is even rumored to be the name of the lead character in the upcoming Star Wars film as well. Celebs love it for their babies like the rest of us do, and we're glad this European-styled sweetheart is here to stay.
Freya: Freya's time has come. With a sound as appealing as Fiona or Flora, Freya is a wildly popular choice across the pond, recently ranked as the 20th most popular girls' name in England and Wales. The name heralds from Norse mythology as the goddess of love, beauty, war, and death. Spelled Freja in Sweden and Denmark, and Frøja in Norway.
Greta: This international short form of Margareta has an Old Hollywood feel, with a meaning to match its retro-glam image—pearl. Swedish actress Garbo made this name a hit as she graced the silver screen in top movies during the silent film era and beyond. We love it again today for its global appeal and elegance, though it turns into an adorable name on a little girl. Celebrities like David Caruso and Kevin Kline chose this name for their daughters.
Gunnar: There's no beating around the bush with a name like Gunnar—it's a deadly serious, muscled name meaning “warrior” that strikes us as so tough we can't help but grin thinking of a toddler wearing it. Gunnar has deep roots in Old Norse, borne by a character in Norse legend, as well as a famous Viking. The military-inspired name Gunner is gaining momentum every year, pulling this storied name from its frosty Nordic past into the realm of red-hot modern choices. We're just glad it feels far removed from its clunky relative Gunther.
Ingrid: If you're looking for a name that's sturdy and dripping with feminine glamor at the same time, look no further than the Old Norse name Ingrid. In America, this name takes us back to Hollywood's Golden era, when Swedish actress Bergman was stunning audiences with her role in Casablanca and other classics. Today, American singer Michaelson (who is half Swedish) has lent her indie-pop style to the name, making it one we can see on a modern girl with a flair for the arts.
Kai: People who love this name can commiserate that there are almost too many different potential sources and meanings for Kai. We're interested in its Scandinavian roots, and so were the creators of Frozen, who gave this name to a minor character in the movie. It's a loveable, one-syllable hit that can be counted among the top 200 names for boys in the US. We're just a tad bit behind other countries who already adore this name, including England, Canada, Scotland, and the Netherlands.
Linnea: A Swedish darling, Linnea has been a top girls' name in Sweden and Norway for years. This Nordic classic has yet to make waves in America, as one thing holding it back is the “Lin” beginning that we haven't seen since the days of Linda and Lindsey. But we think its exotic syllabic flow is right on target with choices like Alana, Elena, Selena, and Lucia. Linnea is an intelligent, feminine choice in honor of the heralded Swedish scientist Carl Linneaus, for whom the pink and white Linnaea or “twinflower” is named.
Magnus: No one will accuse you of not thinking big enough if you choose the name Magnus for your son. It's the Latin word for “great,” and the foundation behind words like magnificent and magnify. But Magnus' story is explained further by an incredible list of Nordic royalty, including seven kings of Norway and three kings of Sweden. It's bold, kingly qualities like these that can take a name from international oddity to melting pot favorite. While it's still rare in the US, Magnus is showing some signs of life and recently appeared in the top 1,000 boys' names for the first time. Chosen by Will Ferrell and his wife, Swedish-born actress Viveca Paulin for their son.
Mathias, Matthias: This up-and-coming name hits several sweet spots for modern namers. It's Biblical, international, and its interesting ending puts a spin on the tried-and-true Matthew. With siblings like Jonas, Elias, and Levi in the mix for this name on Namipedia, we can see the charm this name holds for parents with a faith-influenced style. Matthias is a very popular choice in Germany, Iceland, and Sweden.
Niko: It's hard not to love the sound of this Finnish form of Nicholas. With a long o ending like Leo, and a a crisp k in the middle, Niko comes across as an exotic but accessible charmer that Namipedia users rate high on the “sexy” scale. It's one of the most popular boys' names in Finland, and Niko has set his sights on America, quickly climbing the charts each year.
Odin: Odin is another sizzling name pulled straight from the folklore of the icy North. Norse mythology tells of the supreme god Odin who reigns over wisdom, art and creativity, war, and death. This powerful name comes from an Old Norse word meaning both “wit, poetry” and “frenzy, rage”. But any foreboding overtones this name has is downplayed by its charming sound, with some parents using Odie as a nickname.
Olaf: Do you wanna build a snowman? In the US, Olaf is rare and forever connected with characters like Count Olaf from A Series of Unfortunate Events, and now the zany snowman from Frozen. But more exposure to this Old Norse name with kingly and saintly associations only makes us more familiar with its distinctive sound. Can Olaf triumph over our quirky caricatures to become a name worth considering? Only time will tell.
Soren: Americans tend to drop the umlaut on the traditional Norwegian Sören, but no matter how it's written this name is fresh and catchy. This Nordic gem has been quietly gaining popularity, recently reaching the 600s after it first appeared in the top 1,000 US boys' names back in 2003. And that's when the first book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series was published, featuring tales of a young barn owl named Soren. The Danish Søren is linked to the philosopher Kierkegaard.
Thea: A beautiful name that sounds familiar and comfortable even though it's rare, Thea is an enigmatic surprise used often in Norway and Sweden. While it's pronounced TAY-ə in Europe, Americans will read it as THEE-ə. And we happen to love it either way.
Thor: The Old Norse god of war, thunder, and strength, Thor is another intense name from the land of the Vikings. He's usually depicted in shades of gold (Hair? Check. Optional wings? Check. Helmet? Check. All gold.), with a red cape, though the most important accessory he bears is his hammer. He was transformed into a superhero by Marvel comics, and became a big screen heartthrob played by Chris Hemsworth in a series of movies. Thor is really unusual in the US, but we couldn't create this list without this iconic Nordic superstar.
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The First Step to Finding Your Perfect Baby Name
This may be the most general piece of advice I've ever given. It applies to parents who like classic names and to parents who want to get creative. It applies to short names and long, popular names and rarities. It applies whether you're looking for an Irish name to sound good with the surname O'Flanagan, an "R" name to honor your grandpa Rodney, or a cowboy name that's like Colt but not exactly Colt.
No matter what your criteria are, you can start your name search by ignoring them altogether.
Choosing a baby name isn't like shopping for a new refrigerator. A practical checklist of requirements can't pinpoint the right model. That's because the ultimate test of a successful name choice isn't function, but emotion: the feeling in your heart every time you say your child's name, and the emotional response of other people who hear it. If you're looking for a name with right gut impact, why not start your search by listening to your gut?
Try this. Brainstorm a list of names that you're drawn to, even if you can't possibly choose them for your own child. Just focus on your emotional impression -- names that make you smile, or make you feel predisposed to like the person. If you hear a name and instictively go "ooh," it makes the list.
It doesn't matter if Elliott sounds terrible with your last name, or your cousin already named her daughter Piper, or you could never really pull the trigger on Bellatrix. For now, you're just aiming for that warm, happy tingle of name love.
With your "list of love" in hand, you can turn back to the practical criteria you set out with. If a name on the love list actually satisfies the criteria, hurrah, you may be done! If not, let the list be your emotional anchor as you set out to find the perfect name. Look it over: do any common elements or impressions emerge? Perhaps a bunch of the names feel "sparkly" to you, or sound like they're posed for a handsome ancestral portrait. Carry these emotional filters with you as you review lists of Irish saints' names, or names starting with R.
You can also use the "list of love" as your starting point for the Baby Name Wizard name-finding tools. Type your favorites into the Name Matchmaker and tell it what other qualities you're looking for. Or use the sibling name suggestions in the Baby Name Wizard book to find names that capture some of the same elusive magic as the names on your list.
No matter your approach, hang on to the positive feelings and don't let your head override your heart. When it comes to names, first impressions matter.
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As some people who follow this blog may have noticed — and others may have gone to great lengths to ignore — I periodically post about “games and names,” or etymologies and explanations of names and words that appear in video games. Over time, I’ve come across various bits of information that I didn’t feel deserved their own post but that might be interesting to readers. I began collecting these bits in what was at one point a short list of odds and ends but which now exists as a bigger-than-planned list of name etymologies, translation oddities, and my own geek theories — with footnotes, no less.
A quick note: Since this post went up, I got a lot of feedback — some good and some of the “TLDR” variety. So in an effort to make what I put here more accessible, I split the content up into subsections that are easier to navigate and process. Also, you can now just skip the sections you don’t care about, if you so choose. Links below.
Part One: Legend of Zelda
Part Two: Mario, Donkey Kong and Wario
Part Three: Sonic the Hedgehog
Part Four: Street Fighter and other Capcom titles
Part Five: Final Fantasy
Part Six: Final Fantasy IV and Dante’s Inferno
Part Seven: Metroid and Kid Icarus
Part Eight: Castlevania
Part Nine: Earthbound/Mother
Part Ten: Chrono Trigger
Part Eleven: Secret of Mana/Seiken Densetsu
Part Twelve: Mega Man
Part Thirteen: Miscellaneous Nintendo titles (Kirby, Pikmin, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Duck Hunt, Clu Clu Land)
Part Fourteen: Odds and Ends (Guilty Gear, Ogre Battle, Samurai Shodown, Pac-Man, Mappy, Adventure Island)
Part Fifteen: The Worst Names in Video Games
And for those of you brave enough to tackle to full, original post, enjoy.
Because Zelda inspired the title of this collection, I might as well start with it. Unlike the Nintendo series Super Mario Bros., which takes its name from its heroes, the Legend of Zelda series take its name from its damsel in distress, which seems odd in that the princess didn’t play a significant role in the games until fairly recently.
zelda then, zelda now and the triforce
Several sites, however, suggest that Princess Zelda’s name could have some relation to the game’s symbol, the Triforce, a triangular icon that represents the virtues of strength, wisdom and courage.1 Some even claim that the Greek letter delta, essentially a triangle in its written form, would be rendered in Japanese katakana as zeruda, which is also how the character’s name could be rendered in katakana.2
As plausible as this all may seem, however, it probably had nothing to do with how the character got her name. The game’s creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, has said that he took the character’s name from Zelda Fitzgerald: “[Zelda Fitzgerald] was a famous and beautiful woman from all accounts, and I liked the sound of her name. So I took the liberty of using her name for the very first Zelda title,” he’s quoted as saying.3 Nonetheless, Nintendo itself seemed to offer some tacit endorsement of the Zelda-delta theory in Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, in which Zelda initially goes by a different name, Tetra, which means “four” — figuratively, the “three” of delta plus one, if you wanted to think about numerically. Also, the technical term for a four-paneled pyramid — which is what the Triforce would be if it existed in three dimensions — is tetrahedron.4
The series hero, Link, also deserves a bit of onomastic speculation. His name isn’t unheard of outside of video games; there’s actually a character with that name and with that spelling in To Kill a Mockingbird, though, more often, you see the name as Linc, an abbreviation for Lincoln. Again, Nintendo itself has had some fun with the name. The title of the third Zelda game, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, makes a pun on his name. And in any game, Link, as the game’s stand-in for the player, also serves as a link between the video game and the human world on the other side.
link the lefty: original art, original sprite, and the current look
Finally, links is German for “left,” which would mean nothing if the guy wasn’t traditionally depicted as holding his sword in his left hand. (If you’ve only played the “dyslexic,” Wii version of Twilight Princess, this significance would likely be lost on you, as Nintendo flipped the game so that characters would be holding their Wiimotes in the same hand as Link holds his sword.) In my book, this merits a mention because Link is the only major video game hero that I can think of who is a southpaw.
You’d think I’d have something to say about Zelda’s big bad, but I actually haven’t yet dug up much up on him, even though he has the linguistically enticing name Ganondorf Dragmire. And I have no idea why Nintendo chose to switch his name from Gannon, as it’s stated in the first game, to Ganon in Zelda II: Adventure of Link, and then to Ganondorf in Link to the Past onward. It seems that now Ganon — one “N” — refers to his more hulking, monster form and Ganondorf to his human form.5 Crazy demon logic.
gannon, ganon, and ganondorf
There’s something to be said about a few supporting characters, however. Some time back I posted about a sagely but almost forgotten Zelda character named Sahasrahla. Goofy, who blogs over at Bradshaw of the Future, pointed out that his name is probably a corruption of the Hindu term sahasrara, which refers to the seventh primary chakra — “the thousand-petaled lotus, located over the fontanel,” in Goofy’s words.
Link’s trusty steed, Epona, would seem to take her name from a Celtic horse goddess. (She’s the one associated with the Uffington White Horse, though erroneously.)
Throughout various Zelda games, Link has been accompanied by attendant fairies that point out this or that and explain things the player might not otherwise know. It’s been pointed out a few places online that their names would reflect this: Navi (“navigator”) in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Tatl (“tattle”) in Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, the latter of whom has a brother appropriately named Tael.6
etymologically: splish-splash on the left, roly-poly on the right
Throughout many of the Zelda games, Link encounters some human-like but decidedly not totally human folks: among then, the Gorons and the Zoras. Gorons are bulky things who live in the mountains and tend to tumble down hillsides like boulders, while Zoras are fishy things who live in the water and who in some games take their orders from a fat, lazy whale named Lord Jabu-Jabu. Both sets of creatures have some relation to Japanese onomatopoeia.7 The name Goron resembles goro goro, the Japanese term for a rumbling sound not unlike that of a rolling rock. And the bloated fish, immobile though he is, shares his name with another Japanese word for the sound of splashing water. (Not sure where Zora comes from. Fitzgerald and such literary connections aside, Zora Neale Hurston seems unlikely.)
In Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Nintendo made a nice gesture to longtime players by naming several supporting characters after towns that appeared in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link — namely Saria, Darunia, Ruto, Rauru, Nabooru, and Mido. For the life of me, however, I’ve never been able to figure out where any of the names came from in the first place. Even more curious is that one final Zelda II town has no apparent Ocarina of Time character named after it: Kasuto. This omission actually seems appropriate in light of the fact that Zelda II’s Kasuto is abandoned, its residents having hightailed to a hidden town, New Kasuto. In a sense, it’s appropriate that the one town that is empty or obscured either lacks a character counterpart or simply has a very well hidden one. Equally perplexing is an Ocarina of Time character who aids Link in his adventure: a talking owl with the exceptionally strange name of Kaepora Gaebora. If anyone can offer a theory as to where these folks get their names, I’d love to hear it.
Something that’s a little less mysterious: There’s a location in a lot of Zelda games by the name of Kakariko Village. By most accounts, it is inspired by the noise made by the chickens that so often inhabit the place.8
pickled on the left, fungal on the right
There’s a recurring pair of decrepit twin witches, Koume and Kotake, whose names in Japanese refer to a type of pickled plum and a mushroom, respectively.9 And those seems like appropriate enough names for two wrinkled, malevolent things.
but his saying so isn’t. understand?
And finally, there’s Error — a character who appears only in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. For most of the game, he says only what you see above: “I am Error.” Very strange. Later in the game, another character actually refers to Error by his name, proving that his name is actually what he says — that is, the text doesn’t read the way it does as the result of an actual error. One might think that Error results from a mangled translation of the name Errol, which in the context of a Zelda game would make sense, given the swashbuckling associations the name carries. That wouldn’t appear to be the case, however. The linguistically minded point out that had the character’s name been intended to be Errol, it would have been rendered differently in the original Japanese text than it was.10 Others, however, claim that Error’s name is, in fact, an in-joke and cite another character as supporting this: a guy named Bagu, who just happens to be a palette swap for Error and whose name also happens to sound a lot like the word “bug” — as in a computer error.11 But I’m not sure this is necessarily the case. Wherever Error’s name comes from, the fact that it seems like a goof resulted in him becoming a meme among the Nintendo-literate.12 Nintendo even acknowledged this years later with an in-joke in Super Paper Mario.13
Characters in the Mario games tend to have more straightforward names, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t lend themselves to some inspection. In fact, one of the first video game-related posts I ever put on this blog concerned the odd linguistic associations that Mario and Luigi have.
The most logical place to start, then: the Italian-American stereotype himself, Mario.
left to right: landlord, evil, pizza man, and similarly evil
The story most often circulated about Mario’s name is that it comes from Mario Segale (or Mario Segali, depending on your sources), who was the landlord for Nintendo of America’s office around the time Mario Bros. came out and who apparently bore a resemblance to the portly, mustachioed hero.14 Given the attitudes most people have for their landlords, I have to imagine the comparison wasn’t necessarily flattering. Mario’s debut a few years earlier in Donkey Kong billed him as Jumpman — which, as a name, kind of blows — so I suppose we should be happy that Nintendo staff decided to mock their landlord when they did. I have no reason to question the story other than the fact that I have never seen any proof that Mr. Segale actually exists. I’m not alone: One guy has even begun a website to try to track Mr. Segale down. Similarly, it’s generally accepted that Luigi got his name from Mario & Luigi’s, a pizza place alleged to have existed at some point near Nintendo of America’s Washington office.15
Confusing the issue further, however, is the theory that Mario and Luigi got their names from the Japanese words marui and ruiji, which mean “round” and “similar” respectively. (The former is also related to the name of the Maru Mari, an item in the Metroid series that’s now known as the Morph Ball.) The marui-ruiji theory is probably wrong, but it’s still interesting to consider. Mario does have a bit of a paunch nowadays, though he looked trimmer back when he was first named. (Early video graphics were ill-equipped to portray slight tubbiness.) And Luigi did debut in Mario Bros. as a palette swap — that is, he had Mario’s sprite with a different color scheme.
early mario and luigi, with the latter looking pretty damn similar
The marui-ruiji theory might have ended up seeming more believable as the result of the explanation behind the names of the other two “plumber” characters, Wario and Waluigi. Among people who follow these things, it’s fairly well known that Wario’s name comes from the Japanese adjective warui, meaning “evil.” Warui plus Mario equals Wario, with the fact that “W” looks like an inverted “M” apparently being a happy coincidence. All in all, a good play on words.
Luigi’s evil counterpart, Waluigi, isn’t so lucky. That pesky “L”/“R” problem, which so often rears its head in transliterations between English and Japanese, causes warui and Luigi’s name to blend together less seamlessly. If Nintendo has only named its Number One Player Two Ruigi instead of Luigi, some of the awkwardness English-speakers perceive in Waluigi’s name would have been avoided. Waluigi — or, transliterated differently, Waruiji — also happens to be an anagram for the Japanese word ijiwaru, which means “bad-tempered.” As far as I know, this too is just a coincidence. Because Waluigi’s hat bears an inverted “L,” some depict the character’s name as 7uigi, which might be the most sensible way to refer to this character with the awkward, awkward name.16
The wa- prefix characters mostly end there, as we have yet to be beset with a particularly un-ladylike Wapeach, an unhelpful Watoad, a peaceful Wabowser or a heroic Wawario. There has, however, been a Wayoshi, though not by that name. (See below, where I talk about Yoshi.)
Other main characters in the Mario games don’t offer as much to think about, at least from what I’ve found.
peachy progression
Given the series’ propensity for naming characters after food — a trend throughout Japanese pop culture, really — it doesn’t seem remarkable that the games’ iconic female character would be named after something sweet. Princess Peach’s name in its Japanese form, however, could also be represented in English as Pichi, or “Peachy,” which makes for an accurate description of her unflappably positive personality. Yes, she has an alternate name in the U.S., where she was introduced as Princess Toadstool and went by the that name until 1996. It’s all but forgotten now, and perhaps for the better: Toadstool is an ugly name for any universe’s epitome of femininity.
Nintendo has saddled the prolific cake-baker with some unfortunate feminine stereotypes throughout the years, including one that pertains especially to this discussion of games and words: Her Super Mario RPG attack Psych Bomb is known in the original Japanese as Hisuterikku Bomu, or “Hysteric Bomb,” which, on the etymological level, expresses a certain degree of misogyny.
bald bowser, blue bowser and the bowser we all know and hate
I could swear that I remember reading somewhere that “Koopa” — the name that Bowser, the games’ main antagonist, goes by in Japan and his last name in the United States — comes from a term for plateware in some Asian country. Can’t find it now, though it seems relevant that the word is sometimes written as Kuppa in certain instances of English text in Japanese games. I’ve also read that the word Koopa would match the Japanese pronunciation of a Korean rice soup that can be represented in English text as gug-bab or guk-bap or some other such combination of similar syllables, but I’d have to check that with a food-minded linguist before I could say this claim is accurate. Supporting the gug-bab theory is a statement Miyamoto apparently made in an interview indicating that he decided upon Koopa over two other names based on Korean dishes: Yukke (yukhoe) and Bibinbap (bi bim bap).17
As for Bowser’s American-only first name, I’d propose that it could come either from a certain type of water or fuel tanker — which would make sense, given the character’s size — or from Jon “Bowzer” Bauman of the rock group Sha Na Na. (Less of a badass association than one might have hoped for, but few names could hold a candle to the name Bowser was introduced as in the original Japanese version of Super Mario Bros.: Daimaō Kuppa, which translates either as “Great Demon King Koopa” or “Big Devil King Koopa.”18 And Bowser, regardless of its origin, is a hundred times cooler than Kerog, a mysterious alternate name the character has been stuck with in at least one piece of apparently Nintendo-sanctioned merchandise.18)
Another theory as to the origin of the name Koopa relates it to a creature from Japanese mythology, the kappa. These water demons have little in common with the Super Mario Bros. villain other than that they like kidnapping people and are sometimes depicted as having turtle-like shells and beaks. In fact, the Japanese refer to the generic turtle enemies that Americans call Koopa or Koopa Troopa as Nokonoko, which translates to something like “unconcernedly,” apparently in reference to the way they stupidly walk in one direction without fear of being stomped or falling into holes. That their Japanese name sounds like the knock-knock noise their shells make when bouncing off a solid object is just a coincidence.
A quick aside: Kappas are common enough in Japanese culture that they show up pretty often in video games. They appear in Final Fantasy VI, as “imps,” and there’s also a pirate-accented one named Kapp’n in the Animal Crossing games that most American players would just assume was a turtle anyway. A major difference between kappas and turtles, however, is that the former has a hollow head filled with water that spills if they lean over. And if the water spills, the kappa dies. (So now you know what to do in an emergency.) The aspect of the creature is subtly reflected in Super Mario World, whose instruction manual identifies an area of the map as Kappa Mountain.20 The name never appears in the game itself, but it would appear to be named after the fact that a pond appearing on one part of the mountain looks a little like the water-filled depression in a kappa’s head.
clockwise from top left: kappas as they appear in nature,
kappa mountain, kapp’n, final fantasy vi’s kappas
Kappa Mountain, by the way, looks a hell of a lot more like a mountain on the map than the area that the game’s text actually refers to as such: Cookie Mountain, a stage in the fourth area that just might have inspired the name of TV on the Radio’s second album, Return to Cookie Mountain. I’ve never read any confirmation from the band that it’s true, though.
Back on the subject of Bowser, I have nothing to back up the Sha Na Na theory, but it seems less ludicrous than it might initially if considered alongside the names that Bowser’s seven awful children got when they were introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3. In order, the children were Larry Koopa, Morton Koopa Jr., Wendy O. Koopa, Iggy Koopa, Roy Koopa, Lemmy Koopa and Ludwig von Koopa — nearly all of whom have names that resemble those of famous musicians.21
times two: iggy, morton, lemmy, ludwig, roy, wendy, larry, and bowser/bowzer
In order: Wendy O. Williams, Iggy Pop, Roy Orbison (whose habit of wearing sunglasses is shared by his Super Mario Bros. counterpart), Lemmy from Motörhead, and Ludwig von Beethoven. Morton would seem to take his name from the talk show host Morton Downey Jr., who was popular around the time Super Mario Bros. 3 was released. And Larry is a bit of a mystery, though I say the apparent reference to Downey has led some to assume his namesake is another talk show host, Larry King.22 Nintendo has never confirmed anything one way or the other, so this all remains just speculation, but it’s speculation that seems pretty damn likely, especially considering that subsequent Mario characters were also named after rock stars and the like — among them a boss in Super Mario World being apparently named for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (Reader Kevin T points out that another possible source for the Reznor character could be a heater manufacturing company of the same name.) Years after introducing Bowser’s brood, Nintendo ditched them in favor of a single offspring with a far less cool namesake: Bowser Jr.
Less speculative are the name origins for Toad and Yoshi. The former, being an anthropomorphic mushroom, seems to take his name from the word toadstool, which seems a bit unimaginative given that Peach’s name also used to be Toadstool.
In addition to being a Japanese first name — for humans, that is — Yoshi’s name also serves in Japanese as an interjection meaning “Okay!” or “All right!”23 He is also one of the few major Mario characters to have a distinctly Japanese-sounding name worldwide, though some early and unofficial materials Anglicize his name as Yossy. (The legendary Kart Fighter, for example.)
Commenters have pointed out that Yoshi’s name has twice been used as an inspiration for similar characters. Mountainchops notes that Super Mario RPG featured a character named Boshi who, in the Japanese version, was called Washi or Waruishi, similar to how Wario is the evil Mario and Waluigi is the evil Luigi. And Elena notes that Dorrie, the sea serpent helper from Super Mario 64 and New Super Mario Bros., is named Doshi in Japan.
beloved mario characters say “hi, we lack identity!”
Toad and Yoshi also belong to a group of Mario characters whose names double as generic terms for all of their kind — that is, the name Toad can refer to the specific character Toad but also generically to any Average Joe mushroom head, even when these characters actually have their own name. For example, you could say that Toad’s female counterpart, Toadette, is a Toad. (I wonder what Nintendo will make of the playable Toads in the New Super Mario Bros. Wii announced at this year’s E3. Will they get names or will they just be Blue Toad and Yellow Toad?) Same for Yoshi, as well as for other characters like Birdo and Kamek. (I’ve previously written about these characters names and this very Japanese sense of self and group identity in this post.)
Speaking of Birdo, she has quite of few issues regarding her name, not that a character who suffers from so much gender confusion needs any more complications in her life. Birdo — whose Japanese name, Kyasarin, can be transliterated into English as either Catherine or Cassie, depending on who’s doing the transliterating — seems to get stuck with various names referring to animals of the feathered variety regardless of the fact that she looks like a dinosaur. Her name in Italy, for example, is Strutzi, which would seem to come from the Italian word struzzo, meaning “ostrich.”24 (I have up a separate post on Birdo’s bird-related name problems as well.)
Finally, Kamek — the broom-riding wizard Koopa — gets his name some the Japanese kame, meaning “turtle,” which seems odd given that all the Koopas are turtles.20 Why should just one guy get to claim that in his name?
And then there’s Donkey Kong. It so happens that the big ape has a name that’s probably made more people scratch their heads than any other video game character.
donkey kong: barrel-tosser, chest-thumper, necktie-wearer
His last name seems likes a clear reference to King Kong, but the Donkey part doesn’t make sense. Contrary to various urban legends that say otherwise, Donkey Kong earned his first name as a result of Miyamoto wanting to call the villain something that conveyed a sense of stubbornness and stupidity. He arrived at donkey. Miyamoto himself said as much in a 2001 interview he gave at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.25 Thus, the name didn’t result from some butchering of Monkey Kong through a typo or communication error.26 Chris Kohler’s phenomenal book on video games, Power-Up, also notes that the word kong had been used to mean “large” in Japanese ever since the 1933 King Kong.27
It probably results only from people like me trying to put an English major spin on things, but there’s another theory about Donkey Kong’s name that, however implausible, put this character in an interesting literary context. Remember King Midas? The character from Greek mythology who can turn anything into gold just by touching it? There’s a less widely known story involving the very same character pissing off the god Apollo and winding up with a pair of donkey ears. Apparently a heightened sense of hearing did little to allay the concerns of Midas, who found the ears to be unbecoming of a king, so he did everything he could to conceal his condition. In a loose sense, this sets up a dichotomy between kings and donkeys that is reflected in Donkey Kong’s name, but only if you compare it to King Kong’s — that is, the video game character is such a galoot that he’s the opposite of a king.28 It’s a stretch, I’ll admit, but the theory allows for a way to view the character.
left: “little.” middle: “little,” in a different sense. right: “tenth.”
Probably because the latter-day Donkey Kong games are often developed by non-Japanese publishers, a lot of the names of the characters in them are less mysterious. I recently found out, however, that Diddy Kong — Donkey’s main sidekick and the character that essentially replaced Donkey Kong Jr. — got his name from a British term meaning “small.”29 And “small,” I suppose, is a good substitute for “junior.”
The first name of the other sidekick, Dixie Kong, means “tenth.” Though I’d like to report that her debut marked the tenth Donkey Kong game, it would require some funky math to make that work. The fact that she wears pink — she’s the girl, get it? — is actually also appropriate in light of how the character is, like Diddy, a diminutive sidekick for Donkey Kong. Just as “little” Diddy Kong replaced Donkey Kong Jr., Dixie could be seen as a successor to a fairly obscure character that appeared in the edutainment title Donkey Kong Jr. Math: a pink ape whose name, for all practical purposes, also seems to be Donkey Kong Jr.30, 31 I prefer to call him Pinky Kong, because palette swaps aside, calling them both Junior is a little messed up.
Perhaps coincidentally, both Diddy and Dixie’s names function as codes in the games they debut in. In Donkey Kong Country, the Diddy code — entering down, Y, down, down Y on the contol pad, effectively spelling out “D-Y-D-D-Y” — allows the player to access the game’s bonus rounds. In the sequel, Diddy’s Kong-Quest, a similar code — down, Y, X, Y, or “D-Y-X-Y” — also unlocks hidden features. I have no clue if the characters’ names were chosen with possible codes that could be entered using the buttons on the Super Nintendo control pad in mind.
And finally Daisy, the Mario games’ Girl Number Two, happens to have a five-letter name that doubles as a generic English noun, just like Peach. Since Miyamoto named Zelda in honor of the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, however, I wonder if Daisy could have been named after a certain fictional woman associated with Fitzgerald: Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby. Unlike most Mario characters, however, Daisy was created by the late Nintendo pioneer, Gunpei Yokoi, so it would seem just as likely that she, like Peach, would take her name from a word named for a pleasant, organic thing.
Over the past few years, I’ve posted about other Mario name and word oddities, usually about the more obscure characters. Rather than repeat what’s already been written, I’ll just finish the Mario section by linking to those past articles.
Overgrown carnivorous flower Petey Piranha has more than his share of names, including one in German that renders him female.
The generic Boo enemy has a Japanese name that has resulted in a few people assuming the character is female. (Also, not in the article but relevant to the earlier discussion of rock star namesakes: It debuted in the American version of Super Mario Bros. 3 under the name Boo Didley.)
Like Mario and Luigi, Donkey Kong damsel Pauline got her name from a real-life Nintendo of America associate, and not from the old Perils of Pauline serials. The large number of first-generation Mario characters who are named after real-life people and establishments makes me wonder if there might be a living, breathing namesake for Stanley the Bugman, the Mario stand-in from Donkey Kong 3.
three pixelated mario bygones
The instruction manual for the original Super Mario Bros. includes an unexplained reference to something called field horsehair plants. To this day, I have no idea what this refers to, but I did my best to figure it out.
Super Mario Galaxy’s Rosalina has a different name in nearly every language’s translation of the game, but its her Japanese name, Rosetta, that’s most appropriate to the games deep space setting.
The bad guy in the Wrecking Crew games is a Wario look-alike known outside Japan as Foreman Spike and in Japan, regrettably, as Blackie. But there’s a theory that Breaky could be a more appropriate transliteration than Blackie, given the game’s theme of demolition.
Did it occur to anyone else that those pixies freed at the end of Super Mario Bros. 2 don’t actually have names?
Conversely, Merelda, the damsel in Wario Land: Shake It!, has too many names.
In keeping with the theme of women named after inanimate objects, Shokora, the damsel of Wario Land 4, gets her name from a Japanese approximation for the word chocolate.
WarioWare’s Ashley — whose name is probably a fire-and-brimstone reference — has her own verbal issues stemming from her allegedly Satanic theme song. But it’s probably more complicated than you’ve been led to believe.
The Super Mario RPG villain Valentina is known as Margarita in Japan, and I’m willing to bet this was changed because references to alcohol have long been verboten in Nintendo’s family-friendly titles.
In Super Mario Bros. 2, a glaring instance of Engrish introduced the world to Clawglip instead of Clawgrip. The first Mario character created specifically for western audiences deserved better.
Stretching the theme of this post a bit but probably of interest to anyone who has made it this far: The Super Mario Bros. theme was at one point assigned lyrics. They’re in Japanese, of course, but they've been translated.
And finally there’s Wart, the big bad from Super Mario Bros. 2 whose been MIA ever since… except for a certain Legend of Zelda game, which happened to assign him a name he hadn’t had since that proto-Super Mario Bros. 2, Doki Doki Panic.
There’s not all that much to say about Sonic the Hedgehog himself, but his arch-nemesis is a bit more complicated. Much in the manner that Peach was once Toadstool in the U.S. but was always Peach in Japan, the Sonic villain most of us grew up with no longer goes by the name Doctor Robotnik all the time. He is now sometimes Eggman, though he always had that name in Japan.
robotnik then, eggman now, and the roosevelt who inspired it all
Robotnik happens to mean worker in Polish and peasant in Czech.32 Robotnik was even the name of the newspaper of the Polish Socialist Party. Is Sonic, then, crusading against socialism? Probably not. Robotnik comes from the same origins as the word robot, and the Sonic villain should be known for robot creation if nothing else. Today, Robotnik goes by the far less cool name Doctor Eggman, in apparent reference to his rotund physique. By the way, on the subject of the character’s appearance, his looks — including his trademark mustache — were inspired by Teddy Roosevelt.33
A commenter calling himself Generic pointed out that even later games seem to retain Robotnik as the character’s family name, even in Japan. For example, Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog both feature a kindlier member of the family, Maria Robotnik.
An anonymous commenter had a particularly intricate theory about why Sega changed the character’s name in the U.S. Here’s how he put it, though I should note that I shortened some of his sentences and changed some formatting.
The reason why his name was changed to Dr. Ivo Robotnik when introduced to the English-speaking world was because Sega feared a lawsuit, more than likely due to the estate of John Lennon concerning the Eggman title. Actually, one of the new names chosen for the portly scientist was the nonsensical Dr. Badvibes....
Going with Ivo Robotnik in itself could be a joke on John Lennon. Robotnik translated from its Czech roots [could also be rendered] as “slave worker.” Ivo, the first name, in itself is shortened from Ivor, which is a variation on the name Ivan that has roots in the Russian/Scandinavian language. Ivan to boot is the Russian/Scandinavian version of John. But, if you remember, John [Lennon] was The Eggman [in the Yellow Submarine song “I Am the Eggman.” Translated from the Slavic meaning, Ivo Robotnik could mean “John the Slave Worker” — or as the [John Lennon solo song] “John the Working Class Hero.”
The comment concludes with the note that in the Sonic the Hedgehog Saturday morning cartoon, Robotnik was given the first name Julian, which happens to be the name of John Lennon’s first son. In all, it’s very interesting. It’s also a stretch, though perhaps only as much as other theories that I thought up myself. I’m not sure if the Eggman moniker would have been enough to elicit a lawsuit from the Lennon estate.
Sonic’s sidekick Tails has two names, as well — the one everyone knows and his “real” name, Miles Prower. It might seem like a useless footnote, but it brings the added benefit of being a pun on the phrase miles per hour.34 (Ha.) It should probably be noted that joke would make a lot more sense if Tails was known for running quickly instead of flitting about with his helicopter tail.
Similar issues exist for the Sonic series damsel, Amy Rose. She debuted in Sonic CD, whose English language version named her Rosy the Rascal. The name similar to that of Rosie the Riveter, which would make sense if the game’s translators wanted to give the character a sense of empowerment. To complicate matters further, the English instruction manuals for certain releases of Sonic CD also referred to the character as Princess Sally, a different love interest for Sonic popularized in the non-cannon comics and cartoons. (For the record, Sally and other characters from the comics did appear in one actually game, Sonic Spinball.) Regardless, the character soon after became known in English-speaking markets as she had always been known in Japan and is known today: Amy Rose.
Commenter castaspella noted one bit of interesting information regarding this character. It’s not especially name-related but seemed worth noting anyhow: Amy or a character a lot like her was at one point planned to be Sonic’s sister. Sega had initially planned on reworking the RPG-tinged platforming title Popful Mail into a game called Sister Sonic, replacing the original characters with this prototype distaff hedgehog. Sister Sonic never came to pass, however, and eventually Popful Mail made it to the U.S. without being so drastically altered.
The majority of Sonic characters aren’t of much use for this article, as their names are straightforward. (Knuckles the Echidna, for example, is an echidna who has pointy knuckles. Not much to work with there.) There are, however, two characters that time has essentially forgotten, Ray the Flying Squirrel and Mighty the Armadillo, that I think deserve a mention. Both debuted in an arcade game, SegaSonic the Hedgehog, that allowed players to control Sonic, Ray and Mighty with a trackball and a single jump button. The three moved identically.35
left to right: flight, speed, and power
Despite what their names might imply, Ray could not fly and Mighty was not especially powerful. Lame, I know. And I think Sega thought so too, as Ray never appeared again and Mighty appeared only once more. However, latter-day Sonic games such as Sonic Heroes frequently feature characters grouped into threes — one that can move fast, one that can fly, and one especially that is strong. If you think about it, these three attributes are reflected in the names of the leads in SegaSonic the Hedgehog. In the sense of light, a ray is an airborne thing, while the associations with the word mighty are obvious. In this sense, SegaSonic the Hedgehog’s take on the three-man team could be seen as a precursor to what appeared in later games.
Two other quick ones: A few Sonic games feature a ninja chameleon named Espio, and I only recently realized that the reference to the word espionage makes the name the most appropriate one ever for a ninja chameleon.
Sega jumped on the fighting game craze in 1996 with Sonic the Fighters, which had the various Sonic characters kicking the crap out of each other for no apparent reason. The cast included a character whose name bucks the pattern of “name + the + animal species” — a bomb-tossing duck saddled with the baffler Bean the Dynamite. The odd name references the lesser known Sega title Dynamite Dux, which starred ducks named Bin and Pin who also specialized in explosive devices.36
ryu: he fights on the street but doesn’t wear shoes
By virtue of boasting an international cast of characters, the Street Fighter games incorporate more languages than most other games do. Now in its fifth official incarnation but with countless remakes and retreads filling the gaps between full-fledged sequels, the games focus on Ryu and Ken — respectively Japanese and American twists on the karate fighter character type. Appropriate though their names might be in the countries they hail from, there’s an added layer of meaning: Ryu’s name translates from Japanese into English as “dragon,” while Ken’s means “fist.”37 Both Ryu and Ken appear in the Japanese name for a certain move that these two characters share: a jumping uppercut officially known as the Shoryuken, or “Rising Dragon Punch.”38 (Ryu’s name, as commenter parsleyboots pointed out, can also mean “noble.”)
Incidentally, the Street Fighter Alpha installments introduced a less honorable version of Ryu. He’s known in the U.S. simply as Evil Ryu. In Japan, however, he’s Satsui no Hadō ni Mezameta Ryū, which translates into English as the far more awesome appellation “The Surge of Murderous Intent Awakened in Ryu.” Harder to fit on screen, yes, but I say the literal translation should have stuck. Later on in the series, other characters received evil versions of themselves, many with amazingly long, evocative names. The Street Fighter EX character Hokuto was given the alternate form Chi no Fūin o Tokareta Hokuto (“Broken Seal of Blood Hokuto”), for example. Series villain Akuma has a more powerful, more evil version known as Shin Akuma (“True Akuma”).39
ken: number two, twice over
While Ryu may be the most important character in the Street Fighter games — in the first, he was the default Player One character — Ken gets the honor of having a last name: Masters. Of all people, Ken has Barbie to thank. When Hasbro made a line of Street Fighter action figures, Capcom had to supply the character a surname in order to distinguish him from the other Mattel-produced doll of the same name, Barbie’s male counterpart, Ken.40 I can only imagine Capcom chose the name in order to emphasize his status as a world-class martial artist. The name was eventually absorbed into the Street Fighter canon. It has also been claimed that Ken, with his shoulder-length banana-blond hair and muscular build, bears a passing resemblance to another Mattel character, He-Man, in which case Ken’s last name would also recall the cartoon that popularized the character, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.41
Perhaps significantly or perhaps not, the protagonist of Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden series is named Ryu Hayabusa. In the American version of the game, this character’s father is named Ken Hayabusa, even though he’s Joe Hayabusa in the Japanese version. Since Ninja Gaiden debuted a year after the first Street Fighter, it seems possible the father’s name was changed to create another Ryu-Ken pair, but it could just as easily be a coincidence.
street fighter ii to street fighter iv: years and years of chinese thunder thighs
Chun-Li, who debuted in Street Fighter II, has a name that translates from Mandarin into English as “spring beauty.”42 While not technically the first female combatant in a fighting game — that honor, notes commenter Stercus, goes to Edwina from the obscure Tongue of the Fat Man — she’s definitely the first notable one. Many a subsequent lady fighter was designed in Chun-Li’s image, as a quick-moving, light-hitting, acrobatic fighter. As such, I’d like to think that the “spring” doubles as nod to her ability to fly through the air, but I doubt it’s anything but a coincidence, notwithstanding the fact that one of her signature moves, the Spinning Bird Kick, evokes imagery along the lines of both interpretations of the word spring.
the red cyclone: still apoplectically russian after all these years
It’s speculated that Street Fighter’s Russian wrestler Zangief takes his name from a real-life Russian wrestler, Victor Zangiev. More interesting to me is that the working name for this character was Vodka Gobalsky.43 This is notable for two reasons — for one, that this name is amazing and deserves to enter into the public consciousness, and, for another, that it bears a striking resemblance to the name of a Russian boxer in Nintendo’s Punch-Out!! series, Vodka Drunkenski.44 I’m sure this says something about Japanese perception of Russian people. The latter Vodka, by the way, goes by the name Soda Popinski in U.S. translations of the game, presumably because Nintendo of America didn’t allow references to booze.
stretch: then and now
Dhalsim is the fire-breathing, limb-stretching Indian yogi who’s willing to forgo his pacifistic ways to kick ass around the world. Most profiles of the character note that he hails from the southwestern Indian state of Kerala and that his name comes from Malayalam, a language spoken in that particular state. So I guess I’m a little impressed that his back story matches his name, considering that Malayalam is one of India’s twenty-two official languages and less subtle things have gotten confused in translating from one language to another. Though I wish I could tell you what Dhalsim means, it’s literally the one word of Malayalam that I know, and functional, online Malayalam-to-English dictionaries are hard to find. So I’ll give you this, at least: If you ever want to see where Capcom more than likely got the idea for this long-lived yet remarkably odd character, watch the 1975 Taiwanese martial arts flick Master of the Flying Guillotine, which features a suspiciously similar limb-stretching Indian fighter competing in an international tournament.44
stereotypical america, stereotypical japan, and a slap in the face to brazil
And that’s all I could put together from the initial eight playable Street Fighter characters. I’ve got nothing on Guile, the other American fighter, other than his name sounds quite a bit like the more common Anglo given name Kyle. Unlike Ken, who received a last name through connections with American products, the notion of the character’s full name being William F. Guile — as it is in the awful 1994 movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme — wasn’t accepted into the game’s canon.
After this post went up, a commenter pointed out that I neglected to note that Guile’s name is also a generic noun in English, meaning either “deceitful cunning” or “stratagem, trick.” I suppose I skipped over this because I couldn’t think of a way to relate this fairly negative concept to the character. The commenter, however, pointed out that the name’s connotations could be a comment on Japanese perception of the U.S. armed forces. Another commenter even pointed out that the name makes sense in the context of how many players use Guile: trapping opponents between projectiles and air kicks, essentially strategizing his opponents senseless. The same commenter also noted the similarity between Guile’s name and of that J. Guile, a character in the manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. (Like many members of the JoJo cast, J. Guile takes his name from a pop music act, in this case the J. Geils Band.) Such a connection wouldn’t be unheard of; many members of the the JoJo cast look suspiciously like Capcom characters — the mystic Lisa Lisa in particular looks like Street Fighter Alpha’s Rose — and Capcom released a video game based on the manga back in 1998.
Equally perplexing is the other Japanese fighter, the sumo E. Honda. I have no idea why the “E” stands for the decidedly non-Japanese Edmond, though the helpful Guile commenter also offered a theory, if a nonserious one. He writes:
E. Honda is the least clear of the three — but if someone asked me to find a meaning within the name I would tell you that Edmond translates to Edomando in Japanese. Two hyphens and some heavy squinting later and we have Edo-Man-Do a cheap play on words describing a sumo wrestler — literally ,“The Way of the Man from Tokyo.”
Even its creator, however, admits that the theory is a stretch.
Most inexplicable of all is Blanka, the feral thing from Brazil, whose name is very close to the feminine Spanish Blanca, which means “white,” even though the character is male and green-skinned. Various sites claim that the character’s name comes from either the Spanish hombre blanco or the Portuguese homem branco, both meaning “white man,” as a result of being called this by people he met in the Brazilian jungle. This strikes me as unlikely for a few reasons, the least of which is that Blanka would not have been especially more white than most people living in Brazil.46 Right?
So that does it for the eight main characters. But there exists a slew of others, each of whose names hide their own verbal curiosities. My recommendation: If you know the series or thrive on verbal minutiae, read on. If not, skip down to the next chunk.
Even casual players know that three of the “Four Devas” — the original Street Fighter II bosses, M. Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Vega — swapped names when the game was translated from Japanese to English. Theories abound as to why, and, as I explained in a separate post devoted to the subject, the American set of names actually make more sense. Click through to read all that.
Similarly, I also have a post that focuses specifically on Gouken (a.k.a. “Not the Sheng Long”), the Street Fighter uber-sensei. It’s here and includes a bit on the character’s name and his long and complicated history with the mysterious W.A. Stokins.
The name of the aforementioned series villain Akuma translates from Japanese to English simply as “devil.”24
dee jay: maximum jamaican, no matter which way he faces
Aside from having a fairly obvious name for a fighter associated with music, Dee Jay — the Jamaican fighter and the only American-designed character in the whole Street Fighter series — merits a mention on account of his band name, Maximum, which appears in all capital letters down whichever pant leg is facing the screen.47 Since Street Fighter II has characters punching or kicking with whatever arm or leg is nearest to the screen — essentially making them right- or left-dominant, depending on which direction they are facing — Capcom had to pick a word that looked the same when flipped, mirror-style. “MAXIMUM” happens to be one of the rare English words whose letters are vertically symmetrical, thus allowing the word to be readable to matter which way Dee Jay faces.
I’m not sure if I agree with the connection, but at least one site claims that Cammy — the beret-sporting, thigh-tacular Number Two Girl — is named and modeled to some extent after the protagonist of the manga known as Battle Angel Alita in the U.S. In Japan, it’s called Gunnm and the alleged Cammy inspiration is named Gally.41 I suppose the Japanese name is not too far off from Cammy’s.
It’s also worth mentioning that Street Fighter Alpha gives Cammy a whole back story involving her unwilling participation in a league of brainwashed, teenaged, female soldiers called The Dolls, who rank easily among the most obscure canon characters in the entire series. (And, now that I think of it, they remind me just a little of characters on the TV show Dollhouse.) The Street Fighter Alpha games also feature two other Dolls as playable characters, the almost identical Juni and Juli, who take their names from the months June and July.48 That origin, however, might not be immediately apparent.
the original, plus the june and july models
The month theme becomes a lot clearer when Juni and Juli are considered in light of the ten other dolls, who, if they appear at all in the actual games, play only minor roles.
Enero (Spanish for January)
Février (French for February)
März (German for March)
Aprile (Italian for April)
Satsuki (the Japanese name for the fifth month)
Santamu, or possibly Tháng tám (Vietnamese for the eighth month)
Xiayu (allegedly some form of Chinese for the ninth month)
Jianyu (again, some form of Chinese for the tenth month)
Noembelu (purportedly from an unspecified Latin American country, representing November)
Decapre (the Russian doll, representing December — more correctly rendered as Dekabre, says my Russian-savvy friend.)
Given that there are twelve “month” dolls, Cammy doesn’t fit into this calendar pattern and is known as the “zero” doll, which is possibly significant in that the Street Fighter Alpha games are known as Street Fighter Zero in Japan. In further evidence of the Cammy/Gally connection, Battle Angel Alita features a series of clones of Gally that take their names from the German words for the numbers one through twelve.41 Commenter Migaloo points out that Cammy’s name could just be a reference to the camouflage paint she sports on her legs. It seems sensible enough to merit a mention.
The Native American fighter T. Hawk was allegedly going to be called Geronimo until Capcom thought better of it.49 Really, the name T. Hawk — short for Thunder Hawk — is only slightly less stereotypical. Incidentally, one of the dolls is purported to be T. Hawk’s long-lost sister. Depending on what you take as official, it’s either Juli or Noembelu.48 Juli’s possible status as T. Hawk’s sister is alluded to in the nutball crossover title Namco vs. Capcom, which has Juli partially regaining her memory and confusedly stating “I am... Juli... a... Hawk?” at one point in the game.
In creating the plot for Street Fighter II, Capcom dreamed up a fallen comrade-in-arms whose death Guile fights to avenge. In the Japanese version, this initially minor character was saddled with the name Nash — unusual enough in America that the game’s translators dropped it in favor of the name Charlie. (If you think about it, the decision to select Charlie is also strange, considering the connotations the name carries among American military men.) In the prequel Street Fighter Alpha games, however, Capcom made Nash a playable, forcing the a second set of translators to choose between preserving the switch or retconning it to keep various international versions on the same page. They chose the former, Charlie became popular, and the disparity lasts to this day, though the English versions eventually used Nash as Charlie’s surname.
Also in Street Fighter Alpha, Capcom introduced a new female character, a Japanese schoolgirl named Sakura, whose name means “cherry blossom” or “cherry tree.”23 The character eventually became popular enough that she received her own rival, the snobbier but equally fisticuffs-prone schoolgirl Karin. Given that Karin has these blonde locks that approach some awful hybrid of Shirley Temple ringlets and stripper curls, I’d always assumed her name was an alternate spelling of the common Western name Karen. It’s not; it’s actually the Japanese word for “quince,” which is appropriate given her relationship with Sakura.23 Both are named for flowering, fruit-bearing trees, but while cherries are sweet, quince fruit is sour and generally hard to love.
A less subtle name theme exists for two British fighters who appeared in the original Street Fighter: Birdie and Eagle, both of whom take their names for golf terms.50 Both reappeared in Street Fighter Alpha, with the former becoming a hulking punk and the latter a Freddie Mercury-quoting fop. Funny how that happens.
biblical brothers, minus one: abel and seth
A confession: I have yet to play Street Fighter IV. Consequently, I can’t speak on any connection between newcomer Abel and the game’s big bad, the Doc Manhattan-looking Seth, who, as a commenter pointed out, was named in honor of real-life Capcom employee Seth Killian. Real-life Seths aside, I’d be willing to bet it’s no coincidence that Abel and Seth share their names with children of the Biblical Adam and Eve. And I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if subsequent ports and incarnations of Street Fighter IV feature a third character named Cain.
(After this post went up, a commenter calling himself Toninho 3rd noted that the missing Cain could be Cammy. Abel, Seth and Cammy are apparently all clones of M. Bison, if I understand correctly. Cain and Cammy aren’t especially similar, but the possible connection is helped a little bit by Cain’s status as the Bible’s first and perhaps most famous murderer and Cammy’s nickname, Killer Bee. It’s probably not the case, but it’s a nice little theory.)
I’ve never been able to make much of the cast of Street Fighter III, save for one: Sean, a Brazilian fighter whom the game introduces as Ken’s protégé. He fights and dresses much like Ryu and Ken. With that it mind, it is plausible, at least, that Sean’s name is meant to represent the first syllable in the name of the aforementioned Shoryuken, a key move for all three characters.51 Speaking with an American accent, however, you really have to fudge the pronunciation to make it work.
A number of Street Fighter Alpha characters originally hailed from that other long-running Capcom brawler, Final Fight. In early English translations of the game, one character decked out in Japanese armor bore the name Katana, except for one installment in which he was called Shogun. In Japan and in most versions of Street Fighter Alpha, however, he has always appeared under his original, Japanese name, Sodom. Given associations with the Biblical city of the same name and the related sexual act, it’s not altogether strange that American video game companies would censor the name. However, such associations seem to be coincidental, as there is actually a Japanese name Sodom, sometimes rendered as Sodomu. (The name doesn’t seem to be especially common, though it does appear in the title of the 2004 film Sodomu no Ichi, known in English as Sodom the Killer.)
variously, katana, shogun or sodom
One of Sodom’s character quirks is that he is a Westerner who is obsessed with Japanese culture but unable to properly speak the language. He wears a traditional Japanese get-up, for example, but it bears the symbol for “death” scrawled sloppily enough that it looks more like the one for “heart.”52 The intentional goof seems especially appropriate given that his creators named Sodom in way that would be easily misinterpreted by English-speakers. In some appearances, Sodom’s inability to speak proper Japanese is represented with his use of English words that vaguely sound like what he’s trying to say. For example, his attempt to denounce an opponent as shoushi senban, “truly pathetic,” appears in text as “SHOW SEA SEND BANG.”53
andore, andré, and hugo
Being that Final Fight is a sort of sister series to Street Fighter, it follows that its characters would also owe their names to various pop culture references. One of its mainstays, for example, is a family of hulking wrestlers who each bear the name Andore. The name and the characters’ design are pretty clear references to famed wrestler André the Giant.54 Curiously, the one member of the Andore clan to make a playable appearance in Street Fighter III doesn’t bear the family name. He’s called Hugo.
A great many other Final Fight characters seem to take their names from musicians and bands. (An exception: the protagonist Cody, who could possibly have gotten his name from Tom Cody, protagonist of the 1984 film Streets of Fire, whose plot bears a few similarities to that of Final Fight. Worth a look, really: Diane Lane essentially plays Jessica Haggar.) For example, it’s suggested that the protagonist Guy could take his name from Guy Picciotto, frontman of the band Fugazi. Two of the game’s minor enemy characters, Axl and Slash, are obvious references the members of Guns N’ Roses. And to complicate Sodom’s origin even more, there’s also a German thrash metal band by the same name.
In the console version of Final Fight, the heroes take on skinny punks named Billy and Sid, whose names sure do sound like references to Billy Idol and Sid Vicious. What’s most interesting about Billy and Sid, however, is that they replace two other characters censored from the console port but present in the original arcade game: Poison and Roxy. The former seems to take her name as well as some fashion cues from the band of the same name. The latter, a palette swap of Poison’s sprite, could owe her name either to the band Roxy Music or the Roxy Theater music venue on the Sunset Strip. (Rather than footnote just about everything in this Final Fight section, I’ll just cop to cribbing nearly all of it from the website FightingStreet.com and its amazingly comprehensive list of video game rip-offs — that is, characters and ideas video game companies have themselves cribbed from movies, comics and some of the most random sources you could ever imagine.)
poison transcends the passage of time like she does biological gender
Incidentally, most who read up on video game lore know a theory about why Poison and Roxy were nixed from the more family-friendly versions of Final Fight. Aside from the fact that they sport short skirts and some serious under-cleavage, they’re both transsexuals — or newhalfs, to use the Japanese term.55 Roxy has all but vanished, but Poison has actually grown in popularity since Final Fight’s release in 1989, either in spite of or as a result of her being a transsexual. And if it strikes you as strange that the only active female characters in a game full of ripped, physically aggressive men would be transsexuals, there’s a whole separate gay subtext to Final Fight beyond just Poison — but that’s a whole other post.
And then there’s Final Fantasy. In a sense, I’m barely going to even touch on this sprawling series. Since the first game debuted in 1987, twelve sequels have been released for various home consoles, each of them offering small universes teeming with characters borrowed from various worldwide folklores and mythologies, pop culture and countless other sources. Tracking them all down on my own would be daunting — not to mention pointless, since a long-running collection of them already exists online.
In fact, that very list — which is hosted at the website Final Fantasy Compendium — represents the progression of a project started by a guy named Mark Rosa back in 1995. I remember stumbling onto it shortly after I learned what the internet was and being blown away not only by how much these games drew from real-world sources but also how the background helped to deepen the game’s content. I don’t know what ever happened to Mark Rosa — the last version of the list is preserved online for posterity’s sake — but this list is most definitely a product of the work he did years ago.
So here, then, is my short take on Final Fantasy, focusing on mistranslation and origins obscured by the Japanese-to-English translation process.
Is it lame to say I have a favorite piece of video game etymology? It probably is, but at this point in this particular list, I think I’m light years beyond typical levels of lame. Regardless, my favorite of the series is that of a recurring, generic enemy character called the Malboro — or, sometimes, Molbol, Marbol and Morbol. (From my perspective, the name could be transliterated into English just as easily as Morbor, Marbar or Maruburu as well. The literal transliteration of the Japanese name would be Moruboru.)56
bad breath or carcinogenic breath, depending on the etymology
It’s a lumbering plant monster that attacks with toxic breath. It’s presumed, then, that its name might be a reference to the Marlboro brand of cigarettes, which could also be interpreted as giving people bad breath in more than one way.56 However, others conjecture that the name could come from either a combination of the Latin mal, “bad,” and the second word part boros, allegedly meaning “breath” in either Latin or Greek.56, 57 I don’t think it’s true. Unless I’m mistaken, the words for “breath” in either language don’t look much like boros. A video game folk etymology, I guess.
Similarly, others claim a connection between this thing’s name and a purported Japanese onomatopoeia boro boro, which represents the noise of an upset stomach. From what I’ve found, boro boro more commonly refers to a low rumbling noise, specifically like that of a rolling object.58 Not being a Japanese-speaker by any stretch, I couldn’t say whether this word could refer to a volcanic digestive system or not. And yeah, I realize I said back in the Zelda section that the Japanese onomatopoeia for the noise of a large rolling thing is goro goro. I’m not saying it’s not. For all I know, Japanese abounds with onomatopoetic synonyms.
Certain games also feature a palette swap of the Marlboro called Oscar. Given the characters green color and nasty disposition, it seems like a likely reference to the Sesame Street character Oscar the Grouch.57
sabin (sabine/mash/matthew), celes (celeste/celes) and terra (tina)
In previous posts, I wrote about Final Fantasy VI and the strange way certain character names were altered from the original Japanese version to the English one. (For example, I think the latter half of character pair of Wedge and Biggs sounded better with his original, mistranslated name, Vicks, in spite of associations with VapoRub.) Not all the switches are bad. The character named Cyan in the English version is Cayenne in the original Japanese, and I have to say that I prefer the color name over the spicy name.59
One switch I didn’t mention is that of a character who in the Japanese version is named Mash but who in the American version is renamed Sabin. The popular belief — likely put forth originally in Rosa’s document — is that Sabin’s name could come from medical researcher Albert Sabin, who is credited with developing an oral polio vaccine, the connection being that polio inhibits the body’s motion and that the video game character is a martial artist who excels in fighting barehanded — thus, he has no problems exhibiting muscular control. Tenuous, I’ll admit, but slightly more meaningful than if the character had been assigned an almost unheard-of masculine form of the feminine name Sabina for no reason at all. Equally as unclear to me is the origin of the character’s Japanese name. Those who weigh in on various online forums on such matters disagree over whether Mash would be better translated as Matthew or something like Matthius or Mattheus.60 If nothing else, this confusion demonstrates how problematic it can be to translate from Japanese into English. (A commenter has pointed out that Mash may come simply come from the fact that Sabin’s special moves are triggered by entering specific button combinations, or by mashing the control pad. I like it.)
On a similar note, there’s a previous post I put up here on two other Final Fantasy VI characters: Celes and Terra. They’re arguably the game’s two central characters, with each being the protagonist of one of the game’s halves. When considered as a pair, with Celes meaning “sky” and Terra meaning “earth,” the names make for an interesting symbolic reading. Terra’s Japanese name, Tina, blows the connection, however.
(A reader emailed me with another note about Terra’s name that I felt was worth mentioning. He asked if the name could have a double meaning — “earth” from the Latin and “monster” from the Greek root terato-, meaning “monster.” This second root would actually seem to be the present in Final Fantasy VI in the name of the earth-elemental summon Terrato. As a name, Terra is pretty much always means “earth,” but because Final Fantasy VI’s Terra can actually transform into a monster, terato- doesn’t seem completely implausible.)
your run-of-the-mill phantom train
As does any good video game, Final Fantasy VI features an evil, sentient locomotive. It’s called the Phantom Train in the English versions of the game. A later sequel, Final Fantasy VIII, features a similar character called Doomtrain in the English version and, seemingly without explanation, something that approximates either Grasharaboras or Gurasharaborasu in the Japanese version.61 In a previous post, I talk about how the bizarro Japanese name is a mangling of a Glasya-Labolas — the name of an obscure demon in fringe Christian lore and whose appearance is described as being decidedly un-locomotive-like. This small oddity is marks one of the strangest video game references I have encountered.
Final Fantasy VIII uses the series’ rich history of meaningful names to enhance the game’s plot. Specifically, the game repeatedly flashes back to events in the life of a character called Laguna, whose name is Spanish for “lagoon” but also allegedly references Laguna Beach — neighbor to Costa Mesa, which was once home to the California offices of Squaresoft, the company that released Final Fantasy VII.62 The real hero of the game, however, is a pouty orphan named Squall, who leads a band of ragtag warriors to save the world but who never gets any confirmation as to who his parents are. The careful player knows, however: It’s Laguna and his ladyfriend, Raine. The game strongly hints at this but the names practically confirm it: Laguna, Raine, and Squall each reference water in some way.57 The fact that Laguna’s last name is Loire — a river in France — seems to further emphasize the importance of water names. Entirely separate from this water-themed nuclear family but equally notable for this entry is another central character, Irvine, who is named for the Southern California city of the same name.62
left to right: son, dad and mom of the water family
As if that wasn’t enough meaning to pack into or extract from Laguna’s name, there’s one bit more: Like most Final Fantasy games, Final Fantasy VIII features an airship on which the heroes can jet around the world. In this case, it’s named Ragnarok, after the kinda-sorta-apocalypse from Norse mythology. The word appears a few times in various Final Fantasy games, but in Final Fantasy VIII, it’s especially significant because its syllables, when represented in Japanese, bear a resemblance to those of Laguna Loire’s name represented in Japanese: ra-gu-na-ro.63 (If this little theory is correct, that final “K” apparently gets squeezed out of the Japanese pronunciation.)
That classic “L”/“R” confusion rears its head often, especially in earlier installments of the series. To this day, incarnations of Final Fantasy IV still feature a female character named Rydia, for example, though it seems fairly obvious that her name should be Lydia, an old-fashioned but not uncommon Western name. However, it’s always been Rydia , even in the Japanese literature featuring English characters, so Square is either running with the error or honestly wanted to name the character this.
rydia, then the two prince edwards
In Final Fantasy IV, Rydia finds a love interest in a ninja named Edge. And you have to admit: For a manly ninja character, Edge is a damn cool name. In what I can only interpret as a subtle joke, however, the character’s name is actually a contraction of his first name, Edward, with his last name, Geraldine, which is far, far less cool. I mean, I’d go by Edge too. Edge’s real name is especially notable in that he shares it with another playable character, Edward, a bard. Both characters happen to be princes. In the Japanese version, this second Edward is named Gilbart — that is, not Gilbert — and I wonder if that second syllable is supposed to be a play on the word bard. Most likely, Gilbart ended up being Edward in the American version as a result of the fact that Gilbart has more letters than the American system was programmed to accept. Nonetheless: two princes named Edward in one game.
The latter, lute-playing Edward — whose full name is Gilbart Chris von Muir, curiously, with Chris being his middle name rather than Christopher — is clearly the inferior of the two, though he, like Zelda II’s Error, has helped generated one of the most famous video game geek catchphrases. The original script of Final Fantasy IV had another character denounce Edward as a “spoony bard” — a line that has remained in subsequent translations of the game despite its strangeness. Though quite a few regard the line as a mistranslation, it’s not technically incorrect.64 The word spoony, “enamored in a silly or sentimental way,” is both a legitimate English word and an accurate description of Edward. It gets made fun of anyway.65 The original Japanese insult, however, has been translated as “son of a bitch.”66
Excluding a giant chunk yet to come, the only other Final Fantasy IV characters I felt merited etymological discussion were two that previously got their own posts: Ogopopogo and Octomammoth. Click through if you remember them or have any interest.
Regarding further “L”/“R” confusion, the cast of Final Fantasy V fares even worse than poor Rydia — and that would seem more or less typical for the game I consider the one “feminist” Final Fantasy game. One character gets translated variously as either Lenna or Reina, the latter of which means “queen.” A second is always known as Faris, though I can’t help noting that her name, if it were to suffer an “L”/“R” switch, would become something a lot like the English word phallus, which seems especially notable when you consider that Faris is a woman masquerading as a man. (And then some: The male protagonist’s name, Bartz, is Butz in the Japanese version. That puts Phallus, Butz and Queen going on an adventure together.) Partway through the game, the player finds that Faris is Lenna’s long-lost sister and her real name is Sarisa. Considering it refers to a type of Greek spear but nonetheless sounds feminine, it’s a fairly appropriate name for a strong female character, phallus jokes aside.67 Unfortunately, the game’s first English translation mistakenly transliterated Sarisa as Salsa, which isn’t a good name for anyone. And yet the biggest loser in the translation game would be a third female character, Krile, whose English name was apparently the best approximation of the Japanese Kururu, even though previous fan-made translations used the far-better Cara and even Carol would have probably done the trick.
And one of the spin-offs, Final Fantasy Tactics, seems to feature the same famous name translated in two different ways and assigned to two different characters. The game’s hero is a member of a family by the last name of Beoulve, which looks a great deal like a mistranslated version of the name of the epic hero Beowulf. Appropriate though the connection might be, it’s probably a near-miss, as the game features another character named Beowulf. Still, the resemblance is remarkable. And I have never heard of any better theories for where the name Beoulve comes from.
My big feat for this Final Fantasy-themed section, however, is the under-reported background behind some Final Fantasy IV villains who reference Dante’s Inferno in ways people might not have expected. In short, the situation is this: Even if someone knew Inferno well, the fact that any bit-parters had showed up in this particular video game would be hard to spot, mostly as a result of the translation process. Like any good Final Fantasy game, the four classical elements — earth, water, air and fire — come into play in a few ways, including in the form of four major bad guys known as the Elemental Fiends. In the original English translation, these four are introduced as Milon (dirty dude), Kainazzo (wet and wild), Valvalis (bag of wind), and Rubicant (flames aplenty).
left to right: flamey, drippy, dusty, and naked
However, the first three of these probably don’t ring a bell with Divine Comedy scholars, mostly because the character names from which they come didn’t survive the transition from the original Italian into Japanese and then into shoddily translated English that was even further complicated by space restraints. (Japanese text uses fewer character spaces than does English, leaving translators to choose between truncating names or futzing with game’s programming to allow for longer names.) Unlikely though it might have initially seemed, all four names do, in fact, come from demons in Inferno. They appear in cantos XXI though XXIII as the members of the Malebranche (“evil claws”), the guardians of the Malebolge (“evil ditches”), the eighth circle of hell.68 Included alongside such forgotten demons as Grafficane the Doggish, Dragnignazzo the Fell Dragon and Farfarello the Scandal-monger are Scarmiglione the Baneful (Milon plus some extra letters), Caynazzo (sic, more properly rendered as Cagnazzo, close enough to Kainazzo), Barbariccia the Malicious (a radically different transliteration of Valvalis) and Rubicante the Red With Rage (a recognizable version of Rubicant). Later revamps of the game featured the longer Italian names, and Final Fantasy IV DS featured an optional superboss called Geryon, who also takes his name from a member of the Mallebranche.
There’s one more Inferno boogeyman whose name appears in Final Fantasy IV: Calcabrina the Grace-Scorner. This name remains mostly intact in the game’s original English version as Calbrena, the name of a bizarre evil doll boss. And when I say “bizarre evil doll boss,” I actually mean to say that it’s a group of dancing puppets that assemble Transformers-style into one hulking instrument of pain. Weirdness aside, Calcabrina (whose name has also been represented as Calcobrena) is a minor character in Final Fantasy IV. That didn’t prevent the game’s sequel, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years from featuring controllable boy and girl robot characters named, Calca and Brina.
calcabrena: disassembled concept art on left, godzilla-size in middle, in-game sprite on right
Etymologically, these Final Fantasy IV names have little apparent relevance on what kind of video game monster they became associated with. It’s almost as if Squaresoft staffers chose the names in the same random fashion that they same to borrow elements from different cultures and literatures: Flip open a book to whatever page it lands on, take a name and then attach said name to something irrelevant — giant evil doll or fire-spitting dinosaur or fiend with the head of an ice cream cone, the body of a hot dog and rollerskates for feet. I found various sites that explain possible etymologies of the names. By most accounts, for example, Barbariccia means “curly beard,” which might imply that the Final Fantasy IV character’s namesake is male and not a hot half-naked chick.69 I wonder, however, if the original Americanization of the name, Valvalis, could have been influenced by the late, great platformer series Valis, which star warrior women in armor bikinis much like the one Barbariccia wears.
fatal flaw: slutty battle suits that expose the very body parts they ought to protect
Calcabrina can be translated as something like “he who can walk on brine,” but other sources take this to figuratively mean “nimble-footed,” which would actually make sense, given that the character’s base form comprises dancing dolls.70 An 1890 engraving by Gustave Doré seems to represent that sense of the name, showing Calcabrina and another demon, Alichino, as flying things with pterodactyl-like wings.71
calcabrina: less doll-like, and therefore less scary
Caynazzo — again, more correctly Cagnazzo — seems to confuse even the Dante know-it-alls. In reference to his analogue in Final Fantasy IV, the name is often cited as meaning “big dog nose.”72 In a literal sense, this could be true, as the Italian words for “dog” and “nose” are cane and naso.67 Some scholarly work even supports this: An annotated 1997 edition of Inferno notes that Dante uses cagnazzo as a generic word that the translators interpret as referring to the purple color of dog’s nose and lips. The same book explains the reference to the proper name Cagnazzo as meaning “evil dog,” with -azzo being a pejorative noun suffix.73
tortoise-looking cagnazzo in on top; more doggish concept art below
It so happens that a Japanese person could also read the name as the characters kai, “sea,” and nazo, “mystery,” which would make a lot more sense, given the character’s water associations.71 There’s yet another guess that the name could have something to do with the Biblical Cain. This could also make sense, since the Cagnazzo reveals himself in Final Fantasy VI only after having masqueraded as an ally for the first half of the game. This deception and betrayal would really make him more of a Judas than a Cain, however. Furthermore, the game already includes a character named Kain who also betrays the heroes — repeatedly, in fact. Ugh.
Attempted translations of Scarmiglione are suspiciously rare online, especially compared to those for Cagnazzo and Barbariccia, but the 1997 Inferno edition offers “tangle head” as a suitable English version of the name.74 Another site offers “troublemaker,” which is perhaps a figurative extension of “tangle head” that works better in Italian than in English.69 Finally, Rubicante is translated variously as “he who grows red” and “ruby-faced.”75, 76
It’s also worth noting, however, that some Dante scholars suspect that the poet created the demons to also reference the names of certain powerful individuals and wealthy families living in Italy at the time, so even these guesses at what the names may not properly explain what Dante was trying to accomplish in creating them.77
So, now, with all that text I just spat out about Divine Comedy associations, you might think that the people who made Final Fantasy IV were huge fans, right? I’m actually not so sure, for although these characters each appear in Inferno, they also appear in Devils, a little-known 1904 novel on demonology by James Charles Wall. (It’s an entertaining read, if you have the time. Did you know that the demons of Hell marry and divorce, just as humans do? Back when I read it, I put up a whole post devoted to its non-video games-related aspects, if you’re interested.) Devils is often cited as an apparent inspiration for Final Fantasy IV by especially literate games-‘n’-names folks, and with good reason: All five of the aforementioned monsters are in here.73 So is a sixth, actually, and this fact helps both to explain one of the stranger names in the Final Fantasy IV and also to indicate that Final Fantasy IV could have actually never read Inferno.
Throughout much of the game, the villain is an unreasonably evil dude who goes by the improbable name Golbez. As the story progresses, Cecil, the hero, discovers that Golbez is actually his long-lost brother. (This sort of thing apparently happens all the time.) Among many other questions are these: If the two are brothers, why did Cecil get a relatively normal name while the other was saddled with something as unfortunate as Golbez? Was having such a bum name what drove Golbez to villainy? And where does Golbez come from, anyway? For me, these remain unanswered, more or less, until just recently, with the release of the latest incarnation of the game, Final Fantasy IV DS. In it, the player even learns that before his days as big bad, Golbez went by a more typical landwalker name, Theodore. The game even offers a flashback in which Theodore is controllable. It’s short-lived, however, as the lad quickly falls under the influence of evil, so much so that the game’s ultimate big bad even renames him Golbez, calling him “an insect born from a dragon’s corpse.” The phrase has its own implications to the plot of the game, but it also recalls a relatively obscure legend that appears in Devils. Wall writes:
One legend places the scene of the combat between St. George and the Dragon in one of a range of caves near the castle of Golubaes, in Servia. These caves are infested by the Golubaeser Fly, a venomous insect resembling a mosquito [whose] presence is accounted for by the assertion of the peasants that the decomposed body of the dragon has continued to generate these insects to the present day.78
As I understand it, Walls refers to the Golubac (or Galambóc) region of Serbia, home to the Golubac Fortress, which was allegedly was beset by bloodsucking insects at one point. The scientific name for the species seems to be Simulium colombaschense, which appears on the Wikipedia listing for the black fly genus Simulium but, notably, not as a specific page, which suggests that the species is rather obscure. In any case, Golubaeser or Golbaeser or some other form of the name went into Japanese — where it would be represented as something like Gorbeza or Golbezo — and finally came out as English as Golbez.
golbez: “hey there, mr. black fly”
Of course, the story has absolutely nothing to do with Inferno, making its mention in Devils potential evidence that the latter, not the former, inspired the people who made Final Fantasy IV. Even further evidence, now that I think about it: Wall’s book lists the demon’s name as Caynazzo, which is how it would be pronounced, rather than Cagnazzo, which is how it would be correctly spelled in Italian. If the game’s creators were working directly from Devils and not Inferno itself, it would make sense then that that American translation of the name would end up being Kainazzo, without the “G” it should have had. I’d call sloppy work on Square’s part if it hadn’t been so much fun to research.
Syntyche, the poster who pointed out the Golbez/Golubaeser connection, also theorizes that Golbez essentially means “pigeon house,” citing that golub means “pigeon” in Serbian.79 (And it does, and in Croatian Bosnian as well. It also means “dove” in all three languages. Golub is related to the Latin columba, also meaning “dove” or “pigeon.”) The theory is supported by Wikipedia, which notes that the town of Golubac is sometimes called “the town of doves.”
And believe it or not, that actually does it for Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy in general and all things relating to The Divine Comedy. There’s nothing much else left save for odds and ends. And, yes, I do realize that I began this post stating that it would be a depository of odds and ends. We’re finally there. It just took us a while to arrive.
One of the more curious names in video games, in my opinion, is that of the protagonist of the Metroid games, Samus Aran. In the first Metroid, the fact that Samus is a woman is kept secret until the end — and only then if the player meets certain conditions. Thus, I’d assumed that Nintendo purposely gave her a manly-sounding name to throw players off. How else would the surprise be preserved until the end? While Samus may not sound feminine, it is, I was surprised to learn: It’s the female form of the name male Celtic Séamus, which itself is a form of the name James.80
samus, armored and not: retro on the left, the current look on the right
There’s not much written on Samus’s name, but I did find one site that puts forth a nice theory. In short, some sources claims James — and, by extension, Séamus and Samus — means “one who supplants.” If Aran is taken to be a reference to the Aran Islands, which lie of the coast of Ireland, one could take Samus Aran to mean “one who supplants an island” or “one who overthrows an isolated area by force.”81 A stretch, yes, but a nonetheless fitting interpretation given that Samus has become famous for venturing off into deep reaches of space and blowing bad guys to smithereens. The originator of this theory even admits that it’s just as plausible that Samus’s creator, Makoto Kano, could have just selected whatever name sounded good. Still, it’s as much sense as anyone’s made of the name, so I’m willing to mark it down as the best guess so far.
There’s a second name associated with Samus, if only in the first Metroid game: Justin Bailey. Entering this name at the password screen allows the player to control an armor-free version of Samus — essentially the cat-suited heroine that in Metroid: Zero Mission and Super Smash Bros. Brawl was dubbed Zero Suit Samus. (Taken literally, shouldn’t that mean “naked Samus”?) Many players wondered who the hell Justin Bailey was. No such person helped create Metroid and, contrary to popular folk etymology, Justin Bailey was not a play on “just in bailey,” with bailey purported to be a British term for a bathing suit. (See, because Samus “just in bailey” was down to her skivvies, even if that undersuit looked more like a leotard than something she’d wear to the beach.) However, bailey doesn’t mean “bathing suit” anywhere, except possibly in Metroid fanatic circles. The name, however, has in recent years been purported to be a coincidental combination of letters that someone, somewhere plugged in to find that it yielded a good result. (I’m willing to bet this person’s name might have been Justin Bailey.)82 Apparently other names that include the proper number of spaces can have equally impressive effects.
In trying to research where Samus came from, I saw article after article that explained how her creators looked to that other badass, planet-trotting space heroine, Ellen Ripley from the Alien movies, as an inspiration. I’d guess then that the recurring Metroid villain Ridley derives his name from Ridley Scott, director of the first Alien movie and the only one that had been released when Metroid would have been in development. But that’s just my guess.
Kid Icarus — once considered a sort of sister series to Metroid, now having fallen by the wayside — stars a protagonist who like Samus suffers from a seemingly inexplicable name: Pit. If it weren’t for Pit’s recent appearance in Smash Bros. Brawl, most casual Nintendo players would probably still think his name is actually Kid Icarus, as it was in the cartoon Captain N: The Game Master. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a fine name, certainly good enough to appear in my blog’s URL. I’ve never heard anything conclusive about Pit’s name, though the best guesses so far suggest it and its representation in Japanese, Pitto, could have some relation to the worth Pythian — perhaps most often attached to the Pythian Games, forerunner to the Olympics — or the pythia, the priestess who presides over the oracle at Delphi.83 Either one seems appropriately classical for the sandals-and-togas world of Kid Icarus, though apparent connections seem to end there. (Commenter Laird pionts out the similarity between Pit and the last syllable of the named Cupid, whom Pit resembles. I felt it was enough of a good point to merit an inclusion in the article.)
wingman and green-hair, then and now
More interesting is Palutena, the character who gets to be both the game’s damsel-in-distress as well as its presiding deity. As I’ve written about in a previous post, Palutena’s name seems to be a corruption of Parthenos, or something thereabouts, which was an appellation of the goddess Athena that emphasized her virginity.
The first comment I got on this post was from someone calling himself Professor Hazard, who noted that Palutena could just as easily have come from Pallas Athena, a more common form of the goddess’s name. He could well be right. Either Parthenos or Pallas Athena necessitate the elimination of an “S,” either in the middle or at the end of the name, in order to turn into Palutena, and I’m not sure which one would be more likely to be the source.
Incidentally, reinforcing the bonds that the Kid Icarus and Metroid series once shared, the first Kid Icarus game includes a minor enemy called Komayto, which looks a lot like the jellyfish-like generic Metroids who give their name to the series.84
komayto on the left, the real deal metroid on the right
The ko in Komayto would seem to be the Japanese word part meaning “small,” will the mayto is probably the first two syllables of the Japanese pronunciation of Metroid: me-to-ro-i-do. (Not may-to-roi-du, as I originally said, which was corrected by this commenter.) The Kid Icarus instruction manual seems to tease their origin outside the series, noting “Nobody knows where it came from. One theory is that it came from a planet other than Earth.”85
A “no duh” about Captain Commando: In 1991, Street Fighter creators Capcom released the arcade beat-’em-up Captain Commando, which starred a hero of the same name. Only recently did I realized that the character’s name is based on that of the company itself: Captain Commando.
In 1996, Capcom put out another brawler, variously titled Red Earth or Warzard in different geographical regions. It never got a sequel, though a handful of its characters appeared in later games. One of these is a sexy witch named Tessa in the U.S. and Tabasa in Japan. I’d always assumed Tabasa was a slightly mangled take on the more common name Tabitha, maybe as a result of having watched Bewitched as a kid, but I recently found another witch character with a similar name. Mario’s second Game Boy outing, Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins features an otherwise forgettable boss character named Sabasa. She’s such a non-entity, in fact, that her name doesn’t even appear in English version the game, which makes me think Sabasa might only be her Japanese name. Regardless, Sabasa seems pretty damn close to Tabasa.
sexy witch on left, more standard witch on right
I couldn’t find any connection between the two or an explanation as to why two witches might have such similar names, however, though I did have to laugh at the fact that Sabasa’s German name is apparently Heiße Hexe, which translates into English as “hot witch” and which also would an accurate description for sexed-up Tabasa.
Translation issues have consistently made the long-running Castlevania series more interesting. I can recall a few instances in which the name of the Belmonts — the central family that gets stuck with the unenviable task of killing Dracula every hundred years or so — was rendered as Belmondo or Beaumont, neither of which are all that far off from the proper name.86 In fact, as commenter Josef points out, the family name has always been Belmondo in Japan. Most recently, materials for Castlevania: Judgment, which acted like a sort of retrospective for the series, stated the name of the original Castlevania protagonist Simon Belmont as Shimon Belmondo.
is “shimon” pouting because his name was screwed up?
Less fortunate is the name of another clan that tends to pop up often: the Belnades family, whose women often help out the Belmont men in their quest to stake bloodsuckers. However, do to a massively different interpretation of the name, it might not be apparent to casual players that the characters known as Sypha Belnades and Yoko Belnades are supposed to be directly related to those called Carrie Fernandez and Camilla Fernandez. It’s hard to catch; in addition to an “R”/“L” switch, there’s also “B”/“F” switch, which I feel is rare, even though “B,” “F,” “P,” and “V” tend to get swapped around quite a bit when translating between one language and the next. In certain Castlevania: Judgment materials, Sypha’s name is also incorrectly rendered as Sypha Velnandes.
magic powers can’t protect the spelling of her name
The series spans hundreds and hundreds of years, meaning that the heroes themselves rarely appear more than a few times. The vampire villains, however, are longer-lived, with three in particular rising again and again to cause trouble: Dracula, Alucard and Camilla. The game’s version of Dracula happens to also be a version of Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad the Impaler and the real-life prince of Wallachia known for his propensity for bloodletting. Ol’ Vlad was also likely a major inspiration for Bram Stoker in writing the novel Dracula, so the amalgamation of the bloodsucker and the impaler is nothing new.87
the castlevania big bad, shown above in non-bat forms
In or out of the context of Castlevania, the name Dracula comes from Vlad’s surname, Drăculea, “son of the dragon,” which in turn arose the fact that his father was known as Vlad II Dracul.88 The word dracul means “devil” in modern Romanian but formerly meant just dragon. Ţepeş, literally “impaler,” became attached to Vlad after his death and was never part of his actual name, though it’s treated as Dracula’s last name in Castlevania and is shared by Dracula’s son, Alucard.
alucard, the stereotypical son who declined to inherit the family business
Apparently having originated in the 1943 film Son of Dracula, the name Alucard is Dracula spelled backwards, which makes sense in the games in that Alucard frequently fights on the side of the good guys despite his batty tendencies. In Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the heroes encounter an enigmatic man named Genya Arikado, who, of course, turns out to be Alucard himself, his name barely disguised through its representation in Japanese. Some games offer Alucard’s real, full name as Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, but I have no idea where these originated.
even bad girls can appreciate the value of multiple wardrobe changes
In true vampire fashion, Camilla, whose in-game name is sometimes offered as Carmilla over the course of the series, rose from minor character status to close enough to big bad status that she was a playable character in Castlevania: Judgment. Her name apparently is taken from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novel Carmilla, a vampire story that predates Dracula by twenty-five years.83 In the book, Carmilla attempts to seduce the protagonist, Laura. The connection between Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Castlevania’s Camilla seems to be supported by the existence of a minor enemy named Laura who appears alongside Camilla in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. Furthermore, the novel has Carmilla hunting prey at masquerade balls, while the games associate Camilla with mask imagery.
I tried to take on the character names in the Mega Man series in a previous post. In it, I talked about how a vast majority of recurring characters take their names from music terminology. The one-timers — that is, the Robot Masters — are pretty straightforward, though there’s some interesting sex change business that went on in Mega Man 9, with the transformation of the would-be boss Honey Woman into the guy who made the final cut, Hornet Man.89
robo music: rock, roll, blues and non-genre forte
Since the original post on the Mega Man musical connection went up, it was brought to my attention that a spin-off series — the even further-into-the-future Mega Man X — has a particularly good music reference. Whereas the bosses in Mega Man proper are all “men” — Cut Man, Bubble Man, Magnet Man, and so forth, until the single exception of Mega Man 9’s Splash Woman — the bosses in Mega Man X are based on various biological species — usually animals, with the rare exception of weirdos like the onion-inspired Tornado Tonion in Mega Man X7, when Capcom apparently was running low on ideas. The English-language version of Mega Man X5, however, boasts a cast of robot bosses whose names each reference a member or collaborator to the rock band Guns N’ Roses.90, 91 In detail:
The boss Axle the Red (a spiked-and-angry rose; Japanese name: Spike Rosered) references Axl Rose.
Angry teddy bear Grizzly Slash (Japanese name: Crescent Grizzly) references Slash.
The batty Dark Dizzy (Japanese name: Dark Necrobat) references Guns N’ Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed.
Duff McWhalen (Japanese name: Tidal Makkoeen) references bassist Duff McKagan.
Mad hornet Izzy Glow (Japanese name: Shining Hotarunicus) references former Guns N’ Roses member Izzy Stradlin.
Fiery dino Mattrex (Japanese name: Burn Dinorex) takes his name from former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum.
Electropus Squid Adler (Japanese name: Bolt Kraken) references another former drummer, Steven Adler.
And lastly there’s the greatest stretch of the lot: the pegasus-derived boss The Skiver (Japanese name: Spiral Pegacion), who allegedly takes his name from Finnish rocker and Guns N’ Roses collaborator Michael “High in the Sky” Monroe.
As I’ve mentioned before in this post, music names such as those in Mega Man aren’t exactly rare. The Guilty Gear fighting game series, for example, went crazy with them, though grasping all of them on your own would require a command of rock bands as wide-ranging as Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Helloween, Testament and Metallica. Some are obvious: guitar-toting witch I-No namechecks Brian Eno. Others, of course, are more obscure, either intentionally or accidentally. For example, the nod that the name Millia Rage makes is only clear if you have any notion that there exists a heavy metal band called Meliah Rage.92 When translation mucks up the spelling, spotting the allusion gets twice as hard: Even if you knew of the Swedish pop band Cloudberry Jam, you might not suspect that the fighter named Kuradoberi Jam was a reference to it.92 Now, the latter beats out the former in terms of Google hits. And the fact that the series protagonist Sol Badguy references Queen only becomes apparent when you learn that Mr. Bad Guy was the name of Freddie Mercury 1985 solo album.92
Queen’s work pops up in other games. Notably, the Ogre Battle series of strategy games is itself a reference to Queen’s 1974 song by the same name. (And yes, now that you think about it, it does seem strange that the games featured relatively few ogres.) The first game bore the subtitle March of the Black Queen, and indeed that too is one of the band’s songs.93 A sequel, Ogre Battle: Let Us Cling Together, also borrows from a Queen song, though the track is more commonly known as “Teo Torriatte.” This song also happens to feature two verses sung in Japanese.94 The games also feature a geographical area known as the Rhyan Seas, which references yet another Queen song, “Seven Seas of Rhye.”95
So while some games traffic in allusions to some segment of popular culture, others aim for something more highbrow. Doesn’t mean they don’t make a mess of things, referencing this and that and ending up referencing all over themselves. Take Samurai Shodown, for example. (And while you’re taking it, if it strikes you as odd that the second word of the series title is missing a “W,” know that I have a post explaining that apparent mistake. It’s somewhat intentional.) Generally speaking, characters in these games tend to have real-life historical counterparts. Some directly influenced the game, while some loosely inspired it. For example, one of its recurring characters is Hanzo Hattori — a name that should be familiar at least from the Kill Bill character if not other manifestations of Japanese culture. The man was real. The historical Hanzo Hattori may not exactly resemble his representations in movies and video games, but the fact that his legacy continues to inspire writers and game creators today shows that he probably registered fairly high on the badass scale.
hanzo, jubei and charlotte — revived to duel for our pleasure
Among the other characters directly inspired by historical personages:
Jubei Yagyu is a 17th-century samurai based on the 17th-century samurai Jubei Yagyu Mitsuyoshi, who is arguably the most famous figures to emerge from Japan’s feudal era.
And Shiro Tokisada Amakusa, depicted in the game as a kind of satanic wizard, is based on Amakusa Shiro, a leader of the largely Christian Shimbara Rebellion of the mid-17th-century. (The fact that a Christian revolutionary would be demonized as as an effeminate villain is fairly telling as to how Japanese history has chosen to remember this particular person. In the games, the character is so unmanly in his mannerisms that a person could easily mistake him for a woman. And the American dub of the Samurai Shodown skirted the gender confusion altogether by just depicting the character as a woman.)
The American fighter Andrew, who first shows up in Samurai Shodown VI, seems to be based on Andrew Jackson, Mr. Twenty Dollar Bill himself. I’ve put up a previous post on this blog that focuses on this strangeness and how the game seems to use Andrew to rag on American military policy. Worth a look.
And then there’s my absolute favorite of all the characters based on real-life: Charlotte, the French fencer. Her full name is given as Charlotte Christine de Colde — an odd-seeming surname for a Frenchwoman. In fact, it’s a likely mistranslation of the name of the woman she’s based on, Charlotte Corday, the celebrated assassin of revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.96
Other characters have historical ties, but more to the point of this post is that fact that others yet have names that mean something, even out of historical contexts. The first name of the very dark, very Crow-esque Kubikiri Basara, for example, literally translates as “throat-cutting.”97 The later games also feature a towering cannibal named Gedo Kusaregedo, whose name, I’m told, translates to “rotten bastard.”98 And Samurai Shodown 2 features a Prussian fighter whose name, Neinhalt Seiger, is a very bad approximation of the German for “nonstop victory” or “nonstop winner” — the German version of Engrish, maybe?99
“Period piece” fighters such as Samurai Shodown aren’t the only ones who can feature characters whose names actually mean something, of course: My astonishment that such-and-such Japanese character has a name that doubles as a meaningful chunk of syntax is pretty silly, when I think about how many American names mean something that would be obvious to an English-speaker. On the flipside, I can’t help but be amused, for example, that Kyo Kusanagi, hero of the long-running King of Fighters series, has a last name that means “grass-cutter.” My association? The decidedly unheroic literal translations lawnmower, even after I’ve read that the name Kusanagi has certain significance to Japanese folklore.
Other characters’ Japanese roots are less pronounced, though no more apparent to the casual English-speaking video game player.
inky, pinky, blinky and... miru?
A while back, Destructoid put up a good post on the meaning of the names of the Pac-Man ghosts — that is, both the real names and their nicknames that the game’s attract mode displays. Far from being meaningless, they actually help explain why Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde behave the way they do, though it’s a bit clearer in Japanese.100 I have my own post on the ghosts and their names, and I also talk about some of the other ghosts, which exist apparently. Also-rans like Miru and Yum-Yum deserve their fair share of shout-outs, I say. As for Pac-Man himself, it’s pretty well-established that his name comes from the paku-paku-paku noise he makes as he gobbles dots. And it’s an often-told and pretty self-explanatory story about why his creators eventually opted not to go with their first choice for his name, Puck Man, for the character’s American debut. I have a post on these Pac-matters here.
Back in the eight-bit days, Nintendo released a very Pac-Man-like title called Clu Clu Land, the protagonist of which has suffered from some gender confusion issues. In some regions, the character’s name is Bubbles and seems to be female, while in others the character is called Gloopy and seems to be male. Essentially, he/she is Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man rolled up into one. I have a previous post on this strangeness, if you’re interested.
Yet another early inhabitant of the arcades is Mappy — not a clone of Pac-Man but instead a wholly different title by Pac-Man’s developer, Namco. Mappy perhaps doesn’t stir up as much nostalgia as other Namco titles, but it’s a solid one. Billed as a literal cat and mouse game, players control a policeman mouse in environments crawling with feline cat burglars. About five seconds into the first quarter and any sane person would realize the game has fairly little to do with maps. The odd title comes from the Japanese slang term mappo, meaning “police officer.”101 The online dictionaries of Japanese slang that I found didn’t include mappo, but I’m inclined to believe the term means what it’s purported to mean and that the etymology for Mappy is true. An otherwise unrelated police robot named Mappo appears in two Nintendo releases, GiFTPiA and Captain Rainbow.
it’s not about maps
In the Japanese version of the game, one of Mappy’s villainous cat characters goes by the name Nyamco — a cross between the name the developer, Namco, and the Japanese onomatopoeia for the noise a cat makes.101
I’m pretty sure Nintendo has never said anything official on the subject, but it would seem very likely that they got the name for their character Kirby — a puffball whose main source of attack involves inhaling anything and everything, much in the manner a wind-powered carpet-cleaner might — would come from the Kirby Company, whose chief products are vacuum cleaners. Commenter awa64 points out another theory: that the name of Kirby the sucking entity could also come from the name of attorney John Kirby, who defended Nintendo in a lawsuit by Universal Studios alleging that Donkey Kong was illegally inspired by King Kong. Kirby and Nintendo won. Kirby’s creator, Masahiro Sakurai, now apparently claims to “not remember” where he got the name.
kirby as croquet: colored balls and one guy with a mallet
Longtime gamers should take a some interest in the fact that the Kirby games contain a subtle reference to another series that has long since fallen by the wayside. The games feature a recurring antagonist in the form of King Dedede, a mallet-toting penguin. Matching his three-syllable name pattern are two minor underlings, Lololo and Lalala — respectively blue and red block-pushing thingamajigs who bear a striking resemblance to the protagonists of the series known in the U.S. as Adventures of Lolo and in Japan as the Eggerland games. Both the Lolo-starring series of puzzle games and the Kirby games were developed by HAL Laboratory. In the older series, Lolo and Lala are heroes, who advance from one level to the next by pushing blocks much as Lololo and Lalala do. I have no idea why the addition of an extra syllable should follow their transformation into villains, but it’s an interesting development nonetheless.
pikmin’s olimar and louie, plumbers in space
Another Nintendo series, Pikmin, stars Olimar, a sprout-tossing, round-nosed spaceman, and his sidekick, Louie. The pair’s appearance plus Louie’s name should be tip-off enough that Nintendo wanted to reference its big mascots, the Mario Brothers, but, as this post notes, Olimar’s name is more subtle: It’s the three characters that spell Mario’s name — mah-ri-oh — reversed and then anglicized in a way that makes the connection hard to spot.
clay boys: ninten, ness, lucas and claus
And in Nintendo’s Earthbound/Mother games — the character models for which are, like Pikmin’s, rendered in clay — a gradually increasing amount of cleverness went into naming protagonists. In the first game — Mother in Japan, unreleased but unofficially called Earthbound Zero in the U.S. — the little boy who saves the world is named Ninten, which is about as obvious as a Sega hero being named Ages. The sequel features a new hero, named Ness, who despite only being a slightly altered version of Ninten is, as a result of his appearances in the Smash Bros. games, infinitely better known outside Japan. His name is either a reference to the American name for Nintendo’s first home console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), or its successor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, (SNES).102 (If it’s the latter, it’s an anagram of an acronym — and that’s not something you see everyday.)
The third game, Mother 3, stars another little boy, Lucas, whose name doesn’t allude to any Nintendo system, but another major character in the story is his twin brother, Claus, whose name happens to be an anagram for Lucas’s. Since this post went up, an anonymous commenter has pointed out that the series’s creator, Shigesato Itoi, has admitted to borrowing the notion of twins named Lucas and Claus from the twin narrators of Le grand cahier, also known as The Notebook, a 1986 novel by Hunagrian author Agota Kristof.
The extent of Earthbound’s references doesn’t end with Nintendo in-jokes and anagrams. In fact, it takes on pop culture more broadly than most games do. Included in its targets are a whole slew of references to The Beatles and their work. With respect to these, I have a few theories about where the minor character Tony might have gotten his name, but I’ll admit right now that they stretch plausibility. Plus, the explanations are long enough that I’d rather leave them all in their own post here.
The Earthbound creators did a neat little verbal trick with the heroines in the first and second games. Much in the way Ninten and Ness bear a more-than-passing resemblance, their respective love interests, Ana and Paula Polestar, are also essentially the same character, slightly reworked from one game to the next. Ana’s theme song from Mother is titled “Pollyana” in a way that would seem to foreshadow Paula in the sequel, which is a nice way of tying the characters together. Considering the character’s sunny dispositions, the song title also arguably makes a reference to the children’s literature character of the same name. (A slightly redone version of the song exists in Earthbound as the theme played in Ness’s home.) The line of pink-dressed, politely behaved Earthbound/Mother heroines ends with Earthbound; in Mother 3, the sole female character is a tomboyish character given the suitably fierce name Kumatora, which translates to “bear tiger.”103
earthbound’s youthful pokey on right; mother 3’s pasty porky-of-the-future on left
While the heroes change from one game to the next, Earthbound and Mother 3 have a common villain in the form of a horrible, pudgy child. In the first game, he’s Pokey, Ness’s next-door neighbor, who eventually crosses over to the dark side. In Mother 3, he’s Porky — the same bad seed but having blossomed many years in the future into the leader of an army of humanoid pigs. This job title makes the second, retconned version of his name more appropriate, even if his Japanese name, Poki, would seem to allow for either Pokey or Porky, though some cite Pokey as a mistranslation.104 If Mother 3 ever gets an official Nintendo-sanctioned translation, perhaps we’ll know for sure what to call him. Commenter mkkmypet suggests that Porky may be the more appropriate name for the character, noting that his brother Picky, who appears in Earthbound, is much skinnier. Porky and Picky may refer to the brothers’ eating habits.
Early in Earthbound, the player can meet Pokey’s awful parents, Aloysius and Lardna Minch. It’s been pointed out here and there that the name Aloyisus Minch sounds suspiciously like Atticus Finch, the father from To Kill a Mockingbird, though Mr. Minch is about as bad a father as Mr. Finch is a good one.105 I don’t know if I buy the connection, but I’ll put it here just so I can reference To Kill a Mockingbird twice in a post about video games. Never thought I’d be able to do that.
And then there’s the enigmatic entity big bad that presides over both Mother and Earthbound, a spaceman boogeyman called Giygas. Literally represented from the original Japanese as something like Gigu and referred in the unreleased text of the American translation of Mother as Giegue, the character would seem to take his name from a Greek word meaning “giant.” Thought the original name seems to hit more at the word geek, so little has been written about Giygas and his name that I can’t make heads or tails of where its creators wanted to go with it.
the most horrifying thing in video games — ever
As a side note that doesn’t seem totally out of place in a round-up post about words in games, the Earthbound incarnation of Giygas speaks in strange phrases that Itoi has described in interviews as coming from his memory of walking into a theater as a child and glimpsing a horrific rape scene. (During the climactic battle, it says horrific things like “I’m h... a... p... p... y...” and “...It hurts, ...it hurts...” and “...go... b... a... c...k...” and “...I'm so sad....”106 Pretty damn horrifying.) Earthbound fans have since found the movie Itoi mentioned, The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty, and found that it actually contains no rape scene.107 This does nothing to make the villain any less scary, at least in my opinion. The fact that some have compared Giygas’s form to that of a human fetus viewed through an ultrasound and the layer leading to him to the female reproductive organs make the situation all the more uncomfortable.108, 109 It puts the Japanese title to the series, Mother, in a strange new context.
Though this post may put my geek credentials over the top, I have to make an admission: I know next to nothing about Pokémon. The series does gangbusters, so good on it, but it has for the most part escaped my attention. That doesn’t mean I don’t know who Pikachu is. He may well now be a more famous rodent than Mickey Mouse.
The Pokémon games, as I understand them, are a fertile breeding ground for puns, but I’m sure there’s someone else out there with the passion and free time to collect them all. World, have at it. I have read, however, that Pikachu’s name comes from a combination of two Japanese onomatopoeia: pika pika, which represents the sound of sparkling electricity, and chuc hu, the noise mice make.110 Given the mascot’s status as an electric mouse, this makes sense, so I have to assume the name’s resemblance to that of a certain species of rodent-like lagomorph — the pika, whose name may come from the Russian pikat, “to squeak” — may be entirely coincidental.
The single other Pokémon I have any awareness of is a lesser critter — known in the U.S. and Kadabra and in Japan as Yungerer or Yun-Gellar — simply because supposed psychic Uri Gellar unsuccessfully attempted to sue Nintendo on grounds that the character infringed on his trademark spoon-bending and, in its Japanese form, his name as well.111 And although I may not know much about Pokémon, any video game that can enrage Uri Gellar is okay in my book.
What I know quite a bit better, however, is Animal Crossing, which offers puns and wordplay in spades. Some of them are rather simple. There’s a sheep named Baabara, for example. That’s not clever. Though since I’ve brought her up, it bears mentioning that this particular sheep is now known more for her inappropriately racist language than for her dumb pun name.112 (The game allows players to “teach” characters new words, and a promotional copy of Animal Crossing sent to reviewers had Baabara using the “N” word. Bad ewe.)
two kinds of salty language: baabara and kapp’n
Other instances are more complex. Some requires a basic familiarity with Japanese culture. Like I said earlier about the kappa, Animal Crossing features a character named Kapp’n. Understanding the connection to Japanese mythology helps to make sense of the pun in his name — in addition to being a kappa, he’s also a sea captain who talks like a pirate. But if if you didn’t know what a kappa was, you’d probably just assume he was some kind of turtle and his abnormal penchant for cucumbers would go unexplained.
nook, a tanuki scrotum attack; and super mario bros. 3’s tanooki mario
A similar case is that of Tom Nook — a raccoon-looking shopkeep who serves as the game’s de facto villain. He’s actually a tanuki — either the real-life Japanese Raccoon Dog or its mythological counterpart, the latter of which is known for trickery and a giant ball sack. (Seeing as how Nook first appears sporting a strategically crotch-blocking apron, I’m inclined to guess he’s the latter.) When Nintendo debuted the first Animal Crossing and introduced Nook to American audiences, I remember some muttering about the character also having racist implications. (If you wanted, you could associate his first name with Uncle Tom. As some even pointed out, his last name pronounced backwards also happens to sound like the word coon, which is both a shortening of the word raccoon and a racist term for a black person. The slur seems may or may not actually have an etymological connection to raccoon.113) I remember reading some of this online years ago, but Baabara’s dropping of the N-bomb seems to have pushed discussion any other racist Animal Crossing interpretations to the other reaches of the online world.
The name that took me the longest to get was the one attached to a certain lady pig who sells turnips that the player can then sell at either a profit or a loss, depending on the given day’s going rate. This system’s resemblance to the stock market now makes it seem obvious that Sow Joan’s name is a pun on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but I didn’t get that until years after I initially wondered why she had the name she did. And when I finally did, I wrote a post about it, of course.
In all, the game has more than a hundred characters, so I won’t bother to list them all, but I will say that I appreciate the humor in naming some of Animal Crossing’s anthropomorphic villagers after the things their real-life counterparts would be slaughtered for: an alligator named Boots, a pig named Rasher, a frog named Jambette, a duck named Pate, a cow named Chuck. And extra bonus points for a cross-dressing dog named Butch — yes, again, its own post here — and anteaters named Cyrano and Nosegay.114
don’t shoot: mr. peepers and not-the-hogan
Two Nintendo light gun-related bits: The spiteful, laughing dog from Duck Hunt has a name, apparently: Mr. Peepers. (You, however, should feel free to call him “That Goddamn Dog.”) And in case you ever wondered where Hogan’s Alley, Nintendo’s shooting gallery simulator, got its name — you may have have noticed that it features no character named Hogan — know that the matter is complicated: There exists an FBI training facility by the same name, but it didn’t exist until after the video game Hogan’s Alley debuted in Japan. Both the game and the FBI location take their names from the titular crime-ridden slum from the late-19th-century comic strip of the same name. I explain it in somewhat greater detail here.
Early in the days of the Nintendo 64, Nintendo released a now mostly forgotten title, Pilotwings 64, which itself was a sequel to the first Pilotwings, released early in the days of the Super Nintendo. The later game features six selectable characters, each named after birds: Goose, Hawk, Lark, Ibis, Kiwi and Robin. The last of these is notable in that she’s known differently in Japan: as Hooter, which is both another bird name — if you consider Hooter close enough to Owl — and a reference to the character’s enormous breasts.115
lark and robin, nester, nester and hester
Lark, the smallest of the male characters, is himself notable in that he’s the former Nintendo Power magazine mascot Nester, renamed to merit his flocking with the Pilotwings crew. Nintendo Power admitted that Lark and Nester were one and the same, though the character appeared later in another title, Nester’s Funky Bowling, which featured him with his original name and also paired him with a look-alike sister, Hester.115 Nester, like Ninten in Mother, takes his name from the first-generation Nintendo console.
master higgins, master higgins, and master higgins’s japanese namesake
In an interesting marketing move, Hudson Soft — the developer and publisher behind the vaguely Mario-like Adventure Island games — at least twice rebranded the series protagonist for release in different language territories. American players know the grass-skirted, pot-bellied hero as Master Higgins, but in Japan, he’s Takahashi Meijin (“Master Takahashi”), which also happens to be the nickname of Toshiyuki Takahashi, real-life executive of Hudson Soft.116 (It wasn’t his idea, but he nonetheless went with the suggestion that he — then only the company’s vice-president and someone famous for video game-playing prowess — should be the character featured in the game, though he’s later admitted that being the protagonist in a notoriously difficult title was disconcerting because it was he would be was repeatedly dying.117) The name Master Higgins didn’t cut it Mexico, however, and when the game hit that market, the protagonist was unofficially redubbed Capulinita, in honor of the Mexican comedian Capulina, whom Higgins apparently resembles.118
The two Chrono Trigger games — both major presences in my wasted youth — each offer a few names worth examining by virtue of becoming problematic as a result of their translation from Japanese to English. Foremost is the first game’s protagonist, Crono, whose name defies etymological sensibilities by omitting the “H” that appears in the series title as a result of the five-character limit that wasn’t extended for the American version of the game; had six characters been allowed, the hero’s name might have been Chrono and therefore more correct. (In official Japanese-language press materials, the name appears with the “H,” it should be noted — or at least that is the case when it’s not rendered as Kurono.) I discuss Crono’s odd name in an older post that focuses on the unusual decision to strip his mother of a name in the game’s English translation. Whereas she had one in the original Japanese, she’s inexplicably known only as Mom in the English version.
missing an “h,” missing a clear pronunciation, missing a distinctive name
Similarly problematic is the name of Chrono Trigger’s leading lady, Marle, which lends itself to a few different pronunciations — somewhere between Meryl and Marley, depending on who’s doing the pronouncing — but which appeared in early Japanese media and English translations of said media as Marl, Mal or Mar, none of which have particularly appealing, heroine-worthy connotations. And then there’s Lucca, a young scientific genius whose name happens to be shared — as it’s pronounced, if not as it’s spelled — by two other female characters of games that Square produced aside from Chrono Trigger: Final Fantasy IV’s Luca, who grows up into a master of robot technology in Final Fantasy IV: The After, and Luka, a young-looking but old-acting character in Secret of Mana.
Crono, Marle and Lucca aren’t the interesting ones, however. As a result of the game’s tendency to skip through time, the three end up meeting heroes from various epochs — among them, Ayla, Frog and Magus. The first, a fur-clad warrior cavewoman, would seem to take her name from the protagonist of Jean M. Auel’s 1980 novel Clan of the Cave Bear, who is also a prehistoric woman who excels at hunting.119 Japanese media offers Ayla’s name as Eira, however, and I wonder if the decision to link the character to Clan of the Cave Bear might have been made by the American translators and not the original creators. Given that the Chrono Trigger centers around time travel, I wonder if Eira could have any relation to the English word era but have never found an answer one way or the other.
suitably prehistoric, appropriately changeable, and he of many names
Another of the game’s central characters is its representative of the medieval age — an anthropomorphic, sword-toting frog who happens to be named Frog. As the game progresses, the player learns that Frog was cursed into slimy, green amphibiousness and once had both a human form and a more suitable name, Glenn. In Japanese, Frog’s name is Kaeru, which literally translates as “frog,” appropriately enough, but can also mean “to change,” which might be just as appropriate, as well as “to return,” which is really neither here nor there.120 That Frog’s previous name was Glenn is probably not especially significant, but I can’t help but wonder if it was chosen for its resemblance to the word green, which would be all the greater if English-to-Japanese translation happened to render the name Grenn instead of Glenn. Furthermore, Frog and the rest of the Chrono Trigger cast were designed by artist Akira Toriyama, who also did the character designs for another Squaresoft game, Tobal No. 1, which featured an fair-skinned, green-clad character named Gren Kutz. This guy’s name was probably supposed to be Glenn.
And then there’s Magus, who I wrote about in a previous post. His various names are a rather complicated matter. If you include various identities he goes by in both the English and Japanese versions as well as characters in sequels closely associated with him, Magus has eight.
Both Chrono Trigger and its sequel, Chrono Cross, feature a pair of impish characters who represent a sword called the Masamune — a powerful weapon in the game as well as many other video games. (This weapon and all the others take their names from a famed 13th-century swordsmith, Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, who has become synonymous with masterful sword design.) The twin spirits, however, are strictly a Chrono series thing, and the origin of their names, Masa and Mune, is pretty obvious. In the Japanese version of the games, however, no famous Japanese sword is referenced. The blade is the Grandleon and the associated spirits are Gran and Leon.121 Not nearly as cool, really.
masa, mune, and mr. masamune himself
The brothers also have a sister, Doreen, who doesn’t do much of anything in Chrono Trigger besides have a name that stays the same in both the Japanese and English versions of the game, despite the fact that Doreen is the most ordinary Western name of the whole lot. (It’s theorized that her name is supposed to approximate the English word dream, which could be significant in that it’s suggested that she and her brothers might have been dreamed into existence.122, 123) In Chrono Cross, however, all three siblings fuse together to form a new powerful weapon — something called the Mastermune in the English version and Grandream in the Japanese. (Oddly, Mastermune features only one sibling’s name; Grandream features only the ones excluded from Mastermune.) Grandream sort of resembles the name of Gran Dolina, an archeological site in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains where evidence of the first hominians in Western Europe has been unearthed. Given Chrono Trigger’s theme time travel, it wouldn’t be an entirely inappropriate reference, but I feel like it’s just a coincidence.
In keeping the time-honored tradition of naming video game characters after rock stars, Chrono Trigger features a trio of B-level villains named Ozzie, Flea and Slash, who would seem to take their names from Ozzy Osbourne, Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers and, again, Slash from Guns N’ Roses. (For the record, that’s three characters named after Slash, each in unrelated games. And here’s another: the Chrono Cross character Nikki, who is such a rockstar that he actually fights with his guitar and who happens to be known in Japan as Slash. I’m guessing Nikki takes his American name from the Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx.)
the condiment crew: ozzie, flea and slash
In the Japanese version, the trio has themed names that honor another onomastic tradition: random-ass food names. Ozzie, Flea and Slash are Vinegar, Mayonnaise and Soy Sauce. Or damn close, anyway: The last two fall just a little short, at Mayonee instead of Mayoneezu and Soisuu instead of Soisoosu.123 The Condiment Crew also helps make sense of another Chrono Trigger character, Tata, whose English name is a clipped version of what the Japanese version was aiming for: Tarta, as in tartar sauce.123
Chrono Cross continues the condiment theme with minor, comic relief bosses named Solt, Peppor and Ketchop — or, in Japanese, Salton, Sugar Lou and, four some reason, Ludwig.120 Yeah, at this point, it seems like something that should be put to an end.
Whereas Chrono Trigger features only seven playable characters, Chrono Cross offers a whopping 45, including some like Glenn and Luccia whose names seem to reference those from the first game. I’m not going to try and tackle the whole cast, but I’ll make a note on one that always stood out to me: Macha.
mammycha, essentially
For being a relatively minor character that only appears in a single game, Macha could inspire long academic papers on the subjects of racial depictions in video games and racial otherness as perceived by Japanese pop culture. In short, she appears to be an incarnation of the mammy stock character, even though the world of Chrono Cross doesn’t exactly have race as we in the real world do — that is, Africa and America don’t exist in the games, so the notion of an African-American representation doesn’t exactly work. But hell — she wields kitchen tools in battle and attacks by throwing dishes at enemies or literally folding them like laundry. For the purposes of this post, I’ll leave the matter at the fact that her Japanese name, Mamacha, even more closely resembles the word mammy. (She and her family members also suffer from a peculiar speech impediment that makes them add the syllable “cha” to the end of words for no apparent reason, but I’ve never been able to make any sense of this.) Macha was the subject of one of the earlier post of this style that I ever put up on this blog, so have a look if you’d like to read more.
Before Squaresoft released Chrono Trigger, it released Secret of Mana, another attempt to match the success of the Final Fantasy games. The first game to bear the Mana title made the odd decision of making its three playable heroes nameless — that is, their names must to be chosen by the player — even though the Japanese version of the game had default names: the oddly feminine Randi for the male character, the gender-neutral Popoie for the rather asexual sprite, and Purim for the female character. This last one is notable for two reasons: For one, it would seem to come from the name of the Jewish holiday of the same name, even though little in the story of the Israelites’ escape from a massacre has little immediately apparent significance to Purim the character.
purim, porom and pullum: something in common besides their ponytails?
What’s always struck me about the name is that it seems to be extremely similar to those of two other female characters: Porom from Final Fantasy IV and Arabian fighter Pullum Purna in the Street Fighter EX games. There are differences, but given how certain letters and vowels can change from one language and back again, these three names are similar enough to possibly be all variations on the same source name, whether it happens to be taken from the Jewish holiday or somewhere else. If it is the holiday that gives the characters their names, it might make sense in that the story behind the holiday Purim in large part involves the heroism of Esther, the queen who saves the Israelites, and that Porom, Pullum and Purim are each women who each act heroically.
Secret of Mana offers a few other name peculiarities. For example, much of Purim’s story hinges around her search for her fiancé, a hapless soldier with the odd and unfortunately appropriate name Dyluck. (He’s unlucky and then he dies. Go figure.) I have no idea what this name is supposed to mean or where it came from, but it’s worth noting that Sword of Mana — a game released for the Game Boy Advance ten years after Secret of Mana that incorporates characters introduced in subsequent games — features a Dyluck look-alike named Durac. In all honestly, the original name might well have been Derek or something ordinary like that, but here’s to bad translations upping the exotic and mysterious factors.
The commenter scifantasy pointed out an additional interpretation for Dyluck’s name: du Lac, the surname of Lancelot of Arthurian legend. It’s plausible. Du Lac means “of the lake” and refers to Lancelot’s adoptive mother, the Lady of the Lake. I wonder if it’s meaningful that she too may have a counterpart in Secret of Mana: Luka, a water maiden who also lives on a like. As far as I remember, however, Dyluck and Luka never interact.
durac and old marley on top, dyluck and youthful phanna below
There’s similar doppelganger confusion between Phanna — a minor character who’s in love with Dyluck and who loses the ability to talk as the result of a curse — and her apparent Sword of Mana counterpart, Pamela — who loves Durac. As a result of a different curse, Pamela ends up much older than Durac. She changes her name to Marley, for reasons I’m not too clear on, and her love for Durac goes unrequited, like Phanna’s for Dyluck. The parallel becomes clearer when you learn that Phanna’s name is Pamela in the Japanese text to Secret of Mana.125 I have no idea why it would have been changed. The matter is further complicated by the fact that Secret of Mana also features a villainous character named Fanha, whose name is almost identical to Phanna’s. In short: It’s a goddamn mess.
marijuana and beer, essentially
Other matters in the Mana series are less complicated. For example, in Legend of Mana, the player can recruit a pair of magic-savvy tykes into the roster of playable characters. In the English version of the game, their names are Bud and Lisa. In the Japanese version, they’re Bud and Corona, and I can’t help but to suspect that the fact that the original set of names doubled as a slang term for marijuana and a brand of beer, respectively, persuaded the translators to switch out the female character’s name.
An anonymous commenter pointed out what I dumbly didn’t think of with this little theory: that Bud’s name is more likely just a reference to the Budweiser brand of beer, commonly called Bud. It would make more sense if both siblings were named after beer brands. Another anonymous commenter pointed out that a more innocent interpretation would be that Bud’s name just refers to a flower bud and Corona’s just to the solar coronoa, the beams of light around the sun.
One of the more recent entries in the series is Children of Mana, whose main cast is a trio of characters that seem to parallel the three heroes in Secret of Mana. In the U.S., the Children of Mana characters were called Ferrik, Tamber and Poppen. In the Japanese version, however, the three had names that all double as “action verbs”: Flick, Tumble, and Pop. And seeing as how the Mana games and this one in particular emphasize action — as opposed to the turn-based fight sequences in Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger — such names make sense. The names of the American counterparts are all sensible translations of the original Japanese, but the decision to omit the original verbal sense of action seems odd. The change from Pop to Poppen is especially strange, as poppen is a German verb that means “to fuck.”126, 127
Of all the notes I could have ended on, a chose a dirty German word to segue into the last section of this post: the most wacked-out video game characters. Many of these I came across in researching this post, and, often, I couldn’t fathom an explanation for why they exist. I just have to stand in awe of the their sheer nonsensical, bizarre, slapdash and linguistically baffling nature.
The Worst Names in Video Games
(with worst meaning poorly thought out, nonsensical,
whacked-out or just plain inappropriate)
Pizza Pasta, Punch Out!!
Some Nintendo staffer’s best effort at creating an Italian-themed boxer for the 1984 arcade installment of the Punch Out!! series: a Sylvester Stallone-looking cretin. Never appeared again. At least he fared better than the series’s representative of Russia, Vodka Drunkenski.128
Caffeine Nicotine, Samurai Shodown
His opponents may draw their names from historical personages and crude Japanese puns, but Caffeine Nicotine takes his fairly obviously from two addictive substances. I couldn’t tell you why, but his creators chose to drive the theme home with the back story that he hails from a temple known as Koka-in, or “Cocaine.” Which is cute. My best guess is that Caffeine Nicotine represents some distortion of the Capuchin Monks, but that wouldn’t take into account the nicotine element — unless you consider the fact that one of this grizzled, knee-high sensei’s attacks involves blowing tobacco smoke in his enemies faces. Bizarre, all around.
Pudding, Dragon Quest II
Enix — a video game-developing company that has since married Squaresoft and created the entity now known as Square Enix — has a series that in its day rivaled Final Fantasy. In the U.S., it was initially called Dragon Warrior, but the longtime Japanese name, Dragon Quest, has now caught on worldwide. Early in the series, the American versions of the game made quite a few adjustments for non-Japanese audiences. Among them: the names of the cast of the second game. The singular heroine, known superficially as Princess of Moonbrooke, gets a proper handle when the player chooses it, and one of these possible default names is Purin. In subsequent appearances, unfortunately, she’s stuck not with Purin but with this Japanese word’s translation into English: Pudding23, 129 This is problematic for several reasons. First, while video games have a rich history of naming women after edible, nice-smelling or aesthetically pleasing objects, calling someone Pudding takes it too far. Second, the existence of the Japanese word purin makes it possible that the aforementioned female characters I tried to associate with the Jewish holiday Purim may actually be associated with pudding. And thirdly, Purin happens to be the Japanese name of the Pokémon character Jigglypuff. And that just sucks.
Devilotte de Satan III, Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness
And then sometimes the pendulum swings too far in the other direction. Devilotte de Satan III — who’s sometimes known as Devilot and whose middle name, really should be Subtlety — is a maniacal princess who appears as a playable character in the mech fighter Cyberbots and again in the Capcom crossover title Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. As her name suggests, she’s pure evil — over-the-top evil, in fact. Well, at least her name’s not Pudding.
Marth, Fire Emblem
Had Nintendo never decided to take the Fire Emblem series outside Japan, poor Prince Marth might not be on this list. But they did — and shoved him into Smash Bros, exposing non-Japanese players to the franchise for the first time. For some inscrutable reason, the translators chose to interpret the Japanese name Marusu as Marth instead of Mars, which sounds a hundred times cooler and had already been used as the character’s English name in a dubbed version of a Fire Emblem movie. Not Mars, but Marth — as in some back-formed masculine version of Martha. Doesn’t Nintendo realize that guys who wear headbands need the most masculine names they can get?
Wander, Shadow of the Colossus
The hero’s names don’t go all femme-y only in the U.S., however. For English-speakers, Sony’s awesome adventure title Shadow of the Colossus centers on a man named Wander who darts across beautiful landscapes Legend of Zelda-style and then fights various towering monsters. In Japan, however, both the game and hero’s names are different: It’s Wanda and the Colossus and the heroic monster-fighter is Wanda, at least in how the Japanese characters representing this name would be translated. (Commenter Josef points out that the Japanese release of the game includes English text that clearly states Wander, not Wanda.) A hero being named Wanda, even if only in specific contexts, amuses me. I guess that’s what you get for naming your character after a verb.
Rungo Iron, Toshinden
If a name like Devilotte de Satan III qualifies as less than subtle, consider that it takes one small mental leap to move from Devil and Satan to evil. With Rungo Iron — often represented even more obviously as Run-go Iron — there’s even less distance between the name and the thing the name refers to: “run,” “go,” and “iron,” which is appropriate in that the stone club-wielding fighter is less like his blade-toting opponents than he is a freight train, hitting fast and hard and without any of the finesse displayed by the other fighters. To make matters worse, Rungo is the sole American combatant in the original Toshinden — the Guile, in more ways than one — and none of the other characters throughout the entire series are nearly as dumbly named.130 I’m not sure whether this says more about video game developers or their attitudes toward Americans.
Tiny Kong, Donkey Kong Country
In the beginning, Tiny Kong’s name made sense. After the first three Donkey Kong Country games, Rare saw fit to dispense with a lot of the simian hangers-on Donkey Kong had picked up and replace them with new ones. The substitute for Dixie Kong was a character introduced as her kid sister: the beanie-wearing Tiny Kong, who had the magic power of being able to shrink down to a miniscule size — for fun and adventure! As time passed, Dixie proved more popular than Tiny, but Nintendo brought Tiny back years later… and did in a way that made her name doubly irrelevant. She no longer could shrink and was now lanky, tube top-wearing teen whose form suggested an attempt at sexiness that simply should not be. Despite this anthropomorphic unpleasantness, Tiny Kong persists. Ew, Nintendo. Ew.
Exdeath, Final Fantasy V
I suppose you can’t expect much from an anthropomorphic tree — and Exdeath is just that, a tree so possessed by evil that it gained sentience, took a vaguely human form and attempted to conquer the world — but for a character who serves as Final Fantasy V’s big bad, his name sucks. Exdeath. What is that? The official spelling is at least better than what’s offered in the fan-translated version of the game, released before the real deal hit U.S. shores: X-Death. Literally, it could be taken to mean “out of death,” but that doesn’t even make sense, especially considering that “out of tree” would have been more appropriate. Even worse: Many have posited that his name should have actually been Exodus, which still doesn’t work all that well but at least could be taken to refer to his trek out of the forest and into to the realm of villainy. Really, I don’t blame Exdeath for having a bad temperament. In addition to coping with the realization at some point that he, despite sentience, was only a tree, he has a stupid name. And life is rough for those with stupid names.
Tiaramisu, Wario: Master of Disguise
For reasons I’ll never understand, the universe of the Wario games is oddly more populated with female characters than is that of the Mario games, from which the Wario ones spun off. Consequently, Wario has faced off against a lot of female big bads. Among these is Tiaramisu, a character who initially appears in the form of a tubby, masked woman in a red dress and who ultimately reveals her true form as a evil, bloated Princess Peach clone. Furthermore, as a big bad, she’s known as Terrormisu, which stretches the pun in the original name far enough to break it. Tiramisu is a thing. Tiaramisu is an attempt to make tiramisu more “princessy.” Terrormisu is just stupid. Other characters introduced in Wario: Master of Disguise — and likely to never be seen again, given the game’s unpopularity — include chaps named Carpaccio and Cannoli, so clearly Nintendo had Italian food on the brain when making this game. But the theme falls by the wayside with this one, who just has a little much going on in her name. Sometimes puns just go too far.
Trevor Pearlharbor, Killer7
I’ll admit right now that I’ve never actually played the Capcom-produced, multiple personality-themed shooter Killer7. I’ll also say that I’m not an excessively politically correct person. However, the fact that a character with the last named Pearlhabor exists in a video game does stretch the limits of good taste. If anyone can provide any elucidation as to why his name should not be considered inappropriate, I’d be happy to hear it.
Princess Yoyo, Bahamut Lagoon
She’s not just the heroine of a Squaresoft-developed Super Nintendo game that never made it out of Japan, she’s also another great example of what can go wrong with the trend of naming female characters after objects. Perhaps it’s best that Bahamut Lagoon never officially made it out of Japan, where the word yoyo can refer to the toy but can also just mean “idiot.”
Ax Battler, Golden Axe
Where to begin? Ax Battler is one of the three playable characters in Sega’s sword-slinging beat-’em-up Golden Axe, the other two being Red Sonja rip-off Tyris Flare and feisty dwarf Gillius Thunderhead, the latter of which himself has a pretty terrific name. Upon hearing the name Ax Battler, you might think the name is actually a description of the character. It’s not. You might also think he’d be the one of the three characters who fights with an axe — if not the very axe referenced in the game’s title. Nope again. Mr. Battler carries a sword; it’s Mr. Thunderhead who carries the axe. Finally, there’s the strangeness in the fact that the game officially spells the character’s name Ax — that is, without the “E” at the end. Now ax is an acceptable spelling of the word more commonly represented as axe, but the fact that both would feature in the game so prominently is just stupid. Matters got even worse when a later spin-off that focused specifically on Ax awkwardly included both spellings in the same title: Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe. Fortunately, this title is now remembered as little more than a rip-off of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, even down to the structure of the title.132 Sequels Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder and Golden Axe III replace Ax with clones with equally awkward names: Stern Blade and Kain Grinder, respectively.133
Yoko Harmageddon, Street Fighter Alpha 3
An extremely minor character appearing only in certain scenes involving a marginally less minor character, included here only because the name Yoko Harmegeddon needs to be recorded for the ages. Yoko is the frowsy manager and trainer of R. Mika, an impossibly buxom, blonde-haired Japanese woman and professional wrestler who appears as a playable character in Street Fighter Alpha 3 and who looks like a cross between Baby Spice and Bubbles from Powerpuff Girls.134, 135 As far as I know, Yoko only appears in R. Mika’s win poses and does so riding a golf cart. Amazing.
Geese Howard, Fatal Fury
Most write-ups of Fatal Fury big bad Geese Howard note that he has an ill-fittingly comical name considering the extent of villainy. He’s like James Bond villain evil, to the point that most of the crime that drives the plotlines of the early Fatal Fury games — and in one existence, bad goings-on in the sister series, Art of Fighting as well — can be traced back to him. I haven’t got a clue why his name is Geese, however, or even why it would be the plural instead of the singular. The matter is further complicated by the existence of another Fatal Fury character, a lunatic in raver pants named Duck King. Drugs can account for that name; I can only surmise that Geese is a mistranslation of something, though I’m at a loss for what. The name irks me to the point that I’m actually focusing on it for this concluding list of bad, inexplicable names rather than that of another Fatal Fury fighter: a guy named Marco Rodriguez in the Japanese release but changed for English-speaking territories to be Khushnood Butt — literally cush, nude and butt — for literally no good reason that I can think off. A good result of Geese’s odd name is that it makes for accidentally funny related merchandise. For example, one of his theme songs is titled “Geese ni Kissu,” or, in English, “A Kiss for Geese.”136 And a manga centered on the character bears the title Geese in the Dark, which is misleading if you aren’t familiar with Fatal Fury.137
King, Art of Fighting
The short version: Despite what you might expect, King is a girl. The long version: If SNK’s Fatal Fury games are that company’s attempt at an answer to Capcom’s Street Fighter, then SNK’s Art of Fighting games are another attempt at an answer, if maybe you didn’t like the first one. The first Art of Fighting game features only one female character: a kickboxing bouncer named King. The character is initially depicted as fairly butch but has gradually been feminized in later appearances to the point that no one would mistake her for a man at this point. And that just makes her name more of a head-scratcher. She has never been given a last name, as far as I know, and I’m fairly certain she shouldn’t have been born with the name King. (This anonymous commenter points out that drag kings might have some bearing on the character, her name and her style of dress.) To confuse matter more, one of her motives behind entering fighting competitions is to win enough money to pay for an operation for her younger brother, who, in keeping with what could be a family tradition of bucking gender traditions, is named Jan.
Pretty much everyone in Saturday Night Slam Masters
A nearly forgotten Capcom fighter known as Muscle Bomber in Japan, Saturday Night Slam Masters and its cast has mostly fallen by the wayside. Save for Mike Haggar from Final Fight, none of the characters have appeared in other Capcom fighters. And that’s a shame, really, because if quality were determined by the strangeness of their names, then these guys would be regulars. Often, the Japanese names are loonier.138 Take, for instance, the character known in the U.S. as Alexander the Grater — that’s right: Grater and not Greater. In Japan, he’s Sheep the Royal. The guy the English version of the game calls King Rasta Mon is known in Japan as Missing IQ Gomes. That’s not to say that some of the American appellations aren’t uniformly better. The series protagonist, known in Japan as Aleksey Zalazof got saddled with the name Biff Slamkovich in the U.S. Similarly, the rotund Kimala the Bouncer was renamed Jumbo the Flapjack, which is evocative, if nothing else.
And that’s it. I honestly never would have expected that this article would have grown to such an unwieldy length, but it did — and now I can say that it represents literally everything I can think of to say about words in video games. I’m sure there’s stuff I’m missing, and I fully expect the kind of people who will read this thing through to tell me what significant bits I missed. Please do. I hope that, other than proving that this much can be written on the subject of video games and etymology, I’ve demonstrated that video games are just as wired into every other facet of culture as any other medium. They may not be held in as high regard as literature or film or music, but they draw on the same sources, even though you might not expect them to do so.
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Princess Zelda, zelda.wiki.com
Zeruda, animelab.com
In the Game: Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, amazon.com
Tetra, zelda.wikia.com
Ganon, en.wikipedia.org
For all those people who enjoy useless information, gamespot.com
Japanese sound effects and what they mean, oop-ack.com
Origin of names, thehylia.com
Twinrova, zeldawiki.org
Error, zelda.wikia.com
Error, zeldawiki.org
I am Error, urbandictionary.net
Zelda II joke in Super Paper Mario, gonintendo.com
Chris Kohler’s Power-Up, page 46
Mario Bros. video game by Nintendo (1983), arcade-museum.com
Video game characters that look like sex offenders, destructoid.com
Mario in Japan, themushroomkingdom.net
Bowser, mariowiki.com
In Which I Scream in Disbelief, waluigious.blogspot.com
Mario in Japan | Super Mario World, themushroomkingdom.net
Triviabot: Koopaling Etymology, slothbot.blogspot.com
Super Mario Bros. 3, themushroomkingdom.net
Online translation dictionary, freedict.com
Birdo, mariowiki.com
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Donkey Wrong, snopes.com
My Donkey Kong naming theory, plink.com
Encarta dictionary entry for diddy, encarta.msn.com
The Identity Crisis of Donkey Kong Junior, desctructoid.com
The Most Obscure Mario Characters, spacepope4u.blogspot.com
Robotnik, wikipedia.org
Which is it, Sega: Robotnik or Eggman?, thebbps.com
Video game facts that blow your mind, neogaf.com
SegaSonic the Hedgehog, en.wikipedia.org
Dynamite Dux, en.wikipedia.org
Denshi Jisho online Japanese-English dictionary, jisho.org
Shoryuken, streetfighter.wikia.com
Evil Hokuto, strategywiki.com
Ken Masters, capcomdatabase.wikia.com
Rip-offs, page 2, fightingstreet.com
The evolution of Chun-Li and Blanka, gamesradar.com
Zangief, strategywiki.com
Interview with Soda Popinksi, i-mockery.com
Master of the Flying Guillotine, 50footdvd.com
Blanka, streetfighter.wikia.com
Djamesgoddard.com
Street Fighter plot canon guide, fightingstreet.com
The Five Characters You Won’t See in Street Fighter IV, nerve.com
Street Fighter retrospective, eurogamer.net
This is not Street Fighter IV... part 3, 1up.com
Sodom, capcomdatabase.wikia.com
Sodom, strategywiki.org
DAMN IT! Final Fight’s Poision Is a Tranny, destructoid.com
Monsters of Final Fantasy, wikipedia.org
Malboro, finalfantasy.wikia.com
Notes on Japanese onomatopoeia, web.mit.edu
Final Fantasy name origins: Characters, ffcompendium.com
What were all of the names that were changes via localization of the FF series?, gamespot.com
Doomtrain, finalfantasy.wikia.com
Are Laguna and Raine Squall's parents?, squareinsider.com
Ragnarok, finalfantasy.wikia.com
You Spoony Bard!, finalfantasyforums.net
You spoony bard, ytmnd.com
you spoony bard!, everything2.com
Sarissa, en.wikipedia.org
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Barbariccia, worldofdante.org
Calcabrina, worldofdante.org
Final Fantasy name origins, flightline.highline.edu
Dante’s Inferno, translated by Robert M. Durling, Ronald L. Martinez, Robert Turner
Scarmiglione, worldofdante.org
Rubicante, finalfantasy.wikia.com
Rubicante, worldofdante.org
Circle 8, subcircles 1-6, cantos 18-23, danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu
Devils, by James Charles Wall
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Seamus, en.wikipedia.org
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Welcome!, mdb.classicgaming.gamespy.com
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Pudding, mariowiki.com
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Rainbow Mika, fightersgeneration.com
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Geese Howard, snk.wikia.com
Hardcore Gaming 101: Saturday Night Slam Masters / Muscle Bomber, hg101.classicgaming.com
By kidicarus222 at 4:56 AM
Read more: inferno, secret to everybody series, some strange intersection of video games and all things verbal, translation, video games
Professor Hazard 10:54 AM
A couple of things - in Japan, Toad is called "Kinopio", which seems to both be some kind of joke about mushrooms, from what I've inferred, and a re-arrangement of "Pinocchio".
We did some research at my website a while back regarding the Captain N series. You may find it interesting to note that Palutena and Princess Lana both share the same staff and asymmetrical loincloth. We also assumed that "Palutena" was a portmanteau of "Pallas Athena", run through the Japanese language.
All in all, great article. I've got enough tabs open from your links to keep me busy for the rest of the afternoon.
kidicarus222 11:14 AM
Hey. And thanks.
It did occur to me that Kinopio and Pinocchio sounded awfully similar, which seems like it might be significant in light of the fact that Geno in Super Mario RPG basically is Pinocchio, but I couldn't think of a meaningful way to tie the two ideas together. And I also have yet to find a exact English translation for Kinopio.
And I remember reading somewhere about the similarity between Palutena and Princess Lana but didn't remember it until you just now mentioned it. I suppose the name could be a corruption of Pallas Athena almost as easily as Parthenos. Either one seems to be magically missing an "S."
Who is "we"? Which website have you posted this stuff at?
Wow, Drew. This is extensive, to say the least. Where did you find the time to do this? I'll have to tell you what I think when I find the time to read it.
goofy 10:15 AM
Actually I wrote "the thousand-*petaled* lotus, located over the fontanel." This is an incredibly cool post.
Anonymous: Yeah, I can't imagine most people would have the time to take it all in in one sitting.
Goofy. Doh. Have fixed it. And thanks.
Kif 2:57 PM
I saw this on Dtoid. They weren't kidding when they said it was huge. I got as far as the Zelda stuff and realized I have to check back later. But I'm wondering if you're know about this post I read somewhere about the meaning of the names of the Zelda goddesses Din, Farore, and Nayru. I probably read it on a gameblog a few years ago, but can't remember where. Do you know what the names mean?
10.4 MB of a text file, sheesh!
do you have friends?
kidicarus222 4:09 PM
As far as an explanation for how this got to be so long, I'll just restate what I said in the intro: This was originally supposed to be something short, mostly centered around the Dante stuff, but I never got around to finishing it, so it would just sit, unposted, and I'd add more here and there, when I had a spare few minutes. So it actually wasn't so much this great undertaking as it was something that just kind of fell together in the state is is now, however long that might be. I can't actually remember when this began. It was well before Christmas.
I guess I probably could have broken it up, but what's done is done. And it IS done. I'm kind of happy to not have it hanging over my head any more. But I'm also happy that this kind of stuff is lumped into one place, in case people looking into this stuff are curious to know what's been put together.
Kif: No clue.
Test: I'm dumb when it comes to file size, but I'll guess that means it's big.
Anonymous: Yes.
Killer 7 is mainly about a very troubled relationship between Japan and the United States. It's unclear if Trevor Pearlharbor created the Handsome Men, or if he just knew it was going to happen (through clairvoyance) and wrote a comic book about it, but the Handsome Men are a US-affiliated team to combat the Japan-affiliated terrorist group, Heaven Smile.
It's all very weird and pretty hard to understand (being an art game, and all) but yeah, but I don't think the name "Pearlharbor" is particularly offensive given the context.
Benco 4:40 PM
Regarding the paragraph about Killer 7's Travis Pearlharbor: Killer 7 is an analogy for relations between Japan and the US during World War II. Travis' name is only offensive in it's brusque symbolism. Something worth looking into.
i have one for your list of stupid video game names... he's a non-important character from the first lufia game. when you meet him he says "i am flake, elder of arus". they used a screen of this in the advertisements for the game in video game magazines even. why is his name flake? that's not a good name for a person. i think i played the game in fourth grade and i could tell then that his name was stupid...
maverick_hunter 5:21 PM
sorry, double post
Roto 13 and Benco: I bow to your superior knowledge. Had I actually played the game, I might have a completely different impression of the name. Probably shouldn't have spouted off on something I didn't know enough about.
Anonymous: I think I remember Flake. And now I'm racking my brain trying to think of what it could be a bad translation of. Frak? Frake? Flaco?
Maverick: That's not a bad guess. I've never heard of that particular character. Shall look into.
Kif: And speaking of Zelda, since you bring it up, I do feel like there's something tempting in those characters' names. As with a lot of Zelda characters, I'm hesitant to say that they were simply made up for the game and have no prior significance. There's quite a few others specifically from this series that I looked at but couldn't find anything interesting to say. They remain mysteries.
parsleyboots 5:55 PM
Enjoying this!
Have only made it as far as the Street Fighter section, but a couple of points:
Although Ryu can mean dragon when written 龍 as in 昇龍拳 [shoryuken], the character used to write his name is 隆 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu_(Street_Fighter)], which means "noble", among other things.
Did you know that Fei-Long (飛龍) and [Strider] Hiryu (飛竜) both mean "flying dragon"?
MINT! 6:50 PM
I had only played the first Final Fantasy before I played FF3/FF6, so when I discovered Celes my first reaction was TCELES B HSUP, which is what the talking broom said in Matoya’s Cave. Prob just me tho. :)
awa64 8:25 PM
In the "Ken" section, you incorrectly identify Hasbro as the producers of the Barbie toyline. the Barbie toyline is produced by Mattel.
However, Hasbro *did* produce the Street Fighter toyline, as a subset of the GI Joe toyline for whatever reason. And, considering Mattel had a trademark for the name "Ken" as applied to a toy, Hasbro *did* need to come up with a last name to be able to put the toy on shelves without infringing on Mattel's trademark.
"Zero Suit Samus" comes from the blue catsuit being the suit Samus wears in the new-content portion of the otherwise straightforward-remake of Metroid 1, titled "Metroid: Zero Mission."
There's an alternate theory as to the source of Kirby's name--John Kirby, the lawyer who represented Nintendo when they were sued by MGA/Universal for violating their copyright on King Kong.
Masahiro Sakurai, the character's creator, is on the record as saying he "doesn't remember" where the character got his name.
Have you seen that the American version of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years switched the name of the character Hal to Harley?
Bud and Corona - Sounds to me like the bud is a reference to the Budweiser brand of beer rather than marijuana
Wow, this is really sweet. It's nice to learn something about the background of the characters you have playered with for hours. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work :)
I feel like you've left some out from the Super Mario games. Most of the names are puns, some are just more obvious than others. For example, you left off E. Gadd, which I didn't realize was a joke until I learned that word in class.
links isn't a german word, it's a dutch word. and in dutch it means left
mountainchops 4:24 PM
In your discussion of Wario and Waluigi and the end of the "wa" characters, you left out Washi, the evil Yoshi from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. He was called Boshi in the U.S. and Washi in Japan. I read somewhere that you could read Washi as being a reasonable translation of Waruishi, which would be closer to Wario's name.
Also what about Geshtar in Secret of Mana and Geshtahl in Final Fantasy 3? They have to be the same right?
also, in yoshi's island and i think a few other games, you can hear the shy guys saying hey-ho, hey-ho as they walk. they are actually just saying their name. in japan, they are called hei-ho.
http://www.mariowiki.com/Shy_Guy
"links isn't a german word, it's a dutch word. and in dutch it means left"
It's definitely a German word, too.
Actually, while Dr. Robotnik is his name, "Eggman" the moniker which he currently goes by is the name he had from the start when he was introduced in Japan. The reason why his name was changed to Dr. Ivo Robotnik when introduced to the English-speaking world was because SEGA feared a lawsuit, more than likely due to the estate of John Lennon concerning the Eggman title. Actually, one of the new names chosen for the portly scientist was the nonsensical "Dr. Badvibes."
One idea where the name 'Robotnik' came from was a Russian book by the same name which spoke of a future where automatrons served humanity, of course there needs to be proof about this idea.
Going with Ivo Robotnik in itself could be a joke on John Lennon. Robotnik translated from its Czech roots is also described as "slave worker". Ivo the first name in itself is shortened from 'Ivor' which is a variation on the name Ivan that has roots in the Russian/Scandinavian language. Ivan to boot is the Russian/Scandinavian version of 'John'.
But if you remember, John was 'The Eggman'. Translated from the Slavic meaning, Ivo Robotnik could be translated as "John the Slave Worker" or as a song we all know, "John the Working Class Hero." This might of been a joke that Sonic team pulled over our eyes for years. Also to boot, Robotnik's media version from the early Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon (shortened to SatAM) had the first name of Julian, which was also the first name of John Lennon's first son. In the cartoon, Robotnik's name was Julian, but his middle name was Ivo. Whether or not that someone was privvy to the whole etymological joke has yet to be seen, but the connections are eerie. a naming more befitting of a Mario character than a Sonic one (Robotnik yellow cape retcon!)
Also a bonus, 'Ivo' means "archer" while the first name of his grandfather,Professor Gerald, is Old German for "spearruler" or "spearhard". Yes, both men are named after projectile weapons.
Miluda 11:49 PM
Karin was slightly based off Cammy. She was a fan character in the fan comic called "Sakura Ganbaru" and is a creation of the artist, Masahiko Nakahira. Nakahira, being a Cammy fan, ended up designing Karin to have similar features. Karin Kanzuki eventually became a part of canon.
maverick_hunter 9:53 AM
Kaepora Gaepora might have some connection with the brazilian mythology character Caipora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caipora). It seens likely as it's said that Shigeru Miyamoto is a hugh fan of the brazilian music style "bossa nova", even naming one of the songs in zelda majora's mask as "new wave bossa nova"
(This is actually Drew, reposting maverick's post. I just realized when I trashed the double post, I accidentally scotched the actual comment. Apologies.)
Parsley: Thanks for the clarification. Also, did not know that about Strider and Fei Long, though Strider's last name would make sense in light of the Hiryuus (wind drakes) in Final Fantasy 5.
Mint: That one hadn't occurred to me. Also, are you by any chance affiliated with Parsley?
Awa64: Thanks for the Ken correction. I will go through and fix errors like these this weekend. Also for the Zero Suit and Kirby tips.
Anonymous 1: Hadn't heard yet that Hal had become Harley. I guess the switch makes sense, but I'm less than happy about it.
Anonymous 2: Duh. Bud = Budweiser. Don't know why that didn't occur to me before, aside from the fact that I don't drink Budweiser. I shall make a note of it.
Kevin: You're right. That was partly intentional, as I didn't want to cover every single Mario character. But I realize now that I left out a few noteworthy ones --- E. Gadd especially. The pun in his English name is pretty obvious --- and also pretty appropriate, when you consider that we was introduced in Nintendo's take on a horror game --- but it's twice as interesting in Japan, where he's Prof. Oyama. In Japanese, Oya Mā is an interjection something along the lines of "oh my," but Oyama also happens to be the last name of Nintendo designer Yoshiyuki Oyama. The character is named in his honor.
Anonymous 3: No, you're wrong. It definitely is a German word.
Will attend to other comments later today. Thanks for commenting, everyone.
"Noembelu" comes from "novembro" in Portuguese. I guess it got spelled this way due to lack of "v" and "r" in the Japanese language .
IIRC, Horsehair actually shows up as an item in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, wherein it can be found on the latter end of the trail leading to the Koopa village (which name escapes me)
it's called Horestail, but I think the connection it obvious http://www.mariowiki.com/horsetail
Also the name 'Ness' is a legitamite name, as it shows up in the film, The Untouchables.
spence 12:34 PM
"Links" is the Dutch adverb. In German, "Linke" is the noun, "link" is the adjective, and "links" is the adverb.
Infinity's End 7:58 PM
It was both surprising and very satisfying seeing my own article referenced in yours. Glad someone got something out of it.
Though I did already know about a good portion of what you point out in this article, there were some in there that I certainly didn't know. Educational and entertaining!
--Infinity's End c/o Metroid Database
For the record, Oyama didn't happen to get the E. Gadd character named after him. He actually desined the character, so it seems probable that he would have actually named the character himself.
http://zeldapower.com/images/features/insidezelda/201/Page01.jpg
Per the naming of Lucas and Claus in Mother 3, Itoi himself stated that the characters were a loose adaption of Lucas and Claus from Agota Kristof's novel 'Le Grand Cashier' (http://starmen.net/eb64/interviews/5.php).
'Le Grand Cashier' is part one of a trilogy that is available in the US as 'The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie'.
(http://www.amazon.com/Notebook-Proof-Third-Lie-Novels/dp/0802135064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245404594&sr=8-1)
Andy 3:18 AM
I have a theory on Valvalis and Barbariccia.
I don't know how many characters were allowed in the English language version, but Valvalis is probably cut down from Barbariccia and might not have any other meaning besides that. In Japanese, the 'v' sound does not exist. Foreign words are transliterated using a 'b' sound (which makes you feel like you have a speech impediment when you talk in Japanese if you are not a native speaker). It's possible that the 'ba' sound was mistakenly thought to be a 'va' in Italian, so they made a mistaken when backtranslating it into English. Just a thought off the top of my head. :)
Something to keep in mind with the Japanese games--many times the localiszation teams makes choice about names.
Case in point, in Zelda Wind Waker, Beedle was named after PR guy Mike Beadle, who worked with Nintendo at the time. I have no idea what the original name of the character was in Japan. But now Beedle is a part of the Nintendo cannon.
Elena 9:55 AM
According to Zelda Wiki (http://www.zeldawiki.org/Ooccoo), Ooccoo from Zelda Twilight Princess gets her name from the 6 character code for the shade of green that appeared on Link’s default outfit in the NES Legend of Zelda, #00CC00. But in Japan, she is Oba-Chan, which means something like little aunt. It’s also said that she may have been modeled after similarly weird, bird-looking creatures from an Escher work, Another World.(http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/escher/another_world.jpg).
Elena 10:56 AM
Also, you left out Tamagon, the main character from Devil World. He's often thought to be a forerunner to Yoshi, as they are both lizards and they make the same noise when they hatch from their shells. Tamagon gets his name from the Japanese word for egg, tamago. Tamago also appears in Tamagotchi and Tamagotchi cases were shaped like eggs.
And you said you didn't know Pokemon so I thought you also might not know that it's not only the Pokemon themselves whose names are puns. A lot of the human characters have names that are puns or some other form of wordplay relating to the type of Pokemon they control. Like Misty, who controls water types. And Brock (rock) controls rock types. This goes on and on for almost all of the human characters.
Okay, last one. Sorry for the multiple posts, but I keep thinking of things as soon as I put something up!
Like how you mentioned that the Zelda fairies Navi and Tatl get their names from what they do in the game, there's Tippi, the butterfly who gives "tips" in Super Paper Mario. But her name is also very similar to her human form Timpani, which works in the theory of girls named after things.
Also in Super Paper Mario, there's Mimi. I remember reading somewhere that her name can be viewed as a shortening of the word mimic, which is what she does when she makes herself look like other characters and poses as them. But it also could be "me me," as in me and me or two selves, since she appears as other people. She also has two forms, the girl form and the creepy monster spider form.
You left out on obvious pun from Warioware. Kat and Ana, the little girl ninjas, are katana, like the sword. They even say that when they attack in Smash Bros.
Finally, you mentioned in the comments that you didn't know where the names of the Zelda goddesses came from. I don't either, but Twilight Princess uses their names for locations in a way that's kind of hard to notice. Locations include the Lanayru province (Nayru), the Eldin province (Din), and the Faron province (Farore).
And I have a question for you. Can you explain why Princess Peach is named Christine in Zelda: Link's Awakening? There's a character named Christine, but she's a goat. She gives you a photo to Link give to Mr. Write (who looks just like Mr. Wright from SimCity). But when the player sees the photo, it's Peach, with the name Christine signed at the bottom. Do you know why?
kidicarus222 12:18 PM
Okay all. More responses. Once again, thanks for your input, everybody.
Mountainchops: Good point. I’d forgotten about the Boshi/Washi/Waruishi thing. This character actually predates Waluigi and would therefore be the first “wa” character spun off from Wario. It’s really too bad that none of the Super Mario RPG characters got much play beyond that single game, as a lot of them had some cool designs. As for Geshtar and Gestahl, it seems almost certain to me that the two names are different translations of the same original Japanese word. There’s a lot more written online about the latter than the former, however, and I’m not sure what Geshtar’s name might have been in the original Japanese version of Secret of Mana. The Final Fantasy name origins list suggests that, in its original form, the name is Ghastra, perhaps akin to the word “ghastly” or various German verbs meaning “to steal.” Personally, I feel tempted to relate the name to the Greek word meaning “stomach” that appears in gastric, gastronomy, and other such words, but I can’t think of any reason why this root relates to the character.
Anonymous 1: Ah yes. And it would make sense that Shy Guys would be saying their name and only their name, as that seems to be a trend with Japanese-created, less-than-intelligent creatures, like Pokemon and Yoshi.
Roto13: Thanks for backing me up.
Anonymous 2: WHOA. Good one. It never occurred to me that Eggman could be viewed as a Beatles reference, and the John/Ivo/Julian and slave/working class hero stuff is pretty surprising. I’m not sure the similarity would necessarily be enough to warrant a lawsuit from Lennon’s estate, but I suppose people have been sued for lesser things. Curious about Dr. Badvibes, I Googled it and found a pretty interesting page on various things relating to development for the early Sonic games, including early concept art and quite a few characters who never made it into video games. A good read.
http://info.sonicretro.org/Game_Development:Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(16-bit)
Miluda: Interesting how that works. I enjoy it when something initially perceived to be minor or non-canonical in nature ends up getting rolled into the bigger picture, like with Charlie/Nash or Ken’s last name.
Anonymous 3: Noemblu could be corrupted Portuguese, but it could also just be the Spanish Noviembre, similar corrupted. Given that the plot guide specifies her as being Latin American, I suppose it could be either, as both Spanish and Portuguese are spoken in the region generally considered to be Latin America.
Anonymous 4: Interesting. Could very well be a connection, even though the Paper Mario games tend to be better at staying true to bits of old nostalgia. There is actually a plant called horsetail — or, scientifically, Equisetum, literally meaning “horse bristle” — so perhaps it was a retcon of field horsehair plants. And I’ve only heard of Ness as a last name, most prominently attached to the very Eliot Ness you refer too. I imagine there’s probably a real-life person out there with Ness as a first name, but I’ve never met him. Or her. Hopefully him.
Spence: Thanks for the clarification.
Infinity’s End: Glad you’re glad. Thanks for the work.
Anonymous 5: Ah, well there you go. I didn’t realize Oyama worked for Nintendo on non-Zelda projects. Nice that he got the opportunity to insert himself into a game.
Because Blogger limits how much you can comment at once — and also because I got a few more comments since I started crafting the initial response — here’s the rest:
Anonymous 6: Thanks for the info. I’d never heard that before, and I’m not surprised in the least that Itoi would crib from such works of literature.
Andy: Actually, that’s exactly what happened. I didn’t say so specifically in what I wrote on Barbariccia, but I’m positive that Valvalis was either just a different translation interpretation or the most accurate one that could fit in the number of letters spaces available in the English version. I still do thin that the Valis games may have played a role in it or could have at least been hovering in the mind of whoever did the translating, bikini armor and all.
Anonymous 7: I hadn’t even thought of Beedle for this post and didn’t know of the real-life Beadle. I looked up the character and couldn’t find if he had a different name in Japanese, but Zeldapedia points out that he has early-era Beatles hair. Also, he likes bugs, especially beetles. No idea which of these actually contributed to his name. Maybe all of them did.
Elena: Another WHOA. Thanks for all these tidbits and theories. As for Christine, I feel like the photo being of Peach is just a silly cameo that isn’t mean to be taken seriously. That is, we’re not supposed to think that Peach’s name is actually Christine or that she’s disguising herself as a goat or whatever.
Since you bring it up, however, I do actually have a different bit of trivia to offer regarding the name. In Japan, the Goombas from the Mario games are called Kuribo, which I’m told translates as something like “chestnut people.” (This I don’t understand. Regardless of what they’re called, the Goombas seem to pretty clearly be mushrooms and not chestnuts. If anyone can explain what chestnuts have to do with mushrooms, I’m all ears.) Keeping that word Kuribo in mind, consider that the helpful, playable female Goomba character in the second Super Mario RPG — whose name in the American version is Gombella — is known in Japan as Kurisuchiinu, which is a fairly good portmanteau of Kuribo and the name Christine. I just thought it was neat that a non-Japanese given name and the technical Japanese name blended so perfect. Better than Goombella, at least.
castaspella 6:34 PM
here's one you may not know. amy rose, sonic's girlfriend, was initially named rosy the rascal and was planned to be sonic's sister. (ew.) sega had initially planned to make her the main character in a game called Sister Sonic, which was going to be a remake of the sega cd game Popful Mail kind of like how Super Mario Bros. 2 was of Doki Doki Panic. it didn't happen, and the character was instead in Sonic CD, but the English version called her sally acorn, after the character from the comics and cartoon show. only after that did she get the name she has now.
While an interesting read, you really should've gotten someone who knows Japanese to proof read the japanese parts. For example, you write that the japanese way of spelling delta is "zeruda". In reality you spell it like deruta. Also, you wrote Metroid is pronounced "may-to-roi-du", when it's actually "Me-to-ro-i-do"(you did get the explaination for "ko" right!).
Sorry if I sound like an a**hole, that is not my intent. I think it's a really interesting article.
Fire Emblem has some pretty cool name shenanigans as well. Albeit, none are partticularly hard to figure out, a few are interesting.
For example, in Fire Emblem 7 the name of the leading country of the time was Ostia. It was known for its wealth and military strength. It just so happens that the port city of Rome (known for wealth and military might) was named Ostia.
Durendal, the sword used by Eliwood (who in himself probably has some kind of historical reference) was a sword of ancient Christian lore pertaining to a sword containing the hair and blood of Saint Peter iirc.
Then there's your obvious ones like the units Kain and Abel, and the ice spell known as fimbulvetr relating to ancient Norse mythology.
Have you ever been to Japan?
I recomend you go around Kamakura... there is a Zen Buddhist temple where its Crest is the TRIFORCE... Dig on that and get a life...
yagisencho 11:45 PM
Regarding Kaepora Gaebora, the phonetic explanation is that 'Gaebora' is the voiced version of 'Kaepora'.
ka/ga
pa/ba
I've never studied Japanese, so I can't help you with the actual translations, but maybe I can be helpful regarding facts/theories about the games themselves.
Secret of Mana was not the first game in the Mana series. Secret of Mana is actually known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu 2, whereas the Game Boy game entitled Final Fantasy Adventure in America is the original Seiken Densetsu (although it was marketed as a FF spinoff in Japan as well, at least initially).
I hadn't heard FFVI Sabin's Japanese name prior to this post, but my mind at least associates it with blunt or unintelligent methods of solving problems (e.g. mash buttons, appropriately for the video game context). Sabin's behavior throughout the game would seem to support this theory.
Art of Fighting King's name might be a reference to a drag king, the less-celebrated female counterpart to drag queen? It makes more sense in a Japanese context considering such groups as Takarazuka Revue, which is composed almost entirely of drag kings; SNK, being a Japanese country, might have assumed this connection where it's a lot less apparent in a Western context. I'm a lot less sure about that one, but her appearance would seem to support that, at least in my mind.
That's all I've got. Hope it helps.
Robotnik was changed to Eggman because they added voice acting. They didn't want to have to reanimate the lips for Sonic Adventure so they changed his name to make it easier to fit english words into japnaese lip-synced animation. Sorry, I can't find the citaion right now...
about the adventure island and the "capulina" reference, it is know in Mexico that way, not because it was renamed for Mexico but because the fact that it arrived like 2 years before the us version, the title was in japanese and it does resemble the comedian Capulina, so it was more like a vox populi thing, but never officially renamed.
Don't know if it's been pointed out, but "Margarita", Wario's damsel in distress' japanese name is Spanish for "Daisy". There's a word game that flew over most people's heads...
Koopa = Nokonoko
Nokonoko = Nok Nok Shell from Super Mario RPG?
Toninho 3rd 8:45 AM
I don't know if anyone mentioned this about the street fighter series, but the "third brother" is already in.
Like Abel and Seth, Cammy was also a clone of Bison (dictator). now, not only the name "Cammy" sounds a lot like "Cain", but during her time working for shadaloo, Cammy used the name "Killer Bee". the name "Cammy" was supposedely given to her when she joined Delta red.
Generic 9:33 AM
Actually Robotnik wasn't changed to Eggman.
The two names were merged.
Eggman his evil scientist alias, and (Ivo) Robotnik his real name.
This is suported by one of the games (Sonic Adventure 2) where we learn that Robotnik is a family name (Ex: Maria Robotnik, Eggman's cousin & Gerald Robotnik Eggman's Grandpa).
a Dyluck look-alike named Durac.
It literally hit me as I was reading this...I'll bet money that Dyluck, and Durac, are both taken from Lancelot...du Lac.
(Given Secret of Mana's history as originally made for a CD size and then requiring cutting down to cartridge--something I didn't know until earlier this year, myself--I bet a lot of the naming elements got lost in the excission.)
I'm pretty sure that in the book, "How to Win at Video Games" that came out in 1981 (http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-at-Video-Games/dp/0671458418), the author states something along the lines of "The game calls him 'Jumpman', but my friends and I call him 'Mario', because he looks Italian."
Because this book was very popular, the story has it that Nintendo then quickly changed the "villain" in Donkey Kong Jr. to have the name Mario, because that's what everyone (who had read the book) started calling him.
Seth, the final boss of Street Fighter IV, is named after Seth Killian, who is not only a long-time member of the EVO fighting scene, but now works at Capcom, and helped with Street Fighter IV.
Just a note on Adventure Island: Master Higgins wasn't renamed by Hudson or anyone in Mexico. People just called the game "Capulinita" because the sprite resembles not "Capulina", the actor, but "Capulinita", Capulina's comic book persona.
Capulinita comic book:
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4898/arkivcapulinita.jpg
WordsHere 10:57 AM
I doubt no one's pointed it out, but especialy with the "kuppa" spelling it seems awfully silly to completely dismiss the idea that it's a take off kappa, a turtle like humanoid demon from Japanese mythology.
Or, I could scroll down slightly farther and see the comparison made. :[
Adam Eisenstein 11:15 AM
I believe you got Pikachu's origins wrong. "Pika" is a Japanese onomatopoeia for a small jolt of electricity, like a spark. "Chu" is the sound a mouse makes. Seeing as Pikachu is an electric mouse, this makes sense.
Another tidbit is the game Chu-Chu Rocket. The mice, known as Chu-Chus, are named as such for the same reason.
Thomas Foxx 11:24 AM
Congratulations, you've been linked to from Kotaku. This is your lucky day. :P
Sarreq Teryx 11:49 AM
I need to dispute one thing you said about FFV's Cagnazzo:
"Even further evidence, now that I think about it: Wall’s book lists the demon’s name as Caynazzo, -> which is how it would be pronounced <-, rather than Cagnazzo, which is how it would be correctly spelled in Italian."
that's not correct at all. The letter combination of "GN" is pronounced ny-, so Cagnazzo would be phoenetically spelled as Kanyatzo (think lasagna, double z being pronounced with a leading t, as in pizza), not Caynazzo, which was probably Mr Wall, being a denizon of the early 20th century, using a lack of cultural understanding while researching for his book.
Wedge and Biggs is a reference to Star Wars, and are use most of the time as comic relief in Final Fantasy.
Here in the US, we have a company that makes heaters called Reznor, which might have led to a fire-breathing set of monsters called Reznor in Super Mario World...
Kevin T
When I saw "Geese Howard", the first thing that came to mind was Howard Huges and the Spruce Goose. Not that this makes anything like sense.
Was hoping to see a mention of FF9's "Armstrong" house-with-legs,-fish-and-canon somewhere...
Fun read, thanks!
Sarreq Teryx 12:13 PM
"....One of these is a sexy witch named Tessa in the U.S. and Tabasa in Japan. I’d always assumed Tabasa was a slightly mangled take on the more common name Tabitha, maybe as a result of having watched Bewitched as a kid, but I recently found another witch character with a similar name. Mario’s second Game Boy outing, Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins features an otherwise forgettable boss character named Sabasa. She’s such a non-entity, in fact, that her name doesn’t even appear in English version the game, which makes me think Sabasa might only be her Japanese name. Regardless, Sabasa seems pretty damn close to Tabasa."
the similarity between Tabasa ans Sabasa does not disprove your Tabitha theory, as the names Sabitha (Indian meaning "Ornamented") and Sabbatha (Latin meaning "born on Sunday/the Sabbath") do exist
Raving Griff 12:37 PM
Concerning Error...
I think there is still a chance that his name is the result of a glitch, even if another NPC refers to him as "Error." If the names used in dialog are drawn from a database of names (say Error's quote would be "I am $1-3" and $1-3 points to a spot in the database that doesn't actually exist), it's reasonable to think that both Error and the other NPC would try to draw a name from the same spot in the database, thus both resulting in an error.
I have another, more simple relation between Tetra and Zelda/Delta.
The ancient greeks didn't have digit symbols, and used their alphablet to represent numbers. The letter delta had a value of 4 according to this system.
You forgot Gazebo Boobowski.
I didn't read your whole post but your Guile/E. Honda/Blanka section appears to be missing some obvious things.
From a martial perspective, the word guile can be a compliment (crafty while facing an opponent), or an insult (duplicitous dealings)... And the character is wearing U.S. military fatigues. Hmm.. I wonder what they were going for there.
E. Honda is the least clear of the three - but if someone asked me to find a meaning within the name I would tell you that Edmond translates to Edomando in Japanese. Two hyphens and some heavy squinting later and we have Edo-Man-Do - a cheap play on words describing a sumo wrestler - literally 'The Way of the Man from Tokyo.'
The Blanka thing is pretty clearly a backhanded compliment to grapplers, but a slap to white women. This joke has its roots in a racist past, but is pretty irrelevant these days. Basically, the way of Brazilian grappling used to be compared to the way in which white women who married into middle-class Japanese cultures controlled their husbands. A rough translation of the concept to English would be 'the fighter that nags you like a white woman until you can't take it anymore.'
I submit to you that perhaps some of these names were created simply because they sounded appealing to someone. Why must every name have some mysterious, hidden symbolism or meaning?
As an addition to the Castlevania section, it should be noted that Richter Belmont's first name in German translates as Judge.
Raz 1:25 PM
Of all the Zelda characters that have names that I thought meant something, its the Lonlon Ranch people. I mean, I know that Malon and Talon in Ocarina were based off Marin and Tarin in Link's Awakening, and that both Tarin and Talon look like Mario, but it seems like there could be a reason for the other characters' names. Like Ingo. Why Ingo? Does it relate to Luigi, who Ingo looks like? (Also, did you notice that the guy who keeps the chickens in Link's Awakening looks just like Luigi and therefore like Ingo too?) And they were the Bowser medallions, too. It just seems like Nintendo put a lot of thought into these what these characters looked like and they might have thought as much about their names too.
Also, I didn't realize until way after I played Ocarina that the Lonlon Ranch got its name from MaLON and TaLON. Ha :)
Oh, and I didn't even mention the Majora's Mask versions of everyone from the ranch. Way weird names. Gorman is Ingo and Malon gets turned into two different characters named Romani and Creamia. Weird names, right? The only one who makes sense is Talon, who becomes Mr. Barten. And that seems like it's pretty obviously supposed to be bartender. These names have to have a reason for why they exist, right?
Noteworthy about the characters 'Juni' and 'Juli' is that they also are Swedish for June and July.
Just a little fun fact :)
More responses. Will get to others later.
Castaspella: Didn’t know that, though now that you mention it, the name Rosie the Rascal sounds familiar. Thanks.
Anonymous 1: You’re right. And I don’t think you’re an asshole for correcting me. I don’t understand Japanese-to-English transliteration very well. At times, it seems almost random what can be dropped and what has to be included, but I’ve at least seen a few patterns among certain letters shifting around in specific groups. Since a lot of what I put in here was from online and therefore not necessarily right, I’ll just have to rely on including corrections that people send in.
Anonymous 2: Thanks for the Fire Emblem stuff. I don’t know the games at all, so it’s all news to me.
Yagisencho: Thanks. So that means Kaepora Gaebora’s name is quite nearly the same word repeated twice. Interesting.
Anonymous 3: I actually new that Secret of Mana was preceded by Final Fantasy Adventure, but for the purposes of trying to move things along — which, I know, must sound hilarious considering how long I wrote this — I just tried to gloss over that. Secret of Mana was, for the record, the first game to bear the Mana title. Good call on the Sabin/Mash/mashing the buttons thing. I guess it’s been a while since I played. And yeah, drag kings probably should have been brought up in the King section.
Anonymous 4: So Robotnik was changes for voice acting? In the games you mean? Which Sonic game introduced voice acting?
Anonymous 5: So you’re saying the Mexican release of Adventure Island still had the character being called Master Takahashi and that he was informally renamed Capulinita. Do I understand correctly?
Anonymous 6: Margarita/Valentina isn’t Wario’s girl. She’s a bad guy in Super Mario RPG who ends up marrying a guy who looks a lot like Wario. Odd nonetheless that her Japanese name would effectively mean the same as Daisy’s, even if Daisy the Mario character wasn’t a big deal around the time Super Mario RPG came out. I’d still guess that Margarita comes from the name for the alcoholic drink and not the flower, however.
Anonymous 7: Yeah, I’m certain the Nok Nok Shell gets its name from a Japanese-to-English transliteration of Noko Noko, either intentionally faulty or not. Could have been a space restraint issue too, for all I know.
Toninho 3rd: Not having played the game, I didn’t know Abel and Seth were clones. And the missing Cain is Cammy? Nice little theory, especially in light of the nickname Killer Bee.
Generic: I didn’t realize both names still get used now. Thanks.
Scifantasy: Real good call there. Hadn’t occurred to me, but I bet you’re right. Also, coincidentally or not, Secret of Mana has its own Lady of the Lake in the form of Luka, though I don’t remember her having any interactions with Dyluck to speak of.
Anonymous 8: Interesting. Now that you mention it, I’ve never heard exactly what inspired Nintendo to change the character from Jumpman to Mario, aside from the alleged resemblance to Mario Segale. This could very well be true.
Anonymous 9: Ah, you’re right about Seth and Seth Killian. Now I know.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/17/joystiq-interviews-capcoms-seth-killian-at-street-fighter-iv-la/
Anonymous 10: I think you just clarified what Anonymous 5 said.
WordsHere: To be honest, given how long this thing is, I’m surprised more people haven’t pointed something out that I only touched on later. No worries.
Adam: Actually, that’s how I had it in the post. And chu chu makes a hell of a lot more sense for the noise a mouse makes compared to squeak squeak.
Thomas Foss: Yeah, no kidding. Hits go kaboom. Thanks, Gawker family of blogs!
Sarisa (from FFV) also sounds similar to russian Tsaritsa which also means Queen (a female Tsar).
On the note about Blanka/White Women in Japan posted earlier... Blanka used to bite people on the face, right? That makes the connectin between the perspective to white woman marrying social climber Japanese male and the game character seem pretty well planned if it is the case... because that was the joke. And also same comparison to observing customs in relation of Sumo to grappling.
I was watching "Wages of Fear" and there are two characters who look a lot like Mario and Luigi. A fat strong guy and a tall thin guy. What's really funny though, is the fat guy is Luigi and the skinny guy is Mario. Coincidence?
I'm pretty sure that in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (the English version), Pokey is addressed as "Porky" (as well as with the Porky Statue). So while we don't have an official translation through M3, we have it translated as such in Brawl. :)
Stercus 5:05 PM
Chun-Li was not the first female in a fighting game, Edwina from Tongue of the Fat Man, AKA Mondo's Fight Palace was.
http://www.highervoltage.net/herv5/2006/09/25/review-tongue-of-the-fat-man-pc/
hi, from japan.
in japanese culture, japanese parents want to name their child a one-and-only/not-in-dictionary name.
on the other hand, western parents want to name their child a written-in-bible name.
some japanese creators use this method for naming their character.
is my english understandable?
The first Mega Man X has a boss maverick that's not apparently any animal, Boomer Kuwanger, whose name is the same in both language versions even though is doesn't make much sense in English. He's based on a stag beetle and his name comes from the Japanese word for this insect, kuwagata. Boomer Kuwanger's brother shows up in Mega Man X3, Gravity Beetle (in Japan Gavity Beetbood), which means the games feature two different stag beetle bosses, which I think is strange.
Also I didn't know robot scould have brothers!
Another! In addition to Boshi, there's also a Doshi, who's called Dorrie in the English (http://www.mariowiki.com/Dorrie). She's the dumb sea serpent who you can ride by stomping her on the head, from Marui 64 and New Super Mairo Bros.
Dunno if this was mentioned in any comment - got through that behemoth of an article and just couldn't read any more - but in Final Fantasy 6, I always assumed the Biggs and Wedge characters in the intro were reference to Luke Skywalker's wingmen in Red Squardron, Biggs Darkligher and Wedge Antilles, in A New Hope.
mkkmypet 1:17 AM
I don't know if anybody mentioned it already, but Dr. Ivo Robotnik's real name was actually Julian Kintobor.
In Super Mario Bros. 2, why the hell was the three headed snake named Triclyde? What the hell does that even mean? Why does he have the only name out of all the bosses that doesn't make sense? You've got a mouser named Mouser and a living ball of fire named Fry Guy and a crab named Clawgrip and a frog named Wart. Those all make sense. But the stupid snake is Triclyde. Why? Why should this be?
also, if there is any dispute about the names in the MOTHER series, just contact the people at starmen.net or even the Mother 3 translator, Tomato, at earthboundcentral.com . :]
as a MOTHER fan myself, though, i'd like to say some things:
Brawl officially clarified that Pokey's real name is Porky. even in the Japanese version of Mother 3, though, there are some graphics in New Pork City (a pun which still exists in the original game) that show the English lettering of the name: "PORKY". it makes more sense too, because his little brother is named Picky. this implies that one eats too much, and the other eats too little... this is reflected in their looks as well.
Claus and Lucas are named after a pair of twins from a book that Shigesato Itoi read. i believe it was a French book called "The Notebook"...?
Many Mother 3 characters have interesting names. there are the characters Lighter and Fuel, who are involved in a forest fire in chapter 1. Hinawa and Flint, Lucas's parents, are named after two types of guns. Duster and Wess had something to do with cleaning, dust, rags, etc... i think. Kumatora means "bear tiger", but that was never confirmed as the official meaning behind her name.
there are many more names, which i would like to know the origins of. Itoi always put plenty of obscure references in his games.
also, if you haven't played all the MOTHER games, you should. they're great! :3
Chance 1:56 AM
This was a lot of fun to read.
Regarding Animal Crossing's slaughteriffic names, Elmer the horse will always stick in my mind.
Anton 2:27 AM
The japanese manuel of Shadow of the Colossus reads WANDER AND THE COLOSSUS in big fat letters on its back cover. Go figure!
Jeff 3:18 AM
So, here's an interesting tidbit about Mario Segali: I'm almost sure he's in one of the Game Boy Camera minigames. Remember that shooter game? Remember the giant faces that served as bosses? One of them is a bald Italian-looking guy with a bushy moustache. I think it's Segali. I don't have any proof, but fish out a camera, play the game, and try to tell me that guy doesn't look like a human Mario.
Floyd 3:38 AM
"In Japan, the Goombas from the Mario games are called Kuribo, which I'm told translates as something like "chestnut people." (This I don't understand. Regardless of what they're called, the Goombas seem to pretty clearly be mushrooms and not chestnuts. If anyone can explain what chestnuts have to do with mushrooms, I'm all ears.)"
Goombas/Kuribo do have a striking resemblence to water chestnuts (Eleocharis Dulcis)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleocharis_dulcis
Josef 4:03 AM
A very enjoyable (if long) read, but I have a few things I want to comment on.
First, regarding Street Fighter - as parsleyboots rightly points out, Ryu's name does not mean "dragon", but rather "humble" or "noble", by all means a fitting name for the character. However, while I suppose "隆" is still officially his proper name, with the release of Street Fighter II and onwards, his name has always been written as "リュウ"; "Ryuu" in katakana.
Similarly, Ken's name actually WAS the inexplicable and nonsensical "拳", or "fist", as seen in promotional materials for the original SF title - but in any and all future installments it has been simply "ケン". Unlike Ryu though, I'm more inclined to believe that this is an actual retcon, especially considering the fact that he eventually also received an English-sounding last name.
As for Abel and Seth - Yoshinori Ono, producer of Street Fighter IV, has gone on record saying that the new final boss was at one point intended to be named after Cain, but it was deemed inappropriate as there was already a similarly named fighting game last boss; Kain R. Heinlein of Garou: Mark of the Wolves.
I would also like to point out that Rainbow Mika's coach is most likely not actually named Yoko Harmageddon, but that it's probably her ring name. As far as wrestler names go, it doesn't really sound far-fetched or ridiculous to me.
Some notes on Castlevania: You mention that the name Belmont was "accidentally rendered" as Belmondo or Beaumont, however the family is and always has been "Belmondo" in the Japanese versions of the games.
Similarly confusing transliterations appear in several games in the series, as mentioned, but I would like to add a few examples in the only Mega Drive entry in the series (Vampire Killer/Castlevania Bloodlines/Castlevania: The New Generation). Most notable is the spear-wielding protagonist known as Eric Lecarde; the character being Spanish and his name originally being written as リカード (rikaado) lead me to believe that a far more sensible name would be "Ricardo". His weapon was also clumsily transcribed as "Alcarde Spear", when it clearly should have been "Alucard Spear". Also worth noting is that the other protagonist, Johnny Morris (John in the English version) is the son of Quincy Morris, from Bram Stoker's novel.
Lastly, the protagonist in Shadow of the Colossus is not named "Wanda" in any version of the game. His name is written ワンダ (wanda) in katakana, but the game's instruction manual and disc clearly states (in English) that the name of the game is "Wander and the Colossus".
I think this reply itself is starting to get overly wordy, so I'll try to wrap up. Again, thanks for a very entertaining article.
Naturally, typing up that took like half a day, so I guess a few of my points have been addressed already... so don't get me wrong, I'm not intentionally trying to step on anyone's feet or anything, just too lazy to edit a post I've already spent too much time on. :P
Look up the word borborygmus!
Waaaa !
ALVARETE 6:28 AM
Wow, I bow to the master.
tatati 6:37 AM
kudos to you on this great iconographic work!
Blanka doesnt mean anything in Portuguese!
it could be barely similar to "branca", that means white in a feminine sense (most adjectives in portuguese have a gender)
btw , Im from Rio , so I know what Im talking about...
(and Blanka's stage doesnt have anything to do with Brazil, except for a few coutryside places)
let me also point to you that there is a lot of white people (at least half the population) in Brazil.
About Waluigi's name being an anagram of iriwaju. I have in front of me volme 135 of Nintendo Power magazine (with Mario Tennis, the first game to feature Waluigi, on the cover). On page 16, it says that Waluigi is indeed an anagram of iriwaju. Here's the direct quote:
"Finally, Luigi gets his very own archrival. Like Wario is to Mario, Waluigi is to Luigi. In his debut, the wiry, mustachioed villain emerges as a menace to tennis with his skilled technique on the court. Perhaps the only thing more unwieldly than his smash returns is his clumsy name, which, believe it or not, comes from a rearrangement of the world igiwalui- Japanese for someone who's bad."
I assume that the igiwalui is just some kind of translation mistake made in the wording of ijiwaru, but spelling aside this is solid, straight from the source proof in my book. I have no camera or scanner with which to show you the article itself, but I assure that it is quoted precisely.
Dustin 11:01 AM
Juat a thought here... maybe it's been covered, idk... but Field Horsehair Plants I think is just a bad translation for horse radish. The white root type plant that is featured in mario games. The white root plant that you can pick out of the ground in Mario 2.
Bud and Corona (Secret of Mana) - A different take on this is that bud refers to the form of an undeveloped flower and corona refers to the outer layer/atmosphere of the sun.
I'm not sure about the character's personalities or story development, but maybe the fact that flowers need sunlight to grow/live ties into the reason for their naming.
Anyway great write-up. Read all of it in one sitting besides the Castlevania bit since I didn't really play it. Even read all the comments before me.
As for important names in Zelda, you should have mentioned Chris Houlihan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-u_mv_jjV8&NR=1
Also, you should have said that a lot of these theories are just guesses and not actually the real story. Why didn't you write to people who made the games and just ask them?
Did it occur to you that with all the switching of Ls to Rs that Tellah from FF4 has basically the same name as Terra from FF6?
isk 5:12 PM
in mario & luigi super star story, nearly everything is named after beans or laughter. i always wondered why and if there is relation between beans and laughing that maybe exists in japanese but not english?
When you know that Wart's name is actually Mamu, it makes sense that the rolling TV camera things in the ice stages of Mario 2 have the letter M on them, doesn't it?
Chris 7:31 PM
Brilliant list! Well done!
Riktov 7:50 PM
Enjoyed reading this, though most of the games here were after my time! Back during the peak of the original NES boom I worked as a translator at the U.S. office of a lesser-known Japanese videogame company, and saw first-hand how so many curious names like this were born. And I would guess that a vast majority are due to phonetically garbled back-transliterations.
The company I was at had an "Arabian Nights" themed-game, and in the U.S. version there were a character named Curly and a spell named Alalart. To an English speaker, a fire-demon named Curly (brother of Moe?) is comical, but that's the best that the Japanese translator could come up with for what was in Japanese "kaa-rii" (カーリー). In all likelihood it was from the Hindu god Kali, but with the Japanese language's ambiguity between L/R and ah/ar/ur, it's impossible to determine. Similarly for Alalart, which is plainly from Mt. Ararat (of Noah's Ark). Back then as now, software translators are undervalued, and your average translator is not likely to have much background knowledge in exotic cultures -- which the game developers probably don't have either, they just happen to see a cool character in some book of mythology and use it, knowing only the name in Japanese katakana, of course...
(If you're wondering why I didn't speak up and correct these errors at the time, believe me, I often asked to speak to the game developers in Japan to ask where they got their inspiration from, but management's attitude was "Bah, what do you know? Besides, those game creators are too busy for such trivialities. And what does it matter?" Well, it does matter. Unfortunately back then there was no internet so I couldn't point them to a Wikipedia page and say "Hey, check this out, look familiar?..." ;)
In an earlier martial arts game from the same company there was an old kung-fu master whose name was, in Japanese "ju-an" (じゅあん). If you transliterate that with no hyphen to separate the syllables, you end up wondering why the wise master is a Mexican guy. (On the other hand, the Spanish pronunciation "hwan" sounds kind of Chinese...)
Big companies like Nintendo must have had substantial localization teams who had the authority to create entirely new and more appropriate names for the English-language market, and I think it shows in the quality. But for the smaller firms, I bet they were all in the same situation we were in. (Yeah, going to CES and seeing the new titles from the Japanese publishers was always amusing.)
Regarding "Tabasa", there is absolutely no question that it's directly from Tabitha in "Bewitched". The show was hugely popular in Japan in the seventies. There's even a famous Japanese fashion brand these days called Samantha Thavasa; obviously there is no real designer by that name, it was just made up from the names of the Bewitched characters.
"Exodus" is very likely the correct name for Exdeath. The name does make sense, because he wants to send the entire world into the "Void," thus an exile/exodus to nothingness.
Timothy 8:58 PM
I've heard Guile referred to as General Uile, or G. Uile. Tried to do some research, but most of it comes from Spanish and Portuguese websites.
Thanks for the great read! (I noticed some typos, but I'm sure they would be very difficult to catch in a gigantic post like this. Maybe you will be fixing them in the revised post? )
+ Concerning "Navi" in Ocarina of Time:
Until I realized many years later the connection between her name and the words navigation/navigator, I had assumed that the name was a reference to (or an intentional misspelling of,) nabi, which means "butterfly" in Korean. She even has butterfly-esque fairy wings in the official art! (One could even argue that this is a b/v translation issue.) "Navigator-butterfly" aptly describes Navi, wouldn't you agree? :)
In addition, "Kokiri" is the best-possible romanization of the Korean word for 'elephant', although in this case, there is no apparent connection to elephants and the Kokiri children. Navi and Kokiri led me and my parents to conjecture that maybe someone on the Zelda staff were of Korean descent.
+ Concerning food, fruit, and object names for minor characters: Most of them referenced in this article seem to have Toriyama Akira's character designs. (Considering the character names in DragonBall, ) I'm wondering if there is a possibility that he had a say in naming the characters in the video games that he provided the artwork for.
And some more responses:
Sarreq Teryx: I get your point and I understand what happens with “GN” in Italian. I was just saying that the fact that the name has been written as Caynazzo in the book by Wall might indicate that the monster’s name hadn’t been taken from the original text by Dante. I guess I misspoke with the pronunciation. Thanks for the correction. And for the note on the Tabasa/Sabasa thing.
Kevin T: Makes sense. If Kirby could possibly be named after a vacuum company, then Reznor could be named after a heater company and not necessarily the musician.
Raving Griff: I get what you’re saying, but would they tie the character’s name into a database if it’s only used, like, twice in the whole game? It seems like it would be easier to just enter the text manually?
Anonymous 1: Knowing nothing about Greek numerals, I looked it up. This seems to say that delta was used to represent ten (deka).
http://www.gap-system.org/~history/HistTopics/Greek_numbers.html
Am I misunderstanding?
Anonymous 2: Yes. Yes I did.
Anonymous 3: Good points on Guile. I guess I forgot to consider that guile is just a word in about every instance besides Street Fighetr Doy. And that’s an interesting take on E. Honda’s name. I’m not sure I get what you’re saying about Blanka. Can you elaborate?
Kaiptain K: Yes, there’s always the notion that some things are just what they appear on the surface and don’t have hidden meaning behind them. But you’re also talking to an English major who spent college looking at what a given author put into a book and asking why it’s there and what motivations the author had in creating it in a specific way. Sometimes you can over-read, but just as often you can glide right over something and miss a certain level of depth. Video games don’t necessarily work the same way and their designers could potentially be more technical than artistic or figurative in how they go about their creative process, but the fact that a lot of these names do have a story behind them was enough to motivate me to poke around and see what else I could turn up.
Anonymous 4: Do you know if Richter is a common at all as a German name?
Raz: Like I said earlier, there’s a whole lot of names like this. Haven’t been able to do much with them. Hopefully, with these kinds of comments going up here, someone more clever than I am might be able to point something out about where they came from.
Anonymous 5: Well, Juni and Juli very well could be Swedish for all I know. I don’t think their country of origin is ever stated, though I could be wrong.
Anonymous 6: I thought czarina/tsarina was the feminine of czar.
Anonymous 7: I’m still not really understanding the connection between Blanka and grappling and white women marrying Japanese men. Can anybody explain?
Anonymous 8: The Mario and Luigi in Wages of Fear are indeed probably just coincidences.
Anonymous 9: Yeah, Smash Bros. Brawl uses Porky, so I suppose we can take that as the official translation. I’m still holding out for the official translation, though… if only because that means I get an official translation of Mother 3.
Stercus: I can honestly say that I’ve never heard of Tongue of the Fat Man. It sounds… awful. But thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Anonymous 10: I wouldn’t say it’s the case anymore than Americans name their children after Bible characters so often, but I think you’re nonetheless right that the Japanese have a looser sense of what’s an appropriate name — for a child, for a fictional character — than do Americans. Thanks for making this so much fun.
Anonymous 11: I didn’t know robots had brothers either. Is there any reason the Japanese would be so interested in stag beetles? Are they common in Japan?
Elena: Dorrie = Doshi. Got it.
Anonymous 12: Wedge and Biggs’s Star Wars origins are discussed in the article linked to in the Final Fantasy section.
I'd just like to point out that mega man is also a lefty.
mkkmypet: Unless I’m mistaken, the name Julian Kintobor only exists in the Sonic comics. Regarding Porky and Picky, that’s a good point I hadn’t though of. Very interesting Mother 3 tidbits, foremost among them being the fact that Flint and Hinawa both refer to guns. If you have any more, don’t hesitate to mention them.
Anonymous 1: I haven’t got a clue where Tryclyde/Triclyde might have gotten his name from. It does seem conspicuously strange in the context of the other bosses’ seemingly normal names.
Chance: Elmer the horse. Good one. Thanks.
Anton: As I now I think the confusion about Wander and Wanda stems only from how the name is represented in Japanese characters. In the western alphabet, it’s Wander, even in Japanese packaging.
Jeff: Didn’t have the game and can’t confirm one way or the other. Does anybody else know or have a screenshot?
Floyd: I suppose I can see a resemblance between Goombas and water chestnuts, especially when the latter group is unshelled or unpeeled or un-whatever you do to them that makes them all smooth and white.
Josef: If Ryu’s name is now written always in katakana, what was it written in before? (Apologies — there’s a lot about written Japanese that I don’t understand.) Thanks for Seth/Cain, Castlevania bits.
[And then I skipped a few…]
Anonymous 2: Unfortunately, I feel like a Nintendo Power mention can’t be enough to constitute canon or authorial intent on the part of Nintendo. I do feel, howeve,r that I remember this article.
Dustin: Could be. I feel like this is probably a stretch, but I don’t have the authority to say it’s wrong or not.
Anonymous 3: It’s a very innocent interpretation of Bud and Corona. Also very sweet. I’d rather your take was the correct one.
Anonymous 4: Chris Houlihan, Chris Houlihan, Chris Houlihan. There. Done.
Anonymous 5: Okay. Yes, I suppose I could have tracked down the various video game creators who invented the characters described above and attempted to get them to answer questions about why they made their creations the way they did. The problems with this plan are as follows: (1) I don’t speak Japanese; (2) This post wasn’t initially intended as such an in-depth thing and I was pretty much just spouting off with my own theories. Getting in touch with the video game bigwigs would have necessitated even more time and effort. Though such a thing would be cool and fun, I’d need a lot more time to track these people down, one by one. Maybe one day.
Anonymous 6: Didn’t notice that Terra and Tellah are essentially the same. Interesting.
Isk: Good question. Aside from being the musical fruit, I have no idea if beans have some especially humorous connotation in Japan. There are a lot of bean names — Queen Bean, Lady Lima, Prince Peasley — and a lot of laughter names — Cackletta, Jojora, Dragohoho. Of particular note is Fawful, whose name happens to be a pretty good pun: a form of the Latin fava, meaning “bean,” and awful.
Anonymous 7: That would explain the “M.”
Akira: Thank you!
Riktov: Thanks for the confirmation on the Bewitched thing. What else can you tell us about weird translation bits. Feel free to discuss them in whatever depth you deem appropriate.
Anonymous 8: Awesome. Exdeath being more appropriately Exodus makes me feel better.
Timothy: Haven’t heard this, but tell me if you find anything indicating that it’s true.
And just a few more:
Anonymous 9: Yeah, I know Toriyama likes giving his characters food names, but I’m not especially familiar with his work outside Chrono Trigger. As for the typos, yeah, I know they’re there. I do what I can, but I’m exceptionally bad at editing my own stuff. If you see any, feel free to point them out.
Anonymous 10: I guess Mega Man is a lefty, if only because shooting with his right hand would block his body from the screen. Neat.
Also, just as an FYI, I’ve gone through and taken notable comments and incorporated them into the post — in particular those that clarified or corrected points I’d made in the original post. I may do this more in the future, depending on what people bring up in the comments section and what free time I have.
Laird 11:23 PM
Wow, nice article. I haven't read it all yet, but I can't help but offer a theory I heard about Pit's name. He bears a strong resemblence a cupid. Well, take out the first syllable of "cupid" and replace the "d" with a "t" (possibly a botched translation), and there you go.
This should seriously be made into a book - I'd pay to have this as a coffee table book - some nice gloss photos, the works.
Anyone out there working in publishing should make this guy an offer asap!
Dammit, my browser crashed and seemed to take my post with it... -_- I'll try to briefly recount what I wanted to say:
-Ryu's name was originally written with kanji, as "隆", at least in some material pertaining to the original Street Fighter. From SF2 on it's simply been "リュウ" though occasionally fans like to use the kanji.
-Juni and Juli are both from Germany.
-Honda's name isn't a play on words, it's just "Edmond". The "Edo-man-do" theory, while entertaining, is not accurate; the two words are definitely different (Edomondo and the proposed "Edo-man-dou"). Edmond is probably not his real name however - Real life sumo wrestlers do wrestle under assumed ring names. Using a foreign-sounding ring name would be very odd if not outright forbidden, but Japanese celebrities adopting foreign-sounding nicknames is far from unheard of.
-Street Fighter gets lots of inspiration from popular culture, and the Japanese wikipedia page had the following to say about Guile: Guile was in part inspired by the popular manga "Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure". His hairstyle was inspired by that of the character Jean-Pierre Polnareff (who was also the model for The King of Fighters' Benimaru Nikaido), and his name is derived from "J. Guile", one of Polnareff's opponents in the comic. On another note, Guile has the rank of "major", "lieutenant commander" or "wing commander", depending on how you choose to translate "少佐". To the best of my knowledge, he is generally referred to as a major, though.
"Juni" and "Juli" is swedish for June and July repsektively.
Ehm. "respectively". That's what I get for posting anonymously. Sorry.
A note, when discussing King, you mention that the family might be bucking gender sterotype names by naming the brother "Jan". However, Jan is also a male name (though the J is pronounced like a Y).
RayK2099 9:00 AM
Just wow. Kudos, sir.
About the Legend of Mana names, Bud and Corona are both beer brands. Budweirser, as the other commenter said, and Corona. The corona beer webpage: www.corona.com
A note about the Korean dish bipinbap. In one of the LoZ gameboy color games, there is a house with two parents and their baby. The parents being named bipin, and bap, I believe. You are allowed to name the baby, and get a reward depending on the name, if i remember correctly the best reward was recieved when you named the baby bipinbap. It might be wise to double check the finer details, but it is definitely interesting.
For Goomba:
"Gomba" is the Hungarian word for mushroom.
As pertaining to FFVI's Tina/Terra, her original naming was due to wanting (most likely the creator) to have the protagonist to have an exotic name (as Tina is a very uncommon and exotic name in Japan). When it was localized in America, her name was changed to Terra to maintain the exoticness of her name.
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Final_Fantasy_VI (she is the first character listed)
Considering the difficulty in figuring out whether to translate a character's name with an R or an L, I have been wondering if Ganondorf wasn't actually supposed to be "Ganondolf" or "Ganondolph" (from Japanese Ganondorofu). I mean, there are no -dorfs in real life names, are there? Whereas in German there are a lot of Rudolfs and Ad-*cough*. Also look at the Japanese' apparent obsession with German for that matter (perfectly presented in the hero of Chaos Legion's name, Sieg Wahrheit...).
I would be willing to be entirely that 'Ray the Squirrel' and 'Mighty the Armidillo'were prototype characters for Tails and Knuckles, respectively.
Color-scheme, basic character traits, etc.
See it now? I certainly do.
Consider the Greek myth of the ring of Gyges as a possible origin for Itoi's Giygas.
MoldySpore 9:03 AM
The character "Macha" from Chrono Cross is most likely a play on the slang term for mother "ma" and the fact that the whole family adds "-cha" to things. So "Macha" is just "Mother-cha" basically.
Captain Werewolf 9:58 AM
I like the theory one commenter brings up above concerning Guile's name, that it's taken from a manga character named "J. Guile." I always thought, however, that the name was actually a reference to his fighting style. He's kind of the prototypical "baiter" character found in fighting games. Especially in SFII, the best way to use him is to throw out sonic booms until your opponent tries to jump one, drawing him in so you can use your vacuum kick (this simple method doesn't work as well once they add air-blocking to the series). Rinse and repeat. Anyway, because his moves are charge-based (hold back for 2 secs, then forward, etc.) he requires a little more finesse and, in the case of the sonic boom to vacuum kick combo, better timing and rhythm. So, in that sense, Guile is kind of the perfect name for him.
Samuli 4:02 PM
Good article. Thanks for the effort.
I'd like to note that Michael Monroe is not swedish, but finnish. There is a difference :-)
Pikachu is actually named after the kinkajou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou), an arboreal mammal native to Central and South America.
Pika + Kinkajou = Pikachu
spence 7:06 PM
in re. the anonymous immediately above me: (at least) two schools of thought on that one:
http://kotaku.com/347021/the-true-meaning-of-pikachu
Another commenter pointed this out, but regarding your section on King from The Art of Fighting: There's nothing feminine about the name "Jan." That's the Dutch form of John.
grimmfresh 10:58 PM
Without looking anything up, even reading these other comments, and at the risk of repeating stuff:
I think that Daisy came from one of the gameboy Mario games. You could look it up I suppose. That is if anybody gives a shit.
Migaloo 11:59 AM
Really awesome stuff, great read! I just wanted to comment on Cammy's name - I always thought it was a play on camouflage, which she has painted up and down her legs. (I may have missed this in your post)
Paula 7:55 AM
Great post (took me some sittings to read, though)!!! Loved your blog, can't stop going through the old stuff now!^^
You made me think about some other language-related things in games. I don't know if they fit the context, but here they go:
- First of all, a Brazilian guy would hardly ever be named Sean (or Blanka, for that matter).
- Castlevania's "Velnaldes" strikes me more as a "Bernardez" than "Fernandez"...
- In FFIX there's a cute reference to the two previous FF's when Zidane says during the play "No cloud, no squall shall hinder us." using the literal meaning of Cloud's and Squall's names.
- There's some online discussion (much to the style of "what's the plural of Birdo?") about the real pronunciation of Tidus' (FFX) name, because it is never said in-game. Now, I've been playing Kingdom Hearts and KHII recently, in which there's a younger version of Tidus. And if I'm not going crazy (I could be) it's spoken differently in each of those (one as Tie - Dus, and other as Tee - Dus)... OMG, what now??
- Also, there's the Aeris/Aerith issue.
- Kaepora Gaebora also reminded me of Caipora, as someone said before me. I read somewhere in the internet that this entity is supposed to protect all animals of the forest EXCEPT for the feathered ones. And Kaepora in the game is a bird. Could this be related?
- Also, non-game related... "The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty" is a pretty disturbing (and possibly necrophilic) title per se.
Well, that's all I can think of for now...
And it's not a secret to everybody anymore, as for the repercussion of the post!!
This one is quite obvious. I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet or not.
Super Mario World has an aquatic equivilent to the Bullet Bill, named Torpedo Ted. The names seem normal enough but it's from the movie, Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Pati 1:57 AM
Kumatora's name meaning bear tiger makes me think of Ursula and Leonora in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, because their names mean bear and lion.
These all the games are looking very interesting, I am so excited to play these type of games. From where I can get these type of games.
Actually, you got Mother 3's Hinawa's reference wrong. Hinawa, the twin's mother, is named after sunflowers, her favorite kind of flower, very important to the game's story, but I won't spoil.
Sunflower in Japanese is Himawari, literally, turn with the sun, as sunflowers do. Himawari just became Hinawa in order to make it shorter and more name sounding. I'm pretty sure of it, I think it was mentioned in an interview with Itoi.
GREAT JOB on the whole thing though. I second the thought of publishing it, it's a great idea, I would definately buy the book.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, one of Diddy's alternate costumes is a pink version of his usual clothes, which is probably supposed to make him look like Dixie but also makes him look like pink Donkey Kong Jr. I think this supports your theory about Dixie being a reference to that fake, pink DK Jr.
cheat-master30 12:41 PM
Very good article, and I didn't know some of the things mentioned, such as Zelda's name being possibly linked to the Triforce or the various other points. On the Mario note, the landlord naming trivia is interesting, it's said to be true on the European site here:
http://nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/service/nintendo_history_9911.html
The US site just listed console names, and the Japanese site is really only navigatable in Japanese due to them using images for links and various stuff. But I thought that might be helpful, as with that the UK Nintendo Magazine said the same origin of Mario's name.
On another note, I didn't really know about the Metroid reference in Kid Icarus, and various other names are generally new to me. I do remember the interview that talked about Link's name and such like saying about it referring to him being almost a representative of the player, hence the name and lack of given personality.
As for the Koopalings and their musician inspired names... I think you already know that the names were originally given by the translators when Super Mario Bros 3 was translated, then readopted in the Japanese games when Super Mario World was created and their names taken from the US translations.
But never the less, nice article, and I shall definitely be reading more of this blog and it's entries in future.
The "Wages of Fear" thing is discussed in some detail on AskMeFi here:
http://tinyurl.com/nwkz2q
G 5:15 PM
Long, just skimmed some parts. Good work.
Worth noting that, for example, Satsui no Hadou ni Mezameta Ryu, or "Ryu, who has awakened to murderous intent" was actually CREATED by capcom USA, and NOT Capcom Japan. Thus, 'Evil Ryu,' while perhaps more boring, is actually the original.
Similarly (?) named would be "Tsuki no yoru orochi no chi ni kurufu Iori", Iori who, on a moonlit night, is driven insane by (his) orochi blood. Most call him Orochi Iori in the US.
But in both of these cases, it's worth pointing out that these long names do not actually appear in the games in question (well, Iori's does, kind of, in the ending of '96). And nobody wants to type that. So in Japan, he's usually called Satsui Ryu. Iori is called 'bousou iori,' or wild Iori.
A side note - Evil Sakura (of the VS. games) is usually referred to as 'suntanned Sakura' due to her darker skin color.
You want a bad character name? Try the hero of Tales of Hearts, Shing Meteoryte. All of the characters are named after stones, you you'd think they could save one of the good ones for the main guy, but NO....
micheal 1:08 PM
Super awesome and informative post. Thanks so much!
RuneBlade 1:26 PM
Oh look another Sonic n00b,
Ivo Robotnik is Ovi Kintobor
and theres alot more to it than that, the STC by Fleetway comics was an especially dark perspective to the global totalitarian rule that Ivo had over Mobius and it was about the Freedom Fighters fighting back and rebelling against the genocidal horrors being commited by Ivo.
Do your goddamn research, archiefag
saori 11:14 AM
I read somewhere that there is a great pun in the first Paper Mario in the character Pop Diva, who is actually named Chanterelle. She's a toad (meaning she's a mushroomhead) and also a singer. The name Chanterelle is good because it actually is a type of mushroom but sounds so similar to the word chant and other words related to singing. A good pun!
Guy 11:45 AM
@RuneBlade
Your the n00b for mixing diffrent canons.
This is about Sonic games canon, not comics.
Responses.
Laird: I had never thought of that. That's enough of a good point to merit a mention in the article itself. Thanks.
Anonymous 1: Or I could just keep doing it here, online, for free.
Josef: Have corrected the E. Honda part. Interesting theory on Guile and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I really must look into this series. It kept coming up again and again when I was researching this post.
Anonymous 2: Thanks for the tip.
Anonymous 3: I know Jan is a male name, but it just seems to me as being more often a female one in the U.S.
RayK2099: Thanks.
Anonymous 4: Yeah, I think we're covered on the Bud/Corona thing is.
Anonymous 5: According to the Zelda Wiki, the father is Bipin and the mother is Blossom. In one ending to the game, Link names their baby Bipsom. That's the English version of the game, anyway.
Anonymous 6: Indeed, gomba does appear to be Hungarian for "mushroom." I should probably get something into this piece on Goomba at some point...
atparker87: I knew this. It doesn't show up in the above post, but I link to a previous post I did specifically on Celes and Tina's names.
Anonymous 7: Could be. Ganondolf does sound a bit more plausible than Ganondorf. But there are dorfs out there. Düsseldorf, for example.
Anonymous 8: I can see it. Chromatically speaking, of course.
Anonymous 9: Is there a connection between Gyges and Giygas aside from their names?
MoldySpore: You have a point, I suppose, and I may well be overthinking the Macha situation. I mean, her Japanese name is Mamacha, after all.
Captain Werewolf: Another good point. I put it in the post. Thanks for that.
Kombo put up an article honoring the return of the Koopa Kids and in it they claim that Larry Koopa was named for the American rock songwriter Larry Williams, wrote composed "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" and other things.
The article is here: http://www.kombo.com/article.php?artid=13410
It doesn't say where he got his info.
More responses:
Samuli: Thanks for the correction. His is now Finnish.
Anonymous 1 and Spence: Thanks for the theory, but Spence is right. No kinkajous here.
Grimmfresh: You’re guessing that the name of the Mario character Daisy comes from a Mario game? By god! You’re right. Why didn’t I think of that?
Migaloo: Cammy = camouflage. A good point. I’ve incorporated it into the post.
Paula: Agreed that Sean might not be a typical Brazilian name, but Elena isn’t a typical name for an African princess and if Rose is truly from Italy, shouldn’t she be Rosa? I’m willing to allow for creative license on Capcom’s part. As for the Fernandez/Belnades thing, I’m actually surprised that the surname hasn’t been transliterated as Bernardez yet, given that Konami seems to play pretty loose when they transliterate. I remember the pun on squall and cloud, now that you bring it up. A nice touch. I’ve never actually played Final Fantasy X, sadly, and therefore can’t weigh in on the matter of how Tidus’s name should be pronounced. As for Final Fantasy VII, I’m always been kind of unimpressed with it. But even though it doesn’t interest me greatly and even though there’s already tons written about it online, I suppose I should have mentioned the Aeris/Aerith confusion and all the meaning people tend to read into it.
Anonymous 2: The Bill & Ted connection to Bullet Bill and Torpedo Ted does seem obvious now that you bring it up, but it had never occurred to me before. Also: What a dated reference.
Pati: Actually, If you take Leonora to be related to Eleanor, then there’s no linguistic attachment to “lion.” But Ursula is often cited as meaning “she-bear.”
Jonathan: You’re either very confused or a malfunctioning spam bot.
Anonymous 3: If you can dig up anywhere that says Hinawa’s name means “sunflower,” I’ll gladly put it in. At this point, the fact that both she and her husband’s names would derive from guns seems like a better explanation. So says me, anyway.
G: Wait. So Satsui no Hadou ni Mezameta Ryu was coined by Capcom USA. But it’s still the character’s name in Japan, right? Or in Japan they just call him Evil Ryu or whatever the Japanese equivalent of that would be? Thanks for the tip.
Anonymous 4: Yes, that names does indeed suck.
Michael: Glad you liked it.
RuneBlade: Whoa. Thanks for the correction, but no need for hatred. I’ve kind of avoided all the comics stuff. Glad I did, since it’s apparently pretty dense.
Saori: Indeed, Chanterelle is a very good name for a singing mushroom. Nintendo teaches us so much.
Guy: Not that I want an argument here, but just to be clear, the name Ovi Kintobor has never appeared in games, right? Excuse my ignorance, but there’s apparently a lot about the Sonic games that I don’t know.
Anonymous 5: I saw that article, actually. It’s the only one I’ve seen that mentions Larry Williams in connection with Larry Koopa. Could well be the case, given that no one else seems to have an especially good theory about Larry’s namesake. But that article also claims that Super Mario World was originally designed as an NES game, which I hadn’t heard before. Again, not saying it’s wrong, but I’d have to poke around before I could make a call one way or the other.
You seem to have been confused by what G wrote. The story goes that Capcom USA came up with the character of Evil Ryu. It is not likely that Capcom USA also gave Evil Ryu his Japanese name, which is "Satsui no Hadou ni Mezameta Ryu" (or, as G pointed out, "Satsui Ryu" for short). So Capcom USA designed the character, Capcom Japan gave him his Japanese name.
Evil Ryu's Japanese name is not a literal translation of "Evil Ryu", probably because it doesn't sound right in Japanese. Similarly, the literal translation of the Japanese name, "Ryu, who has awoken to the hadou of murderous intent", sounds wonky in English.
jchensor 1:28 PM
In regards to Trevor Pearlharbor, roto13 kinda mentioned it already, but one of the theories behind Killer7's story is a strong theme of Japanese invasion into the U.S. It has a lot of subtle references to WWII (and not so subtle ones) and then focuses, also, on the invasion through culture, how the U.S. is becoming more and more entranced by Anime, Video Games, and Power Rangers and stuff. So the name is very fitting. Check out GameFAQs... there is a great plot analysis FAQ on Killer7 there.
Also, "King" in Art of Fighting's name is easily explained. I can't remember where I heard this from, but I remember that in the original Art of Fighting, King purposefully played herself off as a male because she was the owner of the bar (her original background in AoF), and if the thugs who frequented it knew the owner was a female, they'd be a lot less respectful of her property.
Gannon is translation error. Dragmire is also translation only(and one game only)
I heard that Town/Sage names are just literally translated from japanese ones...(blame the translators) Like how Link is written Rinku or something like that in japanese...
Why do you people seem to think Robotnik as cooler name than Eggman?... I prefer Eggman...
You forgot to mention that Akuma's japanese name is Gouki.
I'm myself confused wether Poison and Roxy are really male or not... Since apparently someone complained about them being female(those day fighting girls was seen pretty problematic) so they said that they are transexuals...
Actually for some reason Amakusa was woman is Japan anime adaption too....
I like Grandleon better than Masamune... Since Grandleon/Masamune doesn't look like an Japanese sword...(its clearly western)
I don't see hows Pudding is worse than other food names... I have seen that as name before..
And I disagree at Mars being better name than Marth. I also disagree at Wander(no reason), Exdeath(My fav FF villain + cool name) and Geese Howard(cool villain having ordinary name is hilarious(maybe its just suppose to sound american? You know maybe to japanese it doesn't sound funny))being bad names...
P.S... And to reply before anyone else. Ovi Kintobor is comic only name.
Dolsot Bibimbap 11:10 PM
I didn't quiet understand how a character got its name based on a Korean dish, specially dolsot bibimbap.
No one got its name from bibimbap. That just happens to be one of the names that the creator of Bowser considered before he chose Koopa, which itself is said to be derived from a transliteration of another Korean dish, gugbab.
Hasukawa Kazuyaa 4:22 PM
Who still says the Japanese version of Seiken Densetsu 2 still has default names??
I own the actual Japanese game, and much like the US version (Secret of Mana) and the GameBoy prequel, you -cannot- have a "default" name because the game will not provide one and will not accept -a blank- as your name.
In the Japanese manual, the given names are "Hero", "Girl", "Sprite" -- and then in the screenshots I recall they all alluded to "Squa" and "Reh" as part of "Square Soft."
The closest I can speculate when it comes to the origin of Randi/Purim/Popoi is maybe it came from a magazine preview given by Square. Perhaps Gamest of Famitsu. Since I don't have any on hand, this is all still speculation. I do know that the SD2 manual has no citation of "Randi" anywhere, and the game (or ROM if you want to see for yourself) will not have default names.
(Sorry, I tend to spout like this on the SD1 board @ GameFAQs about this. This article was an entertaining read nonetheless!)
~Kaz
@Drew
Ovi Kintobor isn't used in the games.
It's very common to people to mix the comics/shows with the games. For example besides a cameo on a pinball game, the very know character Sally never was a character of the game's canon and there are uninformed people who thinks that Gerald Robotnik (Eggman's Grandfather) is the Dr. Robotnik from older games and Eggman a diffrent character.
Robotnik is Eggman real name without doubt.
If you wish to include more references about it you have diffrent media that states this after the merge.
In Sonic Adventure the villain is refered by the two diffrent names "Dr. Eggman" and "Dr. Robotnik"
In Sonic Adventure 2: while the Doctor is only refered by "Dr. Eggman" his family is refered as the "Robotnik" family and in a cutsceen his empire is refered as "Robotnik" Empire.
In Sonic X, an anime based on the games, his family is named "Robotnik" and his profile after the "Sonic Adventure 2" Chapter states that Robotnik is his real name.
In Sonic Raiders, most of boards that the characters use to race are made by a company controlled by Eggman named "Robotnik Inc."
In Sonic Chronicles for DS: Dr. Eggman refering himself as "Dr. Robotnik" in one dialog
And Finally, the recent Sonic Unleashed's Manual in the Characters field Eggman is listed as "Dr. Eggman (A.K.A. Dr. Robotnik)"
RabbleSnapple 3:24 PM
Currently I have nothing that could be added in this post or comments. I just wanted to say that this is an awesome post. I learned new things about my favourite video games, and they were all quite interesting. Thanks for that!
Godaigamer 2:02 PM
Having been curious about the name "Hinawa" myself, I looked it up on Jim Breen's online translation site and found out that hinawa is the Japanese word for "fuse" (from hi meaning fire and nawa meaning rope). This seems to further prove that "Flint" and "Hinawa" are gun (or possibly explosives) related.
Sanjay 11:51 AM
Obviously you posted this quite some time ago, but, having only just found your blog recently, I wanted to say it's a great read! I did have one thought, though"
On the subject of Pit, in the past I've idly speculated that the name comes from some weird corruption of "putto", which is a more proper name for the winged babies that most people (incorrectly, apparently) call "cherubs" or "cherubim". (I don't know how to insert a hyperlink, so here's what wikipedia has to say on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putto )
Anyway, terrific work!
cheat-master30 3:44 PM
It's a bit late, but I found a Japanese Mario name source:
(From the official Nintendo Magazine, Japanese version, as hosted on the Japanese Nintendo official site):
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/9908/profile/index.html
DmL 6:55 PM
Just wanted to echo that your otherwise quite scholarly work here is terribly marred by grammar and spelling issues, and translate/transliterate confusion. I'd suggest getting someone you trust to read it over for you and make corrections.
Also Gestalt references a psychology theory about "unity of mind" which would make sense for a conquering emperor.
Otherwise, lots of awesome stuff, and having Riktov pop in and mention "Magic of Scheherezade" (even if he didn't do it by name!) made it doubly cool!
Technically, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is named after the Reznor heaters. Reznor heaters of Mercer, PA was owned by Trent's grandfather. (And built in the town he was born and grew up in, Mercer PA)
Neeraj 9:37 PM
I had played the Super mario many times but could not reach the queen as i got into some or the other trap many times. Though i am pretty close to it wish me luck.
cheat-master30 3:33 AM
Oh, and Mario's name theory, possibly the Nintendo Landlord one according to Miyamoto:
Miyamoto : "Mario" is named NOA (Nintendo of America), but I put people who,
I think that can be read as Mario being named by Nintendo of America, supporting the traditional theory about his name. Sorry if it's not clear, it's because Google Translate isn't very good at making Japanese sound remotely fluent when translated. But it's hard to find a source for any Nintendo character names from the top.
Edit: Look for it under New Super Mario Bros Wii on Nintendo's Japanese website. Something about an interview.
Sorry for the late comment, but... they translated it, and Mario was probably named in the way people think he was:
http://us . wii.com/ iwata_ asks /n smb/vol1_ pa ge 2. j sp
Remove spaces.
I felt that I had come up with a pretty solid character, which is why I thought: "Right, I'll keep using him from now on!" That's why I decided a solid, imposing name like "Mr. Video" would work best. But thinking back, I don't think I should have gone with that name. Someone at Nintendo of America actually came up with the name Mario. If he had been called "Mr. Video," he might have disappeared off the face of the earth. (laughs)
InuLink 8:26 PM
I'd like to share some things, that probably have small, or no link to this article barely at all. Chu Chus, a creature in LoZ, is named not for a sound mice make, but for a kissing sound, told i believe in wind wakers figurine store when the figurine is accquired, which could have something to do with pikachu.
Also, Gulliver, from the animal crossing game series, is sortof a reference to Gulliver's Travels, as original Animal Crossing Gulliver travels by ship. Gulliver also makes references to Toad Town, and I believe a LoZ town, both references being in the first animal crossing.
And to add to Metroid, Samus was born on the human planet K-2L, whereas later(and im guessing many years later) everyone but Samus was killed on the planet by the Space Pirates and their leader, Ridley, which would give a 2nd explanation why Samus chases after Ridley to Tallon IV in Prime 1, to get revenge, which, i guess would explain why she is a bounty hunter in the first place. And for Justin Bailey, im not sure, but try looking for a person named Justin that had anything to do with Metroid, or anything around its time-of-making. I heard he mightve been a person that hacked and inputted the justin bailey code before Metroids release, but it seems very unlikely.
Anyway, very nice article. I learned alot of stuff for the variety of games i play. ^-^
TJF588 3:37 AM
... HyneDAMMIT, I hate when I type a big ol' spiel only to have it whisked away. So, CliffNotes time:
1) "cha" may be a Cajun-esque "child".
2) Such French-like end-syllable droppings that still pervade ebonic dialects make me think of Cait Sith and the Ragnarok example, where the last syllable, if "Sith" is as it is in Star Wars, is dropped, with my rationalizations being non-vital/prominence(?) (unlike for "Aerith"), simplicity *"Ketto Shii" possibly being 'long'), and possibly awkwardness *would "Shiisu" be an odd occurance in Japanese?).
3) In forgetting what my other response would've been:
3a) "Tom Nook", when blended, sounds like "Tanook", of "Tanooki"/"Tanuki".
3b) Assuming this was before the DS version, Magus has gained another title/moniker, the Fiendlord.
4) Dissonance on which names I do or don't like, and do or don't prefer.
4a) According to a baby names book I purchased because of its inclusion, "Mash" is African, though for what, I'm not bothered to check at this hour (and after losing my last attempt).
4b/5) I may say later, since I've got this place RSS'd, an interesting find for clicking on the non-wiki Calcabrina image selection on a Google Search.
*sigh* There, pretty much salvaged, I guess.
You mention that there's a nice relationship between the names Celes and Terra that exists in the English translation but isn't present in Japanese because Terra was originally named Tina. That does lead, however, to another potential reference: the medieval Spanish novel "La Celestina". In that work, the titular Celestina is a witch of sorts, and in FFVI, Celes and Tina/Terra are the two characters who begin the game able to use magic. Probably a coincidence, but it's a *nice* coincidence.
Although it looks like Sabin's name really "should" be Matthew, his original Japanese name (transliterated, "Masshu") really can only mean "mash", as in the Japanese loanword for mashed potatoes, "masshupoteto". A recent Ultimania (produced by Square) suggests his given name is "Macias" (mashiasu), nickname "Mash" (masshu). Verdict: it's weird!
Mido: I never knew that he was named after a town from Zelda II -- I always thought that his name was a sort of a pun. Mido appears in Kokiri Village, which is in the woods, and all the inhabitants wear green. The Japanese word for green is "midori".
Hobbs: In case you're interested, the post on Terra/Celes is here.
http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2008/08/tiny-earth.html
And thanks for the tip about Celestina. Never thought of that one.
Dan 9:56 AM
Thanks for sending this to me, Drew.
1) It looks like I was probably wrong about the origin of "éire"--wikipedia lists it as a "largely discredited etymology"
2) "Samus" and "aran" don't mean anything in Japanese, "samasu" means "wake," as in "to awaken," and "aranu" means "riot." Make of that what you will.
I love when I'm searching for random shit and your blog pops up! This time it was I was Googling "Zelda Windwaker" for Offbeat Bride and POOF! there you were! :)
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I was just talking about the Koopa Kids with my boyfriend, and we looked up their names. He then pointed out that perhaps an unintended consequence of naming one of them Morton Koopa Jr. is that it implies that Bowser's full name is actually Morton Koopa (or it's the name of whatever the Koopa Kids have for a mother). If that is the case, then it is perhaps no surprise that he chose for himself the decidedly more sinister nickname Bowser.
I really enjoyed reading this over the course of about three hours. I just wanted to point out that the German "Heiss" is a reference to actual tempurature, not "hot" as America now knows it.
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Re: Chrono Trigger's Glenn, the idea has been thrown out that it's short (and R/L transposed) for grenouille, which means frog in French. I always change his name back to Glenn when I play anyway, because I think "Frog" is a stupid name. Same goes for Skelly and Funguy in Chrono Cross.
This article is so long it made me want to kill myself.
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You know, Exodus could has worked as a name for Exdeath. An Exodus is a large sending of people from a hostile environment. Exdeath wanted to send the entire world into the void, as well as himself. If you think about it, the existing universe is the ultimate form of anarchy. Everything is different from what's next to it, and spread out randomly, whereas in the void, all is the same nothingness. He was to be the exodus from the hostility of the chaotic universe.
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Found a few things, A reference to the "Caepora" of brazil etc.
http://www.brasiliana.usp.br/bbd/bitstream/handle/1918/01000700/010007_COMPLETO.pdf.txt
It's an 1870's account fo a journey trough the jungle. Found the Language it's from, Arawakan, a native brazilian language that translates it as dweller or person of the forest.
The other thing to realize is that a greek word for "Eat" is "Boros" or "Vorous", from Latin Vorare. So Mal - Boro would mean bad eating, in latin and greek, int he same way as television is a portmanteau of latin and greek.
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CHICAGO — Gonnella Frozen Products, L.L.C., a part of the Gonnella Baking Co., has awarded two “Rising to the Top” scholarships to students at AIB International in Manhattan, Kas.
Tiffany Rubio and Freddie Thomas, both of Junction City, Kas., have received scholarships of $7,000 each. The funds cover the majority of tuition for AIB’s Science and Technology Resident Course and combine with other existing scholarships to ensure both students may attend the school for free.
“Gonnella is thrilled to support these outstanding bakers who share our commitment to quality,” said Meg McDonnell, vice-president of sales at Gonnella.
Gonnella said Ms. Rubio and Mr. Thomas were awarded scholarships because of their professional and academic qualifications and years of experience within the baking industry. The company also recognized both students for their military service within the culinary services departments as further rationale for awarding the scholarships.
Both students are participating in AIB’s Baking Science and Technology Course, which provides students with nearly 600 hours of coursework in subjects ranging from bread and roll production to production/operations management.
Gonnella announced the “Rising to the Top” scholarship program last year as part of a yearlong celebration in honor of the Chicago-based, family-owned and operated company’s 125th anniversary.
“After 125 years of building our business, we wanted to give back to the baking industry, which has given Gonnella so much over the years,” Ms. McDonnell said.
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Rambus Receives Decision from Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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A U.S. appeals court agreed that Rambus Inc. destroyed documents relevant to patent infringement trials with Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and sent the cases back to a lower court to determine appropriate sanctions. Rambus Inc. on Friday announced that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has issued its decisions in cases with Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technology Inc.
Regarding the Micron Technology inc. case, the court said it was clear Rambus had destroyed documents but it was not clear the action was so serious that a lower court should have tossed out its suit.
It sent the dismissal back to the U.S. District Court in Delaware, adding that the lower court might still decide the shredding was serious enough for Rambus to lose the case it brought against Micron Technology, the top U.S. maker of memory chips for computers.
In the other ruling, the appeals court found Rambus destroyed documents related to a patent suit it successfully brought against Korea's Hynix Semiconductor. It asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (NDCA) court to review its ruling in view of the document destruction.
"We are very disappointed with the decisions in these cases," said Thomas Lavelle, senior vice president and general counsel at Rambus. "We are hopeful when the district courts reconsider these decisions, they will find, as we believe, there was no bad faith and no prejudice."
At issue in both of these cases is when Rambus reasonably foresaw litigation. Both district court judges in these matters identified different dates, with the NDCA determining Rambus did not engage in bad faith, while the Delaware Court determined that Rambus executed its document retention policy during a time when it reasonably foresaw litigation.
"While today's decisions are disappointing, our commitment to innovation is unwavering. Rambus is a resilient company, and we will continue to move our business forward. This is true for our semiconductor business as well as the lighting and display business and the newly-announced acquisition of Cryptography Research," said Harold Hughes, president and chief executive officer at Rambus.
"We are pleased that the Federal Circuit panel unanimously agreed with Judge Robinson's decision in Delaware that Rambus wrongfully destroyed evidence," said Rod Lewis, Micron's Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel. "We believe the record before Judge Robinson provides more than ample support for the Federal Circuit's request for findings regarding Judge Robinson's decision that Rambus acted in bad faith and, therefore, the only appropriate sanction was to declare Rambus' patents unenforceable against Micron." South Korea-based Hynix has not provided any comment yet.
This Hynix case was originally filed by Hynix against Rambus in August 2000. The case was split into three separate phases with Rambus prevailing in all three phases. The first phase considered Hynix's allegations that certain Rambus patents should be unenforceable under the doctrine of unclean hands and spoliation.
The second phase dealt with Rambus' allegations that Hynix memory products infringed its patents. A jury found in favor of Rambus by agreeing that Hynix memory products infringe all ten Rambus patent claims and awarded Rambus damages.
In the third and final phase of the case, Hynix (together with Micron and Nanya) alleged Rambus engaged in antitrust and fraud during its participation in a standard-setting organization called JEDEC in the early 1990s. A jury, again, found in favor of Rambus finding it had acted properly during its participation in JEDEC. Hynix appealed these decisions.
This Micron case was originally filed by Micron against Rambus in August 2000. The case was split into three separate phases with the first phase concerning allegations of unclean hands and spoliation. The district court found in favor of Micron and held that the Rambus patents at issue in this case were unenforceable against Micron. Rambus appealed the decision.
The court's rulings can be found at http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/dailylog.html.
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Clarification of the Nomenclature for MSC: The International Society for Cellular Therapy Position Statement: To address this inconsistency between nomenclature and biologic properties, and to clarify the terminology, we suggest that the fibroblast-like plastic-adherent cells, regardless of the tissue from which they are isolated, be termed multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells, while the term mesenchymal stem cells is used only for cells that meet specified stem cell criteria.
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New Jersey will create a storage bank for umbilical cord blood to aid stem cell research, under an executive order signed Tuesday by acting Gov. Richard J. Codey. State officials say it will be the first such program in the nation.
StemCells, Inc. Receives FDA Clearance to Initiate Phase I Clinical Trial of Neural Stem Cells to Treat Batten Disease; First-Ever FDA-Approved Trial to Transplant Human Neural Stem Cells
StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEM) today announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a Phase I safety and preliminary efficacy trial of the Company’s proprietary human neural stem cell product -HuCNS-SC ™- to treat Batten disease. Batten disease is a rare, fatal genetic disorder that affects the central nervous system of children.
AnorMED to Seek Conditional Marketing Authorization in Europe for MOZOBIL(TM), a New Stem Cell Mobilizer
AnorMED Inc. (TSX:AOM) announced today that it will seek a Conditional Marketing Authorization (CMA) for MOZOBIL (AMD3100, Plerixafor) in Europe in early 2007.
Cytori Demonstrates Adipose Stem Cells Improve Cardiac Function In Preclinical Heart Attack Model
Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (Frankfurt: XMP), today presented results demonstrating that adipose stem cells improved cardiac function following a severe heart attack in a porcine study.
GE Healthcare Introduces the First Sterile Media For Mononuclear Cell Preparation Compliant with ISO and EC Guide to GMP
GE Healthcare announced today the launch of Ficoll-Paque™ PREMIUM.
GenVec Announces Plan to Sell Myoblast Cell Therapy Program to a Newly Formed Company
GenVec, Inc.(Nasdaq:GNVC) announced today that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to sell to a third-party buyer the assets and technology related to its myoblast cell therapy program to treat congestive heart failure that was acquired through GenVec’s 2003 merger with Diacrin, Inc.
LCT files Pre-IND Request Letter with FDA for its NeurotrophinCell Product
Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX: LCT) today announced that it has filed a request for a Pre-IND Meeting with the FDA to seek guidance and feedback on the development program for its NeurotrophinCell product.
New MultiCell/Thomas Jefferson University Research Collaboration to Evaluate Cell Lines for Hepatitis C Treatment
MultiCell Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MCET), announced today that the Company has entered into a research collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia’s premier medical and health sciences university, to evaluate the Company’s immortalized human hepatocytes as model systems to identify new drugs to treat hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection.
Oxford Biomedica Plc Announces Oxford BioMedica Presents Encouraging Final Phase II Results with Trovax(R) in Colorectal Cancer at the International Colorectal Cancer Congress
Oxford BioMedica (LSE: OXB), the leading gene therapy company, today announced that further encouraging data were presented from the Phase II trials of TroVax, its cancer immunotherapy, in metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) at the Fourth International Colorectal Cancer Congress in Aventura, Florida, USA, on Saturday 15 October 2005.
Pluristem Announces Joint Projects Product Development and Worldwide Distributorship Agreement with Biological Industries, Ltd.
Pluristem Life Systems, Inc. (OTC BB: PLRS) (the “Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to the expansion of stem cells from umbilical cord blood to address a myriad of fatal illnesses, today announced that the Company has launched a collaboration with Biological Industries, Ltd., to globally distribute joint project products in the field of serum-free media specially designed for hematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells utilizing Pluristem’s patented PluriX(TM) bioreactor.
Positive Results of Trinam® Gene Therapy Presented at American College of Surgeons Congress
Ark Therapeutics Group plc (“Ark”) today announces the publication of positive results from an ongoing Phase II trial of Trinam®, its novel gene therapy to prevent blood vessels blocking in kidney dialysis patients who have undergone vascular access graft surgery.
ProMetic: Results of Blood-Borne Infectivity Study Show Dramatic Reduction in TSE Prions Using PRDT Technology; Results Presented at American Association of Blood Banks Forum Have Positive Implications for Human Blood Supply
Pathogen Removal and Diagnostic Technologies Inc. (PRDT), a joint venture between ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX:PLI.SV) and the American Red Cross, today announced the results of a major study showing that its patented ligand technology removes all detectable blood-borne TSE (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy) infectivity from whole blood.
ThermoGenesis Corp. Provides Master File for the AutoXpress System to the FDA
ThermoGenesis Corp.(NASDAQ:KOOL) announced today that it has provided a Master File on the AutoXpress System to the FDA.
National Cancer Institute Announces $35 Million in Awards to 12 Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnerships
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced funding for a major component of its $144.3 million, five-year initiative for nanotechnology in cancer research.
NHGRI’s Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network Sets Its Sights on Disease Targets: NHGRI Effort Expands to Include Medical Sequencing
In what promises to be a significant step forward in the genome era, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced plans to devote a portion of its large-scale sequencing capacity to efforts aimed at identifying the genetic roots of specific diseases that have long eluded gene hunters.
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Persistence makes perfect: the benefits of IL-2 in adoptive immunotherapy
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Expression and recombination of the EGFP and EYFP genes in lentiviral vectors carrying two heterologous promoters
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Anterior cruciate ligament constructs fabricated from human mesenchymal stem cells in a collagen type I hydrogel
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Drones are Coming to your Business
Leveraging Drones to Increase Safety and Productivity
Integrating Drones into the Most Complex Airspace in the World
Sean S Torpey, CIO, AIT Office of Information Services, FAA
The days of Dull, Dirty, Dangerous are done. Your ever-loyal Drone...
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UAV: Scan Whole Bridge Lengths and Nose Into Hard-to-Reach Cracks
By CIO Applications| Tuesday, April 02, 2019
Engineers are experimenting with a new technology to prevent infrastructure disaster. That's why Minnesota, a land of many lakes and some 20,000 bridges, started drone experiments. At the fractional cost of traditional inspection methods, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAN) can scan whole bridge lengths and nose into hard-to-reach cracks. Drones have been announced in bridge inspection as the next big thing.
Drones have become an integral tool to save time and money and to report on project progress. Drones can snap thousands of high-resolution images near aging trusses, piers, and bearings. Special software then stitches these images into 3D models that can be examined on computers by engineers; a single click on a small detail can call up a photo library stretching back in time—a useful reference for timing the deterioration rate of a structure. Capacity and technology in these devices have advanced rapidly over the past five years, and the industry is testing their value and exploring how to best use drones in specific applications. Furthermore, as more automation and safety features come on board, costs for drones and related services drop significantly.
The associated costs and dangers continue to remain a challenge regardless of the method used to perform the work. AWPs and snoopers are likely to require lane closures, and the equipment itself is expensive to maintain and operate, while ropes need a high level of training and expertise for safe use. A two-phase MnDOT/Collins research project started with these issues in mind, which is currently in its second phase. This study's final objective is to identify the bridges where UAV inspection could provide the close details necessary for a thorough, reliable and cost-effective inspection.
The team is currently working with another UAV, the senseFly albris (formerly called eXom), for phase-II. This is specifically designed for work on high-detail inspection. Researchers chose this system to re-inspect various types of bridges, including bridges with very confined spaces, such as culverts and box girders, and to use the thermal camera of the albris to conduct deck delamination assessments.
In recent years, drone technology has come a long way, with companies like senseFly dedicating research and development to developing drones that are specifically designed for such work. Current FAA regulations slow down the adoption of UAVs for bridge safety inspections as the time needed to obtain approvals is substantial and cost prohibitive. However, the proposed FAA rules are set to remove many or all of these barriers in the hopefully near future for widespread adoption.
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Check out the upcoming BMW X7 during some endurance tests
BMW has prepared a true endurance test marathon for the upcoming X7 luxury SUV. The programme prepared for the new SUV was designed to tackle across challenging terrain all over the world. Earlier winter test drives on snow and ice at the edge of the polar circle were followed by long-distance endurance tests on desert and gravel tracks under the South African sun.
According to BMW, the X7 is the latest interpretation of luxurious driving pleasure in the style of the Munich-based premium brand. The combination of supreme off-road performance and superior driving dynamics on the road so typical of a Sports Activity Vehicle is entering a further vehicle segment.
The new model will be unveiled in 2018, while the sales are scheduled to debut in the first part of 2019.
The prototypes of the new BMW X7 were produced at the BMW Spartanburg plant. Despite conspicuous camouflaging, the preproduction vehicles reveal the imposing dimensions as well as the both clear and harmonious proportions of the BMW X7.
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Experts warn, the next flu pandemic is inevitable, what can you do to ensure you survive?
Common sense and hygiene are your best defense against all disease.
You have the flu, you just don't know it yet. And inside one cell of your body, the virus is mutating into something terrible.
A man digs a grave for Ebola victims during the outbreak in West Africa. The 2014-1026 outbreak was the most serious in history and its global spread was only prevented by swift action by international health officials.
By Marshall Connolly (CALIFORNIA NETWORK)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
8/7/2017 (2 years ago)
Keywords: flu, pandemic, disease, CDC, experts, next, China, patient zero
LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) -- By some unlucky turn of circumstance, a single flu virus is mutating inside one of the cells of your body. Having hijacked a cell, it produces tens of thousands of copies of itself, within minutes.
Within hours, the dreaded first sign of infection hits you. Your sinuses begin to clog, and you feel tired, despite having a good night's rest the night before. At first, you attempt to power though the day, after all, the sniffles are nothing. But within a few hours, your joints ache and you realize you are coming down with something more serious.
Light Your Prayer Candle Now
You ask your boss for permission to leave an hour early, and of course you're excused with admonishments to get well soon. By the time you arrive home and see your family, your eyes are red, your head is pounding, and your nose won't stop running. You medicate yourself with some over-the-counter remedies and lie down. Your family realizes this is not an ordinary cold.
Overnight, you sleep fitfully. Your spouse vacates the bed for the couch to give you space. By morning, you can barely breathe. Within an hour, you visit the toilet multiple times, becoming weaker as you go. Your spouse is worried, and stays home from work. A call is placed to see your doctor, you can be worked in, in the late afternoon. You try to rest, but your breathing becomes labored.
Unwilling to wait, your spouse nurses you to the car and speeds to the emergency room. Your spouse gets you signed in and you wait several minutes to see the triage nurse. You can barely make it into the triage room. Alarmed, the nurse calls immediately for a doctor.
The doctor arrives within a few moments and looks you over. He orders you into the emergency room at once, and shouts at the staff to don masks.
In your last conscious moments, you are laid on a gurney and an intravenous drip is inserted into your arm. They are preparing a breathing tube for you, but it's too late. Fading from consciousness, you pass away within the hour.
Now it's a matter of an autopsy and paperwork, and mourning. By the time your grieving spouse has arrived home to share the news with your family, he too is feeling sick. He doesn't wait, and he reports to the hospital overnight.
Within the next week, it's clear something serious has started. Hospitals around the city are slammed with coughing patients. The CDC is called and there's talk of drastic measures. The news catches wind of the story. People across the nation buy face masks and even gas masks out of fear.
In another week, it's obvious the infection has spread to other cities. A week later, the globe.
Within three weeks, the world is locked down, international travel is banned and domestic flights are restricted. There's not much anyone can do within the country, so the disease just spreads. Only half the people bother to work, the rest stay home out of fear. Public services are intermittent. There's some rioting and looting, but the military is called up to restore order. Its measures are harsh, but effective.
The pandemic lasts almost a year, but a vaccine is made available just three months after the start. Not everyone gets the vaccine right away. After a year, it claims over a billion lives.
In the aftermath, scientists identify you as patient zero, it's an unfortunate legacy.
This is the scenario for which we must prepare because according to scientists it's inevitable, and we're overdue. Pandemic diseases spread rapidly because they are newly developed and people have no natural resistance to them. On rare occasion, a virus can mutate in such a way as to make it more infectious and more lethal. Scientists know how this happens, but they aren't sure why.
Such mutations are more likely to happen in places with large populations such as in China where more than 1.3 billion people live. Some of those people work near large herds of pigs and flocks of ducks and geese. All these animals can carry viruses that can also jump to humans.
Although pandemics occur with some regularity, with significant outbreaks occurring each year or so, few ever grow to rival the death toll accrued by the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 to 1920. About 100 million people died, between three and five percent of the world's population. Many people died the same day they became ill. The young and healthy died as swiftly as the old.
The next pandemic may spread even faster thanks to modern transportation, but it may also be more quickly contained. Experts are on the constant lookout for the next deadly flu virus and a vaccine can be rushed into production within about six to eight months.
The death toll will still reach into the tens of millions, but based on how quickly governments and health agencies react millions of lives can be saved.
As individuals, there is little we can do, except to practice good hygiene, stay home when sick, and keep our homes stocked and prepared for emergencies. Hand washing and common sense saves lives. Beyond that, prayer is our final defense against the ravages of nature.
It has been a century since the last major pandemic. Experts warn, we're overdue for another, and it will happen. Thankfully, we are more prepared than ever before.
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William Delaney Ireland's 10th President
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Presidential Campaign started this petition to The Irish People
The campaign proposes that for a nominal period, one minute, one hour or one day, the Office of the President of Ireland would be symbolically conferred upon the life and name of William Delaney.
William Delaney was one of many children who have died whilst in the care of the State and the religious orders appointed to the management of child care in Ireland and across the globe.
Williams name will be put forward as a candidate for the 2018 Presidential elections, in order to be nominated the support of 4 city or county councils will be sought. Please spread this campaign and let your local council representative know that you wish Williams name to be put forward for election.
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Chapman Tripp has been highly ranked in the 2016 Chambers Asia Pacific and Chambers Global legal directories.
Chapman Tripp is ranked Tier One in the Asia Pacific guide for banking & finance; competition/antitrust; corporate/commercial; dispute resolution; general business law; insurance; investment funds; public law; real estate; restructuring & insolvency; and technology, media, telecoms (TMT). The firm has 40 leading lawyer rankings.
Chapman Tripp is also the only New Zealand firm to have:
two lawyers ranked as “stars” in the Asia Pacific guide – Partner Bruce McClintock for TMT and Partner John Strowger for corporate/commercial, and
two “experts” based abroad in the Global guide – Partners Brian Clayton and Andy Nicholls.
For full Chambers Global rankings for New Zealand, please click here: http://www.chambersandpartners.com/guide/global/2/158/1
For full Chambers Asia Pacific rankings for New Zealand, please click here: http://www.chambersandpartners.com/guide/asia/8/158/1
Related topics: Chapman Tripp announcements
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Total Canada, Bassett Petroleum sign western Canadian distribution deal
Transportation, Trucking and Logistics
SHERWOOD PARK, Alta.–Total Canada Inc. announced a multi-year deal to distribute its TOTAL Lubricants products through Bassett Petroleum Distributors Ltd., marking TOTAL Canada’s entry into Western Canada starting with a distribution center in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
The majority of the products distributed fall under the industrial line of lubricants, high-performance engine oils, greases and special products with ties to several sectors such as energy, automotive (light-duty, heavy-duty and off-road vehicles), metallurgy, and food processing.
“We are delighted to be partnering with Bassett Petroleum as we create a solid base for Total’s expansion into Western Canada,” said Stephen McGarvie, President of TOTAL Canada. “Working with a local family-run business makes Bassett Petroleum an ideal distribution company for TOTAL Lubricants’ high-quality products. Their deep roots and close ties to local residents and businesses make this an excellent fit with our worldwide business model. “
Bassett Petroleum Distributors Ltd. is a family owned and operated Aboriginal business headquartered in Hay River, NWT with regional branches in Sherwood Park, Fort McMurray and Yellowknife. Bassett Petroleum recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and continually diversifies its product and service offering. The company sells and delivers several types of lubricants and fuel, as well as road salt, emulsion oil, bulk transportation, and offers airport refueling services.
“We look forward to this new chapter in Bassett Petroleum’s long legacy. As an Aboriginal, family owned and operated business, we are proud of our personal connections with customers and business partners. We would like to welcome TOTAL Canada into our family,” said Norm Bassett, Vice-President and General Manager of Bassett Petroleum. “We are also pleased that this agreement will allow us to sell a more comprehensive range of products that will better meet the needs of our customers.”
The two companies plan to expand distribution throughout the region.
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The Canon EOS R, Saudi Arabia and tales of love: a wedding photographer's journey
"I loved how the Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens gave that nice bokeh. The images were very soft and very sharp at the same time," says photographer Tasneem Alsultan, who photographed three Saudi Arabian women with the lens, including Ashwarg, here, who divorced her husband after discovering his infidelity. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens at 1/160 sec, f/1.4 and ISO100. © Tasneem Alsultan
Love is universal. But so are marital difficulties, divorce, bereavement and shame. The tension between the many unseen facets of women's emotional lives is something documentary photographer Tasneem Alsultan brings to life in her portraits with the Canon EOS R.
The Canon Ambassador is best known for her striking coverage of gender issues in the Arab world, winning praise for her 2015 groundbreaking series on Saudi Arabian women's love lives – illuminating the everyday stories behind modern women's experiences of marriage, divorce and bereavement. It's a project that's seen her grow from wedding photographer to photojournalist for some of the world's leading titles: The New York Times and Vogue Italia to Vanity Fair.
Saudi Tales of Love was inspired by Tasneem's own experiences of being married at 17 and living separately as a single parent for the last six years of an unhappy 10-year marriage. Shamed by family members for divorcing, it was only later than she realised her experiences were not uncommon, despite seeming far from the expectations of a typical Saudi housewife.
She began to pair her wedding photography with explorations of the concept of love, subverting stereotypes by following the story that unfolds after a wedding day – women who found happiness in arranged marriages, the troubles divorced women can face getting custody of their children and the requirements of Saudi women to have male guardians.
Tasneem tested the Canon EOS R's dynamic range in the extremely bright sunlight of Bahrain when following her subjects for this part of the Saudi Tales of Love series. Hent, pictured here, is happy being single. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens at 1/3200 sec, f/1.4 and ISO800. © Tasneem Alsultan
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Published to international acclaim, Saudi Tales of Love has already been exhibited in over seven countries and has given Tasneem a global platform. But when Canon launched its full-frame mirrorless Canon EOS R System, Tasneem decided to test the low-light capabilities of the Canon EOS R camera, the Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens and Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 IS Macro STM lens by photographing three new chapters for her celebrated project.
She wanted to see if the dynamic range of the EOS R was a match for the extremely bright sunlight and hard shadows in Bahrain, where she had found three Saudi Arabian women, each with their own powerful story about traditional or non-traditional love: one married, one divorced and one single.
"Saudi Tales of Love sees me following Saudi women and seeing their 'reality ever after.' I sit with each one for a day and photograph her in her daily life, and then shoot a collaborative portrait, for which she tells me how she would like to be photographed, so it always relates to her story. Each one has a different narrative to her own relationship to love," Tasneem says.
Mashael is pictured with her husband Mohammed. She's been happily married to him since 2006, but initially she had to be persuaded to meet him. "She said she wasn't looking to be in a relationship," says Tasneem. "He persisted until she gave him a chance and actually met with him. She says that sometimes the unexpected comes with benefits, as she's never regretted being married. He's supported her in ways that she thought marriage wouldn't – for instance, with freedom, education, living abroad and having a career."
Tasneem has realised through this project that her experiences with being married and divorcing young were not uncommon, despite seeming far from the expectations of a typical Saudi housewife. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 IS Macro STM lens at 1/60 sec, f/2.8 and ISO1250. © Tasneem Alsultan
Tasneem's second subject was Ashwarg, photographed in a flowing pink sari in the ruins of an old house. She had been preparing to marry the man she'd met at university when she discovered that he was having a relationship with his friend's wife.
She told Tasneem: "I felt ashamed, so I kept the reason behind our separation to ourselves. I remember waiting for the finalised divorce papers and the judge looked at me disapprovingly and said, 'Had you been a better wife and stuck to looking after your home and husband, you wouldn't be here today.'"
"The third woman, Hent, is single in her late 30s and very happy not having been married," explains Tasneem. "She says when the day comes, if she meets someone who is worthy of her 'happy ever after', then she'll think about it but that won't stop her from pursuing her life and career, and being herself."
Mashael had to be persuaded to meet her now husband Mohammed. "He's supported her in ways that she thought marriage wouldn't – for instance, with freedom, education, living abroad and having a career," says Tasneem. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens at 1/200 sec, f/1.8 and ISO1250. © Tasneem Alsultan
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During her three-day shoot, Tasneem got a good sense of how the Canon EOS R fits into the kitbag of a professional documentary photographer. "It was light, sharp and very easy to use. Because I already use a Canon 5D Mark IV, it didn't feel that different, but it was much lighter," she says.
As part of both her documentary work and wedding coverage, Tasneem finds herself working in unpredictable environments where she often has little control over the lighting, so one of the most important things for her to test with the Canon EOS R was its dynamic range. With the 30.3MP full-frame CMOS sensor, she was able to capture details in both the shadows and highlights.
"The camera was great," she says. "I think as photographers, we don't always have a say in conditions, especially if you're not a studio photographer. The weather here is rarely overcast; it's either extremely bright or low in light, and I need my cameras to perform well in both.
"There was much detail that I could bring out with the EOS R that I wouldn't have been able to get with another camera."
Ashwarg, pictured here, talked to Tasneem about her breakup after her partner's affair: "I felt ashamed, so I kept the reason behind our separation to ourselves." Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens at 1/4000 sec, f/1.2 and ISO100. © Tasneem Alsultan
Tasneem also took advantage of the Canon EOS R's customisable multi-function bar. "I customised the bar to have it change my ISO. All of my camera settings are on manual because I like to control things, especially when the indoors/outdoors and harsh light to darkness changes so fast. With documentary photography, I rarely have the chance to dictate any setting, so I just have to be quick with my hands and trust that the camera will be able to adjust quickly on the spot."
She normally uses 35mm and 85mm prime lenses in her work, but decided to test not only the Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 IS Macro STM lens but also the Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens on this shoot. "I loved how it gave that nice bokeh. The images were very soft and very sharp at the same time," she says. She also plans to put her existing lenses on the EOS body, which are compatible with the new system when using the Canon Mount Adapter EF-EOS R, with no loss of quality and the same focusing performance.
"One of the difficult things that photographers face is that we're not invisible," she says. "I move around all the time, so the silent mode helps me greatly. It means I can get photos without the person knowing that I've clicked the shutter, which makes me much more sensitive, I think, to their stories. My subjects are not always at public events or weddings but often in more intimate surroundings, so I need to make people feel comfortable."
The Canon EOS R's low-light capabilities made it perfect for capturing the women's lives in different environments. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens at 1/320 sec, f/1.6 and ISO800. © Tasneem Alsultan
The Canon EOS R is the first Canon camera to offer an entirely silent shooting mode, enabling photographers to take candid photos without disturbing subjects. This is very relevant for Tasneem's particular brand of observational documentary photography, which often involves photographing people in private or intimate spaces, such as in places of worship or in their bedrooms.
So far, Tasneem has collated 27 stories from Saudi Arabian women, but the project is more than just engaging narratives; the stories are empowering Saudi women by giving them a voice.
"I want to pursue this project because it's so important for us, as Saudi women, to know that we all co-exist and we are all strong. From women who have been widowed to those who are divorced, I feel that all these (sometimes tragic) stories are important to validate the struggles we have and to help us know that we're not alone."
The Canon EOS R's silent shutter enabled Tasneem to become almost invisible by being able to capture her subjects in private or intimate spaces. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 IS Macro STM lens at 1/160 sec, f/2.2 and ISO2000. © Tasneem Alsultan
"From a superficial point of view, we might look the same in our own homes, like we're just confident, strong women going about our daily lives. Then you realise there are so many obstacles that Saudi women face that no other women have to. So, it's tying all those things together that show the universal theme of love, but at the same time, very distinct struggles."
The untold tales
Looking to the year ahead, Tasneem envisions continuing to balance her personal projects with covering social issues in the region. "I am looking to photograph the narratives that haven't been told before," she says.
When Tasneem started Saudi Tales of Love, she imagined a book containing the stories of 30 women. But as she continues to find compelling tales of unexpected love, the idea grows. Moreover, recent developments within Saudi Arabia have opened up the country geographically to her, bringing with it a raft of potentially powerful stories.
Tasneem appreciated the Canon EOS R's light weight and familiar EOS controls: "It was light, sharp and very easy to use," she says. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens at 1/1000 sec, f/1.2 and ISO100. © Tasneem Alsultan
"I've been driving since the day they allowed women to drive," says Tasneem. In June 2018, Saudi Arabia's decades-long driving ban for women was lifted – a story that she also photographed for The New York Times. "Now that I'm driving around Saudi I've been going to regions, cities and towns that I've never had the opportunity to go to before – it's been great.
"The whole reason that I'm travelling across country is to include as many stories on Saudi women as possible. Previously I've only touched the surface because I've only been based in big cities, and now I can go around myself and meet new people and share new stories. There are so many funny stories, and so many that are very important to tell."
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"I listened to the album the other night and I was, to be quite frank, s**t-scared and excited all at the same time," Labrinth told the Daily Star this week.
He added: "But I feel like I've delivered, man."
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Chatbot startup founder sees Southeast Asia potential despite slow start worldwide
September 6, 2017 by Convergence Ventures in Portfolio News
Chatbots may have underwhelmed thus far, but the impact of the technology still has bags of potential in international markets where mobile messaging has been mainstream for years.
That’s the view of one startup that’s working to bring the benefit of bots to the mainstream in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country and the largest economy in the growing region of Southeast Asia.
Indonesia has been recognized as a global hotspot for social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in recent years, and messaging app adoption has been equally as strong with Line, Kakao, BlackBerry BBM and WhatsApp among the top choices for the country’s 260 million population.
Kata.ai, a Jakarta-based startup that recently raised $3 million, said it sees huge potential for many industries and segments to tap into the culture of chat to advance their business and customer relations. It operates a platform that lets brands and companies to operate chatbots using the native Bahasa Indonesian language, and not English which is not widely spoken with fluency.
“We are helping brands to provide better engagement, sell stuff and open new revenue generation channels,” Irzan Raditya, CEO of parent company YesBoss Group. “Chat already has a foothold in Indonesia, but now we want to demystify AI and open up other technologies to underserved markets.”
Right now, Kata.ai operates on a number of chat platforms, which include Facebook Messenger, Line, Telegram, Slack and BBM (which is still big in Indonesia), as well as Twitter and Skype.
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, is a conspicuous absentee because the company has not yet opened its platform. However, that could change soon with this week’s announcement of plans to integrate business services into the app soon.
YesBoss Group began as a personal assistant service, but it pivoted into chatbots when Raditya noticed that the only solutions were global — and therefore in English — which could only ever have limited impact in markets like Indonesia. He then went ahead and started the first local platform for bots.
Raditya and his team graduated Microsoft’s accelerator program in India
Mobile operator Telkomsel is one of the startup’s most visible clients today, using its platform to power its own-name chat bot that lets customers top-up their balance, change packages and check other information. The company plans to use this new funding — led by Taiwan’s Trans-Pacific Technology Fund — to push business-wise by creating its own in-house sales team. The core tech itself needs development and so a significant portion of the round will go towards hiring the AI and big data talent required.
That’s a tough ask in Indonesia where, despite a large population, there’s a lack of tech talent and particularly individuals with experience in AI and chatbot-related fields. For now, though, Raditya isn’t thinking of opening overseas offices to suck up talent, instead he’s looking locally and for those willing to move (or return) to Indonesia.
Likewise, there’s no immediate expansion plan, but he did suggest that the Kata.ai service will launch in new markets in Southeast Asia at some point next year. But with Indonesia forecast to account for half of the region’s fast-growing internet economy, the startup is at least starting out at ground zero.
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In 2010, entrepreneur Derek Sivers' TED Talk went viral because of his surprising goal-making advice: Keep your goals to yourself. Citing psychology research, Sivers posited that when you share your goals with others, it makes you feel "less motivated to do the actual hard work necessary" to achieve them, he said.
But new research out of The Ohio State University could turn this frequently quoted wisdom on its head, finding that people tend to be more committed to their goals after they share them with someone who they see as "higher status," or whose opinions they respect.
"If you don't care about the opinion of whom you tell, it doesn't affect your desire to persist — which is really what goal commitment is all about," Howard Klein, lead author and professor of management and human resources at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, said in a press release. "You want to be dedicated and unwilling to give up on your goal, which is more likely when you share that goal with someone you look up to."
For one part of the study, which is published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, 171 undergrad college students were given a basic computer task that involved moving a slider across a screen as many times as they could over a period of time. From there, they set a goal number of times they would complete the task on the next round. Researchers then sent a "lab assistant" to review their work, who either revealed they were a doctoral-level student, or said they were a student employee at a community college.
When the study participants shared their target goal with the so-called doctoral-level student, they were more likely to reach their goal. On the flip side, those who relayed their goals to the individual who they believed was a community college student did not perform better. Similarly, the group who didn't tell their goal to anyone also didn't see any improvement.
In another experiment, 292 college students set ambitious goals for their grades at the beginning of the semester and shared them. Again, those who divulged their goals with someone of higher status tended to be more committed to their grades by the end of the semester.
Researchers say that sharing your goal with a higher-up does more than keep you accountable, it also makes you more motivated, simply because you care what this person thinks of you. For example, telling a mentor or manager about your hopes to get promoted could light a fire under you more than, say, a peer or friend.
Of course, this advice depends on the goal and the person. While "evaluation apprehension," the term researchers use to describe anxiety caused by being supervised, could make you more driven, it could also have a negative effect on your ability or willingness to crush a goal.
"We didn't find it in this study, but it is possible that you may create so much anxiety in trying to impress someone that it could interfere with your performance," Klein said in the release.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is quickly disappearing from the internet, though some accesses to his site Infowars is still available on the web.
After we inquired this afternoon about the Infowars company page, LinkedIn responded that it has removed the page from its platform.
"We have removed the InfoWars company page for violating our terms of service. We value the professional community on LinkedIn and strive to create a platform where the exchange of ideas by professionals can happen without harmful misinformation, bullying, harassment or hate.
We encourage our members to report any inappropriate content or behavior. We investigate and if it is in violation take action, which could include removing the content or suspending the account."
Pinterest took down Infowars' page on Monday after multiple people flagged the conspiracy theory account to the company. Mashable first reported on the news.
"Consistent with our existing policies, we take action against accounts that repeatedly save content that could lead to harm," a Pinterest spokesperson said in an email statement. "People come to Pinterest to discover ideas for their lives, and we continue to enforce our principles to maintain a safe, useful and inspiring experience for our users."
Infowars had a Pinterest page before it was taken down on Monday.
Earlier four tech giants -- Apple, Facebook, Google's YouTube and Spotify -- cracked down on Jones's notorious conspiracy media empire Infowars. Apple confirmed on Sunday that it had removed five of the six podcasts that Infowars created. Spotify removed podcasts linked to Jones on Monday.
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Facebook said on Monday that it had removed the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the Infowars Page and the Infowars Nightly New Page. YouTube also removed one of Jones's biggest channel -- The Alex Jones Channel with 2.4 million subscribers. And on Tuesday, MailChimp removed Jones saying its terms of service don't allow people to use its service "to disseminate hateful content."
Jones has been widely criticized for promoting untrue conspiracies about tragic events like the 2001 terrorist attacks on World Trade Center in New York that killed almost 3,000 people, and the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that killed 26 students and staff.
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The notorious conspiracist and his supporters have called the removal of Jones's contents a "coordinated communist-style crackdown" to suppress them, according to Infowars's statement in a report leading its website.
However, the Infowars app is still available on iOS App Store, Google Play store, and its accounts are still active on Instagram and Twitter (which has said it will not remove the account).
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Zachary Sweet is currently instructor of cello at Binghampton, Mansfield, and Colgate Universities, on faculty at Ithaca Talent Education and Music Together of Ithaca, and artistic director of Ithaca Free Concerts in Ithaca, NY. Visit his site: www.zacharysweet.org and www.ithacafreeconcerts.org
As a performer, Zachary has performed extensively throughout the Tri-State area. Venues have included the War Memorial in Syracuse, Steadman Theatre at Mansfield University, Shewan Recital Hall at Roberts Wesleyan College, Gibson Hall at Elmire College, Bristol Hall at Westminster Choir College, the Hochstein Performance Hall in Rochester, NY, Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, Kiplinger Theatre at Cornell University, and the "Nassau at Six" recital series in Princeton, NJ. He has had the honor of performing with artists such as Sharon Sweet, J.J. Penna, Phullis Lehrer, Jose Melendez, Yin-Min Chang, Liz Shuhan, Patrice Pastore, Leanne Darling, Kirstin Marshall, Nancy Boston, and the late Erik Friedman.
Currently, Zachary is principal of Colgate University Orchestra and plays regularly with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, the Binghampton Philharmonic, and Tri-Cities Opera. During the summer season, he is a resident artist at the MostArts Music Festival in Alfred, NY.
Zachary completed his Master's in Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music in 2006; in that time he was also a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. During his studies at Eastman, he became a member of of the Eastman Chamber Society, was Principal of Eastman Philharmonia, Eastman Chamber Orchestra, and Eastman Opera Orchestra, and studied chamber music with the Ying Quartet, Elinore Freer, Dr. Jean Barr, Richard Kilmer, and Dr. Kenneth Grant; his principal instructors have been Alan Harris, Kathy Kemp, and Carol Vizzini.
As an educator, Zachary has spent the past eight years exploring music development in young children. In 2009, he complete a long-term training program in Talent Education at the School for Strings in Manhattan under the tutelage of Master Teacher Pamela Devenport. Zachary has also completed training with Carey Cheney, Sally Gross, Carey Beth Hockett, and Rick Mooney. In November 2014, Zachary was awarded the Certificate of Achievement by the Suzuki Association of the Americas.
In addition, Zachary is in demand as a Music Together Instructor, leading classes for Mixed Ages, Babies, Big Kids, and Pre-Schools. In January 2015, Zachary was awarded Music Together Certification Level II status, having demonstrated outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent education. The award was granted by the Center for Music and young Children in Princeton, NJ, Kenneth K. Guilmartin, Founder/Director.
Zachary plays the 2001 "Willow Cello" by Jim McKean and a 1999 Bow by Ron Forrester.
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The Scoop: Law Bird Joins Nightlife Scene on South High
Erin Edwards Dining Editor, Columbus Monthly
Restaurant openings, closings and more local food and drink news
Openings and Announcements
Law Bird, the much-anticipated bar from Annie Williams Pierce and her husband, Luke Pierce, officially opens today at 740 S. High St. in the Brewery District. Williams Pierce is a veteran Columbus bartender (Curio, The Sycamore) who, in 2017, became the first woman to win the United States Bartenders Guild’s Most Imaginative Bartender competition. Law Bird will offer a curated list of wines and craft cocktails along with snacks and small plates. It joins a stretch of independent bars and eateries on South High, including Kolache Republic, Ambrose and Eve, Antiques on High, Tremont Lounge and The Daily Growler.
A locally owned American tavern called Kitchen Social is set to open at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, at 8954 Lyra Drive, across from Polaris Fashion Place. The menu features entrée salads, pizzas, tacos, burgers and mains such as a sushi-grade tuna bowl, bucatini pomodoro and 6-ounce filet. Behind the venture is a trio of Bravo Brio Restaurant Group veterans: Brian Harvey, Brian O’Malley and Phil Yandolino. The restaurant joins Condado Tacos, Atlas Tavern and Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea in The Pointe at Polaris development.
Tempe Taco Co., a new neighborhood eatery for street tacos, quesadillas, tequila and bourbon, opened this week at 7362 E. Main St. in Reynoldsburg. Tempe Taco, which serves lunch and dinner, is located next to its sister business, Prost Beer & Wine Café.
The small, family-run coffee roaster Florin Coffee announced on social media this week that it’s opening Florin Café in the near future. An address was not immediately available.
A Mediterranean spot called District North is now open in the Atlas Building at 10 E. Long St. The Downtown eatery offers dishes such as Greek salads, falafel, beef shawarma, chicken kebab and pita sandwiches.
Toledo-based Marco’s Pizza recently opened a pizza shop at 1802 N. Memorial Drive in Lancaster. The new franchise is owned and operated by pizza industry veteran Manuel “Manny” Ponce.
The Roosevelt Coffeehouse added a fourth location this week. The locally owned coffee shop opened its first corporate store inside Thirty-One Gifts and Bob Evans Restaurants headquarters at 8131 Smith's Mill Road in New Albany. The new café is open to the public. Roosevelt’s other locations include its Downtown coffee shop on Long Street, a counter inside Olentangy River Brewing Co. in Lewis Center and a new space in Franklinton’s Gravity development.
Reel Smoke, a new food truck specializing in seafood, hits the streets starting Friday, Nov. 8, at the Draft Room in Westerville (570 W. Schrock Road). Menu items include lobster rolls, shrimp rolls and fried lobster on a stick. You can check out the Reel Smoke schedule here.
A Cincinnati-based restaurant and nightclub called Galla Park is opening next spring in the new mixed-use building at 900 N. High St. in the Short North. Behind the venture is Peerless Management Group, which also owns BBR, Dahlia and Fireproof in Columbus.
New Menus and Chef Moves
Grandview’s The Old Spot (1097 W. First Ave.) unveiled a revamped menu this week under the direction of head chef Sami Nipps. New menu items include a porchetta sandwich, pork schnitzel and the spaghetti and meatballs from sister restaurant La Tavola. Co-owner Rick Lopez, who also owns Lupo, says he’s handed over the reins at La Tavola to Lupo’s former sous chef Dylan Allen. The move will give the veteran chef-owner more freedom to float between his three restaurants.
This week, The Crest Gastropub in Clintonville (2855 Indianola Ave.) launched a new menu for fall, the first seasonal revamp from new executive chef Ben Kanavel (formerly Comune). Highlights include elk steak frites, king trumpet mushroom with curried grits and roasted duck. The Crest’s sister restaurant at 621 Parsons Ave., which is under the direction of chef Zane Margocee-Perry, will be releasing its fall menu next week.
Baba's Backdoor Dinner Club returns to 2515 Summit St.on Monday, Dec. 2. Baba’s owner/chef, Dan Kraus, will celebrate the restaurant’s third anniversary with a smoke-inspired, multicourse dinner. Get your tickets here.
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One-stop shop pledged to help people plan for older age
By Mithran Samuel on July 13, 2009 in Adults, Older people
Middle-aged people will get support to plan their future health, financial and career needs from a new interactive one-stop shop, as part of a new ageing strategy published by the government today.
Ministers also promised to bring forward a promised review of current arrangements which allow employers to make staff retire at 65, which the Equality and Human Rights Commission and others have labelled as discriminatory.
The strategy is designed to help the UK meet the demands of a fast ageing population by enabling people to stay active for longer and ensuring public services and housing are designed to meet older people’s needs.
The new “one-stop shop” would draw together support available online, over the telephone and face-to-face across government and the third sector and signpost people towards specialised services.
The strategy also includes measures to improve support for people caring for grandchildren, with a summit due this autumn to help grandparents maintain strong relationships with children after parental separation.
Counsel and Care welcomed the strategy. Chief executive Stephen Burke said: “All older people, their families and carers must feel the benefits of the strategy’s range of proposals, because the demographic clock is ticking. The ageing society is not coming, it is already here.”
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Parents left waiting for baby pics after photographer goes AWOL
May 3rd, 2019, 02:00PM Written by Staff Writer Cockburn Gazette
Australia's consumer watchdog is conducting a safety review of a wide range of baby products used for sleeping including bouncers, recliners and rockers. Picture: File image
A PHOTOGRAPHIC business that specialises in taking photos of newborn babies is the subject of a public warning following complaints about unacceptable delays in supplying the images to parents.
Nine complaints have been lodged against Melissa Sheed Photography of Aubin Grove with some of the parents waiting for more than a year to receive the photos of their babies.
The consumers paid at least $1500 for a package of photos with delivery promised within three months.
Ms Sheed had the parents attend her studio to take the photos shortly after they paid their deposit and then the balance of the monies owing.
However, the consumers are now having difficulty contacting Ms Sheed or obtaining the finished product.
Ms Sheed is also failing to cooperate with Consumer Protection’s attempts to resolve the complaints.
Commissioner for Consumer Protection Lanie Chopping said that while the nine consumers are owed more than $16,000 in total, they would prefer to have their photos supplied rather than getting a refund.
“Like weddings, photos of newborn babies can’t be replicated and there is a huge emotional investment in this type of purchase as well as a financial one,” Ms Chopping said.
“A refund alone is unlikely to completely satisfy the consumers in this case, so we are working to get the outstanding photos supplied as soon as possible.
“In the meantime, we advise parents of newborn babies not to engage the services of Melissa Sheed Photography and look at other providers of this service.
“Consumer Protection received other complaints against this photographer last year which were eventually resolved through conciliation, but these new complaints remain unresolved.
“Many consumers, in this case, paid the full amount upfront for the photos but we recommend that consumers pay a small deposit and only pay the balance when goods and services are delivered.
“This reduces the risk of loss and also gives the consumer some bargaining power with the trader if there is a delay in delivery.
“Before engaging a photographer, consumers should get recommendations from friends and family and verify claims by asking to see previous work and speaking to past clients.”
Consumers who have had issues with Melissa Sheed Photography and have yet to lodge a complaint are urged to do so via the Consumer Protection website.
Enquiries can be made by email consumer@dmirs.wa.gov.au or by phone 1300 30 40 54.
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Accenture and Oracle embark on enterprise cloud adoption push
Accenture and Oracle are embarking on a joint push to make it easier for public sector and financial services firms to move to cloud
Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
Published: 27 Apr 2015 15:12
IT services firm Accenture has joined forces with Oracle to form a business group geared towards accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud technologies.
The Accenture Oracle Business Group will provide enterprises with access to industry-specific services built using Oracle’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.
The hope is, by offering firms access to services designed with the needs of their industry in mind, Accenture and Oracle can help them make the move off-premise more quickly by doing a lot of the preparatory work on their behalf.
The delivery of these services will be supported by Accenture and Oracle’s joint workforce, which includes 52,000 consultants and 20,000 Java professionals.
These, the companies claim, will be on hand to help enterprise users plot their cloud moves in the first instance and provide ongoing maintenance support for their deployments.
To start with, the vertical markets served by the initiative will include financial services, hospitality and the public sector.
Stephen Rohleder, group CEO for North America at Accenture, said the group’s formation marks a new chapter in its 23-year relationship with Oracle.
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“The Accenture Oracle Business Group combines [our] deep industry and technology experience with Oracle’s expansive set of cloud solutions to deliver client value not found elsewhere in the market today,” he said.
“This is part of our strategy to take advantage of Oracle’s leading technologies and build our business together for the future.”
Thomas Kurian, president of product development at Oracle, said: “For the first time, customers have the opportunity to use accelerators, pre-built adapters and industry-specific extensions with Oracle’s offerings to accelerate cloud migration and achieve enterprise transformation.”
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CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTIONSenate Consideration of Treaty Document 103-21
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The Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed by the United States at Paris on January 13, 1993.
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04/24/1997 Resolution of advice and consent to ratification agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 74 - 26. Record Vote Number: 51.
04/24/1997 Treaty moved through its parliamentary stages up to and including presentation of the resolution of advice and consent to ratification.
04/24/1997 Considered by Senate.
04/23/1997 Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent. Placed on Ex. Cal. 1.
04/23/1997 S. Res. 75 discharged from Committee on Foreign Relations by unanimous consent. Calendar No. 1.
04/17/1997 S. Res. 75 referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
03/10/1997 S.Amdt.20 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
10/03/1996 Rereferred to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
10/03/1996 No further action at sine die adjournment of the 104TH Congress; automatically rereferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations under the provisions of Rule XXX, section 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
04/30/1996 Reported by Mr. Helms, Committee on Foreign Relations, with printed report - Ex.Rept. 104-33. Together with a resolution of advice and consent to ratification subject to seven conditions and eleven declarations. Sep 11 96 Report submitted with majority and minority views.
04/25/1996 Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
03/28/1996 Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held and concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 104-668.
06/16/1994 Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held.
11/23/1993 Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations by unanimous consent.
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Jeff Jacobs: Splat! Giants Coach Ben McAdoo Should Be Gone
By Jeff Jacobs
Dec 02, 2017 | 6:00 AM
The Giants have little to play for and have already started planning for the future by benching two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Eli Manning on Sunday against the Raiders. It's a decision that was extremely unpopular in New York among fans. (Mark Tenally / AP)
As Yankees general manager Brian Cashman spent Friday morning safely rappelling down Landmark Tower in Stamford, a thought crossed my mind.
If Ben McAdoo ever tried this, he’d go splat on the Stamford sidewalk.
The second splat would be Jerry Reese.
Only the Giants coach and his general manger wouldn’t be dressed in the elf suit Cashman will be wearing Sunday as he descends 22 stories during the annual Heights and Lights holiday celebration.
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They’d be wearing clown suits. And if the two were still in one piece after going splat, McAdoo and Reese undoubtedly would readjust their giant red noses, squirt seltzer water in each other’s faces and agree it was one heck of a plan.
We’re going to put this as delicately as possible: After treating Eli Manning like the stuff you wipe off the sole of your size-20 clown shoe, after botching a personnel decision as badly as it can be botched, McAdoo shouldn’t be allowed to coach the Giants Sunday at Oakland.
There’s no reason for McAdoo to hold his job at this point. He essentially has lost the team. At 2-9, he definitely has lost the season. He is going to get fired anyway in a month, so why allow him to linger as a subject of such scorn and symbol of ineptitude?
When you present a man who has shown nothing but class with some cockamamie, classless plan, at least partly cooked up by your co-owner, your present should be immediate dismissal. Here, Eli, we’ll let you start the first half to keep your playing streak going, but we’re going to replace you with Geno Smith — Geno Smith! — at some point in the game.
No mistakes are amplified like New York mistakes. You do something stupid in Hartford or Cincinnati or Kansas City, it may be shouted loudly, but it won’t be shouted so loudly that you’ll be able to hear it for the next 20 years.
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Mr. McAdoo, you will hear the echoes in 2037. And they’re not going to be pretty.
As he stood there Friday, speaking to reporters, the Giants coach again demonstrated how tone-deaf he is to the art of interpersonal relationships and the precepts of leadership. Asked a number of different ways if he thought he could have handled the situation with Manning better, if he, Reese and John Mara had been on the same page, McAdoo kept giving the same answers.
“I was upfront and honest with Eli.”
“I don’t have any regrets.”
“We were on the same page.”
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Here’s a hint. Rip that page out of your football leadership manual, chew it, swallow it and never let it see the light of day again.
As Cashman stood on the Stamford rooftop on Friday, he made it clear that the next Yankees manager would be from the list of Carlos Beltran, Aaron Boone, Hensley Meulens, Rob Thomson, Eric Wedge and Chris Woodward. By Friday night, reports said, yes, it is Aaron “No Bleeping Managerial Experience” Boone.
Did Joe Girardi deserve to get forced out after getting to the ALCS? No, he did not. Was it finally time to move on? Maybe it was. The 2017 baseball managerial model is to have a great P.R. man out front, and one ultra-willing to embrace the front office metrics. In the Yankees case, with all their brilliant, young talent, it also is incumbent a manager interact well with twentysomethings.
You got the sense that about the worst thing that Cashman felt could happen would be for the Yankees to get to the World Series in 2017. That would mean he’d be stuck with Girardi. Cashman has a long-term plan and it wasn’t spelled J-O-E.
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I bring Girardi up in context of the Giants for a reason. Say what you want about his managing, he did a good job easing out older star players, players who had won World Series titles and part of the Yankees legend. You think it was easy reducing the playing time of Jorge Posada, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez? Ultra-competitors, egos, big money … that exercise was incredibly trying on a manager. In the large scope, Girardi did a good job showing the proud Yankee greats the respect they deserved.
And then there’s McAdoo.
He seemed like a good hire to replace Tom Coughlin. He had a strong offensive mind. He won the first year. What we didn’t know was how weakly he would deal with his players and how ill-equipped he was for handling the big New York stage. He was overmatched. He couldn’t keep players in line. He would take swipes at Eli, who would never bark back in a million years, yet left undisciplined Odell Beckham Jr. do what he wanted. McAdoo came off cowardly. He came off cruel to Eli.
Yet it would be wrong to throw all of this on him. That Giants offensive line was aging years ago. Reese did essentially nothing to restore it. In his epic WFAN rant the other day, Mike Francesa was so dead-on about Reese owing all his swagger to the two Super Bowl trophies Manning won for him. Reese does a better job hiding from the media than Jimmy Hoffa does hiding in the Meadowlands. He is unaccountable. He, too, must leave.
From former Giants like Michael Strahan to Osi Umenyiora to other NFL quarterbacks like Philip Rivers, the criticism of the Giants has been withering.
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Mara had this notion that with the season lost, it would be good to take a look at the quarterbacks beyond Eli. It isn’t a horrible idea. Yet there was no reason to look at Geno Smith. He was kind of a sad joke with the Jets. If they wanted to start Eli against the Raiders, maybe the Cowboys, get young Davis Webb more prepared and give him a look in the final three games, well, that is an acceptable idea.
Yet for Mara not to be around when McAdoo approached Eli was a colossal mistake. Mara’s version of the story, despite McAdoo’s insistence of being on the same page, wasn’t the same as McAdoo’s. Mara talked about keeping Manning in a game if the Giants were in reach of a victory. For McAdoo to awkwardly, without any diplomatic gifts, to give Eli the option of playing the first half and tell him he’d be out after that, c’mon. Eli’s not going for that. This needed delicate care, not a clown show.
Manning gave it all, did it all for the Giants. He has not been particularly good this year, but with that offensive line nobody was going to be any good. I’m not convinced at all Eli Manning is finished as an NFL quarterback.
I am convinced McAdoo and Reese are finished with the Giants. End it now.
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Mass arrests in Maldives as activists defy emergency
Maldivian authorities arrested more than 140 activists who defied a ban on rallies and demonstrated against a state of emergency imposed by President Abdulla Yameen, the opposition said Saturday.
Thousands of supporters poured into the streets of the capital island Male on Friday night and continued their protest rally till early Saturday, the joint opposition said in a statement issued in Colombo.
"Ignoring President Yameen's edicts banning protests, and braving police and army pepper spray and tear gas, the protests swelled to thousands strong by the early hours of Saturday morning," the statement said.
It said 141 pro-democracy supporters were arrested following what it called the biggest anti-Yameen protest to rock the Maldives since May Day 2015 when similar mass arrests were carried out.
Maldivian police confirmed the latest arrests and said 139 people, including 26 women, remained in custody Saturday morning. Two people had been released overnight.
Police also confirmed that they used pepper spray and teargas to disperse the crowds who marched through the streets despite the state of emergency imposed by Yameen last month.
The opposition said three members of parliament were among those arrested on Friday.
Yameen is facing increasing opposition both within and outside his tiny Indian Ocean archipelago since coming to power in November 2013 following a controversial run off election against former president Mohamed Nasheed.
Last month, Yameen extended a draconian state of emergency by another month, ignoring a growing chorus of international concern and calls for democracy to be restored in the honeymoon islands.
Yameen declared the emergency earlier in February, curtailing the powers of the judiciary and the legislature, after the country's Supreme Court ruled to quash criminal convictions against high profile opposition politicians.
The Maldives' highest court has since revoked its order after two top judges were arrested, seemingly giving Yameen the upper hand in a bitter power struggle.
UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has described the state of emergency as "an all-out assault on democracy" and urged Yameen to return the country to democracy and rule of law.
The ongoing unrest has dented the Maldives' image as a popular holiday destination.
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The consigliere in lipstick and Louboutins: She's Meghan Markle's stylist, confidante and 'fixer'. So, asks PAUL BRACCHI, how big a role did Jessica Mulroney have in the crisis shaking the monarchy?
'We can live the American dream' says Obama as jobs take massive hit... and almost half those created are at McDonald's
Updated: 19:11 EST, 3 June 2011
President Barack Obama flew to the Midwest today in an attempt to promote his economic agenda - the same day a damning report revealed the number of jobs plunged in May making it the weakest month this year.
Far fewer workers than expected were hired last month painting a bleak picture for the U.S. economy while the unemployment rate edged up to 9.1 per cent.
The U.S added a minuscule 54,000 new jobs in May and of that 20,000 were created by McDonald's.
American Dream: President Obama making a speech at a Chrysler plant in Toledo
Impromptu: President Obama makes an unannounced stop at Rudy's Hot Dog in Toledo, Ohio
The President visited the Chrysler plant in Ohio today to highlight the auto industry's rebound, a rare bright spot in an otherwise sluggish economy.
He told plant workers: ''We can live out the American dream again… that’s what drives me every day I step into the Oval office.
We’ve got to live within our means, everybody’s got to do their part. Middle-class workers like you, though, shouldn’t be bearing all the burden. You work too hard for someone to ask you to pay more so that somebody who’s making millions or billions of dollars can pay less.'
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The President added: 'We are people who will forge a better future because that is what we do… when we come together, no-one can stop us.
'We’re still feeling the sting of the recession… even though the economy is growing, even though it has created more than two million jobs in the last 15 months.'
Republicans mocked Mr Obama’s speech and economic record.
Former GOP Rep. Fred Grandy told Fox News: '[The speech] was political response to an economic question… an attempt to distract our attention from the looming financial crisis that we’re capable of handling.'
Today's monthly employment report revealed the jobless rate increased and employers hired the fewest number of workers in eight months in May, raising concerns the economy might be stuck in a painful slow-growth mode.
Shopping: Mr Obama looks at gardening gloves for first lady today during his trip
Gear shift: President Obama visits the Chrysler plant in Ohio to focus on the auto industry's rebound, amidst reports of a sharp slowdown in U.S. hiring
The 54,000 jobs created in May are only one-quarter of the February-April pace, the Labour Department said.
Economists had expected payrolls to rise 150,000 and private hiring to increase 175,000. The government revised employment figures for March and April to show 39,000 fewer jobs created than previously estimated.
Economists said the report did not suggest the economy was heading into recession, but they said job growth could prove frustratingly slow.
With downwardly-revised figures for employment in the previous two months, today's report confirmed the sharp slowdown in economic growth since the beginning of 2011, despite government efforts to power up a job-creating recovery.
The bad numbers could in part be blamed on the impact on U.S. manufacturers of Japan's March 11 earthquake-typhoon disaster, as well as the jump in oil prices, economists said.
Hungry for work: The U.S. economy generated a minuscule 54,000 new jobs in May with McDonald's accounting for 20,000 of that
Trouble: A graph on unemployment. The jobless total rose 0.1 per cent in May
But they were likely to fuel the raging political battle over government spending and how to repair the economy while nearly 14 million people remained unemployed, more than a year after the country's deep recession ended.
Underscoring the challenge to President Obama as his campaign for re-election in 2012 gets under way, Republican House leader Eric Cantor blamed the White House's poor policies for the high jobless rate.
'It is astounding that despite the warning signs and economic indicators, President Obama and congressional Democrats still have failed to offer any concrete plan to create jobs, reduce our debt, or grow our economy,' he said in a statement.
The chairman of the White House's council of economic advisers, Austan Goolsby, played down the report.
He said: 'There are always bumps on the road to recovery, but the overall trajectory of the economy has improved dramatically over the past two years.
'The monthly employment and unemployment numbers are volatile and employment estimates are subject to substantial revision. Therefore, as the administration always stresses.'
'Overall, this is horrible,' said Ian Shepherdson, U.S. economist for High Frequency economics. But he said it was likely a short-term dip.
'We think it is largely a reaction -- an overreaction we would say - to the rise in oil prices, and a very real hit to autos and tech from the Japan earthquake.'
NEW DATA SHOWS AMERICANS' EXPECTATIONS FOR MAKING MONEY IS AT LOWEST POINT IN 25 YEARS
Consumers believe the chances of bringing home more money one year from now are at their lowest in 25 years, according to analysis of survey data by Goldman Sachs.
Goldman’s economist Jan Hatzius looked at the University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters poll, which asks consumers whether they believe their family income will rise more than inflation in the next 12 months.
Wage pessimism is at its lowest in more than two decades as real hourly wages have dropped 2.1 percent on an annualized basis over the past six months, a rate of decline not seen in 20 years.
A typical recovery pattern goes like this: stock market bottoms, economic growth bottoms and then hiring and wage increases return. What’s unique and scary about this recovery is that the last piece of the recovery is not there.
'Households are already very pessimistic about future real income growth. A slowdown in job growth would presumably translate into a further deterioration in (expected and actual) real income growth.' Wrote Goldman’s economist to clients.
Obama heads to Ohio to defend economic policies as jobless total hits new high
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Ruthless Eddie Jones axes Dan Cole and FIVE other members of his World Cup squad for the Six Nations, with Jack Nowell and three more left out because of injury
Turkish keeper is sent off after TWICE coming off his line to save a penalty... before a defender takes the gloves and keeps out the second retake (and it was the same player who missed ALL THREE)
Caster Semenya's notoriety was achieved in under two minutes... the journey back will take much longer
By Martin Samuel - Sport for the Daily Mail
Chief sports writer reports from Lappeenranta
Updated: 12:09 EST, 15 July 2010
A synthetic blue track will stretch out in front of her at the Kimpinen Stadium in humble Lappeenranta, just as it did in Berlin 11 months ago, and when she looks along the starting line, Caster Semenya will see girls, athletic, young and lean, just like her, as always. Almost.
For nobody has endured Semenya’s journey to reach this corner of southern Finland, within 19 miles of the Russian border.
Nobody has lived with the speculation, the doubts, the jokes, the inquisition.
Back on track: Semenya (centre) trains in Pretoria last week in preparation for the end of her 11-month exile
‘After this case, for her to be able to come back and continue her career, that’s the biggest win in track and field I’ve ever seen,’ said her manager, Jukka Harkonen, a Finn based in South Africa.
And while the anguish of the last year may be briefly forgotten in the beautiful freedom of the two minutes or so it takes her to travel 800 metres tonight, when Semenya stops running, so much of her entangled past will catch up, even if the field cannot.
We know she is a competitive athlete again, because the IAAF says so, but exactly how and why remains unanswered. ‘It’s a secret,’ said her coach, Michael Seme.
‘Everything must be silenced, even the Minister of Sport in South Africa. The IAAF knows everything that happened. If athletes have a problem they must ask the IAAF.’
Bitter sweet: Caster Semenya celebrates after winning goldl in the World Championships - but her celebrations were short lived
And maybe they will. It was August 19, 2009 when Semenya stepped off the track at the Olympiastadion in Berlin as a world champion.
Several hours earlier, a routine briefing held by the athletics authorities had confirmed she would be required to undergo gender testing following an astonishing improvement in junior competition. Overnight, Semenya, a teenager from a village in the rural north of her country, was famous around the world.
Her masculine features, her anatomical make-up were as brazenly discussed as her split times and achievements. She became a cause celebre for populist politicians in South Africa who wanted to make a black and white issue out of her many shades of grey.
Semenya achieved glory, celebrity and notoriety in 1min, 55.45sec, since when she was escorted swiftly away and has not been seen on a track again.
Back in the swing: Caster Semenya trains ahead of her comeback in Finland
Until tonight at 8.15 local time when Semenya, released from limbo by the IAAF, will make her comeback in the unlikely surrounds of the Lappeenranta Games, an annual event held in front of a knowledgeable crowd of around 5,000, one fifth of whom will be members of Lappeenrannan Urheilu Miehet, the local athletics club.
The official explanation is that this was the first event on the calendar and Semenya wanted to return to competition as soon as possible, but it serves a dual purpose. Lappeenranta is 140 miles east of Helsinki, remote and low key.
A narrative that was expected to be played out in the glare of a thousand arc lights, unfolded yesterday in front of a handful of inquisitors, including those making somewhat redundant documentaries about the media circus.
Semenya was not there, but was instead represented by Harkonen and a slightly overwhelmed Seme, who began by insisting he was not used to such a crowd.
Putting a brave face on: Caster Semenya smiles during a training session in Pretoria
He is in for a shock: three times as many reporters are expected to watch her race tonight.
Seme, like everyone involved in this very modern tragedy, cannot reveal the circumstances that have allowed Semenya to compete again. He says IAAF doctors and Athletics South Africa doctors had to crosscheck their work, but there is surely more to it than that.
Rumours persist that treatment, whether hormonal or surgical, was performed earlier in the year and while it appears crude to even speculate about such intimate detail, these guesses are mild compared to some of the trauma Semenya is believed to have endured in the cause of gender definition.
Seme is a genial man, but there are moments when he looks truly pained by her ordeal.
‘Some say it would have been better that she did not compete in Berlin, but I say no to that,’ he said.
‘It is better that it is like this, because if this had happened to another athlete maybe they would be dead by now. Caster is a strong woman. We could tell her to forget these things and she would, but other athletes might say, “I don’t want to face all these people” and drink poison.
‘If people say she is fast because she is a man, this is a mistake. People say she looks like a man, so she is a man, but that is wrong.
'If Caster took down her trousers people would see she is a woman. It should be so simple, but because there are rules and regulations and systems they must go to doctors and they check with other doctors and have even more tests.
‘So the testing shows she is strong, but there are many athletes who are strong.
'Some men, like Usain Bolt, are stronger than others but that is no problem. There is no questioning. If they tested Bolt they would find he is stronger, too, but there is no test for men.
'They must stop this because there is no truth in what they are trying to discover. There is no federation in this world who can send the wrong person to the wrong category. It is a gift from God.
'Maybe they should test footballers because they are strong enough to play for 90 minutes. Where is it going to stop?’
Gender presents an ethical minefield in athletics
At what point do we accept that some people are more physically able because they are born slightly different from normal; that Bolt will have qualities that are beyond our concept of normality, no different from Bjorn Bjorg’s strangely low resting heart rate or the 11.68-litre lung capacity of rower Pete Reed?
John Curry, Britain’s Olympic figure skater, seemed to have a very developed feminine side; did that enhance his famously delicate interpretations on the way to a gold medal? And while this may have altered his sexuality, it did not alter his gender.
Double standards: Coach Michael Seme wonders why controversy doesn't follow Usain Bolt despite his dominance
If Semenya has received treatment to correct a medical condition, nobody can be sure of the calibre of the athlete that will return.
Seme talks of her working at less than 50 per cent of capacity, dates the dip to January and says even if she runs 2min 10sec tonight, there will be no concern.
‘Once we are fit enough we will try to get the world record,’ he said.
‘We have tested Caster’s body but we need to build it up. It is a very weak body. We kept training, but we lost hope a bit, we did not know when we were competing and then we weren’t able to compete anywhere.’
So just to run is enough for now. Semenya pushed to return to competition as soon as possible, although Lappeenranta also seems to have been selected for the absence of potential controversy.
Nobody in tonight’s 17- strong field ran so much as a heat at the World Championships, so cannot resent Semenya’s victory in Berlin, and the majority are nothing more than Finnish club runners.
Flashpoint: Caster Semenya crosses the finish line to win the gold in Berlin
Only Semenya has a personal best time inside two minutes and a full 23.45 seconds separates her World Championship win from the finest 800m achieved by Pihla Hokkanen of Finnish club SavRie.
Still, Harkonen knows the problems with rivals will not be addressed rubbing shoulders with amateurs in Finland.
‘This will follow her the rest of her life,’ he said.
‘It’s true that there is an issue and only the next few months, maybe the next year, will show how we solve it. I discuss this with my colleagues, and some of the female athletes. I hope the athletes will accept her to compete.
'There were some unofficial stories about runners boycotting her events, so we shall see.
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MARTIN SAMUEL: England's top order is more like a crisis management unit... sooner or later these steady Eddies must be trusted to play their game 16/01/20
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MARTIN SAMUEL COLUMN: VAR would work fine... if it wasn't run by referees making it all about relentless application of laws 13/01/20
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‘I really hope when Caster is ready in the future she can be more open, but now she doesn’t even think about those things. It is too early.
'We are talking about a 19-year-old, not a 27-year-old lady. She is just growing up, just starting to do something in sport. It would be quite dramatic to think about what would happen if she had received a different answer.
'It would be a catastrophe.’
As opposed to this, the compromise, the deal done, and the unsettling second chapter in the challenging life of Caster Semenya.
It is too early to predict happy endings. It is too early to predict much at all, really. There is so much that is secret, and so much more that we just cannot know.
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Nikki Reed heats up the streets of New York as she flaunts her figure in see-through sundress
Published: 18:35 EST, 9 June 2015 | Updated: 19:08 EST, 9 June 2015
Nikki Reed brought the heat to New York on Tuesday as she stepped out in a flirty sundress.
With the mercury reaching 82F (28C), the 27-year-old actress ensured she was dressed for the occasion in an sheer sundress while visiting midtown Manhattan.
The Twilight star was spotted leaving NBC's Today show studio at Rockefeller Center.
A slight breeze: Nikki Reed, 27, sported a translucent maxi dress as she left the Today show's New York studio on Tuesday
Nikki looked great in the navy blue dress, which was lined with white stripes and patterns.
At the legs and shoulders, the dress became translucent and showed off the star's slim build.
She wore nude heels and carried a black Chanel clutch with a gold chain and black-fringed tassel.
The star wore moderate amounts of make-up and no jewelry besides her wedding ring.
Minimal: The Twilight Saga star wore minimal jewelry, opting only to show off her shiny wedding ring
Young love: Nikki married actor Ian Somerhalder, star of the CW's The Vampire Diaries, in April
Newlyweds: The new couple was spotted last week seeing the sights in Miami
The Catch .44 actress married actor Ian Somerhalder, 36, after separating from ex-husband and American Idol star Paul Macdonald.
Nikki married the actor famous for his role as Boone Carlyle on ABC's hit show Lost in April.
The two married in Malibu after confirming the engagement just a month prior.
Currently Ian plays Damon Salvatore on The CW's The Vampire Diaries, which just wrapped up its sixth season in May.
Struttin' her stuff: The 27-year-old actress carried a black Chanel clutch with a gold chain strap
Cute couple: Newlyweds Nikki and Ian embrace while sight-seeing in Miami last week
Up next for Nikki is a starring role alongside William Shatner in A Sunday Horse, scheduled for release this year.
She is currently filming a drama called The Highway Is For Gamblers, in which she appears alongside Joe Jonas.
And later this year, Nikki has a role in Scout with Danny Glover as a co-star.
Nikki Reed heats up the streets of New York in see-through sundress
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Erin Burns is among four NSW players and Sydney Sixers captain Ellyse Perry named in the 15-player Australian squad for next month’s Women’s T20 World Cup.
Burns bolter among NSW players in T20 World Cup Squad
Cricket NSW Media
The late-blooming career of allrounder Erin Burns continues to rise after being named in the 15-player Australian squad for next month’s Women’s T20 World Cup.
She is amongst four NSW players and Sydney Sixers captain Ellyse Perry to be chosen in the squad, which will also contest a Tri-Series against England and India in Canberra and Melbourne beginning on February 1.
Breakers Allysa Healy, Rachael Haynes and Ashleigh Gardner have also been chosen along with allrounder Nicola Carey, who moved to Tasmania this season.
Originally from Wollongong, Burns, 31, debuted for Australia in the West Indies last September.
Erin Burns is one of two new faces in the Aussie squad looking to claim back-to-back #T20WorldCup titles 🏆Here's the beautiful moment she broke the news for the first time, via @cricketcomau 👇@AusWomenCricket #CmonAussie pic.twitter.com/RxRzDNTPbp— News Cricket (@NewsCorpCricket) January 15, 2020
She was due to play her first game for the Breakers last week after previously representing Tasmania and the Meteors but had minor arthroscopic surgery on her left knee.
The Tri-Series against England and India pits three of the top four ranked teams in the world against each other on the eve of the T20 World Cup.
Australia will open the T20 World Cup against India at Sydney Showgrounds on February 21 before meeting Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and New Zealand in the other pool matches.
Here's the Aussie Women's squad for the #T20WorldCup! It all begins February 21... pic.twitter.com/C7WdiXufvn— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 15, 2020
The selectors also named three NSW players in a Cricket Australia XI that will play against Australia in a T20 fixture on January 27 at Sydney Showgrounds.
National Selector Shawn Flegler singled out exciting 16-year-old batter Phoebe Litchfield and teenage bowlers Hannah Darlington and Stella Campbell for special praise.
“This is one of the strongest CA XI squads we’ve had with so many players dominating domestic cricket and putting their hands up for selection, including some who were unlucky to miss out on senior selection,” Flegler said.
“The side has a mix of players who will provide cover to the senior squad, as well as others like Phoebe Litchfield who have shown great promise and we will no doubt see in Australian colours in the years ahead.
“Hannah Darlington and Stella Campbell have also been terrific this season, so this is another great opportunity for them to play with and against highly skilled players.”
Litchfield was player of the match in the Breakers’ four-wicket victory over the ACT Meteors last Tuesday with a game-changing 82 not out while Campbell opened the bowling. All three players have been regulars in the Women’s Big Bash League this season.
Australia CommBank T20 Tri-Series and ICC Women’s T20 World Cup squad
Meg Lanning – captain (Victoria)
Rachael Haynes – vice-captain (New South Wales)
Erin Burns (New South Wales)
Nicola Carey (Tasmania)
Ashleigh Gardner (New South Wales)
Alyssa Healy (New South Wales)
Jess Jonassen (Queensland)
Delissa Kimmince (Queensland)
Sophie Molineux (Victoria)
Beth Mooney (Queensland)
Ellyse Perry (Victoria)
Megan Schutt (South Australia)
Annabel Sutherland (Victoria)
Tayla Vlaeminck (Victoria)
Georgia Wareham (Victoria)
Cricket Australia XI
Stella Campbell (New South Wales)
Hannah Darlington (New South Wales)
Josie Dooley (Queensland)
Heather Graham (Western Australia)
Charli Knott (Queensland)
Phoebe Litchfield (New South Wales)
Tahlia McGrath – captain (South Australia)
Bridget Patterson (South Australia)
Taneale Peschel (Western Australia)
Molly Strano (Victoria)
Belinda Vakarewa (Tasmania)
CommBank T20 Tri-Series
February 1 – vs England, Manuka Oval (2.10pm AEDT)
February 2 – vs India, Manuka Oval (2.10pm AEDT)
February 8 – vs India, Junction Oval (2.10pm AEDT)
February 9 – vs England, Junction Oval (2.10pm AEDT)
ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Warm-Up - Australia
February 15 – vs West Indies, Allan Border Field (3pm AEDT)
February 18 – vs South Africa, Karen Rolton Oval (11am AEDT)
ICC Women’s T20 World Cup - Australia
February 21 – vs India, Sydney Showground (7pm AEDT)
February 24 – vs Sri Lanka, WACA Ground (6pm AEDT)
February 27 – vs Bangladesh, Manuka Oval (7pm AEDT)
March 2 – vs New Zealand, Junction Oval (3pm AEDT)
March 5 – Semi-Final 1, SCG (3pm AEDT)
March 8 – Final, MCG (6pm AEDT)
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California Court of Appeal: Commissioner Cannot Preside Over Parole Revocation Hearing Absent Stipulation
Loaded on Jan. 18, 2019 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News February, 2019, page 27
Filed under: Parole. Location: California.
by Douglas Ankney
On December 5, 2018, the Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, ruled that a commissioner may not preside over a parole revocation hearing absent a stipulation by the parties.
In June 2017, Brandon Berch was accused of violating his parole. Berch objected to Commissioner Edward Hall presiding over the preliminary hearing of the parole revocation matter, but the hearing proceeded over Berch’s objection. At the final revocation hearing on July 7, 2017, Berch renewed his objection before admitting his parole violations. Hall committed him to 120 days in jail. Berch appealed.
The Court of Appeal noted the California Penal Code provides that a petition to revoke parole shall be heard by the court in the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred. Government Code § 71622.5 provides the appropriate court may appoint a commissioner “to conduct parole revocation hearings … and to determine violations of conditions of postrelease supervision….”
California Constitution, Article VI, § 22 states: “The Legislature may provide for the appointment by trial courts of record of officers such as commissioners to perform subordinate judicial duties.” Section § 21 allows such “temporary judges” to preside over a cause if the parties stipulate.
The question the Court had to answer was whether parole revocation hearings constitute a subordinate judicial function.
In determining if a parole revocation hearing is a subordinate judicial duty, the Court examined the types of duties commissioners were permitted to perform in the past and contrasted those with duties they were prohibited from performing. After a lengthy analysis, the Court concluded, “The responsibility to revoke parole and sanction a defendant with jail time is not a subordinate judicial duty.”
Since presiding over the revocation hearing was not a subordinate judicial function, Commissioner Hall did not have authority to perform that judicial duty absent a stipulation by the parties. The Court explained that when, as here, “a commissioner attempts to exercise such power in the absence of a stipulation” he or she does so in violation of the California Constitution.
Accordingly, the Court reversed the post-judgment order revoking Berch’s parole and committing him to 120 days in jail. See: People v. Berch, 2018 Cal. App. LEXIS 1120 (4th Dist. 2018).
People v. Berch
2018 Cal. App. LEXIS 1120 (4th Dist. 2018)
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'Kind of lacking:' Injured Bronco wonders why Canada won't fund spinal surgery
Bill Graveland The Canadian Press Published Monday, December 9, 2019 4:21AM EST Last Updated Monday, December 9, 2019 12:09PM EST
Ryan Straschnitzki learns to control his legs after undergoing spinal surgery in Thailand. (Tom Straschnitzki/Twitter)
CALGARY -- A hockey player paralyzed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash says it feels good to be home after spending five weeks in Thailand, where he underwent spinal surgery.
"It feels good. I mean I felt that cold, cold wind hit my legs, so I'm feeling good. It's good to be back," Ryan Straschnitzki said Sunday night as he wheeled himself into the Calgary airport.
The 20-year-old from Airdrie, Alta., who is paralyzed from the chest down, had an epidural stimulator implanted in his spine while he was in Bangkok. A week later, doctors also injected stem cells above and below his spinal injury to try to reverse some of the damage.
Videos posted by Straschnitzki and his father in Thailand show him straightening a leg. In another, Straschnitzki kicks a ball.
In another clip, while he's strapped into a harness, physiotherapists slowly help him walk with a wheeled machine.
"It was incredible. I mean the last time I walked beside my dad was before the accident and before I moved away," said Straschnitzki. "So doing that again and just seeing the look in his eyes is motivating to me."
Straschnitzki was one of 13 players injured when a semi truck blew through a stop sign and into the path of his junior hockey team's bus at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan in April 2018.
Sixteen others on the bus were killed.
Tom Straschnitzki said he's not an emotional guy, but watching the progress his son made in Thailand has given him hope.
"When I actually saw him move his leg, it just took me back to imagining his last steps going onto that bus on that fateful day. And I was just thinking maybe he can go back on the bus one day," he said.
The surgery can cost up to $100,000 but isn't covered by public health care or insurance, because it has not been approved by Health Canada. The Straschnitzkis say they're frustrated the treatment isn't available here.
Ryan Straschnitzki hopes his experience might at least get the conversation going.
"Our health-care system is kind of lacking in this area for spinal cord injuries and I think it's huge that Thailand and some other places are getting this started," he said.
"I think if Canada can step in and advance this program, I think it'll help a lot of people out."
Tom and Michelle Straschnitzki said they have been flooded with comments and questions about their son's procedure.
"They want to try it and ask why doesn't Canada do it? I don't have the answer about Canada but they do it in Thailand and it is not experimental," said Tom Straschnitzki.
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Ryan Straschnitzki said he isn't expecting a cure but hopes his implant will restore some muscle movement.
"Just getting that feeling of being able to move something that I wasn't able to move before -- and I know core is a huge part of my disability, so anything below my chest is crucial. And after the programming it really helped," he said.
Straschnitzki is hoping to make the Canadian sledge hockey team and compete in the Olympics. He even took his sled with him to Thailand and sat in it as part of his rehabilitation there.
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