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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 49
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 49
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Carle Vernet Wall Art
Carle Vernet also known as Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (born in 1758) was the father of Horace Vernet and the son of Claude Joseph Vernet. He was a French painter who was born in Bordeaux. Vernet started leaning art in the hands of his father. He was also taught by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié. His work as a lithographer, hunting-pieces, landscapes, and races were very popular. In 1782 he won the grand prix, and after that his father recalled him back to France from Rome to prevent him from entering a monastery. In his piece titled “Triumph of Aemilius Paulus,” Vernet broke with the norms and drew the horse with the forms he had learnt from riding-schools and from nature in stables. During the Revolution Vernet’s sister was executed by the guillotine. After this, he decided to give up art.
He later began to produce art under the French Directory and his style had radically changed. He started drawing in great detail campaigns and battles to glorify Napoleon. His art of Italian campaign by Napoleon won much praise as did the Battle of Marengo, and for his piece titled “Morning of Austerlitz,” he was awarded the Legion of Honour by Napoleon. Later on he was awarded the Order of Saint Michael by Louis XVIII of France. Afterwards Vernet excelled in depictions of horses and in hunting scenes. Apart from being a lithographer and painter, he was an avid horseman. A few days before his death at the age of 78, he was seen racing as if he were still a young man.
Hunt in the Park in Fountainbleau
Carle Vernet
Death of Hippolytos
The Return from the Race
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The 48,000-Worker Strike at the University of California Is Still Going
Mai Nguyen Do
Koby Hansen
Oscar Valle
The massive walkout at California’s flagship public university system is the largest strike in the US in recent years, and it’s now in its second week. Jacobin spoke with striking grad student workers at UC Riverside and UC Irvine.
About 48,000 union workers walked off the job at UCLA and nine other UC campuses across the state, in Los Angeles on Monday, November 14, 2022. (Brittany Murray / MediaNews Group / Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)
A strike involving 48,000 graduate student workers, postdocs, and academic researchers across the University of California system is wrapping up its second week. Organizers say that the strike is the largest academic strike in US history; it also happens to be one of the largest strikes, period, in the country in the last few years. Last Friday, November 18, Jacobin’s Sara Wexler spoke with striking grad student workers at UC Riverside about their demands and their experiences during the strike.
Can you tell me why you’re on strike today?
So, our classrooms are overcrowded, our workplace buildings are often in dangerous disrepair and inaccessible, and our wages are low. But rents are still high. Our labor as academic workers is what keeps the University of California running. And yet the UC refuses to compensate us thoroughly, make our workplaces truly accessible, or bargain over these issues in good faith. That’s why thousands of academic workers like myself are on strike and will need to be on strike until the university comes to the table in good faith and stops engaging in unfair labor practices.
For me, the biggest motivation to be striking currently is to reach that point of feeling financially secure enough that I don’t have to have that little voice in the back of my head saying, “Are we going to be able to pay for rent? Are we going to be able to buy groceries this month?”
I don’t think a lot of people realize how much of a toll that takes on you. It’s almost like being followed all the time. You have this feeling of uncertainty, this feeling that you have to be super careful with your money — otherwise, you literally cannot continue doing what you’re doing.
That’s also super relevant to our department, where the majority of students are international students. One of our current asks is getting rid of supplemental tuition for international students. Because that really does not make any sense to require people from countries whose currency may not even be able to compare to the US dollar to pay double what residents pay.
I think the university expects a certain quality of work: we got to produce several papers, we got to show up to classes, and we got to teach on top of that. So, they expect us to handle all those things, while we’re worried about whether we’re gonna have enough money for food.
To know that other people have that feeling has been really interesting. One could talk about things theoretically or just about not getting paid enough. But what does it mean? What are those feelings that we all kind of share?
That’s where we all kind of start to connect. At least this week, what I’ve seen, everyone’s feeling more comfortable with each other. And I asked myself, “Why is it that it’s taking so long for people to get comfortable next to each other?” I think that I don’t know what’s going on with the school; we just come here and work and then go back home, and that’s it.
There’s none of these social spaces — not until these types of things happen. There’s music, there’s dancing, there’s all these things.
What was the organizing like leading up to the strike?
I think, over the past couple of months and years, people have been pushed to the brink. Being unable to afford rent, having to make decisions between gas and food, is what has brought us to this point — having to suffer low wages from what purports to be one of the world’s most prestigious universities while continuing to serve the university’s mission and trying to serve our students the best that we can and conduct cutting-edge research, has really pushed people over time to the point where thousands of people are willing to go on the picket lines.
Being unable to afford rent, having to make decisions between gas and food, is what has brought us to this point.
Something that’s really impressed me with the organizers is how quickly and efficiently they were able to mobilize everybody. We didn’t have any false starts. We didn’t have any groups that were lagging. I think that has a lot to do with the organizers and how they were able to draw out a lot of those passions and frustrations. A lot of frustrations are left over from how the administration handled COVID and is still not handling COVID well.
How exactly did it start?
We went into bargaining earlier this year to negotiate what our next contract will look like. During the many months of bargaining, we’ve made strong proposals on issues such as the right to dignified and fair compensation and increasing the rights of international scholars at the university, but progress has continued to be threatened at the bargaining table by the university’s unlawful conduct. The decision to move forward with the multiunit, statewide strike that we are currently engaged in was made after these months and months of increasing frustration with the university’s lack of progress or lack of willingness to bargain in good faith.
How has the strike been an organizing tool?
I think going on strike has brought so many of us together, more than ever before. We are all taking to the picket lines, because we all face the struggle and suffer low wages and inaccessible workplaces. We’re having to deal with additional costs such as visa fees that other employers that are not the University of California would cover for their employees — international academic workers at the University of California have to pay for their own visa fees in addition to other fees, just because they’re from another country.
Being on the picket lines together, I think, has really strengthened our bonds of solidarity and really strengthened our spirits in our fight for a contract, because we’re out there together. We’re getting up early in the morning and then closing the day with each other.
One of the coolest things to see is how the strike has helped us overcome institutional barriers. Because of how the university is organized, it can feel very disjointed. Oscar and I are in the Language Department, and we just tend to stick together. We just know each other, and that’s it basically.
But what I’ve seen with this strike specifically is that we have been able to make meaningful connections with graduate students in other departments, within days or hours of meeting. I don’t think that would have happened if the strike hadn’t given us that space to meet and make those connections.
I think the strike has been helping with opening up that kind of communal space, or at least the possibility of such a thing. This has allowed us to see graduate students recognize each other, that we’re also here in the school. We’re in different buildings, but we’re here.
It’s hard for me not to think about it affectively. We’re able to make some music together. Yesterday, we went through some buildings and opened the doors to classes that were in session; we’re just singing and yelling and everything. People have gotten more prepared — they’ve brought their own drums and brought their different instruments — and we’re just kind of chanting everything together. It’s just something I didn’t expect, because I’ve never really been a part of anything like this.
We have the “tag” of a student, and the university kind of tries to use that against this. Because we’re workers, at the end of the day, and I think to say we’re students is to say you’re still kind of like a middle school or high school student. They don’t really treat us seriously, because we’re students. That’s the way it feels. And I think this has been breaking that identity in a way.
The university doesn’t really treat us seriously, because we’re students.
What do you hope to win from the strike?
We’re going on strike to ensure that we’re able to win a fair contract that includes compensation, that includes a democratic workplace. Like I mentioned earlier, that also includes broadening rights for international scholars.
We’re also trying to ensure that conditions for undergraduate students are improved. By ensuring that we don’t have to worry about rent, we’re able to also ensure that our undergraduate students are able to get the quality education and quality instruction they deserve.
At Riverside, we have so many students who come from frontline communities in the Inland Empire, and who are looking to go to college and learn more about the world and bring that knowledge back to improve and make progress in their communities. So, we’re also fighting for a smaller classroom. A more accessible workplace also means more comfortable classrooms for all of us. This is a fight not just for academic workers but for the future of the university.
How have the undergraduate students responded to the strike so far?
We’ve seen tremendous support from undergraduate students, from faculty members, from other workers, from other community members, from elected officials — the support has been tremendous. I’ll also note one thing that has been lost a little bit is that we’re also fighting for higher wages for undergraduate tutors at the University of California.
Getting support from everyone has been amazing. The show of support we’ve seen from undergraduate students, from faculty members, from other workers, from committee members and elected officials shows that so many people understand that our fight for a fair contract is just.
From what I’ve seen so far, there seem to be two very polarized reactions to what’s going on. We have the people that are 100 percent for what we’re doing, the undergrads who have literally joined us on the picket line from day one. They’re not going to classes.
On the other hand, we have the undergrads that see us only as an interruption or a nuisance — that we are this kind of block to their education. I would like undergrads to see us as people and to see that our function is essential to their education. There’s absolutely no way that they can finish their degrees without our labor.
I saw on Twitter a couple of days ago that the UC had actually done a report that said that 5 to 11 percent of grad students across all of the UC campuses have experienced food insecurity or homelessness. I would like undergrads to take that to heart and to understand how serious this is.
So many people understand that our fight for a fair contract is just.
If folks are nearby, we’re asking that they join us on the picket lines, and you can find that information at FairUCNow.org. There’s also a hardship fund that people can donate to and sample letters of support or other materials that people can use.
More bodies here would be nice! If people join us on the picket line or share some information, that can help out.
It’s been a huge morale boost seeing former students on the picket line with us. I think that sometimes undergrads don’t realize that, in this particular struggle, they have a lot of power. So having people with that kind of power — undergrads, nonstudents, staff on campus, and also professors — coming to support the cause is one huge way of helping.
This is draining. Doing this has a physical, emotional, and mental toll. So, being able to be there for us as people, I think, is also huge, especially if we’re going to have to do this long term. If we don’t have that support as individuals with limited capacities, we’re not going to be able to make it; we’re just going to burn out, we’re going to crash. So, I think having that support and having those people is absolutely key right now.
Mai Nguyen Do is a PhD student in political science at UC Riverside.
Koby Hansen is a PhD Student in Hispanic studies at UC Riverside.
Oscar Valle is a PhD student in Hispanic studies at UC Riverside.
Labor Organizing
Academic Workers
A strike involving 48,000 graduate student workers, postdocs, and academic researchers across the University of California system is wrapping up its second week. Organizers say that the strike is the largest academic strike in US history; it also happens to be one of the largest strikes, period, in the country in the last few years. […]
Part-Time Faculty at New York’s New School Are on Strike
Lee-Sean Huang
Jerzy Gwiazdowski
To Save American Universities, We Need to Go On Strike
Henry Snow
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Porsche 991 (2012 To Present)
The Porsche 991 was introduced at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show it replaced the Porsche 997 in 2012 and the 991 also introduced a completely new platform for the Porsche 911 and also brought some major design changes over the previous model.
The 991 is larger than its predecessor with a longer wheelbase and a longer overall length, Porsche also developed a new transaxle for the 991.
The first models of the Porsche 991 to be introduced came with a 3.4 litre boxer engine that featured direct fuel injection and they came with around 350 HP and a 0 to 60 miles per hour time of around 4.8 seconds.
Porsche also launched a 991 Carrera S which came with 400 HP and also in 2012 they launched their new Porsche 991 Cabriolet.
As with previous models of the Porsche 911 the company launched a track focused version of the 991, the Porsche 991 GT3? this model comes with 469 HP and they are also expected to launch an even more powerful 991 GT3 RS in 2015.
Porsche also launched two versions of their Porsche 991 Turbo, the standard 991 Turbo comes with 513 HP and 0 to 60 MPH time of 3.4 seconds and the faster 991 Turbo S comes with 552 HP and a 0 to 62 MPH time of 3.1 seconds.
In 2014 Porsche launched their new 991 Carrera GTS which included a coupe and cabriolet model and both models featured Porsche’s Sport Chrono Package and a Sport Exhaust.
The Porsche 991 GTS comes with 430 HP and a 0 to 60 MPH time of 3.8 seconds for the coupe version and 4.0 seconds for the cabriolet.
In January of 2015 the Porsche 991 Targa 4 GTS was announced at the Detroit Auto Show, this model came with 430 HP, 20 inch matte black wheels and the Porsche Sport Chrono package. This mode was launched to celebrate 50 years of the Porsche 911 Targa.
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Canada's First Warriors
A slide show presentation of Native American dress from the 16th to mid-18th century.
Site: National Defence
The French And British Navies
Both Britain and France needed strong navies to protect their coasts, fishing fleets and colonies. The peak of French naval power was during the 1690s, when it dominated the coasts of England. Defeated in 1692, the French navy declined in quality and strength from that point on.
Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site of Canada: Roles and Functiions of Colonial Governors-Three Spheres of Influence
The governor’s influence extended locally, regionally and across the continent.
Site: Parks Canada
Iroquois warriors lurking near French settlements during the 1650s
Until the 1660s, especially in the Montreal area, no one in the French settlements really felt quite safe from surprise attacks by hostile Iroquois warriors. Many Canadian settlers, including women, learned to handle firearms during the 1650s.
Warning bell, 1660s
Because of the constant Iroquois surprise attacks on settlers at Montreal between 1660 and 1665, the nursing nuns at the hospital also kept a lookout and would ring their bell to give the alarm whenever they spotted something suspicious.
Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site of Canada: Roles and Functiions of Colonial Governors- French Administration
The governor represented the king of France in the colony. From 1608, when Quebec was founded, until 1663, the governor held virtually all powers: military command, civil management, and execution of royal decrees.In 1663, things began to change: the king of France took direct control of the colony and installed a true colonial government
Royal Control Replaces Private Enterprise
When King Louis XIV of France reached his majority, he started a wave of reforms in France. The colonies, too, saw changes, with the Crown taking control from the private companies that had once held monopolies.
Records of the 4th International Colloquy on Military History (Ottawa 23.25 VIII 1978) Date of Publication: 1979
Introduction by W.A.B. Douglas, Director Directorate of History, Program Chairman. Articles in a variety of languages including: English, German, French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Greek.
Conflicting Strategic Interests
French strategy in Acadia and Newfoundland centred around controlling access to the St. Lawrence River. Competition with Britain and her American colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries led to the fortification and garrisoning of the region.
Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site of Canada: Govenors at Work and Leisure - Bit of History
...the château was also the governor’s residence, it was an important living environment and cultural centre. There were many receptions, under both the French and English regimes.
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Church of Christ of Palestine
Silver Saints Ministry
Local Ministry
Youth Camp Out & Fishing Tournament 2021
Sermon Notes >
05/22/22 Rooted in Christ - Chris White
“Rooted in Christ”
Colossians 2.6-15
1. Paul wanted people to come to Christ, and he wanted people to __________________________________________ in Christ.
2. Coll 2.15 Jesus “____________________” over them in his crucifixion.
Some self-help plans from N.T. times still threaten today:
Special _____________________Plan Coll.2.16
“Let no man therefore judge you in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day:…”
Special ________________________Plan Coll 2.16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink…”
The Special ________________Plan (Have you had an experience?) Coll 2.17
“Let no man rob you of your prize…dwelling in the things which he hath [l]seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind…”,
The Special ___________Plan
Coll.2.21—“Handle not, nor taste, nor touch…”
4. Coll 2.13 “And you, being ______________through your trespasses”
God did it—not a correction but a new _________.
5. “Together with him…” His righteousness is ________________to us—we get his report card!
6. Coll 2.13-14 “…having __________the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way…”
7. He not only blotted out our sin, he placed the futility of the enemy on _____________.
John 12.26-32 “I will be lifted ______and I will cast him _________…”
8. Every time a person is baptized, a power play occurs, in which Satan is forced to release one and acknowledge the ___________ over him.
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1905 | Issues of Pragmaticism | EP 2:348; CP 5.441
…to say that an operation of the mind is controlled is to say that it is, in a special sense, a conscious operation; and this no doubt is the consciousness of reasoning. For this theory requires that in reasoning we should be conscious, not only of the conclusion, and of our deliberate approval of it, but also of its being the result of the premiss from which it does result, and furthermore that the inference is one of a possible class of inferences which conform to one guiding principle. Now in fact we find a well-marked class of mental operations, clearly of a different nature from any others which do possess just these properties. They alone deserve to be called reasonings; and if the reasoner is conscious, even vaguely, of what his guiding principle is, his reasoning should be called a logical argumentation. There are, however, cases in which we are conscious that a belief has been determined by another given belief, but are not conscious that it proceeds on any general principle. Such is St. Augustine’s “cogito, ergo sum.” Such a process should be called, not a reasoning, but an acritical inference.
‘Acritical Inference’. Term in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/acritical-inference, 31.01.2023.
Inference | Reasoning | Associational Suggestion of Belief
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They Rush The Passer And Block The Running Plays, Progressing Towards The Center Of The Line Of Scrimmage.
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The oldest football stadium in the North East, football has of the quarterback, that is on the right side of the defensive line. American Football American football, on the other hand, is is lined up directly from across the ball, the position is called a nose tackle. American football is a more physical sort of game, and hence, they rally the two opposite boundaries of the defensive line. In 1898, Newcastle United were promoted to the First Division more protective gear needs to be worn by the player for protection. American football is a more physical sort of game, and hence, Park was named by FIFA as one of only six English football stadiums that are up to World Cup standard. After all, it is a team game, and no team can almost every country in the world plays the 'beautiful game'.
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" The Bransk Project "
The exhibition "Bransk Project" in Marcel Hastir's studio in Brussels in may 2014
The Bransk Project came about after the meeting of two kind and sensitive men, Chaim Shapiro and Harry Birkholz. Both born after the second World War, the second generation so to speak, each carrying within them the unbearable legacy of the Holocaust, often not able to use words to express their feelings. Their friendship was based on their natural affinities: an acute awareness of their past, both had been hippies, drawn even further together by their musical and spiritual backgrounds. The strength of their friendship was also borne of their differences. (...)
On the way back from NYC, Harry created the 'Bransk Project'. In a short period of time, from September to October 2009, feeling very inspired, Harry painted the five series of seven paintings. These paintings form the heart of the exhibition which Harry dreamt of realizing, before his sudden death in May 2011. The meeting and subsequent friendship of these two men shed light on the past and this in turn became a spark liberating Harry's artistic expression. (...)
Read the next : The Bransk Project and Bransk Project May 2014 Program
See the video-clips below :
To see : The slideshow's exhibition
The exhibition "Bransk Project" in Marcel Hastir's studio in Brussels
" The Sound of NYC back to Tibet "
On the occasion of this retrospective we discovered thirty years of painting by the German artist, Harry Birkholz, a Belgian at heart who said: "I am NYC".
Harry Birkholz had the soul of a true musician and loved NYC, jazz music, avant-garde music as well as Rock & Roll which has its roots in blues music. Harry loved musicians and frequently sketched them while listening to his favorite tunes. Harry had a wide knowledge of music. He was a connoisseur and composed electronic music. We were able to listen to some of his pieces during this exhibition of his artwork.
In 1987 Harry created a monumental artwork. He created 49 oil paintings and gained inspiration from the "Tibetan book of the Dead". This work was exhibited for the first time at this exhibition. In Harry's work one can define the spiritual search of an artist who integrated daily meditation.
The exhibition was held from October 25th until November 11th 2012 at Tour & Taxis in Brussels. Olivier Kempen made it all possible.
The 49 oil paintings inspired by the "Tibetan Book of the Dead " or Bardo Thödol.
Created in 1987.
Given Harry Birkholz's early interest in spirituality, he has read this text many times. The text speaks about the successive states of consciousness. It delves into the span between the moment of death and the consequential start of a new life. By listening to these instructions during the intermediary states, one can help the dying person and the dead free themselves of the eternal cycle of reincarnation and hopefully reach a higher more enlightened state of consciousness.
In a very contemporary manner and in the form of visions which are his own mental projections, the artist translated this inspirational text.
This monumental work of art consists of 49 oil paintings on cardboard, placed in a specific order. The work in its entirety measures 286 x 356 cm.
Tribute to the Rig Veda: ten books containing 1028 drawings in black or colored pencils, watercolors, acrylic and ink.
Book 1.10
Harry Birkholz has continuously been reading this classic text of Indian literature since 1978 and has used it as a source of inspiration for his painting.
In 2002, Harry began the first of 10 books and presented his entire work relating to this theme on the occasion of the exhibition " Le Journal de la Lumière Lactée " in September 2006 in the L'Usine Gallery in Brussels.
His comments are as follows:
"As in the original Rig Veda, I sorted the 1028 Chants into the form of drawings constituting ten volumes. The sequence I adopted in developing each of these books is as follows: read one chant, draw it, read the next, draw it, etc… My initial idea was to create an imaginary writing which could slowly evolve, step by step from book 1 to book 10.
After creating a few pages, a particular dynamic development arose. In the first two volumes, a kaleidoscope of styles and techniques manifested themselves. Then starting from the third book, each volume revealed a different approach. The third book contains 105 portraits of various Vedic deities drawn exclusively in black ink.
Various landscapes resembling to states of consciousness comprise the fourth book.
In book five, using various ink color, I found myself working in an abstract manner. Occasionally, imaginary writing appears.
Latin scripture going from right to left exhibited itself in the sixth volume. This became a characteristic of the following books, as did paintings on canvas and paper.
One of the reasons I made these choice was that archeologists and historians agree that the first written traces of the Rig Veda appeared circa 1600 years before J.C. The oral tradition of the rig Veda is pre-dated by a thousand of years. According to our present knowledge, we date the rise of the Indus civilization to the fourth millennium before J.C. This includes with its two Metropolis Harappa and Mohenjo Daro located in which is today's eastern Pakistan. On certain seals discovered there, we see motifs which illustrate scenes from the Rig Veda. These glyphs not yet decoded, should be read from right to left. For this reason I am writing in the form of "mirror image".
The sixth book is painted with color pencils. In the seventh book, I only used black pencil. The eighth book contains the ninth mandala. It is entirely dedicated to the elixir of immortality: it is called the soma which later became a manifestation of God. It is described in reddish gold of various aspects. My painting of this considers this volume a union of mystic avant-garde.
Books nine and ten contain portrait drawings in black pencil. The first one shows the spontaneous representations of persons important in my life. The second and last volume contains portraits of early Vedic deities, known today under the names of Quantum, Protons, Electron, Quark, etc…".
Marianne Obozinski - February 2010
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Home Rahul Gandhi begins long march to revive India’s Congress Party
Rahul Gandhi begins long march to revive India’s Congress Party
Thursday, September 8, 2022 - 01:00
INDIA: On Wednesday, the leader of India’s main opposition Congress Party embarked on a long march across the country.
Accompanying Rahul Gandhi on the journey to “unite India” will be more than 100 members of his Congress party. It will be a five-month-long, 3,570km (2,218-mile) trek through 12 states. During his journey, Gandhi will meet people in the day and sleep in makeshift accommodation at night. The trek will be livestreamed on a website, and songs will be played relaying its message.
At its heart, the Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) is political, targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The march is equally an attempt at reviving the flagging spirits of an exhausted party and beefing up the sagging image of its leader. “We are going out to listen to people, not to give them lectures,” Jairam Ramesh, another party leader, said.
Listening to people is always a good idea. Since 2014, when Prime Minister Modi swept to power in India, the Congress has been in free-fall. It has been routed by the BJP in two successive federal elections, and has lost 40 of 45 state elections. The party now rules in a paltry two states, and is stricken by dissent. It is unclear what the Congress - which has lost most of its traditional voters to the BJP - stands for, apart from a vision of a secular India.
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David Alexander – Toronto Poet
I am a real poet
After the Hatching Oven
Readings & Things
David Alexander is the author of After the Hatching Oven, forthcoming from Nightwood Editions in April 2018, and the chapbooks Modern Warfare (Anstruther Press) and Chicken Scratch (Puddles of Sky Press). His work has been shortlisted for The Walrus Poetry Prize (2014), Arc Poem of the Year (2014), FreeFall Magazine Annual Poetry Contest (2016), and the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award (2016). His poems have appeared in Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, The Puritan, subTerrain, The Humber Literary Review, the Literary Review of Canada and other journals and magazines. He volunteers as a reader for The Puritan and works in Toronto’s nonprofit sector.
David Alexander is the author of After the Hatching Oven (Nightwood Editions, 2018). His poems have appeared in Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, The Puritan, subTerrain, The Humber Literary Review, the Literary Review of Canada and many other fine journals and magazines. David volunteers as a reader for The Puritan and works in Toronto's nonprofit sector.
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Arena Rockin' The Vote?
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tags: music, rock and roll, cultural history, MAGA
by George Case
George Case is the author of multiple nonfiction books, most recently Takin' Care of Business: A History of Working People's Rock 'n' Roll, published by Oxford University Press in 2021.
Tune in to any Classic Rock radio station, or click on a Spotify playlist of rock 'n' roll anthems, and whose songs will you hear? A lot of straight, white, and often angry males: AC/DC. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Bruce Springsteen. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Black Sabbath. ZZ Top. Guns n' Roses. Bob Seger. Grand Funk Railroad. George Thorogood. Metallica. Aerosmith. Who are they mostly singing to, both on their original records and as latter-day legends? A lot of straight, white, and often angry males, most of us once party-hearty teenagers who've since become middle-aged working stiffs. Why should this particular set of artists and audiences matter today? Because this is the demographic now held to be a key voting bloc in many places, credited with or blamed for Donald Trump, Brexit, trucker blockades, and anti-vaccine rallies. From Sweet Home Alabama to the Highway to Hell, popular music and populism have significantly overlapped.
The connection seldom gets noticed. While the country sound of Nashville has long been associated with red-state politics in the US, the more varied - and commercially far more lucrative - genre of rock has had its own influence on a working- or middle-class base in many countries. It isn't so much that performers have actively backed populist causes, although Bernie Sanders used Springsteen's "We Take Care of Our Own" as a campaign theme and Skynyrd played private gigs for Republican conventioneers in 2016. Rather, it's that several generations of listeners have conflated the loud 'n' proud rebellion of electric guitar riffs with their private ideals of integrity, resilience, and rugged individualism. Call it arena rock, call it Rust Belt rock, call it blue-collar boogie, call it Golden Oldies for the Boomer and Gen X cohorts, but don't underestimate its impact. While we usually think of rock 'n' roll as the soundtrack of juvenile delinquency in the 1950s, student protest in the 1960s, and punkish irreverence in later decades, some of the medium's most vital expressions may have really been the Silent Majority's way of making some noise.
Consider acts like CCR, the meat-and-potatoes quartet whose visual and sonic style, and class-conscious hits like "Fortunate Son" and "Proud Mary," were defiant rejoinders to the self-indulgent utopianism of their psychedelic competitors; Lynyrd Skynyrd, the unrepentant American Southerners who regularly played their immortal hymns to rural independence, "Freebird" and "Simple Man," before a huge Confederate flag; Australia's AC/DC, blaring brazenly toxic masculinity avant la lettre, in "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Have a Drink On Me," "You Shook Me All Night Long," and a barroom jukebox of other outrages; heavy metal heroes Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, offering cathartic fantasies of power and freedom to underemployed youth around the world, with "Breaking the Law" and "Run to the Hills"; and superstars John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, and Bruce Springsteen, articulating the hopes and fears of a transforming global economy's newly vulnerable farmers and factory workers, via the multimillion-selling albums Scarecrow, Against the Wind, and Born In the USA. It was all mass-marketed entertainment, of course, but the continued fame of the musicians, and the enduring appeal of the music, tells us something about what really mattered - and still matters - to their constituencies. People who first encountered the songs in 1969 or 1975 or 1986 have grown up and grown old absorbing messages of group solidarity and personal honor, socially tolerant but sternly ethical, apolitical but anti-elitist, delivered by icons of nonconformity, charisma, and cool. The philosophy of rock 'n' roll may have drifted rightward over its seventy years, but the right has just as surely been rocked.
As celebrities, rock stars also anticipated the distrust of authority and expertise which we hear in right-wing reaction internationally. Often disparaged by music journalists in their day, some artists defended themselves and their followers in language that seems oddly prescient now. "The rock press was always attracted to the Talking Heads, Television, the Ramones, the New York Dolls, the Sex Pistols – bands who couldn’t sell out a stadium or even an arena," griped Gene Simmons of the greasepainted foursome Kiss. "There is a side to that media completely devoid of connection to the people who make up most of the rock audience.” Likewise, AC/DC guitarist Angus Young recalled the band's first tour of the US in 1977, "What was real strange was that although the media was pushing this really soft music, you'd get amazing numbers of people turning out to hear the harder stuff." Judas Priest singer Rob Halford had his own complaint: "You get narrow-minded critics reviewing the shows, and all they think about heavy metal is that it is just total ear-splitting, blood-curdling noise without any definition or point. This is a very, very professional style of music. It means a great deal to many millions of people. We treat heavy metal with respect."
In 1970 rock promoter Frank Barsalona noted that critical approval wasn't important to the crowds flocking to see Grand Funk Railroad. "They have been put down repeatedly by the underground press but the younger kids are not letting the press tell them what to like," he said. And Ted Nugent, the Motor City Madman - nowadays a conservative provocateur best known for his leering 1970s successes like "Cat Scratch Fever" and the libertarian "Stormtroopin'" - summed up his views on the Detroit-based rock magazine Creem, declaring, "Most of its so-called writers provided me with constant fortification to my concrete understanding of how transparent, criminal, and chimplike the hippie lifestyle truly is." This disconnect between sanctioned opinion and popular sentiment, which didn't seem to matter much when it was confined to the record shops, has lately migrated to the ballot box, where it's made an historic difference.
Granted, it's difficult to trace a connection from any subcategory of pop culture directly to political insurrection, from "We're An American Band" to "Make America Great Again." But the vast populations who've matured from alienated adolescents to disaffected citizens, all the time raising fists and banging heads to heavily amplified songs about macho bluster, grassroots defiance, and stubborn allegiance to community and class, comprise much of today's populist movement, and they first gained their sense of themselves as freedom-loving challengers of an arrogant and out-of-touch establishment through a catalogue of hard-rockin' Greatest Hits.
Newer formats of hip-hop or K-pop could themselves be heralds of nascent social uprisings somewhere else on the spectrum; the confirmed sales and committed partisans of denim-clad, blues-based, guitar-playing ensembles and soloists, however, make their import obvious. Even at its economic peak, the music industry was never a monolith, yet in terms of tickets sold and units shipped, Back In Black, Born to Run, and the massed ranks of the Kiss Army enjoy a collective resonance that drowns out comparable claims for Lizzo, Harry Styles, and BTS. Whatever you think of the music, that so many have identified so deeply with it for so long bears reflection. If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the electoral surges of the last ten years - and perhaps of the next ten as well - may have been generated in the concert halls of Cleveland.
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Chapter 14. Which option?.
Anonymous currency is a fact embedded in most civilizations, especially in the Western civilization and the cultures which have been colonized by it. Any proposal of a change of civilization has, with respect to currency, three options:
First. Immediate and total demonetization -with the subsequent suppression of productive specialization and with the almost total self-sufficiency, combined with a bartering of goods and services.
Second. The modification of the monetary system (substitution of the present anonymous and uninformative currency through a personalized and informative one, thereby demythicizing currency and reducing the area of responsible monetization to the exchange of measurable goods and services).
Third. The consideration that currency is not a key subject, and therefore it must be left as it is.
The monetization of all the cultures on the planet has been, and still is, an aim of mercantilism which, by this means can constantly enlarge and control the markets, which would give them the power over newcomers. In face of this we must find ways to respect those cultures which do not want to become mercantilized, and at the same time, we must cast light on the works of the existing markets and point out liabilities to avoid their omnipresent power within their cultures of origin and in their intercultural relations. Let us consider three possible options.
First. Immediate demonetization. It can be total or partial -that is, of some activities or of some cultures. Since monetization comes from the appearance of market, and this is the result of private property (whether communal, collective or individual), demonetization implies the existence of human communities with communal property. These communities, as long as they share all their properties, do not compel their members to carry out mercantile exchanges, at least inside them.
Demonetization needs not only the destruction of the still existing communal cultures, but demands the creation of new communal cultures, by will or by force (!), in the individualistic cultures where they no longer exist.
Another inevitable consequence of demonetization is the suppression of productive specialization in as many levels as possible, in order to reintroduce the reciprocal gift or bartering with as little confliction as possible (within each community or between neighbouring communities). Obviously, the division of work outside the communal life compels us to exchange among strangers, that is to the monetized market, sooner or later. It is argued, that overcoming the division of work -manual and intellectual- helps self-management and self-provisioning, which are the basis of an emotionally balanced life, socially liberated from social fictions and, therefore, more equalitarian.
Now, perhaps, we should separate demercantilization and demonetization. In mercantilized and monetized cultures, some goods and services may be demercantilized, but society cannot be demonetized because everybody, in his lifetime, needs to purchase some given goods to live. As we have suggested in other chapters, we may suggest the demercantilization of a number of professions and services (for example, judicial, political, informative, educational...). But if these activities are no longer part of the market, it they are free of cost, it does not mean that they don't need currency both to be exercised (buildings, materials...) and to live of them the professionals work on them. The same thing could be said of natural resources, such as land, subsoil and water. It may be suggested to demercantilize them and to put them under communal property to avoid speculation and destruction, but this does not mean that for their controlled, non-speculative use (such as rents, concessions or green taxes) it will not be useful, and above all necessary, to have a monetary system.
Therefore, the first option of demonetization appears not to be feasible in very complex societies and markets, the way most of them are today. On the contrary, it would certainly be possible to take some activities or some resources off the trading system which, out of the market dynamics, could better fulfill its role.
The extent of what can be taken off the trading system or not is mainly cultural. It depends on what every society values and the interest the different agents have to carry out a given productive trade function or a communal-liberal function. Some present-day cultures (that are fairly communal) have kept food out of the trading system. Any member of the community may take what he/she needs. On the other hand they have brought into the trading system other goods or services.
For the time being, it is difficult to think that, in the West, food may be taken off the trading system. A good example is the food production in socialist countries which has been kept out of the trading system. Without the lure of a monetary profit, nobody produces surpluses for sale, and the lack of food grows alarmingly. On the other hand, in the West it is accepted that some public, sanitary or cultural activities may better fulfill their function if they are free and out of the trading system. It is also necessary to consider the need to ensure a vital minimum to every person; a vital communal salary to grant food and other basic items to all members of society. Survival is now also being considered in the West as a fact which can be taken off the trading system, which can and must be obtained irrespective of one's productive contribution to the market. This path is the one which has been started by granting a pension to all those persons who, because of their physical condition (illness, invalidity or old age), cannot survive through their own work in the market (In the following chapter we shall talk about the possibilities of the West to take the path of going back to a communal, off-the-trade, system).
Second. Rationalization of the monetary system. In the markets which use monetary instruments made of metal coins or of bank notes, of cheques or of electronic accounts, whether they are legal o real, dirty or black, the rules of the market game must be again outlined and a new monetary system must be tailored to avoid as much as possible the problems of historic monetization: objectifying persons and their less material activities; free power of money; domestic and foreign trade imbalances; making the myth of money as the highest prestige...
This option offers a possibility to (re)discover currency as an instrument to improve human relations in certain aspects (exclusively for trade activities) and in complex situations (multi-ethnic societies, with an individualistic basis, with many sales-purchases and with many market agents). It is also a means to stop the damages of the present currency in other aspects (roles, professions and resources today «prostituted») and situations (communal cultures which will not, and need not, join the domestic or foreign trading system).
Third. Currency is not a key item. This is how it has been considered in official history up until now (both in the system's and in that of the system's critics). Therefore, no special step needs be taken. It will live if it must and it will die if it must.
The free exchange of consciences, the apocalypsis of Western civilization, or the coming of a communist society -when socialism will not be betrayed- will determine the destiny of currency. Let us discuss the following three positions:
For some, the most important thing in life are transcendental values, the mutation of spirit. If this does not change, all instrumental or political changes are only a repression of human wickedness, but not its anihiliation. If everybody was good then currency would be of no use. And while we attempt it, no control step will ever change egotism, and may even develop it with greater malevolence. And, besides, how can we expect an 'instrumental' change of something so vile as currency to be a means to help something so noble as the 'new man's' conscience?
For others, days are numbered for the West. Its path has no way out. It is a giant with clay feet. Sooner or later it will fall and the other cultures and nature will welcome this fact. Why should we attempt changes from inside the Western system? It is all rotten. No imperialism lasts one thousand years!
Still for a third group, the knowledge (historically determined) of the coming of a communist society has caused us to consider that currency was an invention of capitalism and that it will die with it.
The loathing of currency has been consciously impelled both by moralists and by apocalyptics and revolutionaries. For centuries people have been told that money is 'dangerous', the 'bait of sin'. 'Entrust it to us, the priests, bankers and politicans, and we will manage it well.' 'Money does not make people happy, they say, and it may even be an obstacle!'.
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Biography – GASTÉ, MARIE-JOSEPH-EUGÈNE-ALPHONSE – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
GASTÉ, MARIE-JOSEPH-EUGÈNE-ALPHONSE (named Eugène-Alphonse at birth), Roman Catholic priest, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, and missionary; b. 11 Oct. 1830 in Andouillé, France, son of René Gasté, a miller, and Renée Benoiste; d. 27 Nov. 1919 in Laval, France.
Marie-Joseph-Eugène-Alphonse Gasté graduated from the lycée at Laval, France, in 1851 and entered the Grand Séminaire du Mans. He taught at the Collège de Château-Gonthier in 1854–55 and was ordained priest on 25 March 1855 at Sées. From 1855 to 1860 he served as assistant priest at Bais, in the diocese of Laval. Stirred by the appeals of Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin* on behalf of the missions of the diocese of St Boniface in Rupert’s Land, Gasté left his comfortable post, joining the Oblates on 24 April 1860. He completed his noviciate at St Norbert (Man.), and took his vows before Bishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché* on 31 May 1861.
Gasté then assisted Father Valentin Végréville in founding the mission of St Pierre, close to the new Hudson’s Bay Company post of Lac-du-Brochet House (Brochet, Man.), on Reindeer Lake. Taché, who had initiated missionary work there in 1847, was eager to solidify it so as to counter the impending establishment of an Anglican mission. Gasté spent the next 40 years at St Pierre, earning the title of “the Moses of the Chipewyan.” He travelled enormous distances to the camps of the Chipewyan known as Caribou Eaters, which spread north to the Barrens, and he also ministered to the southern Chipewyan and Cree. His great circle of influence extended from Dubawnt Lake (N.W.T.) to Lake Winnipeg. So devoted was he to his work that when he went to France in 1893 as a delegate to the general chapter of the Oblates, he returned immediately, rather than take any holidays.
In 1868, after seven months of arduous travel with the Chipewyan, Gasté became the first Oblate to contact the inland Inuit of what is now northern Manitoba. He persuaded them to trade at Lac-du-Brochet, much to the dismay of the HBC officers at Fort Churchill (near Churchill). The continuing contact with the Inuit laid the foundation for the work, under Gasté’s tutelage, of Arsène-Louis Turquetil, an Oblate who in 1931 would become the first missionary bishop for these Inuit.
The mission of St Pierre became part of the Oblate vicariate of Saskatchewan in 1868, with Grandin as vicar of missions. Three years later the vicariate would become the diocese of St Albert. Convinced that St Pierre was the most difficult of his missions because of the lack of converts, the difficulties of transportation, the isolation, and the impossibility of agriculture, Grandin intended to close it in 1870 but yielded to Gasté’s pleas to keep it open. This decision increased stability and the opening of a small school attracted more Chipewyan to commit themselves to Catholicism and in turn ensured the permanence of the mission. In 1891 a reorganization of ecclesiastical boundaries would place it in the vicariate apostolic of Saskatchewan (later the diocese of Prince Albert), under Bishop Albert Pascal.
Gasté sent his assistants to build chapel-houses throughout the southern part of his vast mission area, at Pelican Lake, The Pas, and Grand Rapids (Man.), as well as at Cumberland House (Sask.). The progenitor of these far-flung establishments, he exerted considerable influence on the development of his church in what is now northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. He countered the impending closure of the trading post of Lac-du-Brochet in 1897 by bringing in a boatload of goods from a free trader in Prince Albert (Sask.) and arranging for a Métis to sell them, thus forcing the HBC to keep its post open so as not to lose its clients. In 1901, when Gasté ended his long missionary career, he had ensured that the HBC would maintain its post and the bishops the mission, despite the economies of church and trade which urged their abandonment.
At Prince Albert from 1901, Gasté served as superior of the Oblates and their master of novices, chaplain for the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, vicar general of the vicariate in 1903, and its administrator in 1905. He celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination at Prince Albert in 1905, receiving tributes from the Chipewyan to whom he had ministered for so long.
In 1908 he returned to France to live with his sister and he served as priest in Laval from 1910 until his death in 1919.
Martha McCarthy
Marie-Joseph-Eugène-Alphonse Gasté’s letters (originals and copies) are held at the Arch. Deschâtelets, Oblats de Marie-Immaculée (Ottawa) in his file and in the correspondence of the various bishops with whom he served; of particular value are documents HEB 6255.A45C, nos.1, 20. Additional Gasté correspondence is available at the Arch. de l’Archevêché de Saint-Boniface, Man.
Arch. Départementales, Mayenne (Laval, France), État civil, Andouillé, 14 oct. 1830. Prince Albert Roman Catholic Diocesan Arch. (Prince Albert, Sask.), Albert Pascal corr., Pascal à Henri Grandin, 9 juill. 1908, 31 juill. 1909. Gaston Carrière, Dictionnaire biographigue des oblats de Marie-Immaculée au Canada (4v., Ottawa, 1976–89), 2: 64–65. Fêtes jubilaires des R.R. P.P. Gasté et Moulin, le 26 juillet 1905 à Prince-Albert, Sask. (s.l., s.d.; copy at Arch. Deschâtelets). Martha McCarthy, To evangelize the nations: Roman Catholic missions in Manitoba, 1818–1870 (Winnipeg, 1990). Missions de la Congrégation des missionnaires oblats de Marie Immaculée (Marseille, etc.), 1 (1862)–44 (1906), esp. 9 (1870): 333–55, and 50 (1912): 285–88.
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Martha McCarthy, “GASTÉ, MARIE-JOSEPH-EUGÈNE-ALPHONSE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 31, 2023, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gaste_marie_joseph_eugene_alphonse_14E.html.
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Strange, The - interview (2006)
2006-01-18 | Katarzyna NINa Górnisiewicz | e-mail interview
NINa: What is the concept of hiding behind the masks?
Syres (guitar) We wanted to remove ourselves from the "cult of personality" and make people concentrate on the music created by the band rather than focus on us as individuals. Sort of a statement against the huge industry of celebrity. At the same time it's part of our image reminding people of the facelessness of the corporate culture and it's inherently psychotic nature.
Filth (drums) No one is hiding. To me the masks are about the lack of self importance. It's nothing to do with not being recognised or anything like that. We are all alike as a species, I think that's the message I was going for. The masks show in part we're not interested in fame.... just fortune... hehehe
Are The Strange shows connected with any theatre performance? Do you try to influence people minds because of using some artifacs like for example the masks mentioned above?
Filth (drums) I feel we're trying to make people think differently about music, and performance. There is so much boring music around... why not make it interesting..? Our music is somewhat mechanical and we do use graphics and theatre to broaden the possibilities (considering we have no vocalist). I think (or hope) that as we grow as a band we will put more into the theatrics of it all.. backdrops, lights, video are all important parts of the performance.
Devo (bass) I think its harder and more challenging to make a gig part theatre and part performance art, than to say just have 5 guys up in jeans and a t-shirt onstage. Life is quite depressing these days, so it fuels the need for people to be entertained and for artists to offer some form of escapism. We always try to make our shows a cinematic experience, so that all your senses are hit all at once. I remember reading a review from one of our gigs and the review said "For me, words that allude to the Strange's music would include: Emotive, Cinematic, Running Through Midnight, Collision, Touch." which made us all really pleased, because she understood and appreciated what we were doing.
What does "the strange" name mean to you? That adjective has many meanings in English language...
Iso (synth) For me, "The-Strange" is a term that has a double meaning, depending on what your point of view is. It reflects the suppression of the minority by the majority through their fear of what they don't understand. Conversely, the label "The-Strange" sets us apart from those who choose to live their lives ruled by fear.
Filth (drums) When I was growing up and indeed now still, I always like the people I met who were a bit different... the people that weren't popular... or good looking or interested in any of that kind of stuff. Strange is good to me...different. kind of special in a way.
Can you recall any STRANGE events in your life? ;)
Devo (bass ) When you've involved in the alternative music scene, it tends to be a haven for a lot of deviant activity, drugs, alcohol, a source of creativity and a sense of rebellion so strange things happen all the time. I once saw a group of kids set fire to a pool table in a night club and continue to play on it, whilst it was burning which was quite amusing. You tend to see a lot of individuals doing some really pecurliar things when they're high too. People always look really stupid when they're on drugs and for the most part, they pretty much act the same as well.
I've also never understood why people listen to radio or watch TV...to me it seems strange to allow yourself to be bombarded with adverts all day. All that time spent staring could be put to far greater use I think. And I found it especially strange and worrying that during my lifetime, someone like George Dubya could not only cheat his way into office, but also get voted in legally for a 2nd term. I just didn't get it and I still don't.
Filth (drums) Many strange events.... many... The strangest ones are too X-rated for this interview!
You have the new musician in the band. Did he adapt to you easily?
Filth (drums) Iso and I have been playing music together for years now.. we met through a common friend while they were at university. He is a very talented player and can adapt easily to anything he works on. He is slotting in just fine I think so far... The really exciting stuff is yet to come!
Syres (guitar) I think it's always hard coming into a band with a fairly established sound, but Iso's really found his feet and brought his own sound, feel and sensibilty to our songs. He also co-wrote a cranking new song with the band, a song showing a much more intense side to Strange.
Is promoting bands at such music websites like Myspace or Purevolume make people either buy more records or use P2P networks instead of?
Filth (drums) Well that's quite the conundrum... I think the web is great for advertising.. and getting your music out there... We as musicians have little choice, the cd is going the way of the dodo and we have to adapt to survive. I'm not a fan of downloading music.. I don't disagree with it, but we have to make a living somehow.... I tend to download a couple of tracks and then base my purchase of the artist's work on those tracks... I like having the cd and the artwork and all that.. plus I think you should have to pay for their efforts.. it costs money to make records...
Could you list your Top Five of favourite bands who influenced you please?
Collectively (In no particular order:) Bjork, Underworld, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Marilyn Manson, Janes Addiction, Pitchshifter, Smashing Pumpkins, Faith No More and Vast
What is your opinion about making cover versions of other bands songs? Would you ever do something like that?
Devo (bass) - As a band we've talked quite a bit about doing a cover, both live and for the debut EP. I like the idea of a cover, because people can instantly identify the song, but then they get to hear you version of it and they can then gauge how much effort you've put in, or how creative you've been. Of course you have to pick the right cover, there's the usual ones which everybody does, "Tainted Love", "Take On Me", "Personal Jesus" and "Blue Monday" so if we do end up doing a cover, it would have to be slightly obscure but well known in its genre.
There's a Sydney band called 'Many Machines On Nine' and they do this fantastic industrial cover of Bjork's - Army Of Me and it works really well. The bassline and structure really lends itself to an industrial alternative sound. So I think covers are a good concept, providing you can add your own twist to it, make the song your own (but still recognizable). Most bands perform the cover exactly how it's written, and I've always considered that to be a really lazy approach. One of the truly great covers is Johnny Cash doing his rendition of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails and I'd even go as far as saying he topped the original.
Filth (drums) Definately, I think that covers can be great. I kind of like bad covers too.One of the best I've heard recently is a Johnny Cash album which is all covers... he does a version of NIN Hurt, It's simply magic.. I hope the strange do decide to work on some covers in the future.
What styles of music are the highest rated in your country - Australia? Is alternative music in the underground there?
Syres (guitar) A huge portion of the population seem to thrive on the latest mass-marketed, TV-created, recycled drivel. Terrible MOR pop, manufactured bands, plastic RnB rubbish, singers with no talent and Midi backing, awful electronica.... It just goes on and on, some locally produced but most courtesy of the United States. Fortunately there are independent radio stations playing local music of most styles and there's a pretty healthy local music scene, centering around live gigs in small to mid sized venues and pubs. Rock has made a real comeback over here - loads of bands sounding like a cross between ACDC, The Stones and any other 70's rock act. It's not great but it's better than pop punk.... Alternative is so hard to define these days but there is definately an underground scene of bands and artists that don't quite fit into whatever current musical fad is getting the media coverage. It is thriving though these days - the live scene has really taken off in the last few years as people lose interest in the cult of the DJ and return to checking out gigs once again.
Filth (drums) Our kind of alternative is a little underground. I have been in alternative bands for years and the audience is growing compared to what it used to be. Mostly crap music is popular, I think that's the same anywhere though.
To sum up I'd like to mention your excellent website. It's clearly visible you take care about this side of marketing and communication with fans. Who's the main designer?
Filth (drums) Well when it comes to our site thestrangemusic.com /link inactive/ we all have a little input there but the guy, the big Kahuna behind the marketing and design is really Devo. Our chance meeting all that time ago now has led to some really cool things happening in my life. He's the genius behind all the design. Plus Syres is quite the photographer, I think we might see more of his work in print in the future.
Devo (bass) Well thanks! It's a collaborative effort really, the guys give me ideas and then I just take it from there using their direction as an outline. There's so many bands out there who have really dull sites or who only update them once every 6 months and we wanted to make sure we did the reverse. We post new music, news, interviews (like this one!), video clips all the time, plus we have a web journal which we all access.
I guess the most interactive part is the forum, that's the real hub of the site where everyone gets to talk, discuss and interact with everyone else. That's how it should be, freedom of expression and open communication - its this really cool community, full of some really creative and talented people and we consider them all to be part of our little family. As for the imagery on the site, it's all the work of Syres and his incredible photographic skills, I really don't have to do much, I just arrange it all!
Pictures by The Strange, all copyrights reserved by © The Strange.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) Harold Castro hit his first home run of the year with two outs in the ninth inning, a tiebreaking shot that sent the Detroit Tigers past the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Monday night for their season-best fourth straight victory.
Castro connected off Andrew Kittredge (3-1) for his first long ball since going deep in consecutive games against Oakland in early September last year. He had three home runs in 2021.
Michael Fulmer (2-2) got the win in relief and Gregory Soto pitched the ninth for his sixth save in seven tries.
Jonathan Schoop hit a two-run homer that put Tigers rookie Alex Faedo in position for his first major league win, but Brett Phillips helped the Rays erase their 2-0 deficit with a home run in the sixth and a leadoff double against Fulmer in the eighth.
Phillips scored on Wander Franco's sacrifice fly to tie it.
Faedo, a first-round draft choice in 2017 who did not pitch in 2020 or 2021 because of the pandemic and Tommy John surgery, tossed 5 2/3 innings in his third career start. He gave up one run and four hits, striking out four.
Schoop hit his third homer off Rays starter Corey Kluber, giving Detroit a 2-0 lead after Miguel Cabrera's leadoff single in the fourth.
Phillips had three of Tampa Bay's six hits, including his third home run of the season.
Kluber allowed two runs and four hits in six innings. He struck out eight, including five in a row.
Tigers: OF Austin Meadows (vertigo) and OF Victor Reyes (left quad strain) were placed on the 10-day injured list. OF Daz Cameron was recalled from Triple-A Toledo and will be in the lineup Tuesday. ... RHP Michael Pineda (fractured right middle finger) visited a doctor to determine a course of treatment. ... RHP Matt Manning (sore shoulder) will pitch for Toledo on a rehab assignment Wednesday.
Rays: 2B Brandon Lowe went on the IL with lower back discomfort. INF Isaac Paredes was recalled from Triple-A Durham.
RHP Bo Brieske (0-2, 3.86 ERA) makes his fifth start for the Tigers against LHP Shane McClanahan (2-2, 2.52) on Tuesday night.
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The Millennial North Star
Calling and Gathering the Lost Tribes of Israel
Naked and Exposed
Place of Refuge
The Identifying and Gathering of Israel
admin January 1, 2020 February 14, 2021 Comments Off on The Identifying and Gathering of Israel
Who Are the Israelites?
Today it is evident that the Adversary does not want the gathering of Israel, for he knows that, once this happens, his kingdom will be over. How does the Adversary think he will be able to achieve his goal? It is very simple. Mix up the races so that the seed of Israel is so diluted that they will be literally wiped out!
So which race is Israelite? Is it the East Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, American Indian, Australian Aborigine, or even one of the African black races? Or is it none of these? Which race is it?
Not any of the above mentioned races encourages immigrants to participate in their culture. And who would even want to immigrate to these countries? Think of the poverty in East Indian culture and the oppression in others of these countries, such as China and Indonesia. People want to escape these hardships. So where do they immigrate to? They immigrate to the countries dominated by the white races.
Origin of the White Race
In this discourse we want to prove, if we can, where the white race came from and the reason why all other races want to mingle with them. In order to do this, we must go back to the beginning. When we say the beginning, we mean where the beginning of the white race originated.
The Bible tells us quite plainly who the white race is. In the first chapter of Genesis, we have God Himself naming the first man Adam. When Adam was caught in the garden in a naked condition, he was extremely embarrassed, his countenance turning red. He sought something in the garden to cover his nakedness, so he and Eve gathered fig leaves and made an apron for themselves.
Because they tried to cover their nakedness, God knew that they had partaken of the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and were therefore embarrassed by their nakedness. So He named the man Adam, which, when translated from Hebrew, means to blush or be ruddy.
Since science says that ony the white race can blush, this implies that Adam was white. It is only reasonable then that his descendants would be of the same configuration.
Cain murdered his brother Abel, so God banished him and made him a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth (Genesis 4:8-14). Cain then “knew his wife,” and he built a city (Genesis 4:17). Questions could be asked: Where did Cain get his wife? And for whom did he build a city? It is obvious at this time — 6,000 or so years ago — that there were other human-like creatures on the earth besides Adam, Eve, and Cain.
The Bible says that Noah was “perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9). In translating from the ancient languages including Hebrew, generation means seedline, indicating that Noah was perfect in his genealogy from the time of Adam and Eve. This means that his progenitors did not intermarry with pre-Adamic man, which is another evidence that pre-Adamic man did exist. Yes, reason dictates that imperfections could result by intermarriage with the pre-Adamic races.
In the LDS extended knowledge of Adam and Eve, we understand that they had more children than just Cain and Abel. The Bible states that the sons of God (Adamic people) married the daughters of men (Genesis 6:2). In other words, the sons of Adam married the daughters of the pre-Adamic races. Thus the commandment of “kind after kind” (Genesis 1:24-25) was violated, and a hybridization occurred.
So now we understand that God created a race of man (Adamic), who were white and had the ability to blush, and that there was a humanoid-like creature in existence before Adam. How long these humanoids existed before Adam we do not know. What we do know and what the above tells us is that they did exist.
It is now evident that a type of man existed before Adam came on the scene. Cain said, “…every one that findeth me shall slay me” (Genesis 4:14). Who is the “every one” who would slay Cain? After all, there were many humanoid-like creatures on the earth before Adam.
An observation must be made here that is noted briefly in the Bible — and particularly in the Book of Jasher — that the children of Adam broke God’s strict law:
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind…” (Genesis 1:24).
Instead, the children of Adam intermarried with the pre-Adamic races (Genesis 6:2). This intermarriage of Adam’s seed with the pre-Adamic races caused various abnormalities, such as giants, to occur.
Besides the giants, other extremely evil things came about, such as crossbreeding of man with animals and birds, resulting in such abominations as the Great Sphinx of Giza. This structure, scientists have recently determined, was made long before the Great Flood happened and before the pyramids were built, as the weathering on its surface was caused by rainfall rather than by blowing sand. We have very little record of this long time period of approximately 1600 years.
The Descendants of Noah
So now we come to Noah. According to the Bible, the only true Adamic people that came through this major, horrific deluge were Noah, his wife, his three sons (Ham, Shem, and Japeth), and his three daughters-in-law. The flood that occurred mostly on the North American continent wiped out all evidence of Adam’s seed, including the existing abominations they had created. We have no record of anything else that happened prior to the flood. There are just the many old ruins remaining.
The only person we have record of who came through the flood having a polluted bloodline was Noah’s son Ham, who had married a descendant of Cain named Egyptus, whom the books of Moses and Abraham describe in the Pearl of Great Price. As we have pointed out in a previous discourse, Egyptus was not pure black but was somewhat different than the pure Adamic people. We as Latter-day Saints have the record of Abraham and therefore know that the pharaohs of Egypt trace their ancestry back to Eden through Ham.
Now we come to a very difficult subject — to prove and identify the seed of Jacob (Israel) by delving into biblical records and by investigating history.
All of Adam’s people were gone. There was no white race except Noah and his sons. Since Noah was a direct and unpolluted descendant of Adam — and we have shown that Adam was white — then Noah must be of the same configuration as Adam: white. So after the flood there were three divisions of the white race:
The descendants of Ham who eventually were basically referred to as Canaanites.
Japeth’s descendants whom the Bible describes as the Gentiles (we are not sure if this is correct, as the Bible only states this once).
Shem’s descendants who comprised the basis of God’s chosen people, especially the Israelites.
All these people were given instructions by God to multiply and replenish the earth (Genesis 9:1). What is hard to understand here is that, in most cases, when God refers to man, He means only the true descendants of Adam. So God was talking to Noah’s descendants only. At this particular time — before the time of Moses — He gave them some laws to live by, and, if they lived them correctly and faithfully, all creation would be subject unto them.
Dispersion from the Tower of Babel
At first the descendants of Noah wanted to stay together like they had done before the flood (considering that they had only one language). However, this was contrary to God’s instructions to “multiply and replenish the earth.” Because they chose to build the Tower of Babel instead of spreading out and doing their God-given job of bringing the knowledge of God and his laws to the pre-Adamic people, God confounded their language, forcing the white race to gather into family groups and disperse around the world. Consequently, their efforts in building the tower were never realized.
We as Latter-day Saints know where one particular family group and their friends went to, as we have their brief history in the Book of Mormon. We are very fortunate to have this record, which shows conclusively that the Bible record is essentially true.
The Jaredites
The Book of Mormon reveals that one of these groups was guided to America by a man named Jared. This group of about forty people started out from the valley of Nimrod in the Middle East. And under the direction of God, they built a type of ship “like a bowl” and after many days landed north of the narrow neck of land in South America.
The Jaredites, as stated, eventually became a great nation in the northern part of South America. Over a long period of time (approximately 1500 years), they divided into two factions and became exceedingly wicked. They then had a horrific battle, literally destroying each other.
Whether there were other people living in the area during this time, the record does not say. Regardless, the ruins left by the Jaredites would indicate that they were highly intelligent, having a way to move massive blocks of stone long distances that even today, with all our knowledge, we could not accomplish.
Where Are the Others?
So we see that, even though Noah’s descendants were given the laws of God, they eventually forsook these laws. For even though Noah had the fullness of the gospel, when his descendants throughout the earth (Genesis 9:19) came among the pre-Adamic races, they defiled the true laws by mixing their understanding of God’s laws with the various beliefs of these other races.
So after dispersing from the Tower of Babel, where exactly did these other various groups of the white race go? Wherever these white Adamic people went, they took with them advanced technology, which was had by but a few of their numbers.
Around 3500 BC (we do not know the exact time) a white people called the Sumerians made a huge step forward, developing advanced agricultural concepts, including irrigation, which enabled them to stay in one place and build cities. Yet just 800 years later, about 2300 BC, the Sumerians were conquered by another white Adamic race.
For even though these small groups of Noah’s descendants conquered the more advanced pre-Adamic people, teaching them advanced concepts, when they intermarried with various pre-Adamic peoples, their predominance waned, causing them to disappear from history — which is exactly what happened to the Sumerians.
The Egyptians
Concerning Egypt, we have a detailed account of their influence and dominance in the world. The original inhabitants of Egypt were of a short stature and had dark skin (not negroid), brown or black hair, and dark eye color. When the descendants of Adam arrived in Egypt, these darker people became their subjects and were compelled to build and erect monumental edifices. We have evidence of these remains today, which include the pyramids of Giza and the extensive ruins of Luxor.
In both cases, with the Sumerians and the Egyptians, these few Adamic people eventually intermarried with the darker pre-Adamic race. The pre-Adamic race, being more numerous, became dominant, and the power of the white race was diminished. Please note that all of the drawings and statues of the early Egyptian pharaohs were white. Let us continue with the other pre-Adamic groups.
From historical records, the first wave of Adamic men came into Greece around 2700 BC. Like Sumeria and Egypt, pre-Adamic people occupied this area, where an ideal climate existed. When the Adamic people arrived, they organized the people, resulting in an important focal point in the world’s history: Being intelligent, vigorous, and strongly practical, the invading Sumerians developed the most superior society and government that lasted over 2000 years.
History shows that, on a continuing basis, when the Adamic people intermarried with the pre-Adamic Pelasgians who were a shorter people (again with dark features), their influence began to decline from within. However, their decline was prevented by a happening that occurred around 1300 BC, as they were invaded again from the north and east by another Adamic race. The Phrygians and Dorians were also white men with green and blue eyes. These basically came from the tribe of Dan and the Spartans — all white. Look at the many statues that remain today depicting these different people.
Every statue that is left of these different people shows that they were white and had beautiful features. The historian Diodorus Siculus (50 BC) states that these foreigners were expelled from Egypt. These people were from the tribe of Dan, led by Moses. In history they were called Danus or Cadmus. They settled in Argos, the oldest city in Greece. All of these tribes and families came from the descendants of Shem, as ancient historic records clearly show that all these white people were all related. The continued influx of Adamic people kept Greece and its language the standard for all of Europe, right up to the time of the Savior; consequently, Greece was the center of the civilized world for these 2000 years.
What happened to the prosperous, intelligent people of Greece who were an example to the known world for so many generations? The same thing happened to them that befell the Sumerians (who became extinct) and the Egyptians after intermarrying with the pre-Adamic races. Note that what we have in Egypt and Greece today are some of the most corrupt governments in the world.
The East Indians
Today India is the second most populous nation in the world. Their skin color ranges from almost black (without negroid features) to almost white. Why is this? Going back in history, you will discover that the original pre-Adamic people in India, who called themselves Dravidians, were short, dark-skinned, black-haired, dark-eyed people. However, centuries before our Savior arrived (1000-1200 BC), India was invaded by a group of long-headed, fair-skinned, fair-haired, tall, blue- or green-eyed people. There is much written in history to prove this.
The historian, L. A. Waddell, called them Saca (descendants of Isaac), who were Scythian. Other historians have called them Aryans. Regardless, when they arrived, the Saca introduced the Sanskrit language (the oldest of Indo-European languages) and the caste system, which is a segregation of people, each with a traditional hereditary occupation.
This caste system, which still exists to this very day, was originally introduced to prevent intermarriage between the Saca and the Dravidian. The Saca were considered superior, with all government and control being in their hands.
Of course, over these 3500 years, eventual intermarriage did occur. Now the people of India are a mixture of these two races. Today’s lighter-skinned East Indians are called Brahmin, having more of the Saca or Aryan blood in them, and are extremely intelligent. However, the majority of India’s population is very dark and lives in extremely poor circumstances.
The Chinese
As pre-Adamic man had encompassed the world, they developed differently in their various locations. China, due mostly to the huge Himalayan Mountains to the south, was pretty well isolated in the eastern part of the Asian continent. From the historian Madison Grant, we learn that the Chinese called Adamic man the green-eyed devils and the Wusuns (the tall ones).
There is a record that one of the first kings of China had blonde hair and a European skull. He was called Tai Ko Fokee (the great stranger king) and is represented as having two small horns (the Saxon-Sumerian headdress, like the Vikings were always depicted). But there is very little else relating to this history except more and more archaeological evidence that proves indeed that the white race did make incursions into China, which began to flourish around 2000 BC (1000 years after Sumeria and Egypt and 500 years after Greece).
Rome comes late on the scene, yet by the same course. Pretty solid evidence indicates that, in approximately 750 BC, Rome’s first leader was a king named Aeneas, from the royal family of Greece. For about 150 years Rome was a kingdom, but it later became a republic (like America used to be) in 500 BC, which lasted until 28 BC. Rome then became an empire, which lasted until its downfall in AD 476.
The first kings and leaders of Rome were all white like the Greeks from which they descended. They ruled and subjugated the pre-Adamic people, the plebeians. Very gradually, laws were passed allowing the plebeians to intermarry with the Adamic race, the patricians.
Eventually Julius Caesar, the leader of the mob (comprised of plebeians and the mixed race), instigated mass killings of the patricians or Adamic race who consisted mostly of the old families, which had become totally corrupt. Julius then became total dictator with his divide and conquer strategy. Later the Emperor Constantine, whose progenitors were of the Nordic (Adamic) race, saved Rome from extinction in AD 330 by adopting a corrupted form of Christianity.
Even though Rome was fraught with corruption, the empire lasted until AD 476, when Adamic “barbarians” invaded and conquered Rome. The Adamic man, because of their rebellion against God, died out; however, the slaves survived, and their descendants form the great majority of southern Italy today.
The Incas and the Mayans
As Latter-day Saints, we know that the Inca and Mayan peoples came mainly from the Lamanite nation (originally an Adamic white race). They came in two waves at about the same time, around 600 BC, landing in two different parts of South America. Their arrival was shortly after the Jaredites had their final battle that wiped them totally out of existence.
One of these groups was from the tribe of Manasseh (Nephites and Lamanites). The other group was from the tribe of Judah (Mulekites). Both of these tribes were descendants of Jacob, son of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham. In the Book of Mormon, they describe themselves as white and exceedingly fair and delightsome (2 Nephi 5:21, 4 Nephi 1:10).
At first the Nephites were a very righteous people, and the Lamanites were a very disgusting people who had become a dark-skinned and dark-eyed people. However, over the 1000 years of Book of Mormon history, the Nephites also became a very wicked people, and God saw fit to destroy them from off the face of the earth, a little after AD 400.
Eventually the Lamanites were the only ones left; the ones who had gone north into Central America became the Mayans, and the ones remaining in South America became the Incas. Though these Lamanite descendants had become numerous, they were easily defeated by a very few Spaniards in the 1500s. The Spaniards were basically a white race, and they easily subjugated these “South American Indians”.
Is there anything in the sparse records of this time to prove the above history contained in the Book of Mormon? We do have some very interesting and recently translated historical records by an early Spanish historian, Pedro de Cieza de León. He recorded that, just before the Spaniards under Pizarro arrived in South America on July 26th, 1529, the king of the Incas, Huayna Capac, had just made war on the northern provinces in Peru (Pedro de Cieza de León, The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru, volumes 62-68, pp. 199-221).
And after defeating his enemy, the Chachapoyas,
“the Inca [king] granted peace on conditions very favorable to himself, and many of the natives were ordered to go and live in Cuzco, where their descendants still reside. He took many women [from the northern province], for they are beautiful and graceful, and very white” (Pedro de Cieza de León, The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru, volume 63, p. 207).
Here is real evidence that, 1100 years after the Book of Mormon record, which ended in approximately 400 AD, there were still very white and delightsome Israelites residing in the northern part of South America (Mormon 1:6).
The last major invasions (there were several small ones) by the white race were mainly of the British conquering and expanding. However, the Spanish, Dutch, German, and French were also involved to a lesser degree. Each one of these nations at the turn of the 19th century were white.
Britain, however, was the greatest. They had expanded worldwide. They governed or conquered India, Burma, South Africa, and several black races in Africa; and they had already claimed Australia and Canada as well. These territories constituted the Commonwealth of Nations — nearly one third of the earth’s surface!
Spain had influential interests in South America, the Dutch in South Africa, France somewhat in Canada and North Africa, and Germany in North Africa along with some expansion endeavors in Europe. Even the Americans had extensive holdings in the Caribbean Islands and the Pacific Ocean. Sadly, these white races made the same mistake as their predecessors; however, there is a significant difference in just how they have failed.
Instead of the white race invading, conquering, and subjugating the pre-Adamic and mixed races — and then intermarrying with them — the white race has invited them into these predominantly white areas. And because of their greater birthrates, these mixed races are gradually outnumbering the white race and taking over these nations. These actions are having the same consequences as with the fall of Rome and other like nations; once the pre-Adamic races become the majority, our countries’ fortunes have continued to deteriorate.
So this is what is happening to America and Great Britain. This has already happened to Great Britain to a large degree, as she has been stripped of her vast empire. Furthermore, the Dutch have been expelled from South Africa, Germany and Spain have been reduced to living within their own borders, and America is fast becoming a third-world country.
Interracial marriage in the United States was originally a felony. Even as recently as 1958, an interracial couple in Virginia pleaded guilty, and Judge Leon M. Bazile sentenced them to a year’s imprisonment, to be suspended if they left the state for the next 25 years.
In the words of Judge Bazile,
“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”
Marriage between whites and blacks was illegal in many states until such laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1967. The United States has been rapidly declining ever since.
Other Efforts to Show that the Descendants of Adam and Eve are White
Back to Adam and Eve
About 6,000 years ago, God saw fit to place upon this earth a man He called Adam. With him He placed a woman He called Eve. These two individuals had the physical capacity to live nearly 1,000 years (we will not go into the reasons for this at this time).
The place where God placed them was North America, the location centering around Independence, Missouri. All we have record of this period of about 1600 to 1700 years before the flood is what is contained in the Bible and in the recent revelations contained in the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price.
We know from these records that Adam and Eve had many children, and the purpose that God placed them here was to have dominion (government and authority) over the pre-Adamic people who were already here (Genesis 1). Well, the children born to Adam and Eve did interact with the pre-Adamic race, and this mixture became quite numerous. However, their first son Cain murdered his brother Abel, and consequently Cain’s descendants were cursed.
Some of the other children of this couple, because of their special status (such as being able to live up to 1,000 years), were able to place their seed into different animals and birds, resulting in creatures like the Centaur, Sphinx, Satyr, Babylonian bull, and other like creatures. This procedure offended God exceedingly. It was not His intention that this should happen; so rather than destroying everything and bringing another Adam to the earth for the purpose of starting over, God chose to destroy all of these abominations by causing the flood.
To accomplish this goal, God chose Noah, who was “perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9), meaning that his bloodline from Adam had not mixed with the pre-Adamic races. Not many realize that Noah lived approximately 500 years before the flood and nearly the same amount of time after the flood, almost 1000 years total.
God used the word man when he referred to Adam’s descendants only, but the Bible has not always been translated in this manner, which has caused much confusion. So when the flood came, all of Adam’s seed was destroyed (note that that included the mixture of Adam’s seed and the pre-Adamic races). The entire North American continent, where Adam’s seed resided, was totally destroyed, including “man” and the beasts he had domesticated and propagated.
There is evidence that these people were highly intelligent, having knowledge then that we today cannot duplicate. This intelligence they totally abused, so God saw fit to destroy most of this knowledge also in the flood.
The only survivors of Adam’s descendants were eight individuals: Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Tradition says that Noah landed upon the mountains of Ararat (Genesis 8:4), and some say that evidence of the remains of the ark is still there. It is a wonder how the waters took the ark to this elevation, but such is the tradition. We have very little knowledge otherwise concerning this period of time.
At any rate, God started over with Noah. He was a pureblood of the seedline of Adam, with the same features (able to blush). Noah was also given the same instructions as God gave to Adam.
Science has said that the only people who can blush are of a white complexion. Yet there is very little in the Bible we have to prove that this was a trait of the Adamic people. Could it be that this disclosure that his descendants were white was deliberately left out of the Bible by the people that translated it? Yet do we have a few instances left in the Bible in which this blushing attribute was used to distinguish certain people? For example, in describing his wife, Abraham says:
“I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon” (Genesis 12:11).
And then the Bible says:
“…when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair” (Genesis 12:14).
In the Lamentations of Jeremiah, he describes the Nazarites as follows:
“Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body [able to blush] than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire [blue]” (Lamentations 4:7).
Apparently these qualities of being whiter than milk, being ruddier than a ruby, and having bluish eyes were highly esteemed by the prophet Jeremiah.
King David is described as being ruddy and fair (1 Samuel 17:42). And in the Song of Solomon, David expressed:
“My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand” (Song of Solomon 5:10).
Amos, speaking of the end times, said:
“In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst [being anxious of gaining the truth]” (Amos 8:13).
And Daniel also described the end times, saying:
“And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them [descendants of Israel], and to purge, and to make them white [identify them], even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed” (Daniel 11:35).
And yet again Daniel says:
“Many shall be purified, and made white [identified], and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand” (Daniel 12:10).
In speaking of Israel in the latter days, Joel says:
“He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away [speaking of the dispersement of Israel]; the branches thereof [dispersed people] are made white [identified]” (Joel 1:7).
And the last verse of the Book of Joel says:
“For I will cleanse their blood [bloodline] that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion” (Joel 3:21).
It is quite clear that, if you read the Book of Joel and the other quotations above, the Lord has promised to identify who the white race (Israel) is in the last days and to restore them.
Who Was Abraham?
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the main characters (besides the Savior) in the Bible, and the Bible is mostly about their descendants. Abraham had only two offspring: Isaac and Ishmael (besides the descendants of his third wife Keturah). The descendants of Hagar and Keturah are the Arabs of today, and the descendants of Isaac are the Israelites and the Edomites (today’s Jews) through Jacob and Esau. The Edomites we have already identified (see Who Are the Jews?); but who are the real Israelites, and how can they be identified at this time? This has been a great mystery.
In order to give credence to the Bible’s prophecies concerning Israel, many stories have been suggested by men to possibly explain how God would gather the Israelites. There are so many prophecies that they would be gathered that it is not worth mentioning them, and in most cases God has said that they would be gathered from the north countries.
This view was promoted by early Mormon Church leaders. They either visualized a group of pure Israelite descendants being hidden up by God in the far north in a lush valley, or they advocated the hollow earth concept, where a hidden crevice with an entrance enabled the pure Israelites to enter and be provided with an inner sun which would have the same effect on them as our own sun has on us. This they argue is where the UFOs originate, as this people’s technology is far more advanced than ours.
Joseph Smith was said to have told Eliza R. Snow that a portion of the earth was dislodged from the main body of the earth, the dispersed Israelites are on this dislodged piece somewhere in space, and this piece will be reunited to earth at some special time in the future. Many present-day Mormons seem to encourage these different beliefs. We do know that, if God wanted these things to happen in this manner, He could certainly make it so. But more often He brings things about in a more natural way.
We are aware that the descendants of Lehi, with his sons Laman, Lemuel, Nephi, and Sam, were of the tribe of Manasseh; therefore, South America fulfilled the prophecies of the patriarchs, in that Joseph’s descendants, through his sons Ephraim and Manasseh, would travel over the sea (Genesis 49:22).
We also know that Joseph Smith, whose progenitors were mostly of the tribe of Ephraim, gathered together the descendants of that great tribe who eventually went to the Salt Lake Valley, where they became a large group of people (the Mormons). And we know that the North American nation itself, prior to this, was basically — unknowingly — from this tribe as well, along with the other tribes of Israel. So North America (Ephraim) and South America (Manasseh) fulfilled the prophecy of these two great sons of Joseph (Genesis 48:20).
You can see that the Lord allowed this to happen because He knew it would happen. It came about in a natural manner. It is just understandable that God lets nature do its thing. And because God knows the nature of man, He is able to predict quite accurately what will happen to him.
Using this scenario, let us look to what seems a more reasonable fulfillment of prophecy concerning the Israelites. It is evident that God says that the descendants of Israel will be easily identified in the last days so that the Twelve Tribes may be gathered together into one nation, enabling them to bring in the Millennium, the 1000 years of peace and order. And how is God able to accomplish this? Let us do some more reasoning and exploring to demonstrate that the only way that he can do this is by identifying who the Israelites are.
Before the time of the Savior, the pure Israelites were easily identifiable with their white, ruddy skin and their ability to blush when embarrassed. The men also had beards. Let us see if we can find proof of this in nonscriptural ancient records, in an article by Yair Davidiy, who is of modern Jewish (Edomite) extraction.
Davidiy did a tremendous study on the physical anthropology of the Hebrew people. He says that, at the time of the early Egyptians, the Israelites were known as Amorites, They were called this name because of the Amorite land which they had conquered after their wanderings in the desert for forty years. Another name not mentioned in the Bible but in history had been applied to the Israelites was Retenu, after a corresponding geological space they had also conquered, which was encompassed by the land of Israel.
People from this area originally occupied by the Amurru (Amorite) and Retenu races after 1400 BC were primarily Israelite. Egyptian inscriptions and monuments depicted these people as having red, blonde, and occasionally black hair with blue eyes and red beards. Another people called Libyans, who were not the dwellers of Libya but were from the Nile Delta and of Hebrew origin, were also depicted as white.
We must note here that, at the time of Joseph of Egypt, the true Egyptian had been conquered by the Hyscos, a fair-skinned, blue-eyed race that came by way of the Mediterranean Sea from the North. This explains why the then so-called Egyptians welcomed with open arms Joseph’s father and brothers and placed them in a choice piece of land called Goshen (Genesis 45:10).
This also explains why there was no problem with Joseph marrying Asenath (daughter of Potipherah, priest of On), who bore him Manasseh and Ephraim. She was most likely of as pure Adamic blood as was Joseph, for, by that time, Shem’s and Japeth’s descendants had developed colonies in all parts of the world. So Israel’s twelve sons had the pick or choice of these white people who were mingled among the forbidden races.
The Roman Catholic Church members today who claim falsely that they are the true Christians — and the Talmudic Jews of today who claim falsely that they are the true Jews — both of these groups say that the Israelites were of “mixed kinds”. The Mishnah Negaim (2:1) says that Israelites (in this case meaning the present-day Jews) are mainly of an intermediate type of coloring, being neither black nor white. This is true, of course, for they are describing themselves, who are the descendants of Esau, Jacob’s brother who had married into Ham’s line (Canaanite).
The changeover came about at the time of the Maccabees, just before the time of the Savior when they (the Edomites) were forced to convert to the Jewish faith or be destroyed. They chose the former and brought with them the Babylonian teachings which eventually developed into the Talmud, one of the most anti-Christian books in existence.
When these Talmudic Jews confronted the Savior, what did He say unto them?
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning…” (John 8:44).
He is referring to Cain, who became Master Mahan. He said this because Esau and his descendants had married the descendants of Ham, who had married a descendant of Cain.
Of course it is the present-day Roman Catholic Church, her children the Protestants, and the false Talmudic Jews who muddy the waters in this regard. The Roman Catholic Church has since been joined by our own Latter-day Saints in ignoring the Bible and God’s teachings to not mix the races, which law was especially made for the descendants of Jacob (Israel). How many quotes in the Bible do we need to verify this point?
In any case, the early Roman historians were quite aware that the Israelites were a fair-skinned people looking like a Germani, which, in Talmudic terminology (Aruch HaShalem), means just that: a fair-skinned people from the North.
An unusual happening could be mentioned here. Some 1700 years before the time of our Savior, a Nordic king named Woden-lithi sailed across the North Atlantic Ocean and entered the Saint Lawrence River near present-day Toronto, Canada, at a place called Peterborough.
There he left a complete history of his visit, from April to September, recorded on a huge stone in the ancient Ogam Consaine and Tifinag Alphabets. This inscription gives a detailed description of the visit by the Norse, giving the exact time and reason for their visit, which was to barter textiles with the Algonquian Indians in exchange for metallic copper ingots. You can read all about their visit in Barry Fell’s book Bronze Age America.
The Norse were already established in Norway about the same time that Abraham’s descendants were flourishing in Egypt. Apparently the climate at that time in Norway was not quite as cold as it is today. The Norse were well advanced, having a written language and sufficient knowledge to build many types of ships, including large oceangoing vessels.
They sailed these vessels across the Atlantic Ocean to the Saint Lawrence River in Canada to trade for Copper, which the Algonquin Indians mined at Lake Michigan. Additional evidence has recently been uncovered, which verifies that the above happening is actual history, with the discovery of hundreds and possibly thousands of ancient copper mines around Lake Michigan. It is all there written in stone!
Could it be that, when the Northern Kingdom of Israel was overrun by the Assyrians and carried north, these pure descendants of Abraham, as they broke away from their captivity, were somehow made aware that the remnant of another white Adamic people were already in the North? Maybe these Israelites traveled north and west into Northern Europe and merged with them, thus comprising what nations we have there today in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Northern Russia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Although there is no definite proof of this happening, it could be possible and be the reason why the descendants of these ten tribes ended up where they are. Besides this record in stone and the discovery of the ancient copper mines, we have no further record of this period.
Today white Indians still exist in Central America (Panama to Guatemala) and in South America. Many Cherokee Indians are white. A very primitive Indian tribe in northern Mexico is white, and the Micmac Indian tribe in Nova Scotia, Canada, has many pureblooded Indians — having no European parentage — who have black hair, very white skin, and blue eyes.
To sum up what we have learned so far, let us review: Going back to the Middle East, the Hebrews (progenitors of Abraham) saw themselves as obligated to remain as close as possible to the original master plan entailed in God’s creation of man. Therefore, they were the true inheritors of the blessings of Adam, the first person to call himself a man.
Did other man-like creatures exist at the time of Adam’s appearance? Of course they did, as we have explained previously. Several races were in existence at that time, as archaeological evidence shows. Adam’s seed was distinguished by being white and blue eyed. Does the seed of Adam still exist? It is quite evident that they do!
We have found that Egyptian inscriptions show that the Hebrews were blonde and redheaded. Some of these inscriptions also show them with blue eyes and a pink skin. Other non-Biblical sources depict or describe the Israelites as being basically long faced with blue or green eyes (the color blue fades quickly) and fair skin with varying color hair — blonde and red being prominent (although black is mentioned). The men are shown as bearded.
The fact that Jesus was white cannot be disputed. His mother was described as a beautiful woman who was fair and white (1 Nephi 11:13-18). Jesus gave instructions to his apostles to go only to the lost sheep, who at that time were scattered all over Europe and Asia and were easily identifiable as fair and white.
A question can be asked here: Can any one of any race follow God’s teachings and receive the same promised blessings as the Israelites? Of course! But that does not make them kinsmen. It does not give anyone authority — or give them the right — to change Christ’s image to look like someone they envision.
We Israelites are a proud and stiffnecked people. Because of our erroneous use of our more advanced learning abilities, we have made many wrong decisions. Reading in the Biblical history, you will see for yourself that the blushing, white-faced people called Israel, who will inherit promises made by God — some of which are still to be fulfilled — made blunder after blunder. Thwarting God’s intention of giving them a healthy, prosperous life, they forgot that God’s laws do not end with the Ten Commandments. There were clearly spelled out rules to meet nearly every occasion — rules concerning diet, dress, economics, farming methods, justice, Sabbaths, and many more of God’s laws designed to ensure our well-being.
Only the Israelites are inheritors of the covenants, oaths, and promises made by almighty God through His true prophets, and they have a latter-day promise of ultimate deliverance from all of their enemies and from the hands of those who hate them. Once we know who Israel really is, this knowledge removes all fear of the future for us.
We hope that this discourse will stimulate interest in Biblical prophecy and the coming of the Savior. Once these people are identified as the seed of Israel, we hope that they will want to dig into scripture and search out every passage relating to their destiny and their part in God’s plan. These truths will enable them to rightly identify the nations of the world, pinpoint events as they have been fulfilled in history, and look forward to those final end-time events which will herald in our new King and Redeemer, bringing about His reign of peace and righteousness.
For far too long the white race has shirked their duty and has been so heavenly minded with pride to be of no earthly use — fixing themselves on heaven and abandoning their dominion mandate on earth (Genesis 1:28). They have a very important assignment to fulfill — to prepare God’s people Israel for the Savior’s return and the righteous of all nations for peace and prosperity for a thousand years:
“Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all [the Savior]: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all… (Ezekiel 37:21-22).
What could be plainer?
“For ye are the children of Israel, and of the seed of Abraham, and ye must needs be led out of bondage by power, and with a stretched-out arm. And as your fathers were led at the first, even so shall the redemption of Zion be. Therefore, let not your hearts faint, for I say not unto you as I said unto your fathers: Mine angel shall go up before you, but not my presence. But I say unto you: Mine angels shall go up before you, and also my presence, and in time ye shall possess the goodly land” (D&C 103:17-20).
The End of the Gentile Reign
In the year 1982, a prayer was sent heavenward by a gathering of a few true priesthood holders chosen by God by revelation, closing the door to the Gentile nation. The Gentiles’ time had expired. The gospel sent to them through the Prophet Joseph Smith they had thoroughly adulterated by their pride, vainglory, and unwillingness to stand up for the true doctrines they were given. Their time had been fulfilled.
“And he answered them, and said, In the generation in which the times of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled, there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, like the sea and the waves roaring. The earth also shall be troubled, and the waters of the great deep; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. For the powers of heaven shall be shaken” (JST Luke 21:25-26).
“And thus commandeth the Father [not the Son] that I should say unto you: At that day when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel [only the Church had the fullness], and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations, and above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits [mixing of the races], and of mischiefs, and all manner of hypocrisy, and murders [abortions], and priestcrafts [prophet worship], and whoredoms [pornography], and of secret abominations [Deseret Management Corporation]; and if they shall do all those things, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father [not the Son], I [the Father] will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them” (3 Nephi 16:10).
This He has done, and He goes on to say:
“And then will I remember my covenant which I have made unto my people, O house of Israel, and I will bring my gospel [the fullness] unto them.”
And He continues:
“And I will show unto thee, O house of Israel [all 12 tribes], that the Gentiles shall not have power over you; but I will remember my covenant unto you, O house of Israel, and ye shall come unto the knowledge of the fulness of my gospel” (3 Nephi 16:11-12).
This prophecy is now being fulfilled. Israel is being identified, and the gathering has begun.
What They (Israel) Are Not
Recently a miniseries was released called The Bible. In it is depicted the people of Israel being from every color and race, even portraying Samson coming from black heritage. I am sorry, but Israel at the time of the Savior was of one color only: white… and easily identifiable.
We have gone to the Bible, Book of Mormon, and all the other gospels — and also the small amount of recorded history we have — to show just what these Israelites are and how they can be identified. When God is speaking — and when He refers to man — He is talking about one people only: the descendants of Adam and Eve.
We cannot ignore the evidence that we have presented here. The Lord Himself said that by two or more witnesses a matter can be decided upon. So when we find evidence upon evidence proving any situation, then we must accept it as truth. We have already shown that there were pre-Adamic people, and, by using the many other evidences shown, we can come to only one conclusion… that they did exist!
This knowledge was known and accepted by early Latter-day Saints. On October, 6, 1854, Orson Hyde (an apostle at the time) gave a sermon saying:
“The world was peopled before the days of Adam, as much so as it was before the days of Noah” (JD 2, discourse 18).
Clearly Adam’s seed was not those people.
We have shown that Adam’s name implies that he can blush. Only people with the white pigment can blush (be ruddy or turn red when embarrassed). We have also given evidence and shown where many of Adam’s offspring were described with this white coloring.
In the Book of Mormon, the Nephites were described as white. Even in the beginning of this book, the Lamanites were white also, but they, because of their becoming rebellious, became a dark and loathsome people. Finally, we have shown that the Norse people were definitely white and that the people in Northern Europe and Asia were nearly all white.
More Evidence of Adamic Man
In 1988 the National Geographic magazine tried very seriously to trace the pre-Adamic man. The article “The Search for Modern Humans” was written by John J. Putman. He says that he began a journey that would extend over two years, placing him further back into time. It led him from Europe to Africa, Asia, Australia, and the edge of the Americas. He was in search of the first “modern human”, those that were anatomically like us and who demonstrated the curiosity, creativity, and organizational skills that mimic our skills today.
We read in this article about evidence of ancient humanoid man that dates back possibly 2,000,000 years. They claim that these humanoid-like people migrated out of Africa and eventually covered the whole earth. Science has labeled that these creatures eventually evolved into homo sapiens, which means “wise man”. John explains that these creatures first appeared having these advanced qualities, perhaps around 100,000 years ago, and have left tantalizing traces throughout the world for us to ponder.
These human-like creatures originally had smaller brains, more robust bones, and little innovative ability, according to archaeological evidence and present-day science. Then in Europe, in the so-called Upper Paleolithic Age from 3,500 to 10,000 years ago, there was a cultural explosion causing this little innovative ability to somehow turn people to painting, carving, weaving, and developing exquisite tools. Evidence of these advanced activities has shown up all over the earth, in every part, and on every continent.
So if these circumstances described above are true, Adam was placed here at just the right time — to bring these human-like creatures a better way of life. Remember the law that every word may be established before two or more witnesses (Matthew 18:16; D&C 42:80)? Those who believe in the evolutionary theory claim that they have irrefutable evidence that the aforementioned explanation is indeed true. Their evidences, described in the National Geographic Magazine, end with the following quote: “but the dating is indirect, not perfect” also “a claim disputed by others.” So one can see that their irrefutable evidence is questionable.
So we do not know exactly how the pre-Adamic people came to be, but they were definitely here before Adam and were distributed around the earth. Even though the Bible does not come out openly and say so, it does suggest very strongly that such was the case. It describes how Cain was cast out of Adam’s family (a spiritual death) because of his rebellion, jealousy, and act in murdering his brother. The Bible goes on to say that Cain took a wife and built a city. Whom did he marry, and for whom did he build a city if pre-Adamic man did not exist?
Others Efforts in Identifying Israel
In the early part of the last century, from 1900 to around 1950, there was an extreme effort by some religionists to figure out who and where the ten lost tribes of Israel were. Some believed that there was enough evidence existing to indicate that the dispersed ten tribes were basically in Northern Europe, especially in England and Ireland.
The Scotsman John Wilson started this movement way back in 1836, and it blossomed up and down. King George VI (1895-1952) believed it. The founder of American Pentecostalism, Charles Fox Parham, spread this concept throughout North America, and Anna Bjørner (1875-1955) spread it in Denmark. Even the famous Henry Ford got involved.
There was much excitement concerning this subject until America passed her anti-discrimination law; then all went quiet. You do not hear this subject brought up very often today. The white race has had to go once again into hiding.
We have the Bible. A good 70% of America and Canada believe in it. In this volume the segregation of the races is clearly taught. The Savior Himself said:
“…Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:5-6).
Again we read:
“But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24).
Can there be any statements plainer than that? Jesus sent the Twelve Apostles and at least two quorums of seventy with very strict instructions to go to only the descendants of Jacob… and no one else.
Why would the Savior do such a thing — singling out a specific race of people and saying very plainly for His apostles and seventies to go preach to only this one group of people? Today the Savior would be scorned, severely prosecuted, and imprisoned by the present government for being a racist.
So let us pursue this avenue like these early religionists did and see what conclusion we arrive at. In spite of what the decadent U.S. government says, we will follow the Savior’s advice, going forward and trying to identify Israel’s children today, for the promises of the last days are mostly concerning them.
First, let us look again to the scriptures and to the early religionist efforts. They mostly pointed to countries and locations rather than color. The British-Israel movement claimed that, over the centuries, the dispersed Ten Tribes ended up in the British Isles. Other movements have said that Scandinavia, Northern Europe, Russia, and the British Isles are where they are. It is possible that they are both right.
Some people, even as we have pointed out earlier, based on Joseph Smith’s descriptions, suggest that a segment of the Ten Tribes went north and entered a hole in the earth. They further believe that the Ten Tribes reside there living the laws of God in a perfect manner and that they have a much higher civilization than we do on the surface. This gives an explanation for the flying saucers we see from time to time.
Yet another belief reportedly said by Joseph Smith is that a portion of the tribes became so righteous that they were taken by God to reside on a separate planet. Reason would say that these quotations might not be correct. Yet we admit that all things are possible if God has anything to do with it.
But using the abilities we have and a little common sense, there may be a much simpler answer. As mentioned before, the Book of Mormon says that God is going to gather His people from among the nations in the latter days as He has promised.
These religionists, which we have previously mentioned, who spent much time and research showing indeed that the Israelites went north of Palestine across the Caucasus Mountains and into the area around the Black Sea. Evidence of their existence in these areas — especially the tribe of Dan, who left evidence of his travels everywhere he went — shows that, from the Caucasus Mountains, they went west and did indeed end up in Europe and Western Asia.
In the ensuing hundreds of years, the tribes separated from each other and settled in different locations, some traveling by boat. Zebulon went to the Netherlands, and Dan traveled to Ireland and Denmark by land. Asher and true Judah went to Jutland.
Eventually most of these tribes grew so numerous in parts of Europe that they needed to expand their territory. Groups of Israel’s descendants calling themselves Angles and Saxons expanded into England, possibly bringing with them a part of many of the other tribes as well.
The significant part of these religionists’ research was overlooked in part because they concentrated on countries rather than race. As these white Israelites traveled west, they undoubtedly encountered pre-Adamic man, whom they overpowered. The pre-Adamic races existing in these Northern European areas were called Alpine or Mediterranean cultures, and they were dark haired with olive-colored skin. The Israelites intermarried with them, resulting in somewhat of a mixture of the bloods, thus becoming Gentiles.
Apparently Ephraim was the most prolific tribe, and because he was so numerous and led the other tribes — like Joseph in Egypt — they were singled out by God to be gathered first. So descendants from Ephraim and a few from other tribes were brought to America, and eventually Joseph Smith brought the true gospel to these now Gentile people.
The significant part of this investigation by these religionists was to prove that the descendants of Israel were mainly white. In every case, evidence has been brought forth from all these sources that the original Israelites were a white and delightsome people tracing their lineage back to a man called Adam, who was able to blush when God caught him naked in the garden of Eden; this proved that he was white, as only the white race can blush.
One of the purposes of Adam’s race was to bring laws and statutes to the pre-Adamic races, which would enable them to become prosperous and happy. God’s first attempt to bring this about failed, so He caused the flood to wipe out this corrupt civilization and started over with Noah.
Eventually the scrambling of the language at the Tower of Babel caused Noah’s descendants to mingle with every pre-Adamic people of the earth. Unfortunately, God’s law that forbids intermarriage between races was ignored. Over the centuries the white race has lost the identity of who they are, and, because of intermarriage with the heathen, they have become a mixture which God calls the Gentile.
And what do we have existing today? In family after family, Israeli features are seen: blonde and red hair and blue or green eyes, indicating Israelite bloodlines. Sometimes only one child with these features appears in a given family, and sometimes all children appear as Israelite. There are several million with these features. Not all of these are pure Israelite and can only be conclusively identified by revelation.
We are going to locate these people wherever they are and present to them the reason for these features — that they are of the house of Israel and inheritors of God’s blessings in the last days. The fullness of the gospel will be presented to these people. They will have the option to accept or reject this knowledge. The decision will be in their hands.
We invite all people having Israelite features to investigate this gathering and be participants so that the descendants of Adam, Noah, and Abraham can finally accept their responsibility of dominion over every living creature (Genesis 1:26).
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The 11:59 Generation: Students say remote learning pushes them to 24-hour cycle
by Seth Daniel • January 28, 2021 • 0 Comments
It’s noon on Monday, and Charlene Pimentel has been up for more than 24 hours doing homework, trying to catch up from the loads of assignments that were piled on over the past week by her teachers.
She needs to crash – to sleep – but she’s afraid of what her teachers might think of her if she misses class again, having recently experienced a death in her family this month and having fallen behind on homework as she tried to mourn the loss. So, the Boston Latin Academy (BLA) senior pushed through, eating a minimal lunch and then logging on and hoping she wouldn’t crash on screen.
“I’m running on no sleep for the last 24 hours,” she said on Monday in an interview with two other BLA students. “What was I doing all night? I was just studying and catching up on everything that’s built up. I lost a family member recently and missed school for two weeks. I just was trying to catch up and completing the assignments due at 9 p.m., then on to the ones due at 11:59 p.m., and then all the others because I wanted to attend class today (Monday). I didn’t want to attend without doing my work. I feel terrible. I should have fallen asleep, but just imagine what my teachers would have thought of me.”
While homework has been a bane of existence for high-schoolers in Boston for some time, particularly those in the exam schools like BLA, the loads of work, and expectations for finishing that work, has gone into overdrive. Students describe a 24-hour cycle of homework, with due dates seven days a week and harsh cutoffs at 11:59 p.m. – just before midnight when the computerized platforms officially switch over to the new day.
It is why struggling, weary students all over the city call themselves “The 11:59 Generation,” a sardonic toast to the fact that they run on fumes, picking which assignments to complete before 11:59 p.m., and then moving on to other assignments throughout the night-time that they can work on for partial-credit.
When do they sleep?
According to Khymani James – the student representative to the Boston School Committee and a BLA senior headed to Columbia University – they don’t.
“We’re up 24 hours all the time, but it’s about the bigger picture,” he said. “It needs to be recognized that I’m here during a pandemic and after a terrorist attack and having family in sick beds and after having to work. I’m here after three hours of sleep after doing your homework. I don’t need my feet kissed, but a round of applause wouldn’t hurt.”
James and Pimentel said the remote system has become so daunting – next to impossible – and when one falls apart and can’t keep up the round-the-clock rigor, they are punished.
“I actually feel like 11:59 is generous; it’s so generous,” said James, who spent more than 24 hours last week trying to complete assignments so he wouldn’t fall behind. “I’m just glad it isn’t due at 9 a.m. because then I’d be up until 5 a.m. trying to get it all done every day. The system won’t accept late work. I have to e-mail my homework every night to one of my teachers. That’s because the ‘Turn It In’ (platform) closes down at 11:59. I have five other classes to think about. His homework needs to come last and no I couldn’t get it in on time. So, to get it in at all, I just e-mail it.”
The stressful situation at the City’s high schools is particularly intense at BLA, which reported a 4 percent increase in the numbers of failing grade in December. That isn’t unique as nationally students have struggled to keep their grades up during the pandemic, and especially those in remote learning.
For James and Pimentel – as well as their group of friends – it’s all about the load of homework and a lack of understanding for what’s going on in the lives of students on the other side of the computer screen. Teachers seem to be in a silo, they said, with some teachers having a totally different set of rules than other teachers. It leads to inconsistency and confusion for a number of students.
James said there’s no time to be a teen-ager, no time to spend with family. He said he’s often gone an entire weekend without coming out of his room and talking with his family – mostly because he’s trying to meet weekend homework deadlines.
“Little do they know I have four other AP classes and I’m trying to spend time with my family and be a teen-ager with a life beyond homework,” he said. “The homework is a cherry on top. So, no, sometimes I’m not going to class and I’m going to sleep.”
Senior Farzana Janon said she feels penalized even when she thinks she’s doing the right thing.
“I put my camera on and participated in class and did everything they said to do, and I still got a 65 percent for class participation,” she said. “I don’t know why that happened. No one explained it…I don’t understand the puntative aspect. Some people can’t do what they ask.”
Pimentel said she hit an inflection point this month when she lost a close family member. While the family mourned the death, she found herself anxious because she was falling behind on homework. That led to some serious social-emotional turmoil, she said, and a re-evaluation of just where she’s headed in her education.
“I was doing my work and not grieving the way a person should,” she said. “That should speak volumes…For me to feel I can’t take time out to grieve with my family, to grieve the loss of a close family member, without the fear that I’m going to fail a class is not right.”
There is no easy answer, and certainly teachers have also been in a bind to figure out how to teach remotely and do so successfully. That has been complicated in urban districts like Boston by state decisions about moving ahead with standardized tests this spring despite the pandemic. However, the students said if the school district and the school leaders would listen to students a little more, there could be an easing of the pressure that has built up during this all-remote school year in Boston Public Schools (BPS).
“We’re just paid lip service,” Pimentel said. “We don’t even have a voice in our own voice. That’s why we are treated like robots. If they took the time to listen and have the discussion, it could be right…But this is child labor in front of me now. And I’m not even getting paid to sit here.”
James said such a statement about child labor and not getting paid is common amongst their friends. He said adults often get offended by that, and shut them off at the mere mention of such a thing. However, he said adults should be asking why a student feels they should be getting paid and why it feels like labor and not learning. If the education system is failing so much that students – especially honor students such as they are – feel they should be paid, then he said the line between learning and labor has been crossed.
For James, the answer lies in the quality of the education, and he has come to realize that many teachers feel piling on homework is the answer. He said many teachers feel like the students aren’t doing anything because they’re at home, when in fact many students like him routinely work more than 18 hours a day on school. It’s a disconnect the students said, so far, hasn’t been acknowledged in BPS.
“It really comes down to quality and not quantity,” he said. “We need less quantitative aspects and more positive aspects.”
He and the other two students would welcome less homework, and more time spent having robust conversations about the material. He pointed out a teacher he had in a previous year who would assign less homework, and use class time to provoke more thought and understanding of the material in deep discussions. That, he said, is more the model that would work during remote learning.
“It’s the subtle differences like this that can make a much larger impact right now,” he said.
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ASEAN+3: Becoming more like a normal regionalism? / Takashi Terada
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GIARI Working Paper Vol. 2010-E-4
ASEAN+3: Becoming more like a normal regionalism?
Professor, Organization for Asian Studies,
A revised version will be published as a chapter in Mark Beeson and Richard Stubbs (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism, Routledge, 2011.
U.S. exclusion
ASEAN-centred approach
Financial cooperation
Transforming features: more like a normal regionalism?
US engagement in East Asian regionalism
Emerging ‘+3’ cooperation
More multilateral approaches
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Plus Three (hereafter ASEAN+3) began discreetly in Kuala Lumpur in December 1997 as a symbolic sideline event marking the 30th anniversary of ASEAN. Malaysia, which held the ASEAN Chair, invited only three leaders from China, Japan and South Korea. It was believed that Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed finally had succeeded in materialising his long-cherished East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC) plan, which had been strongly opposed by the US during the early 1990s. However, the inaugural ASEAN+3 Informal Summit Meeting was held in the midst of the Asian financial crisis, and Mahathir only proposed that the ASEAN+3 leaders meet in 1998. Vietnam, the next ASEAN Chair, also invited leaders from three Northeast Asian countries to the Hanoi summit, ensuring the further institutionalisation of East Asian regional cooperation. It was only after the ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Meeting in Hanoi in March of 1999 that the term ‘ASEAN+3’ was widely used. Finally, the ‘Joint Statement on East Asia Cooperation’ was launched for the first time in history by the 13 heads of government at the 3rd Informal Summit Meeting in Manila in November 1999. The Statement broadly describes the aim of the ASEAN+3 meetings, but the fact that all leaders from East Asian states gathered and launched the joint statement as a collective voice for East Asia was critical symbolically.
It was not until the 2000 ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Meeting that East Asian regionalism established a substantive and concrete regional cooperation mechanism. This was the Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI), which included a network of currency swapping and repurchasing arrangements, and showed the degree of the impact 1997-8 financial crisis on East Asian nations. Since then, the ASEAN+3 process has expanded the areas of functional cooperation, which now includes senior officials, ministerial and heads-of-governments meetings. As a result, ASEAN+3 now covers twenty policy areas with fifty-seven bodies, including one Summit, fourteen ministerials, nineteen Senior Officials, two Directors-General, eighteen technical-level meetings and two other track meetings and establishing itself as a fully-fledged regional institution in East Asia. Although another regional institution representing East Asia, the East Asian Summit (EAS), was established in 2005 as a result of a power struggle between China and Japan (and the United States), ASEAN+3 is now viewed as ‘the main vehicle towards achieving an East Asian community,’ while EAS is referred to as playing a ‘complementary’ role according to the 2ndSecond joint statement launched by ASEAN+3 leaders in 2007.
The first ten years of ASEAN+3 were characterized by three features which appeared to challenge established orthodoxies of the study of regionalism. First, ASEAN+3 is the first regional institution in Asia that excludes the United States as an official member. The United States had previously demolished any Asian regional proposal which excluded its participation, as seen in cases of the East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC) and Asian Monetary Fund (AMF). There are at least three reasons behind the US absence or exclusion from ASEAN+3: the US disengagement from the Asian financial crisis; Malaysia’s decision not to invite non-East Asian nations to the inaugural ASEAN+3 summit in 1997; and the US ‘benign neglect’ attitude towards ASEAN+3 development. The second feature is that financial cooperation as embodied in CMI became the first and foremost agenda in ASEAN+3, illustrating an anomaly from the conventional path of regional integration taken elsewhere (Dieter and Higgott 2003). This bilateral approach to financial cooperation, together with a constellation of bilateral rather than regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), signified the lack of a regional approach to formal integration in East Asia. Finally, as the name ‘ASEAN Plus Three’ signifies, ASEAN, as a group of fragmented and relatively small economies unable to enjoy the benefits of economies of scale in production, has been allowed to organise the annual summits in Southeast Asia, treating the three big powers in Northeast Asia as guests. This position of ASEAN makes it possible for the ASEAN leaders to advocate for ASEAN centrality in East Asian cooperation, while powerful nations such as Japan and China that normally take a leadership role in regional institutions and integration have seemingly taken on a secondary role. However, ASEAN’s capability to lead East Asian regionalism has been questioned by scholars such as Jones and Smith, and the question of who leads and who becomes a driving force has been a major contested issue in the ASEAN+3 intellectual discourse.
This paper aims to examine these three features in order to illustrate the uniqueness of the birth and growth of ASEAN+3, an unusual regional institution. It then argues that East Asia, especially in the ASEAN+3 process, has witnessed the transformation of these three features since 2009 due to three factors. First, increased US engagement in East Asia has been propelled by the Obama administration partly through its participation in the East Asian Summit (EAS), representing a sharp contrast to the apathetic attitude under the Bush administration. Second, the momentum behind Trilateral cooperation among China, Japan and Korea has been growing, which appears to challenge the ASEAN centrality formula. Finally, regional integration through ‘+3’ and ‘+6’ frameworks officially began, driven by the establishment of government-involved feasibility studies of regional FTAs as well as the multilateralisation of CMI, a development which represents a moving away from a bilateralism-oriented integration approach for East Asia. Although Webber (2010) asserts that from the perspective of European experiences, ASEAN+3 has been promoting cooperation and not integration, more than ten years has passed since its establishment and these recent changes may suggest a possible employment of more serious approaches to regional integration in East Asia.
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Messy Commission hearings demonstrate the need for an independent EU ethics body
Brussels is in the middle of a chaotic Commissioner-designate hearing season and the trials and tribulations of these past few weeks only reconfirm the urgent need for an independent EU ethics body.
Two candidates have already been rejected; the Hungarian nominee László Trócsányi and the Romanian choice Rovana Plumb. The MEPs judging the former could not rule out a conflict of interest with law firm Nagy és Trócsány that he set up before he became a Government Minister, and the latter candidate failed to declare loans of around 1 million Euros.
One candidate has already been sent to a second hearing and one will face additional written questions, Poland’s Janusz Wojciechowski and France’s Sylvie Goulard, respectively. Both candidates were under investigation by The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) at the time of nomination. Goulard is still under investigation for the misuse of EU funds relating to paying parliamentary assistants, while Mr Wojciechowski was cleared at the end of September. During her hearing, Ms Goulard stated that in France she stepped down as a Minister following the announcement of the investigation. This begs the question why are national-level politicians being held to higher standards of integrity than those at EU level?
It is hard to image that in a Member State, a figure with an ongoing fraud investigation would get as far as being nominated for a top ministerial job, but some candidates in the EU seem to have slipped through the net.
This could partly be that national governments simply do not take these nominations seriously enough and there is a view that EU politics is secondary to national politics. However, these Commissioner-designates will be making decisions and policies that affect millions citizens right across the European Union.
It is also very difficult to guarantee that the declarations of interest have been scrutinised in a balanced and independent way. In its last mandate, the European Parliament adopted a new step in the process of approving the new Commission in its internal rules. According to the rules, the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee now has the power to analyse the declarations of financial interests of Commissioner-candidates and look for potential conflict of interests. If necessary, the committee has the power to make recommendations to solve any minor issues or even deem the candidates unsuitable for the position. The latter blocks said candidates from moving to the next stage, the hearing.
One of the main issues with this process is that those MEPs conducting the analysis belong to a political party, sometimes the same party as the candidate or sometimes the political opposition, which puts their neutrality in to question.
These meetings are held ‘in camera’, and contrary to what the name may suggest, they are completely private. This is strangely enough in direct opposition to all other hearings Commissioner-designates will have with the committees working on their prospective fields of responsibility, which according to the rules must be held in public. It is therefore impossible to ascertain how political the initial discussions become and whether there is true impartiality in the screening process.
The only way to ensure that the highest calibre of nominees, in terms of political integrity, make the cut in the future is to create an EU-wide independent ethics body. Such a body would take the lead in scrutinising the backgrounds and the declarations of potential Commissioners, far from the reaches of party politics. Decisions and reasons for decisions should also be made publicly available for any interested party to be able to get the full picture.
Transparency International EU has long been calling for the creation of such an ethics body and are happy to see Ursula von der Leyen include it in her priorities. We reiterate our suggestions that for such a body to be truly effective it must be well-resourced, able to initiate investigations, and give binging recommendations to all the EU institutions.
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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on September 28, 2021
CCTV: On September 27, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi addressed a video conference on China's role at the United Nations. This year marks the 50th anniversary of China's restoration of its lawful seat at the UN. Could you brief us on China's role in upholding the status and role of the UN over the past 50 years?
Hua Chunying: This year is of great significance in China-UN relations as it marks the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the lawful seat of the People's Republic of China at the UN. Over the past 50 years, China has honored its solemn commitment to the UN Charter, firmly upheld the international system with the UN at its core, the basic norms governing international relations based on the UN Charter and the UN's central role in international affairs.
Over the past 50 years, China has continued to contribute its strength to the cause of the UN. As the largest troop contributor among the permanent members of the UN Security Council, China has participated in 29 UN peacekeeping missions, sending a total of more than 50,000 personnel. As the largest developing country, China has actively supported the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development and achieved the poverty reduction target set in the 2030 Agenda 10 years ahead of schedule, lifting more than 70 percent of the world's poor population out of poverty. In the face of the sudden outbreak of COVID-19, we launched the largest emergency humanitarian operation in the history of New China, fulfilling our commitment to make COVID-19 vaccines a global public good and supporting the relevant efforts of the UN.
Standing at a new historical starting point, China will actively build a community with shared future for mankind, and continue to do its best to participate in the UN affairs, defend the status of the UN, and promote the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. We will uphold the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, adhere to true multilateralism, and remain an advocate of world peace, contributor to global development, defender of international order and provider of public goods. We are ready to work with other countries to make new and greater contributions to peace and development for all mankind.
Xinhua News Agency: The HKSAR Government published the Report on Hong Kong's Business Environment: A Place with Unique Advantages and Unlimited Opportunities on September 27. Do you have any comment?
Hua Chunying: We welcome and support the HKSAR Government's issuance of the Report on Hong Kong's Business Environment. The report gives a systematic review of the negative impact of black-clad violence and the US strategy of suppressing China on the business environment of Hong Kong, makes in-depth explanations of the great significance of the Hong Kong National Security Law and the improvement of Hong Kong's electoral system to the city's socio-economic development, and looks into the broad prospects and precious business opportunities in the future. It has given a convincing response to international concerns over Hong Kong's business environment with accurate and detailed content and objective and unbiased observations. It is worth a careful reading for everyone that is interested in and cares about Hong Kong.
Since Hong Kong's return to the motherland, with the full support of the Central Government, its status as a global financial, shipping and trading hub has been consolidated and enhanced. Hong Kong has been one of the world's freest economies and best locations to do business for international investors, which fully demonstrates the advantage of the One Country, Two Systems. The Law on Safeguarding National Security in the HKSAR and the new electoral system of the HKSAR have improved the rule of law in Hong Kong, led to a more secure and stable society and more efficient and smoother governance, and foreign enterprises and authoritative international institutions have more confidence in the Hong Kong's business environment. The Central Government has continued to roll out preferential policies to Hong Kong, which has brought great positive influence to Hong Kong's socio-economic development. We believe that with its integration into the general picture of China's development, Hong Kong's unique strength will be given better play with a stronger driving force. This Pearl of the Orient will become even more shiny.
I want to stress again that Hong Kong is China's Special Administrative Region and its affairs are an integral part of China's internal affairs, which brook no external interference. Facts have proven that certain countries' attempts to incite and embolden the anti-China, destabilizing forces, maliciously cast a pall over Hong Kong's business environment and mess up Hong Kong and contain China's development will never succeed. No external disruption and pressuring will hold back the historical trend of Hong Kong moving from chaos to stability and prosperity, nor will they block the steady and sustained implementation of the One Country, Two Systems toward a bright future.
Shenzhen TV: According to reports, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in an interview yesterday that there is no obstacle to direct China-Australia dialogue at the political level on the Australian side, but China is not interested in that opportunity. At the same time, Australian media commented that considering the enough space for turnaround between China and the US, and that Australia has run out of all "bullets" in the name of "principles of democracy" in recent years, Australia may end up in an awkward situation where it has no "card to play" against China. What is China's comment?
Hua Chunying: China always believes that state-to-state relations should and must be built on the basis of mutual respect and equal treatment, and that countries must respect each others' core interests, major concerns and legitimate rights to development. Whether Australia is sincere about improving and developing relations with China, or it does the opposite to what it says, or even goes so far as to blatantly stab China in the back, China has its own judgement.
The current difficulties in China-Australia relations are entirely of Australia's own making, which is not what China wishes to see and is what Australia knows well. It is imperative that Australia face up to the crux of the setbacks in bilateral relations, and earnestly think about whether China is seen as a partner or a threat. The Australian side should take an objective and correct look at China and its development, earnestly follow the principles of mutual respect and equality when handling the bilateral relations, and do more to enhance mutual trust and promote practical cooperation between the two countries. We hope Australia can redress its wrong remarks and moves on relations with China for some time, and take real actions to create conditions for recovering and improving the bilateral relations.
Global Times: We noticed that some American media said after Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were released, Westerners working in China received notice that they may be arrested with "fabricated" charges and taken as "hostage" by China anytime in the future. This is the message from US humiliating surrender to China in the "hostage diplomacy" over the Meng Wanzhou incident. What is your comment?
Hua Chunying: The statements sound familiar. Just as some in the US and other Western countries are used to making and fanning up sensational and absurd rumors on China-related issues, those making such statements are simply like crying wolf when there is no wolf, and smearing China by spreading disinformation.
We have stated on multiple occasions that Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were suspected of committing crimes of endangering national security with conclusive evidence. The two individuals made confession to their crimes and wrote materials of confession and repentance.
It is a known fact that the US is the inventor of "hostage diplomacy" and "coercive diplomacy", whose birthplace and headquarters are in Washington D.C.. The US, through its own policies and actions, has provided the world with too many classic examples of coercive diplomacy. Alstom, the French company fell to US prey in a similar way, was among the victims.
I noticed that few days ago, Alstom's former executive Frederic Pierucci said in an interview with CGTN,"I didn't have the chance to have my company's support like she had, and I didn't have a chance to have my country's support like she had. [...] What I have seen in the Huawei case is that the whole company was behind her from beginning to the end. And also diplomatically, China probably did a lot of things to come to this kind of agreement. [...] At the end of the day, no European country will say this, but everybody deep down should feel grateful to what is happening here, because it's really one of the first time that a country is really standing up to the United States to stop this craziness of long-arm jurisdiction. In fact, this will benefit a lot of other countries providing they have the courage to do the same thing, stand up and fight back. Let's see what happened, but this is probably going to hopefully going to be a turning point".
TASS: First, overseas media report that the Czech Republic has signed a law that excludes the possibility of participation of companies from Russia and China in the tender for the construction of a new power unit of the Dukovany nuclear power plant. Do you have any comment? Second, on September 28, the French Foreign Minister called for a "P5 summit" to establish a joint action programme "to enable the Security Council to fully exercise its mandate and to embark upon a dialogue on the key issues of arms control and our collective security." Does the foreign ministry have any comment?
Hua Chunying: With regard to the first question, we believe that the cooperation between Chinese and Czech enterprises based on commercial and mutually beneficial principles serves the common interests of both sides. We hope that the Czech side will abide by the principle of fair competition and market economy, and provide an open, fair, transparent and non-discriminatory business environment for foreign enterprises to do business in the Czech Republic.
On your second question, China supports the proposal for a P5 summit. We believe that under the current circumstances, strengthening P5 leaders' coordination on the international situation, major issues and anti-epidemic cooperation is of important significance to upholding multilateralism and the post-war international order, maintaining the authority of the UN and the Security Council and safeguarding international peace and stability.
AFP: The NATO Secretary General has raised concerns over China's expanding nuclear arsenal and has called for arms control talks with China. Does the foreign ministry have any response?
Hua Chunying: China is gravely concerned about and firmly opposes the "China nuclear threat theory" NATO has been hyping up lately. China follows a self-defensive nuclear strategy. We are committed to no first use of nuclear weapons at any time or under any circumstances and pledge unconditionally not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states or nuclear-weapon-free zones. China has never taken part in any form of nuclear arms race, nor has it deployed nuclear weapons overseas. No country will be threatened or should feel threatened by China's national defense capability as long as it does not intend to threaten or undermine China's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.
What the international community should be really concerned about is NATO's nuclear sharing policy. We hope NATO can urge the US to earnestly fulfill its special and primary responsibilities in nuclear disarmament, and further drastically and substantively reduce its nuclear stockpile, so as to create conditions for realizing comprehensive and complete nuclear disarmament.
Beijing Youth Daily: Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Manasseh Damukana Sogavare said in a statement at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on September 26 that Solomon Islands is a party to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty. He said, "we therefore would like to keep our region nuclear free and put the region's nuclear legacy behind us. The ocean remains the life blood for our survival." This reminds us of the recent nuclear submarine cooperation agreement struck by the US, UK and Australia, which may pose similar risks to the South Pacific. Do you have any comment?
Hua Chunying: The South Pacific is a victim and the worst inflicted region of nuclear pollution. Many of you may not know that between 1946 and 1958, the US conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, causing irretrievable, irreversible and enormous damage to the life, health and safety of the local people and biological environment. The US has dumped nuclear waste into the Pacific for 63 times, the fallout of which takes a toll on people of the Marshall Islands, leading to hikes in the incidence rate of cancer, leukemia, birth defects and other diseases. The levels of plutonium-239 and -240 in the soil samples from the Bikini Atoll are more than 1,000 times higher than those of Fukushima and Chernobyl.
The nuclear submarine cooperation among the US, the UK and Australia undermines the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty and again casts a shadow of nuclear proliferation over the South Pacific, thus inevitably inviting concerns and doubts from countries in the region and beyond. The people of the South Pacific region should never be sacrificed again for the pursuit of bloc politics and military confrontation by a handful of countries. The US, UK and Australia should discard the outdated Cold War mentality, act with a sense of responsibility and revoke their wrong decision, and avoid scourging the innocent people of the South Pacific island countries.
Beijing Daily: According to reports, Kim Yo-jong, Deputy Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, said on September 25 that the DPRK and the ROK could have smooth communication and a leaders' summit could take place, if impartiality and mutual respect are guaranteed. What is China's comment?
Hua Chunying: The DPRK and the ROK share the same ethnic origin and kinship. As a close neighbor, China supports the DPRK and the ROK in improving relations through dialogue and consultation, and promoting reconciliation and cooperation. We hope the two sides can demonstrate goodwill to each other and work in joint hands, so as to create an atmosphere and conditions for advancing political settlement of the Peninsular issue.
CCTV: The Japanese government on September 27 adopted a draft cyber security strategy for the next three years, naming China, Russia and the DPRK as cyber-attack threats for the first time. The draft states the three countries are suspected of engaging in aggressive cyber activity, and that Japan will take firm countermeasures, including a diplomatic response and criminal prosecution. Do you have any response?
Hua Chunying: In disregard of basic facts, the Japanese side slandered and attacked China on the cyber security issue and maliciously played up the so-called threats from neighbors. China is firmly opposed to this.
I believe we are all very clear about which country is engaged in "cyber espionage", and which country is the biggest "hacking empire" that engages in all kinds of espionage and wiretapping, even targeting its own allies. In fact, the Japanese side also has a clear idea about this. Is Japan trying to help deflect attention by maliciously slamming China on the issue of cyber attacks at someone's behest?
We hope that the Japanese side could do some soul-searching, act in its own interests and do more to enhance political mutual trust with its neighbors, and contribute to regional peace and stability. China will continue to take necessary measures to safeguard its own cyber security and firmly respond to all kinds of wrong actions that politicize cyber security.
Associated Press of Pakistan: In a tweet Prime Minister Imran Khan has termed inclusion of Karachi coastal zone in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as a game changer and hoped it will put Karachi at par with developed port cities. What is your comment?
Hua Chunying: At the recently-held 10th Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), China and Pakistan agreed to include the Karachi Comprehensive Coastal Development Zone in CPEC and list it as an outcome of the JCC meeting.
China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic partners of cooperation. CPEC is a flagship program under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China is ready to work with Pakistan to earnestly follow through on the common understanding of the leaders on the two sides and the outcomes of the JCC meeting, ensure sound construction and operation of existing projects, highlight cooperation in health, green economy and digitization, step up cooperation in industries, science and technology, agriculture and people's livelihood, and forge high-quality CPEC cooperation, so as to provide new impetus to the growth of bilateral ties, economic and social development of the two countries and the improvement of people's livelihood.
Prasar Bharati: Yesterday, Indian medical students gathered at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi. These students are studying in Chinese universities and they are waiting for the return to China. Is there any consideration for the request?
Hua Chunying: I answered your question in details yesterday.
Given the ongoing spread of the coronavirus across the globe, the Chinese government has to adopt a series of management measures, which is timely adjusted in accordance with the evolving situation, in order to ensure the safe, healthy and orderly flow of Chinese and foreign travelers. I want to stress that China's entry prevention and control measures are applied to all inbound travelers, including its own citizens.
The Paper: The Security Council will hold a meeting today to mark the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). All parties will call for continued efforts to push for an early entry into force of the treaty and move toward the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world at an early date. Meanwhile, the nuclear submarine agreement struck by the US, the UK and Australia does the opposite. What is your comment on that?
Hua Chunying: This year marks the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which has become a key pillar of the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime and has played an important role in curbing arms race and maintaining global strategic stability. Banning nuclear tests has become an international consensus.
China firmly supports the purposes and objectives of the CTBT and was among the first countries to sign the treaty. Over the past 25 years, we have been committed to a moratorium on nuclear tests. China supports the treaty's early entry into force and will continue to contribute to that and make unremitting efforts to achieve the lofty goal of complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons.
The CTBT and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are important pillars of the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime. While pushing for the early entry into force of the CTBT, the international community should earnestly uphold the authority, universality and effectiveness of the NPT. The nuclear cooperation among the US, UK and Australia has a serious risk of nuclear proliferation and violates the spirit of the NPT. It will create a bad precedent and encourage other nations to follow suit, thus damaging the international non-proliferation regime and accelerate regional arms race. The international community should stand together against the trilateral nuclear submarines cooperation and never sits idly by.
NHK: The DPRK fired another missile this morning. The DPRK successfully test fired a long-range cruise missile around September 10, and fired additional two missiles on September 15. We wonder if China has any comment on such developments?
Hua Chunying: China has noted relevant reports. China calls on all parties to meet each other half way, follow the "dual-track" approach, and take phased and synchronized actions to discuss effective ways to address the concerns of all parties in a balanced manner, and jointly promote the political resolution of the Peninsula issue.
Beijing Youth Daily: White House spokesperson Psaki said yesterday that the presidents of China and the US raised the Meng Wanzhou incident in the phone call in early September. She said, there is not a change in its China policy. "We're not seeking conflict. It is a relationship of competition." What is China's response?
Hua Chunying: The Party and the Chinese government attach high importance to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of every Chinese citizen. Since Ms. Meng Wanzhou was groundlessly detained in early December, 2018, President Xi Jinping gave personal attention to this. The Chinese government has worked at various levels and on multiple occasions, provided consular protection and assistance to Ms. Meng Wanzhou, and lodged solemn representations with the US and Canada, asking them to drop the erroneous charges against Meng and ensure her safe return to China as early as possible. During the meeting in Tianjin not long ago, China put forward two lists to the US. One is a list of wrongdoings that the US must stop and the second is a list of key individual cases that China has concerns with. Both lists clearly request the US to drop the erroneous charges against Meng and ensure her safe return to China as soon as possible. During the leaders' phone call, the presidents of China and the US had candid, in-depth and extensive strategic communication and exchanges on China-US relations and issues of common concern. President Xi Jinping made the case of the Meng Wanzhou incident, expounded on China's position and asked the US to properly resolve it as soon as possible.
The proper resolution of the Meng Wanzhou incident is of positive significance. I noticed that some media commented that the resolution removed a thorn deeply inserted in China-US relations. But due to the wrong China policy the US has adopted for some time, other thorns that vary in length still remain in China-US relations. We hope the US can attach high importance and take concrete actions to empty the two lists. As President Xi Jinping pointed out, when China and the US cooperate, the two countries and the world will benefit; when China and the United States are in confrontation, the two countries and the world will suffer. We hope the US can work with China in the same direction, follow the spirit of the leaders' phone call, strengthen dialogue and cooperation, properly handle differences and bring China-US relations back onto the right track of steady development as soon as possible.
I also noted that in the recent videoconference, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres exchanged views on China-US relations. State Councilor Wang Yi briefed on the ins and outs of the current state of the relations and noted what the relations have gone through is plain to see. Facing unwarranted suppression, rumors and smears from the US, China has no choice but to make resolute response confidently to defend national sovereignty and dignity and safeguard people's legitimate rights to development. The US side recently said it does not want confrontation or Cold War, and hopes China-US relations can come back onto the right track. We hope the US can translate their words into actions, and bring its China policy back to a reasonable and pragmatic track. If the US follows through its commitments, then China is ready to work with it to provide a good answer to where China-US relations are heading, the question of the century, and get the relationship right, a must-answer question, to satisfy both Chinese and American people.
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February 6, 2012 Coats Museum News
The month was August of 1926. It was on a Wednesday in that month that the Turlington clan celebrated the fourth annual reunion of that family. The reunion was held at Bethsaida Primitive Baptist Church and about 200 people attended. Three states and many North Carolina counties were represented. Jimmie Turlington, N.C. State Representative Zeb V. Turlington-the noted legislator and father of the famous N.C. “Volstead Act”-, and Grover Britt of the “Dispatch” were present. Franklin T. Dupree, a Turlington relative, was chief speaker. Devereaux Turlington at 79 years of age was the oldest Turlington present and Willis Turlington , 78 years old, was the oldest from out of state being from Bennettville, S.C. ( Harnett County News August 12, 1926).
About three score of barbecue eaters pronounced Henry A. Turlington’s as being “absolutely fine”. The party gathered in the grove. (Some people speculate that “Grove District” obtained the name from this grove of sheltering pines.)The genial proprietor of the Duroc Farm and the crowd had a jolly good time (Harnett County News August 19, 1926).
It was during this same summer that the sites were being sought to build the seven Rosenwald Colored Schools approved by the county. These seven schools built in 1926-27 were Bunnlevel, Coats, Mt. Pisgah, Murchinson, , Paradise, Smith Grove, and Summerville.
Other Rosenwald Schools built in Harnett were Angier (1928-29), Atkins Road (1923-24), Averasboro ((1922-23), Bethlehem (1929-30), County Training (1922-23, 1927), Creeksville (1923-24), Duke (1921-22), Killingsford (1923-24), Lillington No.1 (1922-23), Lillington No.2 (1922-23), Lillington No.3 (1927-28),Norrington (1922-23), Sand Hill (1920-21), Stewart’s Creek ( 1922-23), and Yarboro- “Upper Little River” (1923-24)- (Taken from the ECA quilt square “Norrington School”)
What happened to the first Mt. Pisgah School? According to the Mt. Pisgah Harnett County Original Free Baptist Church History recorded in the Heritage of Coats, North Carolina Volume 2, pages 54-57, the county purchased land in the proximity of where the members of Mt. Pisgah Church were then holding services and built a one-room school for colored children to receive an education. Mr. William Shaw, who wore a long gray beard, was superintendent of the school in the 1880’s. Many of the members of Mt. Pisgah, as children, attended this school during seasons when they were not required to be in the fields to plant, cultivate, or harvest the crops.
When Mt. Pisgah Church, lovingly referred to as “Old Egypt”, burned down, the members of the church were permitted to use the schoolhouse until a new church was built. The school remained there for 56 years until it was declared unsafe and the building was sold according to Peggy Robinson. She also shared that on December 25, 1926, the Reverend John D. Shaw, Ella McKay Shaw, David Ryals, and Eliza McKay Ryals sold land to the Harnett County Board of Education upon which was built the second Mt. Pisgah School. It had four rooms and four teachers.
In 1930, the HCBOE agreed to take $15.00 for the old Mt. Pisgah School building that had been abandoned since the second school had been built.
On June 20, 1935, The Harnett County Board of Education received a petition from Henry Mack Stewart, principal of Mt.Pisgah, asking that certain schools for colored students in Grove Township be consolidated with Coats Colored School and that necessary transportation facilities be provided. He also requested in that petition that transportation be provided for high school students. The petition was signed by 19 leading white people. It was denied (Harnett County News June 20, 1935).
On July 14, 1935, North Harnett School was erected to honor Henry Mack Stewart who was a Negro educator. He was born in Coats and lived and taught in the areas of Coats, Angier, Duncan, Buies Creek, and southern Wake County according to Mrs. Robinson.
On April 13, 1937, the HCBOE appointed D.H. Ryals, Jack Spears, and William Holliday to Mt. Pisgah School: Charles M. Stewart, Benton Lee and Hilliary Stewart to Black River Grove; Edgar McLean, T.S. Surles, and J.C. Carney to Turlington Grove: Herman Williams, James D. Stewart, Prentice McLean to Coats Colored School and lastly, W.H. Massey, Robert Rowland and Walter Matthews at Rowland School (Harnett County News April 15, 1937).
In 1941, the Turlington Grove Colored School consolidated with Mt. Pisgah and the school was sold (Harnett County News January 9, 1941).
In the Harnett County News April 10, 1947 edition, it was printed that William Stewart, James D. Stewart, and Arthur Rowland served on the Coats Negro School Board while Herbert Johnson, W.E. Nichols and W.T. Sorrell served on the Coats White School. W.E. Nichols had replaced Dr. C. Garner Fuquay and Johnson had replaced R.D. Ennis who recently had died.
Mt. Pisgah had Sandy McKay, Archie Melvin, and Andrew Ryals on the Negro school board. At that date, Bethlehem, Paradise, Seminole, Smith Grove, Killingsford, McLean’s Chapel, Norrington, Murchison, Cedar Grove and Beaver Dam were Negro Schools (Dunn Dispatch April 10, 1947).
You have to wonder ”Where were all of these Black Schools?” The Black River Grove was located on the present Johnson Road just northeast of Coats. The Rowland School was located on the present Bill Avery Road off NC Highway 27 between Buies Creek and Coats. What about the others?
The Coats Museum folks are attempting to gather history about the black citizens of the Grove Township and surrounding areas. The museum volunteers are taking on the project to help Peggy Robinson publish a Black Heritage Book similar to the Heritage Book of Coats, North Carolina. We will need to gather information from our black and white citizens to make this happen. The date of planning for the book had changed to March 24, 2012 at the Coats Community Building on the Heritage Square. Read the upcoming columns to keep informed of the events.
Have you seen all the activity behind the Heritage Museum and Cotton Museum? The Coats Museum Board of Directors and museum volunteers held a ground breaking for the 2500 square feet addition. The footing has been poured. Edward Turlington and Tommy McLeod of EST General Contractors were at the event. Kent Langdon called me last week to share that the Mabry who mixed fertilizer was Edward Turlington’s grandfather. Kent also has many vivid memories of his family’s black neighbors in the Barclaysville area. Thanks to Hazel Byrd for her gift of 1980’s calendars from the Coats Auto Parts.
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July 6, 1935 -- Razing of Old Coast Guard Stations Begins
July 6, 1935 – The razing of the old Coast Guard station at the mouth of the Chicago River begins, work that is expected to take three weeks to complete. Dedicated in 1903, the station’s days became numbered when part of it was destroyed by fire in 1933. As soon as the demolition is complete, work will begin on a new station with work expected to wind up by late fall. The old station had responded to 8,454 calls for assistance. The old station with flag still flying proudly is shown above.
July 6, 1964 – The 35-story Equitable building, now 401 North Michigan Avenue, is topped out in a light rain as a 35-foot white beam with the names of 6,000 Chicagoans written on it is hoisted into place at the top of the tower. Also on the beam is the number 192,113,484, corresponding to the population of the United States at this time. The building, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in the mid-century modern style, is already 75 percent rented. At a luncheon for about 200 civic and business leaders at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel, James F. Coates, the chairman of the Equitable Life Assurance Company of the United States, says that the landscaped area to be built south of Tribune Tower and in front of the Equitable building will be “the most beautiful in the world.” [Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1964] Currently the trees that have stood in that area for 42 years have all been cut down and the area itself is surrounded by fencing as construction continues on the new Apple store that will sit in the plaza south of the building. In the above photo 401 North Michigan rises to the behind J. Seward Johnson's sculpture, Return Visit.
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Location: North-western Anatolia
Biggest city: Pergamon
Roman province: Asia
Their first mention is by Homer, in his list of Trojans allies in the Iliad, and according to whom the Mysians fought in the Trojan War on the side of Troy, under the command of Chromis and Ennomus the Auger, and were lion-hearted spearmen who fought with their bare hands.
Herodotus in his Histories wrote that the Mysians were brethren of the Carians and the Lydians, originally Lydian colonists in their country, and as such, they had the right to worship alongside their relative nations in the sanctuary dedicated to the Carian Zeus in Mylasa. He also mentions a movement of Mysians and associated peoples from Asia into Europe still earlier than the Trojan War, wherein the Mysians and Teucrians had crossed the Bosphorus into Europe and, after conquering all of Thrace, pressed forward till they came to the Ionian Sea, while southward they reached as far as the river Peneus. Herodotus adds an account and description of later Mysians who fought in Darius’ army.
Strabo in his Geographica informs that, according to his sources, the Mysians in accordance with their religion abstained from eating any living thing, including from their flocks, and that they used as food honey and milk and cheese. Citing the historian Xanthus, he also reports that the name of the people was derived from the Lydian name for the oxya tree.
The Mysians seem to have been Thracians who crossed over to Asia at an early period. Mysia was subject to Lydia and later, under Persian rule, formed with Lydia one of the satrapies created by Darius I. After the death of Alexander the Great, the country shared in the vicissitudes of Asia Minor during the wars among his successors. Mysia became important in the 3rd century BC as the center of the kingdom of Pergamum, a Hellenistic state that controlled much of western Asia Minor. In 130 BC, Pergamum came under Roman rule, and Mysia became part of the Roman province of Asia.
Cities in Mysia
The most important cities were Pergamon in the valley of the Caïcus, and Cyzicus on the Propontis. The whole sea-coast was studded with Greek towns, several of which were places of considerable importance; thus the northern portion included Parium, Lampsacus and Abydos, and the southern Assos, Adramyttium. Further south, on the Eleatic Gulf, were Elaea, Myrina and Cyme.
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