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PHOTO REVIVES ANGER AT RED GUARD TERROR
by Xujun Eberlein
History would later record this as the first case of Red Guard students killing a teacher
(PNS) -- A month before the 114th birthday of Chairman Mao Zedong on December 26, a long forgotten photo of Mao with a young girl resurfaced on the Chinese Internet. It generated an instant furor around the girl.
It has been 41 years since then. She was 18 or 19 at the time, a senior student at the girls' school that was attached to Beijing Normal University. On August 18, 1966, she went to Tiananmen, as part of a delegation of Red Guards to be received by Mao. She was given the special honor of placing a Red Guard armband on Mao's sleeve. As she did this, Mao asked her her name and she told him: Song Binbin. Loosely translated it means "gentle and refined." Mao had told her in a joking way, according to the photographer, that gentle was out, and "Yaowu" was in. "Yaowu" means "seeking armed conflict."
Almost overnight, the girl became known as Song Yaowu and famous throughout China. Young and proud, little did she know how history is prone to turning fame into infamy. Soon, her new name evolved into a symbol of Red Guard violence, and for a reason.
Just two weeks before this happy moment on Tiananmen, a cruel beating death occurred in Song's school. It was August, and the peak of the three-month activity that marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards, mostly middle school and high school students, held power in China second only to Mao. On August 5, in the name of the revolution, teenage girls in Song Binbin's school yelled at and beat up their teachers and administrators.
Bian Zhongyun, the school's Communist Party secretary and vice principal died in the turmoil. History would later record this as the first case of Red Guard students killing a teacher, something that would shortly thereafter become more frequent nationwide.
Song's role in the 1966 beating death remains clouded to this day. All we know is that she was a Red Guard leader at the time. One witness claims that she was on campus with other onlookers, and that she had commented on the righteousness of the action.
Fast-forward four decades. Today, Song Binbin, who goes by this name, has lived a low-key life in the United States for 27 years. On the other side of the earth, in Beijing, her alma mater is celebrating its 90th anniversary. For reasons we don't know, as part of the celebrations, displayed is a special photo album containing the picture of Song Binbin with Mao. On the opposite page is a picture of Bian Zhongyun, the teacher who had so tragically died at the hands of her students.
Earlier this year, the anniversary had sparked a search for alumnae who made a mark in the world. Song Binbin was among those recommended. She embraced the opportunity with enthusiasm, listing among her achievements her doctoral degree in atmospheric and planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She said she was the first doctoral student from China in her department, and provided a picture of herself with her adviser, Fred Frey, a reputed geochemist at MIT.
This appears to be the first time Song Binbin acknowledged her ties to her high school. She had done her best to move away from that time, and always seemed reluctant to talk to anyone about her past. Viewed by most as a villain, and perhaps by history as another fervent believer in a cause gone wrong, she had put the past behind her. That is, until now.
In her write-up of her career, she made no mention of "Red August," 1966. No apology. No justification. Simply nothing. This is a strategy that had been fairly effective in the United States, but her alma mater is not in her adopted land. If she believed her past was forgotten, she was wrong. People saw what she had written, and it generated a furor. Many were outraged that she would hold up her accomplishments in America as if nothing had happened at her high school. They called her the school's shame. They called the school's 90th anniversary celebrations a shame.
Among the 90 honored alumnae, Song Binbin provided the longest self-introduction, as well as the largest number of personal photos. Her eagerness to regain recognition from her old school is a bit puzzling, given how hard she had been trying to have her Red Guard past forgotten. In all the years after coming to America, the only time she spoke publicly was in Carma Hinton's recent documentary, "Morning Sun." With her face blurred, Song told the interviewer Ð and the audience Ð she had never hit anyone; she had always opposed violence. It was her way of indirectly denying any involvement in Bian Zhongyun 's beating death.
In her long self-introduction in Chinese, which can be found online, she talks about her 92-year-old mother and young son. Through her words, I see her keenness to spare her family from the shadow of her past, to allow them to lead normal lives. I have also read articles about Song's gentle personality, which I have no reason to disbelieve.
My big sister, though years younger than Song Binbin, was also a Red Guard and died for her cause at age 16. Knowing my sister, I tend to believe in Song Binbin's good intention. Like my sister, Song was one of countless Red Guards, in fact, an entire generation of Chinese youngsters who had responded with enthusiasm to Mao's call for an ongoing revolution.
There is nothing to suggest that Song Binbin was especially fervent in her beliefs, but the picture of herself next to Mao was enough to make her stand out. Unfortunately, the symbol is long-standing, despite being transformed from glorious to notorious; despite Song Binbin and her family becoming victims of the very revolution she had participated in; despite Song spending her adult life as a scientist, shying away from politics.
But the fact remains that the Red Guards did commit numerous acts of violence, and Song was a notable member of that collective. The violence was aimed at people who were labeled as enemies and the label, in turn, justified the violence. It's like in a war. Remember the American soldier who was tempted to shoot an Iraqi family in an insurgent controlled area? ("Rules of Engagement" by William Langewiesche in Vanity Fair, 2006, reprinted in Best American Magazine Writing 2007, has a great description of this.)
Only history can belatedly judge the justice or injustice of such actions, and the judges are never the litigants. "Praise for good things doesn't go beyond a door; blame for bad things sounds out for thousands of miles." So goes a Chinese adage.
So far, few former Red Guards have come out and talked about their actions. Most are in their 60s now, remaining behind a wall of silence. I can understand their excuse that the violence they were involved in was circumstantial, non-personal, and, at the time, even politically correct. Still, I can't help but wonder: Had Song Binbin acknowledged her part in, clarified her position on, and properly expressed her sorrow for that tragic day of 1966, would people's reaction today have been more restrained? Would she have been forgiven by those who crouched in terror that day, as well as by those who had terrorized and now try to forget their shame?
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Albion Monitor December 22, 2007 (http://www.albionmonitor.com)
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‘Alice in Wonderland’ Used To Convince Japan Children Nuclear Power Is Safe
‘Alice in Wonderland’ was used to convince children in Japan that nuclear power is safe (PHOTO & VIDEO)
Nuclear Power after Fukushima | Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan
Uploaded by: Harvard
Uploaded on: August 7, 2012
Speaker: Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists
At 40:15 in
Ferguson: Stories have come out that the government was promoting nuclear power so much that they were using cartoon characters, they were using Alice in Wonderland to convince school children nuclear power is incredibly safe. They weren’t showing the other side of the story adequately enough. It was an unbalanced presentation.
The New York Times’ Norimitsu Onishi on the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theme:
‘Safety Myth’ Left Japan Ripe for Nuclear Crisis
Alice In Wonderland Used To Convince Children Nuclear Power Is Safe
Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.”
“It’s terrible, just terrible,” the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. “We’re running out of energy, Alice.”
A Dodo robot figure, swiveling to address Alice and the visitors to the building, declares that there is an “ace” form of energy called nuclear power. It is clean, safe and renewable if you reprocess uranium and plutonium, the Dodo says.
“Wow, you can even do that!” Alice says of nuclear power. “You could say that it’s optimal for resource-poor Japan!”
Over several decades, Japan’s nuclear establishment has devoted vast resources to persuade the Japanese public of the safety and necessity of nuclear power. Plant operators built lavish, fantasy-filled public relations buildings that became tourist attractions. Bureaucrats spun elaborate advertising campaigns through a multitude of organizations established solely to advertise the safety of nuclear plants. Politicians pushed through the adoption of government-mandated school textbooks with friendly views of nuclear power.
The result was the widespread adoption of the belief — called the “safety myth” — that Japan’s nuclear power plants were absolutely safe. Japan single-mindedly pursued nuclear power even as Western nations distanced themselves from it.
The belief helps explains why in the only nation to have been attacked with atomic bombs, the Japanese acceptance of nuclear power was so strong that the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl barely registered. Even with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the reaction against nuclear power has been much stronger in Europe and the United States than in Japan itself.
As the Japanese continue to search for answers to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, some are digging deep into the national psyche and examining a national propensity to embrace a belief now widely seen as irrational. Because of this widespread belief in Japanese plants’ absolute safety, plant operators and nuclear regulators failed to adopt proper safety measures and advances in technology, like emergency robots, experts and government officials acknowledge.
“In Japan, we have something called the ‘safety myth,’ ” Banri Kaieda, who runs the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which oversees the nuclear industry, said at a news conference at an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting in Vienna on Monday. “It’s a fact that there was an unreasonable overconfidence in the technology of Japan’s nuclear power generation.”
As a result, he said, the nuclear industry’s “thinking about safety had a poor foundation.”
Japan’s government has concentrated its propaganda and educational efforts on creating such national beliefs in the past, most notably during World War II. The push for nuclear power underpinned postwar Japan’s focus on economic growth and its dream of greater energy independence. But as the carefully fostered belief in nuclear safety has dissipated in the three months after the March 11 disaster, Japanese are increasingly blaming the nuclear establishment for Fukushima. In a politically apathetic country, tens of thousands have regularly held protests against nuclear power. Young Japanese have used social media to organize and publicize demonstrations that have been virtually ignored by major newspapers and television networks.
A song, “It Was Always a Lie,” has become an anthem at the protests and a vehicle for Japanese anger on the Internet. Its author, a famous singer named Kazuyoshi Saito, wrote it by changing the lyrics of a love ballad, “I Always Liked You,” that he composed last year for a commercial for Shiseido, the cosmetics giant. Mr. Saito’s performance of the song, surreptitiously uploaded on YouTube and other sites, has gone viral.
“If you walk across this country, you’ll find 54 nuclear reactors/School textbooks and commercials told us they were safe,” the song goes.
“It was always a lie, it’s been exposed after all/It was really a lie that nuclear power is safe.”
h/t EneNews
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The Garigue in Spring
Garigue: shrubby vegetation of dry Mediterranean regions, consisting of spiny or aromatic dwarf shrubs interspersed with colourful ephemeral species (Collins English Dictionary)
At first glance it appears to be a barren stretch of land interspersed with rocks and a few shrubs, bent and stunted by fierce winds. But if you look closer and focus on the little things, you will come to realise that the idea that the garigue is barren is just a misconception. On the contrary, it is teeming with life. You just have to know where to look for it. In Malta the garigue is most common on cliff-tops close to the shore, especially in areas like Dingli Cliffs, Ghar Lapsi, Migra Ferha, l-Ahrax tal-Mellieha and the stretch of land between the Mnajdra and Hagar Qim temples and Wied iz-Zurrieq.
The small pockets of red-brown soil in between the jagged rocks are shallow and the only plants that will thrive have short roots and are able to withstand long periods without water under a blazing Mediterranean sun. So the plants that do grow are quite tiny and the best way to appreciate them is to get down on your knees and take a close peek. It is well worth the effort, especially in spring, when the majority of plants will be in flower.
Ironically, although at first glance the garigue appears to be so barren, plants thrive and flower there year round. The most prevalent shrub of the Maltese garigue is the wonderfully-scented wild thyme but it is also common to find asphodel, fennel and spurges. Less frequently, sea chamomile, different species of tiny orchids and irises are encountered. Some of these plants are endemic to the Maltese islands.
In the past, large stretches of garigue were destroyed by urban development and the mistaken mentality that these tracts of land are incapable of supporting any useful vegetation. Nowadays most garigue areas are protected and, thankfully, they continue to be a source of delight to all lovers of nature.
More information about Malta’s garigue may be found on the blogs Maltese Nature and The Malta Photo Blog.
Labels: asphodel, cliffs, endemic, fennel, flora, flowers, garigue, giant fennel, nature, spring, wild flowers
St Agatha’s Tower
St Agatha’s Tower, or as it is more commonly called, the Red Tower is situated on a high ridge that gives anybody in it unobstructed views of the surrounding countryside and, more importantly, the sea.
The tower was built in 1647-1648 during the reign of Grand Master Lascaris as part of the coastal defences of the island and was dedicated to St Agatha – one of the patron saints on Malta. Inside the tower there is a small chapel dedicated to the saint.
Originally, the tower was probably accessed by a drawbridge. The interior of the tower consists of two vaulted rooms with four corner towers. If the need arose, it was able to house a garrison of about 50 men who had at their disposal five cannons positioned on the roof. The tower was manned by British soldiers during both of the world wars. At the base, the walls of the tower are about four metres thick. It is not known when or why the tower was painted red.
In recent years the tower has been restored by Din l-Art Helwa (Malta’s Heritage Trust) with the aid of three private companies.
The Red Tower, Triq tad-Dahar, Mellieha
Opening hours: daily 10.00 – 13.00 hrs; Tuesdays 10.00 – 16.00 hrs
Entrance fee: 2EUR
Labels: Grand Master Lascaris, Knights of St John, Mellieha, red, tower
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Amputees and Those That Help Them
Health — 20 May 2014
Special to American News Report
It is estimated there are nearly 2 million amputees in the United States, and it may only just seem that every one of them has a heroic story.
Meet 72-year old Bill Nessell, an amputee who lives in the Inland Empire of California. He is a former deputy with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team.
Bill’s been an amputee for 11 years. He didn’t lose his right leg in action — actually he lost it because of peripheral artery disease from smoking.
He is president and spokesman for Amputee Connections of Redlands, a support group for people who have had arms or legs amputated. His group sponsors Kids for Camp No Limits which is set for June 27-30.
Bill and other amputees took part in the National Limb Loss Awareness event on May 18 at the Redlands Community Hospital.
“There are over 500 new amputees in the U.S. every day,” he said, most of them because of diabetes, which is the leading cause of amputation and why he is fighting so hard to raise awareness
And it seems like for every amputee like Bill Nessell there are people helping them like Michael Bissell and Paul Morton.
They are prosthetists from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who recently were part of a team that went to Haiti to fabricate and fit artificial limbs for Haitian amputees.
They joined two Australian prosthetists and over a dozen other medical volunteers in a clinic in the Haitian city of Port de Paix. They volunteered as part of the Phoenix Rising for Haiti program a nonprofit headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, committed to sustainable orthopedic care in Haiti.
The entire medical group saw more than 100 patients per day during their two week stay. All the prosthetic devices were made from donated materials. It’s a little different obviously.
While in the U.S. a prosthetist can make a fitting and order the right parts.
In a situation like Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, it was more of a make do—but ironically, it’s faster.
“The start and finish was one day—eight hours for one patient’s leg,” Morton said. “In the U.S. with insurance and paperwork and proper documentation, it’s three weeks.”
They treated two dozen amputees in the two weeks they stayed in Haiti.
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The secret to being cool: Try smiling
A News Consumer — 14 April 2018
For many people, one of the unspoken rules for being cool is maintaining an emotionally inexpressive attitude. This message is reinforced through advertisements where fashion models rarely smile and by quotes from celebrities. In an article in the Huffington Post, Kanye West said he doesn’t smile in photographs because “it just wouldn’t look as cool.”
Researchers at the University of Arizona recently questioned whether this connection between concealing emotions and coolness was in fact true. In a series of experiments, the investigators showed participants photographs of celebrities and non-celebrities who were smiling or inexpressive, and their results call into question common assumptions about what makes someone cool. The study is available online in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
“We found over and over again that people are perceived to be cooler when they smile compared to when they are inexpressive in print advertisements,” says Caleb Warren, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Arizona. “Being inexpressive makes people seem unfriendly or cold rather than cool.”
The researchers asked participants to view print advertisements for a clothing brand, and the model in the ad was either smiling or not. The models included well-known celebrities such as James Dean, Emily Didonato and Michael Jordan as well as unknown models, and they were endorsing unfamiliar brands and well-known brands. Then the participants rated the extent to which the model seemed cool on a seven-point scale. The participants consistently rated the smiling models as cooler than the inexpressive models.
Warren was surprised that participants preferred the smiling pictures of James Dean, who is typically inexpressive in photographs and considered a cool icon. The study also showed that participants had a less favorable impression of the brand when the models were inexpressive.
Warren and his co-authors, Todd Pezzuti from the University of Chile and Shruti Koley from Texas A&M University, found one exception to the trend: competitive situations. When a news article showed mixed martial arts fighters who were going to face one another at a press conference, participants rated the inexpressive athlete as more cool and dominant than a smiling athlete. When the context changed to a friendly meeting with fans at a press conference, then the participants rated the smiling fighter as cooler. “This shows that being uncool or cool can depend on the context,” says Warren.
The findings not only have implications for advertisers who are striving to make favorable impressions with consumers, but also for people as they relate to one another. While it may be difficult to change engrained societal assumptions about how to become cool, Warren hopes this research will increase awareness about how people perceive one another. In a world of social media, for example, individuals may want to consider posting smiling pictures rather than inexpressive photographs.
“This inaccurate belief about how to become cool can influence the way we communicate with others, and being inexpressive can hurt relationships,” Warren says. “It also makes it more difficult to understand one another. For these reasons, being inexpressive isn’t necessarily cool.”
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Could Christine Blasey Ford be 100% Right & Still Be Wrong?
Last Thursday, I watched the spectacle that took place before the Senate Judiciary Committee with the testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh. Both Ford and Kavanaugh were 100% certain of their version of what did or didn’t happen 36 years ago.
Most every Democrat in America believed Ford when she was certain that it was Brett Kavanaugh who tried to rape her so long ago. Note that she provided no evidence to back up her accusation, but Democrats believed her anyway.
On the contrary, Brett Kavanaugh did provide evidence of his innocence and yet, in a judicial system that is based upon the premise of innocent until proven guilty, Democrats ignored Kavanaugh’s evidence and are prepared to convict him based upon Ford’s recollection.
Just a quick note to emphasize that Ford could not say where the alleged attack took place, nor did she know how she got there or how she got home, and yet Democrats demanded an FBI investigation. As pointed out by one of the GOP Senators present, where and what does the FBI investigate without any evidence location or other information?
Yet, like many others, I believe that Ford was very credible and that she really did experience a sexual assault sometime in her life. However, listening to both Ford and Kavanaugh, I believe that Ford was 100% right in her account and yet still wrong as to who it was who assaulted her.
However, I have seen a number of instances that still cause me to question the accuracy of Ford’s recollection.
I’ll admit here that I am a fan of true crime programs that detail real criminal investigations and court cases. More than one of these real-life cases show victims that have been 100% positive of the identity of their attackers.
I recall one case where a young girl identified a man as the attacker and killer of her parents. She was positive as to his identity and he was convicted and sentenced to prison, largely on the testimony of the girl. Over two decades later, it became apparent that her identification of the attacker was wrong and the man sent to prison was released, after the conviction of the real criminal.
In another case, a rape victim was absolutely positive as to the identity of her rapist and it led to a conviction and prison sentence. Some years later, through forensic evidence, the real rapist was arrested and convicted. After the real rapist was sent to prison, the one rape victim said that she was so sure of who it was that raped her. She was so sure, that she seemed completely credible and would most likely have passed a polygraph test.
Many a lawyer, trial judge and even police officers will testify that eyewitness accounts are often inaccurate and cannot be completely relied upon. I can personally testify to this when I witnessed an auto accident some years ago. I remained at the scene and gave police my account of what I saw. About half a dozen other witnesses also gave police statements of what they saw, and in the end, the police reported having several different accounts as to what happened.
Every eyewitness would most likely have passed a polygraph test because they fully believed what they think they saw and heard, even though not everyone could be accurate.
Legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, Rikki Kleiman, appeared on CBS News and also brought up the fact that a person can be so convinced of something that they fully believe it, even if it is not necessarily the fact. She points out that there is sometimes a difference between memory and fact, even if the victim is dead certain of their memory.
I have no doubt that Ford experienced a sexual assault when she was in high school. However, based upon seeing so many people having false memories as to who the attacker was, causes me to question the accuracy of her identification of Brett Kavanaugh.
It’s possible that she always believed it was him when in fact it may not have been, but after years of believing it was him, it is ingrained in her memory so strongly that she believes it 100% allowing her to pass a polygraph test.
Additionally, she claims to have only drank 1 beer before the incident. To many people, that sounds like nothing, but with some people, 1 beer can have quite an impact. I know a woman who if she drank a whole beer, it would affect her to the point of inebriation and this is true with other people as well. One beer would cause her to say and do things that she wouldn’t normally say or do, and it would impact her memory of what happened while under the influence of that 1 beer. I wonder why no one has ever questioned this aspect of Ford’s story, along with the question of whether she ONLY had JUST 1 beer?
I wonder how many of us, including the members of Congress, never did anything in high school or college that we are ashamed of today and wish we had never done? How many of us would want to be held accountable throughout our adult lives for the actions we took while in high school or college? If that was so, how many of them would be where they are today?
Another thing that makes one question Ford’s account of the incident is that she can’t even say when or where the attack took place. She doesn’t know how she got to the location or how she got home afterwards.
As pointed out by Sen. Lindsey Graham, the FBI basically has nothing on which to conduct an investigation and that this whole affair is nothing but a ruse by Democrats to delay the confirmation until after the midterms. He feels that Democrats used Ford and ruined her life for their selfish political motives to block President Trump from putting a good and honest man on the Supreme Court. After all, as Kavanaugh pointed out in his opening statement, there were Democrat Senators on the Senate Judicial Committee who said at the onset that they would do everything possible to block any nominee that Trump selected for the Supreme Court.
My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that Ford is 100% right in everything except who her attacker was. She has so convinced herself it was Kavanaugh that it is seared into her memory that way, even if that memory is wrong.
I also believe that Democrats are using this whole mess, (the hearings and FBI investigation) as a desperate attempt to delay Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote until after midterm elections in hopes that they will win control of Senate. That would give them the ability to block any nominee that Trump selects for the high court and could mean that the Supreme Court could remain an 8-person court for the next 4 years.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh has not only proven his innocence, but he is more than qualified to become America’s 114th Supreme Court Justice.
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Ernst October 03, 09:38
Christine Blasey Ford could also be a plant set to derail the Kavanaugh appointment. Blasey Ford is a PhD behavioral psychologist specializing in memory manipulation and a left wing radical. With no supporting evidence, her capability and motivation are extremely suspect.
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Cowboy Poetry
Cowboy poetry is a form of poetry which grew out of a tradition of extemporaneous composition carried on by workers on cattle drives and ranches. After a day of work, cowboys would gather around a campfire and entertain one another with tall tales and folk songs. Illiteracy was common, so poetic forms were employed to aid memory. Contrary to common belief, cowboy poetry does not actually have to be written by cowboys, though adherents would claim that authors should have some connection to the cowboy life such that they can write poetry with an "insider's perspective". One example of a popular "cowboy poem" written by a non-cowboy is "The Ride of Paul Venarez" by Eben E. Rexford, a 19th-Century freelance author. Newcomers are surprised to hear cowboy poetry that is contemporary. Many people tend to focus on the historic cowboy lifestyle, but the work that cowboys do continues. The cowboy lifestyle is a living tradition that exists in western North America and other areas, thus, contemporary cowboy poetry is still being created, still being recited, and still entertaining many camp visitors around campfires and convention halls. Much of what is known as "old time" country music originates from the rhyming couplet style often seen in cowboy poetry along with guitar music. Cowboy poetry continues to be written and celebrated today. Baxter Black is probably the most famous, and possibly the most prolific, contemporary cowboy poet. Many cities in the United States and Canada have annual "roundups" dedicated to cowboy poetry. Cowboy Poetry week is celebrated each April in the United States and Canada.
Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, sound and/or images, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation, and instilling moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view. The term 'storytelling' is used in a narrow sense to refer specifically to oral storytelling and in a looser sense to refer to narrative technique in other media. Storytelling predates writing, with the earliest forms of storytelling usually oral combined with gestures and expressions. In addition to being part of religious ritual, rock art may have served as a form of storytelling for many ancient cultures. The Australian aboriginal people painted symbols from stories on cave walls as a means of helping the storyteller remember the story. The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance, which bring understanding and meaning of human existence through remembrance and enactment of stories. People have used the carved trunks of living trees and ephemeral media (such as sand and leaves) to record stories in pictures or with writing. Complex forms of tattooing may also represent stories, with information about genealogy, affiliation and social status.
With the advent of writing and the use of stable, portable media, stories were recorded, transcribed and shared over wide regions of the world. Stories have been carved, scratched, painted, printed or inked onto wood or bamboo, ivory and other bones, pottery, clay tablets, stone, palm-leaf books, skins (parchment), bark cloth, paper, silk, canvas and other textiles, recorded on film and stored electronically in digital form. Oral stories continue to be committed to memory and passed from generation to generation, despite the increasing popularity of written and televised media in much of the world.
Gary Brace Music
Cowboy Poetry and Storytelling
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Category Archives: Tony Blair
Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, Tony Blair, Yemen
Tony Blair Visits Riyadh: is the Weasel Offering Free War Advice?……….
April 21, 2015 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Arab media report on Tony (the Weasel) Blair visiting the rich moneyed part of Middle East. Tony Blair, the consummate warmonger of our region, has landed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also visiting Bahrain, but that is only a footnote visit to a footnote dynasty. You never see him visit poorer Arab countries: Yemen or Sudan or Somalia or Gaza.
Tony must be up to ‘something’. He is as credible among Arab peoples as, say, Benedict Arnold has been in American history. Even though Arab princes and potentates seem to deal with him, actually hire him. So what is he cooking for the Saudi King, whom he reportedly has met with a large delegation? Is Tony trying to keep his useless job of “Middle East Quartet” bullshitter? Is he giving advice on how to achieve “victory” in Yemen?
One thing is certain: Tony Blair never diverges from what the oil princes and potentates like. His eyes are always on the wallet, since long before he kissed Gaddafi on the cheeks (no, the other ones) as he lobbied for J P Morgan Bank. That was just months before he rediscovered how evil and “dictatorial” Gaddafi was.
So what is the weasel up to these days?
m.h.ghuloum@gmail.com
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Central Asia, Corruption, Tony Blair, Uncategorized
Have No Morals, Will Travel: More on Tony Blair’s Sordid New Labor Deals………
“The Kazakh despot who bought Blair for £16million (and Cherie for £320k): How ex-PM sold himself to a ‘virtual gangster’ linked to torture, money laundering, bribery and murder ………. Tony Blair makes a business out of providing consultancy to mostly unacceptable and disreputable clients. How else to explain the work he does for President el-Sisi in Egypt — who obtained his power by a military coup — or Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, not to mention the consultancy he provides, at great expense no doubt, to the unelected leaders of Gulf countries………. Since leaving office, in the wheels-within-wheels world that he now inhabits, Blair, in his turn, was recommended for the job of promoting Kazakhstan and its president by one of his most influential contacts — Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi…………”
He has become a specialist in promoting despots from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia and Africa. It is not so much the ‘consultancy’ as using whatever political and public capital he has left to lobby for their political agendas. The motto of his business empire should be: “Have no morals, will travel“.
Not so much more to say here about Blair, this former British prime minister who is the least respected of former British PMs. Friend and enabler, nay servant, of corrupt despots and princes worldwide. Now why can’t he just vanish from public attention? Like the others, from Churchill to Wilson to Major to Lady Thatcher? It almost feels like an insult mentioning him in the same sentence as Churchill and Wilson.
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Corruption, Syria, Tony Blair, Uncategorized
Corruption Associates: Middle East Envoy Blair and the Royals……..
“Tony Blair’s company is alleged to have brokered multi-million pound deals that earned £41,000 a month and two per cent commission on each transaction with an oil firm founded by a senior Saudi royal family member………The leaked 21-page contract apparently shows that the former Labour prime minister’s umbrella company, Tony Blair Associates, agreed in November 2010 to arrange deals for PetroSaudi with his senior Chinese officials contacts during his visit to Beijing that month, as reported by The Sunday Times. ………. PetroSaudi, which is registered in the Cayman Islands tax-haven to legally avoid 85 per cent oil and gas company taxes in the Middle Eastern nation, was jointly founded by Saudi businessman Tarek Obaid and Prince Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud, one of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah’s seven sons………….”
Middle East envoy. Pray tell, what has he done about the Middle East problems? (If I were rude and crude, I’d say “whatthefuck has he done” but I ain’t rude, so I won’t). Besides urging more war on behalf of his Persian Gulf benefactors, the absolute princes and potentates.
Tony Blair introduced the ‘stuff’ about New Labor. And it was “stuff” if you know what I mean. Just as Bill Clinton was touted as a New Democrat. Both terms mean moving halfway toward the right, gutting certain programs and introducing extreme deregulation that increased economic instability and widened income and wealth gaps to unprecedented levels.
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Iraq, Syria, Tony Blair
Tony Blair as Clinton and Sgt. Schultz, Ready to Invade Syria?………
“The world will face terrible consequences over many years to come for failing to intervene in Syria, Tony Blair has said. The former prime minister, who serves as the envoy for the Middle East quartet of the UN, US, EU and Russia, said the failure to confront President Bashar al-Assad would have ramifications far beyond the region. Speaking on the Today programme on Radio 4 on Monday, he said: “We have not intervened in Syria. The consequences are, in my view, terrible and will be a huge problem not just for the Middle East region, but for us in the years to come”………….The former PM, who acknowledged that many people did not want a repeat of the Iraq invasion elsewhere in the world, launched a strong defence of his decision to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003………………Blair said he did not know when the Chilcot inquiry would publish its report into the Iraq war…………..”
Blair now seems to believe he has fully busted out of the prison of his own making. But he has a long way to go to emulate Bill Clinton and get fully rehabilitated. He just doesn’t have that Arkansas je ne sais quoi: he is not nearly as good a bullshit artist as Clinton is, nobody is.
Tony has of late been talking about “political Islam” and its dangers. He is reflecting this new Saudi-UAE-Egyptian-Sisi line of painting the Muslim Brotherhood as ‘terrorist’. Mr. Cameron has also been edging in the same direction in Britain, trying to ingratiate himself with the oil princes and potentates (actually pandering to them).
About Iraq and WMD, Tony might have added, like old Sergeant Schultz would have: “I know nothing, nothing”.
mhg
Britain, Iraq, Tony Blair
Bygone Wars: Washington Protecting Tony Blair’s Nuts, For Now……
“Washington is playing the lead role in delaying the publication of the long-awaited report into how Britain went to war with Iraq, The Independent has learnt. Although the Cabinet Office has been under fire for stalling the progress of the four-year Iraq Inquiry by Sir John Chilcot, senior diplomatic sources in the US and Whitehall indicated that it is officials in the White House and the US Department of State who have refused to sanction any declassification of critical pre- and post-war communications between George W Bush and Tony Blair……………… Without permission from the US government, David Cameron faces the politically embarrassing situation of having to block evidence, on Washington’s orders, from being included in the report of an expensive and lengthy British inquiry..………”
Mr. Obama, in other words, is trying to save Tony (the Poodle) Blair’s nuts for now (for the war that I supported). But not for long.
Arab Revolutions, Britain, Tony Blair, US Foreign Policy
Deep Throat: Tony Blair to Parachute Behind Enemy Lines in Syria and Iran, Not in Fallujah or Baghdad………….
July 9, 2013 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Against popular demand, at least my popular demand, Tony Blair refuses to just vanish. Once in a while he crawls out of whatever rock he happens to be under and makes some stupid policy recommendation.
Now he has called for the Western powers to support the Egyptian military grab of power in Cairo, elections be damned. He has also called, again and again, for Western intervention in the Syrian civil war, starting with a no-fly zone. The goal being to liberate one side of Syria, just as they liberated Iraq and Libya. Before that he has repeatedly called for a new Anglo-American war in the Middle East, against Iran. The goal being to liberate Iranians from their regime and from themselves. No mention of liberating Saudi Arabia or Bahrain or the domains of any of his Central Asian paymasters.
My mysterious source, wherever the hell Tony is hiding, tells me that Tony was offered the option of being dropped by parachute behind Syrian regime lines, behind enemy lines, to soften them up. She reports that he has declined, claiming that the oil potentates who keep him may not be agreeable to that. Besides, he claims he speaks neither Arabic nor Persian, which is odd given how much he opines on our countries and on what we really want, or should want.
She, my source whom I shall never call Deep Throat, also tells me that some wags have suggested that as an alternative, Tony be dropped inside Fallujah or Sadr City in Iraq, well behind liberated enemy lines. They said he ought to feel fine and comfy among the people that he has helped liberate. She claims Tony has not responded yet to this latest reasonable proposal.
Britain, Corruption, Syria, Tony Blair
The Poodle Roars: Tony Blair is Back, Like a Bad Dream, Calls for War in Syria and Iran and………
June 15, 2013 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
“Britain should arm the Syrian rebels and consider imposing a no-fly zone over Syria to prevent “catastrophic consequences”, Tony Blair has said. The former prime minister said the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government and the involvement of Iran in the civil war meant intervention was necessary. “You’ve got the intervention of Hezbollah, at the instigation of Iran. The other big change is the use of chemical weapons. Once you allow that to happen – and this will be the first time since Saddam used them in the 1980s – you run the risk of it then becoming an acceptable form of warfare, for both sides,” he told the Times…………………”
In the past Tony Blair has frequently called for war against Iran. Now he has his greedy neo-colonialist sights set on Syria as well. Britain imposing a no-fly zone in Syria? He must think we are back in the pre-Suez glory days.
Nothing corrupts Western leaders, even discredited former leaders, more than association with corrupt potentates, especially petroleum potentates in the Middle East and Central Asia. Add to that some Western bankers and you have a very high low bar indeed. And boy, nobody mingles with these characters better than Tony Blair, perhaps the most undignified of former British prime ministers. From the Persian Gulf to Central Asia to North Africa (Qaddafi) and back, Blair has schmoozed and kissed and done whatever he has had to do after leaving office.
I will not repeat here about the most famous case of Tony Blair and SFO and BAE Systems. The BAE Systems has had a long and cozy inglorious history with the Saudi princes. It goes back at least to the famous Al Yamama scandal when they paid prince Bandar Bin Sultan $2 billion as bribe commission for a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia. Tony Blair (as New Labor prime minister) famously killed an investigation of the scandal by the British Serious Frauds Office (SFO). Gulf potentates have been quite grateful to Tony for that. So, no need for me to repeat that shameful case. No need to repeat all that. Perhaps a few links to earlier posts, leading to other media sources, would help:
Netanyahu, Ahmadinejad, and Tony Blair all Pleased with NYC Trip, not Romney
True Arab Opinion of Tony Blair Expressed by a Gulf Man
Return of Tony Blair, Elder Statesman (not)
Bribes and Monkeys and Aesthetics: Babanov of Kyrgyzstan vs. Princov of Arabia
Ugh: More on Tony Blair
The Tony Blair Israeli-Palestinian Barbershop Quartet
Tony Blair Bin Bandar Meets Borat: the Great Money Machine Moves to Kazakhstan
Another Huge Saudi-British Bribery Scandal, Missing Tony Blair
Tony Blair as Scarlett O’Hara: Blair-Gate and the never Ending Saga of International Corruption
ony Blair’s Never Ending Lobbying Act: Living on Uranus
Qaddafi and his Friends, the Rendition of Tony Blair
Miliband and Blair Straddling the Atlantic: Greedy, Selfish, and Immoral
BAE Systems Flexes its Arabian Muscles Again, Ghosts of al-Yamama
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Arabian Peninsula, Britain, Bullshit, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
British Logic on Participating in the Yemen Genocide…..
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CNN quotes British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt that: “we cannot stop the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia for use in destroying Yemen and killing Yemenis. If we did, we will lose any influence we have to stop the war in Yemen….” Or some nonsense to that effect..
Imagine the police supplying a murderer and hostage-taker with bullets, while he is holding the hostages. Imagine yourself protesting to the police that they should cease supplying the criminal. Imagine the police telling you that “if we stop supplying the killer with bullets (and teaching him how to use them), we will lose any leverage we have over him“. Meanwhile, he keeps holding hostages and killing them….
Too polite to admit that if they stop selling the killing machine, Mr. Trump will be too happy to replace them, and get the money….
Trump, on the other hand, was raised differently, in a different jungle. He is too primitive, he doesn’t have the British finesse at bullshitting in Downton Abbey dialect/class accent: his BS is direct and unfiltered, you can smell it before it comes …..
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Arabian Peninsula, Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Foreign Policy
On American Foreign Policy, Middle East Quagmires, and Prostitution to Despots………
August 30, 2018 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
“In our 65-plus years of experience working on U.S. Middle East policy, we’ve never seen anything like the Trump administration’s willingness to prostitute American interests to Saudi Arabia……. But nothing in the 70 plus-year history of U.S.-Saudi ties comes close to the cosmic groveling that now defines President Donald Trump’s relationship with Saudi Arabia and his slavish obeisance to its dangerous and irresponsible policies. Since Trump became president, the U.S. has enabled and supported a disastrous Saudi war in Yemen; watched as Riyadh launched a political and economic war against Qatar that’s split the Gulf Cooperation Council and enhanced Iran’s influence; stood by as the Saudis virtually kidnapped the pro-American Lebanese Prime Minister in a bungled attempt to weaken Hezbollah; remained silent while the Saudis under the guise of reform cracked down on journalists, bloggers, businessmen and anyone else ………”
Not pulling any punches here, but how true……
But it is now universally known that nothing impresses Donald Trump more than money, a lot of money, especially if the money belongs to others (which makes it questionable as to how much money he has himself). On a very primitive level, that is how he sees and judges people and nations. Including the United States (he probably couldn’t care less about the Constitution and its Bills and Amendments).
This explains his often-reported admiration for the likes of Rupert Murdoch or Sheldon Adelson. That is how he sees the Middle East. He sees Saudi princes with access to billions of dollars, with nobody to deny them or question them (nobody who is not dead, in prison, or in exile anyway). To him that is what should be admired. When he says the word “patriotism”, he means fealty to money only. In a way, his form of capitalism is an extremely primitive version of capitalism, a form that history has shown can be self-defeating.
In that sense he is as much a Saudi “patriot” or an Emirati “patriot” (or some East European or Israeli patriot) as an American “patriot”. It is all in the money, stupid.
And yes, he is prostituting American national interests, strategic long-term interests, for the sake of Saudi and other money, plus a lot of the phony praising of him that they mouth. Praising that they know is undeserved, as much as I do.
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Arab Counterrevoltion, Arab Politics, Arabian Peninsula, Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
The First Frustration of Prince Bin Salman: Horrors of a Complex War in Yemen…….
January 9, 2018 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, known affectionately and otherwise as MBS, has had a rocky period. But that is to be expected for a young man who finds himself suddenly at the helm of a country, purely by the coincidence of birth.
In fairness, Saudi Arabia and her allies (as well as little Qatar) were well on their way to losing the Northern Tier of the Arab World (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon) when his father Salman became king and started prepping his son to take over. By then it was almost certainly too late to roll back Iranian influence in those three countries.
But King Salman and his son and designated heir thought their first new foreign project, closer to home, would be easy. Piece of cake, as they say. Besides, Yemen is a sort of vulnerable underbelly of the Arabian Peninsula: it could be disastrous if controlled by a hostile power, like Iran. Unfortunately it was a piece of bitter hard Yemeni cake that they tried to swallow in the wrong way. By that time Yemen was engulfed in a complex of multiple domestic and regional wars that included AQAP, ISIS, Southern Secessionists, among others. A war of many fronts.
The Saudis should have known from their own recent experience that the Yemeni cake has always been too bitter and hard for outsiders if mishandled. Late in 2014 the largely autonomous northern Houthi group allied itself to influential former President Ali Abdallah Saleh and swept the corrupt Hadi-Islah regime out of Sanaa and the rest of North Yemen. Soon after that the new Saudi regime took power in Riyadh, with Prince MBS as its Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince. The 30-year old prince had the Yemen portfolio. Unfortunately he has proven that he is no Alexander.
The original goal of Saudi intervention was to put Saleh’s hapless but also corrupt successor General Hadi back in power, along with the Muslim Brotherhood oligarchs of the Islah and Al Ahmar clan. Hadi’s legal term had actually expired before then. So they blockaded Yemen, and started a ferocious campaign of air bombardment that has killed thousands of people and ruined the infrastructure of that poorest of Arab states. The Saudi war is also a war waged by the USA (under both Obama and Trump) as well as Britain against Yemen. Western powers not only supplied the weapons and the ammunition, including cluster bombs, they also help with targeting and midair refueling of Saudi/UAE bombers. Several impoverished African countries, including Sudan, were also bribed and recruited in order to provide mercenary fighters.
The futile genocidal war on Yemen has lasted three years so far, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel for the Saudis and their allies. It has been a drain on the Saudi economy, to the tune of many billions of dollars. The lightly armed Houthis have even taken the war back into southern Saudi Arabia, with attacks and occasional incursions into enemy territory. Only a political solution can end the Yemen war, which is actually a complex network of multiple civil and proxy wars.
(I had predicted early on that the deposed Hadi will never return to rule from Sanaa. He is now basically a captive of his hotel suite in Saudi Arabia).
Stay tuned. To be followed…..
THE WAR IN YEMEN: EXACTLY WHOSE SIDE IS ALLAH ON?…..
MIRACLE OF THE IRGC: SHIPPING WEAPONS TO YEMEN THROUGH WESTERN MEDIA………
YEMEN: A GENOCIDAL WAR OF CLASHING FOREIGN MERCENARIES…….
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Arabian Peninsula, Iran, IRGC, MENA, Persian Gulf, Yemen
August 1, 2017 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
“Using this new route, Iranian ships transfer equipment to smaller vessels at the top of the Gulf, where they face less scrutiny. The transhipments take place in Kuwaiti waters and in nearby international shipping lanes, the sources said. “Parts of missiles, launchers and drugs are smuggled into Yemen via Kuwaiti waters,” said a senior Iranian official. “The route sometimes is used for transferring cash as well.” The official added that “what is especially smuggled recently, or to be precise in the past six months, are parts of missiles that cannot be produced in Yemen”. Cash and drugs can be used to fund Houthi activities, the IRGC official said……..”
Apparently Iranian Revolutionary Guard leaders, soon including Brig General Qassem Soleimani, are always dying to confess to Western media reporters. Amazing how these high ‘officials’ always confess to Western media, divulging the deepest operational secrets of their organizations and their countries.
From Hezbollah of Lebanon to the Iranian IRGC: all it takes is a Reuters or NY Times correspondent based in Beirut or Abu Dhabi, and they all spill the beans. On condition of anonymity of course, and how convenient is that.
But the important question here is: does anybody actually believe this nonsense, except for the already converted? I mean they should try to make it more plausible: shipping weapons from Iran to Yemen through Kuwait and Iraq (who are at the northernmost tip of the Persian Gulf, hundreds of miles away from Yemen)? Isn’t Saudi Arabia the closest border to Yemen?
Oh, and the “drug” angle is also a cute touch, often used in these cases against “the other side”, and it is always worth adding a bit more darkness. Maybe it is all true, but it is still cute…
Meanwhile, over ten thousand Yemenis have been killed, hundreds of thousands have been wounded. They did not get hit by these alleged simple missiles, smuggled through impossible routes. They got hit by more genocidal bombs, cluster of otherwise, imported by Arab princes from Britain and the United States.
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Arabian Peninsula, GCC, Horn of Africa, MENA, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, U.S. Foreign Policy, UAE, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
UAE-Saudi Game of Bases: from South Arabia to Horn of Africa with Temporary Love and Money….
“Somali President Mohammed Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo request for mediation Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to persuade not to complete the establishment of a military base in “Somaliland”……..”
“Somaliland signs agreement allowing the United Arab Emirates to set up a military base in Berbera with a 25-year lease…”
An interesting and unexpected development in the Middle East in recent months. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is getting deeply into the business of foreign military bases. In one sense it has been in it for many years now. From early on, the UAE has had military bases on its territory for various counties: the United States, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, as well as Canada (canceled after a commercial dispute). All the while vigorously criticizing foreign (non-Western) bases in Iraq and Syria. Not bad for a country of a little more than 1 million citizens (plus about 6 million foreign residents).
Now the UAE, ostensibly a part-time and wary ally of Saudi Arabia, is getting into the dubious business of establishing foreign bases of its own. Basically the UAE are (for now) the strongest foreign power in the Aden area of South Yemen, having easily outsmarted and elbowed out the Saudi Wahhabis. The Saudis are closer allies to the deposed president Hadi and his corrupt old partners in misruling Yemen (the Islah, the local Muslim Brotherhood). The UAE rulers hate nothing more than the Muslim Brotherhood.
The main Saudi problem in Yemen is that they share a long border with that country. They occasionally get tempted to test these borders. Hence their fear of any perceived foreign (non-Western) influence over Yemen, be it real or imagined. The war they have been waging on Yemen for more than two years often comes back to haunt them in the form of Yemeni retaliatory attacks on their border towns and cities. As well as Yemeni rockets, reportedly local versions of Iranian and maybe Russian missiles.The rockets are a new introduction into the war, and the Yemenis in the capital Sanaa have promised more and more potent ones to come if the Saudis do not desist.
So the Saudis are stuck in a destructive but futile genocidal bombing campaign (with strong and indispensable American and British help), as well as a worrying border war. They are cornered, while the Emiratis expand their influence in South Yemen and now in the Horn of Africa. The Emiratis can better afford it than the Saudis who need to support and subsidize about 16 million citizens (there are also about 10 million foreign residents, a few million of them reportedly illegal).
To the Horn of Africa. That area seems like a favorite place for many powers to establish military bases in recent years. The Russians (Soviets) had a large base at Berbera for years under the Marxist Siad Barre military regime of Somalia. Eritrea and Djibouti have both had bases or presences of the French, Israelis, Iranians and others (including the famous pirates). Natural for an impoverished region. Now the UAE is establishing bases in Somaliland, formerly part of Somalia, which apparently still considers it part of its sphere. To the extent that Somalia can have a sphere. There have been earlier reports of a UAE base in Eritrea as well. There have been reports of a potential UAE presence in Libya as well, but that would be a foolish undertaking.
It is not clear what is the purpose of all these foreign bases and presences by a small country like the UAE. Only Oman among GCC states has had an extensive foreign presence until the 19th century, mainly in East Africa (including Zanzibar).
Oddly the Saudis don’t seem interested in foreign bases, except in Bahrain. But that is a historic cultural thing: Saudis, especially the elite Najdis of Central Arabia, were historically a landlubber people never known as sea-going people, unlike others like the Emirates (or Oman and Kuwait).
There is more. The UAE often splits from the Saudis on Yemen. The two alleged allies support different outlooks for Yemen, but the UAE can afford it financially although they have limited human resources and need local groups as allies. Hence the Hirak Movement which wants South Yemen (capital Aden) to regain the independence it lost in 1990.
My educated guess is that the UAE has the upper hand over the Saudis in that southern part of Yemen. But they need to reckon with three groups that have been strengthened by the destructive Saudi-led air war on Northern Yemen: the Southern Secessionists, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and Islamic State (ISIS). These three groups have gained strength as the Saudis bombed their main enemies in Yemen, the Houthis.
In any case, in the end neither of these Arab allies can last in Yemen. It is already bleeding them, and will kill off many of their soldiers before they realize they have to leave. And they will leave: it has been the story of Yemen since the days of the ancient Persian and Roman empires. The rugged tribal country wears them down, and the aspiring conquerors are forced to give up and leave. A hostile foreign power cannot control Yemen, it has been the case since the days of the rule of Balqis, the Queen of Sheba.
More on this later, stay tuned.
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Arabian Peninsula, GCC, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Trump, U.S. Foreign Policy, Yemen
America and the Saudis: Current ‘Operations’ in Yemen and Syria to Become the Next Endless War………
“Yemen is a war inside a war inside another war, right next to & overlapping several other wars” Me
“The Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda (AQ) is stronger than it has ever been. As the country’s civil war has escalated and become regionalised, its local franchise, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is thriving in an environment of state collapse, growing sectarianism, shifting alliances, security vacuums and a burgeoning war economy. Reversing this trend requires ending the conflict that set it in motion. This means securing an overarching political settlement that has buy-in from the country’s diverse constituencies, including Sunni Islamists. As this will take time, steps must be taken now to contain AQAP’s growth……..” Crisis Group
“The attack (in Aden) struck troops loyal to the airport’s chief of security, who had refused to accept a government order that he be replaced. The incident was yet another sign of the inability of Yemen’s internationally recognized government to enforce order. But it was the first time its allies, the coalition of mostly Gulf Arab states, had intervened militarily in power struggles within the Yemeni armed forces. The Saudi-led coalition has launched thousands of air strikes against the government’s foes, the Iran-allied Houthis, in a campaign to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power. It helped wrest Aden from the Houthis, who control the capital, Sanaa, in the summer of 2015……….” Reuters
During his first week on the job White House spokesman Sean Spicer claimed that Iranian forces had fired missile at the US Navy from Yemen on the Red Sea. An un-truth, since there are no Iranian forces in Yemen: the only foreign forces in Yemen are with the Saudi coalition. Actually the Yemeni Houthis who control the capital and North Yemen had fired a missile (or was it a Yemeni drone that fired) at a Saudi warship that had been shelling their coastal towns. The Saudis claimed it was a suicide attack against one of their ‘peaceful warships’ (you don’t need to read Orwell to speak Orwellian).
This week, on Monday, President Trump had a lunch meeting with the Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. He is the king’s son and widely expected future king, if his dad can swing it before he dies. He is also the minister of defense and architecture of the War on Yemen, a quagmire which just entered its third year. The Yemen war has enabled AQAP to expand in spite of American drone attacks. The war also introduced Islamic State (Daesh/ISIS) into Southern Arabia.
It is likely the Prince may have talked Trump into a more vigorous America role in the Saudi war on Yemen. Perhaps a more direct US role, this time not against the Jihadis, but against the coalition ruling most of Yemen. Which would be an act of desperation, since the Saudis have some of the best and most lethal American and British weapons and could not defeat the lightly armed Houthis and their allies ruling Sanaa. It would be just another never-ending Muslim war. Another twilight war.
The announcement indicated the Saudis will invest $ 200 billion in the United States (presumably new money). The prince also is quoted as having said that he supports the Muslim Travel Ban and that “Trump is a true friend of Muslims“. Such shameless groveling may indicate they got something from Trump: perhaps a promise to inch closer to the Mother of All Muslim Wars, a war of choice against Iran. That should be a doozy: it will certainly last through Trump’s tenure and will define his so-far unpromising legacy. The Prince may have gotten promises related to Syria, particularly Eastern Syria, or Iraq or Lebanon: risky promises the inexperienced Trump could have made in the absence of his secretaries of State and Defense.
As for Yemen, it is not “a” war, it is a complex set of parallel and intersecting wars. I once called it “a war inside a war inside another war, right next to & overlapping several other wars”. Now even the Saudi proxies (mostly Islah Muslim Brotherhood and allies) and the UAE proxies are fighting each other. You get into Yemen, you get involved in all these wars and sub-wars. You can’t pick and choose in such a battlefield.
And you get stuck, losing soldiers and money, a lot of money, just like the Saudis have for more than two years, so far. Like Afghanistan all over again, only a fiercer war.
Back to the promise of $200 billion Saudi investments. I am not sure they can afford this when they are cutting back on their domestic spending. Maybe by moving funds from their sovereign fund that SAMA manages. And can you imagine Donald Trump touting it in, say Tennessee or Alabama, bragging to his Muslim-challenged ‘base’ they he’s gotten Muslims (and Wahhabis at that) to pay out hundreds of billions?
Interesting times coming soon to a war theater far away from you.
M. Haider Ghuloum
Donald TrumpIranMENASaudi ArabiaYEMEN
Arab Media, Arab Revolutions, Arabian Peninsula, GCC, War, Yemen
July 26, 2016 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Saudi media, like most Arab and Middle East and Muslim states media, is controlled or severely-monitored by the state. Like most Middle East media, the reporting on the news reflects the state’s official policy. This is also true for Iran and especially for Turkey and to a much lesser extent for Israel.
The war in Yemen has not been going well for the Saudi side. The Houthi militias and their army allies have been stubborn in resisting the attempted well-armed and well-financed foreign assault. Moreover, the ISIS and AQAP terrorist groups have grown stronger in South Yemen, the main sector of operations for Saudis, Emiratis, and their hired African allies like Sudan and others (in addition to logistical and intelligence, air-fueling, and the siege help by the USA and Britain).
The Yemenis are also taking the war seriously into southern Saudi territory, areas some Yemenis still remember were their own land before the Saudis annexed them. It is almost like a war between the Yemenis and most of the rest of the world, and the lightly-armed and besieged Yemenis are winning so far.
More recently the attacking coalition has been losing some expensive aircraft. Apparently God, Allah, or Yahweh has decided to join the Houthi-Salih alliance for now. According to Saudi and UAE media, all their warplane and helicopter losses have been due to “bad weather”. Occasionally “technical issues” are mentioned. This scape-goating has not escaped the notice of some Yemeni commentators on social media. Since bad weather, like good weather, is the work of God, I lean toward concluding that God is moving against the Salafi-Wahabi-Muslim Brotherhood coalition fighting in Yemen. To further complicate matters, Arab media report that the UAE has its own plans for South Yemen, possibly as an independent-again entity but dependent on Abu Dhabi for financial support.
So that is where it stands. You’d think Allah would side with the good pious Salafis, Wahhabis, and MB against an alliance that is dominated by Zaidi quasi-Shi’as with alleged ties to Persian Magi heretics. But apparently not this time, not yet. I personally suspect that HE is remaining neutral in this Yemeni folly.
(Which also brings up another point embarrassing to many Salafis: how come Allah always allows the Israeli Jews to easily win all their wars against the Arabs (except for one in Lebanon)? True, they are a People of the Book, HIS earliest clients, but to the Salafis they are still accursed heathens and, as their more rabid Salafi shaikhs always claim at the mosques, “descendants of pigs and monkeys”).
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Arab Counterrevoltion, Arab Politics, MENA, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Tribes
On the Gulf: Tribal Statecraft, an Embarrassment of Poor Alliances……..
April 8, 2016 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
“Statecraft is not an extended form of tribalism. Its goals are different, so should its tools“ Me
“Too many international and regional alliances, created at too frantic a pace, are a sure sign of weakness rather than strength” Me
Saudi Arabia has been keeping its military forces active: mostly in doing large military exercises and maneuvers with invited, convinced, and bribed ‘allies’. They have been almost monthly events, all these military exercises, with promising names like Thunder of the North. May as well; given that their real southern war, like the Storm of Determination (the massive war against poor, under-armed Yemen) has failed miserably.
None of the titles given these military exercises and wars are original: they are all plagiarized from the original Desert Storm, the American name for the liberation of Kuwait in 1991 from Iraqi Baathists. As I wrote once before, the Saudi leaders and their minions are rarely, if ever, original.
The Saudis have also been very busy announcing new ‘alliances and pacts’, also on an almost monthly basis. Sometimes even the Arab (and Muslim) countries listed as part of an ‘alliance’ are reported to be surprised. Clearly the Saudis don’t believe that their “allies” need to agree to an alliance, or that they may have legislatures that need to have a say. But they must know that not all Muslim (or Arab) countries are ruled by absolute tribal princes.
The Iranians apparently realize that “alliances” are complicated things, given that they have not had many in recent years. So they seem to take them more seriously. They do, however, try to match the Saudi military exercises with some of their own. They also apparently realize that too many international and regional alliances, created at too frantic a pace, are a sure sign of weakness rather than strength. This last fact is something the Saudi princes don’t seem to understand.
Statecraft is not an extended form of tribalism. Its goals are different, so should its tools.
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Arab Politics, Arab Revolutions, Humor, Jordan, MENA
Hospitable Jordan: Risky Geography and Questionable Alliances…….
“He added that “this is also happening in Afghanistan,” warning that if the Islamic State (IS) was degraded in these countries “Iran will come in to fill the gap,” according to MEE’s source. Jordan has backed Saudi Arabia in its long-running rivalry with Iran……….. In the congressional meeting, Abdullah said that Shia Muslims had been “lumped in” with the executions carried out that day. To purely kill Sunnis would have “looked bad domestically,” he said. He added, however, that it was unfortunate that Nimr had been included among those executed……………”
Jordan, an early child of Sykes-Picot, is in a bind. It is a small country with a divided population and few economic resources, like most other Arab countries. It is sandwiched between large unstable neighbors (Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia), as well as Israel/Palestine. Jordanians have had a long history of unfortunate and failed alliances within the Middle East.
It goes back to 1967, when the King of Jordan joined the Six Day War, apparently without being prepared for the consequences. As a result, the Jordanians handed the West Bank and East Jerusalem (including the Al Aqsa Mosque) to Israel with barely a fight, and within two days. The biggest and most important loss of Arab “property” in modern history. That disaster in itself is sufficient to make any nation lose its sense of humor, assuming it had any such sense before.
In 1980, the Jordanians repeated their mistake. They sided with Saddam Hussein when he invaded Iran. They did not fight directly, but King Hussein made occasional visits to the Front and fired some symbolic shots towards the Iranian lines. Not very kingly behavior, but it stopped once Saddam started losing that war. Another defeat ensued eight years later, but by then King Hussein did not get involved directly, a wise decision.
In 1990, the Jordanians sided again with Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait. They lost big in that one economically, although they were not involved directly in a military sense.
Then came the Syrian civil-proxy-Jihadi war after 2011. The Jordanians helped the Syrian Jihadist “opposition” that was sponsored by the Saudis and some other Persian Gulf autocrats. They also at one point reportedly allowed the US and the Saudis to start training some new opposition groups near the Syrian border. But apparently that did not last long, perhaps it petered out.
In Yemen the Jordanians threw their support more directly behind the Saudi paid alliance that has been bombing Yemen’s cities and infrastructure for over a year. And blockading the country. A futile and hopeless war. But that is a low-risk venture for them: limited military involvement in a faraway country, with the cost paid by the Gulf princes and potentates.
A long record of betting on the losing side. No wonder the king is often welcome to address the U.S. Congress under Republicans. No wonder Jordanians are among the most humor-challenged in our humorless region. Now the humorless Jordanians have gotten more wary of involvement in foreign adventures of other sisterly and brotherly Arab countries, and wisely so. They especially stay away from disputes that are on their border, lest they spill across into their country (the example of the growing instability in Turkey provides a good lesson).
One good thing about Jordan: they (and Lebanon) do welcome many refugees, which is a good thing and almost a national industry now in Jordan. Unlike the richer Arab countries that have provoked and instigated many of these civil wars but refuse to accept the resulting refugees. In that sense of hospitality, they are more characteristically Arab than most of the rest.
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Al-Qaeda, Arab Revolutions, Arabian Peninsula, GCC, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Control of Aden: Arab-African Royal Alliance Gives Jihadis a Head Start……
Three sure signs that Saudis and Colombians and other assorted corsairs have liberated the largest Yemeni port city of Aden from the Houthis and Saleh and from law and order:
(1) Suicide bombings are escalating in the city. The latest today killed at least 22.
(2) There are no signs of escaped ex-president General Hadi Al Zombie and his PM Khalid Bahahahahah (except in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi 7-star hotels). This is is a blessing for all concerned.
(3) The city is largely lawless now, as is the surrounding country. Ripe for Al Qaeda and ISIS. AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), ISIS, and other local militias are now fighting for control of the city as well as the countryside.
Even the hired Sudanese forces have reportedly disappeared from the streets. Not that they matter much in a real fight. The Sudanese are probably some of the worst soldiers in the world, except against unarmed civilian women and children as in Darfur. The UAE pulled their own troops days (or maybe weeks) ago.
So Aden is now liberated from law and order as ell as from the Houthis and Colonel Saleh’s forces. Other parts of Southern Yemen as well are enjoying the same. All with extensive help from the weapons and intelligence provided by the USA and Britain. Yemen is now heading toward the same fate as Libya and Syria. In all three cases thanks to the sisterly and brotherly intervention by extremely democratic and extremely tribal Arab autocratic kings and princes and potentates.
I just hope these democracy-loving autocratic kings, princes, and potentates don’t get the notion of trying to liberate their own countries. That would be even more disastrous than liberating other countries.
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Architecture of Victoria
Architecture of Australia
1882 – Law Courts, Melbourne, Australia
1891 – House at Melbourne, Australia
Architect: Smith & Johnson
English immigrant duo Alfred Louis Smith (1830–1907) and Arthur Ebdon Johnson (1859–95) won a architectural competition for their design and prepared the working drawings. However the competition quickly became a scandal because one of the partners, Johnson, was on the judging panel. Johnson then resigned from the Public Works Department and joined Smith in a long and successful partnership.
Architecturally significant for the excellence of the carving of the Tasmanian freestone and the Malmsbury bluestone base. Additionally significant internally are the very elaborate moulded plasterwork on walls and ceilings, and the robust detailing of the benches, Judges canopies, and cedar panelling.
According to Heritage Council Victoria, the design is reputed to be based on the design of James Gandon’s Four Courts building in Dublin, following a suggestion to Smith and Johnson by Chief Justice Sir William Stawell. The Library of the Law Courts is based in the centre of the courtyard and bares slight similarities withe the dome of the Four Courts.
Tags: 1882, Australia, law courts, Melbourne, Smith & Johnson
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Architecture of Munster
10th C – St. Molua’s Oratory, Killaloe, Co. Clare
St. Molua’s Church was originally constructed on Friar’s Island in the River Shannon, to the south of Killaloe town. Believed to have been constructed in two stages around the 9th and 10th centuries.
1100 – St. Farannan’s Church – Donaghmore, Co. Tipperary
Medieval church consisting of a nave and chancel with a finely detailed doorway and chancel archway. The doorway has good Romanesque detail as does the chancel arch capitals.
1134 – Cormac’s Chapel, Rock of Cashel, Co. Tipperary
Cormac’s Chapel, consecrated in 1134, is the most important building on the Rock of Cashel, from an architectural point of view.
1140 – Monaincha Church, Co. Tipperary
Sited on a hill surrounded by a drained lough and now a bog, the current nave-and-chancel church was built by the Augustinians in 1140.
1142 – Cahir Castle, Co. Tipperary
Once the stronghold of the powerful Butler family, the castle retains its impressive keep, tower and much of its original defensive structure.
1158 – Aghadoe Church, Killarney, Co. Kerry
A stone church has stood here since around 1044. A fine Romanesque doorway in the oldest part of this church which was completed in 1158 by Auliff Mor na Cuimsionach.
1189 – Clare Abbey, Clarecastle, Co. Clare
Established by Donal Mor O’Brien in 1189, the abbey at Clarecastle, County Clare was the first, largest and most important Augustinian house in the region.
1194 – St Mary’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Limerick
Construction on St. Mary’s Cathedral started in the 12th century, and was completed around 1194. The full title of this Cathedral is the “Cathedral and Parochial Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary”.
1195 – Corcomroe Abbey, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
Officially “Sancta Maria de Petra Fertili” or “Saint Mary of the Fertile Rock”. Corcomroe Abbey is sited a few miles from Ballyvaughan within sight of the coast.
1200c – Dysert O Dea Monastery, Co. Clare
The Dysert O Dea Monastic Site is home to the Dysert O Dea Church and the remains of a Round Tower.
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MARCIA POINTON - Peter Paul Rubens and the Mineral World (pp. 229–265)
Rubens has been recognised as an artist of extraordinary erudition as well as a collector, diplomat and linguist. Unsurprisingly the main focus of Rubens scholarship has been iconographical. By focusing on material I address an aspect of Rubens’s life and work that has by comparison been largely ignored. Antwerp, the artist’s home city, was a major centre for global trade in precious stones. There is evidence that the artist not only owned raw stones but dealt in diamonds. During the first two decades of the seventeenth century at which time Rubens was a visitor, Rome was a centre for the development of mineralogical science and collecting, not least through the Accademia dei Lincei with whose members Rubens was associated. By focusing on Rubens’s interest in traditional lapidary matters as well as in nascent scientific enquiry, and by attending to pictorial detail, I aim to shed light on how the artist not only acquired and valued minerals but how precious stones were thematised in portraits and subjects from mythology and the Bible.
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June 13/18 8:36 am - 33rd Tour de Beauce Kicks Off Today
The 2018 Tour de Beauce starts today, and some of the best cyclists in the Americas have arrived in St-Georges to take part in this chsllenging race of 643 km over 5 days.
Five of the top 10 teams from the UCI America Tour will be represented, including the top three teams in Rally Cycling (1), UnitedHealthcare (2), and Holowesko | Citadel p / p Arapahoe Resources (3). In total, 19 teams will compete with the goal of donning the famous Yellow Jersey Ville de Saint-Georges, awarded to the overall champion.
Eric Wohlberg, Team Manager of the American squad Rally Cycling and champion of the 1995 edition of the Tour de Beauce, is confident of his team. " Our Team is coming off a very solid spring racing campaign. Our riders have fared very well against the challenges of racing new events overseas. Since our return to the North American racing scene late April, the team has been on a very good run."
Wohlberg added: "Rob Britton is coming off a great Tour Of Gila and Tour Of California, so I am hoping he can challenge the overall here. Colin Joyce almost doubled up in Winston Salem a couple weeks ago, and the rest of the guys are looking very good. We hope to continue the streak here, against a very competitive 2018 Beauce field." , (Britton who won the final stage in 2017)
Defending champion Andzs Flaksis of the Holowesko team | Citadel p / p Arapahoe Resources will be in the starting line hoping to defend his title. Flaksis won the 2017 edition of the Tour de Beauce on the final stage, trailing by more than two minutes in the overall standings at the dawn of the last stage. The last and only cyclist to win two consecutive editions of the Tour de Beauce dates back to 1998-1999 while Levi Leipheimer with the achievement.
2017 Final podium: Clement Russo, Andzs Flaksis, Jordan Cheyne
"I am really excited to return to Canada for the Tour de Beauce; I am Latvian, so North feels like home for me. That's one of the reasons I like coming here. Last year's race unfolded only on last day, so it's exciting that nothing is certain until the end. You always have hope and can keep on fighting," said Flaksis. "Last year's victory was a true team effort, so this year we, Holowesko-Citadel, brought a strong team to try to defend the title!"
Romanian Sergei Tvetcov of the UnitedHealthcare team is ranked number one in the UCI America Tour. Tvetcov finished third overall in the Tour de Beauce in 2014. In March, Tvetcov won the Tour de Korea (2.1). He finished fourth in Tour of the Gila (2.2), winning the individual time trial stage. Last year, he finished second in the Colorado Classic and third in the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah.
Rob Britton winning the final stage of 2017
Canadian Rob Britton from Rally Cycling is second in the Americas. The British-Columbian won the Tour of the Gila with a pair of second-place finishes in the stage race. At the World Tour's Amgen Tour of California, Britton placed 16th overall. Britton won the last stage of the Tour de Beauce in 2017. Britton also has a second place overall in Beauce in 2014.
Svein Tuft, a WorldTour rider with team Mitchelton-Scott, has 13 Grand Tour starts, including seven starts at the Giro d'Italia, three starts at the Tour de France, and three starts at Vuelta Espana. Tuft has twice won the Canadian title at Canadian Road Championships and 10 Canadian Time Trial Championship titles. His last Canadian road race title took place on the Beauce roads in 2014. Tuft is the last Canadian to have won the Tour de Beauce honors while wearing the colors of the Symmetrics Pro Cycling Team in 2008. That same year, Tuft won the silver medal in the time trial at the UCI World Championships in Varese, Italy, one of two Canadians men to have won a World championships medal with Steve Bauer being the other.
2008 Winner Svein Tuft
"It's always special to come back to Beauce. It's one of the first big races I did way back in 2001. I have great memories from this race, and I believe it's one of Canada's most important races for the development of our younger riders. It's a race that's always difficult and has a European style to it," said Tuft.
He went on to add: "At this point in my career, it's nice to come back and see some of the younger Canadian riders and see how they're progressing. There's no better way to achieve this than to race with them. I hope to pass on some of my experiences.
2016 Canadian Champion Bruno Langlois will participate in a 20th edition of the Tour de Beauce.
Five jerseys will be contested during the five days of competitions: the Yellow Jersey Ville de Saint-Georges awarded the best overall; the White Jersey Hydro-Quebec presented to the best in the points classification; the Red Jersey Le Georgesville offered to the top of the youth ranking (U23); the Polka Dot Jersey Desjardins awarded to the best of the King of the Mountain classification, as well as the Blue Jersey Ville de Quebec awarded to the winner of the Quebec City stage.
The 2018 Tour de Beauce will begins June 13th and crown its champion on Sunday, June 17.
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Born in Fort Monroe, Virginia; grew up in the San Antonio, Texas area.
1974, moved to Nashville to write songs.
Mid-80’s, recorded for Epic Records, scored several hit records, including “Guitar Town (1986),” and “Goodbye’s All We Got Left” (1987).
He has won three Grammies and has had songs recorded by Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, many others.
1988-1994, went rock and recorded several albums which were generally ignored by country radio. He became something of a cult figure. He has had several run-ins with the law, including a drug charge.
1998, recorded a bluegrass album called Mountain and toured with the Del McCoury Band. This was his only foray into bluegrass music.
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Need help navigating this site?
1. Use the Search button on the Home Page if you are looking for something specific.
2. Check the following alphabetical overview links to pages on the site with its brief description of each section.
3. When all else fails, Contact Us.
Awards: Bob Nolan was given awards, alone and/or with the Sons of the Pioneers for his contribution to western music. This section itemizes most of them and is illustrated with photographs of the awards themselves.
Biographies: Full biography of Bob Nolan, his parents, his brother and his half-brother plus brief bios of the Sons of the Pioneers and their co-workers.
Discography: albums of Sons of the Pioneers' recordings and current western artists, illustrated with the album covers. Track lists are included plus links to Bob's solo recordings and a huge list of various recordings of Cool Water and Tumbling Tumbleweeds by various artists over the years.
FAQ: Frequently asked questions are answered briefly. This page is for quick answers.
Feedback: You can tell us what you feel about the website, bring errors to our notice or ask questions which we will answer personally and/or on the current Question & Answer page. There is also a link to Contact Us where you can email Elizabeth (Nolan family historian) or write to her by regular mail.
Filmography: All the known films in which Bob Nolan appeared for the various studios are listed and illustrated with posters and publicity or production stills. Links are provided to various personal collections of photos from the movies: The Karl E Farr Collection is from the photos handed down from the original Karl Farr to his son. Fan collections include those of John Fullerton, Jan Scott, Ed Phillips, and Bruce Hickey. The Sons of the Pioneers Fan Club president, Martha Retsch, shares her collection as does Terry Sevigny Scott, who was secretary to the group for several years. There is also a page of Anonymous collections from fans who do not wish their name to appear on the Internet.
Lyrics: One of our most popular sections, these pages contain the lyrics to all of the Bob Nolan songs we have been able to find. Each song has a page of its own with a recording embedded into it so you can read the words while you sing along, karaoke-style.
Puzzles: There are many photos in the Calin Coburn Collections and other collections that we have been unable to identify so we have reproduced them here in hopes that fans may recognize them or give us a clue.
Q&A: Feedback or questions and responses plus current messages of general interest with links to messages from previous years.
Recollections: The recollections of those who knew Bob Nolan personally.
Reference: This section contains an illustrated list of books that deal with Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers plus links to an extensive bibliography of the singing cowboy era, fanzines, essays, photo collections, original song cards, court cases, interviews, and who to contact if you need permission to record Bob Nolan's songs.
Reflections: Links to fans who have written to us about how Bob Nolan's music has influenced their lives or careers in some way.
Search: Use a keyword to bring up all the pages in which it is used. A separate link is provided to find a specific person's page.
Slide Shows: This popular section features six slide shows from different eras of Bob's life.
Special Features: Films, Nolan songs and Nolan photos are featured with plenty of illustrations and music.
UNC: This page records what is in the Elizabeth Drake McDonald Collection (Inventory #20355) in the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This collection is open to the public. Unfortunately, the page has not been updated. Ask for "Bob Nolan 1908-1980" in two volumes, ©2004. You will need permission from Elizabeth to use portions of it.
Videos: The most popular of all, this section contains short video clips of song sequences, etc, from movies featuring Bob Nolan courtesy of Fred Sopher.
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Life, Death, and the Unglamorous Era of Ad-Men
by bicyclemark on March 15, 2012 1 Comment
Photo by FuckNewRave / flickr
John Hall remembers the advertizing business in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, and there was nothing glamorous about it. His personal policy in the work place was not to pursue wealth and happiness, but to pursue work that brought meaning to life, which in turn has always given him a feeling of being content and the richest man around. As a business man, a hospice nurse, an english teacher for French people, and a business teacher – one thing shines through no matter what he is working on – John Hall is a force to be rekoned with in the best possible way.
John joins me on the phone from Paris in this very insightful and fun conversation about the lessons he’s learned from fantastic life experiences, and his struggle to convey that to future global business leaders.
Write Our Own Histories
by bicyclemark on January 6, 2012 1 Comment
photo by heedmane on flickr
The headlines coming out of Chilé this week echo throughout the world, “government shift in policy regarding learning about Pinochet era in school,” from now on to be described as a “regime”, and not a “dictatorship”. Which is immediately met with anger and disapproval, criticized as an attempt to rewrite and whitewash history.
You don’t have to be Chilean to know something about re-writing history. One constant that transcends borders and time is that history gets told in different ways as time passes. People often refer to the old Churchill quote, “History is written by the victors,” in an effort to explain how the stories from the past are told. Christopher Columbus was an explorer. George Washington, a great leader. Genghis Khan, a brave fighter. None may be true, but each is often told, retold and accepted as fact. Few of the victims are alive or represented to tell a different story, though some brave souls with seek out and bring their histories back to life.
In the context of the classroom and what appears in history books, there is no doubt that these things have tremendous influence as to how children will grow up understanding the world and how it came to be as it is. Chileans have every right to be concerned or outraged when their nation’s history is rewritten in favor of those who committed mass murder and other atrocities. Most nations on this planet have marginalized or harmed people in some way in their past, yet not all are willing to admit it and let the shameful stories be told in the classroom. It is easier to hide behind pride and boastful patriotism, far more difficult to be honest and critical of what your country does and has done in the past.
All outrage aside, in our present world of plentiful information and the informal learning renaissance, citizens could also look to each other to address this problem. At home and in our communities, both offline and online, we have the power to tell history from the bottom-up. The government may shift and attempt ridiculous revisions that might even be implemented for periods of time, but we have a fantastic arsenal of experience and communication to counter such hubris. The children of the world could stand up during the revised history lesson on how charming dictators from the past were, and calmly respond — we know this is false. Better yet, they could rewrite the whole section with help from stories of people who lived through the horror.
ctrp402 Learning without Schools
by bicyclemark on December 6, 2011 2 Comments
Photo by Bre Pettis, http://brepettis.com
It is often assumed that in order to be successful and realize your dreams you must go to university. Year after year people of all ages apply to institutions of higher education and go to great lengths to afford the high costs that come with such schools. Increasingly people are realizing that the costs to attend such schools far outweigh the benefits. Beyond that, with the dawn of interest networks online and the availability of information and instruction, there is a real opportunity to learn what you want to learn, without going back to school.
Kio Stark is a grad school dropout who loves to learn. As an author and inquisitive mind, her writing and research has brought her to the topic of informal learning. How does it work? what do different informal learners do to meet their goal and stay focused? These questions and more are part of a new book she has proposed to be published next year: “Don’t Go Back to School – A Handbook for Learning Anything.”
To make it even more interesting, Kio has put the proposal for the book up on kickstarter as a project which people can choose to support financially with the promise of being credited, receiving a copy of the book, and more. What is a refreshing new approach to education is matched by an innovative new approach to funding your work.
How did this project begin? What experiences has Kio had that led to her interest in learning outside of schools? These topics and more are explored in our podcast together. Give it a listen.
Support and Read more about Kio’s Project “Don’t Go Back to School” which has generated a fantastic outpouring of backers.
Her novel “Follow Me Down” available now.
ctrp396 Students Take on the Gov in Chile
by bicyclemark on October 24, 2011 1 Comment
My guest on this edition of Citizenreporter.org is Chilean-American, community organizer, world citizen Nick Farr who has been traveling around Chile observing many of the activities connected with the student protests demanding education reform in that country.
For several months students throughout Chile have been holding mass rallies, protests as well as occupying university and high school buildings, demanding the government take action to address inequality in the education system and the creation of the country’s first free higher education option.
Presently education in Chile consists of a few prestigious charter-type schools, many more prestigious private schools which are very expensive, and then the rest of the public system that is considered poor quality-undesirable schooling. Rural areas, which is most of Chile, are especially plagued by a lack of affordable education. But even in cities these days, access to good schools is entirely dependent on where you live.
The student movement that has exploded throughout the country is focused on the need for better quality and more accessible public education at all levels, especially secondary and university education. While occupy wall street started just over a month ago, students in Chile began occupying school buildings 4 months ago. As part of the occupation, they carry out a fully functioning program of providing meals, classes and cultural activities.
One of the arguments against the students stems from the main leader of the movement who is a very vocal communist. Political opponents and many critical Chileans view his role as “evidence” that this protest is a communist invasion of the country.
Meanwhile the nation, that is highly dependent on the price of copper, struggles as global commodity prices have become so unstable. Graduates who come out of the current higher education system find themselves with little choice when it comes to jobs and career. Despite whatever specialized skills and training they might have had, the only work available to them might be in the low paying service industry.
With the protests as the backdrop, negotiations take place and one point the government hopes students will compromise on is the goal of a “free” education. A point that student leaders refuse to compromise on.
After several decades of tremendous socio-economic progress which saw Chile become a much admired country in the region and around the world, there is talk now of a shrinking middle class and a return to the former paralyzing state of cronyism and inequality.
Will Chilean students achieve their goal? Will the unpopular Chilean government give in to a mass movement sweeping the nation and conducting mass action in the streets and in the schools? In a time where so many nations have bought into the idea of corporate schools or charter schools, could Chile be the place where an old idea is given new life – universal public education.
Educación 2020 – One of the Movement’s Web Sources
El Mercurio – News from Chile
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Cover Reveal & Giveaway
I’m excited to show you the cover of my next English historical novel, Across the Blue and tell you about a special giveaway . . . but before I do, let me tell you a little about the story and characters.
The Heroine – Isabella Grayson, is the eldest daughter of a wealthy, English newspaper magnate. She longs to become a journalist, but her parents don’t approve. They want her to marry well and help them gain a higher standing in society. After she writes an anonymous letter to the editor that impresses her father, her parents reluctantly agree she can write a series of articles about aviation and the race to fly across the English Channel, but only if she promises to accept a marriage proposal within the year.
The Hero – James Drake, is an aspiring aviator, and when he crashes his flying machine at the Grayson’s new estate, Bella is intrigued. James is determined to be the first to fly across the Channel and win the prize Mr. Grayson’s newspaper is offering. He hopes it will help him secure a government contract to build airplanes and redeem a terrible family secret. James wants to win Bella’s heart, but his background and lack of social standing make it unlikely her parents would approve. If he fails to achieve his dream, how will he win the love and respect he is seeking? Will Bella’s faith and support help him find the strength and courage he needs when unexpected events turn their world upside down?
Ready to see the beautiful cover?
I’m thrilled with the design! It perfectly captures Kent, England, and the white Cliffs of Dover, which play a huge part in this story. Bella’s hat is divine and just right for the 1909 time period. And when you see how fragile James’s airplane really is, it makes you appreciate his courage in attempting to be the first to fly across the English Channel!
I can’t wait to share Across the Blue with you! It releases February 20, 2018, and you can preorder a copy from your favorite retailer by following this link.
If you’re on GoodReads I hope you’ll click this link and add it to your “To Read” list!
And now I have a Giveaway for you! Help me spread the word, and you can enter in a drawing for a set of my four English historical novels: The Governess of Highland Hall, The Daughter of Highland Hall, A Refuge at Highland Hall, and Shine Like the Dawn! To enter just share this post on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or other social media sight and then leave a comment below, telling me where you shared it. I’ll draw one winner on Thursday, July 13th. If a US winner is chosen he or she will receive paperback copies, and if an international winner is chosen he or she will receive eBooks. Thanks for helping me spread the word about Across the Blue!
Until Next Time ~ Happy Reading!
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162 thoughts on “Cover Reveal & Giveaway”
Andrea Cox on July 7, 2017 at 7:46 am said:
Carrie, what a beautiful cover! I shared it on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. I hope the release goes well!
Amy T Hassett on July 7, 2017 at 7:55 am said:
Hi Carrie!
Beautiful book cover, I shared on Facebook and Pinterest!
Lucy Reynolds on July 7, 2017 at 7:58 am said:
Gorgeous, lovely, fabulous! I can’t wait, as I know it will be great. I shared on FB, Pinterest, and Goggle! Blessings on your release.
Renee Jackson on July 7, 2017 at 7:59 am said:
Ms. Carrie – love the cover and looks like a wonderful read. I shared on Facebook!
Deanne Patterson on July 7, 2017 at 7:59 am said:
Carrie,good morning to you. I have read a few of your Love Inspired books but none of your full length novels, The cover of Across The Blue is gorgeous! I am most excited to read it and your four English historical novels. I have some catching up to do 🙂
I have shared your cover reveal on Facebook,Twitter,G+,LinkedIn and Pinterest. Congratulations on not only Across The Blue but all of your releases!
Elma Brooks on July 7, 2017 at 8:15 am said:
As always you do have beautiful covers.
I shared on facebook.Thanks for the giveaway.
Kimberly Duffy on July 7, 2017 at 8:16 am said:
Gorgeous! Shared on Twitter and Pinterest.
Dianna Auton on July 7, 2017 at 8:21 am said:
I shared on Twitter and Pinterest.
Jocelyn Green on July 7, 2017 at 8:23 am said:
Carrie, this cover is breathtaking!! I adore it! Congratulations. And the story sounds just as wonderful! Can’t wait to read it!
Kailey Bechtel on July 7, 2017 at 8:29 am said:
That’s a beautiful cover!! Can’t wait to read it. I shared it on Facebook.
Meredith on July 7, 2017 at 8:33 am said:
I shared on Pinterest. I really like the cover!
~Meredith
Cathy on July 7, 2017 at 8:35 am said:
Looking forward to this new release, as I very much enjoyed Shine Like The Dawn. The cover is very compelling! I shared on Facebook.
Gretchen Bauder on July 7, 2017 at 8:41 am said:
I tweeted! So excited and I live the cover art. The story sounds just like my idea of a good read ?
Susan Snodgrass on July 7, 2017 at 8:41 am said:
Cheryl H. on July 7, 2017 at 8:45 am said:
I shared via email, Pinterest, Google+, and Twitter!
Karen K. on July 7, 2017 at 8:49 am said:
Ooh, this is gorgeous! I can’t wait to read Across the Blue! It reminds me of Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. I love that movie!
Oh, I forgot to add that I shared this post on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram!
Tina Turpin on July 7, 2017 at 8:49 am said:
Best cover yet!!! So excited for you and this release. ?
Mary Tullila on July 7, 2017 at 8:52 am said:
Beautiful cover ! Shared to Facebook and Twitter.
Kimberly on July 7, 2017 at 8:56 am said:
Love the cover, it looks beautiful! I am so excited to read this one! I shared on Facebook. Thank you!
Melissa Henderson on July 7, 2017 at 9:01 am said:
Beautiful cover! I look forward to reading the story. I shared on Facebook, Pinterest and Google+ 🙂
Darci Paice on July 7, 2017 at 9:02 am said:
Looks like a bunch of fantastic summer reads, sign me up please 🙂
Judi Imperato on July 7, 2017 at 9:04 am said:
Carrie, the cover is beautiful! The story line sounds very interesting, I am looking forward to when it comes out. I posted this on facebook. Thank you for the opportunity to win your books.
Michele Hayes on July 7, 2017 at 9:17 am said:
I love the cover. Shared on FB, Twitter and Pinterest.
Christi Lang on July 7, 2017 at 9:19 am said:
I love this! Cannot wait to read it! I come from a family that loves flying. I shared on Facebook
Trisha Robertson on July 7, 2017 at 9:20 am said:
Good Morning Carrie! The cover for Across the Blue is beautiful. I’m excited to be able to team up with you to share this beautiful book reveal and the first line on my blog today!
I’m looking forward to reading Isabella’s story! Have a blessed day! ((hugs))
Grace Hitchcock on July 7, 2017 at 9:23 am said:
Beautiful cover! I shared on Pinterest and Twitter 🙂
Susanne on July 7, 2017 at 9:28 am said:
Shared on Facebook. Beautiful cover… can’t wait to read this one!
Danie walther on July 7, 2017 at 9:30 am said:
I shared your beautiful picture of your new book on Pinterest.
Lori Parrish on July 7, 2017 at 9:36 am said:
Beautiful cover!! I’m such a sucker for beautiful book covers
J'nell Ciesielski on July 7, 2017 at 9:36 am said:
Another gorgeous cover! Shared.
Carrie Turansky on July 7, 2017 at 9:43 am said:
Thank you, J’nell!
Cathy Gohlke on July 7, 2017 at 9:39 am said:
Carrie, this is a stunning cover! The storyline is intriguing and compelling, and I just can’t wait to read it! I shared on Facebook.
Thank you, Cathy!
Bonnieandtim@yahoo.com on July 7, 2017 at 9:45 am said:
Shared on Facebook!
Leslie Waters on July 7, 2017 at 9:47 am said:
Beautiful cover. I shared on Facebook and Twitter.
Amy on July 7, 2017 at 9:47 am said:
Carrie, I don’t think I have had the privilege of reading your books yet. This cover really caught my eye and the book sounds intriguing. Hope I get the chance to read it.
Forgot to include that I shared to pinterest, Facebook, G+
Coleen Jejeran on July 7, 2017 at 9:50 am said:
shared it to Facebook !
shared to pinterest as well :o)
Ola K Norman on July 7, 2017 at 10:03 am said:
I shared on Facebook. Love the cover.
Renee Schultz on July 7, 2017 at 10:06 am said:
Shared on facebook Carrie. Even though I own most of your books I would love to win a set for my church library. I recently loaned mine out to someone from church and you now have another reader fan who likes your books.
Amanda Tero on July 7, 2017 at 10:09 am said:
Such a pretty cover! I shared on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/549509592024059664/
Joan Arning on July 7, 2017 at 10:12 am said:
Shared on Facebook. Am anxious to read!
Theresa N on July 7, 2017 at 10:12 am said:
I shared on twitter. They’re all beautiful covers.
kristine morgan on July 7, 2017 at 10:18 am said:
I shared on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. I can’t wait to read this, your books never fail to delight!
Olivia on July 7, 2017 at 10:29 am said:
Beautiful cover…I keep seeing it everywhere now!! I’ve heard great things about all your books! I shared on Pinterest 🙂
Dawn Dannenbrink on July 7, 2017 at 10:34 am said:
Carrie, I shared it on my FB feed…..hope others can develop an interest in your books like I have! Thx for giving me my first book!!! It’s been shared a few times over now.
Jenny Waugh on July 7, 2017 at 10:52 am said:
Beautiful Cover and Intriguing Story!
Shared on Pinterest.
Jane Squires on July 7, 2017 at 10:53 am said:
Going to share on fb. Would love to win
Sue Cozart on July 7, 2017 at 11:07 am said:
Beautiful cover. Makes me want to read this book ! Love your books. So interesting.
Marilyn on July 7, 2017 at 11:13 am said:
Looking forward to reading this. I shared your post on Facebook.
Breezy Beckler on July 7, 2017 at 11:21 am said:
This cover makes me so excited to read the book! Well done! I really enjoy all your books. Thank you for sharing your gift of writing. ?
I shared on Facebook!
Vicky D on July 7, 2017 at 11:22 am said:
Can’t wait for this book! Shared on twitter.
Marguerite Gray on July 7, 2017 at 11:39 am said:
Beautiful! I shared on FaceBook.
Joelle Rau on July 7, 2017 at 11:42 am said:
I would read it just from looking at the cover! It’s beautiful! Shared in Facebook!
Rose on July 7, 2017 at 11:43 am said:
Love the cover! I shared on Facebook. Need to figure out how to share on the other sites. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Winnie Thomas on July 7, 2017 at 11:50 am said:
It’s a beautiful cover, Carrie! It looks and sounds fascinating. I shared it on Pinterest.
Janet Grunst on July 7, 2017 at 11:54 am said:
Congratulations, Carrie. What a gorgeous cover, and a fascinating sounding story. I shared on Facebook and Twitter.
Janet Evans on July 7, 2017 at 12:14 pm said:
Shared on fb/twitter.
Rebecca Tellez on July 7, 2017 at 12:18 pm said:
Oh Carrie this is a beautiful cover. I can hardly wait to open it up and read the story. I pinned it, tweeted it, shared on Facebook and Google +
peggy clayton on July 7, 2017 at 12:20 pm said:
Love the cover and i have shared it 2 times on facebook! so pretty.
Lynda E. on July 7, 2017 at 12:22 pm said:
I shared on Pinterest–thanks for the giveaway. I love that cover–absolutely stunning!
Deana Dick on July 7, 2017 at 12:46 pm said:
Such a breathtaking cover. Shared on Facebook.
Mary Kay Moody on July 7, 2017 at 12:58 pm said:
Oh Carrie, truly a stunning cover & so evocative. Spot on! Story sounds great. Recently watched a film re: Lindbergh’s US-Paris flight, so I’m eager to read this one.
I shared on Twitter and FB, liked on Goodreads & posted in Pinterest. I think it’s fair to say I LIKE it. 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy. Blessings, Mary Kay
Sabrina Templin on July 7, 2017 at 1:04 pm said:
A Beautiful cover! I love planes.
I shared on Facebook 🙂
I also shared on Twitter, Google Plus and Pinterest! 😀
Daniele K on July 7, 2017 at 1:07 pm said:
Lovely cover. I shared on Facebook and Pinterest. Thank you for the chance to win.
Anne Payne on July 7, 2017 at 1:12 pm said:
Congratulations on another gorgeous cover design! 🙂
The story sounds great and I look forward to reading it.
Trixi on July 7, 2017 at 1:42 pm said:
Hi Carrie! Just like with all your covers, this is gorgeous 🙂
I’ve shared this on FB, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and added it to my Goodreads want-to-read list.
BJMarley on July 7, 2017 at 1:48 pm said:
I shared on Pinterest and marked as Want to Read on Goodreads.
Abby on July 7, 2017 at 1:55 pm said:
I shared on Facebook. I love the cover! It’s beautiful and captivating. Can’t wait to read.
Lucyl on July 7, 2017 at 2:14 pm said:
Shared on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. And Google + just because 🙂
Andréa Ihle on July 7, 2017 at 2:16 pm said:
Beautiful cover. I can’t wait to read it. ? Congratulations.
Shared on Facebook, Twitter & Pintrest.
Dianne Casey on July 7, 2017 at 2:28 pm said:
Love the cover, Carrie. Looking forward to reading the book. Shared on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
Ashley Johnson on July 7, 2017 at 2:41 pm said:
This book sounds great! And the cover is beautiful! I have shared on instagram, Facebook groups, twitter, Pinterest, and Litsy!
Christina Chastain on July 7, 2017 at 2:55 pm said:
I Shared on facebook! As always, your book covers make me greatly anticipate the release of the book! February seems so far away! I will have to reread the others to get me through!
Linda Monroe Ward on July 7, 2017 at 3:02 pm said:
The book sounds great! And the cover is absolutely amazing! I’m looking forward to reading it.
I just shared the book on Facebook and Pinterest. Looking forward to its release in February!
Amanda T. on July 7, 2017 at 3:15 pm said:
Love the new cover!
Gail Hollingsworth on July 7, 2017 at 3:21 pm said:
Shared on Facebook and Pinterest.
Rose McCauley on July 7, 2017 at 3:22 pm said:
Love the cover, Carrie. I shared it on FB, twitter andgoogle+
LuCinda LaMay on July 7, 2017 at 4:02 pm said:
I love the cover! Shared on Facebook.
Elly on July 7, 2017 at 4:09 pm said:
I shared on Facebook and Twitter. I’m super excited about this giveaway!
Elly -Indiana-
Shelia Hall on July 7, 2017 at 4:14 pm said:
Beautiful cover! I shared on Facebook!
Janet Estridge on July 7, 2017 at 4:22 pm said:
Great looking cover. I can’t wait to see what’s inside.
Rebecca on July 7, 2017 at 4:32 pm said:
I shared on Twitter!
Adrienne Everitt on July 7, 2017 at 4:34 pm said:
Shared on Facebook and Twitter. What a beautiful cover!
Kaitlyn on July 7, 2017 at 4:37 pm said:
Amazing cover, I can’t wait to read the book!
I shared on Pinterest, google, and Twitter
Dianne Noland on July 7, 2017 at 4:49 pm said:
I shared on Facebook. I love all of your books! I can’t wait to read this one! Is it a stand-alone? Thanks for the chance to win!
Deborah O'Carroll on July 7, 2017 at 4:55 pm said:
Lovely! Shared on Pinterest! 😀
Terressa T. on July 7, 2017 at 5:02 pm said:
Gorgeous cover! I cannot wait to read the story. I have shared on Facebook.
Jennifer Torres on July 7, 2017 at 5:12 pm said:
Wow, the cover is stunning!!!
I posted it on Pinterest and will let all my friends know. Can’t wait to read your new book!
Lori Smanski on July 7, 2017 at 5:26 pm said:
oh wow this is a gorgeous cover. this story sounds like it would keep me on the edge of my chair.
I shared on twitter and pinterest
Connie Hendryx on July 7, 2017 at 5:27 pm said:
Love the cover and sounds like a great book! Shared on my Facebook timeline…thanks for the giveaway!
Tami le Roux on July 7, 2017 at 5:42 pm said:
Amy on July 7, 2017 at 6:14 pm said:
Nancy Griggs on July 7, 2017 at 6:27 pm said:
What a great cover! I shared on Facebook.
Una Ireland on July 7, 2017 at 6:44 pm said:
Michelle Crandall on July 7, 2017 at 7:03 pm said:
I really like this cover. I can’t wait to read another book by you! I shared it on Facebook.
Becky T on July 7, 2017 at 7:18 pm said:
Shared on Pinterest and Facebook. The cover is gorgeous, and the plot sounds amazing!
Paula S. on July 7, 2017 at 7:21 pm said:
Lovely cover. Can’t wait to read this interesting book! I shared on Facebook.
Connie Scruggs on July 7, 2017 at 7:35 pm said:
So excited for you! I shared on Facebook and Twitter.
Blessings on the new book.
Kathy Jacob on July 7, 2017 at 8:17 pm said:
Beautiful! The cover is perfect! I shared on Facebook and Pinterest.
Linda May on July 7, 2017 at 8:30 pm said:
The books looks amazing, I’m sharing on Facebook, Thanks for this generous chance.
Claudia Thompson on July 7, 2017 at 8:36 pm said:
I shared…Lovely cover…can’t wait to read!
Monica H on July 7, 2017 at 8:46 pm said:
I love the new cover. They are all beautiful though. I shared on Pinterest and Twitter.
Cynthia Roemer on July 7, 2017 at 8:49 pm said:
A beautiful, eye-catching cover design!! Love it. Story sounds great too! Congrats, Carrie!
Cynthia St. Germain on July 7, 2017 at 9:10 pm said:
Thank you for another beautiful cover. You have wonderful covers on all of your books.
Tina Rice on July 7, 2017 at 9:53 pm said:
Wow, beautiful cover, Carrie! Congratulations! I can’t wait to read it.
I shared on facebook, Google+ & Pinterest.
Blessings, Tina
Amy on July 7, 2017 at 10:49 pm said:
I shared on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter!
The cover is gorgeous! I can’t wait to read the book!
Mary Wagenbach on July 7, 2017 at 10:49 pm said:
Exquisite cover! I posted on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr and Google+. Hope that helps sell some copies! Exciting news for you and it looks great to read!
Caryl Kane on July 7, 2017 at 11:56 pm said:
Carrie, this cover is STUNNING!
Shared on Facebook, Pinterest and Google+
Carolyn on July 8, 2017 at 12:07 am said:
Can’t wait to read it, shared on facebook :).
Donna B on July 8, 2017 at 2:52 am said:
I shared on twitter. Such a beautiful cover on Across The Blue as well as your other books. Thank you for this giveaway.
Debbie Clatterbuck on July 8, 2017 at 10:22 am said:
Love the new book’s cover, Carrie. I shared on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+. Thanks for the giveaway and good luck everyone.
CutePolarBear on July 8, 2017 at 10:50 am said:
Does Goodreads count as a social media platform? I don’t have any other social media accounts.
CutePolarBear
Angelique on July 8, 2017 at 11:00 am said:
Awesome cover. I shared it on Facebook and Pinterest
Jonna Marsh on July 8, 2017 at 2:53 pm said:
Great cover and giveaway! Shared on Facebook!
Loraine Nunley on July 8, 2017 at 5:06 pm said:
Congrats on your new book Carrie! The cover is absolutely beautiful. I am so excited to add this to my reading list.
I shared this post on Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.
Kimberly on July 8, 2017 at 8:17 pm said:
Hi Carrie ?
I love this cover, and am looking forward to this story!
I shared this on Facebook ?
Alyssa Washburn on July 8, 2017 at 8:42 pm said:
Can’t wait to read! Shared on Facebook!
Rory Lynn Lemond on July 8, 2017 at 8:50 pm said:
Stunning cover that shows the essence of the story…shared 2 times on Facebook and twitter….Thanks for the chance…
Sherri R Myers on July 8, 2017 at 9:49 pm said:
Love this cover, book sounds really good too!! Shared on Fb
Raechel L. on July 9, 2017 at 7:30 am said:
What a beautiful cover!! I love it.
I shared on Pinterest and Twitter -thank you!
Lori Ewing on July 9, 2017 at 8:04 am said:
The cover is gorgeous!! I cannot wait to read yghis book, it sounds wonderful!! I shared this on Facebook.?
Elisabeth Espinoza on July 9, 2017 at 9:31 am said:
Stunning cover! I posted a link to this page on my Facebook timeline. I’m looking forward to reading Across the Blue!
Rebekah on July 9, 2017 at 11:23 am said:
Shared to Facebook!
Airieanne Andrews on July 9, 2017 at 12:41 pm said:
Shared my Goodreads “Want to Read” and your cover rereal website on Facebook.
Nina Rowan on July 9, 2017 at 1:24 pm said:
I shared on Twitter.
Carrie Turansky on July 9, 2017 at 3:03 pm said:
Thanks, Nina!
Beth Bullington on July 9, 2017 at 1:40 pm said:
I pinned this. It looks like a good book. We recently took the ferry from Dover to France and loved seeing the White Cliffs.
Hi Beth, that’s fun to hear you just traveled across the English Channel. I hope you enjoy Across the Blue and it brings back happy memories for you!
Evangeline on July 9, 2017 at 4:02 pm said:
Beautiful cover! You are a new author to me, and I would love to read your book. ?
Jennifer on July 9, 2017 at 4:26 pm said:
Love the cover! Looking forward to reading this book. I shared it on Pinterest
Elizabeth on July 9, 2017 at 4:55 pm said:
I pinned this to Pinterest.
Brenda Scruggs on July 9, 2017 at 7:00 pm said:
I can’t wait to read this! My maiden name is Kendall and I traced my ancestry back to Kent. In my research, Kendall means, church by the river. And. my married name Scruggs means river also.
Love the book cover!
I will share on facebook.
susan beamon on July 9, 2017 at 7:18 pm said:
Do really like the cover. Posted to Facebook and Twitter.
Added to my Goodread TBR list.
Brenda Murphree on July 9, 2017 at 8:13 pm said:
I shared on FB, Twitter & Pinterest. I Love the cover! I hope to win your books! Thanks for this great giveaway!!
Pat Moore on July 9, 2017 at 8:15 pm said:
The cover is beautiful and the blurb caught my attention. Would love to win and read this book. You would be a new author for me. Looking forward to reading your book whether I win or not.
Jeanne Crea on July 9, 2017 at 8:20 pm said:
I re-tweeted your tweet about this Giveaway! Kate Breslin has recommended your books and I can’t wait to start reading! Thank you for the chance to win. I would be thrilled!
Becky Eldredge on July 9, 2017 at 10:34 pm said:
I shared on twitter. The new cover looks great, and the story sounds so good! I added as a “to read” on Goodreads!
Bhriv on July 10, 2017 at 12:12 am said:
Great cover and sounds like a great storyline, Carrie…but the release sounds like so far away :/ 🙂 I shared it on Twitter and Pinterest. Excited to see so many talking about it on FB, too!
Carrie Turansky on July 10, 2017 at 7:13 am said:
Hi Bhriv, February does seem like a long time to wait for the release. I agree! Have you read my other books? That might keep you busy until February. Here’s a link to my book list: http://carrieturansky.com/index.php/books/ Happy Reading!
Sam on July 10, 2017 at 12:57 am said:
Hope to read this soon! Shared on Facebook and wish you tons of success with Across the Blue! Congratulations!
Emmalisa Tilli on July 10, 2017 at 1:30 am said:
Shared on Facebook and twitter and then when I went to do Pinterest I lost what I was doing because it went into the app, and nothing came up. Will give it another try. I never have won a competition in my life and recently my sister won a cruise, now I am trying hard to win a competition! Haha!!!! You know me, I would be happy with a book! Especially yours. The Governess of Highland Hall has made a huge impact on me and the story never leaves me. My sister says I rave on about it just a tad! Haha! Shared this post on Facebook too I think! I love your writing…. a modern day Jane Austen.
Thank you Emmalisa!
Brenda Soto on July 10, 2017 at 1:49 am said:
Love the cover! It draws you in right away. I am sharing this on Facebook. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
Thanks for sharing, Brenda!
Kim Ferrell on July 10, 2017 at 9:52 am said:
Thank you for a chance to win a set of your works. The cover is very well done and leaves you with a sense of missing something, drawing you into opening and reading.
Marion on July 10, 2017 at 2:08 pm said:
I shared on facebook. The book looks like a wonderful read.
Pam Myers on July 10, 2017 at 2:44 pm said:
The cover is beautiful and looks very intriguing can’t wait to read it Love all your books
Tina Wyatt on July 10, 2017 at 4:26 pm said:
The cover is so pretty . Would love to read it . Thanks for the giveaway .
I did Pinterest and Facebook
Kate Yetter on July 10, 2017 at 6:19 pm said:
The covers on all your books are so eye catching! I know they say you can’t choose a book based on its cover but I still do. It is the first thing I look for. I shared your giveaway on Twitter, and pinterest. Thanks for the giveaway. Hoping I win!
Nancy Luebke on July 10, 2017 at 7:44 pm said:
Love the cover. What an interesting topic too. Shared on my facebook.
Michelle Fidler on July 10, 2017 at 8:14 pm said:
Shared on Facebook. The books sound great. I discovered your books by finding one at the library in the new books section.
Melissa Mathis on July 12, 2017 at 1:41 pm said:
I shared this on Facebook!
Dianna on July 12, 2017 at 8:33 pm said:
Shared on Twitter (@dedezoomsalot) and Pinterest (Savinginseconds)
The cover is gorgeous. Congrats!
Laurie Iglesias on July 12, 2017 at 11:43 pm said:
That is a lovely cover!! And what an attractive website you have. I shared the post on Twitter.
Brooke Irwin on July 13, 2017 at 7:56 am said:
I shared on Facebook! The book looks great!
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