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Ron Coleman discusses the recent Slants case where he represented an Asian American rock band, The Slants, before the Supreme Court. This case was closely watched in legal circles in part because of the implications it has on the Washington Redskins and the enforcement of their registered trademark.
Mr. Coleman uses these cases to provide an overview of trademark laws including The Lanham Act, the two different kinds of registrations, and the effect section 2A can have on a trademark. Mr. Coleman also gives advice on determining the proper time to file for trademark registration and how to begin the process.
This CLE is to provide the basics of Trademark law by examining the recent Slants Supreme Court case and discuss the implications for the Washington Redskins trademark.
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Decades after we began talking about mixed use development, there is still only limited evidence of it being delivered. Australia is falling behind world trends, and with space in established urban centres at an increasing premium, it’s worth asking why we aren’t seeing more examples of genuine, high quality mixed use projects.
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How documentation can make or break projects
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Queensland’s first private hybrid theatre
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Page last updated at 14:50 GMT, Saturday, 30 January 2010
Nigeria militants 'end truce in Delta oil region'
Mend has carried out many attacks over several years
A militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta says it is ending the ceasefire it declared last October.
Jomo Gbomo, who said he was a spokesman for the group Mend, said it did not believe the government would restore control of resources to local people.
Mend has demanded that residents be given a greater share in profits from oil resources and land.
It warned oil companies to prepare for what it called an all-out onslaught against installations and personnel.
Analysts say it is not yet clear if this statement comes from the whole of Mend - the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta - or just a faction that did not accept the offer of an amnesty from President Umaru Yar Adua.
'Nothing will be spared'
In a statement announcing the end of the ceasefire, the group said that the decision had been taken "after careful consideration and extensive consultation".
"All companies related to the oil industry in the Niger Delta should prepare for an all-out onslaught," it went on.
"Nothing will be spared," it added, saying that the companies themselves would "bear the guilt" if their staff were harmed.
The BBC's Caroline Duffield in Lagos says the statement will raise fears of a fresh wave of kidnappings targeting foreigners.
Militants have carried out a series of attacks which have cost Nigeria millions in lost revenue over the years.
The attacks have meant that facilities in the area have been unable to work beyond two-thirds capacity, costing $1bn a month in lost revenue.
Despite the ceasefire, one Mend faction attacked a pipeline in December, saying it was a "warning strike" over what it called government delays in progressing with peace talks.
Talks have been held up by the long absence of President Yar'Adua in Saudi Arabia, where he has been undergoing medical treatment.
But our correspondent says he has made it is his personal project to end militant activity in the Delta and this development will increase the pressure on him to return.
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Last Updated: Sunday, 15 October 2006, 10:48 GMT 11:48 UK
Woman gives birth to grandchild
Countries have different attitudes to surrogacy
A Japanese woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandchild last year, using an egg from her daughter and sperm from her son-in-law, a doctor has revealed.
It was the first time a woman has acted as a surrogate mother for her daughter in Japan, local media reported.
The case is set to stir debate in Japan where surrogate births are opposed by the government and a key medical group.
Japan's justice ministry also views the woman who gives birth as a child's mother - not the biological mother.
This legal position has led a Japanese celebrity couple to go to the courts to try to win the right to register twins born to a surrogate mother as their own children. Their case is continuing.
Yahiro Netsu, the head of the Suwa maternity clinic in Nagano, told a news conference that the woman gave birth last year, Reuters reported.
She had agreed to in vitro fertilisation and to act as a surrogate mother because her daughter had had her uterus removed due to cancer and was therefore unable to bear children.
Both the mother and child were reported to be in good health.
Dr Netsu said the woman had first registered the baby as her own and then the child was adopted by her daughter and son-in-law.
The doctor, who has helped other couples to have children through surrogate mothers, called on the government and the medical authorities to review their stance against surrogacy.
Surrogate births involve removing an egg to be fertilised and then implanting it in another woman who carries the baby to birth.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 15:55 GMT
Gold backs ticket-price reduction
By Phil McNulty
Chief football writer
David Gold says Birmingham will take the initiative on ticket prices
Birmingham City chairman David Gold is "encouraged" by the number of clubs revealing they will reduce ticket prices for hard-pressed fans.
Blues are offering special packages for season ticket holders for Sunday's promotion clash with rivals Cardiff.
Gold told BBC Sport: "We have got to listen to our supporters and they are saying it is getting too expensive.
"I am encouraged by the number of clubs that are already reporting that they are going to reduce prices."
St Andrews has a capacity of 30,009, although only 18,363 saw the Blues beat Leeds 1-0 on Tuesday to go top of the Championship table - and they have average home gates of 21,167 this season.
If we start thinking about our fans I think it will be an important step forward for football as a whole
Birmingham chairman David Gold
Gold said: "Are we disappointed with our attendances? I think we are, but football as a whole is concerned.
"The Football League has announced that it has had the highest attendances in its history across the three divisions.
"Having said that, what we really want is full houses. It is simple economics - price dictates support. We have to address that.
"We have addressed it for our match against Cardiff. We have given a reduction to our season ticket holders so that they can buy up to six tickets at £5 each to bring friends and family.
"We understand that's been very successful and we are hoping for a full house."
Gold added: "We have to find new initiatives to bring back our fans. We have to listen to them and adjust accordingly.
"It is very difficult for a football club to address this individually. If you are reducing prices to increase your following, you will find the club that doesn't do that, your competitor, actually makes more money.
"That then gives them an advantage in the market place when it comes to buying players and offering salaries.
"It has got to be a collective thing organised by the Football League, the Premiership and the Football Association.
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"I even saw the Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking about it, but it is all very well talking about it, you have to come up with solutions."
In January, Birmingham manager Steve Bruce warned clubs to protect the magic of the FA Cup by making the competition more affordable for fans.
Blues' third round tie with Newcastle attracted a crowd of just 16,444 and he said: "This was always a big date in my diary but these days it costs far too much for the average fan to watch football."
Since then, Blackburn and Bolton have already said they will reduce prices, while Everton have announced season ticket prices for next season will be reduced by 10% if fans buy early.
Gold said: "We will be addressing it, finding new initiatives.
"But in the main, the reason Blackburn and Bolton are doing it is not because they are philanthropic and concerning themselves about their fan base, they are doing it because they don't have full stadiums.
"They are saying it gives the advantage to the away side if they come to their football club and find an empty stadium. It is almost as though there are more away fans than home fans.
"Clubs have to address this with a degree of seriousness. I am encouraged by it and if we start thinking about our fans I think it will be an important step forward for football as a whole."
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Brighton boss Gus Poyet eyes international management
Poyet (l) won 23 caps for Uruguay during his playing career
Brighton & Hove Albion's Uruguyan manager Gus Poyet has confirmed he has international ambitions.
Poyet guided the Seagulls to the League One title last year.
He told BBC Sussex: "I'd love to manage, for example, my country. But before getting there I have to manage a top-class, high-division club.
"You need to deal with stars. When you've done that, and maybe won trophies, I'll be ready to go to an international team."
He added: "I don't think you should go into a national team without being in that position.
"I need to get into the top first, to be a contender.
"I believe you need to be of the standards of Fabio Capello. He's been at some of the best teams in the world.
"I've only been at Brighton, so I've got a long way to go."
The Seagulls, who are top of the Championship after six games, travel to Leicester City on Saturday, and Poyet admitted he was an admirer of Foxes' manager Sven Goran Eriksson.
"He's been very successful," Poyet said. "I know what people think about Sven and what happened with England, but I'm totally opposite to what people think.
"He had a very good spell. People have to be realistic. It is very, very difficult to win a World Cup."
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Tourism 13.05.2019
Skye marine tourism firm set to expand
A marine tourism firm in Skye is set to expand and create jobs after securing HIE funding for a new vessel to run trips to St Kilda.
SeaSkye Marine Limited was established by Kenneth and Kerry MacKinnon in 2017. It runs trips from Waternish to St Kilda, under the Go To St Kilda brand, as well as shorter, more family orientated trips around Skye from Carbost.
The St Kilda trips are now fully booked for 75% of the April to September season and consistently get five-star ratings on Tripadvisor.
HIE has awarded the company a grant of £36,910. The money will go towards the cost of upgrading the vessel used for the St Kilda trips from an 11-metre to a 13-metre vessel.
The larger boat will be more robust and less susceptible to weather-related cancellations. It will allow Go To St Kilda to schedule six trips a week instead of three or four and will also improve passenger comfort.
The original vessel will then be used to expand the company’s offering by adding trips to Harris and the Shiants.
The changes are expected to boost the company’s turnover by more than £240,000, increase international sales by more than £95,000 and create four full time equivalent jobs with above average wage levels.
Eilidh Ross, business development account manager with HIE on Skye, said:
“Marine tourism generates more than £350m for Scotland’s economy, with potential for further substantial growth.
“SeaSkye Marine is an important part of the wider tourism offering on Skye. The directors have made excellent progress with the company while keeping a keen eye on the future. This planned expansion is the next logical step for the company and we are very pleased to be able to provide support for that.”
Kenneth MacKinnon of SeaSkye Marine added:
“We’re really pleased to have secured this support from HIE, enabling us to take the next step in expanding our business. Demand is certainly growing from people who are keen to explore further afield while visiting Skye. St. Kilda has massive appeal, due to its culture history and international recognition for nature. It’s great to be able to schedule more trips to the archipelago with confidence, and to also offer the additional attraction of trips to Harris and the Shiants.”
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A small cascade in the upper reaches of Tanapag's Mames Stream.
“We have two springs" Ben explains. "One is Bobo Mames or the Mames Spring. Bobo is a spring, a water spring. Mames means ‘sweet.’ So this water must be sweet, it’s not salty. The other one is the Dogas Spring. And then, further down, Agaton. Agaton is the name of one bobo. It is associated with the name of a person, a Chamorro name. Agaton has a spring, but it doesn’t drain out into the ocean; it drains right into the marsh land—the wetland. That’s the distinction between these three. The only streams that drain out to the ocean are the Mames Spring and the Dogas Spring.
“The artesian wells up there create streams. Some of them are now dry creeks, but other artesian wells create streams that come out into our area. They drain into the wetlands, and the wetlands kind of filter that water, and then finally the water goes out into the ocean."
“We call this first river here Saddok Dogas,” Rosa Castro says. “They named it Saddok Dogas, because it has plenty of those small shells, small and white. They stay all around this beach where the river comes out. When you walk up before you go into the river, you can see very many of that kind of shell, around all over the place nearby.
"So they say that name because so many of that kind of shell are on the beach where you walk in. That’s all I hear, because even when I walk up here, there are so many shells on the beach. So they call that ‘shell river,’ Saddok Dogas.”
Dogas shells, found all over where the stream reaches the beach.
Rainfall produces a "lens" of freshwater, which is lighter than saltwater and so floats on top. A zone of brackish water—semi-salty—lies in between. Wells out at the edge of the island are more likely to produce brackish water.
“Because Saipan is of volcanic origin,” Ben says, “you find a few areas that have impervious subterranean solid rocks, like basalt, and that holds the water. And if it’s up in the hill and the water is coming out, we call them artesian wells. But on the flatland here near the shoreline, you just get a regular, drilled well.
“The artesian water differs only because they’re up in the hills in pockets. When it rains it replenishes that supply. Artesian water is more potable water, that you can drink. The wells in the lower area are shallow, and are inundated with salt water, so you have a mix of salt water and fresh water. Normally you get the fresher water at the top part of the water lens. If you go down deeper, you’re going to be getting salt water."
Approximate locations of streams and springs in Tanapag.
“So on occasion, particularly during the year of dry weather, a lot of the water we get is salty. So it’s not potable. Even showering, sometimes it bothers you because you can still feel the salt in the water. We have a very poor water quality throughout the islands."
“I remember in the village, almost everybody dug wells. Then when you hit the salt water, you stop. But they would line rocks down there so that we can get to the water. That well water is primarily for washing clothes or washing pots and pans. We hardly drink it because it’s saline, though it's less salty than the ocean water. So we normally don’t drink it."
“The drinking water actually comes from the rain. Most of our water supply that drains out into the lagoon actually comes during the rainy season. We collect a lot of rainwater through rain catchments, and we use barrels. I have three rain catchments in this house. A lot of people have catchments."
The rainwater catchment system on Ben's house.
“We’ve used a lot of containers that were dumped by the military, not knowing what they contained earlier. I remember, one time, we had this container, it was lined with lead, and we would collect water and drink out of that. Little did I know that lead is a very toxic element.
"The military would have all this lead-covered metal equipment, I guess for radioactive material like for x-ray, and some people found that to be very useful for drinking containers for their cattle, and later on down the years, the cattle were dying. Maybe because of lead poisoning, we’ll never know."
Cool waters of the upland stream.
Macrobrachium shrimp in an upstream pool. The white specks in the water are pieces of coconut that Ben chewed and spat to lure the shrimp out of their hiding places.
“These streams actually had water in them when I was growing up. And they have what they call macrobrachium shrimp. We have shrimp and we have freshwater eel. People like to go catch freshwater eel and large-claw shrimp. The shrimp are natives. We call them uhan. It doesn’t matter how big or how small, it’s still uhan. You see one uhan, you see all uhan."
"These are fresh-water shrimp only. We use scoop net or lasso to catch them. We lasso them at night. We use that coconut frond, and we tie a lasso, and we go in there and lasso them and bring them into our nets. It's hard work, but you know you will get to enjoy eating them during the daytime. Nighttime, we also use scoop nets. We weave nets out of the hibiscus plant and go up there and spend all night catching them."
“We have shrimp and eel in most streams up there," Estella agrees. "We catch the shrimp with a net; and the eels, sometimes they use the coconut leaf. They try to lasso them. You put it down and when you see the shrimp come, you pull it."
Noose made from a coconut midrib, used for catching shrimp or eels.
“You can see eels in the day time because sometimes they come out. They live under the rocks but sometimes they crawl up on the land. You can see them come down the bank. People go to the river and try to catch the eel. Some people that are not scared of eel, they just put down their hand and let the eel bite. And that’s how they catch them.
“The eels are freshwater eels," Ben says, "People here enjoyed eating freshwater eels, and so they would go up there and catch the big ones, and we were told when we were young not to kill the eels, because they’re the guys who open up the artesian wells. So we stopped killing them. We believed in those days that the river was running because the freshwater eel opens up the underground well, the artesian well."
“When they started harvesting eels for food and sending them to Guam," Estella confirms, "that’s the time that the river from up there stopped coming down anymore to where our house now is at the bottom.
"You can still find eels where there’s water. You can still. But the place where they used to get the eels, there’s no more water. Only when it’s raining. But a long time ago, the stream didn't stop. It continued. The stream was running all the time."
"We’d catch shrimp in the river, in the stream," Rosa Castro says. "During the Japanese times, this creek never ran dry."
The lower portion of the stream turns into a dry bed.
"We used to go swim up there," Estella recalls, "because it’s very cold. While we were walking up to the stream we felt so hot already because it’s very steep, but going down to the river was not a problem. But when you reach the stream you feel like you’re going to jump inside because you’re so hot already from sweating."
The close relationship of water to food leads us to look at planting in Tanapag.
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As far as food goes, you’re simply going to eat a lot of fresh, good-quality eats and ditch the processed stuff. Beyond that, you’re removing all grains, dairy, soy, legumes, sugar, artificial sweeteners, and alcohol from your diet. All of these foods (especially in excess), according to the authors, have been linked to systemic inflammation, hormonal imbalance, gut issues, and more. The idea is to remove the stressors from your body and give it the nourishment and time to heal itself it needs. This means less inflammation, a healthy metabolism, hormonal harmony, a happy gut, clearer skin, and improved energy! Sounds good to me. (Although if we’re honest, I panicked a bit when I realized no cheese would hit my lips for a full month.)
CrossFit programming is decentralized, but its general methodology is used by thousands of private affiliated gyms, fire departments, law-enforcement agencies, and military organizations, including the Royal Danish Life Guards,[27][28][29][30] as well as by some U.S. and Canadian high-school physical-education teachers, high-school and college sports teams, and the Miami Marlins.[14][31][32]
Plus, I feel like the way I eat directly affects my mood. If I eat sugar, I almost always feel like garbage. If I eat protein and veggies and tons of avocado, I feel stable and much less like I am going to have a stage-four meltdown. Blood sugar swings are also real — no one wants to deal with me when I am hangry. It’s a nightmare. This program is supposed to help with all these things. I desperately wanted to feel better, so I dove in.
I’m so excited to have stumbled across your blog and your meal plans. I’ve been wanting to do the whole 30 for a while, but as a busy Mom and dayhome provider I didn’t want to put even more time and effort into increasing recipe sizes and altering grocery lists to accommodate more than one person. Since you’ve done the work for me for a family of 5 I can’t make any more excuses!
The diet ranked last among 38 popular diets evaluated by U.S. News & World Report in its 2016 Best Diets Rankings; one of the raters, dietitian Meridan Zerner said: "We want behavioral changes and dietary changes that are slow and progressive and meaningful."[3] David L. Katz said of the diet: "The grouping [of banned foods] is both random, and rather bizarre from a nutrition perspective. If the idea is good nutrition, cutting out whole grains and legumes is at odds with a boatload of evidence."[1] It was selected as one of the worst health trends for 2013 by Health Magazine.[12]
Since there will be so many individuals (almost 400) at The Games, expect the first handful of events to be a “culling of the herd”. From what I’m gathering, we can expect to see about 75 - 90% of the field eliminated in the first half of The Games events. The remaining Games events would be more of what we’re used to: 40 men & 40 women competing for a chance at the title.
Hello there! I am loving the meal plan. Our whole family, 5 of us, started today. I do have a question regarding the shopping list and the recipe portions. Does the shopping list account for doubling recipes? I’m looking at the Chicken Bacin salad which says it’s for 2. I assume I double it for 5 of us, but did I buy enough to do that? I shopped already and followed the shopping list. Thanks!! And sorry if you’ve answered this already!
Legumes are members of a large family of plants that have a seed or pod. This category includes all beans, peas, lentils, tofu and other soyfoods, and peanuts. Legumes are not allowed on paleo because of their high content of lectins and phytic acid. Similar to grains, this is a point of controversy in the scientific community. In fact, lots of research supports eating legumes as part of a healthy diet because they are low in fat and high in fiber, protein and iron.
One of the most interesting experiments comes after you finish Whole30 and slowly start adding foods back into your diet. You get to test how foods you stopped eating during the month affected you after you added them back in. The most shocking for me? Legumes make me feel bloated (they just do!). When I added gluten back, the next day I broke out in a rash. And now that I've curbed my "sugar dragon" (that's what they call sugar cravings on Whole30), I try to avoid sugar as much as humanly possible. In fact, December came after my Whole30 experience, so of course I indulged in a few glasses of wine at a holiday party, and BOOM — my skin broke out. Now I have a better idea of what to avoid altogether, and what to watch if I do decide to indulge.
With tender spaghetti squash, crisp bacon, fresh broccoli, and a creamy sauce this Whole30 recipe is a one-dish masterpiece. When you need a rich and simple dish, cook up the spiced coconut milk sauce and bake it with your meat and veggies for an ultra-compliant (and tasty) casserole. Stay more Bulletproof with pastured bacon, plus avoid eating garlic too often.
Adoption of the Paleolithic diet assumes that modern humans can reproduce the hunter-gatherer diet. Molecular biologist Marion Nestle argues that "knowledge of the relative proportions of animal and plant foods in the diets of early humans is circumstantial, incomplete, and debatable and that there are insufficient data to identify the composition of a genetically determined optimal diet. The evidence related to Paleolithic diets is best interpreted as supporting the idea that diets based largely on plant foods promote health and longevity, at least under conditions of food abundance and physical activity."[34] Ideas about Paleolithic diet and nutrition are at best hypothetical.[35]
All this said, I still think it's worth buying if you are looking for more variety in your Whole 30 meals. I think the least complicated section is breakfast and lots of them look delicious. However, anticipate that this cookbook may surprise some people who were used to the recipes and format from the 30 Day Guide. This one is definitely more work. I would love to see one like the 30 Day Guide, with more one pot meals, "make it a meal" options, etc...
And again, there’s no concrete scientific proof that the paleo diet wards off disease, Sandon says. Any evidence of its benefits is anecdotal. Although some studies seem to support the benefits of the paleo diet, many scientists still believe we don’t yet have enough evidence to know whether the eating approach is totally healthy and without risk. “Nobody knows the long-term effects of this diet because no one has researched it to any degree,” Sandon says. It’s not really a new concept; instead it’s one that’s been recycled through the years, she adds.
I cannot possibly put enough emphasis on this simple fact—the next 30 days will change your life. It will change the way you think about food. It will change your tastes. It will change your habits and your cravings. It will restore a healthy emotional relationship with food, and with your body. It has the potential to change the way you eat for the rest of your life. I know this because I did it, and millions of people have done it since, and it changed my life (and their lives) in a dramatic and permanent fashion.
Grass-fed meat is recommended on the paleo diet because it is leaner than meat from grain-fed animals and has more omega-3 fatty acids, the healthy fats that reduce inflammation in the body and protect your heart. A typical American diet is high in saturated and trans fats and lower in healthy poly- and monounsaturated fats, hence the paleo diet's emphasis on grass-fed meats.
The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick reveals that high cholesterol levels do not cause heart disease; that high-fat diets–saturated or otherwise–do not affect blood cholesterol levels; and that for most men and all women the benefits offered by statins are negligible at best. Other data is also provided that shows that statins have many more side affects than is often acknowledged.
A strict paleo diet does not allow dairy products because hunter-gatherers did not milk cows. Some paleo dieters say dairy is OK, especially if it is grass-fed because grass-fed butter, for example, has more omega-3s. Fermented dairy products are also OK for some paleo eaters because they have a lower content of lactose and casein, the two concerns paleo dieters have with dairy.
Melissa makes liberal use of spices, and as a spice blender myself Gneiss Spice Everything Spice Kit: 24 Magnetic Jars Filled with Standard Organic Spices / Hanging Magnetic Spice Rack (Large Jars, Silver Lids), nothing could make me happier. And when I say liberal…I mean, this book uses 50 different spices, herbs and seasonings. Some other reviewers stated the recipes call for hard to find ingredients. I disagree; besides the occasional call for capers or fennel bulb, most everything can be found at your local store. Spices on the other hand, there are a few that you might need to source online if you don’t have a gourmet foods market near you. If you were to make all the recipes in the Whole30 Cookbook, you’d need:
Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You by Uffe Ravnskov is a new book which includes updated and simplified sections from his previous one (The Cholesterol Myths). Ravnskov also presents his own idea about the cause of heart disease, an idea that explains all the findings that do not fit with the present view. It is a powerful book. Also see his web site. The Amazon.com reviews average to 5 stars. Published January 26, 2009.
But the truth is--and this is apparent to anyone watching Glassman wile away an afternoon at El Borracho--that CrossFit's success doesn't derive from any conventional business strategy. Glassman doesn't behave the way he's supposed to. Sometimes he rebels out of cunning, other times for the sheer petulant fun of it. Often, it's hard to tell which. As a result, CrossFit is a workout and a company no conventional trainer or M.B.A. would ever have built. Glassman is sitting atop a firecracker of a company. And the relevant question is, as always, What's he going to do now?
Fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, fresh meat—the paleo diet is all about eating foods straight from the Earth just as our ancestors did. Those ancestors didn't have livestock or crops to call their own, so Cordain advises to go with grass-fed and organic varieties whenever possible to limit exposure to pesticides, antibiotics, and other chemicals that didn't exist back then. Research from Emory University suggests that Paleolithic people obtained about 35% of their calories from fats, 35% from carbohydrates, and 30% from protein.
It seems unlikely, from today's perspective, that a rudimentary site featuring a daily workout, a daily link to other fitness sites, and occasionally a photo of an athlete could generate a passionate viral following.But then you probably haven't tried a WOD. To a skeptical initiate, the commitment to the WOD seems odd: It might be just 10 minutes of alternating five reps of deadlifts with 100-yard sprints. Simple enough, you think, as you picture yourself running around like a beheaded, powerlifting chicken. (In conventional gyms, CrossFit workouts draw stares.) But when you actually do that workout, halfway through you hit the baptismal version of what early CrossFitters fondly called the mess-you-up moment--the recognition that there's devilish magic in this offbeat combination. In a few minutes, you're the sorest you've been in years. You're not sure you will survive. It's an adrenaline rush. For anyone bored with standard weights routines or the elliptical, it's addictive.
"We settled, because I don't want to spent 50 to 75 grand getting sued," says Jason Janke. "I covered up the sign." Saran, CrossFit's general counsel, says it's all part of the fight against "the road to genericization." If people can sell "CrossFit equipment" the way they sell "baseball equipment," says Saran, then it becomes crossfit. Soon anyone will be able to coach crossfit or promote a crossfit tournament--effectively killing the value of being an official affiliate, or being CrossFit, for that matter.
People who never had good social group experiences like it because, even if they are crazy, CF communities are always positive, supportive, and good-natured. CF brings people together and makes them compete every day in a society that shies away from competition. The challenge creates a heightened sense of self worth that develops into being an elitist..
Of course Wikipedia has a page on the Paleolithic Diet. It is quite thorough. It also isn't clear about the lean/fatty meat debate between the followers of Loren Cordain and a slew of others, and pushes lean meat. It is weak on the variations of the diet. Then it restricts fermented beverages. Even butterflies eat fermented fruit. Why wouldn't our paleo ancestors also?
“Overall competitor seeding at the Games will be determined by athletes' scores in the 2019 worldwide CrossFit Open. Athletes who do not participate in the Open (and thus do not receive an Open score) will receive the lowest seeding and will compete in the first qualifying heats at the 2019 Games. Higher seeded athletes will compete in later heats. Any athlete who qualifies for the Games as a national champion or with a top-twenty placement in the 2019 Open can improve their seeding and possibly qualify for a bye out of the first qualifying elimination round by winning a sanctioned event, regardless of whether that sanctioned event occurs before or after the Open in the 2019 competitive season.”
Cordain admits that meat leads to plaque and increases cholesterol where plants wouldn’t. And science establishes that plaque and cholesterol lead to heart attacks and strokes. But Cordain argues that plaque alone is insufficient to cause harm. Rather, it is plaque combined with inflammation that causes heart attacks and strokes. So avoid acid, salt, legumes, wheat, starchy vegetables, dairy, oil, fatty meats, and grains because they cause inflammation. But if both science and Cordain agree that plaque is a necessary part of the heart-disease equation—and that meat causes plaque—why should we follow Paleo rather than just forgo meat?
Ever start a diet and get immediately discouraged when the number on your scale hasn't budged after a week or two? Whole30 forbids weighing yourself — a practice which can help shift your mindset to how you're feeling as your success metric. "The scale shouldn’t drive your mood, food choices or overall mindset," says Amy Shapiro, RD. "Continue to live a healthy life and measure how you feel energy and clarity wise." Which means being honest with yourself about how your body feels after going to town on that cheese plate. One of the biggest realizations for me was how much clearer and more energetic I feel when my weekend diet doesn't consist of vodka-sodas and takeout food.
We don’t follow fads, trends or other “fitness and health” gimmicks. What we do is not easy, it’s hard, but it produces results! We build strength as the primary outcome of our training. Using the squat, press, deadlift, bench press and other lifts, we build functional strength. Once clients have a strength foundation, they can expand their fitness into other areas for life, recreation of sport using conditioning and skill work.
CrossFit headquarters' aggression can be enough to stunt interest in the WOD--almost. In April 2012, two avid CrossFitters, Jason and Shannon Janke, opened up the PR Cave, a sporting goods store in Yorba Linda, California, designed to cater to boxgoers all around Orange County. In November, they added a sign, "Where CrossFitters Shop," and had the slogan printed on mixer bottles for protein shakes. On January 16, they received a cease-and-desist from CrossFit, objecting to the use of CrossFitter. A month later, CrossFit filed suit.
This 2003 CrossFit Journal article captures an early conception of a universal, multi-event test of fitness that laid the foundation for CrossFit competition, including what would become the CrossFit Open and the CrossFit Games. The design requirements for such a test "included but were not limited to the following: quantifiable results; consistency with the CrossFit fitness concept; raising our commitment to improving absolute strength, relative strength, and gymnastic foundations; balancing intrinsic abilities of smaller and larger athletes; emphasizing exercises critical to and foundational to advanced training; mixing training demands within each test and, of course, over the total competition; a design that would identify an athlete’s weaknesses and possibly stand as a workout plan for improving overall fitness; and, finally, we wanted to design a competition that would be 'hard as hell.'"
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1 How to use weapons
1.1 Finding and taking weapons
1.1.1 Weapon equipment slots
1.2 Weapon actions
1.2.1 Melee weapons
1.2.2 Full-auto fire
1.2.3 One-handed use and dual wielding
1.3 Weapon stocks
1.4 Damage
1.5 Reloading weapons
1.5.1 Special reloading rules
1.5.1.1 By weapon type
1.5.1.2 For specific weapons
1.6 Swapping and disposing of weapons
1.7 Firearm maintenance
1.8 Weapon rarity
1.9 Special rules
1.9.1 Bows
1.9.2 Combination guns
1.9.3 Crossbows
1.9.4 Disposable rocket launchers
1.9.5 Flamethrowers
1.9.6 Machine guns
1.9.7 Specific weapons
2 Lists of weapons
2.1 Class 1 weapons
2.6 Handgear
Weapon (no ontology)
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Weapons are an essential aspect of the game, and a necessary type of item to have better chances to survive in Mazeworld. Weapons come into various shapes and sizes. They are classed in several categories, called Classes. It must be noted that if the majority of weapons in Mazeworld are firearms, there is also a variety of non-firearm weapons, as well as the possibility for a contestant to fight bare-handed should he/she wishes to, or the situation become dire or the ammunition scarce.
How to use weapons
Finding and taking weapons
In most cases, the contestant is able to obtain weapons by finding them on the ground, but they may also salvage them from dead enemies, or buy them at a gun shop, weapon shop, or forge, depending on its type. Encounters with randomly generated weapons may also have random weapon accessories, ammunition types, ammunition quantity, and maintenance statistics.
A weapon that is worn on the Contestant's body (in an equipment slot, or in a tactical vest, utility belt, or leg rig) is called an equipped weapon and is readily available at any moment for fights or whatever purpose needed.
A weapon that is carried in the backpack is called a spare weapon. It is generally NOT immediately usable by the Contestant until the backpack is made accessible (by spending a turn to set it down and open it), or until the Contestant moves the weapon into "equipped" status.
Weapon equipment slots
As is described on the inventory sheet, and much like clothing and armor, a Contestant can equip weapons so that they are essentially worn on his/her body. Equipped weapons are always immediately accessible, but there are limits on how many weapons can be equipped at any one time, and of which weapon classes. Weapons meant to be equipped are placed in equipment slots, which are as follow:
First primary weapon: Can be filled with 1 weapon of either Class 1, Class 2 or Class 5 Long.
Second primary weapon: Can be filled with 1 weapon of either Class 1, Class 2 or Class 5 Long.
Auxiliary weapon: Can be filled with 1 Class 2 weapon only.
First sidearm holster: Can be filled with 1 weapon of either Class 3 or Class 5 Short.
Second sidearm holster: Can be filled with 1 weapon of either Class 3 or Class 5 Short.
Handgear: Can be filled with 1 Handgear weapon only. If none is equipped, the default Handgear weapon are bare fists.
Other weapons can also be immediately accessible to the Contestant in certain situations, such as carrying them in load-bearing equipment. See below for more details. Certain types of weapons (i.e. Class 4 weapons) cannot fit in equipment slots and thus must be carried this way.
Weapon actions
Firearms may have different actions and fire modes. Weapon descriptions list what kind of action they are; depending on the type, its user can fire a certain amount of shots per turn. The different fire modes are resumed below:
Full-auto mode is regulated by the full-auto fire rules. See below for details.
Semi-auto mode and Double-action weapons allow up to 10 shots per turn.
Burst-fire mode is a compromise between full-auto and semi-auto, as it allows firing a set amount of shots per burst, usually 2 or 3 depending on the weapon. Burst mode allows up to 5 bursts per turn.
When shooting in burst-fire mode, you must still roll once per bullet fired. Two 3-round bursts correspond to 6 shots, therefore combat dice must be thrown for 6 shots.
Lever-action and Pump-action weapons allow up to 5 shots per turn.
Bolt-action and Single-action weapons allow up to 3 shots per turn.
Single shot weapons may be fired only once per turn.
When your Contestant is using a firearm with more than one fire mode, it is possible to select which fire mode to use for a given turn of combat. Please note that it is not possible to use different fire modes in the same turn.
Certain firearms may have a multiplier tag next to their action, such as (x2) or (x3) or even (x4), generally denoting a multiple-barrel firearm. Such weapons can be fired as many times as the multiplier says; the tag effectively multiplies the amount of shots allowed for the listed action type.
EXAMPLE: A weapon's action listed as Single shot (x2) (e.g. double-barreled shotgun) means that the weapon can be effectively fired twice per turn.
Melee weapons may also have modes, which describe what sort of action is employed, and its associated damage type, such as Slash for Sharp-type damage, or Stab for Piercing-type damage. Certain modes even allow some melee weapons to be used in different manners, e.g. a Ranged attack.
All Class 5 Long weapons can be used to attempt up to 2 attacks per turn.
All Class 5 Short weapons can be used to attempt up to 3 attacks per turn. This also applies to knife-bayonets used as C5S weapons.
The use of handgear is governed by Unarmed combat, as they improve punching power as well as offer protection to the hands.
All possible modes a weapon is capable of are always listed on the weapon's event line.
Full-auto fire
Weapons capable of firing in full-auto mode possess a statistic called AutoROF, which stands for "automatic rate of fire".
Instead of choosing a specific amount of shots or trigger pulls, a player wishing to have their Contestant fire in full-auto must instead pick a trigger pull length. The actual amount of shots fired from an automatic weapon will vary, depending on the combination of both trigger pull length and AutoROF stat.
AutoROF is a numerical value which corresponds roughly to half the firearm's real-life rate of fire in rounds per second (RPS), rounded up.
The Kalashnikov AKM has a rate of fire of 600 RPM, or 10 RPS, which translates into an AutoROF stat of 5.
Conversely, the Colt M4A1's rate of fire is 900 RPM, or 15 RPS, which translates into an AutoROF stat of 8 (7.5 rounded up).
The trigger pull length system offers players the ability to fire bursts of variable lengths, informally called "pull speeds". There are four different speeds:
I - Short: Amount of shots fired is equal to 1dAutoROF. (Examples; AKM: 1d5 shots, M4A1: 1d8 shots)
II - Medium: Amount of shots fired: 2dAutoROF. (Examples; AKM: 2d5 shots, M4A1: 2d8 shots)
III - Long: Amount of shots fired: 5dAutoROF. (Examples; AKM: 5d5 shots, M4A1: 5d8 shots)
IV - Magdump: Amount of shots fired is always equal to AutoROF value * 10 (AKM: 50 shots ; M4A1: 80 shots)
One-handed use and dual wielding
By default, all weapons are considered to require the use of both hands.
It is possible to use a weapon one-handed, as well as dual wield weapons (also known as two-weaponing), though there are certain restrictions.
One-handed:
One-handed usage of any weapon causes a FT+2 malus. There are no benefits to one-handed shooting, other than to make it possible in case the user loses a limb.
Additionally, certain weapon accessories cannot be used while dual-wielding; all Underbarrel accessories (Foregrip, bipod, underbarrel weapons).
Dual-wielding:
Each weapon can be individually aimed at different given targets if desired, at the shooter's choice.
The dual-wielding malus is the one-handed malus, applied to both weapons.
The initiative score of a dual-wielding character is equal to the sum of both weapons, after all IS modifiers, if any, have been applied to each.
Attack dice (2d6 per shot/attack attempted) must be rolled for each weapon when used depending on how many rounds fired/attacks attempted with each, as though they were used individually.
The types of weapons that can be dual-wielded largely depend on their weapon category (for firearms and heavy weapons) or the weapon skill (for melee weapons). A group may belong to either an Unrestricted category (can dual-wield with it) or a Restricted category (cannot dual-wield with it, no matter what):
Unrestricted weapon types: Auto pistol, Crude weapon, Hand grenade, Knife, One-handed club, One-handed sword, Pistol, Revolver, Thrown weapons
Restricted weapon types: Archery, Axe, Combat rifle, Conventional rifle, Exotic weapons (both kinds), Flamethrower, Grenade launcher, Machine gun, Planted explosive, Precision rifle, Rocket launcher, Shotgun, Submachine gun, Two-handed club, Two-handed sword, Staff/Pole weapons, Whip/Lash weapons
Specific weapon exemptions - These individual weapons may be dual-wielded despite the fact they belong to a restricted weapon type:
B+T MP9-N (Submachine gun)
CZ Skorpion vz. 61 (Submachine gun)
Flammenwerfer (Flamethrower)
H&K MP5K (Submachine gun)
H&K MP7A1 (Submachine gun)
IMI UZI (Submachine gun)
IMI Micro-UZI (Submachine gun)
KBP OTs-62 (Shotgun)
MAC-10 (with stock extended) (Submachine gun)
Remington Spartan 220 sawed-off (Shotgun)
Weapon stocks
Firearms may be equipped with various kinds of stocks - or not! A firearm's stock type falls under one of five categories:
S - Fixed stock
A firearm equipped with a stock allows the user to shoulder the weapon and aim accurately.
Fixed stocks are considered to be the "default"; they offer no advantages or disadvantages and have no influence on accuracy. Weapons with fixed stocks generally have higher Weight.
RS - Retracting stock
A firearm equipped with a retracting stock allows the user to choose between two stock modes: Open and Retracted.
Open stocks act like fixed stocks and offer default accuracy.
Retracted stocks shorten the length of the weapon but still allow the user to shoulder, allowing the weapon to be drawn more quickly, but at the expense of some accuracy.
Effects: IS tier -1 but Inaccuracy Range +1.
FS - Folding stock
A firearm equipped with a folding stock allows the user to choose between two stock modes: Open and Folded.
Folded stocks shorten the length of the weapon even more, by folding the stock to one side of (or even above or under) the receiver. Although this makes the weapon far more compact, the weapon cannot be shouldered anymore, making it far less accurate.
Effects: Weight tier -1 but Failure Threshold +1.
FRS - Folding/Retracting stock
A firearm equipped with a folding/retracting stock allows the user to choose between all three stock modes: Open, Retracted and Folded.
The effects of open, retracted, and folded stocks apply depending on the selected mode.
N - No stock
A firearm equipped with no stock cannot be shouldered.
Stockless firearms are generally the lightest and most compact firearms (compared to weapons with stocks), but they cannot be aimed as accurately; the trade-off for lower weight is lower accuracy. The negative effects are similar to that of a folded stock, but in a more permanent fashion.
Effect: Failure Threshold +1.
Stock modes do not apply to Class 4, Class 5, or Handgear weapons, and thus are not affected by these rules.
If the Contestant is equipped with firearms with multiple stock modes, switching to another stock mode is a free action that can be done only once per turn, similarly to choosing a fire mode.
The damage chart of a weapon, if not a melee weapon, is determined by the ammunition it uses; as such, for more information about how much it will hurt a target depending on its armor class, check the corresponding article of its ammunition used.
Reloading weapons
When outside combat, any weapon reloading or magazine (or eqv.) refilling is considered to not take any turns. It becomes a free action, of sorts.
When in combat:
The standard reloading action always takes 1 turn to perform. This includes chambering a round from a magazine.
If the weapon uses magazines, moon clips, en-bloc clips, or ammunition belts, the old one will be dropped on the floor, the new one being used to feed the weapon.
If the weapon uses speedloaders, stripper clips, or speed strips, ammunition is removed from them in order to feed the weapon, then they are dropped on the floor during the reloading process.
Take good note of dropped items if your Contestant had to reload during combat, so as to not forget magazines (or eqv.) behind!
It is possible to verbally announce the magazines/etc. are swapped instead, so that the old mag (or eqv.) goes in the inventory (if accessible, see LBE#Capacity). Doing so is optional and does not take additional time.
If the weapon has to be reloaded manually (from loose rounds), the contestant may reload up to 3 rounds in 1 turn.
Likewise for magazines/other feeding systems, if the user chooses to refill them in the middle of combat, up to 3 rounds per turn only.
Chamber-loading a firearm, either to refill it to maximum capacity (see below for more info), or because the magazine is missing, is an action which takes 1 turn on its own.
Example: When reloading a Tokarev TT-33, which has an 8-round magazine, refilling the magazine (8 rounds) plus the weapon (chamber-loading) would take 4 turns. While the total amount of rounds is indeed 9 (8+1), the magazine and the chamber-loading are treated as being separate reloading instances; thus explaining why it doesn't take 3 turns.
Regardless of the weapon type, emptying (unloading) 1 weapon or 1 magazine takes 1 turn.
NOTE: Many firearms have a capacity written as "xx+1". This denotes "xx rounds of ammunition in the (magazine, etc.) plus 1 in the chamber". Removing the magazine of a weapon does not remove the round in the chamber. Keep it in mind. It is possible to fire a weapon without a magazine but with a round in said chamber. Removing this round from the chamber is possible, if verbally announced during a reload (in which case, it will be part of the reloading and will take one turn only).
Not all firearms are subject to the +1 rule; those that don't typically are: Belt-fed light machine guns, bolt-action weapons not using detachable box magazines, revolvers, multiple-barreled firearms, open-bolt firearms (they do not chamber a round when cocked), single-shot weapons. Such weapons are marked with a No +1 tag on the lists of weapons, and will be further described as such on their description pages.
Special reloading rules
By weapon type
Bows, crossbows, Fukiya, and Taser X26c: Can be reloaded the same turn they've been fired.
Single-shot firearms (including multiple barreled firearms): These weapons can be reloaded in the same turn they've been fired, within the limit of max 3 loose rounds per turn (quadruple-barreled firearms cannot be fully reloaded in the same turn they were emptied, for example).
Bolt-actions with internal magazines: If reloading with loose rounds, can fire ONE round and be reloaded with ONE round, in the same turn.
Pump-actions, lever-actions and semi-automatics with internal magazines/tubes: If reloading with loose rounds, can be reloaded and fire in the same turn, but if done, consider that reloading one round takes away TWO max shots per turn. As a remainder, these action types have a maximum of 5 shots per turn (10 for semi-automatics).
Example 1: Reloading 1 round = Can shoot up to 3 times in the same turn (Semi-automatics allow up to 8 shots).
Example 2: Reloading 2 rounds = Can shoot once in the same turn (Semi-automatics allow up to 6 shots).
Example 3: Reloading the maximum of 3 rounds = Can't shoot in the same turn.
Single-action revolvers + Nagant M1895 revolver: These weapons first require 1 turn to eject all the spent casings before being able to load new rounds, with one exception (see below). Using a speed strip may help reducing the time to reload; they allow the Contestant to fully reload a single-action revolver in one turn, rather than being subject to the "loose rounds" rule.
Example: A Colt Single Action Army has a capacity of 6 rounds. Once all rounds are fired, one turn must be spent to remove the spent casings. If the shooter has a speed strip, then only one turn is required to reload it fully; if not, then as per the loose rounds rule, it would take 2 turns to load all 6 rounds - for a total of 3 turns.
Exception: SA revolvers can fire ONE round and be reloaded with ONE loose round in the same turn, similarly to bolt-action firearms with internal magazines.
Combination guns can be reloaded as normally; up to 3 rounds per turn, with the added bonus that caliber doesn't matter; multiple rounds of multiple calibers can be reloaded in a single turn, so long as they are within the limit of up to 3 per turn.
For specific weapons
CZ 75 AUTOMATIC: This weapon is designed to accept a second magazine in storage (meaning that the weapon merely holds the magazine, and is not used to chamber ammunition). The second magazine is attached in front of the trigger guard. Attaching a storage magazine takes one turn. Once attached, it counts as immediately available, and can be used and swapped with another magazine to perform a reload, as though it was in the inventory.
In addition, if a CZ 75 AUTOMATIC has a storage magazine attached, that magazine is considered to be a foregrip, with all of the appropriate effects.
CZ Sa vz. 58P and Sa vz. 58V: These weapons can also be reloaded with SKS 10-round stripper clips. The shooter will pull the bolt back, replace the chambered round (if there was any) into the magazine, then use the stripper clip to load extra ammunition. This is treated as a reload action (as such, doing so takes 1 turn), and transfers the ammunition loaded in the clip into the magazine (until the magazine is full).
DSR Precision DSR-1: This weapon is designed to accept a second magazine in storage (meaning that the weapon merely holds the magazine, and is not used to chamber ammunition). The second magazine is attached in front of the trigger guard. Attaching a storage magazine takes one turn. Once attached, it counts as immediately available, and can be used and swapped with another magazine to perform a reload, as though it was in the inventory.
FN Herstal M249 Minimi, IMI Negev: These weapons can be fed using either ammunition belts or box magazines. When fed with box magazines, the amount of Condition lost on a critical failure is doubled for these weapons.
H&K G11K2 (+ modified variants): This weapon is designed to accept two extra magazines in storage (meaning that the weapon merely holds the magazines, and are not used to chamber ammunition). The second and third magazine are attached to the sides of the rifle. Attaching a storage magazine takes one turn. Once attached, it counts as immediately available, and can be used and swapped with another magazine to perform a reload, as though it was in the inventory.
Kel-Tec KSG-12 and KSG-25: These weapons are unique in that they possess two tube magazines, and a switch allowing the shooter to toggle which magazine is active. Selecting a magazine is treated the same as selecting a fire mode; it is a free action, but it must be declared during a turn and can only be done once per turn. Magazines are referred to as Left (L) and Right (R).
When switching from one tube to another, if the chamber is empty, chambering a fresh round after switching tubes is considered part of the free action.
Springfield M1 Garand (+ modified variants): Contrary to popular knowledge, if the rifle still has ammunition loaded, it is possible to reload it; there are two ways to do so, both of which can be performed in the game:
Manual reload: A shooter may cause the rifle to extract the clip with any unfired ammunition that it still carries; the shooter simply needs to press a button on the left side of the rifle, then pull the charging handle, ejecting the chambered round and the clip plus remaining ammo immediately, allowing it to be replaced with a fresh one. When manually reloading the M1 garand, the chambered round, and the clip (plus remaining ammunition), will be dropped separately, allowing the shooter to spend the turn to reload the rifle as one would normally.
Top off: A shooter may "top off" an M1 Garand as a reload action; the shooter will pull the bolt back and keep the clip and previously chambered cartridge into the magazine; it is then possible to load the weapon with loose rounds. As such, when "topping off" the M1 Garand, up to 3 rounds per turn can be loaded, just like a with a bolt-action rifle, for example.
Swapping and disposing of weapons
When outside combat, the general rule to remember is that there must be space for the desired weapons, either in the equipment or in the backpack, if the contestant wants to carry new ones. It is tolerated to pick up and temporarily use weapons of a given Class even if the contestant already carries a weapon of the same Class (without having it in hands). See below for in combat rules.
Swapping two equipped or immediately accessible weapons takes no turns and is a free action.
Spare weapons (weapons stored in a backpack) cannot be accessed in any way, unless the backpack has been set down and opened; this requires 1 turn
Picking up a weapon that is not equipped takes no turns and is a free action, under certain conditions:
The weapon has to be immediately accessible: Located in a piece of load-bearing equipment other than a backpack (if in a backpack, it must be set down first, which requires 1 turn), or on the floor (only if the Contestant is on the same side as the desired item ; see NOTE2 below)
This rule is valid for non-weapons as well - other items can be immediately used if they are immediately accessible as well.
Dropping a weapon takes no turns and is a free action, as long as the weapon is immediately accessible.
In addition to the equipment slots and load-bearing equipment, it is tolerated (but not encouraged) to temporarily pick up weapons in hands. Temporary in-hands weapons can be used normally, but must be equipped, spared (if possible), or dropped (if nothing else), if the Contestant wishes to use any other item.
Passing a weapon (or any other item) to an ally, teammate or similar, takes one turn for each. Receiving a weapon (or any other item) from someone else is a free action as long as the receiving hands are free. (Hands are considered "not free" if the hands are currently occupied by a temporary in-hands weapons; in other words - drop the temporary in-hands weapon if you want to receive items from someone else!)
NOTE: Certain weapons have a Weight rating set to "Unsparable", which is one tier above 30 units. "Unsparable" weapons cannot be stored in a backpack.
NOTE2: If the contestant intends to grab an item on the floor while in combat, he or she must be sure it can be reached. See this page for more details.
More information on this article: Firearm maintenance
Weapon rarity
Weapons are generated using a rarity system, which regulates rarity according to shop value. The higher the rarity level, the less chances such a weapon may be generated.
Firearms and melee weapons are graded on two separate rarity scales:
Firearms (Class 1-4):
Rarity 1: Common - Chance to generate: 39%
Rarity 2: Regular - Chance to generate: 25%
Rarity 3: Premium - Chance to generate: 16%
Rarity 4: Superior - Chance to generate: 10%
Rarity 5: Rare - Chance to generate: 7.5%
Rarity 6: Extraordinary - Chance to generate: 2.5%
Rarity 7: Unique - Never generated randomly, is applied to custom weapons, crafting-only weapons, specs docs weapons, and other unique weapons.
Melee weapons (Class 5L, 5S and Handgear):
Rarity 2: Regular - Chance to generate: 35.5%
Rarity 3: Premium - Chance to generate: 17.5%
Rarity 4: Superior - Chance to generate: 5%
Strength affects weapon damage, similarly to a regular melee weapon. (e.g. Strength 135% = 1.35x damage)
Every arrow fired breaks when hitting a target, and doesn't break when missing.
Arrows that don't break can be retrieved (they will land on the Battlespace Side that was being aimed at).
Exception: Explosive arrows always break after being fired, as they're explosive.
FT+1 malus with all bows, same as stockless firearms.
Bows are faster: The amount of maximum shots and reloads that can be performed per turn depends on Archery skill level, with an IR+1 malus for any shot fired after the first one. (Shot 2: IR+1. Shot 3: IR +2, and so on...)
Combination guns are a type of firearm with multiple barrels, chambered in at least 2 different calibers. They exist in two subtypes: Combination long guns and Combination handguns.
Combination gun users must declare which Caliber Mode or CM (essentially which barrel/set of barrels of the same caliber) they intend to use.
Selecting a caliber mode is a free action, comparable to selecting a fire mode (can only be done once per turn).
Combat skills used depends on the caliber and combination gun subtype. See that page for more info.
Damage is not affected by Strength; crossbow type and ammunition type are the factors determining damage. (closer to a firearm in behavior)
Every bolt fired breaks when hitting a target, and doesn't break when missing.
Bolts that don't break can be retrieved (they will land on the Battlespace Side that was being aimed at).
Exception: Explosive bolts always break after being fired, as they're explosive.
Crossbows may have stock types, like firearms, with appropriate effects.
Crossbows are slower: They are restricted to no more than 1 shot + 1 reload per turn, regardless of the crossbow type.
Disposable rocket launchers
Multiple disposable rocket launchers can be carried in a single equipment slot, as long as they are all the same model. Light disposable launchers allow up to 4 launchers, Medium allow up to 3, and Heavy up to 2.
Flamethrowers
Flamethrower ammunition is counted in seconds. 1 "round" of ammunition corresponds to 1 second of fire. Up to 5 "rounds" per turn can be fired with a flamethrower.
Flamethrowers are not subjected to Weapon maintenance and therefore do not have maintenance stats, nor do they need to be repaired or cleaned.
Flamethrowers cannot be reloaded unless they are completely empty. Flamethrower reload packs therefore solely exist for the purpose of completely refilling them; and once used that way, they disappear (making them one-use items).
All flamethrowers call for Flamethrowers combat skill.
Critical failures with a flamethrower cause a unique, special type of failure: Failure to burn.
Flamethrowers are grouped in three categories: Disposable, Light and Heavy.
Disposable flamethrowers work on the same principle as disposable rocket launchers (see above); multiple of the same model of disposable flamethrower can be carried in the same equipment slot (if weapon Class permits): Up to 3 per equipment slot.
Light flamethrowers are the closest to regular firearms and have no special equipment rules.
Heavy flamethrowers allow users to equip their fuel tank in a Primary equipment slot instead of taking space in the inventory (the weapon itself must still be equipped in a Primary equipment slot, meaning that in order to save the most inventory space, a heavy flamethrower will occupy both Primary slots).
In addition, heavy flamethrowers generally have a weight value that is different from their IS; the weapon event line will show that difference and display the weapon's weight and IS values separately.
Certain machine guns use ammunition belts. There are two types of ammunition belts: Disintegrating, and non-disintegrating.
Non-disintegrating belts can be treated the same as giant magazines. This section only concerns disintegrating belts.
Firearms that can be fed with disintegrating link belts will eject belt links on the floor alongside casings. Unlike casings, there is no skill requirement to find links; firing 200 rounds will always result in 200 belt links on the floor.
When in possession of compatible belt links and ammunition, the Contestant can spend 1 turn to combine 3 links and 3 rounds together. This results in the creation of a loose ammo belt. This act can be scaled to however many rounds a Contestant wishes to link together.
Example: If the Contestant wishes to create a 50-round ammo belt, he/she will spend 17 turns to combine 50 belt links and 50 rounds.
Example event line: [Weapon accessory] M13 ammo belt, loose, disintegrating links, 7.62x51mm NATO, 50 rounds - [0 /50] - Weight: (variable, 0.02 per round)
The Contestant also has the possibility to spend 1 turn to divide an existing belt into two shorter belts.
Example: The Contestant can separate a 100-round ammo belt into two 50-round ammo belts, or into one 25-round and one 75-round, etc.
Although links have an individual weight of 0.01, loose ammo belts are not heavier than unlinked ammunition; a 50-round loose belt weighs as much as 50 rounds, for instance. As such, it is always more space efficient to combine ammo and links.
There is no upper limit to how much ammunition can be linked together into loose ammo belts, other than weight concerns.
The Contestant must distinguish between loose ammo belts and ammo belt boxes:
Loose ammo belts:
Have a variable capacity, which depends on however many rounds are linked together
Cannot be carried by a firearm like a magazine or a belt box.
The Contestant may load a loose ammo belt into a compatible firearm, but only if the belt is in a directly accessible part of the inventory. Firearms loaded with such belts are therefore "loaded from the inventory".
Ammo belt boxes:
Are designed to contain ammo belts of a specific type (e.g. M13 belt boxes can only contain M13 belts, and so on)
Can be loaded into a compatible firearm, which will carry it, like a magazine. It takes 1 turn to load a loose belt into a belt box.
Have a maximum capacity
A Contestant may load loose belts of any length as long as it's equal or inferior to the listed capacity. For example, a 74-round loose belt loaded in a 100-round belt box is fine, but a 124-round loose belt is not.
Specific weapons
MAC-10, MAC-11:
By default, these weapons are submachine guns when the stock is open. Weapon type becomes Auto pistol when the stock is folded. This means that the weapon skills this weapon calls for may change depending on whether the stock is open or folded: Rifle skills if open, Pistol skills if folded.
Lists of weapons
There is a grand total of 740 weapons that can be used by the Contestant in MazeWorld.
261 Class 1 weapons
89 Class 2 weapons
129 Class 5 weapons, including:
72 Class 5 Long
57 Class 5 Short
9 Handgear items, which can be considered weapons on their own
8 Underbarrel grenade launchers, including:
7 detachable UGLs (which can be considered weapons on their own)
1 integrated UGL (which is integral to the weapon it is mounted on)
3 Underbarrel shotguns, which can be considered weapons on their own
31 Bayonets, including:
27 knife-bayonets (which can be used as Class 5S weapons if so desired)
2 non-knife-bayonets (which requires mounting to a firearm to be used as a weapon)
2 integrated bayonets (which is integral to the weapon it is mounted on)
Class 1 weapons
Class 1 weapons constitute the bread and butter of primary weapons, with types and efficiency running almost the full spectrum - from diminutive .22 LR training rifles to the most powerful of antimateriel rifles or rocket launchers, and everything in between; assault rifles, battle rifles, shotguns, machine guns, sniper rifles, and so on.
List of Class 1 weapons
Class 2 weapons cover the submachine guns, personal defense weapons, compact assault rifles and compact shotguns of the game. With varying power and ammunition types, they may not always be as powerful as Class 1 weapons, but are as versatile and may serve as potent auxiliary weapons.
Class 3 weapons cover the one-handed weapons of the game, such as handguns, machine pistols, compact submachine guns and sawed-off shotguns. The relatively high variety in sizes, types and calibers makes Class 3 weapons versatile and suited for many different uses, from simple backup weapon to hand-cannon.
Class 4 weapons cover the explosives and grenades of the game. Being explosives, weapons of this class are one-use only, but very devastating when used properly. It must be noted that Class 4 weapons are considered to be two-handed weapons.
Class 5 weapons cover the melee weapons and the occasional few non-firearm ranged weapons of the game.
Class 5 weapons are separated in two subcategories: Short (one-handed) and Long (two-handed).
Weapons in this class are of various sizes and nature. Except in the case of the non-firearm ranged weapons, their chief advantage is that they use no ammunition, but the majority of them require the Contestant to be within melee range of the target. Certain of these weapons may have additional uses or modes as well, increasing their usefulness.
Handgear
Technically being both clothing and weapons, Handgear are a weapon Class on their own, as they affect the power of the Contestant's punches. Hand-to-hand combat is generally represented as unarmed combat, though wearing better handgear improves efficiency - both as weapons and as protective gear.
Handgear are the only items that will protect the contestant from injuries to the hands. It is never a bad idea to upgrade handgear, as it will both improve protection and damage done to enemies with them.
NOTE: Youkai wearing handgear do not benefit from the Armor Class protection of handgear.
List of Handgear
Weapon accessory
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Van’s Motor Marine
Written by John Peach posted on January 13, 2011 22:29
Very few of the boaters who stop by Van’s Motor Marine in Alexandria Bay have any idea that they are docking at one of the most historical marine business sites in the Thousand Islands.
Many of the boaters who live in, or transit through the region have had some of their most pleasant marina experiences pulling into Van’s where they are greeted warmly by owners Sue and Steve Keeler. However, if you were lucky (or curious enough) to peek into the shops at Van’s, you would quickly be transferred back into a world of boat building and repair as it existed from 1906 throughout the 20th century. Hanging from the ceiling of the large wooden structure are large steel I-beam rails and trolleys, and historic wood boats are still hauled using hand operated chain falls and carefully eased into the shop by a rope block and tackle to begin restoration or have a fresh coat of varnish applied. Over 80 years accumulation of old parts and tools surround this center of wood boat activity, and time spent gazing around the artifacts can bring back fond memories of summers past.
Several of today's “River Rats” grew up purchasing their gas, ice, worms and bait at Van’s. From the late 1940s’s through 1976, Van’s was a thriving marina run by Harold Van Norman and his wife Louise Keeler – selling Johnson Outboard motors, and OMC, Starcraft and Hydrodyne boats. But the genesis of the marine business at the site can be traced to 1902, when Hutchinson brothers Bert and George rented the building at or near the current Van’s to establish their boat building business. In about 1913, after building several very successful launches and race boats in the building on Sisson Street, the Hutchinson brothers moved their boat building business to a new shop on Crossman Street, and used the Sisson Street site for boat maintenance and repair work. [See Hutchinson Boat Works, written by Bonnie Wilkinson Mark]
In 1921, Hutchinsons sold their Sisson Street shop to Bernie Fitzgerald and Alfred Lee, who quickly developed a loyal following among Thousand Islanders for building fast, efficient, and well made boats suitable for life on the St. Lawrence River. The 2007 Alexandria Bay Boat Show poster of The1000 Islands Chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat Society portrays six 1927 Fitzgerald and Lee1 (F&L) boats in the bay in front of their Sisson Street facilities. That picture displays the classic lines built into the versatile designs produced by F&L. In addition to building spectacular boats on site, F&L became the local dealer for Gar Wood and DeeWite speedboats.
The original shop on the Van’s site was destroyed in 1931 by a fire apparently caused by a backfire in a boat in an adjacent boathouse. According to The Real Runabouts author, Bob Speltz, all the new Gar Wood and DeeWite boats in the show room were saved, but several boats in the shop for maintenance and repair were destroyed. Not to be deterred in their boat building and repair business, F&L moved into rental quarters and immediately began to rebuild at the Sisson Street site.
Reopening at the current Van’s site in late 1932, the new shop looked much as it does today. The new facility gave F&L the room to continue their much in demand boat building business as well as selling Gar Wood and Richardson boats. Many of F&L’s most famous boats were built at the new facility. Designs for the boats came from Fitzgerald & Lee themselves, as well as famed designer John Hacker. Boats such as the 45’ Vamoose, the 28’ runabout Footloose and Fancy Free, and the 31’ speedboat Skoal were built in the Sisson Street facility between 1932 and the shuttering of the plant at the start of WW II. The last boat F&L produced, the elegant and sexy SKID, can still be seen running around the 1000 Islands. In addition to selling boats, F&L became one of the areas early dealers for the “new fangled” outboard motors, selling Evinrude and Elto motors.
F&L closed during WWII, as its skilled craftsmen went off to war or to work for other larger boat builders producing boats for the war effort. Prior to closing because of the war effort, F&L had become the largest dealer in North America for the sales and service of Gar Wood boats. It is not unusual today to see a couple of Gar Woods at Van’s, either fueling up or in for maintenance in the shop. F&L never reopened its doors after WW II, and the facilities at Sisson Street were sold to Chester Burns, who opened a marina performing boat repairs and servicing all brands of boats.
Interviews with current owners Steve and Sue Keeler reveal that Burns may have sold his interest to Glen Wilson, who then sold to Harold Van Norman (Van), a marine engineer, in 1946. Van set his sights on creating a well run full service marine facility, known as Van’s Motor Marine. In its heyday, Van and his wife Louise (mother of current proprietors Sue Keeler) employed twelve mechanics, gas dock attendants, and boat cleaners to service their bustling enterprise. Many of these young employees, a mixture of local and summer residents, return to Van’s today to stay in touch with the current owners. Van’s also managed the boat rental concessions at Keewaydin and Grass Point State Parks, and had a rental fleet of eight custom-built houseboats that were seen exploring the channels and anchorages throughout the Thousand Islands. Van’s fleet of fifteen small rental outboard boats was a staple of the St. Lawrence River tourist experience. Renting a boat for a self drive boat ride was an introduction to the Islands that many people still remember and talk about when they come back to the area today.
The dock level showroom at Van’s always included shiny new and innovative boats, surrounded by the current years’ display of Johnson outboard motors. My first new outboard motor was a 1963, 5½ horsepower, Johnson Seahorse, which still sits in our boathouse ready to run as a backup motor for our little “tin-can”. (Early photos show that Van’s was a Mercury Outboard dealer prior to taking on the Johnson line of motors). Van’s carried the Hyrodyne, OMC, Crosby, Lyman outboard, and Starcraft lines of boats – all considered top end watercraft in their day. Those of us who lusted after the new boats and motors still marvel at Van’s ingenuity at being able to work the large craft into the tight showroom on small wheeled dollies, hauling them out of the River in the boathouse and pushing them by hand across the space between the buildings – and inside through large double doors.
The current Van’s marina looks almost exactly as it did 78 years ago. Sue and Steve, owners since 1976, greet you enthusiastically and pride themselves on giving great service. Rich Jury, a master boat builder and restorer, always has several old wooden boats in the two story facility in various stages of restoration and repair. Quite a few of these Lymans, Gar Woods, Hutchinsons and other locally produced boats were built or sold very near Alexandria Bay. During the winter months, a few classic wooden boats will be hauled onto both floors of the shop for replacing of planks or bottoms – serious work performed by Rich and his apprentice boat restorers. Steve Keeler can still be found tinkering on a Hydrodyne boat or Johnson motor sold at the marina over 40 years ago, or making repairs to an old wood or newer fiberglass boat in need of a quick fix. Part of the charm of the Thousand Islands is that there are still quite a few local businesses owned and run by proprietors whose families like the Keelers of Van’s have been in the business for many years.
By John Peach
John Peach and his wife, Pat, live on Huckleberry Island near Ivy Lea from May through October. The rest of the year they reside in Princeton, NJ, although John continues to make frequent return visits to the Islands throughout the winter. John retired several years ago from his career in international business. His family has owned a place in the Thousand Islands for over 50 years. John is a past president of Save The River, and is still active on the Save The River board. He, like many islanders and local mariners, value the contributions local marina operators make to our life in the Thousand Islands.
For more history on the wonderful boats produced by F&L, see Robert Speltz’s The Real Runabouts Vol. 1.
Comment by: Morris Huck ( )
Left at: 5:19 PM Saturday, January 15, 2011
John, what a great piece of history. I knew Harold Van Norman years ago and our marina bought outboard parts from him many times. Harold became more or less a personal friend. I have also known Steve and Suzie for years.
Comment by: Bob Belcher ( )
Left at: 12:38 PM Sunday, January 16, 2011
I recall Van's very well, in the 50's and 60's I remember going by boat to church on Sundays from Westminister PArk and Brown's Bay, and tying up at the village dock. After church my Dad would always get gas at at Van's while my sister and I poked around inside looking at the water ski's, motors in repair and the magnificant wooden ladies of the river. Thanks for this story, brings back great River memories.
Does any one recall Vrooman's (SPELLING) on State street in Watertown?
How about Mercer's in Clayton, I think my dad bought four boats from them over the years. And Bachy's in Three Mile Bay.
Times have changed, I sure miss the River !
Comment by: Mike Brick ( )
Left at: 2:24 PM Sunday, January 16, 2011
I remember Vrooman's very well and a long time employee Truman Greene lived across the street from our family when I was growing up. Also familiar with Mercer's and Bachy's. Wow showing my age, huh.
Comment by: Kevin Hale ( )
Fueling-up at Van's is a social event no one should miss. Steve and Suzie provide great service, a quick update on local news, accurate weather forecasts, mechanical advice, quick repairs and history lessons for anyone indicating a sincere interest in the Thousand Islands. Try and find another marina with all of this plus swimwear, homemade cookies, bait and custom dog collars!!! Don't change a thing. Great article Mr. Peach.
Marlene, Haley and Kevin Hale
Comment by: Karen Lafave ( )
Left at: 9:56 PM Sunday, February 20, 2011
Mr. Peach anything that goes back to the building of classic boats in A-Bay is very interesting to me . My Grandfather was the L in F-L. he built wonderfull boats guilding acosss our beautiful ST.Lawrence River. They are one of a kind. any information about Fitzgerand Lee is very interesting to me. Thank you Karen (Reed) LaFave brought up in Fishers Landing N.Y.
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An appeal from a fact-finding hearing in which findings were made that a whole paternal family, spanning three generations, had conspired to make false allegations to the police of mental health issues and violence against a child by a mother, thereby wresting control/residence of a child from her. The father appealed based on ostensibly prejudicial remarks made by the Judge at the outset of the case and concerns about bias in the way the case was heard. At appeal, the Court upheld the judgment and found that the remarks amounted to acceptable judicial interventions.
Stephen acted for the successful appellant, instructed by Duncan Lewis Solicitors.
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Indy GeekCast
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Twice a month I release a new episode featuring a fellow geek from the Central Indiana region that can shed some light on their industry, their specific profession, and what they geek out about. Developers, techies, gamers, designers, project managers, musicians and more! Find your niche, hear their stories, and maybe even tell your own.
Kibbles n Kibitz
The guys look at how Amazon wants to deliver packages to your car and what the case for that might be. Destiny 2 has new downloadable content (DLC) available, but is it enough to bring the guys back around to play again - especially when they are spending so much time playing Fortnite? Alexa gets a bit more conversational and everyone is trying to catch up to Google right now while the Supreme Court allows the states to choose how to deal with sports gambling for the first time since 1992... for now.
Tech Ketchup
Season 2 kicks off in a big way as Neal Tardy joins Indy GeekCast as a permanent resident of the show and talks tech news while catching up with regular host Matt Ray. We talk about yet another new Facebook "scandal", the reality of virtual reality as seen in the hit film and book Ready Player One, and more.
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Tiffney McElroy
Guest: Tiffney McElroy, Serial Entrepreneur and Owner of Connect4
Quick note: This was recorded in a coffee shop and definitely has some background noise. Maybe you dig it as a one-off experience or maybe you don't. Either way, let me know how it lands with you, please!
When I think of someone who has a lot going on, I always think of Tiffney. She is oved by engineers for her focus on cultural fit when looking to matchmake a candidate with a local company. She is working on a clothing line. She even wants to drop a rap track at some point! I love her enthusiasm and encouragement and I think you will too.
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Agile Games
Guest: Britney Earwood for Agile Games
To celebrate the 1 year "birthday" of Agile Games in Indianapolis, the crew with Agile Games put on a series of games styled after the "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" improv show. So, this episode is a recording of that Agile Games session and Britney Earwood, one of Agile Games' meetup coordinators, providing some context both before and after the live recording. If you have heard of Agile methodology for project management or just enjoying hearing people put through ridiculous exercises for the amusement of others, this is a good one.
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Theresa Hardy
Guest: Theresa Hardy, Senior Consultant at Moser Consulting
Theresa is a friend I made while working with the Indiana State Department of Health and has proven to be an insightful ally that has willed her way with great skill onward and upward. On her journey she has collected some great Do's and Don'ts that are great for those just entering the world of IT, but also sage enough for a good review for those of us that have been at it for a while. Her message resonates not just in IT, but really crosses over to all professional pursuits.
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Jeff Reklau
Guest: Jeff Reklau, Business Relationship Manager at Community Health Network
Longtime friend and one-time coworker Jeff Reklau comes on the podcast and provides valuable insight into his career progression from the days when we didn't know what we didn't know to being a highly competent connector of ideas, resourcing, and prioritization on top of the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare. Yeah, and he didn't even pay me to say that! Jeff is fun, engaging, and provides a great glimpse into the world of IT that is not often accounted for when searching for your "fit". Lastly: shout out to his awesome wife, Jennifer. I could power a city with her energy and enthusaism and miss it dearly.
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Guest: Lisa Mitchell, The People Reader
Lisa drops by the studio with her entourage (well, Kim) to talk the power of body language. We hear how her tipping point of being stretched paper-thin by the demands of "always say yes" ultimately led her to where she is today. Lisa notes how much is lost in translation when we are tweet-storming each other. She has a new podcast that just launched and Matt has already implemented some of what she teaches. Everyone agrees you shouldn't be a troll unless it's funny.
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Dr. Allison Barber
Guest: Dr. Allison Barber, Chancellor of Western Governors University Indiana
Dr. Allison Barber pops by to provide some historical insights into the why and how WGU was formed. Matt is pleasantly surprised he isn't in trouble while in front of an academic administrative figure. The online university is no longer an awful punishment for those that can't attend traditionally. Allison explains competency-based cirriculum vs. warming a seat with your bottom for a few hours.
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Guest: Larry D. Sweazy, author of Where I Can See You and many more
Larry is an awesome AND local author (Noblesville) and caters to many genres. His latest book, "Where I Can See You", came highly recommended from the staff at Barnes & Noble and I personally back them up on that. Weaving in notes from younger days (for both of us), the story does a great job of capturing the intersection between childhood perceptions of events and places and the adult context and analysis of those years later. Larry and I talk about our shared origins in Anderson, Indiana and the influences of hitting the lakes as both children and adults. He also provides a great "origin story" for his writing and the influence that his job as an indexer has had on his career.
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Patrick and Savannah O’Connor
Guests: Patrick and Savannah O'Connor of The Shake Ups
Patrick and Savannah, two fifths of The Shake Ups, join me just in time for the release of their umpteenth (totally a number) album. This time The Shake Ups are headed to Beach City to celebrate their love of Steven Universe, an awesome cartoon from Cartoon Network that has blown past 3 seasons already. Patrick and Savannah hit us with their origin story, influences both real an imagined (by Matt), and Matt thinks people assume local bands suck by default and will be super-impressed by what The Shake Ups offer. We chat about the distinction between themed albums and live concerts that honor the spirit and love for a fandom as opposed to those that might parody a property to belittle or degrade its base of fans. Patrick wants to eventually bring his love of Voltron to life while Savannah is itching to become our real life Ms. Frizzle of Magic Schoolbus fame.
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Favourite Screen moments that I wish I could experience again for the first time
Posted by: Siobhan Greaney in Film, TV November 28, 2014 0 4,553 Views
On and off over the last few years, I’ve been following the adventures of a blogger called Mark Oshiro. Mark reviews books and TV that are popular (and makes fun of bad fanfiction), and gives chapter by chapter, or episode by episode reviews. The fun of following along is that you get to see his real-time reactions, but it also jolts me into a bout of nostalgia for the very first time I’d read or seen something he writes about. This got me thinking about which of my favourite moments from pop culture I’d like to experience again.
The following are guaranteed to contain spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the TV or film in question, please don’t read further unless you definitely don’t mind having some key moments spoiled. All of the below are purely from memory, so any errors are the fault of my brain. Let’s start with an easy one (and alphabetically).
Cap saying ‘Hulk *dramatic pause*, Smash’.
It’s just a very *squee* fan moment, you see it coming, you know it’s going to happen. It’s a moment of acceptance, of teamwork, of Hulk being awesome and Cap being awesomer.
(‘Puny God’ comes in a close second.)
So good. Just, so good. And the moment I would most like to experience again, is the moment that the super-secret Cylon music finally reveals itself to be a tripped out version of ‘All Along the Watchtower’.
There are plenty of ‘I did not see that coming’ moments in Battlestar, and loads of ‘where the hell did that come from?’ but that eerie haunting trippy music echoing in the background of so many episodes, finally resolving into that earworm of Dylan’s masterpiece song is a spine tingling moment.
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Belle’s song – ‘I want much more than this provincial life!’ That song is still one of my favourites. It is the song she sings just after turning Gaston down. It’s a song about longing for adventure, rejecting the dull plan laid out for her, and feeling like no one understands her. Almost every person, from 8 to 80, can relate to those feelings. No one wants to be trapped, and we all like to feel people understand us, and that there’s more in store than the mundane.
Abed. If you have ever seen Danny Pudi’s character in Community in action, I need say no more. Breaking the fourth wall and making pop culture references is his bit. Many of my favourite moments involve Abed in some way. I am particularly fond of the ‘Troy and Abed’ bits that would end most episodes for the first couple of series.
My favourite Abed moment, or I guess, series of moments, is in an episode where he claims at the very beginning he can ‘lay low for a while’ and then proceeds to only appear the background of certain shots. In those shots, he’s doing various exciting things, rescuing puppies, delivering a baby, and then at the very end he comes in and sort of shrugs off his day.
SPACE COWBOYS! How do I pick the moment I’d most like to experience again? It’s tough. I love all the characters and there are many magical moments. From Wash’s dinosaurs on the deck of Serenity, to Wash’s die-NO! (emotional sore) on the deck of Serenity, there are some amazing occurrences.
I think my absolute favourite moment involves Kaylee; everything’s shinier when Kaylee’s involved. In the episode ‘Shindig’, she wears the most ridiculous dress in the history of dresses. Mal first makes fun of her for liking it, then, feeling guilty, buys it for her as part of their latest mad cap scheme. It is pink and frilly and if someone were to try and make me wear it, I’d probably have run away screaming. But she loves it, it suits her, and she’s feeling amazing. Then some cruel ignorant snobby women belittle her. She’s standing there, sad, but shrugs it off, and bedazzles fellow guests in a conversation about engines. It’s a wonderful moment. Kaylee manages to embody so many strong emotions in a short space of time. She can be girly, and whimsical, and vulnerable, and funny, and clever, and brave and just generally kick ass. I just felt so proud, and so happy, that in a sci fi programme set in the future, with criminals on a spaceship, that Joss Whedon could fit in this perfect human experience of saying ‘don’t let the haters get to you’.
I can’t take credit for what follows. This is less of a moment I want to experience for the first time, and one that I wish I had been more observant of the first time I saw it. In the first episode of Sherlock, I was pleased by every reference I spotted (I love Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories). But the significance of one moment almost completely passed me by.
The murder victim’s final moments are being discussed. In front of a group of police, Sherlock is dismissing the death of the victim’s daughter years ago as something that would not still bother her. The silence that follows his callous statement causes him to look toward John. He has met John Watson just that day. John is impressed by his skills, but they’ve had very little interaction. Despite this, Sherlock has already taken to looking to John to act as his conscience. He recognises that emotional deficiency in himself, and chose a companion who would work around it, not coddle him or misunderstand him. It is not to Lestrade or any of the police who have admonished him in the past that he relies on. He turns to John, who he has known for less than a day, to query ‘Not good?’. And John’s response is beautiful. Not nuanced, not sensitive, not trying to explain or censure him, just straightforward ‘Bit not good, yeah’. It is the moment that defines the start of, and parameters of, their enduring friendship. As soon as someone pointed it out to me, I had to go back and watch it all again.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip down memory lane (or into Spoilerville if you hadn’t seen any of the above), feel free to leave you own favourite on screen moments in the comments.
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About Siobhan Greaney
Siobhán, aka Shivers, likes to kill time online reading things. Loves Discworld and Harry Potter more than is sensible. Has been described as willing to talk to the wall if no one else is available, and as subtle as a brick to the face. Irish girl living and working in publishing in Oxfordshire. Newly appointed Chairperson of the Irish Discworld Convention 2015.
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Celebrity Couples Of 2002
2002 was filled with some shocking celebrity couples hooking up, getting married, and of course, breaking up. WB11’s Emily Frances has a look back which features Jessica Simpson and her husband Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees, Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd’s divorce, Anna Kournikova’s romance with Enrique Iglesias, and Britney Spears’ breakup to *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake. Video has since been removed.
Jennifer Lopez Denies Valentine’s Day Wedding Rumors
January 6, 2003 – Jennifer, in an interview with Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Brasil, denied rumors she was going to marry actor Ben Affleck on Valentine’s Day, February 14th. “We don’t know when the wedding will be. We need to sit down together and choose a date,” Lopez said.
Matt Damon And Ben Affleck In Double Wedding?
January 6, 2003 – Liz Smith of the New York Post reports that Ben Affleck’s best buddy Matt Damon wants to make a double wedding — when Ben marries Jennifer Lopez, he wants to marry Odessa Whitmire. Damon’s publicist has denied reports he and Whitmire are engaged.
Jennifer Lopez Gears Up For Ben Affleck Wedding
January 5, 2003 – Us Weekly reports Jennifer is gearing up for her planned wedding to Ben Affleck. The diva recently paid a visit to Les Habitudes in Los Angeles with her stylist to try out wedding gowns and accessories. A source at the shop says Lopez tried on Emma Hope silk shoes with pointed toes and little heals. “Those aren’t her typical shoes, but they are for a wedding,” the source noted. Lopez also splurged $15,000 on sweaters for Ben at Barneys New York in Beverly Hills.
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First Reading of Alcohol Reform Bill
(PR.co.nz) Justice Minister Simon Power is encouraging the public to have a say on the Government’s Alcohol Reform Bill after it passed its first reading in Parliament today by 114 votes to 3.
“I hope the public will take the opportunity to submit to the Justice and Electoral Select Committee as it considers the bill over the next six months,” Mr Power said.
“The bill is Parliament’s starting point for alcohol reform.
“The Government is interested in hearing from all sides of the debate to ensure we come away with legislation which is balanced, workable and, most importantly, enduring.
“The bill is 225 pages long and its objective is simple – to zero in on alcohol-related harm – especially where our youth are concerned.”
Among the provisions, the bill:
* Makes licences harder to get and easier to loose, with more scope to object to applications, and more grounds to decline them.
* Empowers local communities to address issues including the concentration, location, and opening hours of alcohol outlets via the adoption of local alcohol policies. Where an LAP is not adopted the maximum national trading hours will apply.
* Clarifies that corner dairies are not eligible for licences.
* Introduces a split purchasing age of 18 for bars and clubs and 20 for supermarkets and bottle stores.
* Makes it an offence to supply alcohol to minors without parental consent or in an irresponsible manner.
* Allows for alcohol products which are particularly dangerous or appealing to youth to be banned.
* Enables the size and strength of RTDs to be limited.
* Makes it an offence to promote alcohol in a way which has special appeal to minors or promote the excessive consumption of alcohol at both on-licences and off-licences.
* Widens the areas covered by liquor bans to include car parks and school grounds.
Mr Power said it is up to each party’s caucus to decide how to vote on the bill.
“National MPs will vote along party lines except for the issue of the alcohol purchase age, which will be a conscience vote during the Committee stage of the bill.”
Mr Power hopes to have the bill passed into law before the end of this parliamentary term. It’s anticipated that most changes will be in force within a year of the legislation being passed.
Media Release 11 November 2010 from Simon Power, Minister of Justice.
Submitted November 13th, 2010
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BRIAN HIGGINS – A PERSONAL AND POLITICAL TRIBUTE
Category: Against Imperialism,Against Unionism,Capitalism and Communism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,How they are organised,How we organise,Independent class organisations,Ireland,Radical Independence Campaign,Scotland,The EU,The Socialist Republican Break-up of the UK,Trade Unionism,UK state/British imperialism — RCN @ 4:25 pm
Communist, Republican, Trade Union Militant,
Scottish Internationalist, Glasgow Bear
9th February 1941 – 2nd June 2019
BRIAN HIGGINS
A PERSONAL AND POLITICAL TRIBUTE
Brian made a big impression upon whomever he met. Nigel Jeffrey, who encountered him on the picket line during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike wrote, “Brian Higgins stands out because he was 6′ 6″ plus… He was a big lad as broad as he was tall… There must have been half a dozen police went for this Brian Higgins and snatched him… He was shoving them off left, right and centre.” [1]
Or, as Dave Smith, co-author of Blacklisted, The Secret War Between Big Business and Union, [2] has written, “Anyone who has heard Brian speak will remember his booming Glaswegian voice, disdain for union bureaucracy and his liberal use of industrial language.” [3]
And when I first met Brian, it seemed that my hand was numb for hours after his handshake!
It was as a trade union militant that Brian is best known. Dave states that, “It is undeniable that Brian was one of the leading rank and file industrial militants of his generation, who had a significant impact on trade unionism in the construction industry.” [4] This came at a high personal cost to Brian and his family. Following the exposure of the employer financed organisation, the Consulting Association, [5] responsible for blacklisting, Brian was found to be the most blacklisted worker in the UK construction industry. Brian called the blacklist “an economic, social and political prison”. [6] He very much features in Blacklisted.
Brian was targeted by the employers, particularly Laings; by gangsters hired by sub-contactors; by the state, including undercover police agent provocateur, Mark Jenner; [7] and by trade union bureaucrats, especially UCATT official, Dominic Hehir, in his infamous, but failed attempt to silence Brian through a High Court injunction.[8] Brian, once a member of the International Socialists, then SWP, also exposed the revolutionary pretensions of this organisation, the CPGB, Militant and the one-time Workers’ Revolutionary Party.
Brian wasn’t the first to write about the activities of the UK state, the trade union bureaucracy, and the failings of self-proclaimed revolutionary parties. One of Brian’s favourite books was The Key to My Cell, [9] written by Des Warren, jailed for three years for his part in the 1972 Building Workers Strike. Des was to die early in 2004 at the age of 67, after contracting Parkinson’s Disease, following the use of the ‘liquid cosh’, which the authorities administered, whilst he was in prison on trumped up conspiracy charges. He was attacked by the state, abandoned by the incoming Labour government in 1974, and badly let down by UCATT trade union officials, who were still backed by the CPGB.
It was in the aftermath of this strike that Brian, who had to leave Glasgow for England to find employment in 1972, eventually moved to Northampton. He became a hod carrier, then a bricklayer. He joined UCATT, later becoming branch secretary. He also joined the rank and file Building Worker Group (BWG) and the International Socialists, predecessor to the SWP. Brian’s classic, Rank and File or Broad Left? A Short History of the Building Worker Group, describes the many militant struggles the BWG became involved in. [10] Brian was the BWG’s secretary. Although it was in another SWP context that I first met Brian in 1978, we immediately hit it off because of our shared rank and file activities. I was convenor of the Scottish Rank and File Teachers (SR&FT) at the time.
Brian’s forte was on the picket line. I had been the SR&F-led East of Scotland Action Committee’s ‘flying picker’ organiser during the mass unofficial strike of Scottish teachers from 1974-5. Significantly, we adopted the term ‘flying picket’ from the building workers’ actions of 1972, which had made a big public impact. However, the social difference between building workers and teachers is considerable, and Brian and I used to joke over our different approaches to picketing.
The BWG resorted to picketing, confident that any picket line would be almost always automatically honoured. And that was certainly the case when Brian was involved. There was no such historical respect for picketing amongst teachers, who had rarely ever been on strike before the 1970s, and there was the added issue that teachers are understandably unwilling to walk out on their students. So the reality of our teacher ‘flying pickets’, at the school gates during the 1974-5 unofficial action, was to persuade teachers going to work in the morning to organise school meetings later that day, then to take a vote on taking action, either after lunch or the following day, so arrangements could be made for the students. Our picket lines were usually quite genteel affairs!
But, although the BWG could fall back upon decades of working class solidarity amongst building workers, they faced other obstacles completely unknown to teachers. Cowboy sub-contractors would sometimes resort to gangsters to intimidate workers .[11] Brian told me of one workplace meeting where they had to physically throw out a paid disrupter, a decision he hastened to add that was taken after he moved a democratic vote to do so! In contrast, although teachers taking action sometimes faced parent hostility, the one group we always had almost 100% support from was the students, ever eager for a day off school!
Brian and I became much closer during the SWP leadership’s attempt to close down all Rank and File groups in 1982. In the majority of these groups, they had long pushed for party members to treat these as party fronts. However, the BWG and SR&FT had been built on open democratic and united front principles. Therefore, Brian and I both took a prominent part in resisting the attempt by SWP central committee to close us down. The majority of SR&FT were not in the SWP. Its spurious ‘Downturn Theory’ failed to persuade any of these members. This theory was, in effect, merely the left face of the ‘Dented Shield’ strategy. That was Labour’s accommodating response to the on-going employers’ offensive under Thatcher. Furthermore, the wider school organisation, which SR&FT had built, was central both to defending what had already been gained and to prevent the possible victimisation of union militants.
Those in SR&FT (by now including quite a number of SWP teachers, like myself, forced to resign from the party rather than submit to central committee orders) only had to face up to our former party comrades and a full-timer, who lurked about outside the meeting. However, Tony Cliff, the SWP leader, attended the BWG meeting in person. But BWG supporters were also not very impressed by the ‘Downturn Theory’. Cliff “was told the way to respond when the going got tough was not to sound the retreat, as there is absolutely no credibility in this. Rather, political and R&F Organisations should strive all the harder to strengthen their organisation and resolve and give a positive and definite alternative lead, with policies, to that of the craven capitulation and collaboration of the official trade union and labour movement. Otherwise you become part of this dungheap.” [12] Brian didn’t mince his words! Cliff only gained one (an SWP) vote at the BWG meeting. Brian was expelled from the SWP, but the BWG continued, soon to be thrown into a whole series of disputes, culminating in the 1985-6 Laings’ Lock-Out. [13]
However, I first met Brian in a very different context. In the later 1970s, there was a debate going on inside the SWP about how to react to the political issue of Scottish Devolution, now that the Labour government was committed to a referendum on the issue. The Glasgow branch politically dominated the SWP in Scotland. This branch, with its influential industrial shop stewards, was very firmly in the ‘No’ camp. They placed an economistic emphasis on all-British working class trade union solidarity. Cliff, though, was for ‘Yes’, on the grounds of another key aspect of SWP politics – anti-Toryism. Thatcher had become the Tory leader and was opposed to Scottish devolution. Cliff knew that he had a tough sell in Glasgow, and bought in the late Harry McShane, who had worked with the legendary John Maclean, to help him at a specially convened Scottish aggregate meeting – although to no avail. The Glasgow SWP shop stewards’ ‘No’ became the official line.
I was struggling to find a different approach. I eventually found this by seeing Scottish Devolution as a democratic demand for greater national self-determination in the context of the unionist, imperialist, monarchical and bureaucratic UK state. Furthermore, a republican approach would relate to, and politically connect the struggles for national self-determination in Scotland, Wales, and particularly Ireland, the cutting edge of opposition to the UK state. These politics formed the basis of the Republican Faction (RF) in the SWP.
And it was at an RF meeting in London where I first met Brian. Whilst he was not alone on the Left in seeing the political importance of Ireland, he was almost unique for somebody from his Irish-Scots background, in linking the situation in Ireland to Scotland. Many Irish-Scots thought, at the time, that Scottish devolution would bring about a second Stormont!
As anybody with any experience of the SWP knows, the formation of a faction, officially allowable only for a short period before the annual conference, is not designed to encourage meaningful debate, but is an indication to the leadership of a threat to be removed. Upon a faction has been declared, the central committee moves quickly to ensure that its unelected full-timers work overtime to minimise any faction’s influence. Primarily this means obstructing, as far as possible, faction delegates getting to the annual conference. This involves a lot of behind-the-scenes wire-pulling and rumour mongering.
However, in the wider SWP meetings, Brian was a not only a formidable figure but also the very epitome of the type of rank and file militant the SWP leadership claimed to promote. (Indeed not a few members thought that some of the late Phil Evans’ Socialist Worker cartoons used Brian as an inspiration!) Whilst the official line easily held within the party, it was harder for the central committee and full-timers to dismiss supporters of the RF, since some members had a wider base than the party, particularly in the Rank and File groups.
When three years later in 1982, Brian found himself once more in opposition to the SWP central committee, this time over the defence of Rank and File organisations, republicanism formed the political basis of his politics, “My experience has now led me to conclude that workers will have to adopt a ‘republican’ approach [i.e. act as free citizens and not loyal subjects] to succeed in an all out struggle, including building workers if they go into this, against the very British, Loyal and Bureaucratic Popular Front.” [14] Brian saw union sovereignty residing with the workplace members, and any action they took as being independent, not ‘unofficial’. Trade union full-timers use the ‘unofficial’ label to police their members. Brian promoted independent working class action, coupled to the most thoroughgoing democracy within the unions. This industrial republicanism formed the basis of his Rank and File politics.
In his pamphlet, Brian contrasted Rank and File to Broad Left politics. The latter mirrors the politics of the UK state. It claims union sovereignty lies in the annual general meeting, just as the UK state claims sovereignty lies in parliament. In reality, in trade unions, control lies in the hands of the general secretary and the union HQ, just as control in the UK state lies in the hands of the prime minister and his/her inner cabinet. And Broad Left politics looks to replace right wing union officials with left wing officials, just as the Labour Party seeks to replace right wing MPs with left wing MPs, both without any real challenge to the locus of real control.
Brian’s pamphlet provides abundant evidence to highlight the effect of the Broad Left approach within UCATT, where leading officials were backed by the CPGB/CPB. Indeed the corruption became so acute in UCATT there was even an internal investigation, the Hand Report (which Brian characteristically dismissed as the ‘Hand Job’!). [15] Despite the investigators being carefully selected (as with the UK government’s Widgery and Chilcot enquiries), its findings were still kept secret from the members such was the appalling story of corruption that was uncovered.
Another strong feature of Brian’s politics, which he emphasised, was that serious Rank and File organisation “will also take on board some of the more difficult social and political issues and adopt a principled working class united front position on these.” [16] Brian never held to the shallower economism, which informed the IS/SWP’s earlier support for Rank and File groups.
As a powerful example of this, Brian devotes a whole chapter of his pamphlet to the UCATT National Delegate Conference in Killarney from June 5th-9th 2000. Brian’s own Northampton branch had managed to get a motion to the conference supporting a united Irish Republic completely independent from the British state. The fact the conference was being held in Ireland for the first time (UCATT was an all-islands union) made it more difficult for the motion to be binned beforehand. But massive pressure was exerted behind-the-scenes to get the branch to remit the motion. Peter Cassels, the general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, was also brought in to divert delegates’ support to another anodyne motion on Ireland. Helen Jackson, Labour Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, was flown in just before the debate for the same purpose – a very overt piece of state interference.
The debate went ahead. BWG member, John Jones, a close comrade and friend of Brian’s, moved the republican motion. After a good discussion, which included the UCATT convenor from Belfast’s Harland and Wolff (opposing naturally!) the motion received between 20-25% of the vote. Brian was very pleased and felt the holding of such a debate was in itself a considerable political breakthrough. He stated that the BWG would continue to champion “important political issues like ‘Ireland’ and do our best to support those struggling against state oppression.” [17]
By the time the commune organised the ‘Trade Unions – Are They Fit for Purpose?’ event in Edinburgh in January 2011, [18] Brian was much less mobile. He had to decline an invite to put the Rank and File argument, and I stood in, using my experience in SR&FT. However, the last part of my contribution was based, after we discussed it, upon Brian’s thinking in the BWG. When I gave an account to Brian of this event, he was keen to know more about the social union approach advocated by Tommy McKearney, a former Irish republican hunger striker, speaking for the Independent Workers Union. Brian also supported the combined official and independent union approach, advocated by Alberto Durango, of the Latin American Workers Association, centrally involved in the Justice for Cleaners campaign in London. They had to do this when the UNITE officials, with the backing of the local Broad Left, turned on these workers, once their actions took on a more militant (and successful) tone. Those cleaners without papers, the ‘illegals’, were threatened with deportation. [19]
Although Brian was most at home in workplaces and in his local community, political arenas far removed from these, did not at all faze him. On the strength of Brian’s campaigning against the blacklist, he was invited to the European Parliament as one of two Blacklist Support Group representatives. In this he also received the support of Aberdeen branch of the Oil Industry Liaison Committee. [20] He had contact with one of its leading members during its heyday .[21]
“The European parliament voted in favour of an amendment to the draft data protection regulation that would make blacklisting on the basis of trade union activity a breach of EU law.” Not surprisingly, though, “The Council of Ministers {the real locus of EU power} has still to address the proposal.” [22] And, in the event of this ever having been passed, Brian would have treated such a law, in the same manner as he treated the health and safety laws. Building site safety was one of Brian’s prime concerns ,[23] and he always knew that dependence on the law alone would never deter the employers. Industrial action would still have to taken to force them to comply.
Despite eventually receiving a modest financial compensation for the decades Brian and his family had faced as the consequences of the blacklist, he was still involved in the last months of his life in exposing trade union officials’ complicity in blacklisting. UCATT officials had desperately tried to prevent the issue going to court. This would expose this practice. So, unless UCATT members accepted the compensation package agreed behind-the-scenes by the union and employers, they would no longer receive any legal backing. For Brian the issue was never mainly about the money lost, but about ending blacklisting altogether. For this to happen the cancer of union officials’ collusion would need to be ended.
“Brian found strong evidence of collaboration between the employers and a UCATT official in his own blacklisting. That official cited in a redacted document was Jerry Swain. Subsequently, Len McCluskey arranged for UCATT to be taken over by UNITE. In the process, Swain was appointed as a full-timer. Brian, the rank and file Building Worker Group and other union members have tried to raise this issue with McCluskey. McCluskey continually brushes the issue under the carpet.” [24]
In his obituary, Dave Smith wrote that, “Brian was one of the blacklisted construction workers who signed the Open Letter to Unite calling for an investigation to be set up. It is now too late for Brian, but we hope that the UNITE EC will set up the investigation into possible collusion ASAP.” [25] But McCluskey is one of those left-talking, right walking, Broad Left officials who Brian had no confidence in. He did not see McCluskey’s trade union empire building as any step towards ‘One Big Union’, more towards “one big fat pay cheque” for the already highest paid union bureaucrat in these islands.
And if there is indeed to be any enquiry, Brian highlighted the terms on which it would need to be set up. No dependence on “the dreadful performances of union legal firms,” which do exactly what is required if them by the union bureaucrat paymasters. UCATT general secretaries were past masters in this, as Brian had found out personally whilst facing a High Court injunction. Instead, “To have any credibility these will have to be done by independent legal experts and blacklisted members must also have a say in this.” [26]
Brian and I continued to work together, politically and industrially, until the end of his life. After the successful defence of the SR&FT and BWG in 1982, I was invited to speak at some of their meetings in London. These were usually followed by lively socials, on one occasion upstairs in a bar near Kings Cross, with a full Irish republican band! I was able to reciprocate in 1996, by bringing Brian to Edinburgh, following my participation in the local Liverpool Dockers Supporters’ Group. A large and packed meeting was organised in Edinburgh’s grandiose Assembly Rooms. Brian was one of the platform party, along with a Liverpool docker, Women on the Waterfront (WotW) speakers and others. Brian made a bravura contribution, especially appreciated by the WotW speakers.
The initially Broad Left backed, T&GWU general secretary, Bill Morris would have had flea the flea in his ear after Brain’s withering criticism. Morris constantly tried to undermine the Liverpool dockers. The T&GWU, with its 500 Liverpool docker members, was the only union in the International Dockers Alliance not to provide official support. [27] Despite Morris’s Jamaican background, Brian held no illusions that having a black general secretary would make much difference to union members, and that would have gone for women or gay general secretaries too. The issue wasn’t who was at the top, but who controlled the union – the officials or the members. Once New Labour had been elected in 1997 Morris stepped up his attempts to isolate the dockers. He got his reward, being knighted in 2003 and made a lord in 2006. [28]
With Brian living in Northampton and myself in Edinburgh, there were few chances to become involved in shared actions. I did join Brian on an evening picket line at Wapping in July 1986. However this turned out to be one of the quiet nights! In 1999, on one of Brian’s visits to Glasgow he came across to Edinburgh to distribute leaflets on the new building site for the Scottish parliament at Holyrood. This job was being run by Bovis, which had backed the blacklisting Consulting Association. Brian had also come into conflict with Bovis over the lack of construction site safety in Milton Keynes in 1997. [29]
The Holyrood building site had a fenced off section with portakabins, where a largely migrant workforce, many from Eastern Europe, stayed. We were able to get into the canteen. Brian spoke to the two workers present, one whom told us there was a union, but most site members did not know they were members! The union had signed a subscription check-off deal with the employer in return for the union’s assistance in keeping the site dispute free! Brian’s leaflet made the case for site self-organisation and how to deal with health and safety concerns. He realised, though, that new leaflets would need to be produced in other languages.
Brian had some sharp words for those self-proclaimed revolutionary parties with their ‘internationals’, and well-financed unions like the T&GWU (the forerunner of UNITE) affiliated to international federations (the ITWF and IUF). They could easily have produced leaflets in several languages. But serious organising amongst migrant workers, with and without papers, would have meant defying both the anti-trade union and anti-immigration laws.
The political chasm between Brian’s approach and those of the Right and Broad Left became clear during the Lindsey Refinery dispute in Lincolnshire in 2009. Here the employers resorted to an imported labour force, entirely made up of Italian workers, who were kept in isolation. There were wildcat strikes by resident oil workers to get more jobs, but no real attempt was made to link with the migrant workers. They were increasingly seen as the ‘enemy’. Strikers, encouraged by then UNITE general secretary, Derek Simpson, resorted to the slogan, ‘British jobs for British workers’. The Labour Chancellor, Gordon Brown, had made this old fascist slogan ‘respectable’. [30] The disgusting term ‘social dumping’ was also used to attack the migrant workers, as if they were garbage.
Back in June 1981, prominent members of the French Communist Party had led a physical attack on a migrant worker sanctuary in Paris. This provided the initial breakthrough for the far right in the city’s Red Belt. [31] Similarly, there has been a continuous political descent, involving a section of the British Left, some of whom became involved in No2EU, and union officials, including those from UNITE, which has contributed to the growth of the right populism of UKIP, the Brexit Party and Tory Right. ‘British jobs for British workers’ remains the underlying theme for Left Brexiters. UNITE members have recently taken the shameful ‘social dumping’ slur into the Labour Party .[32]
Brian, although by now largely immobile, took great heart from the rank and file, Grassroots Left candidate, Ian Allinson standing against Len McCluskey in the UNITE general secretary election in 2018. Ian had issued a statement attacking McCluskey and the right wing candidate, Gerard Coyne, for their capitulation to anti-migrant politics. [33] When I told Brian, that amongst the founders of the First International in 1864, was bricklayer, George Howell, [34] who had joined to organise workers internationally, and to prevent cross-border scabbing, he was very pleased that his own approach solidarity action had such august beginnings!
Brian was also more sanguine than most about the role of the Labour Left, following Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership election victory. He thought as long as prominent trade union officials, like McCluskey, played a central role, then such bureaucrats would limit any potential. This could already be seen in their support for Trident. In return, McCluskey would police his members to enable Labour to hold on to office, in the face of any challenges from below. This was the pattern, during the 1974-9 Labour government, when two major Broad Left-backed general secretaries, Hugh Scanlon of the AEU, and Jack Jones of the T&GWU, used their influence to promote the Social Contract and to break independent working class resistance.
Today, Broad Left, Len McCluskey and the more right wing, Tim Roache (GMB general secretary) are looking for a Labour government to at last bring union officials in from the cold. They want a return, not so much to beer and sandwiches at ‘No. 10’ in the 1970s, but today more canapes and prosecco. Their current infighting is as much to see who would have the greater influence in any future Labour government, than any real Left/Right divide. And McCluskey’s current commitment to a Left Labour leadership could be dropped as easily as it was taken up, if that is what us needed to enhance his influence. Jerry Hicks, an earlier rank and file UNITE general secretary candidate, reminded us that McCluskey once backed Ed Miliband (ensuring his election) over John McDonnell for party leader. [35]
However, Brian did not confine his continued campaigning just to industrial concerns, after he had been incapacitated by the effect of injuries and botched operations. Events in Ireland and Scotland continued to inspire him. He had only once been to Ireland (to the UCATT conference in Killarney), but he been a regular returnee to Glasgow both to see his wider family, and to attend major Celtic games (having Tony Higgins, former secretary of the Scottish Professional Footballers’ Association as his brother, helped!). This was before the fall-off in his visits to the city, due to an inability to travel through growing ill health.
We continued to meet up in Glasgow, and sometimes Edinburgh, until Brian could no longer travel. But I continued to visited and stay with Brian and his wife Helen at his home in Northampton. Helen’s hospitality was prodigious, and I rarely needed to have a meal on my drive back to Edinburgh after Helen’s formidable breakfasts, although I was always given a pack lunch anyway! Brian and I also regularly corresponded. He contributed to the Republican Communist Network’s Emancipation & Liberation blog. [36]
In the early 1990s, whilst still mobile, Brian was involved with others, including myself, in the Scottish Republican Forum (SRF). The SRF was organised to take the republican case for Scottish independence to the Left, at a time when, whatever its political affiliation, it was still overwhelmingly committed to a ‘British road to socialism’. We organised meetings and published pamphlets to promote discussion. Brian wrote an article Settled in England, [37] which is the only piece of writing in which he provides any wider autobiographical information. Unfortunately, Brian never got to write his full story, unlike Dave Douglass, a leading militant in the NUM. Dave has written his own superb three volumes autobiography, a classic piece of working class writing. [38] Brian’s autobiography would have been another.
However, Brian’s involvement in the SRF also followed the major contribution he made in shifting my own politics over the ‘National Question’. In the SWP’s Republican Faction, we had both supported a Federal Republic of England, Scotland and Wales and an independent United Ireland. However, it had become clear that federalism had a long pedigree in the UK and British Empire, and that was as a last ditch option to keep the state together.
My own experience as chair of the Lothians Anti-Poll Tax Federation, between 1987-91, had shown me the success of working on ‘internationalism from below’ principles. Independent action was organised first in Scotland, and then taken to England and Wales. (The Tories were smart enough not to try to impose the poll tax in Northern Ireland, in the context of on-going resistance to British repression.) The anti-poll tax unions defied the state, the Labour Party and trade union officials. Such an approach did not reflect the organisational nature of the top down unionist and bureaucratic British state, accepted by the Brit Left, the Labour Party and most trade unions. This new challenge form below was the beginning of the shift of the majority of the Left in Scotland, away from the British road to nowhere. Amazingly, even after the 2016 Brexit vote, and Trump’s ‘Brexit plus, plus, plus’ presidential electoral victory, most of the Brit Left continue to tail Right populism.
Back in 1989 though, Brian raised another point, which affected my thinking. He said that the Irish experience of oppression and repression, at the hands of the UK state, was not necessarily something unique, justifying socialist support only for Irish independence and national unity. The suppression of democracy, by whatever means the British ruling class and state deemed necessary, was something that people in Scotland and Wales could well face, if their demands for greater self-determination became more serious. With the Brexit vote in the subsequent gallop to the Right, and with reactionary unionism on the rise, [39] highlighted by the Tory/DUP alliance, such a prospect is daily becoming more real.
It was my anti-poll tax campaigning and Brian’s arguments that persuaded me see the greater relevance of James Connolly’s socialist republican ‘break up of the UK and British Empire’ strategy, and of John Maclean’s early appreciation of this political approach. Brian, with his Irish-Scots (like James Connolly) and Glasgow (like John Maclean) background found this a very easy political step to make. When I published From Davitt to Connolly in 2010 to provide the historical evidence for this distinct political approach, I wrote a dedication to Brian Higgins – “A Glasgow bear, Celtic mad, Irish-Scottish migrant worker, bolshie brickie, blacklisted militant, republican, internationalist and communist, whose political activity has followed the great tradition of ‘internationalism from below’ established by Michael Davitt, James Connolly and John Maclean.” [40] Brian thanked me. I only wish he had lived to see my second planned volume, From Connolly to Maclean.
Brian took great heart from the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign from 2012-4, and was constantly asking me to update him on the activities of the Radical Independence Campaign, which I became very involved in. [41] He was particularly pleased that working class Glasgow voted for Scottish independence, and the major contribution, the Irish-Scots, once very opposed, had made to this.
Thus it was through rank and file and republican politics that I got to know Brian well and we worked together for forty years. However, when I attended his funeral in Northampton on June 21st, I realised that I had only fully appreciated these two aspects of his life, but there was considerably more to Brian. Brian’s close family – his wife, Helen, his daughters Monica and Noelle, and his grandchildren Connor, Dylan and Iris – and his wider extended family, were very important in each others’ lives, whether they still live in Glasgow or now in England.
Those of the Higgins family born in Glasgow, even if they have now long lived in England, are still very much Glaswegians, but fully integrated into their communities. Although their children born in England have local English accents, the reception, held in the Northampton social club, after Brian’s funeral, echoed to Scottish, Irish (and, of course, Celtic) songs, sung by all family members, wherever they were born. And those English neighbours (white and Asian) who attended, lapped up this ‘little bit of Glasgow’ in Northampton. And several of these neighbours, now in their thirties or forties, told us of Brian taking them fishing or other exploits when they were children – ‘the pied piper of Northampton’!
The music chosen for the funeral very much conveyed Brian’s Irish and Scottish roots – The Fields of Athenry by the Dubliners and Robert Burns’ A Man’s A Man by the Corries; his wider internationalism – Three Little Birds by Bob Marley; and finally his world vision – Revolution by the Beatles.
Kenny Irvine, another close BWG comrade and mad Celtic supporter, made us all laugh, at the reception, when he pointed out that the funeral had been held in Wellingborough. Brian had finally defied his ban from the town, imposed by the police and courts, following the picket described by Nigel Jeffrey! [42]
Brian was somebody who linked family, community, trade unionism and his wider politics together. He was a living example of all that is best in the working class and will be sorely missed.
Allan Armstrong, 14.7.19
[1] David Bell, The Dirty Thirty – Heroes of the Miners’ Strike, pp. 78-9 (Five Leaves, 2009, Nottingham)
[2] Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain, Blacklisted, The Secret War Between Big Business and Union (New Internationalist Publications, 2015, Oxford) and
Brian Higgins, Blacklisted (http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2015/04/09/blacklisted/)
[3] https://www.union-news.co.uk/bsg-pays-tribute-to-the-late-brian-higgins-the-most-blacklisted-building-worker-in-the-uk/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consulting_Association
[6] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2011/08/19/major-gains-for-low-paid-at-heron-tower-dispute/ – Brian Higgins and the Anti-Blacklist Success at Brussels
[7] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2014/03/24/undercover-but-within-sites-police-infiltration-of-trade- unions/
[8] https://libcom.org/library/chapter-5-high-court-writ-served-injunction-threatened
[9] Des Warren, The Key To My Cell (Living History Library, 2007, Liverpool)
[10] http://marx.libcom.org/library/rank-file-or-broad-left
[11] http://libcom.org/library/chapter-1-rank-file-construction – Tony Cliff told to F*** Off!
[13] http://libcom.org/library/chapter-1-rank-file-construction – Laings Lock Out Committee
[14] https://libcom.org/library/chapter-1-rank-file-construction – Republican
[15] https://libcom.org/library/chapter-4-main-unions-construction – Corruption in UCATT
[16] https://libcom.org/library/chapter-1-rank-file-construction – Capital R&F, United Front Independence
[17] http://libcom.org/library/chapter-7-ucatt-national-delegate-conference-killarney-june-5th-–-9th-2000
[18] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2011/02/11/report-of-the-third-global-commune-event/
[20] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2010/09/06/brian-higgins-anti-blacklist-campaign/ – Motion passed by Aberdeen branch of the Oil Industry Liaison Committee
[21] http://libcom.org/library/chapter-3-broad-left-construction-popular-front – Offshore Industry Liaison Committee OILC)
[22] Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain, op. cit. p. 178
[23] https://libcom.org/library/chapter-3-broad-left-construction-popular-front – Construction Safety Campaign
[24] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2019/02/08/a-statement-on-behalf-of-brian-higgins-blacklisted-building-worker/
[25] https://www.union-news.co.uk/bsg-pays-tribute-to-the-late-brian-higgins-the-most-blacklisted-building-worker-in-the-uk/
[26] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2013/01/01/collusion-and-betrayal/
[27] Pauline Bradley, A Brief History of the London Support Groupin Another World Is Possible – How the Liverpool Dockers Launched a Global Movement, edited by Pauline Bradley and Chris Knight p27 (Radical Anthropology Group, 2004, London)
[28] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Morris,_Baron_Morris_of_Handsworth#
House_of_Lords
[29] http://libcom.org/library/chapter-6-struggle-continues – 1997 UCATT PAYE campaign
[30] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/20/browns-appeal-to-british-chauvinism/
[31] https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/frances-cgt-union-doing-the-immigration-polices-dirty-work/
[32] https://www.theredroar.com/2018/01/unite-at-odds-with-labour-leader-over-single-market-membership/
[33] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2017/01/03/grassroots-unite-leadership-candidate-attacks-mccluskeys-and-coynes-capitulation-to-anti-migrant-politics/
[34] https://spartacus-educational.com/TUhowell.htm
[35] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2012/01/23/union-leader-slams-ed-miliband-but-who-put-him-there-in-the- first-place/
[36] http://republicancommunist.org/blog/
[37] Brian Higgins, Settled in England in White Setters or Jockbrits – Who is to Blame? (Scottish Republican Forum, 1995, Edinburgh)
[38] Dave Douglass, Vol. 1 – Gordies Wa Mental, Vol. 2. The Wheels Still in a Spin, Vol. 3 – Ghost Dancers(Christie Books, 2008, 2009, 2010, online)
[39] https://allanarmstrong831930095.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/national-populism.pdf. pp. 67-75
[40] Allan Armstrong, From Davitt to Connolly – ‘Internationalism from Below’ and the challenge to the UK state and British Empire from 1879 – 1895(Intfrobel Publications, 2010, Edinburgh)
[41] https://radicalindyedinburgh.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-story-of-edinburgh-ric.html
[42] see reference 1
Brian’s last political statement, 8.2.19
Brian Higgins, a militant in the building industry, first in UCATT and later in UNITE, has been taken into hospital. Brian has been the most blacklisted worker in the UK. For many years before he would have retired, he was unable to get work. This put immense pressure both on Brian and his family, particularly his ever-supportive wife, Helen. Following the public exposure of the blacklist in the building industry, Brian found strong evidence of collaboration between the employers and a UCATT official in his blacklisting. That official cited in a redacted document was Jerry Swain.
Subsequently, Len McCluskey arranged for UCATT to be taken over by UNITE. In the process, Swain was appointed as a full-timer. Brian, the rank and file Building Worker Group and other union members have tried to raise this issue with McCluskey. McCluskey continually brushes the issue under the carpet.
Brian thanks all those who have supported his cause, and the cause of other blacklisted workers. This support has come from many including the Building Worker Group, activists in Grassroots Unite, the Scottish Federation of Socialist Teachers {successor to SR&FT} and the Emancipation & Liberation blog. Until our trade unions have kicked out all those who collaborate with the employers, then our fight for justice, improved pay and conditions and safety at work will be undermined. Despite Brian’s current incapacitation the struggle goes on, and Brian’s supporters will continue to raise these issues.
(http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2019/02/08/a-statement-on-behalf-of-brian-higgins-blacklisted-building-worker/)
Other contributions from Brian on the
Emancipation & Liberation blog
WHY NO PITCHFORD ENQUIRY IN SCOTLAND?
A STATEMENT FROM BRIAN HIGGINS, SECRETARY OF THE BUILDING WORKERS’ GROUP, ABOUT THE DEATHS IN QATAR
DAVE WILLIAMS – A TRIBUTE
UNDERCOVER BUT WITHIN SITES – POLICE INFILTRATION OF TRADE UNIONS
COLLUSION AND BETRAYAL
The First Shoots of a New Industrial Fightback?
Brian Higgins Anti-Blacklist Campaign
Campaign To Fight The Blacklist And To Support Brian Higgins
Other obituaries
Dave Smith, the Blacklist Support Group
https://www.union-news.co.uk/bsg-pays-tribute-to-the-late-brian-higgins-the-most-blacklisted-building-worker-in-the-uk/
Paul Lynch, Northampton Chronicle
https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/people/northampton-bricklayer-who-became-most-blacklisted-construction-worker-in-britain-dies-1-8955980
Marcus Barnett, Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/progressives-play-tribute-to-britains-most-blacklisted-construction-worker
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BREXIT AND THE RISE OF RIGHT NATIONAL POPULISM FOLLOWING THE 2016 EURO-REFERENDUM
Category: Against Imperialism,Against Unionism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,England,For Emancipation: Struggles against Exploitation,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,How they are organised,How we organise,Ireland,Political Campaigns,Scotland,The EU,The Socialist Republican Break-up of the UK,Trade Unionism,UK state/British imperialism,US imperialism — RCN @ 12:24 pm
The following article, written by Allan Armstrong, is the second last chapter of his new book, From Pre-Brit to Ex-Brit – The Forging and the Break-up of the UK and Britishnessness. It is hoped to publish the full book on line. Anybody who would like a pre-publication pdf copy of the book send an e-mail to intfrobel@yahoo.com
From the ‘Peoples Vote’ demonstration in London on 23.3.19
The 2016 Euro-referendum highlighted the divisions that had emerged amongst the British ruling class over the UK’s future relationship with the European Union (EU). But it was the 2007/8 Financial Crisis which bought about the preconditions foe this split. This crisis showed that the UK economy wasn’t bearing up too well, and British politicians could see that their influence amongst the Council of Ministers on the top table of the EU was shrinking. Continue reading “BREXIT AND THE RISE OF RIGHT NATIONAL POPULISM FOLLOWING THE 2016 EURO-REFERENDUM”
Tags: "Brexit Plus Plus Plus", 'America First', 'Blatcherism', 'Butskellism', 'Henry VIII clauses', 'hostile environment', 'LeaveEU/Grassroots Leave, 'multiculturalism from below', 'Project Fear', 'Project Hate', 'Project Hope', 'Spirit of 45', 'Take Back Control', 'Vote Leave', 1981 British Nationality Act, 1992 Maastricht Treaty, 2002 Nationality, 2003 Iraq War, 2007/8 Financial Crisis, 2014 Immigration Act, 2016 Euror-referendum, 2016 Immigration Act, 2018 Israeli 'Jewish nation-state' constitution, Arron Banks, Author: Allan Armstrong, Binyamin Netanyahu, Boris Johnson, Breibart, Brexit, Britain Stronger in the EU, British National Party, British road to socialism, Britishness, Bundesbank, CETA, City of London, CPB, CPGB, detention centres, Donald Trump, Dvid Cameron, EEC, Empire2, Enoch Powell, EU, European Central Bank, Europhobes, Eurosceptics, Far Right, Frank Field, From Pre-Brit to Ex-Brit - The Forging and the Break-up of the UK and Britishnessness, gastarbeiter system, George Galloway, Gisella Stuart, Gordon Brown, Harry Stanley, Iain Duncan Smith, Immigration and Asylum Act, IndyRef1, Investment State Dispute Settlement, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jair Bolsonaro, Jean Charles de Menezes, Jeremy Corbyn, John Major, Kare Hoey, Labour Left, Labour Party, Labour Right, Lexit, Margaret Thatcher, Marine Le Pen, Maybynism, Michael Gove, NAFTA, National Front, neo-liberalism, Nigel Farage, Nigel Lawson, Peoples' Vote campaign, Perer Cruddas, Right national populism, Sayeeda Warsi, Single European Market, Socialist Party/No2EU, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, Steve Bannon, SWP, Tea Party, Terrorism Acts, the Movement, Theresa May, Tony Blair, Tory Right, Troika, TTIP, UK state Crown Powers, UKIP, Universal Credit, US Federal Reserve Bank, UUP, Windrush Scandal, World Bank
INDICTMENT ON VIOLATIONS WITH IMPUNITY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEE PEOPLES
Category: Against Imperialism,Capitalism and Communism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,For Emancipation: Struggles against Exploitation,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,How they are organised,Other Social Struggles,The EU,UK state/British imperialism — RCN @ 9:15 pm
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal met in London on the 3-4th November 2018. During the session on the Violation with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples the following Indictment was submitted.
INDICTMENT SUBMITTED TO THE PERMANENT PEOPLES’ TRIBUNAL
SESSION ON THE VIOLATIONS WITH IMPUNITY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANT AND REFUGEE PEOPLES (2017-2019)
“HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT ON TRIAL” LONDON HEARING
3-4 November 2018
http://permanentpeoplestribunal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Indictment_final.docx.pdf
Specific charges against the UK government (in its own right and as representative of the EU and member states and the global North)
1. Within a work force impoverished and rendered insecure by neoliberal policies, it has ensured that migrant and refugee workers often remain super-exploited, marginalised and deprived of rights by legal and operational measures including:
i.Failure (in common with virtually the whole of the global North) to sign or ratify the UN Migrant Workers’ Convention; Continue reading “INDICTMENT ON VIOLATIONS WITH IMPUNITY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEE PEOPLES”
Tags: 2016 Immigration Act, EEA, EU, Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, Home Office, ILO Domestic Workers' Convention, Islamophobia, NHS, Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, UK, UN Migrant Workers Convention, Violation with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples
RESISTING THE LIBERAL ORDER
Category: Capitalism and Communism,How they are organised,The crisis on the Left,The EU — RCN @ 2:01 pm
Murdo Ritchie, who has been an advocate of Leave vote on this blog, continues with his review of The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavistas
Costas Lapavistas
A REVIEW OF THE THE LEFT CASE AGAINST THE EU BY COSTAS LAPAVISTAS
“You can vote for any government you like in Europe pretty much. But the policies that thegovernment will have to follow and apply with regard to the economy will be the same, if you’re inthe European Union.”1 Marxist monetary economist Costas Lapavitsas is scathing about the damagethe neoliberal order has brought across Europe. He is also angry that so many on the “left” have
allied themselves with these forces. He is especially angry about the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of SYRIZA who he accuses of subverting the entire movement by turning a vote against austerity into policies to accept them. He is also scathing about Yanis Varoufakis who he believestook unnecessary risks during the negotiations with the European Central Bank and now promotes
an unworkable strategy regarding the European Union and the European Monetary Union. Continue reading “RESISTING THE LIBERAL ORDER”
Tags: Author: Murdo Ritchie, Costas Lapavistas, The Left Case Against the EU
WHAT VOTING LEAVE HAS REVEALED
Category: How they are organised,The EU — RCN @ 2:41 pm
Murdo Ritchie, a contributor to this blog, who has been an advocate of a Leave vote, argues what a Leave vote represents.
WHAT VOTING HAS REVEALED
Blue – Leave
Yellow – Remain
The loud vote of no more in the United Kingdom against remaining in the European Union has been one of the most successful protest votes in history.1 Unlike the previous referendum on Europe in 1975 voters were not asked to vote Yes or No, but to Remain or Leave. This turned the poll into a vote of affirmation for the EU institutions and Prime Minister David Cameron’s strategy or rejection for a multitude of different reasons. Never have the class and national divisions that make the UK been made so visible. The UK’s semi-detached approach to the EU may have never undergone the depth of crisis that Greece, Ireland or Portugal experienced or the flights of population that many countries in the south and east still undergo, but many voters unexpectedly unleashed an angry statement they were not prepared to continue living with the rotten status quo. It was a protest without a coherent plan, but a protest nonetheless. This crisis would not have occurred if the Remain vote had won. Continue reading “WHAT VOTING LEAVE HAS REVEALED”
Tags: Author: Murdo Ritchie
IRISH NURSES AND THE FAILURE OF SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP
Category: Capitalism and Communism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,For Emancipation: Struggles against Exploitation,How they are organised,How we organise,Independent class organisations,Ireland,The crisis on the Left,The EU,Trade Unionism — RCN @ 1:18 pm
We are posting two articles from the Socialist Democracy (Ireland) blog addressing the nurses’ struggle for improved pay and a better health service in Ireland. The second goes into the underlying problems faced when unions embrace a partnerships with the state and employers in a time of economic crisis.
1.SQUARING THE CIRCLE
Government, union bureaucracy put nurses back in their box
Nurses take action in Dublin
In antiquity Greek mathematicians came up with an insoluble problem called “squaring the circle”. The term entered the English language as a metaphor for an impossible task.
Yet this is the task that INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha, alongside the executives of the nurses and midwives union and the psychiatric nurses union, with the support of ICTU, set out to achieve. Continue reading “IRISH NURSES AND THE FAILURE OF SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP”
Tags: "leprechaun economics", Author: Irish Socialist Network, Dublin Bus, European Central Bank, FORSA, GNI, ICTU, INMO, Irish Labour Court, Irish nurses' strike, NAMA, Patricia KIng, Phil Ni Sheaghdha, Public Sector Pay Commission, Public Sector Stability Agreement, Sinn Fein, SIPTU, Social Democracy, Social Partnership, Trade Unionists for a New and United Ireland
THE CONTINUING BREXIT CRISIS
Category: How they are organised,The EU,UK state/British imperialism — RCN @ 3:10 pm
The National Forum of the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) held on June 30th agreed to take up the issue of a Ratification referendum over Theresa May’s Brexit Proposals (http://radicalindyedinburgh.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-case-for-eu-ratification-referendum.html). A letter advocating this course of action was published in The National on 24.7.19. In his new letter published in The National on Sunday on 17.2.19, Allan Armstrong argues that the time for this has now passed. He advocates a different course of action needed to meet the current political situation.
A ratification referendum could unite those in RIC who supported a Remain vote, and those who supported a Leave vote. The crisis over Brexit has brought about a new situation where Lexiters and Left Remainers have different views of the way to move forward. RIC has continued to organise discussions, where both sides could put their case. Cat Boyd put the case for a new Lexit campaign in her letter to The National on 18.11.19, to which Allan wrote a reply 0n 27.11.19.
(http://radicalindyedinburgh.blogspot.com/2018/12/where-now-for-brexit.html)
Allan’s new letter to the National on Sunday is also written from the perspective of a critical Remainer.
And ALL includes EU residents and 16-18 year olds denied the vote last time
LETTER TO THE NATIONAL ON SUNDAY, 17.2.19
In all the bourach surrounding Brexit at Westminster, no particular alternative commanding majority support has yet come forward. Last year The National published a letter I had written suggesting that Holyrood organise a ratification referendum over Mays’s proposed Brexit deal (24.7.18). The Scottish people have already voted decisively to reject Brexit, so there is no need to re-run the original 2016 Leave/Remain referendum. One of the most important things about a Holyrood organised referendum is that it could have included all those EU residents and 16-18 year olds included in IndyRef1. An additional benefit of a Holyrood run a ratification referendum is that it would have given focus to the Scottish independence campaign at a time when May had put the shutters up on any IndyRef2.
Given the Tories’ continued resort to all the most anti-democratic powers given to the government under the Crown-in-Westminster set-up, it is unlikely that May would then have conceded some separate Scottish deal. Separate deals are only made for those who want to reinforce all the most reactionary aspects of the Union, like the DUP in Northern Ireland. However, it would have forced the smug Scottish Tories to defend their constant Brexit U-turns. But more importantly, by organising a referendum that included those excluded in 2016, this would have shone a spotlight on the profoundly anti-democratic way by which the Right’s Brexit vote victory was achieved. And given that the Cameron government was responsible for agreeing the franchise criteria in both the IndyRef1 and the EU membership referenda, it would also have shown up the Tories’ hypocrisy.
The time has now run out for any ratification referendum in Scotland, and the possibility of supporting so-called Peoples Vote has attracted SNP MP’s support. To allow a rerun of the original EU referendum is to invite trouble. The people most affected by any Brexit are EU residents and 16-18 year olds. Their voice needs to be heard, as May and Corbyn manouevre to introduce a new gastarbeiter system of labour control in the new Immigration Bill. We have had to fight a series of defensive battles to stop the Home Office deporting people from Scotland. Our most recent success, supported by SNP MPs, has been the case of Iranian born Rezvan Habibimarand and Mozaffar Saberi.
However, instead of mounting a series of rearguard actions to defend people the UK state deems not to be British subjects, we need to start by including EU residents (and 16-18year olds) as part of our people. Therefore, if a People’s Vote proposal is placed before Westminster, it should only be backed by SNP MPs, following an amendment restoring the franchise arrangements made for IndyRef1.
and for an earlier response written immediately after the Brexit vote see:-
JUNE 24th – THE FUKers’ BLACK FRIDAY OR RED FRIDAY FOR A EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION?
Tags: Author: Allan Armstrong, Author: Cat Boyd, Brexit ratification referendum, IndyRef1, Left Remainers, Lexiters, May's Brexit Deal, Mozaffar Saberi, Peoples Vote, Radical Independence Campaign, Rezvan Habibimarand, SNP
FROM BLATCHERISM TO MAYBYNISM
Category: Against Unionism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,For Emancipation: Struggles against Exploitation,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,How they are organised,Other Economic Struggles,The crisis on the Left,The EU,The global economy,UK state/British imperialism,US imperialism — RCN @ 10:47 pm
Below is a synopsis of Allan Armstrong’s new pamphlet From Blatcherism to Maybynsism. Chapter 6, Scotland – from ‘Project Hope’ to ‘Project Hate’ – and from ‘Better Together’ to ‘Bitter Together’ can be seen in the bella caledonia blog at:-
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/02/19/from-project-fear-to-project-hate-from-better-together-to-bitter-together/
THE CONTINUING SHIFT TO THE RIGHT
IN THE TRANSITION FROM
NEO-LIBERALISM TO NATIONAL POPULISM
Allan Armstrong presents a case that the world is leaving the period of neo-liberal domination and entering a period of national populist domination. This is analogous to the earlier move from post-Second World War social democratic domination, which ended in 1979/80. He emphasises the role of the 2008 Crash in dividing the UK and US ruling classes. This had led to the rapid growth of national populist politics in these and other states. The Right’s winning of the Brexit vote and then the election of Trump (‘Brexit, plus, plus, plus’) has performed a similar role in the transition from neo-liberalist domination to national populist domination that the election of Thatcher and Reagan had played in the earlier transition. Continue reading “FROM BLATCHERISM TO MAYBYNISM”
Tags: "Brexit Plus Plus Plus", 'Blatcherism', 'Butskellism', 'Project Fear', 'Project Hate', 'Project Hope', Author: Allan Armstrong, Better Together, Bitter Together, Brexit, Catalunya, China, constitutional nationalism, gastarbeiter labour controls, IndyRef1, Ireland, Jeremy Corbyn, Maybynism, national populism, neo-liberalism, Scotland, Social Democracy, Trump, UK, USA
BREXIT AND WHAT IT MEANS IN IRELAND
Category: Against Unionism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,How they are organised,Ireland,The EU,UK state/British imperialism — RCN @ 10:18 pm
The E&L blog has been reporting the situation in Ireland since we started up. However, during current Brexit negotiations , the ‘backstop’ has pushed the issue of Northern Ireland to the fore. We are publishing two articles which share a lot in common in their analysis of Ireland, but which offer differing perspectives on the role of the EU. The first is written by David Jamieson and first appeared on the Commonspace blog. The second is written by Allan Armstrong and forms the seventh chapter of his new pamphlet From Blatcherism to Maybynism.
ANALYSIS – MICRO-POLITICS ISN’T ENOUGH – WE MUST ADDRESS
THE PARTITION OF IRELAND
Debates around the UK border in Ireland and the so called ‘backstop’ bring the crisis elements of the British state into sharper focus. Continue reading “BREXIT AND WHAT IT MEANS IN IRELAND”
Tags: 'Orange State', 'Peace' Walls, 1916-22 Irish Revolution, 1997 Good Friday Agreement, 2012 Loyalist Flag Riots, Alliance Party, apartheid-type states, Arlene Foster, Author:David Jamieson, B-Specials, Battle of the Boyne 1690, Borders Communities Against Brexit, Brexit, British Empire, Cantrell Close - South Belfast, Catholics, Civil Rights Movement, Crown-in-Westminster, Customs Union, Downing Street Declaration, DUP, Emma Little Pengelly, EU, European United Left - Nordic Green Left, Fascism, Glorious Revolution 1688, Good Friday Agreement, Ian Paisley, Ian Paisley Junior, Irish Home Rule, Irish reunification, Loyalism, Martin McGuinness, Mary Lou MacDonald, New Unionism, Northern Ireland, partition, Post WW1 Coupon Coalition, Protestants, PSNI, reactionary unionism, Republic of Ireland, Republican Movement, Right populism, RUC, SDLP, Sinn Fein, SNP, the backstop, Theresa May, Tories, TUV, UDA, UUP, UVF
THE ENIGMATIC GILETS-JAUNES
Category: For Emancipation: Struggles against Exploitation,How they are organised,How we organise,Independent class organisations,Other Economic Struggles,The EU,Trade Unionism — RCN @ 10:01 pm
Mike McNair of the CPGB (Weekly Worker) has written a critical analysis of the Gilets-Jaunes protests in France. He suggests that the politics stemming from this movement could move both Right and Left.
We have just seen the ninth weekend of gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests in France. Numbers were slightly up compared to previous occasions, with the government claiming 84,000 took to the streets across the country and 8,000 in Paris, while 80,000 police were deployed France-wide. Continue reading “THE ENIGMATIC GILETS-JAUNES”
Tags: 1968, Author: Mike McNair, Debout la France, En Marche, France Insoumise, French Fifth Republic, Frexit, Front National, Gilets-Jaunes, Greens, immigration controls, International Viewpoint, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Law & Justice - Poland, Leon Cremieux, Les Republicans, Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini, Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, Occupy Mmovement, Orban - Hungary, Parti Communiste ~Francais, Parti Socialiste, Rassemblement National, Socialist Workers Party, Spiked
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THE IHRA AND APARTHEID ISRAEL
Category: Against Imperialism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,How they are organised,UK state/British imperialism,US imperialism — RCN @ 8:08 pm
We are posting three pieces following the Labour Party’s adoption of the IHTA statement on Anti-Semitism. the first is by Moshe Machover, founder member of the socialist Matzpen Party in Israel, who successfully resisted a joint Zionist and Labour Right attempt to have him expelled from the Labour Party. The second is by a Shahd Abuslama, a Palestinian artist at Sheffield University. The third is a statement from Radical Independence Campaign’s Edinburgh branch.
1. WHY ISRAEL IS A RACIST STATE
Moshe Machover
That Israel is a racist state is a well-established fact. On July On July 19 2018, it enacted a quasi-constitutional nationality bill – ‘Basic law: Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people’ – which has been widely condemned as institutionalising discrimination against Israel’s non-Jewish citizens. As many have observed, this law merely codifies and formalises a reality that long predates it.(1) Continue reading “THE IHRA AND APARTHEID ISRAEL”
Tags: 1905 Aliens Act, 1917 Balfour Declaration, Adalah, Ahed Tamini, ANC, anti-racism, Anti-Semitism, apartheid Israel, Apartheid South Africa, Author: Moshe Machover, Author: Shahd Abuslama, Benjamin Netanhayu, Bezalel Smotrich, Board of Deputies, Boycott, Christians, civic nation, colonisation, Daniel Blatman, David Cameron, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign, Eu referendum, Federation of Conservative Students, Gaza, Gordon Brown, Great March of Return, Holocaust, Ian Paisley Junior, IHRA, IndyRef1, Isaac Herzog, Jewish Colonial Trust, Jewish Friends of Palestine, Jews, Joshua bin Nun, Katie Hopkins, Kristellnacht 1938, Labour Friends of Israel, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Gove, Miki Zohar, Muslims, Naqba, Nazi Germany, Nazi invasion of astern Europe 1941, Nelson Mandela, Nicola Sturgeon, Nuremberg Laws 1935, Prince William, Professor Zeev Sternhell, Radival ~Independence Campaign - Edinburgh, Saidi Arabia, Scotland, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Sharpeville, Tasmania, Ted Heath, Theresa May, Tommy Robinson, Tony Blair, Tsarist Russian pogroms, US Declaration of Independence, USA, Victor Orban, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Wannsee Conference 1942, West Bank, Zac Goldsmith, Zionism, Zionist Congress 1898, `Palestinian self-determination
2 RESPONSES TO CHAKRABHATI REPORT
Category: Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,How they are organised,Middle East and North Africa,The crisis on the Left — RCN @ 10:19 am
Julia Bard and Tony Greenstein have written their own responses to the official Chakrabhati Report into Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Julia Bard is a freelance journalist, a member of the NC of the Jewish Socialists’ Group and the Editorial Committee of Jewish Socialist magazine. Tony Greenstein is a log standing Jewish anti-Zionist and currently suspended member of the Labour Party. Julia Bard’s article was first posted at http://www.chartist.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Chartist-281-spread.pdf and Tony Greenstein’s at http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1114/a-marred-report.
Shami Chakrabati and Jeremy Corbyn at the launch of the report
1. CYNICISM BEHIND ANTI-SEMITISM ROW
Julia Bard dissects the issues in the recent anti-semitism furore in the Labour Party and finds the issue is being instrumentalised for other political purposes.
Continue reading “2 RESPONSES TO CHAKRABHATI REPORT”
Tags: Anti-Semitism, anti-zionism, Author: Julia Bard, Author: Tony Greenstein, Baroness Royall, Binyamin Netanyahu, Borderlife, Chakrabarti Report, David Aaranovitch, David Feldman, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt, Iain McNichol, Institute of Race Relations, Israel, Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish Labour Movement, Jewish Socialist Group, Jews, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Lehava group, Macpherson Report, Marc Wadsworth, Marek Edelman, Muslims, Naz Shah, Nazis, Oxford University Labour Club, Palestine, Phil Piratin, Ruth Smeeth, World Zionist Organisation
THE SECRET OF ITS WEAKNESS: RACISM AND THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN
Category: Capitalism and Communism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,England,For Emancipation: Struggles against Exploitation,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,Scotland,UK state/British imperialism,Wales — RCN @ 4:59 pm
We are posting this review by Colin Barker (RS21) of Satnam Virdee‘s book Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider. This book is an important contribution to the debates around race and class. It was first published in the Spring 2015 issue of rs21 magazine. It can also be seen at:– http://rs21.org.uk/2015/03/21/the-secret-of-its-weakness-racism-and-the-working-class-movement-in-britain/
THE SECRET OF ITS WEAKNESS:
RACISM AND THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN
Satnam Virdee has written an important book. It is a history of working-class struggles to win economic and social gains, and to gain access to democracy in Britain, viewed through the prism of ‘race’.
From the start, English and then British capitalism was founded on imperial expansion, drawing under its control large parts of the world, and ‘importing’ into its territory large numbers of people from the lands it conquered, colonised and robbed. Yet many accounts of British working class development are silent on the presence and the impact of migrants, their sufferings and resistance, and the vital ‘racial politics’ that shaped both the major waves of popular resistance and the troughs between them.
Continue reading “THE SECRET OF ITS WEAKNESS: RACISM AND THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN”
Tags: 'Celtic race', 'Empire Windrush', 'socialist nationalism', Anti-Nazi League, APEX, Arthur Macmanus, Asians, Author: Colin Barker, British Brothers League, British Socialist Party, British Union of Fascists, Carnival Against the Nazis, Chartism, Chinese, Clyde Workers Committee, Comintern, CPGB, David Bowie, Enoch Powell, Eric Clapton, Henry Hyndman, ILP, Irish Catholics, Irish Home Rule, Islamophobia, James Connolly, Jews, Lenin, Lewisham, London dockers, Manny Shinwell, Mrs Desai, National Front, NationalUnion of Seamen, Notting Hill Riots, Nottingham Riots, Oswald Mosley, Popular Front, Racism Class and the Racialised Outsider, Rock Against Racism, RS21, Satnam Virdee, Scotland, Scottish Labour Party, Social Democratic Federation, Socialist League, South Shields, South Wales, TGWU, Tories, TUC, William Cuffay, William Morris, Willie Gallacher, Yorkshire
SECULARISM, SOCIALISM AND RELIGION
Category: For Emancipation: Struggles against Exploitation,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,Ideology and Religion: Science and Secularism — RCN @ 6:31 pm
The issue of secularism was discussed at the RCN weekend away in Fife on 22nd February. Allan Armstrong introduced the session using the presentation he had made to Edinburgh RIC. The following discussion extended beyond the scope of the introductory talk, and brought up issues which Bob Goupillot had written about when the RCN was a platform in the SSP. Below, is an updated version of this, first published in Emancipation & Liberation, no 14, Spring 2007.
A Marxist understanding of religion
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Marx understood the religious impulse to be a human response to a world that is sometimes scary, terrifying and out of our control. Thus the religions of hunter-gatherer people focus on asserting control over their prey animals, the religious festivals of farming peoples focus on marking the passing seasons and placating the gods and goddesses of the earth and sky. Religion is a human, spiritual response to an uncertain world.
Continue reading “SECULARISM, SOCIALISM AND RELIGION”
Tags: agnosticism, Albania, atheism, Author: Bob Goupillot, Baptists, blasphemy laws, Catholicism, Christians, Gaddafi, George Galloway, Islamophobia, Jews, Judeophobia or anti-Judaism, Karl Marx, Moslems, Nasser, Respect, Russian Orthodox Church, Secularism, Stalin, SWP, USA, USSR
SECULARISM: TIME TO SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE
Category: Against Unionism,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,Ideology and Religion: Science and Secularism,Ireland,Scotland — RCN @ 2:35 pm
This is an introduction given by Allan Armstrong (RCN) to the Edinburgh branch of the Edinburgh Radical Independence Campaign on Monday, September 30th. It is followed by some responses from other socialists.
Two interesting articles were published last week. The first one in The Herald (27.9.13) highlighted the recent Scottish census, which pointed out that, for the first time, those professing no religion had emerged as the largest and fastest growing group in Scotland (37%). The second article in the Sunday Herald (22.9.13) highlighted the growing penetration of Protestant fundamentalist church activity in Scotland’s ‘non-denominational’ schools.
The best way to understand and deal with such issues is to take a secular approach. Twenty years ago, most people, especially on the Left, would have been quite clear what secularism meant. Secularism is the complete separation of religion from the state. People’s choice of religion or of no religion is a private matter.
Continue reading “SECULARISM: TIME TO SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE”
Tags: 2011 census, anti-Irish racism, atheists, Author: Allan Armstrong, BNP, Bob Goupillot, British/Irish, Catholic Church, Church of Scotland, Conservative Party, Dean Park Primary - Balerno, Episcopalians, Eric Chester, Humanist Society of Scotland, Humanists, James Macmillan, Jews, John Ogilvie, Judaic law, Kirktonholme Primary - East Kilbride, Lasswade High, loyalists, Martin Tod, Moderator - John White, Murdo Ritchie, Muslims, Orange Order, Patrick Hamilton, Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, Presbyterians, Protestant/Catholic, Radical Independence Campaign, Rangers/Celtic, Republicans, SDL, Sectarianism, Secularism, sharia law, Sikhs, Thomas Aikenhead, Tom Gallagher, Tom Murray - Lord High Commissioner, Unionist/Nationalist
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“Let’s Dismantle IRS: This Racket is Busted”
October 17, 2018 in News by Slad
via: email
Source: SupremeLaw.org
By Paul Andrew Mitchell
Private Attorney General
All Rights Reserved without Prejudice
It’s time to dismantle the Internal Revenue Service. This organization has outlived its usefulness.
The hunt was on, several years ago, when activists like this writer confirmed that IRS was never created by any Act of Congress. It cannot be found in any of the laws which created the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The U.S. Supreme Court quietly admitted as much, at footnote 23 in Chrysler Corp. v. Brown. In a nation governed by the rule of law, this omission is monumental.
The search for its real origins has taken this nation down many blind alleys, so convoluted and complicated are the statutes and regulations which govern its employees rarely, if ever.
The best explanation now favors its links to Prohibition, the ill-fated experiment in outlawing alcohol.
The Women’s Temperance Movement, we believe, was secretly underwritten by the petroleum cartel, to perfect a monopoly over automotive fuels. Once that monopoly was in place, Prohibition was repealed, leaving alcohol high and dry as the preferred fuel for cars and trucks, and leaving a federal police force inside the several States, to extort money from the American People.
All evidence indicates that IRS is an alias for the Federal Alcohol Administration (“FAA”), which was declared unconstitutional inside the several States by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1935. The result of the high Court’s decision in U.S. v. Constantine confined that FAA to federal territories, like Puerto Rico, where Congress is the “state” legislature.
Further confirmation can be found in a decision by the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Used Tire International, Inc. v. Manual Diaz-Saldana, which identified the latter as the real “Secretary of the Treasury.” The Code of Federal Regulations for Title 27 also identifies this other “Secretary” as an office in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
This is ominous data. It serves to suggest that IRS has no authority whatsoever to mail envelopes from the “Department of the Treasury.” Such obvious deception is prohibited by federal mail fraud statutes, and defined as a predicate to racketeering.
Moreover, the vagueness now proven to frequent the Internal Revenue Code forces a legal conclusion that the entire Code is necessarily void, read “no legal effect.” The high Court’s test for vagueness is obviously violated when men and women of common intelligence cannot agree on its correct meaning, its proper construction, or its territorial application.
Take, for instance, a statute at IRC section 7851. Here, Congress has said that all the enforcement provisions in subtitle F shall take effect on the day after the date “this title” is enacted. These provisions include, for example, filing requirements, penalties for failing to file, and tax evasion.
Title 26 has never been enacted into positive law, rendering every single section in subtitle F a big pile of spaghetti, with no teeth whatsoever. Throughout most federal laws, the consistent legislative practice is to use the term “this title” to refer to a Title of the United States Code.
To make matters worse, conscientious courts (an endangered species) have ruled that taxes cannot be imposed without statutes assigning a specific liability to certain parties.
There are no statutes creating a specific liability for taxes imposed by subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code. This is the set of statutes that impose the federal income tax.
Look at it this way: if Congress imposed a tax on chickens, would that necessarily mean that the chickens are liable for the tax?
Obviously not! Congress would also need to define the farmer, or the consumer, or the wholesaler, as the party liable for paying that tax. Chickens, where are your tax returns?
Without a liability statute, there can be no liability.
This now opens another, deeper layer in this can of rotting worms. If IRS is really using fear tactics to extort an unlawful debt, then it qualifies for careful scrutiny, and prosecution, under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act aka “RICO”.
How fitting, and how ironic, that IRS is legally domiciled in Puerto RICO.
When we get down to brass tacks, we find that Congress encourages private Citizens to investigate and bust rackets, mainly because it perceived a shortage of public prosecutors talented enough to enforce RICO statutes against organized crime syndicates.
This shortage is the real reason why the RICO statute at 18 U.S.C. 1964 awards triple damages to any party who prevails, using the civil remedies it provides. And, happily, State courts like the Superior Court of California also enjoy original jurisdiction to litigate and issue these remedies.
All of this would approach comedy in the extreme, were it not also the case that IRS launders huge sums of money, every day, into foreign banks chiefly owned by the families that founded the Federal Reserve system.
Did you think the Federal Reserve was federal government? Guess again!
One of the biggest shocks of the last century was an admission by President Reagan’s Grace Commission, that none of the income taxes collected by IRS goes to pay for any federal government services.
Those taxes are paying interest to these foreign banks, and benefit payments to recipients of entitlement programs, like federal pension funds.
So, the next time your neighbors accuse you of being unpatriotic for challenging the IRS, we recommend that you demand from them proof that IRS is really funding any federal government services, like air traffic control, the Pentagon, the Congress, the Courts, or the White House.
Don’t hold your breath.
Honestly, when all the facts are put on a level table top, there is not a single reason why America should put up with this massive fiscal fraud for one more day.
It’s now time to dismantle the Internal Revenue Service.
Keeping all those laundered funds inside this country will result in economic prosperity without precedent in our nation’s history.
Let’s bury IRS beneath the Titanic, where it can rust in peace forever along with the rest of the planet’s jellyfish.
America deserves to be a living, thriving Republic, not another victim of Plank Number Two in the Communist Manifesto.
Paul Andrew Mitchell is a Private Attorney General and
Webmaster of the Supreme Law Library on the Internet:
http://www.supremelaw.org
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“The Kick-Back Racket: PMRS”
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“Our Proposal to Save Social Security”
“Charitable Contributions by the Federal Reserve”
“Legal Notice in re Withholding Exemption Certificates”
“A Cogent Summary of Federal Jurisdictions”
“BATF/IRS — Criminal Fraud”
“Income Taxes and Government Fraud”
“A Monologue on Federal Fiscal Fraud”
“Miscellaneous Letters of Correspondence”
Tags: IRS, Law, SCOTUS, Taxes
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Not on duty
Changing food habits
Inordinate delays
ADDC Anantnag, Riyaz Ahmad Sofi on Monday made surprise visits to check the attendance of employees in departments of Flood Control Division, Anantnag, Horticulture Department, Social Welfare, ARTO Office, District Statics & Evaluation, Fisheries, Chief Education Office, Chief Animal Husbandry Office and Tehsil Office, Anantnag. A total of 13 employees were found to be absent from duty in the district, who will now be facing legal action. Surprise visits by higher officials of the administration is a proven method to prevent dereliction of duties in government offices across the state. However, the administration cannot rely entirely on surprise visits and must look for other alternatives to ensure attendance in the offices. Previous Governor NN Vohra was a strict administrator and on several occasions worked for bringing a change in the office work culture. He stressed on modern methods of ensuring attendance in offices like installing biometric system. While daily attendance is an issue, people in the state have also suffered due to long absences of government officials in various departments that provide public services. Government announced termination of 100 doctors some time ago for their long and unofficial absence from the duties. Absentees have also forwarded different reasons to remain off duty, and in the case of daily absenteeism most of the times it is on trivial matters. In the health and education sectors the problem of absenteeism is acute. People have complained that doctors are at times not present in tertiary care hospitals in Srinagar city and remain on call to see the patients due to their indulgence in private practices despite the government ban. Also in the case of education department that employs huge staff, there are schools where influential teachers are said to show dereliction towards duty by either not attending the schools on regular basis or leaving the schools before closing time. Absenteeism in government offices is a chronic disease and needs proper treatment. Surprise visits are not only cumbersome but a time taking process. The government cannot afford to conduct surprise visits throughout the year. Biometric system offers an efficient way of monitoring attendance in offices. But then the government has to ensure that data is not tampered with. By taking stock of the situation the government can also improve the accountability in the offices. And lastly, action against the erring officials will ensure that the practice is not emulated.
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Bitcoin Banknotes Released in Singapore to Encourage Mass Adoption
It’s 2018 and Bitcoin is a household name – savvy investors and newcomers alike have come to accept the new cryptocurrency as something that is widely prevalent and here to stay. However, it’s still uncommon to expect someone to know how to access cryptocurrency or use it to make a payment.
Tangem, a Singapore-based startup focused on the production/distribution of physical, smart banknotes.
Tangem, a Singapore-based start-up, has made an effort to normalize Bitcoin and make it accessible to the masses through a secure, physical banknote that holds the cryptocurrency internally.
Cryptocurrency is complex and requires a learning curve to use, leaving many in the shadows of this digital movement.
Tangem believes that the return to a traditional, physical representation of currency will encourage those on the sidelines to make their first purchase using cryptocurrency and enable an easier method of peer-to-peer exchange. Co-Founder at Tangem, Andrew Pantyukhin, states in an interview:
“With these banknotes you can conduct physical crypto transactions by just handing them over or receiving them. Unlike using crypto currency online, physical transactions are immediate, free, anonymous and there are no fees.”
By removing the need for long, complicated wallet addresses and transaction fees, Tangem has found a way to make even simpler and more frictionless the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange experience.
Price and Accessibility of Tangem Banknotes
This week, Tangem launched their pilot batch of Bitcoin banknotes for sale in the Megafash Suntec City Store in Singapore. Currently, the banknotes are only offered at denominations of .01 and .05 BTC (or roughly $97.25 USD and $486.25 USD, respectively).
According to a press release made by Tangem, the company “is delivering the first shipment of 10,000 production notes to prospective partners and distributors around the world for commercial pilots” – indicating a step towards wider exposure and adoption of this unique medium for cryptocurrency storage.
Hardware, Not Paper – The Tech Behind It All
The Tangem banknotes utilize a Samsung Semiconductor S3D350A chip to meet the criteria for the EAL6+ and EMVCo highest security standards. According to Tangem Co-Founder, Andrew Pantyukhin:
“The tamper-proof chip technology has been developed and continuously improved for decades for military and government applications… [and] addresses all known attack vectors on hardware and software levels.”
Tangem claims the embedded cold wallet is “uncopiable” and that each banknote is independent of the others – making total network hacking nearly impossible.
In addition, users can validate the funds available on each banknote via an NFC-enabled smartphone. This added functionality mimics the use of conventional credit or debit cards in daily transactions – simplifying the usability of the banknotes in comparison to fiat currency.
As cryptocurrency continues to become more prevalent in everyday usage, Tangem positions itself at the forefront of mass adoption by solving a problem blockchain never could: simple access.
The post Bitcoin Banknotes Released in Singapore to Encourage Mass Adoption appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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Guest Blog: Boy soldiers are more evidence that ISIS are just thugs
- 17th November 2014
By Guest Blogger JASON GOODWIN
ISIS - SO-CALLED ISLAMIC STATE - is recruiting boy soldiers, children as young as eight who can go about arresting people while weighed down with their own firepower.
Under the Ottoman Empire, boys of the same age were taken from their parents and turned into soldiers, the fearsome Janissaries whose avowed aim was the conquest of Christian Europe.Setting the warlords of Isis, it would seem, a useful precedent.
The Ottoman devsirme, or boy tribute system, was regularised in the fourteenth century, as Ottoman rule expanded across the Balkans, and discontinued in the seventeenth century.
It developed from the Koranic injunction that accords a successful leader one tenth of the booty of war for his own personal share: the property as well as the lives of his defeated enemies. In other words, soldiers from a defeated army could be enrolled in the army of the victor.
The extent to which the early Ottoman enterprise was uniquely Islamic – or even Turkish –has been hotly debated in recent years. Some early Ottoman commanders were Greek, or Serbian, by birth and upbringing. It was a Genoese fleet that shipped the first Ottoman armies across the Dardanelles and into southern Europe, while the conquest of the Balkans was made in a shifting kaleidoscope of alliances with non-Muslim powers. The siege of Istanbul, in 1453, was attended by thousands of non-Muslim troops and the cannon-founder who created the largest cannon ever used in mediaeval warfare to date was a Hungarian Catholic. Only later, when native dynasties had been eradicated under PaxOttomanica, were Ottoman armies predominantly Muslim.
The devsirme, or collection, extended to the dar-ul-islam, the Abode of Peace, a rule that technically applied only to the dar-ul-Harb, or the Abode of War. The Janissaries were a slave army, in a long Middle-Eastern tradition, enslaved precisely because they were not Muslims: the enslavement of Muslims was forbidden.
As slaves of the sultan they were bound to absolute obedience; in the early centuries they were also not allowed to marry or live outside barracks until they retired. The sultan, who ceremonially enrolled in a Janissary regiment, drew his pay along with his men.
Men, not boys. Every few years the devsirme would do the rounds of valleys and hills in the Balkans, enlisting – or enslaving – boys from the age of about eight upwards from Christian families.
They would be marched down to the shore and shipped across to farms in Anatolia, where they would learn Turkish, and recite the declaration of faith that made them Muslims. In many places the tribute was resented, although in Bosnia families would attempt to bribe the collector to pick their child.
Not all were destined for the army, or the ranks of the janissaries. Boys selected for their exceptional mien, strength and intelligencemight enter the palace school, to be trained as pages.
In the classical Ottoman system, it was from their ranks that the functionaries of the palace, and the empire, were drawn. Sinan, who in his old age became the greatest of Ottoman imperial architects, was a devsirme man. So were the hundreds of pashas who governed the empire, and the successive great dignitaries of the palace, including the Grand Vizier himself.
Although the Janissaries survived to 1826, and the Ottoman elite to 1922, the devsirme method of recruiting young Christian boys came to an end in the seventeenth century, not least because the elites pushed for their own children to be enrolled.
The Janissaries were not fundamentalists. They were on the contrary affiliated with the Bektashi order of Sufis, to whom much non-Koranic licence was permitted: they did not insist on the veiling of women or the rejection of alcohol.
The boys they took – and no doubt it was a grievance to the villagers whose menfolk were robbed – were exposed to the most extraordinary social mobility of the Middle Ages, or beyond: allowed, by talent, to become rulers.
The Isis boy-soldier culture has very little to do with the janissaries, who were created as part of a ruling élite. It far more resembles the African boy soldiery resorted to by warring gangs.
Isis are not confident. They are not a state. The Ottomans were both.
Jason Goodwin is an award-winning travel writer and historian. His latest book Lords of the Horizons: a History of the Ottoman Empire is published by Vintage.
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Post by sharkbait » Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:42 pm
Shark attacks man off New Smyrna beach coast
Helen Eckinger | Sentinel Staff Writer
8:32 AM EST, November 8, 2007
A shark bit a Deltona man off of the coast of New Smyrna beach this week, bringing this year's number of shark attacks in Volusia county up to 17.
Volusia County beach patrol captain Scott Petersohn identified the victim as Joseph Fox, 21, and said that while Fox sustained 9 lacerations on his right leg, his injuries were minor. Fox was attacked on Tuesday.
"We didn't even treat the guy - he was leaving the beach and he asked directions to the nearest hospital at a toll plaza," Petersohn said.
Petersohn said that all but three of this year's shark attacks in Volusia county have occurred near where Fox was bitten, an area known as the Point that is popular with surfers.
"You've got all of these guys sitting with their feet dangling in the water, there are bait fish all around, the water's murky," Petersohn said. "It's a case of mistaken identity."
In most attacks, Petersohn said, the shark swims away when it realizes it has bitten a human, rather than its normal food source. He also cautioned beachgoers from fixating on the threat of shark attacks while ignoring more common dangers like rip currents.
"I think it's that movie Jaws thing," he said. "Realistically, you have more of a chance of getting killed driving to work than you ever do of getting bitten by a shark."
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Post by sharkbait » Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:39 am
Deltona man nipped by shark at NSB jetty
SETH ROBBINS
Suffering minor punctures to his calf and knee, a Deltona man became Volusia County's 17th shark bite victim of the year, officials said today.
Joseph Fox, 21, was surfing south of the New Smyrna Beach jetty Tuesday when a shark nipped him on the right knee, said Capt. Scott Petersohn, spokesman for the Volusia County Beach Patrol.
After being bitten, Fox drove to Bert Fish Medical Center where he was treated for several puncture wounds and then released.
"If you're going to get bitten, that is the place," Petersohn said. "90 percent of our bites happen in that area."
Anyone interested in learning more about these steely snout creatures of the deep can listen to a free lecture tonight by George Burgess, the director of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
The file is "recognized as the definitive source of information on shark attacks," a Whitney news release states.
The lecture begins at 7 p.m. at the Whitney Lab's Center for Marine Studies, 9505 Oceanshore Blvd. in Marineland. It is part of the "Evenings at Whitney" series.
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A Hindi dubbed version, Dashavtar was released almost a year later. Bio-scientist Govindarajan Ramaswamy speaks at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium about chaos theory and the butterfly effect. He begins by reciting events from the 12th century in Chidambaram , when King Kulothunga Chola II , a Saivite , persecutes Vaishnavites and intends to destroy an idol of Govindaraja.
Rangarajan Nambi, a Vaishnavite, protects it and offends the king, who orders Rangarajan to be executed by being pierced, stoned, submerged into the sea with the idol, before being devoured by the shark, thus the king succeeding.
On 20 December , a nano bio-technology lab in the United States designs a vector-virus intended as a bio-weapon. When they were watching the indsound his pet monkey breaking out of her cage.
The monkey, who thinks he has the usual chocolate Govind would feed him, unknowingly swallows the sample of the virus instead, dying in seconds. The lab room of the monkey is filled with concentrated Salt solution, and is sealed permanently. After understanding the original virus's lethal potential the hard way, Govind refuses to hand over the main single vial containing the virus , due to fear of misuse.
However, his boss, Dr. Sethu, has a malicious plan in mind, and tries to sell it to a terrorist group. Govind tries to sneak the vial out of the lab in order to save the vial from Sethu's evil plan, but is pursued by the security guard and the police. Govind flees to a friend's house for refuge, who secretly betrays him. Fletcher shoots Govind's friend and attempts to seize the vial.
He firebombs the entire apartment with a grenade when a martial arts master, Yuga Narahazi, tries to defeat Fletcher and protects Govind. Govind manages to jump into another apartment's window and escapes the building before the apartment is firebombed.
The deadly weapon is inadvertently couriered to India aboard a passenger aircraft, safely in Govind's hands. Govind boards into the aircraft secretly carrying the virus and changes its location.
Govind unsuccessfully tries to explain the series of incidents. Meanwhile, Fletcher, who has married an Indian assassin named Jasmine, arrives in India.
Using her as a translator, Fletcher threatens Govind and takes him away in a jeep with a police officer. After exiting the city, Govind escapes from Fletcher and reaches Chidambaram. Fletcher follows him, after getting a cab, along with Jasmine.
After Govind attempts to persuade the receivers of the package carrying the virus, one of the elephants in the temple is inadvertently freed and goes mad. The vial was accidentally thrown inside an idol of Govindaraja. In the chaos, Jasmine gets impaled on a blade on the wall by the elephant, and Fletcher ruthlessly shoots her instead of helping her. Govind and Andal, who is the granddaughter of Krishnaveni, an old woman for whom the package was sent, try to run away from Fletcher, and arrive in a ground where illegal sand miners are working.
They try to rape Andal, but Govind defeats them and they sneak out after the interference of Vincent Poovaragan, a social activist, and saves an unnaturally tall Muslim named Khalifula and his family from a car-crash in the process. One of them, a lady, faints suddenly and is taken to a hospital, where Govind procures a cooling box to store the weapon, as it is unstable and its temperature needs to be maintained.
He meets pop singer Avatar Singh, who is also there for treatment of his throat cancer. His prescription drugs are in a similar-looking box and before leaving the hospital, he unknowingly switches it with Govind's box. Fletcher follows them and takes Andal and the Muslim family hostage in their house, from where Govind is blackmailed to bring back the box he is carrying. With no choice, he reaches the place, only to discover that Avatar must have the weapon. The police surround the house, forcing Fletcher, Govind and Andal to flee in a jeep.
Shinghen Narahazi, a Japanese martial arts expert, whose sister Yuga Narahazi was earlier killed by Fletcher, follows them. Avatar finishes his last performance and discovers the blunder, only to get shot by Fletcher after having a row. Govind and Andal flee to reach a construction site, where Govind takes out the weapon before giving the idol to Fletcher. The sun dawns on 26 December Govind gets an idea from some drainage workers to immerse the virus in a large quantity of salt to destroy it.
He goes to the sea, only to be stopped by Fletcher. Shinghen Narahazi arrives and fights with Fletcher. Both Narahazi and a motivated Govind fight Fletcher together and defeat him. Fletcher opens and swallows the virus. Suddenly, a tsunami strikes, washing away Fletcher, and causing great destruction along the coast. Poovaragan's house is struck and he dies in a car after saving a child. Andal, Govind and Narahazi get into a boat. Krishnaveni arrives and cries after perceiving Poovaragan as her long-lost son.
After relief measures are taken, Andal argues that god had sent forth the tsunami to get rid of the weapon. Govind responds by asking if god would destroy hundreds of lives to save millions.
Then, they are later revealed to have been talking in front of the idol submerged in the 12th century. The scene shifts to the stadium, where Avatar, who had his cancerous growth taken away by Fletcher's shot, along with several others, listening to the speech by Govind with Andal as husband and wife followed by former president George W.
Bush as the credits roll. Kamal Haasan came up with an original storyline and approached a number of directors, including Gautham Menon to direct it, when K.
Ravikumar accepted the offer. It began soon after the announcement of Sivaji: The Boss starring Rajinikanth. Ravikumar and Kamal Haasan came together for the fourth time following their three previous successful ventures, Avvai Shanmughi , Thenali and Panchathantiram.
Kamal was set to play ten different roles in the film, making it the first time that an actor has appeared in so many roles in world cinema. Pyramid Film Fund had an exposure of 50 percent in the project. Following nearly a year of pre-production, deciding the cast and the locations, the film began its first schedule on 11 September Ashmith Kunder was signed up to edit the film, despite early indications that A.
Sreekar Prasad would have landed the offer. Ravikumar also wrote the script for the film following negotiations with Sujatha Rangarajan , who died before the release of the film, and Crazy Mohan. Jeeva was initially announced as the cinematographer of the film, and he had taken over the role for a day of the shooting.
However, the shots taken by him did not appear in the film and Ravi Varman became the director of photography. Between the announcement of the project and prior to the launch a year later, several actress were signed up, who then either opted out or were removed from the project. Vidya Balan was first signed up and set to make her debut in Tamil films , however due to the long inactivity of the film, Balan opted out citing date clashes with her Bollywood project.
Actresses who were considered but failed to make the final shortlist were: The Boss , a film built up as the rival to Dasavathaaram at the box-office. Finally, the major female lead role was given to Asin Thottumkal , who was later assigned two distinct roles in the project. Other veteran actors, Jayaprada , Nagesh , P. Baskar as well as a bevy of American supporting actors were roped into essay other small roles in the film.
A preliminary schedule took place before the start of the film, which featured no filming, but only the make-up tests, lasting for 25 days in the USA.
It took nine hours to implement the make-up and it failed to stay for a long period of time. To compensate that, he had to rest and take fluids using a straw and at the same time, refrain from making movement in the facial muscles to make sure that it was not disturbed. The set resembled the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram in Kumbakonam and scenes with Kamal Haasan in an Iyengar get-up, accompanied by over extras, were recorded.
Though it was initially planned to be shot in the temple itself, permission could not be obtained as the structure was a heritage site and the shooting was believed to interfere with the activities of the temple. Further plans to use a hundred elephants were shelved after the transport and accommodation for the animals was deemed impossible.
Another team member was sacked in Chengelpet , when a stunt sequence was being captured by the camera; stunt master Kanal Kannan was reported to have used unparliamentarily and corporation words at the workers and that took over the public address system. Angered and humiliated by such remarks, the workers walked out of the sets refusing to work anymore and resumed duty only after the elimination of Kanal Kannan.
A new stunt master, Thyagarajan was given the opportunity to take over following the controversy caused by Kannan, who had a similar problem while shooting for Sivaji.
Major portions of the films were shot extensively in overseas locations which included the US, Tokyo , Malaysia and Thailand. The crew instead decided to shift to another destination in Malaysia and the song was shot in posh night clubs; furthermore scenes were shot at a lobby of a prominent Malaysian airport. A Replica of the White House was erected at the Taramani Film City in India, with Haasan's makeup for the role lasting six whole hours to obtain the desired outcome.
Six machines, which generated foot 6. The film was originally announced with A. Rahman as the music director of the film. However he opted out of the project owing schedule clashes. As the film demanded a "stylish and western" quality of music, two reels of music were initially composed and tested. A two-and-a-half-minute theme song was later composed for the promos.
The background music in the second half consisted of extensive usage of violins and chorus and the entire score for the film was recorded over a period of one month, in Chennai. The soundtrack was released on 25 April at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai , which became the largest audio launch for a south Indian film. Other prominent regional Indian artistes such as Amitabh Bachchan , Mammooty , Vijay and Madhavan attended the launch. Karunanidhi attended the event.
The event hosted by Shobana , was attended by all the artistes of the film apart from producer Venu Ravichandran , who avoids to attend public events. Tamil , Hindi , Telugu and Malayalam. The soundtrack received amazing reviews from critics with debutant Rahul Raj's lyrics being the limelight.
Behindwoods wrote, "In spite of donning many roles Kamal Hassan has used only six songs for the movie.
So the story could be expected to be a tightly edited one and should not drag. Though there are no duets here, the songs themselves could become hits if the storyline packs a punch.
One must add that the songs have a decidedly 'Hindi flavour'. Two days prior to the release, the film was shown to film personalities of Indian cinema at Four Films Cinema in Chennai , with the film receiving praise. The film was dubbed and released in Telugu on the same date, with later release dates set for the Hindi , Malayalam , Bengali and Bhojpuri versions. Tamil Nadu had prints, Kerala had 85 and Karnataka had 80, with prints released overseas. The Hindi version Dashavtar had an unusually high prints in North India.
The Telugu version had prints in Andhra Pradesh [3] [45] including 45 prints in Nizam region. The film opened in 25 screens in Hyderabad. He claimed to have created the story of Dasavathaaram , in a script titled, Ardhanari alias Clones , and that Kamal Haasan and Venu Ravichandran had "stolen" the script and left him out of the credits, violating the copyright act. The film was allowed to continue with its schedules, but the case was delayed till later in However, in September , the Court dismissed the petition of Senthil Kumar against Kamal Haasan in the case, clearing the legal hurdles for the film.
Following the audio launch on 25 April , Mallika Sherawat received a police complaint against the issue of improper attire at a film function. Karunanidhi had been present, had "hurt the sentiments of Hindus". The actress was accused of wearing a mini-skirt and exposing her back in front of the chief minister. In May , the film was criticised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad , which claimed that the film has portrayed the clash between Saivism and Vaishnavism which prevailed in the 12th century in the film in an objectionable manner.
The film's trailer was released publicly on 23 April , a day after it was shown to special guests, which included M. Karunanidhi at a screen. Karunanidhi by the request of the producer on 8 June Dasavathaaram received mixed reviews; most critics felt that the plot was confusing, and that Kamal Haasan's ten roles were forced, with only three relevant to the plot.
The reviewer praised cinematographer Ravi Varman, noting: At the end of the film one tends to ask This Kamal does not blossom the way he did in Indian or Nayakan, Appu Raja, Mahanadi, Avvai Shanmughi or in Thevar Magan" and further stated, "One of the best in the business falters with the film's story and screenplay. Like Dasavatharam , Kamal Haasan's ambitious venture which sees him playing ten roles which include a take on George Bush too. Daring, we'd like to insist; only the make-up and the fake appearance borders more on the comic.
Kamal appears too flabby and jaded. From start to finish there is a severe decibel assault aided and abetted by Himesh Reshammiya. Why was all the hype, tension, cases, expectations and unnecessary expenses wasted on this average film. Once again, Kamal fails to attract Tamil audiences with his own script.
The effort has paid off. The reviewer concluded that the film will "go down in the history of Indian cinema as a unique experiment in the commercial circuit". Dasavathaaram completed a day run on 2 August The Chennai Corporation had given the producer special permission to hold five shows daily, which helped the film to garner the extraordinary opening.
Dasavathaaram was released in the United States with 42 prints, an unprecedented record in U. With print sharing facility, it was screened in 50 cities across the country. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the film, see Dasavatharam film.
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"This is worse."
"What, sir?"
The air was dry and cold, the wind bitter. Hawkeye stood shivering in one of the only skirts she owned, staunchly holding her salute against the wind and resisting the urge to huddle up for warmth.
The colonel probably didn't even notice the temperature. Although he was particularly sensitive to the rain. Hawkeye would have offered him a tissue, if she'd thought he would accept it.
The rest of the funeral party had already left, succumbing to the cold and the urgency of other work. Even Gracia and Elysia were gone, the former bravely swallowing her tears for the sake of the latter. Only Roy had remained, and therefore, by default, Hawkeye. It wasn't her job to do so, nor did she distrust him so much to believe he needed a babysitter, but she understood better than anyone ? save Hughes, rest his soul ? that the colonel was not as impenetrable as he liked to imagine. Especially when he was feeling guilty.
He had been standing over the grave for a half-hour now, fists clenched inside his pockets. Their conversation had been, to that point, minimal.
"Worse than what, sir?" Hawkeye repeated.
Roy did not turn around as he addressed her. "Pick something," he ground, the misery thick in his voice. "Pick anyone. We could have afforded to lose anyone else, even me. Anyone but Maes."
"Mm," Hawkeye acknowledged, neither questioning nor assenting. The limits of her position, not to mention her respect for the colonel, prevented her from saying much else. She understood grief in the same way as did the rest of the military, and knew that the newly dead are always the most essential people in the world. Once they are gone, those who remain face the excruciating need to convey, to anyone who will listen, why this is so. Now Roy was confronted with the brutal task of trying to explain the injustice of Maes's death.
He continued, haltingly: "This whole scheme was his to begin with. He knew it long time ago, in Ishbal, and he tried to teach me, too. I didn't learn. It took the war to change my mind. And when I finally understood, he was right there with me, in the same room, and we agreed to work towards it together. It only looked like my idea." Roy's shoulders stiffened. "Everything was his. I was just carrying it out."
Hawkeye narrowed her eyes. "You're still carrying it out," she declared. "Sir."
He shook his head vehemently. "No." Bile rose in his voice. "I haven't learned anything. I'm still just a tool, a vessel, for someone else's idea. Without a hand to move it, a tool is useless." He swallowed hard, eyes fixed on the grave. "Without Maes, I'm useless."
Hawkeye frowned. She had withstood the colonel's melancholy patiently, secure in the knowledge that it must eventually fade, leaving behind no permanent damage. But this self-deprecation breached the threshold of acceptable behavior. Her position as Roy's lieutenant — and, she liked to believe, his friend — demanded she do something about it.
"Excuse my insubordination," she asked, tone subtly bitter, "but if you believe in an idea, isn't it yours as well?"
He didn't answer, and she debated continuing. Roy was in pain, and she had no right to render his survivor's guilt even heavier with a lecture. Perhaps she was overreacting. Perhaps, given time, he would recover on his own ? his ego had always seemed buoyant enough to protect him. But she had sensed something massively perverted in their exchange, and she could not just let it go. "Sir, I may not have known the brigadier general that well, but I'm sure he would disagree with what you're saying. The general... Maes showed you a goal, but because you've worked to achieve it, it's your goal, too. You wouldn't care so much if it wasn't. You won't stop believing in it just because you've lost him." Her voice softened. "That's why your men believe in you."
Her words fell on silence, swallowed by the still-soft earth, or perhaps robbed by the wind that was pushing the sun from the sky. For what felt like an interminable amount of time, Roy gave no indication that he had even heard her speak.
Finally he murmured, back still turned, "You know you're allowed to, lieutenant. Stop believing in me any time you want."
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Again, he made no reply. But his shoulders shifted just enough so she could catch a glimpse of his eye, damp beneath the curving shadow of his beret.
"No," she filled in for him. She was actively fighting to suppress the exasperation in her voice. Hawkeye would never understand how one man could simultaneously embody such massive superiority and inferiority complexes. "We wouldn't. It's our dream too. We're not tools, either, and we're working just as hard as you are to push you to the top."
She thought she saw the eye narrow before it disappeared. Roy stood for another long, silent moment, head down, eyes on the tombstone. Hawkeye shivered as the wind picked up again.
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She gave him a curious look. "What do you mean, sir?"
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"That you do, sir."
He paused.
"When I become Fuhrer, Riza, I'm going to set everything up exactly as Maes would've wanted it."
She smiled. "You do that, sir."
And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving old dreams of past glory
And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore
The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
The Fuhrer did not attend the parade. Nor did the general.
Those who knew them suspected the second predicated the first. The Fuhrer thrived on ceremony, and along with his reputation for bureaucracy, he had cultivated a love of red tape. The general, however, was a minimalist. And in unessential matters, the general always had the final say.
Actually, to say they did not attend the parade would not be entirely accurate. They were present, but only as spectators. The Capital's residential district, where the march was being held, offered numerous vantage points from which the parade could be viewed without the intrusion of the paparazzi. The military's two highest officers were thus very literally head-and-foot above their subordinates, perched inconspicuously atop the sloping canopy of a streetside fruit-vendor. Dressed in civilian guise, they easily passed for an everyday couple enjoying the festivities in one another's company.
Below them wound the parade, a kaleidoscopic wave barely constrained by the wire-strung posts erected to define its route. It hardly deserved its martial classification: in fact, the only visible evidence that the march honored the anniversary of a military truce were the soldiers who swelled its ranks, bumblingly jovial if young, pensively nostalgic if old. The rest were civilians. These attended in all shapes, sizes, colors, and costumes: children draped in colored streamers and trailing paper kites; cliques of teenagers fashionably arrayed; capitalizing vendors wearing their wares on their backs; capitalizing politicians wearing suits; capitalizing streakers wearing nothing; families; couples; tourists; dogs. Marching bands, shouldered by the pressure into Roman tanks, performed a cacophony of brass reveilles as they plowed up the streets turtle-style. Cadres of mounted soldiers paced at the nuclei of the few coherent squadrons. And religious groups, strutting beneath their respective banners, jostled for proselytizing space.
The Fuhrer, gazing down at the chaos, was silently glad he had not participated.
"What a mess," the general remarked disdainfully. "Who did you let organize this one?"
He feigned hurt. "What, you don't like it?"
"It's a breath away from being a mob. I know we're laxer now, but this is a little extreme." She surveyed the march with the brief intensity of a falcon, frowned, then gave him a questioning look. He squirmed, and she smiled. "Ah. I see. You let Cain do it."
He shrugged helplessly. "He begged me to."
"And you capitulated. You're getting soft." It was a cheerful accusation, however, and as she made it she lay her head on his shoulder, just to be sure he didn't misinterpret.
"Mm," he replied, squeezing her hand. "Yes, I am certainly a warm and caring guy. That's why I make an excellent Fuhrer." He grinned self-righteously. "I am the people's Fuhrer!"
She rolled her eyes. "Cute title. Reminds me of something... 'the people's alchemist,' wasn't it?"
He smirked. "The major wasn't using it. And I felt it was appropriate to the new order." He paused to nestle his head atop hers. Then he continued, a little more soberly, "No, truthfully, I was thinking of abandoning the title 'Fuhrer' altogether."
He felt her shift against him in surprise. "To what?"
"I don't know yet," he admitted. "But I wanted Lior to be the last conflict settled by a Fuhrer... . And by a military."
She inclined her head toward the parade below, the small religious archipelagos drifting within the greater surge. "I doubt that's going to happen," she murmured. "You can cut alchemy out of the military, but you can't cut conflict out of the world. It's inevitable, and it's just as inevitable that we're needed to curtail it."
"I know that," he replied testily. "I just mean that we now have more options. Which we're going to fully exhaust before we try anything else." He sighed, running his free hand through his hair. "And even if it does come to war, I still don't want it fought by a Fuhrer."
"Ah," she said. She craned her neck to look him in the eye. "And why is that?"
He responded with a question. "Well, how did you feel under the last Fuhrer?"
"Used, of course," she stated automatically. "Like a chess piece. Maybe the queen, because she has to spend all her time protecting the king." She flashed him a smug smile. He grumbled, but didn't dare deny anything. "Or as you would put it, a tool," she continued. "We all were, because that was nature of the military of the time."
With a rakish smirk he leaned over, caught her in his arms, then drew her securely into his lap. It was revenge for her remark about the queen, and she accepted it with a winner's nonchalance. "And how do you feel about the current Fuhrer?" he murmured into her ear.
"That he's a scoundrel and he's fishing for compliments," she replied drolly. Chuckling, she planted a light kiss on the underside of his chin. "But also that he's right." She paused. "Partially. The title 'Fuhrer' is wrong because people will remember what it stood for. But it's also wrong for another reason." Her voice hardened, staunch but sympathetic. "The position itself should be abandoned. We don't need a single person in charge of the military. Then it is only a chess game."
He pulled away a little so he could look at her steadily. "You mean I should abdicate?" he asked.
She shrugged as best she could, lying against his chest. "No, just demote yourself. We've already changed everything else about how the military works. This should be the final reformation."
The Fuhrer's face tightened pensively. He glanced down at the ongoing parade, the rabble of discordant color and motion that streamed relentlessly up the pavement with an autonomous enthusiasm. She noticed his gaze and lifted a hand to his cheek, turning his eyes away from the street and back onto hers.
"No," she told him firmly. "It will never get like that. We're not tools, but we're not animals either. We're only human, and that's the whole point." She gestured to the parade. "The reason we made you Fuhrer was to prove that we could treat our soldiers as more than weapons, and still avoid turning into that."
"Yes," he agreed. "We succeeded, too."
"We did." She looked at him meaningfully. "Because a military doesn't have to be a military dictatorship to be effective."
"I know, I know." He nodded reluctantly.
Her voice was as unyielding as her eyes. "Then say it," she implored.
"The reason I became Fuhrer was to prove we didn't need a Fuhrer."
She smiled. "Exactly."
The Fuhrer responded with a pouting look. Like all powerful men, even powerful reformers, he had enjoyed his prestige. However, he understood the greater necessity in giving it up; all true reformers know that successful reformations begin and end at the top. The general was, per usual, correct. "All right, then," he surrendered. "You're right. I officially abdicate first thing tomorrow." There was regret in the declaration, but also relief. "Starting tomorrow, I'm general Mustang."
The other general laughed. "Ed will be happy to hear that."
"I'll bet he will, the cocky little nuisance."
"Mm." She nestled her head into his chest. "You know, I can think of someone else who would have been happy to hear that."
His eyes narrowed momentarily with curiosity, then brightened in surprise and recognition. "Yes," he murmured. He held her closer as he agreed: "I think he would have wanted it this way."
And the band still plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer the call
But year after year more old men disappear
Some day no one will march there at all
I'm going to become Fuhrer. I'll change the way this country runs.
That is the only thing I can do.
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong
Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?
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Chapter 21: Unexpectedly Fond of Him
Ling Xiao promptly saluted, yet the Emperor turned a blind eye towards him.
Directly bypassing him and instead, turning to the five people kneeling behind him.
Ling Xiao held back the frown in his eyes, as he saw off the Emperor and rose.
Seeing the Emperor this time, he only saw the outline of his back and didn’t even see the front.
Ling Xiao frowned, slightly at loss as he returned to his room. His whole brain was full of thoughts on how he could get the Emperor to see him.
However, halfway there, he discovered that there was smoke floating up from the place where he lived.
Ling Xiao stared blankly, then quickly lifted the bottom of his robes and ran back.
At the entrance of his palace, there were already many eunuchs running around and busily putting out the fire.
Ling Xiao frowned and pulled on a passing eunuch, “How did it suddenly catch fire when it was just fine earlier?”
“This servant also don’t know, it suddenly caught on fire. The fire started on the inside.” The little eunuch answered while trembling with fear.
Ling Xiao angrily pushed him away and clenched his teeth as he grabbed a bucket of water and dumped it over himself. Then, he got a cloth to cover his mouth and nose and ran in.
That youngster Lan Wei was still below his bed, Ling Xiao had wanted to give him a lesson these past two days, so he didn’t give him anything to eat and only gave him some water to drink. He hadn’t let him go and just had him stay under his bed.
That person yesterday was being nice and obedient, Ling Xiao had thought that he had learned his lesson. However, the result was that he was restless today. This fire definitely has something to do with him, no question about it!
However, Ling Xiao couldn’t let Lan Wei die. Whose fault was it that he was the Prime Minister’s only son!
While thinking this, Ling Xiao cursed Lan Wei in his mind, yet his actions remained cautious. He ducked left and dodged right until he finally arrived at his room where he saw Lan Wei on the ground, powerlessly struggling.
The fire had already spread to his side. He had fallen beside the table, and a candlestick on its side was by it.
Looked like Lan Wei wanted to use the flame on the candlestick to burn the rope and run, but the result was that he had accidentally set the whole palace on fire.
He was really a fool.
Ling Xiao cursed and ran over. Because Lan Wei’s mouth was blocked, he could only use his nose to breath. However his nose had inhaled too much smoke, so now his young and tender face was twisted in pain.
Ling Xiao quickly took out the cloth blocking his mouth, and Lan Wei gasped as he took in air, violently coughing.
Ling Xiao quickly gave him his wet cloth to cover Lan Wei’s mouth and nose, then untied him.
Even so, the fire had already ignited to Lan Wei’s clothes.
Ling Xiao frowned and, in a single breath, took off Lan Wei’s outer clothing, draping his own over Lan Wei’s shoulders. In his haste, the list he had prepared for the Emperor fell from his embrace and rolled into the fire.
Ling Xiao wailed in anguish, having no choice but to go under the bed where he kept another copy of it
Luckily, he had used an iron case to hold this copy, so it wasn’t burned.
However, the iron case had long turned red, burning Ling Xiao’s hands when he grabbed it.
Ling Xiao didn’t have much time to be careful, so he just clenched his teeth and used the sleeve of his garment to wrap up the iron case, holding it in his hands. Next, he grabbed the half-conscious Lan Wei and ran out.
Suddenly he remembered that Lan Wei couldn’t be exposed, so he stopped midway and ran towards a window.
His back window was linked to the outskirts of the Imperial Garden. Since Lan Wei could not be found out by the others, Ling Xiao could only move him there.
Quickly helping Lan Wei through the window, Ling Xiao dragged him to a concealed area and laid there, gasping for breath.
He had used up all his physical strength of this life and his hand was still hurting. Ling Xiao took a look and became aware that the sleeve was stuck to his wound, that iron case somewhat embedded into his flesh. Ling Xiao painfully pulled on it, but he couldn’t pull it out. Ling Xiao bit his lip, he could only bear with the iron case for now. Recalling Lan Wei’s presence, he turned back to look and found him motionless.
Startled, he checked his breathing. Finding that it hadn’t stopped, Ling Xiao relaxed a bit and stretched out a hand to slap him twice, calling out twice.
Lan Wei frowned in pain, but there wasn’t any sign of him waking up.
Ling Xiao thought a bit, then got up again. By now, a large portion of the people ahead were trying to put out the fire, so the defense of the Imperial Garden was at its lowest. Dragging Lan Wei along the whole time, Ling Xiao evaded the people in the surroundings and brought him to the hidden side of a lake. With his uninjured hand, Ling Xiao sprinkled some water on Lan Wei’s face, and dripped some on his dried lips so that it went into his mouth.
“Your Majesty, please walk a bit slower and watch your step.” Just when he felt Lan Wei’s complexion was somewhat better, he suddenly heard a very familiar voice carry over. Just what was said was enough to completely frighten Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao immediately stopped breathing and took Lan Wei with him as he hid by the lakeside.
The voice was Xiao Lizi’s, meaning that the Emperor was not too far from them.
fúck.
Ling Xiao grew nervous. Luckily, the Emperor was very impatient and did not even notice Ling Xiao and Lan Wei.
Ling Xiao quietly sighed in relief and slowly crawled away from the lakeside. He then discovered that the direction the Emperor was going was his burning home.
Ling Xiao was astounded, perhaps this Emperor was trying to find him?
Ling Xiao calmed himself, it didn’t matter whether he was or wasn’t. If he wasn’t at the scene when he got there, it would be too suspicious.
He thought it over a bit and dragged Lan Wei over to a place in the rockery to hide him, then ran back toward his own palace.
However, because Ling Xiao had ran from the front into the fire, it would be hard to explain if he suddenly appeared from another direction, especially in front of the keen Emperor.
Thinking this and that, Ling Xiao stopped behind his palace, the raging fire in front of him.
The terrain here was rugged, making it difficult to put out fires. As a result, there still weren’t any people here.
The fire in front of him had already grown big, so if he were to rush in now and go back out the entrance he used, it would be too difficult.
However, he had no other choice! Ling Xiao tightened his fist, took a deep breath, clenched his teeth, and rush into the fire again.
When the Emperor arrived, the palace in front of him had already been half-burned. He glanced around the group of people and confirmed that Ling Xiao wasn’t among them.
The Emperor frowned, disdainfully looking at the eunuch crawling on the ground, and asked, “Where’s Ling Xiao?”
The small eunuch bowed his head and answered while trembling in fear, “Stew… Steward Ling just… just rushed in.”
“He rushed in?” The Emperor raised an eyebrow and gazed at the blaze in front of him.
His deep eyes didn’t show any fluctuation of his emotions, but the corner of his mouth curved down, clearly showing them that the Emperor was displeased.
“Put out the fire.” The Emperor didn’t pause for long, before he immediately passed down an order.
The kneeling eunuch did not dare to waste time and hastily got up. One bucket after another was taken and delivered to pour over the raging inferno.
The Emperor restrained himself and waited, but the hands behind his back were held together tightly.
Suddenly, a sorry figure ran out from the fire. As he coughed and gasped for breath, they were unable to make out his appearance.
He then staggered over to the Emperor, but was blocked by the five guards who had remained by the Emperor’s side.
Ling Xiao swallowed a bit of his pained throat, hoarsely and weakly calling out, “Your Majesty, it’s me.”
After he finished saying that, a burst of dizziness caused him to fall.
The Emperor walked in front of him, and Ling Xiao managed to raise his head to look at him, his lips slightly moving as he falteringly raised the iron case in his hand.
“Your Majesty… the list… the… list…”
Failing to finish his sentence, Ling Xiao fainted.
16 thoughts on “[TPCFC] Chapter 21: Unexpectedly Fond of Him”
Tsuna says:
lol i actually thought there was an update
Lol, 20 isn’t even done yet. This is for those that were disappointed at all my links but lead to 404 error in the toc
stalker says:
Am I going to start getting a Stalker2 next lol
Damn! You’re good! I should’ve thought of stalker! xD!! Anyways, thank you snowy for the tease ❤❤❤
youxiaomo says:
Pijon says:
>3< Don't push yourself too hard, dear. Take care
Such a kind cutie XD yes~
CrushUrHeart says:
Oh my the chapter’s title is making me expect some lovey dovey development ?
Somehow i’m expecting for lan wei to fall for ling xiao’s gokden halo too as a plot twist
Thanks for the chapter ?
Garuchi says:
I look forward to these updates too much lol
*Just finished tling chapter* now waiting for when I go to work and get wifi kek
You’ve actually translated a lot recently, haven’t you? I have no idea if I want to ask you to slow down (and take it easy) or speed up (because I can’t help but want more!) Anyway, thanks for all your hard work. 😀 IMO the story starts getting really good after this bit.
puppie luver says:
thanks for all the hard work!
Jostena M. says:
I really love this!! Your translation is perfect and I can’t wait for more! Great job on this though!!! X3
Ratata says:
Why emperor! Why!!! Look at him!!!!!!
Cracks me up how much the antagonists fail here.. I almost thought emperor is teaching him a lesson and burned his residence to bring the rats out
he was burned once and he has to be burned more!!! >< uhhhggh hopefully this is it and the emperor will stop the cold treatment noww
akumakawa says:
Baller move.
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Release Day Review: The Silvers by J.A. Rock
Title ~ The Silvers
Author ~ J.A. Rock
Publisher ~ Riptide Publishing
Published ~ 11th July 2016
Genre ~ Science Fiction M/M Romance
What humans want from the Silver Planet is water. What they find is a race of humanoids who are sentient, but as emotionless and serene as the plants and placid lakes they tend.
B, captain of the mission, doesn’t believe that the “Silvers” are intelligent, and lets his crew experiment on them. But then he bonds with Imms, who seems different from the others—interested in learning, intrigued by human feelings. And B realizes that capturing, studying, and killing this planet’s natives has done incalculable damage.
When a fire aboard B’s ship kills most of the crew and endangers Imms, B decides to take him back to Earth. But the simplicity of the Silver Planet doesn’t follow them. Imms learns the full spectrum of human emotions, including a love B is frightened to return, and a mistrust of the bureaucracy that wants to treat Imms like a test subject, even if they have to eliminate B to do it.
Iro’s Review
The Silvers is an absolutely brilliant story. It is haunting, moving and unbearably beautiful.
“A Silver’s heart drifts through its body, bumping softly against walls and other organs. Sometimes it’s illuminated, and you can see it beneath the bruised skin, floating along like a lantern underwater.”
For all its fascinating world building, don't think this is a run of the mill sci-fi story. It’s not so much about the science and it’s not the usual tale about aliens. The Silver Planet, the mission, the connection formed between B and Imms are all just instruments used to explore the intricacies of human nature. Reading The Silvers was a very introspective experience and while unsettling, it was weirdly satisfying to dig through the layers and face the uncomfortable truths. It's message is poignant and the story itself harsh, but every single light-hearted, sweet moment was all the more precious for it.
I found it easier to connect to Imms, the alien character who was unable to experience most human emotions, than to the human characters. Imms leaves his peaceful, uncomplicated planet for the cacophony of sounds, colors and complex rules that is earth. Extremely intelligent and curious, he adapts to every new situation, is almost mathematical. Humans are alien to him and through his eyes I came to regard them the same way. I was observing alongside him, dissecting behaviors, being appalled and pleased in turn. Imms is the heart of the story, complex, caring, unique. B is another story altogether. I went back and forth between liking him and judging him and at some point I realized how sneaky the author was when writing him - Imms is a humanoid by default, non malicious and with no concept of rage and B is set to fail by comparison. Throughout the book there is no exoneration, no direct justification for any wrong decision he made. B is no knight in shinny armor, he is not equipped to save the day, he is realistically flawed, he is human. As a reader trained to expect certain things, certain tropes my initial reaction was to dislike him for his shortcomings. And as a reader I was amazed when it registered that this characterization, not making B the savior, the perfect being, is what redeems him.
J.A. Rock's writing is breath-taking, ranging from powerfully stark to dream like. The words crash like waves -sometimes with brutal force - and then pull back to reveal something more, like an afterthought, a nudge to a deeper meaning floating somewhere in the margins. The imagery she produces, beautiful and compelling, resonates with symbolism and often serves as a parallel narration. The secondary characters do not exist merely to propel the story, they add dimension to her commentary on the inevitable failures and redeeming qualities of human nature.
This is a romance in the sense that it is the relationship between Imms and B that sets things in motion, but this isn't a fairy tale. There is sadness and pain and mistakes made but there's also love against all odds. It's a journey between two worlds in more than one way. There is the promise of happy for now but also hope for the future and no matter how unconventional, the ending is honest and oddly romantic.
I loved this one to death. Be prepared for a major book hangover, but trust me, it's so worth it. This isn’t an easy read but it is extremely rewarding. Highly recommended.
Meet J.A. Rock
J.A. Rock is the author of queer romance and suspense novels, including By His Rules, Take the Long Way Home, and, with Lisa Henry, The Good Boy and When All The World Sleeps. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and a BA in theater from Case Western Reserve University. J.A. also writes queer fiction and essays under the name Jill Smith. Raised in Ohio and West Virginia, she now lives in Chicago with her dog, Professor Anne Studebaker.
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Playing to New Fans: Is Music The Gaming Industry’s Next Marketing Channel?
2015/01/29 · By Jeff Lee
By composing video game soundtracks, mainstream musicians are helping video game brands reach new audiences, writes Digital Marketer Jeff Lee.
Musician Coeur de Pirate scored the soundtrack for Ubisoft game Child of Light.
When it comes to video games, I’m not a particularly early adopter. I tend to rely on recommendations or else let new releases go mainstream before popping a game into my console.
But after observing the launch of a few high profile games recently, I’ve noticed the emergence of a new path by which video games get the attention of casual customers like me: Music.
Since the decline of compact discs (remember those?), musicians have been partnering with video game studios and publishers to earn revenue and new fans. But it might be time to view the scheme the other way around: Video game brands using music as a powerful marketing channel to reach a broader audience.
Video games beat Hollywood
First, let’s make an industry comparison. The top grossing film in 2013, Iron Man 3, took $1.2 billion at the box office. When Grand Theft Auto V was released the same year, it made $800 million in worldwide sales in a mere 24 hours.
Since bestselling video games can make in a couple of weeks what top grossing movies make in a year, its easy to understand why analysts speculate that the gaming industry is bigger than Hollywood.
And as video game productions begin to resemble those of Hollywood blockbusters, their accompanying music scores are becoming as epic as the storylines themselves.
The sweeping soundtrack of the recent blockbuster video game Destiny, for example, could easily be mistaken for Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack to the 2014 sci-fi epic, Interstellar. It would be a forgivable mistake too, since the famous composer has already scored music for Infinity Ward Studio’s hit game Modern Warfare 2.
Coeur de Pirate lights up Ubisoft
French Canadian singer and songwriter Beatrice Martin (Coeur De Pirate) has built a strong fanbase over the years with her beautiful and moving musique.
So I was intrigued when in April 2014 Ubisoft announced a partnership with the young artist for the upcoming release of its fantasy game Child of Light.
Months later, I finally sat down to play the game and was blown away: She managed to create a naive yet intensely emotional soundtrack, which for me, really made the game.
The by-product of this collaboration is an original soundtrack that Coeur De Pirate promotes on her own marketing channels, creating awareness for the game in a new niche.
Paul McCartney’s Bungie Destiny
Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori, composers at game studio Bungie, which produces the best-selling Halo franchise, got special help composing music for the studio’s new tentpole game, Destiny.
Music legend Sir Paul McCartney was invited to provide the duo with pieces of his compositions to inspire the planetary themes in Destiny. He also wrote and recorded a song for the game, “Hope For the Future,” which has garnered more than one million views on YouTube alone.
Even a few years ago it would have been difficult to imagine a musician of McCartney’s stature suddenly devoting attention to video games. It serves to show that producers and marketers aren’t viewing gaming as a niche market anymore, but as a mainstream entertainment platform with an ever-growing audience.
And of course McCartney’s collaboration caught the attention of his millions of fans, which in turn expanded the reach of Destiny to music platforms like definitive review site Pitchfork, which rarely covers video games.
It doesn’t take a sniper’s scope to notice the game industry’s transition into mainstream territory.
Meanwhile, music will continue to help games reach more hearts. After all, Hollywood has been doing it for years, creating moving scores and themes that top the charts by artists like Celine Dion, Elton John and Whitney Houston.
The growing number of musical mashups like the ones above raises a few questions about the future of video game marketing:
Can we soon expect more official theme songs for upcoming releases?
Could these songs climb up the radio charts in the near future?
Who will rise as the super composers like Hans Zimmer and John Williams?
Will video games drive Millennials’ interest in symphonic music?
Let us know what you think in the comments!
Jeff Lee is a creative and marketing consultant based in Montreal. He helps brands and agencies craft moving content strategies to engage with the right audience. You can read more on his personal blog, maybejefflee.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jefflizotte.
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2015/01/29 at 1:51 pm | Permalink
It’s exciting to see major film composers as well as mainstream musicians make the move towards scoring video games. One of my faves from recent memory was HEALTH’s score for Max Payne 3, which ended up being super unconventional as far as game scores go, but worked really well and gave the game an interesting and distinct feel. As for the future, I’d love to see Drake tackle the next Donkey Kong. It may sound weird on paper, but maybe its not so out of the realm of reality: http://www.djbooth.net/index/news/entry/drake-sample-donkey-kong-country-2-6-god
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Zayn Malik breaks post-One Direction Twitter silence with cryptic message
Terri Schwartz April 20, 2015
Zayn Malik has stayed quiet in the weeks since announcing his departure from One Direction, but he finally has broken his silence on Twitter. The 22-year-old Brit posted a message of thanks to his personal account that’s aimed at unnamed people close to him.
Wanna say thanks to everyone that’s been there for me over the last few weeks, love you all.. you know who you are x
— zaynmalik1D (@zaynmalik) April 20, 2015
That message led to some confusion from fans, which Malik cleared up — though probably not the part of the tweet they were expecting. He explained why he tossed an “x” on the end of the thank you, since his followers didn’t understand its purpose.
The x is a kiss by the way ha it’s not a mystery .. 😉 sorry to any confused … 😝
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One Direction announced Malik’s departure from the band in a Facebook post on March 25. During the singer-songwriter’s hiatus from social media, 1D put out the first tour poster without Malik on it. Other band members like Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson have spoken out about their former colleague’s exit.
Following the announcement that he was leaving, Malik did speak to UK newspaper The Sun about his decision. “I feel like I’ve let the fans down but I can’t do this anymore,” he said. “It’s not that I’ve turned my back on them or anything, it’s just that I just can’t do that anymore because it’s not the real me.
“I did try to do something that I wasn’t happy doing for a while, for the sake of other people’s happiness,” Malik continued. “It is crazy and wild and a bit mad … but at the same time I’ve never felt more in control in my life. And I feel like I’m doing what’s right — right by myself and right by the boys, so I feel good.”
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They don’t count EDITORIAL 09/06/2010
They don’t count
Noticeable in the ongoing testimonies to the fact-finding body formed to make heads or tails of the botched hostage rescue that took away the lives of eight Hong Kong tourists and the hostage taker, are the many should haves and could haves coming from the police officials, all of which are usually given through the coaxing of the members of the probe body.
National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Leocadio Santiago said had it had been his decision, the police assault on the bus where dismissed Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza held the hostages would have been carried out by the elite Special Action Force (SAF) instead of the ill-equipped Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) force of the Manila Police District. Also negotiator Chief Insp. Romeo Salvador said had he been allowed, he could have grabbed Mendoza and ended the crisis with likely less trouble.
The members of the fact-finding body were obviously taking the path of getting a crystal-clear view on who really was to blame for the ugly turnout of the incident. And from testimonies given thus far, it seems that the group supposedly managing the crisis unfortunately was a mixed bag of spineless police officials, a politician who seems to believe that the crisis was a movie production and a former police general who can’t get past the temptation of taking over ground command during crisis situations.
Santiago’s and Salvador’s statements were giveaway proof that most of the police involved in ground operations on the hostage-taking incident were either not consulted or largely ignored by the so-called crisis management committee (CMC) that appeared to have disintegrated when it was most needed..... MORE
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Biggest ‘porker’ ever FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 09/06/2010
Biggest ‘porker’ ever
Guess who is the biggest “porker” in the government?
It’s Noynoy Aquino, President of the Republic, who spoke of the need for reforms and austerity, and slammed away at those officials in government-owned and controlled corporations, and government financial institutions for giving themselves tens of millions in allowances, fat pays and bonuses.
But hey, what’s a few hundred millions when compared to Noynoy’s increased pork barrel — amounting to a staggering P1 billion, just for himself — and unaccountable too, as these are confidential funds.
And this is apart from his presidential social fund, which also amounts in the billions yearly.
It has been pointed out by congressmen that the 2011 budget Congress is now reviewing, shows that not only has Noynoy bloated his pork barrel to P1 billion but also did not provide a single centavo to the National Food Authority (NFA) for rice subsidy in the proposed P1.64-trillion budget submitted to the House.
All for him and nothing for the poor people who have to buy cheap rice?
But not only did Noynoy give himself P1 billion for his pork barrel. He even retained his P500-million intelligence funds!.... MORE
Into the Atlantic — Liberian homes destroyed by sea erosion focus 09/06/2010
Into the Atlantic — Liberian homes destroyed by sea erosion
BUCHANAN — A home right on the beach has proved anything but a dream for Frances Kwessi, 35, who has watched sea erosion destroy her house room by room, as the Atlantic washed up on her doorstep.
“As you can see only one room has not yet been touched by the sea,” said Kwessi, who lives in Liberia’s port town of Buchanan.
Dressed in a dirty blue dress with a baby strapped to her back, she now sleeps there with her three children, after rising tides claimed three quarters of the brick house, with its cement floor and zinc roof.
Coastal erosion in the west African nation has eaten up many beaches, but more seriously has endangered the many unplanned and densely populated communities who built their houses too close to the shore.
“I don’t really know what to do now,” she said.
“This was the only shelter I had. I sleep here with my children because I have no choice.”... MORE
The buck stops where? C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 09/06/2010
The buck stops where?
C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S
Jonathan De la Cruz
So, who decided against giving in to hostage taker Rolando Mendoza’s demand that he be reinstated even temporarily in exchange for the release of the hostages that fateful Monday two weeks ago?
This question is being asked after the deputy negotiator, Chief Insp. Romeo Salvador, revealed on the second day of the clarificatory hearings of the five man investigating panel headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima that Mendoza confided to him as much. On questioning by panel member IBP Governor Roan Libarios, Salvador narrated that as early as lunchtime that Monday Mendoza told him he just needed a temporary reinstatement order to release the hostages since he also realized that he would be charged and detained anyway for the hostage taking. Unfortunately, as Salvador sadly narrated, the “higher ups” failed to act on the information at that time only to find out that a reinstatement order was issued later on when the crisis has turned into a carnage.
So, why did the crisis committee not take the offer right there and then and resolved the crisis pronto? That is the sixty four dollar question which the panel is now obligated to prove to spare us all the wailing and self flagellation which have been attending this tragedy for sometime now. P-Noy need not own up to the mistakes of his bumbling and finger pointing subordinates and lesser officials who should know better than hide behind his back propping him up as their apologist instead of the other way around.
Who disregarded the Mendoza offer and why? This is the one question which needs to be answered now before the De Lima panel and, yes, the eager beaver Palace subordinates lead the public through another round of psycho-babbling and self flagellation. Was it Colonel Yebra, the chief negotiator? As a trained negotiator, did he think Mendoza’s offer a ploy to buy time and gain advantage? Or, did he keep the information to himself hoping that he can spring it and gain clearance for its implementation at a more appropriate time?.... MORE
PeNoy: P8B for the poor, P35B for bankers DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 09/06/2010
PeNoy: P8B for the poor, P35B for bankers
Dinky Soliman, PeNoy Aquino’s Social Welfare secretary, trumpets her P8-billion cash dole-out for the poor. That’s measly compared to the P35 billion Soliman’s CodeNGO is handing out to the bankers this year through the payback to her group’s so-called PeaceBonds.
Just think: The bankers are going to get four times more than the poor. And we don’t even know if all of this P8-billion dole-out will really go to the intended recipients, given the notoriety of the PeNoy administration’s utter lack of control. Stated simply, this is my way of telling Soliman to cut the crap about her and her government’s fictitious “pro-poor” claims. Her NGO work had always been masked subversion projects of the Western funding agencies — thus, explaining why her NGO comrades are so well taken care of by such bodies as the Kennedy School of Government and the Cory Aquino foundations of the oligarchs.
As we speak, PeNoy is already increasing the number of financial rip-offs to benefit Big Business through new projects such as the MRT and the new South Expressway extensions, water privatization, power privatization (which has given us the highest power rates in Asia), plus giving tollway operators more leeway to exact exorbitant fees. All these are being contracted under PeNoy’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme, which will have P15 billion in funding cum dole-out for the big, favored corporations — again outstripping the dole-out for the poor.
Already, under this PPP arrangement, three new tollways are being planned, as well as, tourism infrastructure to be mapped out by Ayala man and Tourism Secretary Bertie Lim. In all, the P35-billion CodeNGO pay-off and the P15-billion PPP projects total to an astounding P50-billion “social welfare” for Big Business!
But even as PeNoy gives this P50-billion subsidy to the bankers and Big Business, his government’s pencil-pushers under Butch Abad, such as the Treasury boss, did not allocate a single centavo for the National Food Authority (NFA), under the Department of Agriculture’s budget. Without this, the NFA will not be able to purchase rice from our millions of farmers. In short, there will be no subsidy at all, which will place them at the mercy of unscrupulous traders and middle men, thus, drowning us in the deluge of imports from countries such as Vietnam, India, and China that subsidize their own farmers. I really wonder if NFA chief Lito Banayo will be able to stomach this as he claims to be pro-poor and a nationalist ever since his college and activist days.
In the meantime, behind the veneer of brooking “no corruption” is this reality: PeNoy now bloats the President’s pork barrel from P800 million to P1 billion and keeps his P500-million intelligence fund, which he earlier vowed to forego. PeNoy also did not reduce his travel budget as he said he would.
Following his lead, Malacañang has now increased its contingent fund under the new budget and listed this under the Special Purpose Fund which only the President can draw from. In turn, budgets for Environment and Health were reduced. Funds such as the P18.5 billion for water resources development and flood control and P40 billion for health services were slashed to P14.5 billion and P38.6 billion respectively.
Yet the palakasan in favor of the Ateneo-UP Student Catholic Action (UPSCA) club, nurtured by the Jesuits Delaney and Intengan, is ever present. Why, the Atenean Butch Abad has already allocated P34.3 billion (up from the previous year’s P15.4 billion) to UPSCAn Dinky Soliman.
All this should be lessons to the wide-eyed believers of PeNoy and the Yellow movement to snap out of their trance. This call is made to such Yellow supporters as Reyn Barnido, who has issued an open letter to PeNoy on the Internet that takes off from the hostage fiasco, saying in part: “This is not anymore about failing to handle the hostage-taking as much as this is about fulfilling the promises of your oath-taking… This is not about a singular madman shooting bullets up and down; this is about an orgy of fools shooting lies left and right... not anymore about the negotiators’ inefficiency to convince a police officer to surrender, but the government’s incapacity to comfort a nation… We don’t deserve this, Sir. This is not the covenant we entered into during your oath-taking… I grew up in the shadows of the Abads, Soliman, Deles… Do not take their analysis of society at face value for theirs is a construct designed to fuel a protest movement, not manage a large bureaucracy… Believe it or not, your cheerers may have become cynics, but they are still your companions in this journey. I, for one, will not abandon you Mr. President.”
Apparently, Barnido still thinks that the crisis bedeviling his former mentors and PeNoy himself is just a crisis of incompetence, where one is sentimentally loyal even to the failed and foolish, hoping they will learn. Well, he and his youngish ilk are the ones who have a lot to learn!
PeNoy’s budget and programs, foisted unto us by the evil powers that Barnido has been taught in the Ateneo not to see, are the best eye openers. These evil powers, the money masters to whom the Jesuits genuflect, are anti-poor and anti-human, on top of being pro-Big Business. Only when he awakens to how he was inveigled to help install a puppet that has brought us to the deepest nadir which the Yellow movement is capable of can he truly help this nation as a “Man for Others,” and not as a “Man for the Money Masters.”... MORE
A tired soul HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 09/06/2010
A tired soul
I’m a good two decades away from being called a senior citizen, if 60 years is the yardstick for age and possession of a senior’s citizen’s card’s confirmation. But at 40, I can already feel that I have lost my youthful immortality. I’m no longer invincible that I once thought I was.
It’s only rock and roll which keep me alive, but my songs, like those of my father’s, have grown old, too. Yet I learned to step back, catching up with the music of my pre-teen daughter, the eldest of three, who introduced me to B.O.B and Train and Jay Sean and Jay-Z.
If I stay away from radio quite a bit longer, I could take Justin Bieber for a time, but repetition has its cost, and the young singing sensation of good, ol’ America drives me back to New Wave, Blues and good, ol’ rock and roll.
Recently, my friends and I celebrated the 15th year of Back to the Edge, it’s the monthly series of gigs I’ve helped found with Sazi Cozino, owner of Sazi’s Bar, the former Mayric’s in front of UST where tired souls converged to refresh for the new day ahead. But our numbers have been overtaken by the younger souls, those who were once us, until gray hair and arthritis caught up with many of us.... MORE
Honoring the elderly SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 09/06/2010
Honoring the elderly
There may have been a time you thought 40 was ancient, but if you have reached this age “category” yourself, you would probably love to bandy the thought that it is “the new 20.”
Regardless of how you feel about age, aging and the so-called elderly, there is no denying that we will reach “that certain age” sometime in our lives — if we’re lucky.
Looking at the elderly in your family, are you filled with wonder at how they manage to remain so strong and healthy even after all these years? Are you proud of their active minds and dependable wisdom, or amused by their propensity to learn new things, such as the Internet and those gadgets that even you have yet to master? Do they inspire you to live as fully as they are living, or do you worry about them?
In the world, according to the United Nations (UN), “one of every 10 persons is now 60 years or older. By the year 2050, one of five will be 60 years or older; by 2150, it will be one of three persons.”
Recognizing the needs of the elderly in the world, the UN General Assembly in 1990 designated Oct. 1 as the International Day for the Elderly. This holiday encourages everyone to pay their respects to the older people in their families and communities and tend to their special needs..... MORE
Verzosa admits low morale in PNP By DEXTER SEE September 5, 2010, 5:00pm
Verzosa admits low morale in PNP
By DEXTER SEE
September 5, 2010, 5:00pm
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City – No less than Director General Jesus A. Verzosa admitted over the weekend that a low morale pervades in the 120,000-strong Philippine National Police (PNP) organization, following the monumental blunders of the police in the Manila hostage-taking incident last August 23.
Speaking before Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadets on Saturday afternoon, Verzosa acknowledged that the lapses of the police, which failed to avert a bloody end to the hostage drama, earned the ire of the international community.
The death of eight tourists from Hong Kong and hostage-taker, dismissed police Senior Inspector Rolando R. Mendoza, consequently portrayed a weak ability of the police to handle such sensitive incidents.
While Verzosa offered no concrete evidence of demoralization in the country’s police force, he said he can feel the low morale of the men and women in uniform..... MORE
Source: Mb.com.ph
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/275719/verzosa-admits-low-morale-pnp
Joker: Palace moves ‘cheapen’ presidency By Angie M. Rosales 09/06/2010
AQUINO TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY ‘AMOUNTS TO NOTHING’
Joker: Palace moves ‘cheapen’ presidency
By Angie M. Rosales
President Aquino’s taking full responsibility for the botched hostage rescue operations amounts to nothing and the Palace efforts to drum it up cheapened the presidency, Sen. Joker Arroyo, a former executive secretary of Aquino’s mother former President Corazon Aquino, said yesterday.
“It cheapens the presidency,” Arroyo said in criticizing what he described as the apparent publicity stunt executed by Aquino’s advisers to defuse public outrage over the authorities’ mishandling of the Aug. 23 hostage incident.
Arroyo said Palace officials’ pronouncements that Aquino “is not resigning because he received a clear mandate” made matters worse.
“It’s a good sound bite. It’s good to the image of the President but it amounts to nothing,” Arroyo said adding that such statement made by Presidential Communications Sec. Herminio Coloma, was unnecessary.
“When he said that he’s accepting full responsibility, it doesn’t mean that those subject to investigation are already exonerated. The probe continues. So what’s the effect of that statement?” he asked.... MORE
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Retiring Verzosa mimics Aquino in taking crisis rap By Mario J. Mallari and Marie A. Surbano 09/06/2010
Retiring Verzosa mimics Aquino in taking crisis rap
By Mario J. Mallari and Marie A. Surbano
Taking cue from his commander in chief, President Aquino who earlier had said he is assuming responsibility on the botched rescue operation during the Aug. 23 hostage-taking of more than 20 Hong Kongers at the Quirino Grandstand, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Jesus Verzosa, who is scheduled for retirement, also said he is taking responsibility for the tragic incident.
Verzosa, however, said his decision to retire ahead of schedule has nothing to do with the bungled police assault on Hong Thai bus, which was held by former Manila Police District (MPD) member Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza, that ended in the killing of eight Hong Kong tourists and the hostage-taker.
“My decision to render an early retirement has been announced more than a month ago. More than ever, it is imperative to take responsibility especially with regards to what has transpired in the past week,” Verzosa said.
It was gathered that Verzosa has already informed his superiors as early as July about his plan to retire on Sept. 14, or three months earlier than his scheduled retirement on Dec. 25 this year upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.... MORE
afp takes new tack on leftists By Mario J. Mallari 09/06/2010
AFP takes new tack on leftists
By Mario J. Mallari
The Armed Forces
of the Philippines (AFP) has opened its doors to militant organizations such as Bayan Muna and Karapatan that were previously linked by the military to the communist movement, in crafting a new anti-insurgency campaign plan to come up with one that is acceptable to all stakeholders.
During a recent forum in Fort Bonifacio, Army spokesman Col. Antonio Parlade said all major stakeholders — from the religious groups to the academe and even some militant groups – were invited by the military in crafting a new anti-insurgency campaign plan.
“We had a three-day symposium with other stakeholders in this insurgency campaign, from the interfaith, from the academe, the Commission on Human Rights and there were people also invited from Karapatan and even Bayan Muna, even these left organizations were invited to participate in the symposium in order to craft a campaign plan that’s really responsible, acceptable to all sectors,” he added.
With this move, Parlade said the military expects a new campaignplan that’s really responsible, acceptable to all sectors,” he added.
With this move, Parlade said the military expects a new campaign plan that is “non-traditional.”... MORE
Abu sub-leader, 2 others killed in Sulu clash 09/06/2010
Abu sub-leader, 2 others killed in Sulu clash
Government security forces clashed with al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu province yesterday, killing at least three and wounding several others, a ranking police official said.
Acording to Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman Senior Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr., Special Action Force (SAF) commandos caught up with an Abu Sayyaf unit believed to be aiding foreign militants from the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group in Maimbung town on Jolo Island, triggering the fighting.
He said intelligence reports suggested that the Abu Sayyaf gunmen were protecting Marwan, a Malaysian-born member of the JI believed to be responsible for honing the Abu Sayyaf’s bombing techniques.
“They were able to neutralize (kill) Gafur and two other unidentified (Abu Sayyaf) members,” Cruz said, referring to Gafur Jumdail..... MORE
US trip to proceed; Noy plans to meet China execs 09/06/2010
US trip to proceed; Noy plans to meet China execs
While President Aquino is bidding for a more “propitious time” to visit two Asean neighbors after the inter-national outrage from the botched hostage rescue attempt that resulted in the death of eight Hong Kong tourists, the Palace said yesterday Aquino’s US trip will proceed this month.
Aquino has started preparing for his working visit to the United States, Presidential Communications
Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma said.
Aquino has been scheduled to visit Indonesia and Vietnam which are both its co-members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN ) group, in mid-September.
Coloma added Aquino is hoping to meet with Chinese leaders during the official visit where the President will join other world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 20..... MORE
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Once Upon a Time In Hollywood R
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writerdirector features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age.
DetailsComedy , Drama
Rated R for language throughout, some strong graphic violence, drug use, and sexual referencesCastLeonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, James Marsden, Dakota FanningDirectorQuentin TarantinoWriterQuentin Tarantino
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Saturday Baseball sees wins for the Bravehearts, Blues, and Rox
Futures League play continued yesterday as we had 3 more games played last night! The Brockton Rox traveled to the Vineyard at the Shark Tank to take on the Sharks while the Bristol Blues and the Pittsfield Suns switched sides of the scoresheet in the back half of a home-and-home back-to-back. Rounding out the set of matchups was a contest between the North Shore Navigators playing in their home opener against the Worcester Bravehearts.
The Brockton Rox played host to the Sharks in Campanelli just the night before and were handed a loss that night and now try to pay them back when they took the ferry to the Shark Tank in their second meeting of the season. This game seemed to be an easy one early for the Rox yet the Sharks did manage to make it close late, they were defeated by the Rox by a score of 13-9. The Rox offense got things started with a 5-run 1st thanks to some sloppy defense by the Sharks infield that would lead Sharks SP Matt Goehrig (Post) to not have a single run charged to him. He would go 2IP striking out 3 with a walk. On the offensive side of the ball, the Sharks would make things interesting when in a 4-run 6th, Brian Ronai (Yale) hit a two-run Home Run to make the game a 2-run game. The Sharks would put one more on the board but, a 4-run 8th all but seals the deal for the Rox. Their starting pitcher Evan Ferris (Monmouth) had a fine outing, going 4IP with 1ER 1H, 5BB, and 3K.
In what was the second straight game the Pittsfield Suns and the Bristol Blues played each other, pitching and defense would be the difference with the host Blues defeating the Suns 5-4 at Muzzy Field. The game would be a tight affair the whole way though when after 1 the score would be 2-1 Blues thanks to base hits by Ian Ostberg (Quinnipiac), Alex Loparco (Western New England), and Richard Brereton (Emory). The Suns would take the lead in the 3rd when Taylor Meilleur (Saint Mary’s) The Suns would tack on another in the 4th and the score would stay the same until a Blues 1-run 7th and 2-run 8th would give them the lead late thanks to patient hitting. The Blues bullpen would only surrender 1 run from the Suns lead by Brereton, who had played first base earlier in the game, would go 2IP, 2BB, 5K. and 0ER to go with a win charged to his record.
Finally, the North Shore Navigators opened their home schedule when the Bravehearts came to town. This one would be close early on, but Worcester would break things wide open mid-way through and never looked back to the tune of a 9-3 score. Down 0-2 early, the Navs would tie things up with a pair of RBI base hits by Corey DiLoreto (Northeastern) and Elias Varinos (Tufts). They would take the lead in the 4th when Andrew Olszak (Southern Maine) would reach on an error, scoring Michael Wayne (Wofford). This game would be far from over as the Bravehearts would go to work at the plate in the 5th when RBI base hits by Dustin Harris (St. Petersburg) and Joe Pesce (New York Institute of Technology) would lead the way in a 5-run inning. The Bravehearts wouldn’t look back as their bullpen shut the door on the Navs in Fraser Field’s home opener.
Closing out the weekend on Sunday will be a double-header between the Navigators and Blues with the first game starting at 3:00pm and the second beginning a half an hour after the conclusion of the first gme. It’ll be 2-for-1 baseball as 1 ticket get you in for both games. The Bravehearts host the Suns for the first time this season in Worcester and finally, the Silver knights, fresh off of an off-day will host the Rox at Homan Stadium.
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9 April, 2018 9 April, 2018 Andy Walker Finn Balor, WWE
Finn Balor brought his message of inclusivity to “The Grandest Stage of Them All”, Wrestlemania in New Orleans on Sunday night and we don’t think we could love him any more than we do right now.
The event kicked off with a triple threat match for the Intercontinental Championship and first to enter the ring was Seth Rollins, looking like a White Walker from Game of Thrones with piercing blue contact lenses and body armour. He was followed by the current champion, The Miz, with his “Miztourage” and the title draped over his arm.
The final competitor to make his way to the ring was Balor. More often seen wearing black trunks and a black leather jacket when making his entrance, in recent months Balor has donned a variety of matching trunk and jacket combos, including blue, red, green and white.
The #BalorClub is out and about for @FinnBalor, as the #ICTitle #TripleThreat match is about to kick off #WrestleMania on @WWENetwork! pic.twitter.com/eDD7IgfZVf
— WWE Network (@WWENetwork) April 8, 2018
But tonight, Balor brought his message of inclusivity to New Orleans, showing that the Balor Club is “for everyone” and walked out to the ring, flanked by members of the New Orleans LGBT community and wearing a black leather jacket emblazoned with a rainbow coloured Balor Club logo. His trunks also featured rainbow coloured Balor Club logo and his kick pads had rainbow fastenings.
Forreal
Foreveryone pic.twitter.com/uqgLeZW4Bw
— Finn Bálor forEVERYone (@FinnBalor) April 2, 2018
In the week before Wrestlemania WWE announced that until June it would donate 20% of the sale of Balor’s “For Everyone” t-shirt to GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamination.
WWE’s only openly LGBT superstar, Sonya Deville showed her support for the message Balor was promoting.
https://twitter.com/SonyaDevilleWWE/status/981586961151512577
At Wrestlemania, Deville competed in the Women’s Battle Royal wearing her own rainbow inspired ring attire.
This is one of the first times that WWE has shown such a strong message relating to LGBT people and it comes off the back of their Women’s Evolution. Our only issue with the WWE on this is that later this month they head to Saudi Arabia for a the biggest Royal Rumble they’ve ever had. The event will also feature a number of other matches; however, due to Saudi Arabia’s repressive stance on equality and human right, the WWE has decided there will be no women’s match on the night and we can guess that Balor’s “For Everyone” message won’t have as prominent a position as it did at Wrestlemania.
Balor tweeted an image of the occasion, accompanied by lyrics from the iconic John Lennon song, Imagine.
https://twitter.com/FinnBalor/status/983187911033139200
Keep up the good work Finn and consider us members of the Balor Club.
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The Rat and Mouse interview – Colby Short from GetAgent
Posted by Ben On October 14, 2015 0 Comment
One of the most interesting and innovative property-related startups in a while, GetAgent is a dating agency for vendors and estate agents, analysing sales to match home–sellers with the agents who are performing best in their neighbourhood and property type. Only recently out of beta, they’re signing agents at a rapid rate. CEO Colby Short took time out for a chat with the Rat.
Why don’t we start the time-honoured way with the elevator pitch. What’s GetAgent, what makes it different and who needs it?
GetAgent is a data-driven estate agent comparison site. Every day we analyse Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket, and match listings data with land registry to create an objective measure of estate agent performance. We allow homeowners to leverage this data to get the best agent for them and in turn the most money for their home. On the estate agent side, we allow the best agents to back up their claims of being the best and win more instructions.
It’s a startup that’s all about the data. The Land Registry data is obviously public domain, what about the rest? Are you reliant on a supply from the portals or are you capturing the data independently?
We capture the data independently through a variety of sources. The listings data is then de-duplicated to ensure that we are not counting the same property twice for a single agent and then our outlier identification algorithm pulls out any anomalies for us to look at manually.
This has created the most complete and accurate set of property listings data available in the UK.
Can you tell me about your background and that of your partners? Do any of you have experience in the property industry?
GetAgent was created by three cofounders.
I am the CEO and have worked in Business Development across several countries before founding a previous company in the finance space. I have no property industry background.
Peter, our CTO, previously founded and managed a property portal called Find Properly, which he later sold to Nestoria. Find Properly was well known for its interesting property widgets.
Seb, head of product and design, previously ran a food subscription business before heading up Adbrain’s design team.
We are not property market veterans, which is a good thing as we are not trying to be estate agents. Estate Agents know about selling homes and we won’t try and tell them how to do it. What we are good at is data capture and analysis and building strong businesses with strong foundations that can scale quickly.
I did however spend the first 6 months of GetAgent going to knock on estate agents’ doors to tell them about our product and gauge their reactions and gather their feedback.
It’s obvious why a vendor might want to use the service. But if you promise to provide unbiased results whether an agent signs up (and pays) or not, what’s the incentive for an estate agent to put his hand in his pocket? High Street agents can be quite conservative and resistant to change. Was GetAgent a tricky sell?
GetAgent has been quite an easy sell so far to estate agents. Yes, it is possible for a homeowner to circumnavigate us and yes we will have leakage from the site but this is a surmountable problem. We simply have to make the user experience so seamless and friction free that they wouldn’t even consider going around us.
When I was out speaking to estate agents, the overriding emotion I heard when discussing the challenge of obtaining new instructions was one of frustration. Many of the best estate agents were annoyed that they were the best estate agent in their area yet only had 6% market share.
People appoint an estate agent every 5-8 years so never really build up enough experience in doing so to be able to identify the best estate agent every time. Additionally, every estate agent claims to be the best making the task even more difficult for the ill informed homeowner.
GetAgent allows the best estate agents to win the volume of instructions they deserve by pulling out the objective evidence of their quality. Why would any good agent not want to support that?
Also, although we do charge a commission, by taking this on completion only take all the cashflow risk for the estate agent and allow them to grow their volumes without any additional up front marketing spend.
Are online agents ranked too? And – on the subject of modern, disruptive, alternative estate agent business – how do you intend to differentiate between the different styles and levels of service offered under what is nowadays something of an umbrella term?
Online estate agents are not ranked, as they do not sell your property for you, they simply advertise it. If there comes a stage when that model changes then we will certainly look at including them. PurpleBricks don’t have enough local volumes to warrant inclusion in any of our shortlists and with the whole online estate agency space only accounting for 2.02% of the market, it is not something we are concerning ourselves with currently.
When did you come out of beta? Can you give me a rough idea of where you are so far in terms of agents signed up and property completions?
There have been a few different stages in the development of GetAgent. We realistically came out of Beta in the middle of September when we were closing out our financing round.
We have now helped find estate agents for well over £100m worth of property and have signed up 570 agents to date.
We are signing up around 200 estate agents a week currently.
Where next? Is the immediate plan to consolidate with a marketing campaign or do you have more features in the pipeline? (Or both?)
We do have some more features in the pipeline for both the homeowner and the agents.
Currently, by signing up to work with GetAgent – which is free I hasten to add – estate agents get access to our “For Pros” section where they can pull out statistics on any estate agent in the country. We are planning to add in a comparison feature to this so agents can see how they compare to their competitors and/or other branches of their company.
On the homeowner side, we would like to provide more information about what to expect during the selling process and help demystify some parts.
But mainly we are looking for a big drive on marketing so that we can help as many people as possible maximise the return on their home.
Thanks, Colby.
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Digital Theatre review: Into the Woods (Regent’s Park, 2010)
Ivan Radford | On 05, Jan 2015
This Friday, a film adaptation of Into the Woods hits UK cinemas, starring Johnny Depp, Anna Kendrick and James Corden. Stephen Sondheim’s fairytale musical, with a book by James Lapine, was a hit when it first premiered on Broadway almost 30 years ago. Never seen it? Want a reminder of the best songs? Not a fan of James Corden? Good news: you can download it on DigitalTheatre.com. And it’s a thrillingly dark watch.
Timothy Sheader’s 2010 production was staged at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London – a brilliant decision that fuses the magical forest surroundings with the play’s themes. The set design is flawless, all rickety steps and wooden platforms; a labyrinth of ladders that nails the notion of Sondheim’s woods – a place we must all venture into as a way to learn and grow.
It’s a dazzling take on the Brothers Grimm tales, fusing them together into one big mesh of imagination: there’s Little Red Riding Hood, who wants to visit her nan; Cinderella, who dreams of going to the palace ball; Jack, who longs to venture up the giant beanstalk he unwittingly grows; Rapunzel, who fantasises about escaping her witch’s tower; and, running between the pages of each, a Baker and his Wife, who are asked to bring a mix of magical items to the witch to help them conceive a child.
“Into the woods!” they all sing, as Sondheim turns their wishes upside down. Sheader’s smart conceit is to present it all in the mind ofa young narrator, who runs away himself into the nearby trees. Lapine’s themes of adolescence, maturity, parenthood and childhood become surtext rather than subtext – giving the play’s grounding of these stories in reality a bizarre, fantastical twist.
“I need those shoes to have a child!” shouts one. “That makes no sense,” comes the deadpan retort.
The cast leap into the nether realm with infectious enthusiasm. Mark Hadfield is hugely likeable as the well-meaning baker (the role taken by James Corden in the movie), supported by Jenna Russell’s equally sincere spouse, while Hannah Waddingham shrieks gleefully as the old witch before sashaying into her younger form with shimmering sex appeal. Beverly Rudd, meanwhile, gives a cheeky oomph to the naive Red Riding Hood, who comes up against an even saucier wolf (Michael Xavier).
But it is Xavier’s other turn as Cinderella’s Prince Charming (“I was raised to be charming, not sincere!”) that steals the show: during the standout number Agony (sung in tandem with Rapunzel’s prince – his brother), they lament the impossibility of their fictional love with Sondheim’s trademark wit. “Did you learn her name?” cries one. “No, a dwarf’s standing guard,” replies the other.
The songs may not always seem memorable, particularly in the second half, but the Regent’s Park setting (and its childlike narrator) help to bring a real sense of climax to the musical, as a giant stomps onto the stage, with the voice of Judi Dench and a face made of bicycle wheels. It’s a staggering piece of staging in 150 minutes full of incredible flourishes: thorns blind our heroes and wolves gobble up girls with a disturbing mix of glitz and gore.
In the past, DigitalTheatre.com has impressed with its use of quiet close-ups for static productions, presenting emotion through detailed facial expressions. Here, the streaming service proves digital theatre can cope just as well with ambitious, chaotic action: the dynamic editing quickly jumps from the tiny humans standing at the foot of Dench’s giant to a wide shot of the entire stage.
That contrast of big and small evolves into a juxtaposition of maturity and youth; the tragedy of age dwarfing the excitement of innocence. “Children can only grow from someone you love to something you lose,” laments the witch, who challenges Red Riding Hood on her own blood-stained murder record. “A wolf’s not the same,” argues Red Riding. “Ask a wolf’s mother!” the sorceress barks back.
By the time the climactic number – “no one is alone” – arrives, Sondheim’s subversive, surreal dream becomes a meditation of the impact of everyone’s stories upon everyone else’s. Nursery rhymes are not just a way to confront life’s darker elements as children, he suggests, but an essential rite of passage to understand the world. Haunting, moving and thrillingly dark, fairytales have never felt so important.
The Regent’s Park show won Best Musical Revival at the Oliviers back in 2010. As the new Hollywood adaptation hopes for its own award success, Digital Theatre’s recording captures the superb original with the timelessness of a bedtime story; taking us into the woods – and out of the woods – and home before dark.
Into the Woods is available to rent for £3.99 from Digital Theatre and purchase for £8.99 (in SD) and £10.99 (in HD). To celebrate the film’s release, we’re giving VODzilla.co readers an exclusive 20% discount off all rentals and downloads until Monday 12th January – just use the code “red-riding-hood” at the checkout.
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Kirill Pozdnyakov blog
« on: April 14, 2016, 17:55 »
Welcome to something new on Velorooms – a blog from a pro rider, exclusive to our website! We are happy to present Kirill Pozdnyakov of the Synergy Baku Cycling Project. Kirill will write his blog every few weeks or so, and give us an insight into life and racing on the Continental level. Please feel free to comment and ask questions!
Kirill is a 27-year-old Russian now living in Gent, Belgium. He turned pro in 2013 with Synergy Baku, and very successfully. That year he had five wins: stages in the Tour de Taiwan, An Post Ras, Jelejah Malaysia, and the Tour of China 1, taking the overall title in the latter.
He was so successful that his homeland team Rusvelo called him home, so to speak. His two years there didn’t show any significant results, and he happily returned to Synergy Baku this season.
The Synergy Baku Cycling Project is licensed in Azerbaijan, sponsored by the Synergy Group, one of the largest private investment companies in the country.
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My season finally started in "Istrian Spring Trophy”, a four-day stage race in Croatia. The beginning of the season didn’t go the way I had expected. I came down with the flu and had to take antibiotics for 10 days and had to miss the Porec Trophy. My teammate Matej Mugerli won this race, which made me happy because it was our first win and it came so early in the season.
Because of that we arrived at the Istrian Spring Trophy with high morale and a winning spirit. For me, it was my first chance to meet my new teammates, and it turned out to be a great week to race together.
The first day was a prologue and my legs were not good, probably due to the antibiotics and having been off the bike for five days. Matej put in another good performance and in this kind of race, the GC is decided by seconds, so we all helped him. We didn’t win the race, but he won the last stage and finished third overall. For myself, I felt good during the race, except for the prologue, and I was happy how I was feeling on the bike and the work I could do for my team.
Our next race was "Coppi Bartali", which came as a surprised. I had planned to go to altitude training on Tenerife before the Tour of Croatia the end of this month. I didn’t know what to expect from this race, because after Istrian I had gone home to Belgium and in my mind was already in Tenerife :-). But I was happy to go to the race!
As a team, we decided to try for a stage result, and stages 2 and 4 were hard ones. From the beginning of stage 2, it was very hard because it was constantly up and down, and the temp was very high. At some point the peloton split into groups. After about 50 km, I finally made it into the break group. There were five ranked climbs and once I was in the group, I went for the mountain jersey. I could take the first three and so I could secure the jersey.
The last stage was another hard one and decisive for the GC. I tried to get in the breakaway again, but this time I was marked by the other guys who were close in the mountain ranking. We chased each other for the first 40 km and in the end, the break went away without any of us. I was not feeling bad on the climbs, but on the second to last climb I started to feel the efforts I did at the beginning of the stage. I was dropped from the first group and so lost the jersey.
After the race I was a bit disappointed and at the same time I wasn’t, as the rider to whom I lost the jersey was riding stronger than me. There was not much I could actually do, except to have been lucky enough to be in the first break or maybe I should have better saved the power from the beginning of the stage ... that is racing, and I took my chance, but it didn’t work out this time. Anyway,it’s a good sign for important upcoming races and again, a good race week.
After that race, I was supposed to go to Tenerife, but unfortunately the hotel was already full with the ProTour teams training for the Giro. I chose to go to Calpe, Spain, for a last intensive block of training, before the Tour of Croatia and Tour d'Azerbaidjan. The Tour d’Azerbaidjan would be the most important race for our team so I need to be ready for it, and in my last two weeks of training I have had a lot of intensive hours on my bike.
Right now I feel improvement since my last race and my tests are showing some good numbers of my condition. I hope to turn this into results. Right now I have some days of recovery and then I'm ready to start the Tour of Croatia on April 19.
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After that race, I was supposed to go to Tenerife, but unfortunately the hotel was already full with the ProTour teams training for the Giro.
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Great to have such a rider blog here on the site, looking forward to the next installments.
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Thanks for doing this, In one of the future blogs I was wondering if we could have a training type of blog, who you ride with, why Gent rather than say Spain etc, who sets your training programs what type of stuff you do etc
Good luck in Croatia
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Quote from: just some guy on April 15, 2016, 07:09
Yes, Gent is an interesting choice to me too. If you're racing a lot in France, Belgium and the Netherlands it makes a lot of sense but I haven't seen much of SB over here lately.
However, the Gent area isn't too far from a decent international airport (at least when it isn't affected by strikes and the lunatic fringes); it's also home to several services courses, a significant community of Belgian and expat pro cyclists and a world-class velodrome.
So I think Kirill's choice is simply because he used to ride for RusVelo and they're based in Flanders. As recently as last season, he was riding quite a lot of races here.
I used to enjoy climbing the woody hill on which Ivanov's big white house perches above the town of Diest. The RusVelo team car was often parked outside.
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A very interesting read, thanks for taking the time to share with us
I agree a training blog would be interesting. And something else I really want to know more about is the contract stuff: how does it work when switching teams or extending contracts? Do teams approach the riders, or do agents 'offer' their riders to teams? When do negotiations take place, and to which degree are you as a rider involved in those negotiations? Do you leave most of it to an agent, or are you actively involved in the whole process? And, for the conspiracy theorists, do contract negotiations for next season affect the current season? Would you be more likely to help out a rider if you knew he would be in your team next year?
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Hmmm - I seem to recall that there is some way to upgrade Kirill from "Couch Potato" to something a bit more select. Am I right? After all, if ever "Couch Potato" didn't fit, this would be a good bet, eh?
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Hmmm - I seem to recall that there is some way to upgrade Kirill from "Couch Potato" to something a bit more select. Am I right?
I'm pretty sure that it goes purely by number of posts.
A hard day for Kirill in Stage 2 of the Tour of Croatia. He crashed twice, the last time 15km before the finish, so he lost time today. He is ok though, just got a few scratches.
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« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2016, 17:48 »
KIRILL AND THE TOUR OF CROATIA
It was a beautiful week of racing in Croatia, we achieved great team results and I enjoyed being part of this success! I remember myself last year when I did the Tour of Croatia and when I compare that to where I am no, I'm really happy. At last my work starts to turn into results and I feel great sensations on my bike again.
I wanted to do well in the general classification. Before the race I knew I had good condition and my power was good enough to do well. The last two years were very disappointing years for me. but when we hit the first hills I realised that I actually had a good opportunity to fight for a high GC position.
Unfortunately, I crashed during stage 2 with some other favourites 20 km from the finish and lost 51 seconds. I did all I could to always be in the front of the peloton to avoid all the dangerous moments. At this moment, though being in the front of the group didn't bring me any luck For general classification my chances went down but my teammate Matija Kvasina was lucky enough to avoid this crash and to have better cards than me.
Stage 4 was the day to decide who should win this race, with the mountain finish.. In the morning I woke up with the ambition to still fight for my goal that i had before the race. I still had this little chance to get in the breakaway and hope this group would stay away until the climb with some advantage on the main group.
Before the first mountain, the break went away and I was there. There were a lot of attacks and just before the mountain finish, a group of 20 guys came to our group. Not everyone was interested in cooperating and the main peloton was also not far away. I decided to stay calm and wait until the last climb and see what will happen. Then when a few guys attacked I stayed calm and waited until the main group came back. When we all came together, it was already 50-60 guys maybe and Trek Factory took control of the race until the finishing climb.
We started the climb very fast and with a good tempo . Directly from the start i realised today could be my day. I could sit comfortably with the first guys. Tinkoff and CCC were making tempo all the way until 15 km to the top and no one could really get away. My teammate Matija had also good feelings and he was in a better position than me in classification. I wanted to try and fight for the stage win, but to gain time back for GC would be hard. But for him it was about taking the jersey this day, so decision was to help him make the best of it and try to win this race with him.
The last 10 km of the climb I rode for him and made the tempo until the last 4km when the climb got steeper and from there it was on him to go for it He did great and came 2nd on this stage and also took the leader’s jersey. I was very happy after this stage, we made great efforts and it worked well .
For our small team to perform like this on this level is a huge result and having the opportunity to take a jersey and fight for the overall win is much bigger than a stage win at this point. The day could not end up better than this !
The day after we had maybe the biggest test for us. On paper maybe we weren't contenders but cycling is not only numbers and calculations A team time trial in the rain for 43km is team work. We were the last team to start and just before the start we heard that almost every team had crashed more than once. Technical roads and a lot of roundabouts brought a lot of teams in trouble.
In cycling its all about team work but there only one winner or one team that can pull this success to the end. Every day we try to help each other but even this does not always work -- in the sprint stages someone can help more than another, for example. Earlier some teammates maybe could help more than me in the last kms when it comes to the sprint, but yesterday I could deliver this work for success on the climb.
But today during the TTT it was Tamo (Ioannis Tamouridis) who made our day successful, his experience was the success for our ride. We rode very carefully in the roundabouts and dosed our power perfectly to finish 4th and keep the race lead.
On the last day we only had to survive local laps with a small cobble hill and make sure that Matija was near the guys who were close to him in GC. All the team did the work perfectly. On the last lap I stayed with Matija to make sure he will not get in troubles, but he did well and no one could be real danger for him. We won Tour of Croatia and enjoyed the moment in Zagreb , for myself i kept 7th place in GC and feel strong.
Next week is a big challenge for our team, the most important race of the year, the Tour d’Azerbaidjan. We are going there with a winning spirit. There is only one winner and a lot can happen. No one can guarantee the victory but from my side I guarantee this fight for the win!
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Kirill's next race, of course, will be the Tour d'Azerbaidjan, starting this coming Wednesday. He will be one of the team's two leaders in the race, along with Matej Mugerli.
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I too would enjoy reading blog posts about training and other behind the scenes insight. Hopefully someday.
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The Tour d’Azerbaidjan is over. We had another good racing week with our team. We came with a strong team and won two stages and the team classification. It was not an easy task to be the home team because some of the other teams were watching us during the race, but we made it without any problem and used our team spirit Since I first went to
Azerbaijan in 2013, the country has changed a lot. Baku is a very beautiful city, with lots of new buildings and the “Formula One" circuit in the centre of the city, just amazing! It was an honour to ride on this road during the last stage of the Tour, you don't race much on roads like this during the year. Not only in Baku but during the whole race when we hit the countryside, everywhere it was just a pleasure to ride.
The crowds were amazing too, people like cycling there and ride their bikes a lot. Every day you could see a lot of people at the start and finish and during the race on the side of the road. Mostly you only see this in Europe because of cycling culture, but once you go out of Europe there is not always so much public interest in a bike race, but Azerbaijan impressed me! I really enjoyed racing there and visiting this beautiful country. If I would have the opportunity to do "Tour d’Azerbaidjan" again i wouldn't hesitate
So the first part of the season is done. If I look and analyse my races , I'm happy with what i have done so far, the condition is there. The Tour of Croatia went good for m , normally it should suit me better and I worked toward this race. When the GC was made I was there and felt goo , this is important for coming races . In Azerbaijan I didn't find a great feeling, different climate zone and allergies made me feel not super good during the race and in general.
One week after Azerbaijan was an easy week for me and now I am starting to work towards the second part of the season, where my head already is. June 7 will be my next race in Slovakia , stage race from 7th until 12th June and after that, another big test at the Tour of Austria. I hope my evaluation will continue and I willnhave a good result in Austria.
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You actually raised something there I was wondering - how difficult is it to be racing in different climates and time zones all the time? Do you get used to it, or is it something that always weighs you down?
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« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2016, 19:14 »
(June 9, 2016) Kirill Pozdnyakov finished second on the Queen Stage of the Tour of Slovakia. After the difficult mountain stage, the Russian riding for the Synergy Baku Cycling Project has moved up to third overall.
Pozdnyakov attacked on the penultimate climb and joined a lead group, with 15 km to go. The group stayed away until the end.
“The team helped me a lot during the stage,” Pozdnyakov said. “Maksym Averin and Samir Jabrayilov made good tempo on the climbs. On the second to last climb I attacked with (eventual winner) Mauro Finetto and we held the gap until the end.”
“The final climb wasn't hard enough to make a difference,” he added. “On the sprint I was sitting in third position, but the guy before me left a gap. I went around him but it was too far up to Finetto.”
With three more stages to go, two of them with climbs, Pozdnyakov is sitting comfortably in third place overall, nine seconds down.
Friday’s stage three is the longest of the race, at 170.1km from Strbske Pleso to Zuberec. There are four ranked climbs, with two coming in the first 40 km.
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Kirill finished in the first group which arrived at the finish one second behind the winner of stage 3 of the Tour of Slovakia. He remains in third place overall with two more stages to go.
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Kirill has finished third overall in the Tour of Slovakia! Congratulations to him and to his teammates who helped put him there!
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June 13, 2016) Kirill Pozdnyakov has finished third overall in the Tour of Slovakia. The Russian riding for the Synergy Baku Cycling Project finished second on the race’s mountainous second stage to move into third place, and held on to it until the end.
“I am very happy with this result, and would like to thank my teammates. The good teamwork is what made this possible,” Pozdnyakov said.
Sunday’s closing stage was a short one, with two climbs, the first coming almost immediately after the start. With 75 km to go, a break group formed which stayed away until the end. Pozdnyakov was safely within the peloton which finished over a minute down.
The team’s next race will be the Tour of Serbia, June 14-19. Matija Kvasina, Matej Mugerli, Josip Rumac, Alex Surutkovych, Elchin Asadov and Ioannis Tamouridis will represent Synergy Baku in the race.
(June 15, 2016) Matija Kvasina finished third on the second stage of the Tour of Serbia to move into second place overall. The Croatian riding for the Synergy Baku Cycling Project was the initiator of a stage-long break group which stayed away until the end.
It was a top day for the team, with three riders in the top ten of the stage. Ioannis Tamouridis came back from a crash to lead the peloton home and finish sixth, with Matej Mugerli eighth. Tamouridis is now 8th overall and Mugerli 12th.
In addition, Kvasina took the mountain jersey and the team retained its hold at the top of the team ranking.
Kvasina was the first to attack on the opening 18km long climb, and four other riders joined him. Their largest gap was three minutes, but they were able to stay away until the finish line.
The short stage, only 108 km, was full of climbs “and lots of headwind. I was not feeling at my best today, and in the end ran out of energy. The race profile we had seen wasn’t correct and did not fit the situation, so I didn’t know there was another 2 km climb only 5km before the finish. One of the others attacked there and soloed in to the finish. I was about at the end of my power but managed to pull out a third place on the stage, and second overall,” Kvasina said.
It was the first race for the 34-year-old since the Tour d’Azerbaidjan last month. “The long break from racing has made my body lazy but every day I feel better. Maybe tomorrow we will try to do some more damage!”
DS Andrej Hauptman also commented that “at the end was a short steep climb which was not in the race book. One of the others attacked and Matija did his best with what was left in his legs. We are pretty happy because for all of them except Alex Surutkovych, this is their first race since Azerbaijan.”
Tamouridis had a heavy crash today after receiving a tire from the neutral service car. The tube was not glued, and on the descent the tire came loose from the rim, and he crashed. The Greek rider was not injured.
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Mugerli wins stage three in Serbia
(June 16, 2016) Matej Mugerli soloed in to win the third stage of the Tour of Serbia and take over the yellow jersey of the race leader. It is the fourth season win for the Synergy Baku rider.
In addition, Matija Kvasina is third in GC and wears the mountain jersey, and the team still leads the teams ranking.
Josip Rumac was in the first break group of the day. Later Mugerli escaped with Clemens Fankhauser of Tirol Team, and the two slowly pulled away. They had only a three minute gap on the chasing group which held all the top sprinters. With less than 40 km to go, the other rider crashed on a descent, leaving Mugerli alone in the lead. He held on for teh remaining thirty-plus kilometers and flew in to the finish line, 2:31 ahead of the field.
Mugerli’s last win this season was stage three of the Tour d’Azerbaidjan. He also won stage 3 of the Istrian Spring Trophy and the Porec Trophy.
“It was not such a long stage, but hard and for me a very intensive race,” Mugerli said. “I did 100km in the breakaway, and the last 30 km alone after my mate from Tirol crashed. From teh beginning, we pushed, there was no real tactic, just going full gas.
“I am happy with this victory and also to be in the yellow jersey on my birthday tomorrow. And of course many thanks to the Synergy Baku team, which controlled the race behind me.”
“This was another amazing day for our team,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “The first part of the stage was really hard. Matej and Fankhauser attacked before the first climb. Then he won the first intermediate sprint and picked up six seconds.
“Behind them, we controlled the yellow jersey group. With 50 km to go, the gap was three minutes and the others started to chase. It was not easy, but today, Matej was the strongest. We still face three difficult days, but as always this season, congratulations to the whole team.”
Matej Mugerli continues to hold the lead in the Tour of Serbia. The Synergy Baku Cycling Project controlled the whole race so that his overall lead was not endangered and he again won the leader’s jersey on his 35th birthday.
“Everything was under control today. Ioannis Tamouridis, Josip Rumac and Alex Surutkovych did a fantastic job!” Mugerli said. “They chased for 180 km.”
“There were a few attacks on the final climb, but Matija Kvasina and I controlled them. Huge thanks to the guys. Now I have to bring the yellow jersey to the finish on Sunday for them!”
“Today was a hard day. It was 192 km and the guys were in front all day. We still have yellow,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “I am very proud of this team.”
There are still two stages to go in the race.
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Matej Mugerli has won the overall title in the Tour of Serbia. In addition, Matija Kvasina finished third overall and Synergy Baku Cycling Project takes home the title of best team.
Mugerli finished the sixth and final stage Sunday safely in the peloton, which crossed the finish line only three seconds behind two escapees. He came into the stage with a lead of over two minutes and was never really endangered all day.
He laid the base for his GC win on the third stage, which he won by over two and a half minutes in a solo to the finish. The team led the team rankings for the entire race. Kvasina finished third on the second stage and stayed in the top three overall until the end.
“There were many attacks today but our team had no problem controlling the race. The guys did an amazing job and we also won the team ranking,” Mugerli said. “This was my first race back after a break, and I am very happy to have won the overall title in a stage race.”
“This final stage was more difficult than we expected, but the guys really gave their best,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “We lost the mountain jersey, but held on to the team classification. Congratulations to all the riders and staff.”
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Kirill has a racing break right now, and is doing altitude training on Tenerife. This was his rest day, so he took the time to answer some of your questions.
"Most of the time I train in the Flemish Ardennes when I'm in Belgium. I have lived in Belgium since I was 17 but since I first signed with Baku in 2013, I spend most of the time in Spain and come to Belgium only to see family and for recovery time between races. Marc Lombaerts makes my training plans, he has been coaching me for 5 years.
When you switch teams at the continental level, you don't really need an agent, you can handle it all by yourself. At some point maybe you are more relaxed if you have contract for the coming year, but it will not affect your current season if you don't have the legs
Racing in different climate zones is more difficult than time zones, sometimes you even don't feel the time difference if the climate is not extremely different than that you came from."
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Synergy Baku Cycling Project riders have brought in six national titles for 2016. Ioannis Tamouridis scored the double, winning both the time trial and road titles in Greece.
As expected,Synergy Baku riders filled the podiums at both Azerbaijan championships. Maksym Averin won the road title, winning by some 12 minutes in a solo breakaway. Synergy Baku riders took the top six places in the race. Samir Jabrayilov won the sprint for second ahead of Elchin Asadov, with Ismail Iliasov only two seconds back in fourth. In the time trial, Asadov ended up atop the podium, beating out Averin and Jabrayilov.
“I am proud to have defended my title in the road race, and it tops off a great first part of the season. Many thanks to my teammates who helped to make this possible,” said Averin. “I am also proud to have won with such a large time gap!”
Matija Kvasina, winner of the Tour of Croatia, took the Croatian time trial championship for the third time, and was third in the road race. Josip Rumac finished second in the Croatian road race, which gave him the U-23 title.
The man of the weekend was Tamouridis. On Friday he won the Greek national time trial, and on Sunday the Greek national road race. It was his eighth time trial title and fifth road title.
“It was a great weekend! My aim was to win both jerseys and I was in a good condition to do it,” Tamouridis said. “I knew the time trial was ‘easier” to win, but the road race is always a very stressful race and they were another eight to ten riders racing against me. In addition to power I also needed a good plan to control all of them and for sure luck. I crashed In the middle of the race but fortunately without consequences. Finally everything got well and I can be satisfied with the results and my condition.”
Averin, Tamouridis and Kvasina are all headed to the Olympic Games in Rio in August.
Team manager David McQuaid was proud of his riders. “This year’s national championships have indeed been rewarding for our squad. This puts our name out there for sure.”
“It is a strong credit to the guys as a group, and while I am happy to see our three Rio-bound riders all on the road race podiums – Maksym and Ioannis winning, and Matija impressing in Croatia – I am also happy to see our young guys performing so well too, pushing the Elites. Ismail narrowly missed the podium in Azerbaijan, and Josip narrowly missed the Elite win in Croatia.”
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Kirill has just finished his altitude training on Tenerife and is back in Belgium -- for the moment. "I love the island," he said. "If I could, i would live here. Nothing to distract me from my focus."
"I did some tests and everything is great. The next races can come!"
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« Reply #26 on: July 05, 2016, 08:32 »
Kirill Pozdnyakov will lead the Synergy Baku Cycling Project in the Tour of Sibiu (UCI 2.1). The Romanian race runs July 6-10.
Pozdnyakov recently finished third overall in the Tour of Slovakia, and was 14th overall in the Tour d’Azerbaidjan. In the Tour of Croatia he was seventh in the final GC, and contributed greatly to teammate Matija Kvasina’s overall win.
He will be supported by Kvasina, who won the Croatian national time trial championship, and Josip Rumac, who won the U23 Croatian road race title. Matej Mugerli, winner of the Tour of Serbia, and Elchin Asadov, Azerbaijan’s time trial champion, will also back the Russian up, as will Samir Jabrayilov.
The Tour opens with a 2.2km prologue in the city of Sibiu. Stage 1, with start and finish in Sibiu, contains four ranked climbs, is followed by a stage with five climbs, and a mountain top finish. The climbing continues with a mountain time trial in the third stage. There is no let up, as the race closes with six climbs on the final stage.
Synergy Baku Cycling Project for the Tour of Sibiu: Elchin Asadov, Samir Jabrayilov, Matija Kvasina, Matej Mugerli, Kirill Pozdnyakov, and Josip Rumac
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Kirill has won the mountain time trial in the Sibiu Tour!
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Kirill Pozdnyakov has won the mountain time trial in the Sibiu Cycling Tour. The Russian took his first win of the year by covering the difficult 6.8 kilometers in 16:20.
The penultimate stage in Romania,which finished at the glacier lake Bâlea Lac at 2040 m, contained 13 hairpin curves and numerous other curves and turns. It had an average gradient of 6.18%.
Pozdnyakov covered the course six seconds faster than second-place Alessio Taliani and 11 seconds faster than Serghei Tvetcov, both of Androni Giacattoli-Sidermec.
“It was great to win today ! A special win on a special mountain,” Pozdnyakov said. “I dedicate this win to the people who make it possible for us to race and who support us in what is not always an easy situation.”
“Kirill was amazing today,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “For sure he was the strongest. This is a big victory for him and the team.”
“This is an excellent results for the team, and an excellent result for Kirill personally,” said team manager David McQuaid. “To win a mountain time trial takes pedigree. Kirill set the best time today ahead of established Pro Conti riders, and I am happy for him because he is a dedicated rider.”
“Unfortunately due to how yesterday’s stage panned out, the GC is out of the equation now. We came here to win the GC with Kirill and today’s results show that we could have done it.”
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Waiting to learn whether you will win a time trial is not easy.....
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Concert Review: Simon and Felix Jaxx it up
October 4, 2001 edward
I met Basement Jaxx. Will this taint the objectivity of my concert review? Of course it will. Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton of Basement Jaxx have released two hit albums with a slew of singles from each one. “”Remedy”” in 1999 produced such hits and favorites as “”Rendezvous,”” “”Bingo-Bango”” and “”Red Alert.”” Their most recent effort, “”Rooty,”” has yielded such musical wonders as “”Romeo”” and “”Where’s Your Head At?”” They have remixed the Pet Shop Boys and Roger Sanchez. They were courted by major labels before signing to independent label, XL. And they have to be the nicest chaps in music. After attending their incredible performance at 4th & B on Monday. I waited outside with my buddies in hopes of catching the Jaxx wandering out backstage. I expected them to stumble out with a girl on each arm and expensive cigarettes hanging out of their mouths. Of course, these world famous house producers would be at the lap of luxury, right? Wrong. Felix stumbled out, not with a bottle of Skyy vodka in his hand but a huge bag of equipment. He carried his own stuff! Even after I confused Felix’s name with his cohort’s, he kindly signed autographs and continued to help put equipment into a nearby truck. I slipped him a business card with my e-mail address, my way of saying, “”e-mail me!”” After all, it was Felix from Basement Jaxx. I searched for Simon around their tour bus but couldn’t find him. I asked my newfound friend (Felix, of course) where Simon was and he poked his head into the bus and called for Simon. Simon, also carrying his own bags and equally pleasant, stepped out of the bus and faithfully signed autographs for the few people who stuck around to bid the Jaxx adieu. I was like a 12-year-old on the morning of your gift-receiving winter holiday of choice. Basement Jaxx’s show was simply amazing. Their DJ set was complemented by live singers, dancers and live percussion as well. At one point, Simon stepped out from behind the decks to play the guitar and Felix supplied the vocals for a rousing rendition of “”Where’s Your Head At?”” with Groove Armada (“”I See You Baby””) and BT (“”Never Gonna Come Back Down””). Known to play rousing sets with live guitars and percussion in addition to their turntables, synths and computers, one wonders if this will be the way many electronica producers will start to showcase their music. The massive video screen spit out Vegas-like colors as the Jaxx rocked a relatively small but incredibly enthusiastic crowd who bounced and sweated to every single song. The Jaxx dropped in crowd favorites like “”Red Alert,”” “”Bingo Bango”” and “”Romeo.”” The beats were hard and loud and the attitude was funky and sexy in a way that was distinctively Basement Jaxx. The pace was unforgiving as they pounded through each song with different dancers and vocalists, leaving the audience screaming and breathless by the time their set finished up at a criminally early 11 p.m. Did I mention that I met Basement Jaxx? And they were the nicest guys. As my friend said with her high-pitched-cartoonish-voice, “”they’re so cute! I just want to take them home with me.”” Imagine that. A pair of Jaxx at your very own home. I wish. Overall experience? This has to be one of the best shows that I have ever been to. ...
Alien Ant Farm ANThology Dreamworks Is Alien Ant Farm destined to ascend the throne of rock royalty once held by bands like Led Zeppelin, U2 and Radiohead? No. But with that said, their sophomore release, “”ANTthology,”” recorded in North Hollywood and produced by Jay Baumgardner (Papa Roach, Slipknot, Coal Chamber), is not half bad. It’s a good rock record. Good, but not great. If you’re looking for jagged, four-minute fixes of typical themes like relationships and fantasies, you will certainly find them on “”ANThology.”” Singer and lyricist Dryden Mitchell admits that “”many of the songs were written during a breakup. Writing them was better than me chasing someone around who didn’t want to be chased.”” However, some songs, like “”Courage,”” with the lyrics, “”Contrary to the matter/Who you are, you are not/ Come with me, I’ll show you Saturn/ Planets don’t quite align,”” makes me think he should have just chased her anyway. While the lyrics may be far from poignant, there is something about “”ANThology”” that makes it better than your average rock record. “”Movies,”” which compares a bad relationship to a movie, stands out as an especially good track. “”Flesh and Bone”” is another track that moves particularly well. The reason these songs work is that they go back to the tried-and-true formula of sparse verses broken up by heavy melodic choruses that make you want to throw your hands in the air and bang your head. Of course, the one track that can’t be ignored on “”ANThology”” is the rock remix of “”Smooth Criminal”” because stylistically, it sticks out like a sore thumb. Among a collection of songs that are straight-faced, this tongue-in-cheek cover just throws a slice of cheese onto the tail end of the album and disrupts its overall appeal. Those who buy “”ANThology”” because of the popularity of “”Smooth Criminal”” will not be disappointed. However, the throw-back to the 1980s seems like a blemish on an album where all the other songs belong together. But that’s knit-picking. “”ANThology”” really is good. — Lindsay Boyd Dredg Leitmotif Independent With a few good listens to “”Leitmotif,”” I have slowly begun to realize that this is one of the most unusual rock albums I have heard in a very long time. Dredg has created a rock symphony. If I had to force them into a genre, it would be progressive rock. But this is progressive rock without the connotations that title implies these days — an over-produced and hard to follow New Age-like album. “”Leitmotif”” is a concept album that spans five movements. Unique guitar riffs noodle around incredible drumming. Even though the vocals tend to be weak, the musical approach of Dredg more than makes up for it. Dredg breaks away from the traditional verse-chorus-verse-chorus pattern with a constantly evolving sound as hard electric guitars sweep in and out with acoustic guitars. The drums and the guitars work in harmony as they drive the album to its end. The development of different themes creates brilliant songs that melt into each other, and before you know it, you’re at track five. The songs are also cryptic, with titles like “”Traversing Through the Arctic Cold, We Search for the Spirit of Yuta,”” “”Penguins in the Desert”” and “”90 Hour Sleep.”” There is definitely a sense of mysticism behind the songs. The odd atmospherics and the electronic noises found throughout the album are reminiscent of Radiohead and some Queens of the Stone Age. In the liner notes, Dredg proudly states that “”All instruments and sounds are real, no samples.”” With their music, Dredg sends you on an epic journey. Dredg includes an actual story in their sleeve notes, and their tale begins in San Francisco before they head toward the Arctic to the mythical underwater city of Natoma. Throughout the album, they make their way to Northern Asia and Mount Everest in their quest for truth. Ultimately, they find themselves and discover how each piece of culture fits into the puzzle of life. This realization comes after their “”90 Hour Sleep.”” This is an album that you have to play from track one to the very end or you will lose the entire artistic concept of it. You must listen to all of “”Leitmotif”” to see the entire journey unfold before you. — Joseph Lee Remy Zero The Golden Hum Elektra The story of Remy Zero does not start in 1988, when Shelby Tate and his brother Cinjun Tate along with Cedric LeMoyne, Jeffrey Cain and Greg Slay started a band. In fact, the Remy Zero story starts about 50 years ago, with a fellow named Remy Boligee. By 1969, Boligee and friend Sam Bruno committed over 30 hours of tape with music, conversation, ramblings and long periods of silence. Bruno lost track of Boligee and gave the tapes to a 12-year-old, Shelby Tate, whose parents were good friends with the Brunos. That’s where the Remy Zero story begins. The band, as we know now, recreated, rearranged and reinterpreted the works of Boligee. They even recorded sections of the tape into their recordings. They released their self-titled debut album in 1996 and released “”Villa Elaine”” in 1998. Now, nearly three years later, they have released “”Golden Hum.”” Even though the band is from Alabama, their sound seems to be distinctively British. One could even compare them to early Travis with more of an edge and crunch to their guitars. They have also toured extensively with Travis, which may account for the Travis influence in their “”Golden Hum”” album. Remy Zero’s use of sweeping strings on “”Out/In”” give the song a more anthem-esque quality. Comparisons to a less-produced U2 album wouldn’t be too far off. The haunting wail of Cinjun Tate in “”Save Me”” could be mistaken for the wail of Fran Healy from Travis or Thom Yorke from Radiohead. The driving pulse of “”Belong”” is a wonderfully polished pop song with a steady pulse that gets your head nodding in no time. My personal favorite is “”Over The Rails & Hollywood High,”” with its Weezer vocal influences and thick guitar crunches during the chorus. Most may not know about Remy Zero, but the opportunity to check them out is at hand. They will be playing in support of Travis on Oct. 21 at Spreckles Theatre. Tickets are on sale now. — Joseph Lee ...
Theater Review: 'Contact' uniquely lights up the stage with passion and flair
We often rely on our vocal capabilities to express our fears, feelings and emotions. In the musical “”Contact,”” however, verbal communication takes a backseat while the artistic form of dance conveys the performers’ thoughts and desires. The self-labeled “”new kind of musical”” offers a fresh kind of theater through innovative choreography and sexy themes. Courtesy of Broadway San Diego In this musical, despair, illusion and renewal are all played out through the common language of dance in three separate, short stories. Although all three acts differ in style, music and choreography, they match in resonance to suit each other thematically. Almost everything, from the dance styles to the soundtrack (yes, I did say soundtrack), is unique in “”Contact.”” There is an eclectic mix of both music and dance that brings a welcome change to the usual musical. Don’t expect an original score because all the music is pre-recorded, but what a wide and interesting range of music it is. The score is perfectly timed with creative and addictive dance steps, resulting in a simple yet effective tone and look. From Tchaikovsky to Dean Martin to Robert Palmer, the music complements the great choreography of Susan Stroman (“”The Music Man,”” “”Crazy For You.””) The first act, “”Swinging,”” is set in 1767 and deals with love between an aristocrat, his lady and a servant. Only three actors dance the entire time and the set itself is minimal. With its simplicity, the first act establishes the tone of “”Contact.”” No words are spoken and only one song is played, leaving the audience free to focus on the light, airy grace of the dancing. The mood is light, but also racy and full of sexual innuendo. In terms of story, “”Swinging”” is too full of fluff, leaving the viewer wanting more. “”Did You Move?”” is the title of the second set, which takes place in a ’50s restaurant in Queens. This act depicts the life of a lonely woman (Meg Howrey) who endures an ill-tempered, abusive husband. Once again, dialogue is minimal because the housewife expresses her comedic desires through dance alone, allowing everyone to become a part of the her romantic and comedic fantasies. The housewife’s airy yet fragile hopes can be seen as her sophomoric, naive leaps and jumps manifest her desire for a new life. The last portion of the play is also the best and most emotional. In this modern-day act, a suicidal advertising agent named Michael Wiley (Alan Campbell) is at a crossroad in his empty life. Wandering through Manhattan, he drifts into a night club where he meets a lady of intrigue and mystery: the woman in the yellow dress (Holly Cruikshank.) A metaphor for the quality of the entire production, the yellow dress is sexy and full of life. What defines the last act is the brilliance and radiance of the enigmatic woman, who elevates the entire cast’s performance. Cruikshank’s dramatic performance is full of an energy, and her devilish charm is embodied in her infamous and mesmerizing yellow dress. The third act provides the most “”meat”” in plot and substance, dealing with such dark subjects as depression and suicide, which are in turn counteracted with hope, renewal and love. As Wiley tries to win the affection of the woman in the yellow dress, swing dances exemplify what “”Contact”” is all about: passion. Even for those not familiar with theater or dance, “”Contact”” is a simplistic yet moving series of performances that should not be missed. In essence, “”Contact”” is more than great dancing: It is the expression of love and hope. ...
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10/4 Thursday Rebecca Drexler Guardian Composer-pianist JIM BRICKMAN used to write jingles in his New Age piano style. In 1994 his solo instrumental “”No Words”” hit Billboard’s Top 40 Pop Chart. Now he’s at Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets start at $35. 10/5 Friday JAMES TAYLOR is in town with hits like “”Carolina in My Mind,”” “”You’ve Got a Friend”” and three Grammys under his belt. TAYLOR’S travels led him to a hospital for depression at 17 and rehab for heroin addiction at 20. He ends up at Coors Amphitheater at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $28.50 If you’re into roadhouse rock then check out DELBERT MCCLINTON at 4th & B. He has received praise from the likes of Lyle Lovett and B.B. King. MCCLINTON’S latest release, “”Nothing Personal,”” has also received similar praise. His show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $20. L.A. band FISHBONE, is oft underrated but has garnered a strong cult following over the years. They have been compared to the Red Hot Chili Peppers with their hard sound and socially-conscious lyrics. Their show at the Belly Up Tavern starts at 9:15 p.m. and tickets are $12. SKANIC and the PRODIGALS will open. 10/6 Saturday Head to the REGGAE WORLDFEST for a night of great entertainment with BUNNY WAILER, CULTURE, EEK-A-MOUSE and COMMON SENSE. They gather at the San Diego Sports Arena starting at 3 p.m. Tickets are $25. ALL OVER BLUES, led by Luther “”Guitar Junior”” Johnson, will be at the East County Performing Arts Center in El Cajon. This tribute band will be playing the music of the legendary Muddy Waters. Tickets start at $18 and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. San Diego rock, funk and reggae band GOVERNMENT CROWN will be at the Belly Up Tavern at 9:15 p.m. in support of their latest album, “”New Pieces of Clay.”” Call the Belly Up for more information at (858) 481-9022. 10/8 Monday The unstoppable TONY BENNETT will be at the San Diego Civic Center. Need I say more? Tickets start at $33 and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. You know he’ll sing all the hits. 10/9 Tuesday SLAMM magazine presents the 11th Annual SAN DIEGO MUSIC AWARDS, which honor the vibrant but sometimes underrated local music scene. Groups like CONVOY and SOUL CRACKER will play alongside the likes of THE BASTARD SONS OF JOHNNY CASH and THE INCREDIBLE MOSES LEROY. The awards show will be hosted by local radio station DJ Jim McInnes at Humphrey’s by the Bay. The event will start at 7 p.m. Call the SAN DIEGO MUSIC AWARDS hotline at (619) 641-5823 for all the information 24 hours a day. Tickets start at $15 and proceeds will benefit San Diego elementary schools. The BLACK EYED PEAS are one of the greatest groups out there with hip-hop style spiced with some funk and jazz. This talented group from Los Angeles will be at the Belly Up 10/10 Wednesday Tavern in Solana Beach. Tickets are $17.50. Bronx native DJ LOGIC will perform at the Belly Up Tavern at 9 p.m. Tickets will be $9. DJ LOGIC was at the front of the turntable movement in the late ’70s and early ’80s. His latest disc, “”The Anomaly,”” was released in May. ...
Fall Fest 2001
By all accounts, Alien Ant Farm has had one hell of a year. Their major label debut, “”ANThology,”” was released March 6 by DreamWorks/New Noize. That album has since gone platinum and is continuing to climb Billboard’s Top 200 charts. Their single, “”Smooth Criminal,”” has held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Modern Rock Charts, and the Marc Klasfeld-directed video has gained heavy rotation on MTV and VH1. They played England’s legendary Reading Festival, performed at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards and are now embarking on their own headlining tour. Not bad for a band that formed just five years ago in Riverside, California. In 1996, vocalist Dryden Mitchell, guitarist Terry Corso, bassist Tye Zamora and drummer Mike Cosgrove were all bumming around the local Riverside rock scene, playing in various bands, when they eventually decided to play together. “”Individually, we were trying to figure out who were the best players in the area,”” recalls lead singer and lyricist Mitchell. “”We kind of identified with each other and started cheating on the bands we were playing with at the time, getting together after practices. We played our first show in 1996 . . . and have been together ever since.”” However, it was guitarist Corso who came up with the band’s unusual name. “”I was daydreaming at my dull desk job with my feet up and I thought to myself, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if the human species were placed on earth and cultivated by alien intelligence? Maybe the aliens added us to an atmosphere that was suitable for us and they’ve been watching us develop and colonize, kind of like what a kid does with an ant farm, where the aliens are the kids and humans are the ants.'”” It wasn’t long before Alien Ant Farm was gigging steadily throughout the western United States and Europe, playing to huge festival audiences. Their boldly titled, self-released debut album, “”Greatest Hits,”” earned them a Best Independent Album award at the 1999 L.A. Music Awards. It was then that Alien Ant Farm became the first band signed to Papa Roach’s New Noize label, cementing a professional and personal relationship that started when both bands were slaves to the California club circuit just years before. When Papa Roach gained popularity, they did not leave their old friends behind. Corso explains, “”We always said whoever takes off first would help the other group up, and that’s the way it happened. They’ve been very vocal about us, which is priceless, and we can’t thank them enough.”” Now it is Alien Ant Farm’s turn to reach out to bands such as Dredg and label-mate Pressure 4-5, who will join them as they kick off their headlining tour this October. Onstage, Alien Ant Farm tries to keep things light and fun. “”Music does good things to people — it’s one of those art forms everyone enjoys,”” explains Mitchell. “”It’s magical when we play our stuff for the fans and they light up. We take our music very seriously, but we’re also a very tongue-in-cheek group. We want to keep that enjoyment going.”” But don’t take his word for it — check out Alien Ant Farm for yourself Oct. 5 at FallFest. ...
Here’s another slew of Top 5s that’ll blow your mind. Some will make you think, “”What the hell?”” And others will make you think, “”Why didn’t I think of that?”” Agree? Disagree? Please submit your Top 5 Favorite Albums to: [email protected] Subject: Top Five. — Joseph Lee ANDREW QUADRI Copy Editor 1. “”In Person”” – Vince Guaraldi 2. “”Debut”” – Bjork 3. “”Gordon”” – Barenaked Ladies 4. “”Kind of Blue”” – Miles Davis 5. “”Pet Sounds”” – The Beach Boys JENNIFER SPOSITO Opinion Editor 1. “”Urban Hymns”” – The Verve 2. “”Ray of Light”” – Madonna 3. “”Remedy”” – Basement Jaxx 4. “”Ferment”” – Catherine Wheel 5. “”Nude Dimensions vol. 2 – mixed by Mauricio Aviles”” – various artists CLAIRE J. VANNETTE Features Editor 1. “”Little Earthquakes”” – Tori Amos 2. “”The John Doe Sessions”” – Gregory Page 3. “”Immortal Beloved Soundtrack”” – various artists 4. “”Arkansas Traveler”” – Michelle Shocked 5. “”S&M”” – Metallica ...
September 27, 2001 edward
When you pick up the Guardian, you might wonder who these editors really are. After all, the god-like characters that produce such a politically balanced, high-quality newspaper may seem out of reach to the common student. One might wonder, how can I ever relate to such talent? Or one might ask, is it possible that I have something in common with these journalistic demagogues? The next logical query would be, do these people actually breathe the same air that I do? Well, the editors have provided me with a list of their five favorite albums. With this you may conclude that these people are human after all. You might think, “”Hey, they listen to the same crappy pop music that I do!”” Or, “”Hey, they listen the same great post-industrial-two-chord-rage-chill-out-techno-euro-pop music that I listen to!”” Agree or disagree? Please submit your Top 5 Favorite Albums to: [email protected] They run the Guardian, but do they see eye-to-eye? ALISON NORRIS Editor in Chief 1. “”Blood Sugar Sex Majik”” – Red Hot Chili Peppers 2. “”Nevermind”” – Nirvana 3. “”The Singles Soundtrack”” – various artists 4. “”Use Your Illusion II”” – Guns ‘n’ Roses 5. “”The Ultimate Experience”” – Jimi Hendrix JEFFREY WHITE Editor in Chief 1. “”No Jacket Required”” – Phil Collins 2. “”Blood Sugar Sex Majik”” – Red Hot Chili Peppers 3. “”Achtung Baby”” – U2 4. “”In Utero”” – Nirvana 5. “”Niandra Ladies and Usually Just a T-Shirt”” – John Frusciante LAUREN I. COARTNEY Managing Editor 1. “”Siamese Dream”” – Smashing Pumpkins 2. “”Parachutes”” – Coldplay 3. “”Tidal”” – Fiona Apple 4. “”The Joshua Tree”” – U2 5. “”From the Choirgirl Hotel”” – Tori Amos ...
FallFest lineup announced
It’s that time of year again! Yes, it’s time for FallFest. Our friends over at A.S. are bringing a whole slew of bands for our amusement. You can love them or hate them. But it’s free, so why should you complain? The following is a list of who is coming to FallFest 2001. But there are questions that remain: Alien Ant Farm — Are they better than “”Smooth Criminal?”” Warren G — Will he regulate? How could he not? Toya — Who? Apparently she’s been on MTV a lot. FallFest 2001 will be on Friday, Oct. 5. The show is at RIMAC and admission is free with a student ID. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the concert starts at 8 p.m. Look to the hiatus section next week for complete coverage of the festival and its bands. ...
Annual San Diego Music Awards announces nominees
If you are like most UCSD students — that is, from somewhere other than America’s Finest City — your knowledge of San Diego music is pretty much limited to Blink-182 and Jewel. Never mind that Blink comes from that distant, red-headed stepchild of a suburb: Poway. And never mind that the Coffee House Queen is an Alaskan masquerading as a SoCaler. Our local music scene has much more to it than that. Pick up a copy of Slamm or the San Diego Reader, available on campus, and dive into the myriad musical events and CD reviews. There’s plenty of homegrown talent around, in all musical genres — and yes, many are purveyors of poppy punk or are soulful singer-songwriters. The best of the varied and dizzyingly talented pool of music acts in San Diego are honored every year at the aptly named San Diego Music Awards. This year’s ceremony is Tuesday, Oct. 9 at Humphrey’s by the Bay. Its performers include The Incredible Moses Leroy, whose obnoxiously upbeat “”Fuzzy”” swamped alternative radio last spring, as well as Convoy, Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, NovaMenco, Switchfoot and Soulcracker. Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster or at the Humphrey’s box office if you’d prefer to avoid the service charge. Local music fans can get involved with the awards before the show date, though. Voting for many of the top honors is now underway at http://www.sandiegomusicawards.com. Anyone with a few spare minutes can shape San Diego music history. To steal a line from better-known awards shows, “”And the nominees are…”” FOR PUBLIC VOTING: Best Bar Band 80s All Stars Liquid Blue Pink Froyd Private Domain Rockola Siers Brothers Best Mainstream Jazz Charles McPherson Chris Klich Quartet Dave Patrone Gilbert Castellanos Peter Sprague Tim Maglione Best Pop-Jazz Fattburger Hollis Gentry Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe Reggie Smith and Pressed for Time Robert Walter’s 20th Congress Spaceman Spiff Best Latin Jazz Agua Dulce B-Side Players Jack Costanzo Jaime Valle & Equinox Kokopelli Latin Jazz Ensemble Orchestra Primo Best Big Band Benny Holman Orchestra Big Daddy Orchestra Big Time Operator Ira B. Liss Big Band Ray Barrie Big Band San Diego Youth Jazz Band Best Acoustic Anya Marina Berkley Hart Gregory Page Joe Rathburn Lisa Sanders Steve Poltz Best Blues Bill Magee Candye Kane Len Rainey & the Midnight Players Michele Lundeen Robin Henkel Scottie Blinn & the Tiki Torchers Best World Music Common Sense Crucial Earth Ride NovaMenco Psydecar The Revelations Best Roots, Rockabilly or Swing Billy Bacon & the Forbidden Pigs Billy Midnight Cowboy Nation Hot Rod Lincoln The Paladins Scotch Greens Best Dance or Funk Clyde’s Ride d*fRost Fat Beat Squad Honey Bucket Mix Mob Wise Monkey Orchestra Best R & B, Hip Hop or Rap Downlow Father & Son Icons MainFlow Roundtable MC’s Tony da Skitzo & Mr. Brady Best Country Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash The Dorados Frank Sullivan and Texas Sky Hill Country Honkytonk Kings Nickel Creek Best Adult Alternative 34 Below Eve Selis The Good China The Hatchet Brothers Jolly Lamas Swerve Best Pop Dave Howard Incredible Moses Leroy The Shambles Switchfoot Teacher’s Pet Vertibird Best Rock Convoy Powerthud Soulcracker Sprung Monkey Ten Pound Brown The Dragons Best Hard Rock or Metal Cage Ghoulspoon Life Hates Me Mower Stretcher Teabag Best Alternative a.m. Vibe Black Heart Procession GoGoGo Airheart Jack’s Broken Heart The Album Leaf Tristeza Best Punk Agent 51 The Classified Dogwood Furious IV The Locust Lucky 7 Best Electronic DJ Jon Bishop DJ Greyboy Nortec Collective Rotator Scooter & Lavelle Square Circle ACADEMY-ONLY VOTING Artist of the Year Billy Bacon (The Forbidden Pigs) Jimmy Lavelle (Tristeza/The Album Leaf) John Reis (Rocket From The Crypt) Jon Forman (Switchfoot) Karl Denson (Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe) Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession) Ron Fountenberry (Incredible Moses Leroy) Song of the Year Blink-182 — The Rock Show Convoy — Caught Up In You Incredible Moses Leroy — Fuzzy FenixTX — Threesome Nickel Creek — Reasons Why POD — Alive Sprung Monkey — What’s That You Say Album of the Year Blink-182 — “”Take Off Your Pants And Jacket”” Convoy — “”Black Licorice”” Incredible Moses Leroy — “”Electric Pocket Radio”” Karl Denson — “”Dance Lesson #2″” Nickel Creek — “”Nickel Creek”” Sprung Monkey — “”Get A Taste”” Switchfoot — “”Learning to Breathe”” Best Pop Album Dani Carroll — self titled Cheryl Bliss — Angels Running After Incredible Moses Leroy — Electric Pocket Radio Scorch — Pop with a Twist Switchfoot — Learning to Breathe The Joey Bowen Band — In This World The Shambles — What You’re Missing Best Adult Alternative Album Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash — Walk Alone Chris Torres Band — Signs of Hope Comanche Moon — Old Dogs Gregory Page — And I Look Up Jeff Clark — Nashville, CA The Hatchet Brothers — Tools of the Trade The Paladins — Palvoline No. 7 Best Rock Album Convoy — Black Licorice Government Grown — New Pieces of Clay Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins — Dancing Rocket From The Crypt — Group Sounds Rochelle, Rochelle — self-titled Sprung Monkey — Get A Taste Soulcracker — At Last For You Best Hard Rock or Metal Album Acid Nine — Mess With The Bull Brothers From Another Planet — Resistance Is Futile G-13 — Just Another Day Life Hates Me — Imperfections Mindsize — Gravity Mower — Mower Stretcher — Annomundi Best Alternative Album Black Heart Procession — 3 Buckfast Superbee — You Know How The Song Goes Jack’s Broken Heart — Against Forgetting Counterfit — From Finish to Starting Line The And / Ors — Will Self Destruct The Album Leaf — One Day I’ll Be On Time Tristeza — Dream Signals in Full Circles Best Punk Album Agent 51 — Just Keep Running A Little Punk, Slightly Drunk — San Diego 2001 (compilation) Blink-182 — Take Your Pants Off and Jacket FenixTX — Lechuza One Track Mind — Can I Have Your Number? Spazboy — Alright Tokyo The Locust — Flight of the Wounded Locust Best Dance or Funk Album Cult of Soul — Walkin’ My Planet d.fRost — Digital Dustbowl Fat Beat Squad — Delicious Honey Bucket — Boombox Hero Psydecar — On a Wing Wise Monkey Orchestra — They Live Square Circle — Say Hello to Square Circle Best Rap or Hip Hop Album Downlow — Vegetables for your Noodle Icons — Capture The Flag Kastle Vania — Str8 From the Dungeon Mission Infinite — WordSoundPower Mr L’il On — Tha 13th Skorn Rekless — self titled Best Jazz Album Agent 22 — First Witness Holly Hofmann — Live at Birdland Jack Costanzo — Back From Havana Karl Denson — Dance Lesson #2 Mike Woffard — Time Cafe Robert Walter’s 20th Congress — Money Shot Spaceman Spiff — The Love EP Best Blues Album Billy Watson — Little Snick meets Junior Mint Blue Largo — What A Day Buddy Blue — Pretend It’s Okay Hoodoo Blues — Running for the Light Martha’s Kitchen — Women Trouble Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra — Soundtrack to a B Movie The Blues Invaders — The Invasion begins Best Local Recording Chuck Perrin — Swallow Life Earth Ride — Tree of Life F.O.N. — Cease & Desist Jeff Clark — Nashville, CA Lizzy Wann — A Wing and a Prayer Slightly Stoopid — Live & Direct Acoustic Roots Via Satellite — Wake Up Heavy ACADEMY Best New Artist The Deere Johns Jason Mraz Rochelle Rochelle Square Circle Lovelight Shine The And / Ors Via Satellite Group of the Year Black Heart Procession Blink-182 Convoy Nickel Creek P.O.D Rocket From The Crypt Sprung Monkey ...
Future of A.S. programming emphasis lies in music, concerts
One of the most highly scrutinized jobs on the A.S. Council would have to be A.S. commissioner of programming. Besides coordinating and planning all major on-campus events, the programmer has to constantly meet with a variety of media agents to ensure quality events. This year’s A.S. programmer, Eisha Christian, is looking to improve the selection of events. An interview with Christian shed some light to how entertainment is brought to UCSD: What is your job as A.S. programmer? I oversee all the entertainment events that come out and are put on by the A.S. I oversee the festivals, the TGIF, the club shows at the Pub, which we started last year, and the nooner shows. Specifically, it’s more of an overseeing position. Besides the major music concerts and clubs, are there any arts or entertainment events that are put on by Associated Students? Usually, we have speakers as well. Last year we did “”Loveline.”” The turnout was a little bit low so this year I’m not so sure if we want to have a lecture or turn that money around and put it into Sun God. Right now, the feedback from the campus is that they’d rather see music entertainment than speaker entertainment. Right now, it’s on hold. But if people want to see bigger acts, that’s definitely my No. 1 priority. You put Club Ritmo at Porter’s Pub. What is it and what goes on there? Last year we were asked to find something that we could possibly work with at The Stage at the Pub and use that venue. We were debating at first to have more of just a chill, rock-type atmosphere, but then we finally decided on a club-dance atmosphere on campus. The way things worked out, we had a lot of old-school hip-hop artists because of the costs and the venue. What is the future of the club shows? This quarter we’re on a break because the Pub is being renovated with new dance lighting and carpets. Our first show will be winter quarter and it will be more of like a grand unveiling. So, I’m hoping it will be more of a club-type, dance-type atmosphere that should actually be branching out into DJs and stuff like that. Right now it will stay with live acts rather than DJs, so we’ll se where it goes in winter. Some say that there are better uses of money, noting the small attendance at Club Ritmo. What do you say to that? I honestly say that we max out our capacity every time. As far as turnout, I think the turnout is pretty good, especially for the venue. And what we’ve done with it is to make it bigger than it has been in the past. As far as money, you will find that you can’t get into a club here with a live act for less than $20. And the fact that we did put on shows for less than $8 — people were really surprised, and that’s why we also got off-campus crowds as well. You can’t go anywhere else and get that cheap of a cost. There’s a lot of apathy toward on-campus events. How are you trying to change that? I know for our Welcome Week dance we had the biggest turnout we ever had. I’ve never seen so many people show up. People kept on coming and I think that’s a good sign — this year we are really getting into stuff. Our FallFest lineup is also going to bring huge crowds as well. A focus of this office during the summer was making sure that FallFest opened up with a band and everything else would fall in place from there. I want students to come out and say, “”You know what? This is great. This is cool. This is fun and I’m having a good time,”” and not come and complain about it. We do want students to have fun and that’s our No. 1 aim. If students don’t want to come to our events, then why even bother to do it? Of the three major quarterly festivals, historically, WinterFest is the least attended. Some people are saying we should drop WinterFest and use that money toward better bands during Sun God and FallFest. Do you think that is a viable option? Not this year. WinterFest is our charity show of the year. And I think if we do get rid of it, it’s a sign that our student body is really apathetic about the world in general. So for us to get rid of the only charity show that we do is just a wrong move. Sure we’re here to entertain people, but we need to make sure we balance that with a more positive aim. This year, I do want to see more of it. I do think this year’s WinterFest will be strong. To be honest, I think programming is 50 percent hard work and 50 percent luck. You need both, and it’s not that people haven’t put in, it’s just a hard time of year to program for. What type of music do you want to focus on? Honestly, it’s what the campus wants. We don’t have a “”focus on”” type of music. We kind of do follow with mainstream. Every now and then we want to get underground hip-hop out here, more Face to Face — stuff like that. Just from the past, UCSD does not come out to shows that they haven’t heard the names of the artist, no matter how good they are. Definitely, we’re going with what’s doing well in the market at that time. How do you plan to reach out to the student body? I hope to have a Web site started up soon. My hope is that students would have some place they can check every weekend and it would be updated weekly with what’s going on. Eventually, recaps of the events and artists interviews and possibly, in the far future, maybe more stuff with the local San Diego music scene. It’s at http://as.ucsd.edu/programming. ...
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UG SRC Court Dismisses Petition and Orders Aspirant to Pay 700 Cedis
Posted on April 3, 2016 by Joseph Kofi Frimpong Ackah-Blay in Articles, Campus, Campus News, Legon, National News, News, Noticeboard, Notices, Spotlight
The University of Ghana SRC Judicial Board has in a unanimous decision dismissed the petition brought forward by Joseph Agyekum challenging his disqualification by the SRC Electoral Commission from this year’s election.
The court gave its ruling after four days of hearing.
Day 1: Court Grants Ex-Parte Injunction, March 30
The Vetting for aspirants was slated for 6pm on the said date at the SRC Union Building conference room. Supporters of aspirants were seated awaiting the vetting which appeared to delay due to power outage.
The Electoral Commissioner, Rexford Opare could be seen pacing to and fro in an attempt to secure a generator. What many did not know was that a court hearing was currently ongoing in an office within the same union building. The aspirants could be seen in their suit and tie, ready to meet the pass mark of 70% the Commissioner had stated as the new pass mark.
Elsewhere Counsels Kwame Twum, Eugene Offei and another colleague of theirs were busy convincing the bench to grant an Ex-Parte interlocutory injunction. They were representing Joseph Agyekum popularly known as JO an abbreviation he affectionately explains to mean ‘Justice’ and ‘Openness’. He was clearly seeking the former.
Joseph Agyekum (JO)
Joseph Agyekum had been disqualified together with Eugene Agyei for failing to meet the requirement spelled out in article 30(1)(b). Article 30 spells out the criteria one must satisfy in order to contest for an Executive Officer portfolio.
The said provision reads
“He has attained a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.0 as at the time of filing his nomination.”
Counsel Twum argued that on a true and proper interpretation of the provision, the plaintiff is qualified to contest the 2016 UG SRC elections. He prayed that the court orders the first defendant (Electoral Commissioner) to revoke its decision in respect of disqualifying the plaintiff, award a cost of 1,000 cedis and any other orders the court may deem fit to grant.
The UG SRC Judicial Board in a unanimous decision granted the application for an Ex-Parte interlocutory injunction. The court in its ruling stated that
“..Applicant has succeeded in satisfying the pertinent requirement for an application of this nature as enunciated in the American Cyanamid case; whether or not there is a serious issue to be tried. It follows therefore that the present ongoing vetting is temporarily halted…”
Few minutes after the ruling, the court registrar exited the office where hearing had just ended and quickly located the Commissioner and handed the injunction notice. The Electoral Commissioner then headed to the Conference room and announced the injunction to all present. He ended by saying
“I think by Friday the court will rule, so as it stands now vetting has been suspended”.
The court later informed parties to the case that hearing of substantive matter will come off on Friday, April 1, 2016.
Day 2: Court dismisses application to set aside interlocutory injunction, April 1.
Hearing begun thirty minutes after 6pm. Counsels for the defendant (Electoral Commission), Counsels Nana Boadu, Barnabas Abisa and the SRC Legal advisor Richard Offei were seated and ready to move a motion for the petition to be dismissed by the Bench. Counsel Abisa rose and argued that the court ought to dismiss the petition because the plaintiff had failed to attach the relevant document to the Ex-Parte application that was granted by the court earlier.
Counsel for Joseph Agyekum argued against the motion. Counsel Twum argued that the defendant had failed to satisfy the requirements of setting aside an injunction as indicated in the Brown v Newel case of 1838.
“Counsel has failed to prove that there was a suppression of facts and fraudulent misrepresentation of facts”, he said.
The Bench after a brief recess ruled unanimously that the defendant had failed to prove the two requirement in the Brown v Newel case. Hearing of the substantive matter could not proceed because counsels for the plaintiff had failed to file their statement of case (substantive case) as well as defendant failing to file response. The court then adjourned hearing to Saturday, April 2 at 9am.
Day 3, Court fines Joseph Agyekum 80 cedis and adjourns sitting to 4pm.
Hearing which was scheduled to begin at 9am delayed for about two hours. Counsels for the plaintiff were absent in court. The Bench called the plaintiff Joseph Agyekum to explain why his counsels were absent. Joseph Agyekum stated that a member of his legal team had taken ill hence their absence. The bench found this reason strange because the plaintiff at previous hearings had been represented by three counsels.
Counsel Barnabas rose once more, praying that court dismisses the suit because the plaintiff had demonstrated a desire to delay proceedings. The Bench disagreed.
The Bench ordered Joseph Agyekum to pay an amount of 80 cedis to the defendant for the delay. Presiding Justice Nadia Antwi in delivering the order informed the court that hearing must be as fair as possible. She adjourned hearing to 4pm and warned the plaintiff that hearing at 4pm will proceed with or without his counsel.
Day 4, Court Dismisses Petition, orders plaintiff to pay 600 cedis as damages.
Hearing begun at 4pm prompt. Counsel for the Electoral Commission Abisa Barnabas moved an Ex-Parte motion asking the court to dismiss the petition. Counsels for the plaintiff entered the court, 25 minutes after 4pm. Counsel Abisa was still up moving his motion. The plaintiff, Joseph Agyekum was absent from court.
Counsel Barnabas Abisa Addressing the court
Counsel Abisa argued that the plaintiff should have filed for a Judicial Review rather than a call for interpretation. He stated that the plaintiff asserts that his rights has been abused, hence they ought to call for a judicial review and not interpretation. He cited Ernest Victor Apau v Mustapha as the authority. He Reminded the court that in that ruling, Justice Gbadegbe stated that it was a human right issue and not one that requires interpretation..
He argued further that the plaintiff’s evidence was inadequate.
“Plaintiff has failed to even attach his transcript as ordered by the court when it granted the injunction”, he said. Counsel Abisa in concluding described the petition as frivolous and vexatious.
Counsel Twum was asked by the Bench why he failed to show up in court in the morning. Contrary to the claim by Joseph Agyekum that a member of their legal team had taken ill, he said their client owed them some legal fees hence their absence.
The court went on recess and returned to unanimously dismiss the application.
Counsel Kwame Twum addresing the court
Counsel Kwame Twum (Counsel for plaintiff) was called by the court to orally present his client’s case.
Counsel Twum argued that the plaintiff was praying that the court interprets Article 30 (1)(b). He stated that upon a proper interpretation of the said provision his client had the required CGPA as at the time of filing his nomination. He reminded the court that despite obvious clarity, an enforcement of this provision has challenges and that a ruling by the court will provide a judicial precedent that will make things clearer. He added that the Dean of student affairs, whose letter to the Commission was used as basis to disqualify the plaintiff, per the institution’s Act 2010, was not the custodian of academic records.
Twum explained that two results of his client was released after his client had filed his nomination. This he claimed led to reduction in his client’s CGPA. He concluded by reminding the court that the burden of proof per the evidence act was not static and that the Ec, the institution that had disqualified his client ought to prove to the court the document it had relied on for the disqualification.
“The EC has only presented a letter with some names ticked and others not ticked, what does it mean?” he stated.
It was then the turn of of the counsels for the Electoral Commission.
Counsel Nana Boadu, a member of the Ecs legal team addressed the court. He argued that article 30 (1)(b) was unambiguous and required no interpretation. He reminded the court that since the plaintiff was crying foul, the plaintiff ought to prove to the court with evidence that he had 3.0 at the time of filing his nomination. He added that the plaintiff contrary to Counsel Twum’s assertion had not attached his transcript to his form when he filed his nomination.
The Bench then invited the Electoral Commisioner Rexford Opare as an expert witness. Mr. Opare told the court that the plaintiff was not required to attach his transcript to the nomination form and that the plaintiff didn’t attach the said document. He said his office received Joseph Agyekum’s nomination on March 23.
Electoral Commissioner of UG-SRC
Counsel Twum then cross examined the expert witness. Rexford Opare revealed during cross examination that Joseph Agyekum had filed his nomination on March 23 and that the Commission wrote to the Dean of Student Affairs on March 24. The Commission then received a reply from the Dean stating which candidates had met this requirement on March 29. Mr.Opare told the court that he doesn’t believe any result released in between the aforementioned date could have affected the aspirant’s CGPA.
Hearing came to a halt at this stage. Justice Mettle Nunoo reminded the court that Joseph Agyekum was still not in court had not paid the fine of 80 cedis. The bench increased the amount to 100 cedis. Counsel Twum told the court that his client was on his way and that he had assured him that he will pay the amount once he arrived.
Rexford Opare was then cross-examined briefly by Counsel Boadu. Counsel Boadu asked the EC to confirm some details on the Constitutional Instrument issued by the EC.
The court then headed for a recess after which the petition was dismissed by the Bench unanimously. The court in its ruling read by Presiding justice Nadia Antwi stated that the plaintiff had failed to meet the requirements of the evidence act. The plaintiff, the bench stated had failed to prove that Joseph Agyekum had 3.0 as at the time of filing his nomination. The court also ordered Joseph Agyekum to pay the Electoral Commission 600 cedis as damages in addition to the 100 cedis awarded earlier.
The Electoral Commission was given the green light to hold vetting for aspirants.
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"I am a president of peace. Not of war." said president Poroshenko.
The problem is: his country is at war whether he likes it or not.
But Poroshenko knows it is a war he can not win.
Because Putler has nukes (and many other nasty tricks of course).
E.V.E.R.Y single time Ukraine upscaled it's response to the Russian aggression to counter it, the Russians upscaled THEIRS even more.
And where does that end?
If the road of upscaling-aggression would be walked, in the end Putin would use nukes. And Ukraine does NOT have an answer to that.
So an all out war with Russia... Ukraine will loose that. Period.
And THUS Ukraine seeks help from the West and started with an unilateral ceasefire and later Minsk bilateral, EVEN THOUGH everybody knew the Russians would use it to restructure and reinforce their forces in Ukraine.
But Ukraine can not win the war against Putler without the West. That's why Poroshenko listens to them. To get their help. And THEY say: don't fight.
Because the West does not want war. Not in Europe but neither in Ukraine. It's bad for business!
So the West hesitates. Lingers. Tries to find a 'diplomatic solution'.
And they tell Poroshenko: do not fight, because we will sanction Putin. Show the world HE is the aggressor and not you and we will hit him in his pocket.
Why they do it this way? Why not send weapons?
Because Putin has nukes!
We don't want a nuclear war. We don't want upscaling-aggression all the time with the use of nukes in the end.
Sanctions are working pretty good when you look at the Ruble. But it's not good enough. Because it takes a loooot of TIME before it really has a good effect.
But ALSO because the West does not understand Putins game. Putin does not play by the rules. That is: OUR rules. Putin has his own set of rules and PRETENDS to play OUR game. That's why he is able to endlessly fool Western diplomats.
If sanctions hurt Putin... he will STEAL what he needs to survive. He STEALS Crimea. He STEALS coal from Donbas and sells it to Ukraine who has no option but to buy it. He steals a complete factory for helicopter engines from Donbas, transports it in his humanitarian white trucks and builds it up again somewhere in Russia.
Putin will STEAL from the West too. Mark my words. He will if he needs to do that for his survival.
This is one way he can do that:
This is how Russia will steal from the West to save it's own economics. https://t.co/PtrY6f8LLD pic.twitter.com/Pp9TjcGsSx
— Ukraine@war (@DajeyPetros) January 27, 2015
Because NOBODY can get Putin and his gang. Why? He has nukes.
Imagine... one bomb on Berlin and Europe is out.
Because what we gonna do? Nuke back? And get an all out Nuke war? We don't want THAT.
And THUS the West has to allow Putin grabbing what he wants and HOPING things will get better anyways.
But what the West does not fully understand is that they have REALLY GONE MAD in Russia. Beyond imagination. To this point that almost all of them believe the crazy propaganda they produce themselves. It is a vicious circle they are in. A VERY aggressive one.
AND they have nukes... a lot of them!
That is a very dangerous combination. Madness and Nukes...
Putin is going to grab what he wants with force. If anybody wants to stop him, he will upscale. Our collective (Ukrainian AND European) dilemma is this: How much will we allow him to grab before we say it is enough? Until he is in Berlin?
You think he will not go to Berlin? His bombers capable of delivering nukes have already been in Portugal. Of course he will. U.N.L.E.S.S somebody or something stops him.
(That is... he and his gang, because they are all in it together.)
And therefor the ULTIMATE question we have to ask ourselves is this: how are we going to deal with Putlers nukes if he would start to use them?
Do we have an answer to that?
If we DON'T have this answer, he will eventually (between now and so many years) run all over Europe with his crappy tanks, with uncountable victims.
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MH-17 one year later
49062 Views August 23, 2015 177 Comments Saker Analyses and Interviews The Saker
This column was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/flight-mh-17-one-year-later/
Over a year has passed since Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 has been shot out of the skies by somebody, but we still don’t know the truth and all sorts of hypotheses are circulating on the Internet. In the West, the Emperor Barak Ist decreed on the day after the actual shoot-down that the party responsible for this atrocity was, of course, the Novorussians. That is as predictable as it is irrelevant since not a shred of evidence has been presented by anybody in the West. In contrast, the Russians did provide quite a lot of evidence, but it was all immediately dismissed without further ado. Again, this is also as predictable as it is irrelevant. The undeniable fact is that the western narrative about the Ukraine absolutely mandates that either the Russians or the Novorussians shot down MH-17. Any other version is completely unacceptable and therefore shall never be considered, nevermind accepted, by the western politicians and their corporate media.
But for the rest of the world the question remains opened: who shot down MH-17 and how?
The first thing we know is that the Ukrainian traffic air controllers directed MH-17 to fly directly over the combat zone and to lower its altitude. We also know for a fact that there was at least one Ukrainian aircraft in the immediate vicinity of MH-17 that day. This was confirmed both by Russian radar signals and by several local witnesses who saw at least one, possibly two, SU-25 aircraft in the air that day. Finally, we also know that Ukrainian air defense units were present in the area that day and that their radars were active. What nobody saw that day was the kind of large and highly visible smoke plume which would have accompanied any large missile launch, not did anybody hear anything special. Apparently, no missile launch, and yet the Ukrainian radars were active. How come?
I believe that MH-17 was shot down by a Ukrainian SU-25. Critics of this theory have pointed out that the SU-25 is a “close-air-support aircraft” which was designed to fly very low and to engage attacking amour columns, that it was never designed to fly very fast or very high, and the SU-25 does not have a radar or air-to-air missiles. Finally, the cockpit of the SU-25 is not pressurized which means that the pilot cannot fly over 7’000 meter in altitude. This is all quite true. But it also misses the point.
First, while it is true that the cabin of the SU-25 is not pressurized, all a pilot needs to do is use a mask to supply him with oxygen. The aircraft itself can easily fly well over the 7’000 meter limit. It is true that the speed of the aircraft is inadequate to intercept a large civilian jet flying at its cruising speed. The SU-25 engines were never designed to fly high and while they can be made to bring the aircraft over 7’000 meters, they cannot develop enough speed in this rarefied atmosphere. But what the SU-25 can do is carry a R-60 infrared-guided missile. Not only does such a missile not require an engagement radar, but it’s speed is over 3’000 kilometers per hour, way faster than any civilian airliner. The problem with the missile, however, is that it’s range is short, about 8’000 meters.
The SU-25 does not have a radar capable of detecting a civilian airliners and guiding the SU-25 towards it. But the Buk missile radar battery definitely does. Since the course of the MH-17 was known well in advance, all the Ukrainians had to do was the keep one or two SU-25 loitering at low altitude under the air corridor which MH-17 would take and wait for the Buk missile operators guide the best placed SU-25 towards the airliner at the appropriate moment. All the pilot would have to do when given the signal was to sharply climb towards MH-17 and get inside the missile’s flight envelope (in this case within less than 8 kilometers of MH-17) and then fire off his R-60 missile. At that point, the missile would guide itself towards the biggest heat source of the aircraft – one of the engines.
The R-60 is a rather small missile and it would never be able to destroy a large airliner like the Malaysia Airways Boeing 777. But the R-60 is more than capable to destroy one of the Boeing’s engines. At this point, the airliner would rapidly lose speed and enter into a sharp turn while the pilots would be trying to figure out what happened, extinguish a burning engine and compensate for the increased drag. This is exactly what was observed on radars, by the way. The rapid loss of speed and altitude would make the Boeing easy prey for the SU-25 which has a powerful cannon on board which would then easily catch up and finish off the attack with a volley of 30mm cannon fire. Having finished off it’s target, the SU-25 would then sharply turn and return to its base. This is exactly what the Russian radars saw.
One might wonder why the Ukrainian would use a close air support aircraft like the SU-25 instead of a dedicated interceptor like the SU-27 or a fighter like the MiG-29. Here again, the explanation is very simple: not only does the Ukraine have many more SU-25s than SU-27s or MiG-29s, but these would also be very conspicuous to any witness. In contrast, the one (or, possibly two) SU-25s tasked with the destruction of MH-17 would be very easy to conceal in the eastern Ukraine and on any airfield. It is precisely because the SU-25 would be an unlikely aircraft to be given such a mission that it is the perfect aircraft to execute what is a textbook example of a false flag attack.
As for the Buk, it is such a big and conspicuous missile system that it is impossible to hide. Furthermore, had such a missile been fired broad daylight, the launch would have been clearly seen for many miles around. However, as long as all the Buk battery was doing is guiding the SU-25 towards MH-17 nobody would have noticed it. Nobody except the Russian, NATO and the USA, of course.
As somebody who has personally monitored military and civilian air traffic over Europe, I can attest to the fact that several militaries in Europe are constantly monitoring the entire airspace between the Atlantic and the Urals. These countries include the US and NATO. This is especially true for a battle zone. In fact, US and Russian AWACS aircraft are always present when a conflict occurs anywhere near Europe. They have been monitoring the war in the Persian Gulf, the war in Bosnia and Croatia, the war in Afghanistan and many other conflicts. Besides their AWACS, the Americans and Russians also use their space based satellites to monitor any conflict zone. Of course, neither side is willing to share all the detailed information it has, but the real problem here is political: the US won’t share anything at all because of the need to protect the regime in Kiev while anything the Russians would share will be immediately dismissed as “propaganda” (which is exactly what happened with the little the Russians did share).
I would add here that if had been the Novorussians who had shot down MH-17 the US could easily have proven it just as they have done it with KAL007 in 1983. In fact, in the 20 years which separate us from the shooting down of KAL007 US intelligence capabilities have considerably improved, so I would expect the US could provide much more data than just radio intercepts. And yet the US provided exactly *nothing*. There is only one logical possibility for that otherwise bizarre US refusal to provide any data at all: the US points to the “wrong” party. In other words, the fact that the US is not releasing any data all all is, by itself, an indirect proof that the Ukrainians did it.
As for the Ukrainians themselves they, of course, know *exactly* what happened and there is no need for them to “investigate” anything. So there is really nothing left to investigate. The Ukrainian did it and the West will never admit it.
End of story.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
chimmy on August 23, 2015 · at 3:48 pm EST/EDT
Wow, ties up all the loose ends; better than reading Sherlock Holmes.
The Wend on August 23, 2015 · at 4:00 pm EST/EDT
Israel did it. There is plenty of evidence on the internet.
Just like the massacre in Odessa was orginized by Israely citizen Kholomoisky.
Solon on August 23, 2015 · at 4:08 pm EST/EDT
Silence is not a legal defense.
The “noise” emitted in the Western media is to obfuscate the obvious.
The nations conducting the investigation are complicit in the crime coverup.
The travesty will not stay buried too much longer.
When Ukraine finally loses the war, shortly, and the junta runs for cover into Canada and the US, the remaining suckers in Kiev will spill the beans.
This crime is a huge criminal act. It cannot be held secret too much longer.
alan on August 23, 2015 · at 4:35 pm EST/EDT
true, but that’s why they have to be beaten first! that goal still seems far away
Daniel Rich on August 23, 2015 · at 10:27 pm EST/EDT
@ Solon,
Q; When Ukraine finally loses the war, shortly, and the junta runs for cover into Canada and the US,
R; Yikes Yats declared recently that the Ukraine isn’t his historical homeland and with Proroshenko also being a tribal member, this twofer will most likely end up in the arms of the Apartheid State [where so many criminals live safe and sound, and moreover, are protected from being held accountable for their misdeeds].
Uncle Bob 1 on August 24, 2015 · at 12:20 am EST/EDT
Unless the new peoples government,shall we say,adopts the old tried and true,KGB method.And eliminates them at the first opportunity. Yes,I’m an optimist.
Mulga Mumblebrain on August 27, 2015 · at 1:08 am EST/EDT
Yatsferatu will require a wooden stake through the chest.
Julian on August 24, 2015 · at 2:04 pm EST/EDT
When do you expect the truth about World Trade Center building 7 to be released and acknowledged? It’s been a few years now. Or even JFK for that matter.
They’ve lied about the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations for forty years. They still lie about 9/11, Saddam’s WMD, Iran’s ‘nukes’, Chinese ‘aggression’ in the China Seas, Putin’s ‘aggression’ in Ukraine etc. So long as the Western MSM remains a mendacious propaganda system entirely populated by lying vermin whose well-paying jobs depend on 100% ideological reliability, 100% of the time, the truth will never be acknowledged in the West, and the brainwashed moron populace, indoctrinated to hate ‘evil Putin’ will believe exactly what their Thought Controllers tell them to believe. That is the essence of really existing Western ‘Freedom of Thought’.
nmb on August 23, 2015 · at 4:10 pm EST/EDT
Desperate to find a pretext
MH-17 flight: Another tragic incident to be exploited
http://bit.ly/1dpkeOV
I forgot to put the link about Israeli involvement. The text was written by Christopher Bollyn –
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=102261
An interesting conclusion:
” There are some who might find this line of reasoning to be unfair to Israel, “the Jewish state” and “America’s best friend in the region.” To them, I would simply say: You do not understand the true nature of the Zionist beast. Israel operates like a gangster state that uses murder and intimidation to force nations to submit to its will. The Israelis would think that the downing of MH17 should be considered a message to the governments of Malaysia and The Netherlands and that other nations would be wise to take note of what happens to countries that challenge Israel.
If Israel were a person it would be a psychopathic serial killer on the loose. The psychopath who is a serial killer might appear to be a nice, intelligent, and civilized person – but that is only how he appears. When no one is looking he murders people in cold blood and gets away with it, time after time. The fundamental problem with his worldview is that he believes that he is superior to other people and that their lives are worth nothing. This is exactly how the Jewish supremacists who rule Israel view non-Jews. ”
My first response on seeing the link was, “yeah, right.” But the article seems to be pretty even-handed reporting facts that can be verified. I think this conclusion is sound:
While we cannot say with certainty that Israel was involved in the downing of MH17, we can say that it had both the motive and the capability to do so, which is more than we can say for the pro-Russian rebels who have neither the motive nor the capability but who have been wrongly blamed…
Also, whatever happened to Malaysian Airline flight 370?
Yes, concerning the very topic of the Saker’s article, the conclusion which you quoted sounds more sound.
Anyway, Bollyn’s analysis is very convincing, from the start to the end. Take note of this part, for example:
” We know that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down while flying through the air traffic control region of Dnepropetrovsk, where the governor, Igor Kolomoisky, happens to be an Israeli billionaire involved in aviation companies. Furthermore, Yaron Mofaz, a relative of Shaul Mofaz, former chief of staff of the Israeli military, oddly took a photograph of the ill-fated Malaysian plane at the airport in Amsterdam shortly before it was shot down, which he then provided to Reuters.
( IGOR KOLOMOISKY (2nd from left) the Israeli governor of Dnepropetrovsk is a prominent supporter of Ukraine’s Jewish community and the president of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine. He owns several airlines as well. MH17 was in the air traffic control region of Dnepropetrovsk when it was shot down. For reasons that have not been explained MH17 was diverted from its normal route and instructed to fly across the war zone at a lower altitude of 33,000 feet by air traffic control of Dnepropetrovsk. Click to enlarge
Yaron Mofaz, an relative of the former Chief-of-Staff of the Israeli military, took this photo of MH17 before it left Amsterdam on its ill-fated flight over Ukraine. Mofaz works with a company that owns a similar Malaysia Airlines plane that has been kept in a hanger in Tel Aviv since November 2013. So, why did he take this photo? Click to enlarge )
Yaron Mofaz also happens to be a director of a Mofaz family company that works closely with a company in Florida that owns a former Malaysia Airlines airliner, virtually identical to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and MH17. This Malaysian airliner, it just so happens, was sent to Israel in late 2013 where it was parked in a hangar in Tel Aviv. For these and other reasons it is logical that we consider the possibility that the shooting down of MH17 was an Israeli false-flag operation with a twist. Therefore, the real question is not whether Israel was involved, but to what degree was Israel involved in the atrocity? ”
No paranoia here at all. This man, Bollyn, is just observing the facts and makes conclusions that are logical.
mjm on August 23, 2015 · at 9:31 pm EST/EDT
If the picture in the article is the picture of the plane taken at the airport — the one that circulated at the time of the shootdown — then it isn’t a picture of MH17. The plane in the circulated picture had a different number on the wheel flap. I checked it carefully at the time.
I don’t have an opinion on whether you are right or not (certainly the Israelis wouldn’t “not” do it).If they did it it though,it would have to have been a join effort with the Ukrainians (they couldn’t just do it without the Ukrainians knowing and helping).With the US being Israels stooge,and for some reason Russia’s reluctance to condemn Israel,it could have been them.Hopefully we’ll know at the end of the day.
The Wend on August 24, 2015 · at 12:44 pm EST/EDT
Russia is scared of Israel just like everyone else, because Israel controls 80% of the world’s finances and 95% of the world’s media.
That is according to a specialist for foreign affairs of the Soviet Union who publicly said that back in 1979. and a week later was arrested for the murder of his own wife, I forgot his name, but I have it somewhere in my files on the Jewish question.
Basically, the world doesn’t stand a chance against them. Norway thought it can do something, but then Breivik happened to them (Breivik worked for Israel and confessed he is pro-Israel and a Free-mason).
For example, former world chess-champion Bobby Fischer denounced the Jewish role in the bombing of Serbia-Montenegro in 1999., and to this day his interviews on the subject are not translated in Serbian language, so people have no clue (well some do, but majority is blissfully ignorant about who was killing them). Bobby Fischer died as a refugee in Island. The man who installed United States on the throne in the most traditional Soviet sport.
Well just look at Christopher Bollyn’s biography and how Chicago police broke his arm after he dared to interview a Jew inolved in 9/11 attacks. It is ridiculous. Alan Soral speaks truth when he says their behaviour will eventually produce a new Hitler sooner or later.
Unfortunately, Bollyn is correct. The Zionazi ideology was summed up by Jabotinsky, the fascist Godfather of the Likud tendency (whose influence, through his acolyte, Begin, and the Herut Party, the precursor of Likud, those great Jews, Einstein, Hannah Arendt, et al warned of in a letter to the NYT in December 1948)who stated that ‘We will kill anybody who gets in our way’. And it has copious and repeated endorsement by orthodox and ultra-orthodox Rabbis and ‘Torah Sages’ who repeatedly declare murder of the goyim to be not just acceptable, but a religious obligation, a good deed or mitzvah. While fascism and general psychotic murderousness is common throughout humanity, its worst expression is surely where it bears the imprimatur of ‘religion’.
Anonymous on August 23, 2015 · at 4:19 pm EST/EDT
No MiG-31s for Damascus: Russia Denies Sending Interceptors to Syria
Russia has not sent Mikoyan MiG-31 supersonic interceptors to Syria and does not intend to operate the aircraft in the war-torn country, CEO of Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG Sergei Korotkov stated refuting recent rumors.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20150822/1026049778/no-mig-31-for-syria.html#ixzz3jek3a088
too bad. I feel sorry for the Assad regime, it’s not like they are asking Putin to send Russion troops to fight for him, he’s just asking for weapons so his people can do the fighting.
Isabella on August 23, 2015 · at 11:32 pm EST/EDT
He only said Russia will not be Operating them. Today a Russian made fighter jet brought down an Israeli warplane over Syria, operated by a Syrian pilot.
However, just because the CEO of a company says that no Russians will be operating them………
And what of Sukhoi?
Notice never gets mentioned.
Check out their 50 series= 5th generation now testing utube videos.
Could this be a coy ploy/wink that seems to infer ‘no MiGs= no a/c any type’?
Vietnam Vet on August 23, 2015 · at 4:45 pm EST/EDT
As Sherlock would say, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But with everyone so crazy these days about smart phones, selfies, etc., the lack of any pictures or video that a roaring Buk launch would have left is remarkable.
now explosions in US military base in Japan. Is some kind of tit for tat low grade sabotage operations taking place between not so friendly nations ???
elsi on August 23, 2015 · at 8:02 pm EST/EDT
Of course, since first explosion in Tianjin was obvious that was not an accident.
To see where is going all this.
Uncle Bob 1 on August 24, 2015 · at 1:22 am EST/EDT
Well “if” those explosions in China weren’t really accidents.Then this explosion in Japan could be a “subtle” way of saying, two can play that game.Then there is also the possibility it is connected with the North Korean situation,or Japanese not happy at US bases,or something with ISIS,or then it could just be a real accident.So many choices,to chose from.Hopefully we’ll find out soon.
Update: Now a huge fire has broken out at a factory in Tokyo.So unless its “also” an accident,then who knows what’s up.
SanctuaryOne on August 23, 2015 · at 4:52 pm EST/EDT
It likely wasn’t an engine seeking R-60 since the MH17 engine damage is inconsistent with a missile hit. A radio distress transmission would be likely and detectable jamming necessary.
An Israeli Python missile hit on the RHS nose fits the cockpit damage seen -as explained very precisely and scientifically in the link below.
It also explains why everyone is quiet -any Israel connection is untouchable.
Regardless, metallurical analysis and autopsies will have long since determined whether there were 30 mm cannon shells and/or missile fragments/shrapnel. I have yet to see any refutation of this explanation:
“The missile that attacked MH17 had a passive radar homing head, which explains why the missile exploded so close to the cockpit. Under the radar-transparent nosecone of a Boeing 777-200 there is a surveillance radar station operable during the flight, so most likely the missile homed on to this radar as the target.
Apart from a radar homing head, the missile could also be equipped with an advanced, matrix type, imaging IR seeker, which enables the missile to determine the size and the type of the target and choose for attack its most vital element. For a huge Boeing aircraft, that’s the cockpit.
A simulation of the missile attack has proved that missiles with that type of guidance choose to attack a big passenger plane from the front hemisphere.
There are four air-to-air missiles that fit the description established by the experts, namely: French Magis-2, Israeli Shafrir, American AIM-9 and Israeli Python – all short-range.
The first three have been struck off the list for various reasons, including type of warhead or guidance system specifications. The Python deserved a closer look.
The Python is equipped with a matrix-imaging IR seeker. It enables a relatively moderate power warhead to effectively engage big aircrafts. The warhead is armed with a set of ready strike elements. Even more importantly, some open military sources suggest that in early 2000s a number of Sukhoi Su-25 assault fighter jets we refurbished to use fourth and fifth generation Python missiles, which look very similar to the Su-25’s standard air-to-air R-60 missile.”
http://www.rt.com/news/310039-mh17-israeli-missile-version/
The Saker on August 27, 2015 · at 4:35 am EST/EDT
At this moment in time I take no position on the Python vs R-60 missile issue. I favour the R-60 due to Occam’s Razor’s logic: it is the simpler explanation. But that does not mean it is the correct one. Likewise, some have suggested that a MiG-29 could have been used instead of a SU-25. Again, I think that the SU-25 makes more sense, but I am not willing to dispute the MiG-29 theory, at least not at this point in time. What I can say is that the Python theory has some very solid argument going for it (you mention some) and that there is also strong indirect evidence that Kolomoiskii was involved. So all in all, I am *very* sympathetic to the “Israeli” theory, I just don’t have enough information (yet) to back it.
Absolutely; plus an R-60 that detonated just slightly too early from the front (what kind and intensity of I/R signature would the weather radar in the nose cone emit?) or too late from behind, thus mostly missing the engine pod, would in millseconds reach the LHS cockpit area where the most damage is evident.
The lack of a 7700 transponder code or a mayday call can also be explained by the pilot’s rule: ‘aviate, navigate, communicate’ and in that order, or in other words ‘fly the damn plane, everything else is secondary’. I have to assume, since radio transmissions are not encrypted, that someone somewhere would have recorded any conversation and published it -or it was jammed.
I have not been able to establish the dimensions of the strike elements -shrapnel- in either the R-60 or Python. The BUK amongst other reasons seems far less likely as it is designed to detonate overhead and at the front so that the target flies through a wall of shrapnel. Also the shrapnel of the 2 kinds of BUK are too large for the holes shown. As for the 20mm or 30mm cannon theory, some question the quantity of holes in such a small ‘bullseye’.
What I don’t understand is Russia’s reluctance to publish compelling evidence. They must surely have immediately obtained sufficient wreckage to determine from chemical and metallurgical analysis what hit MH-17.
But Russia gave only mild denials, consequently the Hegemon and its vassals have won the propaganda war hands down -and even continue to do so dropping BUK hints and this latest tribunal nonsense. The Russia-BUK-MH17 meme is baked in now and the damage permanent.
Veritas on August 23, 2015 · at 5:15 pm EST/EDT
Dear The Saker,
As you say it is the complete lack of evidence that points all fingers to Kiev – no atc tower recordings, no black box (why did Malaysia hand over to UK?) recordings, no satallite or any other evidence to back up “NR or Russia did it” scenario. So what else can you conclude?
Interestingly today the Australian press are publisinh questions by a German journalist as to why MH17 was allowed to fly in a war zone:
http://www.sputniknews.com/europe/20150823/1026086934/west-hides-truth-about-mh17-crash.html
The US used this to get sanctions and milked it for all its worth to demonise Russia and ethnic Russians in Ukraine to justify their involement and destruction.
Babushka in Oz on August 24, 2015 · at 1:08 am EST/EDT
At first reading the Sputnik article sounds like the truth is coming out … that a non-profit German investigative group called Correctiv had won a partial court victory to get facts from the German foreign office re flight paths over E Ukraine.
…however the full article in the 23 August 2015 Sydney Morning Herald (printed issue) … regarding a briefing by Ukraine officials 14 July 2014 – they explained:
…that the violence had escalated because Russian tanks had intervened…
…as a result there had been a dramatic escalation in air combat. A few hours before the briefing a Ukrainian military plane flying at 6200 metres had been shot down over eastern Ukraine. Only Russian missiles or the Russian air force could be responsible… The separatists would not have had appropriate military equipment.”
So, there it is in a nutshell… a German NGO has proof that Russia did it!
Probably the “key” to that is an “NGO” says it.Those Western stooge NGO’s have become the bane of humanity,and are becoming a ” clear and present danger” in the World.They need to be dealt with before they cause more harm to the World.
Outlaw Historian on August 23, 2015 · at 5:34 pm EST/EDT
I’m reminded of the crime committed by Outlaw Empire forces when they shot down an Iranian airliner flying in its national airspace with its transponder on. Nothing Happened to the guilty party–ZERO–other than the ship’s captain getting awarded a medal for his grisly deed.
Many millions murdered by the Outlaw Empire and zero justice gained for any of the victims. That state-of-affairs MUST end. The place to counterattack is in Syria by defeating its proxies and mopping them up in Iraq. Returning Iraq and Syria to their former positions prior to 1990 ought to be a shared policy goal of Russia, China, and Iran. And at the same time, carving out a viable state for the Kurds would defeat the majority of the Outlaw Empire’s policy goals in the region.
As for MH17, the Outlaw Empire’s ultimately responsible as it’s clear it had the propaganda all fixed and ready as soon as MH17 hit the ground.
Rita Lama on August 25, 2015 · at 7:46 pm EST/EDT
What about the statement provided by the Almaz-Antey company, manufacturer of the Buk missile system? They concluded that a Buk missile hit the aircraft.
So, in the Saker’s analysis, it is required to explain away the damage patterns that led Almaz-Antey to their conclusion. These damage patterns cannot have been caused by an air-to-air missile or a Su-25’s on-board canon – that’s at least what Almaz-Antey say. To me, the Almaz-Antey assessment appears plausible as far too many small holes can be seen on pictures of MH17 wreckage. Neither does a Su-25 carry that many bullets, I presume, nor do these bullets make such small holes.
On the other hand, we do see somewhat bigger holes on pictures of wreckage stemming from the cockpit area.
The German former Airbus pilot Peter Haisenko published an analysis focusing on the front section damage patterns. He concluded that they were caused by Su-25 canon bullets. A Su-25 fires a mixture of armor piercing and explosive bullets. According to Haisenko, the explosive bullets could have caused the breakup of the aircraft since they induced a pressure spike inside the aircraft’s hull.
So, do we have to entertain the possibility that MH-17 was hit by an air-to-air missile, bullets fired from the on-board canon of one or two Su-25s, AND a Buk missile?
The scenario would work out as follows: MH-17 was hit by an air-to-air missile, which disabled one of the engines. Whatever the Ukronazi plan was, the crew stayed alive and initiated emergency procedures including a U-turn. The Ukronazies, either in panic or according to their plan, then had to finish off the airplane. They may have fired the Buk missile first or they may have ordered the pilot(s) to use their on-board canon, whatever. The aircraft, now traveling from east to west, then broke up in the air. We know, too, that the cockpit was severed from the rest of the airplane. If that was the initial brake up, as suggested by Haisenko’s analysis, then everything behind the cockpit suddenly became severely tail heavy and, thus, went into an upward-pointing orientation. The ensuing stresses broke off the tail section, which traveled a little bit farther than the middle section, as the middle section with the wings attached experienced the strongest slow down. All of that taken together led to the debris field as we know it, from east to west: middle section, assorted parts of the tail section, cockpit.
The problem with this theory is that no credible witnesses have come forward testifying to the appearance of a vapor trail emitted by the Buk missile. On the other hand, all the hard evidence is taken into account. Witnesses, on the other hand, provide soft evidence that can always be influenced after the fact. The Ukronazis may have silenced all witnesses within their reach and the Novorussians, not really knowing what had happened, may have silenced witnesses initially and stuck to this line ever since.
blue on August 23, 2015 · at 6:37 pm EST/EDT
See http://www.whathappenedtoflightmh17.com/the-pressconference-of-almaz-antey-has-two-major-errors/
“The purpose of today’s conference is to prove our non-involvement in the MH-17 tragedy,” Almaz-Antey said to reporters.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsohFzbJ-vs
Almaz-Antey unveils new evidence regarding MH17’s downing (ENGLISH FULL VERSION)
A BUK missile solid rocket propellant smoke trail would stay in its entire length for 10 to 20 minutes. It would be present near the impact on MH17 and visible theoretically for over 100 miles at FL320.
The broken cloud would conceal some trail but not all of it. Rural people over at least 100sq miles would hear the launch. None did. The two kinds of BUK shrapnel are too large for the damage shown and are of the wrong shape. The BUK explodes above the target so there would be major damage on the upper fuselage and cockpit area which is not the case. Unless somehow the huge BUK missile was somehow air launched and contained different shrapnel and guidance it was not a BUK
It is not clear why the BUK manufacturer would reportedly claim it was theirs -other than sales, money/ an offer that could not be refused.
The forensic evidence would confirm what happened. Where is it? Where’s the evidence against an Israeli Pytthon or even a discussion?
The Israeli missile theory has several strengths but also weaknesses:
1) If such a missile exploded near the cockpit, how was the crew still able to carry out a U-turn? The crew should have been incapacitated immediately, right? I am here assuming that the U-turn actually took place, of course.
2) Does such a missile create sufficient damage for the airplane to break up? Here we have to keep in mind that most of the shrapnel cloud did not hit the airplane. And the shrapnel that did just punched a great many of small holes into the hull panels in the first place.
SanctuaryOne on August 24, 2015 · at 2:41 am EST/EDT
Speculation here but the missile exploded to the right of the cockpit as it travelled towards it -the LHS of MH17 looking from the rear of it.
It is likely that some of the shrapnel entered the No. 1 engine -LHS. With that engne out MH17 would enter a left turn. With the flight computers destroyed/damaged it is also anyone’s guess what the aircraft would do.
As for the amount of explosive it would depend on position. By the description given the Israeli Python is very sophisticated and able to home in on the weather radar in the nose of the Boeing 777 and trigger at exactly the best position/time.
It took less than a pound of explosive (12 ozs?) to disintegrate the Boeing 747 over Lockerbie – the pressurisation of the plane creates the damage.
See diagrams in link below:
Anonymous on August 24, 2015 · at 7:41 am EST/EDT
Someone with aviation expertise should be able to tell whether an un-piloted aircraft with one engine out could ever go through a complete U-turn. Remember that an aircraft normally has to bank into the turn – so as to generate a sideways force that will effect the turn. My speculation here, but if the left engine is out and the aircraft does not bank, then it will yaw strongly to the left, _then_ start to bank and roll over absent any rudder or elevator input. Then it will fall straight to the ground, probably breaking up in the process. The debris field would then look different from what we have seen.
Might it be possible that one or both crew were not incapacitated by the initial hit and carried out the turn?
And we still have the several centimeters wide circular holes from the hull panel right behind and below the pilot’s side window. These holes were the ones that led Heisenko to his conclusion.
So, we would be left with a Python missile exploding right next to the captain. The co-pilot probably survived, carried out the U-turn, and brought the aircraft down from its cruising altitude. That brought the aircraft within range of the Su-25’s canon. The Su-25 pilot then fired his canon to finish off the aircraft, causing the breakup and the debris field as we have seen it.
Anonymous on August 23, 2015 · at 11:14 pm EST/EDT
I read the manufacturer’s analysis of the possible BUK missile attack. It has been some weeks ago, but I seem to remember that they said that the likely launch point was pretty far behind the jetliner. Quite a few miles behind. That may explain why no one actually at the crash site heard or saw a BUK launch.
Is it really credible that people on the Ukrainian side of the line would not come forward and spill the truth that they had seen a BUK launch from the Ukrainian side of the line???
Whatever would they have to fear??
augusto on August 24, 2015 · at 2:56 pm EST/EDT
no matter at all if by a buk or by a SU25 cannons.
A buk would have been seen by hundreds of residents if not thousands!
a cannon causes lots of holes that everybody seen in the bottom cabin area of the airliner.
But the point is that BOTH will for sure been originaged direct from the Ucrainians – and that is absolutely WHY
the Us electronic gossipers… did not show nothing factual to the world blaming the russians. I mean: nothing but words. Words came just one hour after the crash.
Doubting Thomas on August 23, 2015 · at 7:10 pm EST/EDT
Speaking of explosions:
US base in Japan goes boom!
Could this be the space weapon gone awry? (Rod of God or whatever)
Could this be North Korean sappers?
Could this be a false flag?
Could this be Malaysia getting revenge?
Or is this Putin’s fault? He and Japan are having a row. Maybe he did this? You know how evil he is.
So many conspiratorial thoughts.
I’ll have to wait until some one produces an article, a video, before and after Google images, photoshopped evidence, suspicious audio tapes, statements from Strelkov, Twitter traffic, and eight or ten pages of profundity from Anonymous and Blue.
Meanwhile . . .
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-23/caught-tape-explosion-us-weapons-depot-japan
Could this be a snafu by some ammo humpers in ordnance, dropping something which should not be dropped or failing to perform proper maintenance?
Just last March there was an incident at Picatinny
http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2015/03/2_injured_in_explosion_at_picatinny_arsenal.html
http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/fs/182344.htm
Dangerous Depots: The Growing Humanitarian Problem Posed by Aging and Poorly Maintained Munitions Storage Sites
On July 11, 2011, 98 shipping containers holding gunpowder at the Evangelos Florakis naval base on Cyprus exploded. The blast killed 13 people and injured 61 others.
Yes, could be, if there was only one explosion, but already three in a few days, besides consecutively, in the same geographic zone, after a yuan devaluation which provoked heavy loses in “the West market”, is way too much, at least for my not so expert in military issues nor in intelligence analysis amateur brain.
Alan on August 23, 2015 · at 10:00 pm EST/EDT
I doubt yuan tiny depreciation has anything to do with this. A more like likely theory would be the recent two gigantic blasts in china is due to USA taking revenge for OPM hack. And now china responded with this blast in japan
I’ve been listening to the Almaz-Antey press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsohFzbJ-vs
I hour 5 minutes in is the meat: ‘If it was shot down by a SAM (BUK — the stuff they produce) then it must have been a BUK M-1 SA-11’ — which has been out of production since 1999, so it’s not their fault and the sanctions against them is unfair. And they do not refute any other versions of how it was shot down (e.g., something other than BUK). Also, Ukraine has over 900 of those missiles, and may be using them despite their being beyond the end of life cycle.
THey did not conclude it was hit by a BUK — only that if it was it was an old one and it wasn’t their fault — so they should not be sanctioned.
I am not an expert. Am I mistaken when I say the preliminary report says the pilots never had time to send a mayday message? The black boxes stopped recording and that indicates a major attack, not an attack on one engine. The attack was not recorded. This is as best as I remember it. It can be argued the preliminary report is faulty, of course.
Pilots in three airplanes survived Buk attacks longer. That possibly points to an air-to-air missile of some sort. A weapon more powerful than a Buk.
You are mistaken since none of the information contained on the black box recorders was released. Indeed, the West has released NO additional evidence to prove its claim. As with Iraq, the Outlaw Empire spewed its Big Lie then shut-up.
Maybe explosives on board, too. Like in the Twin Towers.
It’s called planned detonation by external means. I just made that up.
Explains everything that happened to the plane. Breakup, no pilot communication, cadavers, dead parrots.
Just enough damage internally to send the plane down in big pieces.
Don’t forget that for many days the Ukies tried to shell the crash site to destroy the evidence. They never could get close to the wreck sites but they fired artillery as best they could. Hit the Donetsk train station keeping the investigators away for many days.
So, there it is. Lots of circumstantial evidence pointing only to one source, the culprits.
Ukies tower
Recordings missing
Radar withheld
Satellite imagery withheld
Ground radar from Buk system
30 calibre holes
Secret investigation
Stone walling international oversight
Also, the immediate accusation that Russia had supplied Buks is forgotten. The story always was to implicate Russia. It was laughable to think the militia could have operated a Buk at that time.
Is it possible that Ukraine did it but it was an accident? Heard some documentary about a witness who said the pilot returned to base and was very upset and said “it was the wrong plane”. I find it hard to believe that either side would want to do it on purpose.
That is the See Putin Get Putin possibility. That is only credible if it is an entirely amateurish Ukrainian effort.
Not impossible – the two planes bear a striking resemblance. It surely stretches credibility for any Ukrainian to seriously believe Putin would fly his jet back from Brazil straight over Ukraine though!!! That would be the height of arrogance, ignorance and genuine madness all rolled up in one!!
Marcel Leutenegger on August 24, 2015 · at 5:58 pm EST/EDT
I think you refer to Capt. Voloshyn returning to the airfield without his air to air ordinances, visibly upset saying “it was at the wrong place at the wrong time.”
This could be interpreted in at least three ways:
1. He was accidentally involved in the downing of MH17, for instance confusing it with another target, and that he felt guilty for it.
2. He witnessed an ill-aimed ground-to-air missile or anything else downing MH17 and was upset, because he felt with the innocent victims.
3. He was ordered to shoot down the plane, but had difficulties in doing so because MH17 was not where he was told to head for. Hence, he would have been upset because he had to improvise.
Whatever happened, there should be enough hard evidence to establish with certitude what downed MH17 and, if several weapons were used, in which order. Once that is known, I bet the number of suspects will become very limited.
Bystander on August 26, 2015 · at 1:04 pm EST/EDT
I saw a German mainstream propaganda documentary where admittedly they seemed to have interviewed that Captain Voloshin. He said there that he did not fly that day, and his comments were made on a different occasion a couple days (before or after?). I think is was on “ARD”: “Die Story im Ersten: Todesflug MH 17”. It seems he had said that before:
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2225278&cid=9
He seemed credible to me, but then again, if he shot she plane in cold blood, he must be a psychopath and could and would lie better than a normal guy’s lie-detector would recognize. Either that or it was simply another pilot. The rest of the documentary was just a collection of bullshit without evidence, not worth mentioning, just interesting because of the way they try to brainwash people.
I don’t know whether that info is helpful, but I think every peace of the puzzle is worth mentioning, even if it does not seem to fit in the picture at first sight.
@Saker: you are doing an incredibly good job, thanks a lot
know the truth on August 23, 2015 · at 8:00 pm EST/EDT
“The Ukrainian did it and the West will never admit it”.
There is another dimension to consider here. Ukraine is now a country under the occupation of the US with the fascist junta in Kiev wholly dependent on America for its very existence. I find it highly unlikely that the Kiev junta would have dreamt up such a plan and then executed it without the prior knowledge and approval of the Americans. Kiev is not an independent actor here and this false flag is a classic operation straight from the CIA handbook.
Evil swine that’s what they are, pathologically evil and hanging is too good for them. The emperor Barack must have known exactly who was responsible for this crime against humanity and yet gets up on the world stage and accuses the Novorussians and then Russia itself for the crime (which was actually the whole point of the atrocity in the first place), does that not make this uncle tom an accessory after the fact ?
Mats on August 23, 2015 · at 8:39 pm EST/EDT
If the Ukies had done it unsupervised, they would have shot down their own planes.
What skills do they have besides murder, rape, torture and thievery? They are a cluster of crony corrupt officials, ignoramuses and Banderites. They probably believed that the plane was Putin’s. The CIA runs the place. Do we think there are not keepers controlling the airport? The SBU is controlled by CIA. The military is controlled. The police. Any bureau, department, ministry of consequence is under total American control.
Take a look at any colony of the US in war time. El Salvador, S.Vietnam, S.Korea (just the last 24 hours, closely in tow to US military), Iraq, Afghanistan. The government that exists is under total operational control to US ambassador, Station Chief and Military Attaches/advisers or commanders in country. The control mechanism is obvious: $$$ and fear.
know the truth on August 23, 2015 · at 10:54 pm EST/EDT
Haha ! Yeah you probably right there, not the sharpest tools in the box are they ?
Daniel Rich on August 24, 2015 · at 12:28 am EST/EDT
@ know the truth,
Q; I find it highly unlikely that the Kiev junta would have dreamt up such a plan…
R; My first question was, “Qui bono?”
My subsequent answer, “Not the Ukraine, not the Donbass and most certainly not Russia.”
The Apartheid State’s murder spree off the radar and the Dutch on the Sanction Train to Moscow; in short, kill a whole flock of birds with one rocket plane stone…
beerkat on August 23, 2015 · at 8:01 pm EST/EDT
while the israeli possibility is viable as well, i think your version is more plausible. some say it is not possible mainly because the pilots would have sent a mayday out. there may indeed have been a mayday that is still a secret recording. or the radio equipment may have been shut off or altered by remote control, as entire jets can be flown remotely these days. further, one of the pilots may- though highly unlikely- have been in on it and prevented radio use. has anyone investigated the pilots?
From all previous accidents (MH 370, for example) Malaysian pilots are mutes.
Very helpful when covering up what the truth is.
Saker thank you for publish this analysis, very informative and crystal clear, even for non-versed in military matters as me.
This is why I miss so much more analysis from you, because always I have understood all you was saying so well, regardless of the topic.
I have read long discussions in other old threads about this issue, so technical and cofussimg, that I got bored and leave them as impossible to me to get something clear
Seamus Padraig on August 23, 2015 · at 10:47 pm EST/EDT
Yeah, Saker. We miss your analysis. We know you’re busy, but …
Birgit on August 23, 2015 · at 8:54 pm EST/EDT
“Finally, the cockpit of the SU-25 is not pressurized which means that the pilot cannot fly over 7’000 meter in altitude.”
That’s funny. This plane cannot exceed a certain altitude because the pilot is exposed to a lack of oxygen up there? Well, supply the pilot with an oxygen mask. I’m sure the plane wouldn’t mind.
Weston on August 23, 2015 · at 10:32 pm EST/EDT
RT made a document proving that SU-25 can be operational above 8000 km.
Reflections on MH17 (RT Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rCsgilNl80o#t=892
Muaci on August 23, 2015 · at 8:56 pm EST/EDT
> What nobody saw that day was the kind of large and highly
visible smoke plume which would have accompanied any large
missile launch, not did anybody hear anything special.
Means nothing. “Smoke plume” (fuel and oxidizer burning) are
significant 1st 50-100-150m, phase in which engines are ignited
and the trust enables the rocket to lift off from the launch pad
unbalancing the forces.
E.g., “a basic solid-fuel based on ammonium perchlorate, aluminum
powder, and a rubber binder (such as used in the Space shuttle
solid fuel boosters) produces mostly hydrochloric acid and water
with aluminum oxide, all which CONDENSE and form plumes of
visible smoke.”
Those are contrails (CONDENSATION trails) essentially hence,
which depend on the weather (pressure, temperature, humidity,
etc.) largely.
Now, I invite you to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHEL-7hHtto
Aspide: Italian medium range AAM and SAM
Where the Aspide SAM is comparable to a Buk msl (half of the
payload). Notice how 1) the Aspidi sometimes leave contrails, and
sometimes they DON’T; 2) the plumes dissolve FAST: O( s ) [see
below].
At 0:30/0:58, an Aspide reaches perhaps 100m of height when the
contrail is no longer visible. Ditto with another one at 0:36.
Next, curvature of the earth. Were you at the sea watching the
horizon, everything below 50m would be invisible for you ANYWAY
starting from 30km on because of the curvature; below 150m from
c.ca 50km on, and 300m [=height of the tour Eiffel] from 65km.
(Let’s recall that the crash area is basically flat at large.)
Time now to watch another video:
http://www.rt.com/news/310230-mh17-crash-new-video/
‘Bodies all over’: New MH17 crash site footage minutes after
Boeing downing (VIDEO)
The bodies are of lesser interest for us; incidentally, the video
shows something far more IMPORTANT: the horizon situation at the
scene: WATCH.
Seen? Good luck at discovering msl contrails if any [see Aspide
above] with such a cloudy background, and, of course, provided
you had the *inspiration* to begin seeking the horizon 360
degrees; OTOH no witnesses seem to be mentioning to have observed
any Boeing 777’s contrails, which is remarkable (detecting an
acft even of the size of a 777 flying at 10km altitude during
daylight is virtually impossible if there aren’t contrails).
Now: sound travels at c.ca 340m/s; that’s 30s to go through 10km.
So half a minute as a minimum is the time that had to elapse
before you might have begun to fancy on what was going on above
in the sky. Don’t forget that a Buk msl burns its fuel in 15s.
Re-watch the Aspide video, carefully study how the plumes
dissolve QUICKLY at the launch site.
** On anybody not hear anything special
That’s easy. (Similar elaboration.) Besides that would be
compatible with the one-two military jets: masking the noise, and
acting as a synchronized distraction/attracting the regards in a
different direction.
Muaci on August 24, 2015 · at 4:27 am EST/EDT
Almaz-Antey unveils new evid regarding MH17’s downing
1:09:10+
Muaci, maybe you should avoid videos of Italian missiles since they are an irelevant distraction here and instead look at a BUK launch itself. I think you will find that the smoke trail is long and persistent e.g. at 1:00 minute in this one of the BUK M2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXScnEKaP0
and this one at 1:27 and 1:56 of a BUK M1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXMhaFntrU
I think you will have to agree that the trail is a tad longer than the 150 meters that you insist is all that is visible.
Yes, I can see aircraft at FL320, contrail or not, assuming clouds are not 10/10 (video shows about 4/10) as part of my training is to look for aircraft. Anybody can see one at that height if the sun reflects off it. Regardless of whether alto Cu or cirrus obscures MH17 at FL320 there’s likely 20,000 feet of clear sky between the lower Cu to see a BUK trail. Then there’s the noise – you can hear a jet at 32,000′ so you could certainly hear a BUK.
I imagine there’s some kind of bang too as it breaks through the sound barrier.
** “Italian missiles”
[T]he Aspide (Italian name of Vipera aspis) name is an Italian
medium range air-to-air and surface-to-air missile produced by
Selenia (now part of the Alenia consortium). It is provided with
semi-active radar homing seeker. It is VERY SIMILAR to the
AMERICAN AIM-7 Sparrow, using the SAME AIRFRAME, but at the
moment of its introduction, the Aspide was provided with
monopulse guide instead of the conic scan, which made it more
resistant to ECM and more precise.
[A]lenia Aeronautica was an Italian aerospace company. Its
subsidiaries included Alenia Aermacchi and Alenia Aeronavali.
Alenia Aeronautica owns ATR, a joint venture with EADS [Airbus
Group]. In January 2012, the company was reorganized as Alenia
Aermacchi.
** “I think you will have to agree that”
Enough BS. Watch
instead.
And please do your homework (the Internet is your friend) on
contrails—on what their dependencies are (also mentioned at
1:09:10+ above). Last but not least, understand that your
selection of videos can’t offset the counterexamples I have
given.
** “as part of my training is to look for aircraft”
Then you should know better.
Your reply is condescending and insulting and lacking in relevant facts; shouting in CAPS and using words like ‘BS’ is unhelpful in promoting informative discussion.
Dictionary definition of ‘contrail’: “A visible trail of streaks of condensed water vapor or ice crystals sometimes forming in the wake of an aircraft”.
A jet engine uses oxygen from the air to burn liquid Kerosene, a major by-product of that being water vapour that forms ice-crystal contrails at freezing temperatures at altitude.
A solid rocket missile such as the BUK does not use atmospheric oxygen for combustion as the oxidant is within the solid fuel. Smoke particles are a major product of BUK solid propellant.
Apples and oranges then -and no matter how you try to distract with information about Italian missiles the undeniable proof of a solid rocket BUK smoke trail is in the actual footage of those BUK launches showing the enduring smoke trail -end of discussion.
Another one on August 23, 2015 · at 9:06 pm EST/EDT
I agree that this is one of the most likely versions, but some questions I still have:
Why have the Russian traffic controllers no recordings of a Mayday from MH-17? Why do russian state media (RT, Sputnik) present so many differnet versions from other Russian media, including BUK from Ukrainian-held territory, SU-27 firing etc. etc. ?
What about a version, with both sides making crimes/mistakes:
Ukraine SU-27 engages ground targets ore MH-17 – rebels take down two Su-27 on that day (ref. youtube)
Did the rebels hit MH-17 mistakenly with a Strela missile after MH-17 went lower b/c of whatever?
One thing I am sure about – the Russians did not give BUK to the rebels, they are not that crazy! If they have them, they are captured from Ukrainian forces or stores.
Red Ryder on August 23, 2015 · at 10:54 pm EST/EDT
The facts of that day are not certain.
The rebels downed maybe one plane, SU 25. We don’t even have solid proof of that.
We don’t know for certain the cloud conditions, the volume of artillery fired in the vicinity, Buk sounds heard or not heard, plumes, contrails, movement of militia units, et al.
We know day 2 and thereon. Fairly good photography from many sources of the wreckage. Good security by the militia from then on.
We know the OSCE and Investigators were bullsh*t agents not there for the truth.
There was good press from Russia there. They did good interviews.
Technical investigation is bogus, lame, corrupt, malicious and generally criminal.
They left bodies behind, pieces of bodies still being located.
They left most of the plane for months and months. Never had any intention of rebuilding it like FBI and US authorities would.
Thereafter we have attempts to prove a theory by many different people.
Some new “facts” from Russia have entered the mixmaster bowl of “facts”.
I think it is all dubious to say some specific event occurred because this or that group of facts add up neatly to this theory or that theory.
We know for certain that the US and Ukies would have brought down an airliner. Hell, they would bring one down every month if it would help their cause.
We know the other nations involved in the “investigations” are whores to the US. Vassal doesn’t quite described their prostitution.
Until the war is ended and the criminality of everything done by Porky, the junta, the US and the EU/NATO is documented, this is small potatoes. Less than 300 people. That’s a few weeks in Donbass.
But the way of the world is, the guilty will live a long and rich life.
You can bet that the layers beneath the decision makers has already been thinned out. Dead men tell no tales.
If the Russians really do have solid, court solid, proof, then maybe justice will be served.
Otherwise, forget this whole thing. It’s as over as all the beautiful people snuffed by bombs and shrapnel, land mines and bullets in the war. Just add the passengers and crew to the body count and pray for their families in memory of the horror of MH-17 and war of resistance in Donbass.
sejmon on August 24, 2015 · at 1:41 am EST/EDT
I do believe Russians got all evidence of crime and World will see them soon as current junta will run from Kiev. All evidence now will subject even worse propaganda against Mr.Putin/Russians as we ever seen. BHO probably seen evidence…..
Another one on August 24, 2015 · at 5:07 am EST/EDT
I meant SU-25, my mistake.
> The first thing we know is that the Ukrainian traffic air
> controllers directed MH-17 to fly directly over the combat zone
> and to lower its altitude.
Not so fast. It’s **MUCH** worse. MH17, after it had been
directed over the zone **PLAUSIBLY DENIABLE** style (direct
route), had to lower its current flight level precisely BECAUSE
it was unable to raise it AND there was traffic in the area;
something that implies FOREKNOWLEDGE (acft load, etc./data from
the airport to let us understand) additionally, and SOPHISTICATED
PLANNING in order to carry out the false flag.
I suggest as a title of comparison to study IN DEPTH the Giuliana
Sgrena/Nicola Calipari case, something you can OTOH seriously do
only if you can read Italian, everything published in other
languages on the topic being worthless and simple watering down.
Asnónimo on August 23, 2015 · at 9:59 pm EST/EDT
Those who suspect the following series of accidents is not accidental are paranoid conspiracy spammers and should be contained.
Chemical plant blast in China (second in 2 years)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/07/asia/china-chemical-plant-explosion/
Petrochemical plant blast in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdfHee9fdTQ
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/china-explosion-incredible-footage-shows-6082830
Massive blast in Tianjin, China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfF2j8tDzf0
Chemical plant blast in China
https://www.rt.com/news/313116-china-chemical-plant-explosion/
Explosions at US military base in Japan
https://www.rt.com/news/313159-explosion-us-base-japan/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-HFmaUM3Z8
@ Assnónimo,
Q; Those who suspect the following series of accidents is not accidental are paranoid conspiracy spammers and should be contained.
R; Why not shoot me [and fellow ‘heretics’] on the spot, to be sure I/we’ll never raise my/our voice/s to ask questions ever again?
Btw, plural can’t be singular, but you know that, don’t you?
elsi on August 23, 2015 · at 10:45 pm EST/EDT
Daniel I think asnónimo was being sarcastic.
@ elsi,
Q; Daniel I think asnónimo was being sarcastic.
R; Only assnomino knows what s/he [really] meant. My money is ‘on purpose‘ – Link to Stanford.
Anonymous on August 24, 2015 · at 12:40 am EST/EDT
Asnónimo confirms that he was indeed being sarcastic. He assumed this would be quite obvious, and is now saddened to realize that literalists exist ammong us who have a severely disfunctional sarcasm detector. There must be a cultural gap here somewhere. Asnónimo wishes to offer perfunctory apologies for the sake of politeness.
Daniel Rich on August 24, 2015 · at 2:33 am EST/EDT
@ Asnónimo
Q; …to realize that literalists exist ammong us who have a severely disfunctional sarcasm detector.
R; Not being judgmental at all, are you?
I already have a judge and he lives in my name, but yeah, I grew up to be the only heretic in the family…
Vineyard Moderator - ME on August 24, 2015 · at 2:55 am EST/EDT
The horse is dead, it doesn’t need to be beaten further. Everyone, let’s just let it go, OK. Thanks. Mod ME
Larchmonter445 on August 24, 2015 · at 2:51 am EST/EDT
As a person who has studied China for fourteen years, I can assure you that accidents happen all the time, and petrochemical plants, oil and gas pipelines are usually the sites. In any quarter of the country, for all sorts of reasons. Simple wear and tear, complete disregard for caution, mechanical, electrical, smoking in places that no sane person would smoke, greed, callousness, stupidity, disobedience to procedures, faulty construction, faulty repair, inferior quality parts, indifference.
China was completely backward when in the late seventies they built upon a third rate infrastructure.
In many places, they built some new versions of old plants. In other places, they built from the ground up and those places generally have not suffered. China grew enormously fast and they had little time for anything but output.
Now, the people are very aware about the petrochemical dangers and other chemical plant damages to environment. They protest all new construction. Generally, in the recent years they win those protests. However, the old stuff still works and still produce. Until their is an accident.
It was that way in Harbin went poisons went into the water supply, in Dalian when the harbor was polluted from spills, in Qingdao from oil pipeline that was old, and in Tianjin and so with accidents a product of decades of too fast, too old, greed, negligence and the drumbeat to get rich.
This will continue for many more years. The guilty will go to prison. The responsible will be demoted or sent to prison. The victims will get money. China had too much too soon, got wealthy and has problems to solve.
The good part of all this is China has enough wealth to take on the Hegemon all over the globe in a battle of investment, banking and infrastructure development.
So, we all benefit while some Chinese suffer from the problems of spectacular growth.
400 million people are out of poverty. That is worth the problems.
1.3 billion people have food, shelter and a great nation to be proud of.
The people in Tianjin will get justice. By the way, notice there is great pride in how the people reacted and how the local government acted and then took total responsibility.
The culprits in Tianjin are know, in custody and will be severely punished.
Compare that to the toxic flooding of the Colorado river by the US EPA. And notice that there will never be a single criminal prosecution of anyone.
But everyone thinks accidents in China are sabotage by US?
The US is too busy destroying the US.
Could an accident be sabotage?
In China, I am certain local events may be engineered by a criminal mind.
It might even be in the CIA or MI6 playbook to use a very big accident with poor government response to agitate a revolt.
But the government is very aware and the responses to all these are enormous government responses with the top officials arriving on scene quickly to calm and assure the people.
The Central Government does not mickey mouse around when an event, accident, mudslide, earthquake, typhoon, coal mine cave-in or whatever occurs. Tens of thousands of PAP, PLA, emergency services and relief are dispatched.
The Chinese self-organize in emergencies. Often, this is a calming social effect. The top tier cities are sophisticated, educated, and don’t panic.
If you might notice, the Chinese people are not talking about any sabotage or mystery attack. They know this was greed and violation of local zoning and safety laws.
The government is buying out the owners of the nearby apartments.
It’s China. Stuff happens.
@ Larchmonter445.
Q; But the government is very aware and the responses to all these are enormous government responses with the top officials arriving on scene quickly to calm and assure the people.
R; And that, oddly enough, makes China more democratic then, say, uncle Sam, where the carpet is vast and deep. Cigarettes anyone?
That aside, I concur with your rational explanation. I can understand people are freaking out, but I’m more concerned about what’s going to happen in and around the Donbass in the upcoming weeks…, becasue one thing is for sure, whatever happens, it will be on purpose.
Espina on August 24, 2015 · at 7:12 am EST/EDT
I feel reassured after reading your post, my youngest sons girlfriend is currently on a month long internship in Shanghai and Beijing and i’ve been on edge since the explosion in Tianjin. I look forward to your informed and authoratitive posts on events, you are more than up to speed on current realities.
‘Lang may yer lumb reek’ Larchmonter.
Regards Espina
Muaci on August 23, 2015 · at 10:20 pm EST/EDT
OBLIGATORY READING:
http://russia-insider.com/en/military/mh17-tragedy-almaz-altay-buk-systems-manufacturer-speaks-out/ri7657
BUK Manufacturer Almaz-Antey Speaks Out on MH17 Tragedy
[T]he theory that one of the BUK missile launchers controlled by
the Ukrainian military and shown by the Russian satellite imagery
shot down MH17 has now received strong public endorsement as a
result of a presentation made today (2nd June 2015) by the BUK
missile system’s manufacturer Almaz-Antey.
The Almaz-Antey presentation confirms MH17 was shot down by a BUK
missile, burying once and for all the SU 25 theory, about which
regular readers of Russia Insider will know I have always been
skeptical.
blue on August 24, 2015 · at 1:43 am EST/EDT
but that’s not what Almaz-Antey said, as I established at http://thesaker.is/mh-17-one-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-136334. Mercouris is either garbling this or lying, or RI invented what he said. Pitiful.
> but that’s not what Almaz-Antey said
And which is your *argument*, something comparable to, say:
Lenovo’s Thinkpad (where Almaz-Antey ~ today’s Lenovo) are NOT
Thinkpad because Lenovo acquired the brand line which was
originally developed by IBM back in 2005?
Elaborate please, which “garbling” or “lying”? Detail, precision
matters and the video is 1:31:15. (Thank you BTW for the URL, I
didn’t know that such a VITAL video has been made and is
available for watching.)
I hour 5 minutes in is the meat: ‘If it was shot down by a SAM (BUK — the stuff they produce) then it must have been a BUK M-1 SA-11′ ”
The video is 1:31:15 long, but at about 1:05:00 and a few minutes beyond is where it is explicitely said IF a SAM hit it then it was the old BUK, but they refused to say it was a BUK but could have been downed by other versions (explanations) — such as a fighter jet shooting an air-to-air missile. cannon, a bomb, or whatever.
The purpose of the conference was to show it was not the company’s fault by excluding the possibility it was done by a modern BUK — something they had shipped recently after the trouble had begun, and therefor no sanctions should be applied to them. Any SA11 M1s in Ukraine were sent there long ago, perfectly legally and properly.
Mercouris saying the company said it was a BUK is not true. They didn’t say that, and explicitly said several times they could not rule out other explanations. The story that was told and retold that the company said it was a BUK is lie. Listening to video proves it’s a lie. Mercouris wrote the story about the presentation without even listening to video of it? Or was it dysinformation?
** “explicitly said IF a SAM hit it then it was the old BUK”
Understand that they CAN’T, legally and as in reasoning
scientifically [vs. snake oil sellers bluffing] state anything
beyond that, with the official investigations still ongoing. The
“IF” is hence required!, they can’t supersede/bypass the
investigation commission which hasn’t released yet its final
** “Mercouris saying the company said it was a BUK is not true.
They didn’t say that, and explicitly said several times they
could not rule out other explanations.”
?! See above. Notice that Almaz-Antey also resists, when
questioned, to explicitly name those that may have launched the
msl—because they are not allowed to, though anyone who isn’t an
idiot may easily answer by himself.
Please re-read:
What law says they had to or could not say anything? The same law that stops all other speculation from everyone else who are somehow immune to that law?
Did the company say it was shot down by a BUK? No they didn’t. End of story!
Very helpful reading [14x pp], indeed MH17 ~ 9/11:
http://www.journalof911studies.com/resources/2015LooneyVol40Mar.pdf
Volume 40, March 2015
The Cause of the Destruction Of The World Trade Center Buildings on September
11, 2001 and the Admissibility of Expert Testimony Under the Standards
Developed in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical, Inc.
(Stevan Douglas Looney, J.D.
Under the standards established by the United States Supreme Court in Daubert v.
Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S. Ct. 2786, 125 L. Ed 2d 469
(1993) and its progeny, expert testimony offered to support the official theory and
hypotheses concerning the cause of the destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1,
2 and 7 (the WTC) on September 11, 2001 would probably be excluded from admission
into evidence by an impartial judge in a civil or criminal proceeding. In contrast, expert
testimony presenting an alternative theory and hypotheses explaining the cause(s) of
the destruction of the WTC grounded in and adhering to accepted and reliable scientific
principles using the scientific method would satisfy the Daubert test and would be
admitted into evidence.
If a “Daubert hearing” were held to determine the admissibility of expert opinion
evidence regarding the cause or causes of the destruction of the WTC, expert opinion
testimony presenting the official theory would likely not satisfy the Daubert test of
reliability and would be rejected by an impartial judge after a Daubert hearing as
unsupported by science and the laws of physics and, thus, unreliable and inadmissible
into evidence under the Federal Rules of Evidence. In that event, the official theory of
the cause of the destruction of the WTC would not be presented to and considered by
the trier of fact. Conversely, expert opinion testimony and related evidence presenting
an alternative hypothesis explaining the cause(s) of the destruction of the WTC that are
grounded in reliable scientific principles using the scientific method, or “good science”,
would pass the Daubert test and would be admissible into evidence. Consequently, in a
civil or criminal proceeding the ruling or verdict on the question of the cause or causes
of the destruction of the WTC would be based only upon expert testimony and related
evidence presenting an alternative theory or theories.
Cont’d [awaiting moderation, to follow threads difficult: where to reply?]
Netherlands provides no response on alleged Buk missile debris — Lavrov
[R]ussia’s top diplomat noted that the key facts in investigation of Malaysian Boeing crash over Ukraine are still withheld
[O]n August 12, the Dutch Safety Board and the Dutch Prosecutor’s Office published a joint press release, which said that the investigators were scrutinizing the elements, which, they believe, might be related to the Buk anti-aircraft missile system.
Muaci on August 24, 2015 · at 11:39 am EST/EDT
[Forgotten to enter name+e-mail]
Cont’d [awaiting moderation, to follow threads difficult: where to reply/threads?]
Ann on August 24, 2015 · at 6:50 am EST/EDT
Muaci…I’m sorry to be a prude, but there is a policy here about caps…capital letter use…
The policy here at Saker’s is that we don’t use them because they are like shouting…you can read it in the Saker policy column…I think its on the right at the top….
Q; …just as they have done it with KAL007 in 1983. In fact, in the 20 years which separate us from the shooting down of KAL007 US…
R; I have a friend who likes to talk about his 12-year-old daughter, but in fact she’s 23 and that makes him a lot older.
One more week and it will be exactly 32 years since KAL007 was shot out of the sky – Link to transcripts on Wikisource.
Chris on August 23, 2015 · at 10:32 pm EST/EDT
“several local witnesses who saw at least one, possibly two, SU-25 aircraft in the air that day”
I have seen several reports where eye witnesses said they saw a military plane. I do not recall a single one of them specifically identifying a Su-25. Did I miss something?
alan on August 24, 2015 · at 2:17 am EST/EDT
uh, this is in the Ukraine, how many types of fighter jets do you think there are over there ? you think they have F16 or F18 there ?
Chris on August 25, 2015 · at 7:23 am EST/EDT
Well Ukraine inherited a pretty full armament from the USSR, so no F-16s or F-18s but their soviet equivalents, yes. The Su-25 in spite of its appearance is more or less equivalent to the A-10, quite different from a F-16 or F-18.
According to wikipedia the Ukrainian Air Force consists of:
45 Su-27 Air Superiority Fighters
80 Mig-29 Multirole Fighters
25 Su-24 Tactical Bombers
40 Su-25 Close air-support fighters.
A Su-27 or Mig-29 is a far much more logical choice for intercepting a jetliner at 30,000 feet, not sure how many are air worthy, but there are more of them than Su-25s. I am guessing the Su-25 are easier to keep in the air, but still there are supposed to be 125 more suitable (Su-27s or Mig-29s) aircraft available.
> But the R-60 is more than capable to destroy one of the
> Boeing’s engines.
Without the black boxes having recorded nothing?
But, those black boxes were not delivered to the UK where could be well manipulated?
alan on August 24, 2015 · at 12:19 am EST/EDT
Apparently according to Western sources who currently have the blackbox, there is NOTHING in there that is worth listening to… so, literally NOTHING, ZIPPO to share with outside world !!!
And of course, not a single western MSM is interested in asking for *any* recording whatsoever!
Now, continuing reasoning: Buk msl = INESCAPABLE NATO FALSE FLAG
ADMISSION [imagine the consequences]; while AAM narrative allows
WARDING OFF towards *lone wolf/bad luck [wrong
place/time]/similar* pretexts.
So it may even be GENUINELY REALISTIC eventually [watch the torus
from the Almaz-Antey video presentation] that “there is NOTHING
in there [black boxes] that is worth listening to,” provided we
are ready to discount that the plausibly deniable [see ‘plausibly
deniability’] *mise en place* of the MH17 diverting from its
original route can’t be analyzed given that the records, ATC ones
inclusive, are OFF LIMITS.
The site discourages the use of gratuitous caps. Please take note of this. No quarrel with your message at all. Mod ME
Remark acknowleged. Please take note of the timestamp (for other replies of mines have been issued previously, and are still waiting to be moderated).
Waiting x moderation… continuing [append to my previous reply]
Imagine furthermore the disarrangement [delays, delays, … oh my!,
oh my!] among the investigators under the Dutch Safety Board’s
*management*. MH17 = false flag turned sour; damage control
increasingly becoming = mission impossible; those investigators
are, strictly speaking, NOT suicide bombers—in the sense that
they might be ready to blindly follow orders till the end, and
swallow suicide (cyanide) capsules [life imprisonment being the
alternative] in case they were caught covering up something of
this scale eventually. Saumon fumé, exquisite wines, escorts and
Sildenafil (Viagra), are not easily available in jail, and then
much less enjoyable in any case.
Uncle Bob 1 on August 24, 2015 · at 1:30 pm EST/EDT
Though a case might be made,if the investigators were really into the current Western Values.Then Viagra in prison might be right up their alley,so to speak.
Kampfbeobachter on August 24, 2015 · at 12:30 am EST/EDT
The more I read about MH017 the more confusing it gets. According to numerous reports the FDR and CVR are both in western hands. Why don’t we learn anything about their content?
What about the notion, that the downing of the Boeing 777 was a big mistake insofar as the target was presidents Putin’s Il 92, a 4 engine aircraft but from a distance with a somewhat similar appearance. The mistake is insofar incomprehensible because the attack took place in broad daylight and excellent visibility.
know the truth on August 24, 2015 · at 5:17 am EST/EDT
It was no “mistake” as you put it, it was cold blooded deliberate murder of innocents by depraved and inhuman psychopaths. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Just reading the comments on Unz Review… gosh what a vile lot of garbage from the usual suspects. Some names I think are banned here.
Saker, I hope you are strong enough to let those personal attacks bounce off.
So many events happening right now,I believe the Empire is pulling out all the stops to destabilize the World. And keep Russia and China unable to concentrate on just one problem at a time.We have the coming attacks in Donbass.The “accidents” in China,and now Japan.The pushing for war in Korea.The Israeli bombing/shelling,possible invasion of Syria.And now last ,but not least I believe,a possible Color Revolution starting in Lebanon.This isn’t being reported on very much yet,RT is reporting it.This is not looking good there.This very well could be the Empire’s latest plot in the Middle East.
Uncle Bob 1…
and another to add to the list….
the Aussie stock market crashed this morning. Panic as investors sell up and flee the market. (Funny how there are always buyers for those sellers!)
“It is all because China’s economy is weak as they have stopped buying the stuff we dig out of the ground”.
Chaos everywhere.
It is!
jiri on August 24, 2015 · at 1:59 am EST/EDT
“We also know for a fact that there was at least one Ukrainian aircraft in the immediate vicinity of MH-17 that day. This was confirmed both by Russian radar signals and by several local witnesses who saw at least one, possibly two, SU-25 aircraft in the air that day. ”
Is a flying SU-25 easily identifiable as such by an ordinary person?
Fighter aircraft are fairly small in size and would appear as just a small dot at an altitude of a few thousand metres.
The witnesses identified it as a fighter, not as an Su-25, in the witness reports I saw, except for one, who was a plane spotter. Su-25s look like fighters and most people don’t know one combat aircraft from another. The Su-25 reported to be near the airliner was reported as flying low, then climbing up towards the airliner. So yes, people would have no problem identifying the aircraft as a fighter. They would have certainly heard it as it climbed, too, and this they also reported. Mod ME
Honk on August 24, 2015 · at 3:16 am EST/EDT
Putin’s Mobile Crematoriums
A while back, there was this “Putin’s mobile crematoriums” story, I never took it seriously, but today I stumbled upon the fact that it is being reported by the mainstream media (CNN, Bloomberg, Business Insider) as being disseminated and being deemed credible by Congress man Mac Thornberry. Not that I give a lot on Congress people’s opinion, they all “knew” about WMDs that weren’t there, but nevertheless: Mobile crematoriums – WTF?
It sounds lunatic beyond belief to “hide” the fact that Russian soldiers are dying by their hundreds and thousands, by creating something specifically for cremating them close to the battlefield. Just the risk that such a car is discovered – which is exactly what is being claimed happened. How would Putin explain away Russian mobile crematoriums on Ukrainian soil?
A cursory Google search didn’t yield any relevant “mobile crematorium hoax” result, except for a short one on RI: http://russia-insider.com/en/media-criticism/bloomberg-peddles-russian-mobile-crematorium-garbage/ri7433
So as this has been reported by people and outlets whom you should expect to not stoop to utter lunacy, and the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsJort1d7mU) proof is long enough and shows the machine in action and an actual person handling it, it could lend itself to debunking.
* Has this been thoroughlt debunked anywhere?
* Do mobile crematoriums exist anywhere for any non-holocaustian purposes?
-> This would explain how such a video could be made without too much of an effort?
-> Or could this be a real crematorium, just loaded onto a truck?
Last summer there more than a few stories of mobile crematoriums being used by the Ukrainians. The “empire” almost always blames the other side for what they have been doing. Mod ME
> The “empire” almost always blames the other side for what they have been doing.
So the Ukrainians would do it to cremate their own soldiers and declare them “missing”? So there are no mass graves? But I’d think hundreds or thousands of families with “missing” family members would – still clamoring on some vague hope – cause way more trouble than if declared dead, at the same time burying all hopw.
Or to cremate rebel soldiers (that have torture marks?) to “destroy the evidence”?
I mean the creation a thing as horrible as a mobile crematorium – which implies the cremation is being hidden from the public – would need some strong motive, and it would have to be organized from the top. I mean if a Ukranian Nazi group did it in reverence of the good old times… I’d understand. Otherwise it’s hard for me to see this as anything but a hoax, regardless of which side is claimed to sport a crematorium fleet.
Leaving aside the stupidity of the Western “claims” of Putin sending mobile cremation vans for Russian soldiers in Ukraine (I think that is too silly to give any credence to).The claims that the Ukrainians used them is another story though.They have so many dead,that they want to hide them.That is entirely possible that they would use them.Another point on that though.In Europe cremation is used far more than it is in the US.I’m not sure that that is so usual then in itself.It’s the reasons that they are using them that is the shocking part.The last I heard (I can’t be sure on the figures) the Ukrainians claim between 9-14,000 MIA’s in their forces.The NAF says most of those aren’t really missing,but are dead from the fighting.But the junta is afraid to admit it.Cremating them is an easy why to hide where they are,and what happened to them.
> Leaving aside the stupidity of the Western “claims” of Putin sending mobile cremation vans for Russian soldiers in Ukraine (I think that is too silly to give any credence to).
> The claims that the Ukrainians used them is another story though.They have so many dead
So Putin – by using mobile incinerators – has succeeded in persuading you.
Seriously though, I was trying to approach this without relying on what we (believe to) know about the numbers of casualties on each side, as the crematoriums, if true, would be proof for the deception of one side in that regard
I think you misunderstand my post.I reject totally the idea that Putin sent mobile crematoriums for Russian soldiers in Ukraine.There would be many reasons to reject it.But the easiest one is that if there were so many serving Russian soldiers dying there.There would be a huge outcry in Russia.There are only so many “accidental” deaths that people will acccept without a huge scandal developing.Russia isn’t Ukraine,a country under nazi rule.Nor is she a country at war that expects to lose soldiers.
google mobile incenerator
look at the wikipedia entry and see http://www.todaysurematthews.com/self-contained-mobile-incinerators/ for one which looks like the video (made in UK)
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9oWguV9lVc
MediBurn Medical Waste Incinerator
for general information.
Instructive – and creepy! Thanks
Asnónimo on August 24, 2015 · at 10:39 am EST/EDT
Ukraine acquired these mobile crematoriums in preparation for the Euro-2012 football extravaganza to eliminate street cats and dogs that were apparently very abundant. Any search with terms like dogs, crematoriums, Ukraine will lead you to plenty of these reports 3-4 years ago, because animal right groups were denouncing the practice.
Apparently, those mobile crematoriums for dogs were then put to use again to deal with the accumulation of bodies in the front during the most catastrophic phase of the war, and there were even some pictures of them in various places. But the practice must have been discontinued because it was obviously very very bad press to be treating your own dead soldiers like street dogs.
Somebody, probably among the western media planners of this abominable neo-colonial experiment, must have realized the value of the idea to flesh out the notion of invading Russian troops being sent to their death, troops that could not be located, dead or alive, because they had simply been… cremated!! There you have it. Clever.
JJ on August 24, 2015 · at 1:00 pm EST/EDT
I did repost a link some days ago….western troops etc under AFU are given the identities……..of killed AFU
Forgot to mention, that the inimitable Lyashko gave a passionate speech last year accusing Poroshenko of burning ukrainian soldiers just like dogs.
http://www.cclocator.com/en/video/?v=Cs0TLPVLYVA&lang=en
0:00(Oleg Lyashko accused) the Minister of Defense of crimes against his own soldiers
0:03Lyashko posted a satellite photo of the field crematorium where according to his information were secretly cremated
0:09several thousand bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
0:15Poroshenko and Geletey are blatantly lying. They’re hiding more than eight thousand of our losses in the ATO!
0:19These guys gave their lives for them… But they received neither thanks nor respect
0:23It turns out that Poroshenko is burning our heroes like dogs in German crematoriums!
0:28I came across a satellite reconnaissance photograph where the Field Crematorium can clearly be seen
0:33next to a military hospital in the ATO zone in NovoAidar.
0:36As I was told, Germany gave us this crematorium. Why?
re: Israeli involvement: In then Russo- Georgian conflict 2 MIGs were shot down by a Georgian air command that had just been trained by an Israeli unit specializing in computer/missile/ground control etc. so the Israelis legitimately have their hands in the pot ( not need for secret ops–they are up front about it). Brazen you might say.
вот так on August 24, 2015 · at 3:57 am EST/EDT
Excellent report. I recommend reading this article, as well.
Israeli-made air-to-air missile may have downed MH17 – report
It may have been Su-25’s equipped with Israeli Python A-A missiles. Apparently some of these Ukrainian aircraft were modified to use those missiles, and the missiles themselves look similar to R-60 A-A missiles.
Also, an R-60 doesn’t have to physically destroy the airliner. One of these exploding next to the cockpit, killing the pilots, and probably damaging the electronics in the cockpit controlling the aircraft, would cause the plane to fly in such a way it would start breaking up. These aircraft are only stressed for low “g” flight and not stressed to sustain any kind of battle damage.
@ BOT TAK,
Q; These aircraft are only stressed for low “g” flight and not stressed to sustain any kind of battle damage.
R; I think the only plane designed to withstand severe damage is the A-10 [Warthog]
Although passenger planes are not designed to be used as military planes, they’re still exposed to volatile weather and rapid changes in temperatures [see, f.e. @ an Aloha Flight on a Boeing 737].
This is what you’d normally hear on a CVR. Note, at the beginning of the recording, you can hear a loud bang. Although that’s the sound of the tail snapping off, it’s clearly recorded by the CVR, at the other side of the plane, a Boeing 747-400 [the distance is 225′ or 68,8 meters]
So, all this pussyfooting with the MH17’s CVR and the fact that after one year, nothing recorded on it has reached the outside world, paints a very bleak picture.
I guess the captain yelling, “We’re under attack!” with the sound of bullets whizzing by in the background is a bit hard to sell as “The shepherds separatist shot it down with a duck BUK.”
No matter what or how, almost 300 innocent people died and I think we owe it to them to never stop digging for the truth to be unearthed… or whatever is left of it.
teranam13 on August 24, 2015 · at 3:58 am EST/EDT
Mayasian MH17: Its good that you established a plausible scenario established as the first of many that will be brandied about very soon. How about a time line? From one event to another would the pilots have time at least to say , “Damn, what was that?” possibly? A shock wave can kill instantly, can it not?
Incredible, another huge fire near tokyo airport, are these explosions n fires all just coincidences? Its like getting stuck by lightning over n over !
David burford on August 24, 2015 · at 6:02 am EST/EDT
Great article as usual. I would just like to point out that just as the USA must have detailed radar images of the skys over Ukraine when MH17 went down Likewise they must have data on the Indian ocean three months earlier when MH 370 went down. they cant have Diego Garcia loaded up with nuclear missiles without having complete coverage of the waters of the whole Indian ocean. If they don’t then we can only imagine that the Russians can take it out without warning any time.
I think we can all rest easier knowing the high “level” of officials the “New” Ukraine has put into office since the coup.A perfect example is this “stalwart”,the new police chief in Lvov:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153490387159831&set=pcb.10153490389109831&type=1&theater
Terry on August 24, 2015 · at 7:30 am EST/EDT
Every time I see the drawing at the top of this article, which was apparently produced by the Ruaaian military, I just shake my head. Surely even the most bungling amateur knows that a Boeing 777 is a wide bodied jet with TWO engines, while the drawing shows what looks like a Douglas DC 8 from the 1960’s with a slim body and FOUR engines!
TONY LANE on August 24, 2015 · at 9:17 am EST/EDT
I honestly do not understand why this has not been cleared away, it is clear to everyone that Russia did not do it, so that leaves only the USA. there is no AL CAIDAH or ISIL there is only the worlds largest terrorist network of AMERICA,BRITAIN and ISRAEL and it is called ABI.
I want to point out that Malaysia lost three planes in a short period of time. MH370, MH17 and a plane from Asia Airlines (if I got the name right). Malaysia owned a part of the company. Statistically, this is abnormal.
At least two of the planes stopped communicating. Both changed course. One disappeared and all the wreckage of the other has not been collected from the crashsite. According to international rules, the plane should have been reassembled as much as possible, but that was not done.
The preliminary report says nothing about witness accounts. Witnesses are usually heard in court and in Donbass there are many. They saw one or more fighters in the area.
It has been said commercial airplanes were forbidden to fly over the area 8 July 2014. Why was that changed?
I dont know what happened, but I want to know.
The preliminary report in English.
http://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/uploads/phase-docs/701/b3923acad0ceprem-rapport-mh-17-en-interactief.pdf
The rules of ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organization, are explained.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/13/who-is-obstructing-the-mh17-investigation/
Boeing-777 was downed by Ukrainian MiG-29, Romanian expert says.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/ussr/13-08-2014/128268-boeing_crash_ukraine-0/
For those who do not believe Carlos exists. He was interviewed on Spanish TV in May 2014.
Interview from 8 may 2014. In Spanish.
Amenazan de muerte a un español en Ucrania por opinar sobre la crisis
http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/127516-amenazar-controlador-espanol-ucrania-crisis
OSCE Investigator: Flight MH17 downed by machine-gun fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76PG9RQStFU#t=470
In German, but you can translate it.
MH17 – Die ungestellten und die unbeantworteten Fragen
https://propagandaschau.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/mh17-die-ungestellten-und-die-unbeantworteten-fragen/
You are chasing your tail.
Might as well re-read the Warren Report and rethink JFK’s assassination according to that book of lies.
Forget it. You’ll know or not know the facts at some point in the future. There is no hope of the truth coming out soon.
Usually, it takes forty years for truth to surface if it’s CIA action at core.
In this case, it will be ten to twenty years before the truth comes out.
Mats, are you saying we should stop trying to make sense of what happened to MH17? That is how I interpret it. If the interpretation is correct, you are also telling Saker to do something else.
Why should I bother studying the Warren report? JFK died many years ago and as far as I am concerned his death was an internal American problem, though of course it affected the whole world somewhat. I think the death of JFK and 911 are for Americans to investigate and I know some have done a good job.
MH17 is different. The tragedy took place in my backyard and it has the potential to make things worse in Europe and Russia already in October if the final report is released. You may not know it, but many in Europe worry about the present tensions and fear the fallout of the Dutch investigation. MH17 is certainly something we have the right to take a look at as best we can. We may not find the truth, but we have the right to look for it.
FYI, finding interesting links is hard work and I provided them for free.
The Capitalist Pigs and Liberal Cult miracle economy (high equity prices on Wall Street) is crashing.
They just discovered that there is no growth in debt creation and war mongering.
They are blaming China, but they know it is the FED and Obama’s destruction of growth.
Hug your nearest tree.
It is the economic equivalent of a stomach virus—severe colitis aftereffects. They have the runs.
However, those algorithms are also picking up bargains in high value stocks.
As small investors panic, the big funds buy cheap.
And the key, a strategy built into the algorithms, is to force the FED to another QE4. That’s how the market goes back up.
Gold. Watch that price rise. They have buried it for several years, but it will rise again.
China and Russia will benefit enormously as gold goes to its true value levels.
This is just looking at the facts that EU and US are in very bad shape, under very evil management.
China will be okay. It had already turned its economy inward for consumption and services and global for infrastructure development (Silk Road Belts).
Robert Tan on August 24, 2015 · at 2:06 pm EST/EDT
Dear Saker, yesterday, I listened to this video interview of “V” The Guerrilla Economist by Rogue Money:
https://youtu.be/GmiGKwybnrA
“V” discussed the situations in Greece, Ukraine, Syria, Iran/Israel, The House of Saud, Russia, China, Dedollarization, Christophe de Margerie, the IMF, and the Petrodollar. Some of the things (tho, not all) discussed in the interview were eye-openers. I’m now beginning to wonder whether or not the tragic MH-17 has any link to the preservation of the Petrodollar. It seems stupefying to even suspect that, I know. But then again, it is now a known fact that ISIS is a creation of the West. I feel that anything could be possible as long as there is desperation involved. What is your take on this?
*(In my opinion, tho, I don’t believe the Petrodollar will die. Most likely it will be diminished in use.)
I wonder what to make of today stock market collapses.Is it the beginning of the huge crash we’ve been hearing was/is coming.And I’m a bit concerned that it seems to be hitting China the most, so far.Is it maybe something the Empire and their stooges cooked up.Many questions it seems,but no answers yet.
And on a related and important note.I think it is good to remember that the USSR and the “Socialist Bloc”, existed and built societies without a stock market.In the USSR,people had jobs,they had health care,they have meals on the table,children were born and raised,with full education provided (they actually had population increases from births back then,unlike today).They washed clothes (and had clothes to wash),went to movies,watched TV,and listened to radio.Had theater,ballet,concerts.Had subways,trains,cars (not as many as in the West,but quite a few).Built,the second largest economy in the World.And as Martin reminded us,one of the smaller “bloc” countries the DDR,even surpassed many Western countries to become the 9th largest industrial power on Earth.And all of that, and much more as well, while under attack by the West everyday of their existence.And all of that without the “Casino Capitalism” of Western style stock markets.So in case we are in the beginning of this predicted Worldwide “Crash”. That doesn’t have to mean the World will end.Except for the 1%,the World can actually survive and live without a stock market.
eimar on August 24, 2015 · at 6:55 pm EST/EDT
Uncle Bob,
Read somewhere that Chinese state/institutional investment in their stock market is around 6%.
Which means those that might lose their shirts are private investors a.k.a gamblers.
David on August 24, 2015 · at 2:42 pm EST/EDT
But, we knew all this a year ago. Right off the bat, UAV thugs raided the ATC tower in Kiev and confiscated the evidence very shortly following when the MH-17 went down. If UAV and the coup regime were NOT involved, what was the expected reaction? Instead of the well-timed raid on the tower, shock and confusion, at least for a short while after receiving reports of the crash. We didn’t see that, of course- what we saw was the immediate barrage of accusations directed at Mr. Putin. It has the stink of premeditated mass murder for political purposes (terrorism) all over it.
SingingSam on August 24, 2015 · at 2:54 pm EST/EDT
Saker, thank you for the analysis and for keeping a focus on MH17.
The hard evidence held by the empire will remain secret indefinitely. Russia knows this and is growing increasingly impatient with the investigations run by the DSB and JIT.
I am waiting to see what Russia does after the DSB releases the final report. We have a few clues. First we know that as far back as 2/22/14 the Russian Investigative Committee opened an investigation.
http://www.kp.ru/daily/26323.5/3204312/
http://rt.com/news/216871-ukraine-military-mh17-report/
The Russian IC investigation has reached the conclusion that the air-to-air missile was not Russian made.
http://rt.com/news/273943-mh17-crash-missile-ukraine/
http://sputniknews.com/world/20150715/1024676143.html
Putin said approx. June 19 that it is necessary to wait for the conclusions of the Dutch Safety Board. He didn’t say why, but I can think of a couple of good reasons. First, to give the DSB plenty of rope with which to hang themselves. Second, to avoid accusations that Russia is making the DSB’s work more difficult.
http://tass.ru/en/russia/802790
Russia’s growing impatience with the DSB shows in what they said in July 16th about the draft of the DSB’s final report. Russia clearly is gearing up to slam the DSB’s final report.
The comments by the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Aug. 10 made it clear that Russia regards the DSB investigation as deeply flawed and is determined to pry the lid open. She said, “It was unacceptable to put with such an absolutely politicized approach in line with an aggressive informational campaign on vilification of someone and simultaneously on ‘brushing away’ all substantial facts. We are talking about hundreds of people who died. Their fate should not remain a ‘black hole’. Truth should be found, but it is necessary to do it in line with international law, and that is what we are going to do.”
Lavrov underscored what Maria Zakharova said the next day. He said, “After the investigation is over, it is necessary to make the punishment of the guilty inevitable.”
Russia will not remain on the sidelines of the investigation much longer. The good news is that the empire does not have a lock on all of the hard evidence. I expect evidence to be revealed following the DSB’s final report and again in early 2016 when the JIT makes some kind of public report about their sham criminal investigation.
denk on August 24, 2015 · at 3:29 pm EST/EDT
*We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.’*
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Il Discobolo on August 24, 2015 · at 6:48 pm EST/EDT
In the night between 31st August-1st September 1983 the four engines Korean B-747 flight KAL KE007 was hit at high altitude by two A-A missiles launched by the Su-15 piloted by Lieut. Col. Gennadi Osipovich. One missile hit one of the engines, the other punctured the tail of the aircraft. The aircraft continued to fly for almost 15 minutes, of which the CVR registered only the first 1 min and 44 seconds. In such period of time there is no words from the cockpit crew that show they were aware having been hit by missiles. Moreover, they were so busy to maintain the aircraft airborne, that in the CVR recorded period of 1 min and 44 seconds there is only one call (after 55 seconds) to the (Tokyo) Air traffic control.
Interesting, also in this case, there is no (the original) tape of the recordings in the (Tokyo) Air traffic control center.
Where are the tapes of the Ukrainian Air traffic control centers? They have recorded not only the radio communications, but also the conversations between the air controllers and of any other person present.
Anyway, even if the B-747 has four and not two engines as the B-777, it appears hard that just hitting one engine there is a sudden crash of a huge aircraft without some further, sudden and strong action against it.
Here the transcript of the CVR 1 min and 44 seconds after the “hit” of the Korean Air Kal KE 007:
1826:02 Cockpit: [Sound of explosion?]
1826:06 Captain: “What’s happened?”
1826:08 Co-pilot: “What?”
1826:10 Captain: “Retard throttles.”
1826:11 Co-Pilot: “Engines normal.”
1826:14 Captain: “Landing gear.”
1826:15 Cockpit: [Sound of cabin altitude warning]
1826:18 Cockpit: [Sound of altitude deviation warning]
1826:21 Cockpit: [Sound of autopilot disconnect warning]
1826:22 Captain: “Altitude is going up. Altitude is going up. Speed brake is coming out.”
1826:26 Co-Pilot: “What? What?”
1826:27 Cockpit: [Unintelligible]
1826:29 Captain: “Check it out.”
1826:33 Captain: “I am not able to drop altitude.”
1826:34 Public Address: “Attention emergency descent”
1826:38 Crew: “Altitude is going up.”
1826:40 Crew: “This is not working. This is not working.”
1826:41 Crew: “Manually.”
1826:42 Crew: “Cannot do manually.”
1826:43 Cockpit: [Sound of the autopilot disconnect warning]
1826:45 Co-Pilot: “Engines are normal sir.”[13]
1826:46 Public Address: “Put out your cigarette. This is an emergency descent.”
1826:50 Captain: “Is it power compression?”
1826:51 Flight Engineer: “Is that right?”
1826:52 Public Address: “Put out your cigarette, this is an emergency descent.”
1826:52 Flight Engineer: “All of both.”
1826:54 Captain: “Is that right?”
1826:55 Public Address: “Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust the headband.”
1826:57 Co-Pilot: “Tokyo radio Korean Air 007.”
1827:09 Flight Engineer: “All compression.”
1827:10 Captain: “Rapid decompression. Descend to one zero thousand.”
1827:15 Public Address: “Attention emergency descent.”
1827:20 Flight Engineer: “Now…we have to set this.”
1827:21 Tokyo radio: “Korean Air 007, radio check on one zero zero four eight.”
1827:23 Flight Engineer: “Speed.”
1827:26 Flight Engineer: “Stand by. Stand by. Stand by. Stand by. Set.”
1827:33 Public Address: “Put out your cigarette this is an emergency descent.”
1827:43 Public Address: “Put the mask over your nose and mouth and adjust…”
1827:46 End of CVR recording
Majo on August 24, 2015 · at 9:07 pm EST/EDT
I read that crack US pilots wearing Ukraine uniforms replaced the Ukrainian pilots in the two SU 25 planes. The manoeuvres to bring the passenger plane down in the ‘dance of death’ choreographed for it to fly before dropping in pieces in an empty field were too complex, difficult and exact, to trust to Ukrainian pilots. Saker does not mention the whole dead bodies dropping though the straw roofs of the small village homes and sheds the plane briefly hovered over.I have seen the videos of the bodies strewn around, horror of the inhabitants no-one believed. Nor does he mention that the plane was carrying dead AIDS victims as well as AIDS infected blood samples in the hold to go the the AIDs meeting I think in Malaysia. Malaysia only just taken over by Mrs Clinton as US Secretary of State after she managed the end of Libya. The new “alli” was proving difficult at the time this flight was chosen to bring down. Subsequently the Malaysian Airlines went bankrupt or something close.
no, no – nothing of the kind.
It was Zacharschenko just pissed off on the phone, who contacted one of his commanders in the area with orders to the Buk battery manned by his guys. The battery sent the signals to the SU-25 on the airliner´s position.
This new tech explananation has one merit: it´s way better than that of the pentagon.
denk on August 25, 2015 · at 2:55 am EST/EDT
Total CEO Plane Crash Robs Putin’s Russia of Outspoken Oil Ally
i now believe the globalists are satanists who revel in sending us msg hidden in plain sight. looks like all those seemingly coincidental numerical patterns do have a *story* to tell ! [1]
Air Algerie Flight 5017
A witness reported seeing a ball of flame in the crash area at about 1.50am, suggesting the tragedy happened in minutes.
One witness said it was “as if a bomb had fallen” on the desert, and that the plane had hit the ground at a steep angle and at full speed, ruling out any attempt at an emergency landing
we have the pending performance on a France/Russia deal whereby Russia is to receive delivery of two Mistral warships. Maybe certain elitist elements would rather see France breach the contract?
Air France 447, like MH 370, MH 17, and AH 5017 also “vanished without a word from the crew.” Perhaps, then, the official report
regarding Air France 447, which explained the affair in terms of heavy weather, a high altitude stall, and pilot error also happens to more or less describe what occurred with AH 5017?
Then again, it was reported regarding Air France 447 that:
“Two pilots of an Air Comet flight from Lima to Lisbon saw a bright flash of light in the area where Flight 447 went down, the Madrid-based airline told CNN. The pilots have turned in their report to authorities.
“Suddenly, we saw in the distance a strong and intense flash of white light, which followed a descending and vertical trajectory and which broke up in six seconds,” the captain wrote in the report.
The flash of light contributes to the theory that an explosion is what brought down Flight 447, which was carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.”
on board was china’s top defence scientist , xiao xiang, who oversee the nuclear submarine and nuclear aircraft carrier program.
china was colloborating with brazil in a nuclear submarine research,
xiao was on his way back to china.
To be sure, these reports have gone down the memory hole. [1]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/air-algerie-ah5017-air-france-447-malaysian-mh370-and-mh17-vanishing-aircraft-numerology-and-the-global-elite/5394526
on airfrance 447,
M.A. in Oregon, u.s. • 6 years ago
I am so saddened to see this happen. I am praying for all the people and families involved. I hope that all countries involved or at least several countries will do their own investigations into what caused this to happen. Everyone knows the country I live in can’t be trusted for any reason whatsoever. I hope that all involved will find peace and comfort someday, as only time will allow. If anyone would like to read the truth about world events please visit: rense dot com, globalresearch dot ca, infowars dot com. Please watch internet movies: Zeitgeist the movie, Wake up call, and ENDGAME:Blueprint for global enslavement. There is no church or religion above the TRUTH. Always search for the TRUTH, wherever it may go, whoever it may lead to
http://www.airfrance447.com/06/03/xiao-xiang-35-scientist-chinese/
Mikael H on August 25, 2015 · at 1:12 pm EST/EDT
But how come that the russian radar screen showed no presence of a fighter jet contrary to what have been said
Do you remember that press conference held by russian authorities allegedly showing fighter jets in the area but Picture show nothing of that if you Watch that press Conference. Radar screen only shows airliners in the air together with MH17 then you can see MH 17 slowing down after being hit and eventually dissapear from screen. Now an echoe appear at the same spot as the MH 17 dissapeared from and the russian (General?) speaking asks about that sechoe claiming it is a fighter jet (SU 25?) but that echoe has almost no horizontal speed at all and dissapears from screen very fast.
If that echoe was a fighter why didnt russia see it Before and why did it have almost no horizontal speed at all? Answer is that most likely it was debris from MH 17 giving away that echoe
But I can hardly muself Believe that russian military is that incompetent so what is going on? Watch it for yourself here its between minute 19 and 23 but Watch whole if you want of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476LHsr2SWM&feature=youtu.be&t=1013
The answer above was supposed to be an anser to the article and not to “denk”
nonetheless,
my take on mh17, mh37 etc is here,
http://thesaker.is/crosstalk-remembering-mh17/
the mother of all cia air assasinations,
the attempt on chinese premier zhou enlai’s life.
http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Jakarta-Warning-to-prospective-CIA-agents.shtml
Le Ruscino on August 25, 2015 · at 7:01 pm EST/EDT
The Ceiling of a 75 year old WW2 Spitfire is 40,000 Feet or 12,192 Metres !
Here is the Actual Data:
Spitfire F. Mk. IX BF.274
(Merlin 61)
Climb and level speed performance
………………Climb and level speed performance has been measured on Spitfire F. Mk. IX B.F.274 both with and without a 30 gallon external jettisonable tank fitted. The climb performance at combat rating and position error have also been measured without the tank fitted. The engine was fitted with a 0.477:1 reduction gear and a Rotol R3/4F5/3 metal propeller.
Climb at normal rating:
Maximum rate of climb in M.S. supercharger 3200 ft.min at 13,500 ft.
Maximum rate of climb in F.S. supercharger 2540 ft/min. at 25,900 ft.
Service ceiling (100 ft/min) 42,100 ft.
Time to 10,000 ft. 3.1 mins.
Time to 30,000 ft. 10.7 mins
Climb at Combat rating:
Time to 10,000 ft. 2.7 mins
G on August 25, 2015 · at 8:55 pm EST/EDT
One other thing that is consistently overlooked is the fact that the ukrianian airforce had been utilizing a tactic of
Using civilian airliners as cover and this was reported in a sitrep by strelkov on June 9th 2014 over a month before mh 17. So granting that we do not assume that te ukrainian govt is so evil that they’d intentionally murder over a hundred innocent civilians to blame russia and the sepretists and granted that even if we accept the ukrainian and their western allies claim that the dpr did shoot down the plane by accident, they still are at fault for directing a plane over a conflict Zone where airstrikes were being carried out and where they knew AA guns were being used for the purpose of covering their airstrikes they are still at fault while the dpr’s only fault is that they used whatever mean necessary to defend themselves. I’m not saying that definitely this happened and maybe the ukrainian govt is that evil but for the sake of convincing those on the other side it seems this situation is more plausible and still the blame is on the ukrianian govt. please Lmk what anyone thinks about this theory. The sitrep I cited was found on slavyangrad website.
r e m o on August 26, 2015 · at 2:13 am EST/EDT
Remember also CHAFF was recorded deployed at the time seen floating directly thru the ground-crash smoke; evidence of military aircraft action immediate to the catastrophe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY5YD36NuqI
Also, fact it was the second Malaysian in 6 months to suffer tragedy (MH17 HAD to be ‘picked’) leads to deeper or further down the authority chain decision making than ‘just Kiev.
in the case of mh370 i counted six birds,
*the most obvious one from the outset,
sowing discord bet chinese/malaysians
*payback to malaysia for its *war crime tribunal* in kl ,amongst other *crimes*,
the court indicted bush, blair as war criminals.
*dr mahathir’s archenemy ,soros, exacting his pound of fresh.
*take out top defence scientists from china, much like the airfrance 477
hit which liquidated the father of china’s nuclear sub/carrier program,,
xiao xiang.
*prempted the transfer of state of art chip tech to china.
*last but not least, *persuade* kl to join the *pivot* against china.
kl has been put thru the wringer for almost a yrs now, starting with mh370,
then mh17, airasia QZ8501, mh148, sabah freak earthquake, warsj led media campaign against pm najib, racial riots targetting chinese malaysians….
all signs in recent weeks point to an about turn of attitude, kl is now talking tough against china in the scs issue, a far cry from its friendly posture pre mh370.
another china’s ally bites the dust, following nepal, myanmar, sri lanka ?
porphyrius on August 26, 2015 · at 8:03 am EST/EDT
Dear Saqr, what do you think of this “alternative” Ukrainian version:
http://garmata.org/blog1/214-bolshay…otiv-voentorga
Большая военная тайна. Авиация и ракеты против «военторга»
Their thesis is logically argumented. The only moot point is, supposing the Russians really were involved, they would have shown an incredible level of incompetence in the course of a highly sensitive secret operation, which, while possible, seems unlikely. For instance, I imagine that following the tracks of passenger liners to avoid such a tragic error should be technically possible, even if the Ukrainian plane was purposely hiding behind the Boeing.
Could you provide an analytical comment on this?
Vierotchka on August 26, 2015 · at 12:30 pm EST/EDT
A good Facebook friend of mine, a British academic teaching at University in Athens, former Ambassador – William Mallinson – posted this today:
“This is disgusting: the Netherlands, once a beacon of justice, are now just a a lying client state, no longer able to reveal facts…..read on:
“On Wednesday, however, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte’s government issued a statement rejecting all Freedom of Information Act (WOB) requests by Elsevier into 17 documents relating to the JIT pact. It said that the benefits of disclosing information about the MH17 investigation were outweighed by the risk of damage to the Dutch state’s relations to other states and world bodies.””
Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
Stange Town on August 26, 2015 · at 3:06 pm EST/EDT
Given that the preliminary findings suggest a missile, the investigators have not said from whom though. But in even manufacturers of BUKs themselves in Russia have concluded that it was a BUK missile, so why are we still considering the SU25 ‘theory’. This information was released by Russian traffic control 24 hours after the event, was this to deflect attention?
That is not correct. The manufacturers said IF is was a SAM then it had to have been an SA11 M-1, which is a BUK out of production, so they could not be held responsible and should have sanctions against them. They also said they can not refute other possible causes of the plane being shot down.
See my comment at http://thesaker.is/mh-17-one-year-later/#comment-136334
for the past two yrs something very disconcerting happened in china, practically every other mth we heard about a major *accident*, especially in the petrochemical industry.
in an earlier post,
Asnónimo on August 23, 2015 · at 9:59 pm UTC
*Those who suspect the following series of accidents is not accidental are paranoid conspiracy spammers and should be contained.
[the guy is in snark mode no doubt ;-)]
[from what i recall this is just a partial list]
https://www.rt.com/news/313159-explosion-us-base-japan/*
some would say that with such a dismal record, tianjin is just something waiting to happen. matter of fact, as if on cue, the msm and even alternate media are having a field day dissing/gloating on china’s *massive corruption*.
china’s industrial safety measure is woefully inadequate, but is it that bad ?
when it suddenly started raining cats and dogs, its prudent to think scientifically.
the fundamental theorom of probability says,
*once is accident, twice coincidence, thrice……enemy action*
who might that enemy be, ?
well who’s been attacking china since 1949 ?
[i.e. if u dont count the opium war, eight nation alliance rape of beijing, burning of
yuan ming yuan, younghusband’s invasion of tibet 1903 etc etc]
1959 tibet uprising,
1962 india sino border war, [instigated by fukus]
1989 tam,
1999 attack on chinese embassy in ex yugo,
2001 hainan spyplane provocaton, one chinese pilot dead.
2003 iraq invasion, chinese embassy attacked by cia rent a mob *insurgents*,
chinese oil contract under saddam hussain declared null and voil by the occupying
force, loss estimated at trillions.
2003 sars, all hxnx series, swine flu, bird flu in subsequent yrs until this day,
2008 tibet riots
2008 nepal’s pro beijing monarchy ousted by cia/raw.
2009 xinjiang bloodbath,
2013 south sudan seccession engineered by fukus, china’s oil pipeline
cut in half,
2013 asia pivot,
2013 tam bomb attack,
2013 chinese facilities and workers attacked by cia rent a mob *insurgents* in
libya, tens of thousands chinese evacuated, financial loss estimated at tens of billions,
2014 mh370
2014 hk umbrella rev,
2015 pivot on steriod,
2015 sri lanka’s pro beijing prez deposed by cia/raw,
[a partial list]
2015 tianjin Armageddon ???
from past pattern , fukus enjoyed sending nasty *gift* to china/russia etc, prior to a major event, this is to inflict max humuliation to the host when its under the world’s spotlight.
1989 tam rebellion courtesty of unitedsnake, on the eve of gorbacev’s visit to beijing.
2008 tibet riots, courtesy of the snake, on the eve of beijing olympics.
2009 xinjiang bloodbath, courtesy of the snake, during g8 meeting. hu jing tao had to rush back to china to deal with the crisis.
2014 ukraine putsch , courtesy of the snake, while moscow was basking in the
limelight of sochi olympics extravaganza.
2015 tianjin monstrous blast, on the eve of beijing’s victory parade commermorating ww2,
a gift from g-o-d or is it the antichrist ?
*Pentagon’s “Rods from God” program which involves satellites armed with tungsten rods measuring about one foot by twenty feet that can be fired earthwards at over 6000 mph to any target of White House choosing. The effect is “nuclear without the fallout”. The program is so highly classified that very few people know anything about it.*
http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/02/03/the-irony-of-bush-s-indignation/
the timing of tianjin blast is just a bit too convenient, coming on the eve of beijing’s
ww2 victory parade and right after china’s devaluation of the yuan, which was greeted by howls of *currency war* in the west.
tianjin is a fast rising super star in china’s new phase of economic development, it plays a pivotal role in the *one belt , one road* grand strategy.
*China’s ports, cities and hinterlands feature prominently. Fifteen ports, from Tianjin in the north to Haikou in the south, are earmarked for upgrading. The Shanghai and Guangzhou airports are slated to become logistics hubs. Inland, largely poor provinces are supposed to see a boost too.*
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/03/28/china-lays-out-path-to-one-belt-one-road/
this *accident* reeks of a signature cia hit, the sobs always aim for the max bang per buck.
viz….
+it deals a serious blow to tianjin port’s ugrading plan,
+major petrochemical projects suffered a series of major *accidents* recently,
future development would come under even stiffer resistance from the populace.
+the tianhe super computer has been shut down due to structural damage to the building,
+the msm , even alternate media’s almost gleeful trumpeting of massive malpractice and corruption further erodes cpc’s cred amongst the populace,
+china’s image suffered another huge blackeye,
http://theinternationalreporter.org/2015/08/20/tianjin-port-explosion-like-a-small-nuclear-bomb-going-off-44-days-radio-sinoland/
greenpeace was first on the scene , a * rapid response field team* no less, ala the unitedsnake’s worldwide *rapid reaction force* i guess ?
the verdict, tianjin blast is the result of massive mismanagement and corruption in china, !
so somebody have been cutting corners and taking bribes,
but how was the chemicals ignited , i’d go for sabotage., whether its nuclear, *rod of god*, stuxnet or ignition by local agents. ?
i’d even venture that the series of *mishaps* in the past two yrs were part of the plot, a build up to the current narrative. its going viral all round, that tianjin armaggedon is an indictment on the whole chinese system.
this guy nails it , [1]
*The space-based blasting of already flammable targets such as oil pipelines
and chemical plants makes for an ideal dirty attack because the targets offer built-in plausible denial and cover-up excuses — such as: “insufficient regulation” or “negligence”.*
post sars/swine flu attack, the talk was all about how the chinese sanitary sucks,
after the tibet, xinjiang bloodbath where hans got chopped up or blown to smithereens, every headline in msm and not a few in alternate media screamed *chinese oppression, brutal crackdown, genocide* . [sic]
sounds familiar ?
http://www.tomatobubble.com/id878.html
not exactly o.t.
Gibson on August 28, 2015 · at 1:30 pm EST/EDT
You forgot one thing,
Since the explosion at Tianjin, China has been dumping large amounts of US Treasury bonds, by the mother load, and i mean huge numbers. It will reak havoc on the american economy, it will be like QE but in reverse.
So you could say, that China is saying, f* you…..you blow up our chemical plant, we’ll destroy the dollar…..
the empire of chaos is on steriod,
something big seems to be brewing,
what’d the snake think up next ???
when it comes, it’d make tianjin looks like child’s play ?
Gibson on August 28, 2015 · at 12:26 pm EST/EDT
One thing everybody forgets so fast are the things that were repported directly after the incident became know. Like the following….
1. That the last 10 flights of this airplane’s route, never went over the route it took when it was hit. There was an article about this with the data from Flightradar24.com to prove it. So on that day, this flight was explicietly redirected towards a different course then it usally followed. Also the aircraft altitude was orderd to be lowered by the urkrainian air traffic controllers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10975524/Crashed-MH17-flight-was-300-miles-off-typical-course.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-17/was-flight-mh-17-diverted-over-restricted-airspace
2. What about the air traffic controller who yelled it out over social media when it happend that the UAF and SBU where responsible for the attack. Or was this also a false or misleading info.
3. What about all the fake ‘so called’ evidence that was shown to the world by the ukies and all that has been proven to be false. This is clearly a sign of a desperate act to put the blame on the innocent. There sould by a justification for all that false evidence and at least a law suit should be presented against the ukainian goverment.
One thing still can’t forget is that so called voice recording made between the rebels and some colonel where they were talking about the shooting of the aircraft. Only the idiots had posted it a day before on youtube or facebook, on the 16th july. Still nobody wonders….?? WTF is wrong with you people. This is a positief indication that the whole thing was planned en carried out.
Because i know for sure, the russians would never make such a stupid mistake.
4. Where is the flight data and voice recorder messages. Why has this not yet been made public.
Remember the plane crash in the france alps, that data and voice recordings where made public within a few days. And here still nothing.
5. Indeed, where is the US intelligence data? …so far all they could come up with was an image from google maps with red crayon marker depicting the flight path of the aircraft.
Most impressive… who made that, some fifth grader ?
6. And something i remember but haven’t read anything about it since that day. Was that flight MH-17 had a delayed departure of 2 hours. Why was this….Why was flight MH-17 delayed for 2 hours instead of its originally departure time from amsterdam.
Further more, this week it came out that the ‘official’ report by the investigation team lead by the Netherlands, will be presented on October 13th.
I quess its fair to say that the report is then finished by now and that it is being reviewed by all the countries and agencies that are connected too this incident. So that means that the urkainiane goverment allso must be reviewing this report, because of the standing agreement they made, that no evidence or information can be made public without the including countries consent.
So what to expect on October 13th….nothing new i quess.
Gibson.
in any unatural death, no way would the chief beneficiary be involved with the investigation.
yet thats exactly what happen with these series of *accidents*
the mh370 forsenic team was headed by canberra , as if thats not enough,
its *assisted* by fbi and mi6, talk about the fox guarding the chicken coop !
judge , prosecutor, executioner all in one.
game , set , match.
any wonder that the malaysian police chief lamented aloud
*i doubt we’d ever know the truth* and…
dr mahathir didnt hesitate to lambast canberra and cia for *withholding vital information about mh370*.
unbeknown to the good dr, the snake was already linning up more nasty surprises
to punish kl’s *insolence*.
on earthquake *drill* turning *live*, disappearing planes , cyber warfare and climate scam .
this is definitely not ot
this is the evil empire in a nutshell !
http://www.sott.net/article/202731-Connecting-the-Dots-Mass-murder-in-Haiti-plane-madness-in-the-skies
Igor on August 29, 2015 · at 10:02 am EST/EDT
Great blog! Thanks. You are kind of a Western Boris Rozhin (http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com). I hope your readership will continue to grow.
this is not ot
mh370 ,mh17, asia pivot, ukraine putzh, tianjin armageddon….
this is a concerted assault on the brics !
another pov,
i cant vouch for everything claimed in this piece but we both agree,
like hell this is just an accident !
http://crimesofempire.com/2015/08/27/the-tianjin-blasts-indutrial-accident-or-manhattan-incident/
tianjin armageddon, *accident* or ff ?
dont think this is ot, this is non trivial, coz brics is currently attacked by this m.o. or its variants !
the great satan is exploiting china’s massive corruption to mount a ff in tianjin, then followed up with a media blitz telling the world its all the chinese own fault. [1]
similarly when they hit china with sars, the *international community* was duly informed by the msm, aka cia’s mighty wurlitzer, its the result of china’s dismal hygenic practice.
post xinjiang bloodbath where hans were slaughtered like sacrificial lambs, the usual suspects cnn, warsj, nyt blamed china’s *brutal oppression* for driving the *freedom fighters* to violence. a meme readily echoed by many *progressives* in alternate media.
this is a particular sick joke coz china’s the most generous minority policy in the world bar none.
the above are classic cia m.o., works like a charm since 1875.
i basically agree with the author, with some caveats…..
+some say mike adams is a disinfo agent.
well anybody who censors my comments cant be very credible in my book !
adams also boasts about a bevy of *chinese dissidents* as informants, sounds suspciously like a *company* man talking doesnt it ;-)
+the author falls for the msm meme that china is striving for worlds top dog by toppling the incumbent. thats bs,
china has neither the heart nor muscle to be no1.
it needs to maintain at least a growth rate of 7/8 % just to feed its gigantic populace forchrissake, its forace in africa, south america spawns out of the need to circumvent the unitedsnake’s stranglehold in the malacca straits chokepoint.
hardly a move to *challenge* or *compete* with the great satan ,as widely peddled in the western bullhorn.
+the socalled nefarious chinese plan to paralyse the great satan by hacking its power /water grid is pure and undulterated bs cooked up by pentagoon to feed the murkkan *mushrooms*. [2]
its the usual crap attributed to unamed officials or pentagoon accredited *security contractors, unsubstantiated by any hard evidence.
the sad state of affairs in the land of the *free* now is such that this is all it takes to scare the murkkans into wetting their pants !
http://empireexposed.blogspot.sg/2015/08/tianjins-fiery-explosion-mainstream.html
*murkkans are like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed bushit all day* !
grrr on August 31, 2015 · at 5:31 pm EST/EDT
Agree. Actually it was quite obvious from the beginning: who has a motivation?
denk on September 01, 2015 · at 4:20 pm EST/EDT
thats right, cui bono ?
when i heard about the malaysian airliner mh370 *diappearance* with 200+ chinese nationals onboard, i instinctively knew it couldnt be an accident.
anybody who had been following closely the geopolitical scene in asia ought to smell something fishy, malaysia was the last man standing in asean who didnt wanna join the zwo asia pivot against china !
my hunch was vindicated by the series of mishaps which followed, mh17, airasia, ….mh148 etc..
as for tianjin, shandong blast , im 99% sure its a u.s. black op.
unitedsnake the world’s no1 arsonist has been attacking china relentlessly since time immermoria. [1] currently its mounting a military provocation in scs, ecs, an attack on china’s economy, a demonisation campaign thru msm. in the last 10 mths alone it has perpetrated a spade of black ops against china including the mh370 and xinjiang terrorism .
the timing and m.o. of the tianjin blast has the cia finger print all over it.
this doesnt constitute a smoking gun yet but….i’d be damned if the snake has nothing to do with it !!
true to form, the snake already has a ready ans for this,
*Another factory explosion rocks China. Another case of corruption exposed? *
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/0822/Another-factory-explosion-rocks-China.-Another-case-of-corruption-exposed
just do a search on the subject , the verdict is in, nothing to see here, its all about the rampant corruption in china. !
this is how the cia one -two punch works,
1] attack the target,
2] saturation media demonisation to blame the victim.
like the rapist who told the judge the fault is with the victim who’s too scantily clad. !
in the xinjiang bloodbath, the world’s no1 butcher of muslims the unitedsnake let loose its jihadists mercs on the hans, then followed up with a media blitz on *chinese brutal oppression in xinjiang, ccp brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators*,
the world’s no1 *shit stirrer* was pissed off when that ruse failed to provoke an international jihad against china,
*Unrest in Xinjiang: Where’s the Muslim outrage? * [sic]
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/0713/unrest-in-xinjiang-wheres-the-muslim-outrage
sobs. !!!
as for those who sniff *conspiracy theory* !
* Is there any way you can look at the chronological events over the last month and not conclude they are connected
Are there too many coincidental technological, financial and geopolitical dots lined up to come to any conclusion other than we are already in the early stages of war??*
http://sgtreport.com/2015/08/guest-post-what-will-historians-say/
i agree with two caveats,
1] to say there’s a war going on is damn unfair to china/russia,, coz they’ve been at the receiving end of unitedsnake’s one-sided covert/overt attacks for decades, if not centuries.
2] of course the explosion at the unitedsnake naval base in jp is connected to the series of *accidents* in china, but i dont believe its a chinese/russian retaliation as suggested by some, i think its more likely a u.s. subterfuge to obfuscate and confuse. it sure looks like kindergarten stuff compared to the tianjin armageddon anyway.
this isnt o.t.
its all part of the zwo attack on the brics. !
further to the previous list of unitedsnake’s attack on china, the following
just comes to mind,
*terrorists slaughtered chinese workers in afghan,
*terrorists slained chinese engineers, workers, tourists in afpak,
*terrorists butchered chinese sailors in the makong river,
*gunmen killed a busload of hk tourists in cold blood, manila.
sobs have started ww3 and mum is the word..
from jimstone
*World War 3 has probably started
(and mum is the word)
There was a major explosion in Dongying China. This would be the third explosion. This one was as bad as the huge one at Tianjin and was felt 50 KM away. Of extreme interest here: The Tianjin blast happened at 11:30 PM. This blast happened at 11:28 PM. These blasts happened within two minutes of each other on the clock. So I am calling it, once is an accident, twice is coincidence and three times is enemy action, and with the subtle message being delivered which is: same time of night so you over there in China know this was US, and no accident. I have no doubt this is aggression against China.*
something just happened…..
*Something changed three weeks ago and a series of events began. It all started with China announcing 600 additional tons of gold. This was followed by the IMF rebuff of China, the three yuan devaluations and three “coincidental” explosions. Then equity markets around the world (which were already weak) began to violently unravel and finally spilled over to the U.S.. This tested the PPT’s limits (which were apparently $23 billion last week).*
http://sgtreport.com/2015/09/something-just-happened/#more-404869
*What do Krefeld (8/5/15), Bitterfeld (8/3/15), Moscow (8/12/15), Tianjin (8/12/15), Conroe (8/15/15), Shandong (8/22/15) and Sagami (8/24/15) have in common?
Explosions in chemical plants. We are told Sagami was not a chemical plant but… who really knows?
The first 6 explosions happened after Germany, Russia, China and Texas openly opposed Washington and its Neocons. Germany opposed Washington on arming Ukraine. Moscow… well, we know. Texas demanded its gold and has b een fighting the Fed for a sweet long time. China devalued three times its Yuan in one week.
Sagami is not so easy to understand. But Neocons have never shied away from creating false flags by killing americans when necessary.
Coincidences?*
the sagami blast is a dud, it merely punctured a hole in the ceiling of a store room.
obviously a ff but why ?
a theory going around suggest that someone is simultaneously hitting china, unitedsnake to instigate a nuclear war bet the two powers,, i dont buy it.
the great satan harbours the most malice towards china and has the greatest motive to attack due to the chinese monetary policy.
afaic its the no1, in fact the only suspect.
i believe the sagami ff is a psyop to shift the blame to some shadowy *third force*.
the cunning of great satan can never be overstated.
Adam Baum (@Adam1Baum) on September 16, 2015 · at 9:04 pm EST/EDT
If anyone was following the Spanish Air traffic Controllers ( @spainbuca) tweets that fateful morning as I was knows it would have been impossible for the events transpiring in real-time to have been pre-scripted the ways his tweets read.
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Talk Show: The Musical
Category: Experience
by Wills Morgan
It had trash talk performed by opera singers . It had a musical score which boasted some some actual tunes. It had a whole first act and a bit of a second act. And it had a big black man in a clean white nappy. This is the story of how JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA became the hit show a decade ago last week at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In August of 2002, a modestly staged entertainment was to become the hit of the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. An indication of what was about to hit the city appeared on the cover of the weekly guide to Fringe events: the LIST magazine.
In small letters: Edinburgh stripped bare. In capital letters and in a larger font: NAPPY DAYS. And the picture? A big and beautiful Black Man. Wearing a Diaper and With a Dummy In his Mouth. And Nothing Else covering his Modesty. Apart from the strategic placing of a TV talk-show cue card which bore the following legend:
JERRY SPRINGER: The Opera.
Note the title of the Legend. JERRY SPRINGER: a man who has had many careers. A lawyer, politician and an Emmy-Award winning news anchor. And, in 1991, the host of what was called a ‘talk show’ called (naturally enough) The Jerry Springer Show. This show started in a lower case font. As un-sensational social commentary of the kind that Mr. Springer was already known for. The viewing figures were not good. (This is a polite way of saying those same viewing figures were shit. Really quite shitty.)
A new producer was brought in; his name was Richard Dominick. He’s responsible for Jerry Springer becoming the character that we know we love to hate to love: JERRY SPRINGER.
The new show was pretty much like life itself: full of surprises. Low lives. Unhappy marriages. Perverse behaviour. The Ku Klux Klan. The odd prostitute. God. Romances with animals. You know what I mean. There was heckling. There was fighting. There was people throwing things. There was people throwing up. But most of all…importantly…most especially…there was people having themselves a good, good time. It was trashy. It was ‘bloody funny’. It was made for TV. But equally…it was…and is…opera.
So how did JERRY SPRINGER get attached to The Opera in its lower case sense? Here’s how: with one man with a piano. A glamourous, voluptuous mezzo-soprano singer named LORE. A couple of crates of John Smiths bitter. ASDA lager, as well, just for a bit of contrast. In a small studio in Battersea, South London, In England, that itty-bitty island off the coast of Europe.
The Brixton-based composer Richard Thomas’ workshops were called ‘How to write an Opera about Jerry Springer’. The flyer for the show was an apology: ‘Have an idea. Think it’s a shit idea. Despair. Do it anyway’. It was done: and the Legend was born.
In August 2001, Mr. Thomas’ London cabaret group, known as KOMBAT OPERA took to the stage in multiple guises. Serial seducers. Trailer Trash. The Ku Klux Klan. And right in the middle of it all…an anti-chorus every bit as fierce as the crowd of Jews as portrayed by JS Bach in his Matthew and John passions.
The Indepenent on Sunday journalist Anna Picard wrote of ‘the first opera to take television as its subject’. She is 50 percent correct. As I know only too well, the subject matter of JERRY SPRINGER: The Opera is both Tele-Visual and Opera-Tic.
The word was spread that this was a show to see. In January and February of 2002 anybody who was anybody came to the second run of performances. Germaine Greer was there. Nicholas Hytner visited daily. Tim Rice came. Harry Hill, Chris Morris, Mel and Sue, Frank Skinner and much of the cream of British comedy saw what had inevitably become JS:TO.
Journalists wrote about it unbidden. Lyn Gardner of the Guardian came, saw half the show and wrote a review of the whole that was not polite. How we in the cast laughed at her. She should have gone to Specsavers, we said.
Fortunately, there was enough good press to secure an investment from TV mogul and celeb hairdresser Allan McKeown for a rewrite: the cast and newly-expanded company of 20 reconvened in Clapham to prepare to take JS:TO to the comedy Mecca that is the Edinburgh fringe.
Stewart Lee became director of JS:TO as well as co-writer. This was to be both a happy and unhappy accident for him. Richard Thomas continued to de-compose. International ABBA expert Martin Lowe urged and inspired us on. Dance expert Jenny Arnold helped to cover cracks that were still evident in the concept.
Day one of rehearsals was a bit nervy. Mr. McKeown came to the first sing-through with his wife, the artist formerly known as Tracey Ullman. We were a cast member down, as Andrew Bevis (a talented Australian singer) was voiceless. I was given the job of filling in Andrew’s part whilst Andrew had to endure listening to me rip his role to shreds!
Allan McKeown takes up the tale: “In the car on the way to the first ever sing through of JERRY SPRINGER: The Opera my wife asked me how much money I had invested in the show. I told her. ‘You must have loved the script’ she said. I told her I hadn’t read it. ‘Oh you loved the music?’ I said I hadn’t heard it. ‘You idiot’ she said. Half way through the sing-through she whispers to me ‘How much of the show do we own?’ ‘50%’ I told her. ‘You idiot you should have bought the lot.’”
There were two major additions to the cast. I had played Dwight, the serial seducer who was always ‘seeing someone else’. I exchanged that for the role of Jesus (a higher calling) whilst Benjamin Lake took the role of Dwight. Richard Thomas was so impressed with Ben that he wrote in an extra role for him: that part was the biggie… that of God Almighty himself.
But the major find was David Bedella. David had scored major theatre credits which included singing Fran-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show alongside Meatloaf, La Cage Aux Folles with Gene Barry and Caiaphas In Jesus Christ Superstar with Ted Neely and Carl Anderson. Credentials enough for the dual roles of Devil and Warm-up Guy.
Returning members of KOMBAT Opera were Valda Aviks in a myriad of roles, including a Superior Mother: also Lore Lixenberg as Valda’s vocal and comedic foil…and of course the play friend of Diaper Man. I was Montel, the guy revealed to be the Man of Diaper, who was to return as Jesus in the second act.
The Canadian funny-guy Rick Bland reassumed his true characterization of ‘The Springer’. Andrew Bevis played Tremont, the Chick with a Dick. The distinguished actress Beverley Klein had a go at being a pole dancer. David Birrell was Klein’s Hillbilly husband.
To say the casting was ideal was not completely true: but enough of the pieces were there for the show to succeed up north. Most importantly, the writers insisted on colour-blind casting in all areas of the company. Later…much much later…the entire chorus of our little show was to win an Olivier Award for their outstanding contribution to a Musical.
JERRY SPRINGER: The Opera wasn’t the only thing happening at the 2002 Fringe Festival. The other big ticket was for Derevo, the theatre ensemble from St Petersburg. Omid Djalili and Ross Noble made the cover of the List magazine alongside that picture of me in the nappy. But there was only one show that had low lives, unhappy marriages, perverse behaviour, the Ku Klux Klan, The odd prostitute and God in it. You know the one I’m talking about.
Word spread that this was a musical event that should be seen. Many, many people saw it. Including the man himself: Jerry Springer. On a lovely Saturday afternoon. ”The Theatre was packed. The producers didn’t want to scare the cast, so they didn’t tell them which day I was coming – that was the plan at least. When I walked into the theatre though, everyone started chanting ‘Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!’ I think the cast caught on pretty quickly.’”
Afterwards Jerry met the cast and shook my hand. He admitted he wasn’t sure he should shake it, given my casting as the Diaper Man. I said ‘It all right, I’ve wiped my hands.'
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by Dale Jarviston April 9, 2012, 12:00 am Comments are off
ICT (Costa Rica Tourism Board) just put out an ingenius marketing campaign for the Costa Rica vacations sector.
Upon releasing “The Gift of Happiness” campaign, members of the tourism board had no clue what was to happen — and from the most improbable place.
In past attempts at marketing the country to other countries like the USA, Canada and Europe, Costa Rica has… well, not much to write home about. This time it wasn’t the same. This time Costa Rica maintained the services of USA based marketing agency, 22squared and would tap the same demographic that helped elect a president!
Social Media marketing has grown in to an super formidable marketing medium as more people begin to see it’s true power.
Senor Sloth is the main crowd-puller in the Gift of Happiness campaign and he would make a buzz unlike anything before with respect to Costa Rica marketing.
Never before has there been such a fantastic ambassador for the Costa Rica vacations and tourism area like Mr. Sloth.
Mr. Sloth represents life in Costa Rica all it includes… caring and worry-free. Which shines through on all the commercials starring Mr. Sloth. He is becoming a little vip.
ICT certified Costa Rica travel agency spokesperson, Casey Halloran had this to say:
“We’ve been seeing tremendous growth in the Costa Rica vacations packages we provide however as of late (thanks in part to Mr.Sloth) we’ve seen spectacular exposure for our country throughout the international arena.”
With the words of “pura vida” going viral across the web, Costa Rica’s representative, Mr. Sloth laments the reasons why so many North Americans and Europeans alike, travel here every year.
Pristine and untouched are words associated with Costa Rica. Costa Rica has been recognized as one of the planet’s most important and delicate eco-environments and for this reason, thousands of tourists flock here each year.
Did you know Costa Rica has 5% of the planet’s plants and animals?
At least this is what Mr. Sloth states to be accurate.
There is a selection of things to try while visiting Costa Rica. A popular one is the fantastic blue water fishing they have. Every year there are prominent blue water fishing competitions where sport fishing fans comes from all over the world to enjoy some of the finest Costa Rica fishing vacations in the world.
With an amazing array of fish species, Costa Rica has become a magnet for sport fishing enthusiasts, claims Chris Atkins of Costa Rica Fishing Pros.
“In fact, just a few weeks ago we had a client land an awesome 923lb black marlin.”, said Atkins.
Of the variety of things to do in Costa Rica, another super fun activity is zip-lining.
The sport of zip-lining is very popular with tourists looking for that different adventure of soaring through the tree tops of the rain-forest. It’s the nearest you’ll ever feel to an eagle as it softly brushes the tree tops as it glides about.
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(Re)Covered VI: More Covers of and from Freak Folk, Gillian Welch, James Taylor, and Boxing Songs
July 2nd, 2008 — 05:43 pm
A long weekend of solo parenting while my wife headed off to Sonoma County for a long-overdue vacation has left me too exhausted for deep thought. Happily, thanks to reader emails, new releases and new discoveries, I’ve got plenty of material for yet another installment of our popular (Re)Covered series, wherein we recover songs that dropped through the cracks too late to make it into the posts where they belonged.
A few weeks back, when my laptop went kablooie, Jamie — host of the ever-miraculous coverblog Fong Songs — stepped in to save the day with a fascinating guest themepost on Boxing coversongs. Jamie is one of the good guys, and he’s been a great friend since we started Cover Lay Down, giving me an open invitation to share the occasional non-folk set of covers over at his place, and even encouraging his own readers to take advantage of our great promotion for artist-friendly music source Amie Street. So I was thrilled when his guest post turned out to be one of the most popular posts we’ve had here at Cover Lay Down. You guys have good taste.
As a tip of the hat to this fine coverblogging peer, here’s two more covers of that most obvious Simon and Garfunkel classic from a few great women on the edge of the folkworld: the slow but bright post-country popfolk of Deana Carter (with vocals from Paul Simon’s eldest son), and a surprisingly old-timey take from Emmylou Harris just dripping with tight countryfolk harmony.
Deana Carter w/ Harper Simon, The Boxer (orig. Simon and Garfunkel)
Emmylou Harris, The Boxer (ibid.)
Though our Subgenre Coverfolk feature on Freak Folk is long past, I continue to struggle with Freak Folk and its relationship to folk music writ large. I called it a subgenre when I blogged about it, but the lines around it remain fuzzy, and the question of whether this counts as folk or not remains too entwined with the new indie usurpation of the term “folk” for me to feel totally confident, even now, that I got it right.
Looking back, I think I agree that Iron and Wine probably doesn’t belong in the roster, despite critical clumping, though I continue to believe that Sufjan shares more sensibility with Devendra Banhart, both as a performer and as a composer, than, say, Vetiver, who tend towards the electronic end of things. But looking at my ever-growing roster of song, I would have no problem including both “chamber pop” singer Antony and the Johnsons and “dream-folk” singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler in any feature on Freak Folk as a subgenre of folk music if I was to post it today. In addition to sharing Banhart’s peculiar wavery lyrical delicacy, both go for a swim of sound which is mystical and grand and personal all at once. It’s eminently folk, and eminently authentic. Freak Folk may be hard to describe, but this music matches my sense of what it is.
Antony and the Johnsons, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (orig. Bob Dylan)
Marissa Nadler, Famous Blue Raincoat (orig. Leonard Cohen)
Marissa Nadler, Cortez the Killer (orig. Neil Young)
In the comments section of what was otherwise a pretty thorough exploration-through-covers of the songs of Gillian Welch way back in January, several folks mentioned that Over the Rhine covers Orphan Girl live in concert. Having just become a fan of these post-folkers after hearing (and reviewing) their holiday album, I spent the next few months gathering in bootlegs, and — though the piano is a little heavy in spots — have come to the conclusion that the “official” version from their Live from Nowhere, Vol. 2 album remains the best recording of a great, fleshed-out anthemic approach to this song.
While we’re on the subject, how about another couple of covers of and from the mistress of the new “American Primitive” movement? It’s a little to the left of center, as folk goes, but I just love this americana/ alt-country cover of Look at Miss Ohio from newcomers The New Frontiers. And I’ve been looking for an excuse to post Welch’s dreamy cover of Townes Van Zandt’s Pancho and Lefty for ages, since it combines one of my favorite songs with one of my absolute famous performers. (PS: Gillian Welch’s entire catalog is newly available at Amie Street, too…)
Over The Rhine, Orphan Girl (orig. Gillian Welch)
The New Frontiers, Look at Miss Ohio (ibid.)
Gillian Welch, Pancho and Lefty (orig. Townes van Zandt)
Finally, we’ve been slamming the feedreaders this week over at collaborative music blog Star Maker Machine with our Fifty States theme: I missed the Massachusetts connection, but was happy to provide a few great songs (originals and covers) for the likes of Rhode Island (Erin McKeown, Blossom Dearie, Jennifer O’Connor), North Dakota (Lyle Lovett), New Jersey (John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt), and Virginia (Johnny Cash, Dave Alvin, and Crooked Still).
The planning process took me back to our Carolina Coverfolk series week; while I was there, I found I had missed a few great songs. I ended up choosing a favorite John Hartford song about North Carolina for Star Maker Machine. But since we’re looking back, here’s an old kidsong from North Carolina tradsong savior Doc Watson, and one more Sam Cooke cover from North Carolina emigrant James Taylor, that really shouldn’t have been missed….plus a bonus pair: local singer-songwriter and labor activist Tom Juravich with a true campfire folk cover of James Taylor’s Millworker, and a cover of Fire and Rain by alt-rock/pop/folk artist Dido, just because it made me totally rethink her musicianship.
Doc Watson, My Grandfather’s Clock (trad.)
James Taylor, Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha (orig. Sam Cooke)
Dido, Fire and Rain (orig. James Taylor)
Tom Juravich, Millworker (ibid.)
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Coming soon on Cover Lay Down: more folk covers of plenty more popstars, a tribute to my elder child (who turns six in a week and a half), something vaguely patriotic, and a few more single-track cover featurettes from some great new albums and artists which I just can’t seem to shake, and wouldn’t want to. And it’s only two more weeks until Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival!
Still here? Then P.S. and FYI, coverfans:
I don’t usually promote upcoming radio shows/podcasts, but the folks at The Waiting Room, a radio show out of Cardiff, Wales (UK), will feature three hours of Tom Waits covers on tonight’s broadcast. Their Drunk Covers series is generally good, with vast genre influences, and there’s been a spate of Waits covers around this year…so expect to hear some Tom Waits covertracks you’ve heard here in the last few months…and a whole bunch more you haven’t. The show is broadcast on ErrorFM, which can be heard everywhere; podcast available here on Thursday!
If you haven’t been to Covering the Mouse recently, now’s the time: friend and occasional reciprocal guest-poster Kurtis will be celebrating his one year bloggiversary this month, and to honor the occasion, he’s collecting votes on your favorite past posts for a midsummer review of the best and worst Disney covers. Make your mark: vote now!
I’m not thrilled about Doveman’s cover of the entire soundtrack to Footloose, but My Old Kentucky Blog seems okay with it. Maybe you’ll like it. It’s free…
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Strawberry Sunday: Berry Coversongs from Michelle Shocked, Bruce Cockburn, Sarah Harmer & more!
June 22nd, 2008 — 10:40 am
The world was ripe after weeks of waiting, so we ushered in the solstice with a trip to the U-Pick farm just up the hill. One hour and seventeen pounds of sweet, deep red berries later, we staggered home bearing summer’s first bounty, our fingers stained, our knees dirty, our mouths sweet with the first fruit of summer.
Since then, we’ve eaten more than we could count, and given away a good quart or two more. My wife cut half a flat and set it in the deep freeze, sprinkled with sugar, ready for a midsummer jam session; the kids helped make a strawberry Bavarian cream pie with a shortcake crust. The rhubarb that grows wild in the front yard is looking more and more tempting by the minute. I ate a hundred strawberries, says the younger one, and though she cannot count, she’s not far off.
Around here, summer means many things: birthdays, barbecue, summer wheat beers, hot afternoon car rides to out favorite local state park swimming holes. And music festivals, of course: last week’s feature on Falcon Ridge Folk Fest (July 24-27) was the first of several; stay tuned this week for a preview of fave local bluegrass fest Grey Fox.
But the wheat beers are overeager, arriving in Spring to help us train our tastebuds for June. Music happens year-round, but like birthdays, the festivals come and go throughout. And we’re the kind of folks who take out the grill the moment the last snow fades from the earth.
Fresh local strawberries, on the other hand, mean summer is finally here. Ripe, juicy, and delicious. Dripping down our chins, staining our shirts. Summer itself, plucked fresh from the vine.
Lawrence Juber, Strawberry Fields Forever (orig. The Beatles)
(from LJ Plays The Beatles)
Ben Harper, Strawberry Fields Forever (orig. The Beatles)
(from the I Am Sam soundtrack; more Ben Harper here)
Holly Kirby, Strawberry Wine (orig. Deana Carter)
(via Youtube; more Holly Kirby here)
Michelle Shocked w/ Doc Watson, Jerry Douglas, and Mark O’Connor, Strawberry Jam (trad.)
(from Arkansas Traveler)
Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer, Strawberry Roan (trad.)
(from The Bramble and the Rose)
And since the pickings are slim for strawberry covers, here’s some bonus berry/tinyfruit coversongs from the folkworld, while we’re at it:
Bruce Cockburn, Blueberry Hill (orig. Fats Domino)
(from Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner In Timbuktu)
Michelle Shocked, Blackberry Blossom (trad.)
(as above)
Sarah Harmer, Home Soon (The Cherry Song) (orig. Oh Susannah)
(from the out-of-print Sweetheart Love Songs: 2004; more Sarah Harmer here)
Colin Meloy, Cherry Tree Carol (trad.)
(from the tour-only EP Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins; more Meloy/The Decemberists here)
Maria Sangiolo, The Cherry Tree Carol (ibid.)
(from Wonderland: A Winter Solstice Celebration; more Maria Sangiolo here)
Bluehouse, I Heard It Through The Grapevine (orig. Marvin Gaye)
(from These Days)
First and foremost, the purpose of Cover Lay Down is to spread the word about amazing artists, that we might support the future of folk music. As always, if you like what you hear, follow the links above to artist and label preferred webstores for samples, bios, tour schedules, and online options for purchase. Remember, folks: buying music from local and artist-direct sources supports diversity in the garden.
PS: If anyone knows of a good folk cover of Raspberry Beret, I’d love to hear it. (No, Hindu Love Gods is emphatically NOT folk music.)
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Compact cameras making a comeback
AFTER looking like they’d be consigned to history by smartphones and their increasingly able cameras, compact cameras are making a comeback. With bigger sensors, vastly improved image quality, and an array of new user-friendly features, they’re once more able to justify their place in your pocket or bag. The cameras we will be looking at are:
THE camera’s combination of touch screen, dedicated exposure compensation dial and clicking control dial around the lens give a high degree of direct control for such a small camera and Canon’s iterative, evolutionary approach to camera interfaces.
The PowerShot G7 X is designed for photographers who want the power, control and even the image quality of a D-SLR, but in a camera small enough to fit in a pocket.
The G7 X is so interesting. It uses a 1-inch sensor big enough to produce great images but small enough to allow a camera design that can easily fit into a pocket.
Olympus Stylus SH-1
THE Stylus SH-1 is the world’s only digital compact camera to feature 5-axis optical image stabilisation for both stills and full HD videos and features a leather-look grip and metal body, with plenty of dials and buttons for quick handling.
Aside from classic looks, the SH-1 features a 24x optical zoom, which offers an equivalent of 25mm to 600mm (in 35mm terms) and a 16 million pixel sensor. Other specifications include a three-inch touchscreen and inbuilt Wi-Fi.
AS connected cameras go, the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 is an example of one done well. Having Android 4.3, dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi with NFC, powerful processing, and a big, beautiful touch screen makes for a very good shoot-and-share experience. It delivers the app and connectivity options of your smartphone, but with the shooting flexibility of a long zoom lens.
For the Galaxy Camera 2, Samsung went with basically the same main characters — a 21x-zoom wide-angle lens, 16-megapixel backside-illuminated sensor, and a giant 4.8-inch HD touch screen
Panasonic Lumix LF1
THE Panasonic Lumix DMC-LF1 is a premium compact digital camera with an electronic viewfinder, a 7x zoom lens, full range of manual shooting modes and RAW file support. The LF1 offers a 7x, 28-200mm f/2.0-5.9 zoom lens, large 1/1.7-inch 12 megapixel MOS sensor, integrated 0.2” electronic viewfinder, 3-inch rear LCD display, 10fps burst shooting, an ISO range of 80-12,800 and 1920×1080 50i Full HD movie recording. The LF1’s multi-function lens ring and rear control wheel provide full control over the aperture and shutter speed range, and there’s both Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity built-in.
Sony Cyber-shot RX100 III
A GREAT electronic viewfinder that doesn’t increase the size of the svelte Sony Cyber-shot RX100 III is one of the camera’s highlights. Plus it offers excellent performance, photo and video quality.
Because the camera incorporates the newer Bionz X processing engine, you get some enhanced features over the M2, including Lock-On (tracking) autofocus and adjustable autofocus area size. For video shooting, it incorporates the higher bitrate 50Mbps XAVC S codec in addition to the veteran AVCHD and MP4 codecs; a dual-video record mode that will let you shoot low-resolution video for wireless upload alongside the better-quality video; Zebra (tonal clipping indicator); and clean HDMI output. Because Sony expects it to be used for video, it also has the Intelligent Active Mode IS, which compensates for shooting while walking, though it’s missing a mic input.
THE Fujifilm XQ1 is an advanced compact camera that offers a 12 megapixel 2/3-type X-Trans CMOS II sensor with built-in Phase Detection pixels and no low-pass filter, a 4x, 25-100mm, f/1.8-4.9 zoom lens with optical image stabilisation and a control ring, a Lens Modulation Optimiser which automatically corrects diffraction blur, 1080p movie recording at 60fps, fast hybrid auto-focus system (0.06 seconds), Wi-Fi connectivity, 12fps burst shooting and a 3-inch LCD monitor with a resolution of 920,000 dots. Other key features of the Fujifilm XQ1 include an ISO range of 100-12,800, full range of manual controls, Focus Peaking for easier manual focusing, raw image capture and development, an integrated manual pop-up flash, a range film simulation modes and creative effects, 360° motion panoramas, 3cm macro mode and an electronic level gauge.
iphone 6 and 6 plus
ANDROID fans have been enjoying the extra-large screens of phablets for several years, and it appears Apple took notice. At its latest smartphone event, Apple unveiled a pair of new smartphones, including the supersized iPhone 6 Plus. It’s the biggest iPhone yet and marks Apple’s first foray into wild world of phablets.
Inside, the iPhone 6 Plus has the same A8 system-on-a-chip as the smaller iPhone 6, and basically every other feature remains the same between the two. One key addition here is optical image stabilization for the rear-facing camera, which is even more necessary with such a large device. The iOS 8 software is mostly the same, but adds support for dual-pane apps and horizontal home screens.
Built on 64-bit desktop-class architecture, the new A8 chip delivers more power, even while driving a larger display. The M8 motion coprocessor efficiently gathers data from advanced sensors and a new barometer. And with increased battery life, iPhone 6 lets you do more, for longer than ever.
More people take more photos with iPhone than with any other camera. And now the iSight camera has a new sensor with Focus Pixels and new video features, like 1080p HD at 60 fps, slo-mo at 240 fps, and time-lapse video mode. So you’ll have more reasons to capture more moments on video, too.
iphone 6 has faster LTE download speeds,* and it supports more LTE bands than any other smartphone so you can roam in more places. And when connected to Wi-Fi, you’ll get up to 3x faster speeds.
The breakthrough Touch ID technology lets you securely access your iPhone with the perfect password: your fingerprint. You can also use it to approve purchases from iTunes, iBooks, and the App Store without having to enter your password.
Apple Pay combines the convenience and security of Touch ID and Passbook with NFC technology. So you can use iPhone 6 to pay in stores and within apps with a single touch.
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Top smartphones of 2014
2014 was quite the year for smartphones. Just when it looked like they had plateaued in all the key areas, phone-makers hit us with several amazing handsets during the last few months of the year. Read a general synopsis of these flagships.
As phablets continue to become the norm, perhaps it’s appropriate that the quintessential phablet took a big step forward this year. At first glance the Galaxy Note 4 may look like a minor update over its predecessor, but it’s Samsung’s focus on the finer details – especially its more responsive S Pen – that make it one of the best mobile devices we’ve used.
Apple iPhones 6 and 6 Plus
Apple finally joined the big smartphone party in 2014, and what an entrance it was. The 4.7-in iPhone 6 and 5.5-in iPhone 6 Plus combine three of Apple’s favorite things: light, thin and aluminum. Combine that with excellent cameras, Touch ID fingerprint sensors and iOS 8, and you have Apple’s two best phones – by a very wide margin.
Motorola Moto X (2nd-gen)
Motorola may not be as popular as Apple or Samsung, but the transitional company (Google recently sold it to Lenovo) delivered one hell of a handset in the 2nd-generation Moto X. It doesn’t break as much new ground as its 2013 predecessor, but it does combine the same core ingredients with higher-end specs and aggressive pricing.
HTC didn’t reinvent the wheel with the One (M8), but it did manage to improve upon its excellent 2013 predecessor. With a curvy and premium aluminum design, along with HTC’s subtle and sophisticated Sense 6 UI, the M8 still holds up well nine months after its launch.
Google/Motorola Nexus 6
Motorola had several big releases in the last few months, and none were bigger (in a literal sense) than the Nexus 6. The Lollipop-running handset is as much small tablet as it is big phone, with a screen that’s about 9 percent bigger than the Galaxy Note’s. And though Google axed the bargain bin pricing we saw in the Nexus 5, the Nexus 6 is still a little cheaper than its rivals from Apple and Samsung.
LG’s latest flagship has a dazzling Quad HD display, a great balance between phone size and screen size, and one of the best cameras of any phone we handled this year, with its laser-based auto-focus.
Samsung Galaxy S5: Though it was later upstaged by the Note 4, the GS5 is still one of the top flagships of the year, with its impressive camera and IP67 water resistance.
Courtesy of Gizmag
New BlackBerry Classic
If you’re willing to trade screen size for a superior physical keyboard, the BlackBerry Classic is a fantastic productivity phone for old-school QWERTY junkies.
The phone is similar in design to the early BlackBerry phones, with a qwerty keypad, track pad and a relatively small screen of 3.5 inches. The company said the phone is an upgrade of the BlackBerry Bold 9900, but with a three times faster browser, 60 percent more screen space and 50 percent longer battery life.
The Classic runs BlackBerry 10.3.1 and a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm processor and comes with 2GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage plus a microSD card slot, an 8 megapixel back camera and 2 megapixel front camera. It will support both BlackBerry apps as well as Android apps from the Amazon store. The Classic also comes with BlackBerry Blend, to extend messages and notifications to the desktop, and BlackBerry Assistant with voice and text commands to manage a personal calendar, contacts and messages.
The BlackBerry Classic is now available through local carriers around the world and online through ShopBlackBerry.com and Amazon.com.
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A Conversation: Cordy Ryman
I recently saw my first Ryman pieces in person at the Dallas Art Fair. Dodge Gallery had a piece made of 2 x 4’s, painted and hanging on the wall. There was also a corner piece comprised of stacked 2x4’s painted with soft, shiny colors. Upon closer inspection of the corner piece I noticed hand writing that indicated some sort of possible measurement. I couldn’t tell because Ryman had cut the wood off before the information could be fully retained. But the markings were just enough to show his hand. I mean this in both that it injected the work with a very direct connection to the artist in what could otherwise be mistaken to be a minimalist corner sculpture and it also showed his hand in the sense of a “reveal”, exposing the transparency of the process of making that Ryman is so willing to offer. After mounting his first solo show with Dodge Gallery, Adaptive Radiation, and just finishing up a public commission at Michigan State University, Ryman and I had a conversation. - Arthur Peña, Dallas Contributor
Cordy Ryman | Adaptive Radiation, 2013, installation view
Arthur Peña: Can you talk about the “life” of the materials you use? Everything seems to play a specific role in your work.
Cordy Ryman | ES Spiral Trim Maze, 2013, acrylic and enamel on wood, 48 x 48 x 2.5 inches
Cordy Ryman | ES Spiral Trim Maze (detail), 2013, acrylic and enamel on wood, 48 x 48 x 2.5 inches
Cordy Ryman: The materials are all from my studio: either chopped up pieces of returned installations, cast offs that were produced as a result of making specific installations, parts of works that were removed for whatever reason or lumber used as saw horses and the like. I love materials and I save everything. The pieces and the wood are all recycled but not recycled in the conventional sense where the materials are broken down, homogenized and reformed as new. These pieces are reused and reassembled but retain their own individuality and material integrity so to speak. Once assembled they are then re-painted and tweaked to help build a new viable entity, I hope. I’m not saving and recycling as a part of any ecological manifesto. Though I'm not opposed to any of that but it’s not really why it came to be.
In the 90’s I used to work with a lot of found materials and was a big dumpster diver type. I would drag a bunch of stuff in off the street then tried to make art out of it. Over time and as I worked and produced more stuff I slowly started re-using the materials that were spun out of my own working process and then later started recycling my own older works at times.
Cordy Ryman | Pantastic, 2013, acrylic and enamel on wood, 17 x 10 x 4 inches
The main practical seed to all this being that for me, my process has usually been sparked by "reacting" and used materials with a built in history always seemed more interesting and richer. They have a life and vitality already built in. Starting a piece from a clean stretched canvas has always been daunting and difficult. If the canvas already has some scratches or marks it was easier for me to "start."
Cordy Ryman |Adaptive Radiation, 2013, installation view. (L) Case Study, (R) Rafterweb Scrapwall V2
AP: B. Wurtz told me once that Tuttle had once told him that if you give respect to an object, it will return it tenfold. Romantic, I know but there's something to that, right?
Cordy Ryman | Case Study, 2013, acrylic, shellac and pencil on wood116 x 178 x 26.5 inches
CR: I had not heard the Tuttle quote, but it makes sense and I agree in spirit.
AP: I think maybe that this respect has to do with recognizing the integrity of a material/object. You do this very well. We can call it generosity I suppose but I just think you don't pull any punches. Your work doesn't hide how it was made.
Cordy Ryman | 04 Cubed Leaner Trim, 2013, acrylic, enamel and hardware on plastic and wood, 24 x 23.5 x 2 inches
Cordy Ryman | 04 Cubed Leaner Trim (detail), 2013, acrylic, enamel and hardware on plastic and wood, 24 x 23.5 x 2 inches
CR: I usually don't hide how something is made but that being said I don't have any hard rules so I might from time to time.
AP: What do you think someone who sees your work can get out of your approach to making? Do you want there to be a difference between how one might experience a painting versus a site specific piece like your corner pieces?
Cordy Ryman | Triple Cop-Out, 2013, acrylic, enamel and shellac on wood, 20 x 20 x 3 inches
CR: I don’t really think of it in terms of what the viewer should get out of it. Each piece is a bit different but my overall goal isn’t viewer centric. I do hope that they are enjoyed and experienced in some way.
I want the piece to feel like its own unique entity, hopefully one that has maybe more than one aspect and is there for someone to look and think about for more than a few seconds. I hope that each piece can somehow manage to have a life of its own in a way and spark different experiences at different times. Often when I rework, take apart, reassemble or recycle a piece it’s because the original piece has somehow lost its life force in a way and it becomes clear to me that it won’t in fact have that life, so it needs to be revived. Don’t get me wrong, I know they are not living things but to me they feel alive when they "work" and they feel like magical little things that somehow will have a life if someone hangs it and looks at it casually day after day.
Cordy Ryman | Adaptive Radiation, 2013, installation view. (L) Beam Grid- White, (R) Christmas Staff, 2009-2013, shellac and enamel on wood, 70.5 x 3 inches
When I approach a unique space it’s more about what can survive or flourish here or what will react in an interesting way. If that works than the viewer by default will get something from it if they are into that sort of thing. If they like paintings of sunsets then they probably won’t be too interested, which is fine.
AP: Do you find it more challenging for a work to have a “life force” of its own when it’s done on a large scale?
CR: The larger works seem to have that force when installed. But once they return and they are leaned, stacked and or wrapped for storage I don't feel that. That's when they usually get chopped up and recycled. The smaller works when returned wrapped and stored usually remain more safely cocooned but these can get redone at times as well.
Cordy Ryman | Rafterweb Scrapwall V2, 2012-2013, acrylic, shellac and enamel on wood, 30 x 10 feet, variable
AP: Do you think the frame of the stretcher that resides within the smaller work has something to do with them retaining their force?
CR: I don’t think its framing as much as scale and structural elements. Smaller works tend to be single, rectangular or square-ish units and therefore self-contained. The larger and architectural works tend to be made up of components that are assembled on site to make a viable whole. Once disassembled and/or removed from the space that they react to, like a corner or whatever, they no longer have the same feel and become fair game for reassembling/reworking/reviving.
AP: In your current show, Adaptive Radiation at Dodge Gallery, is “Clacker clacker!” made of previous works?
Cordy Ryman | Clacker Clacker!, 2013, acrylic, marker and woo, Dimensions variable
CR: No. It was made for that show. I didn't know how I would use it exactly. It can go tight stacked up sort of so that the lines connect and make a cool pattern or unfold to any length sort of like those old style wooden rulers. I knew it was going to bridge the two spaces and be a visual transition between the two areas.
AP: Do you approach paint and the act of painting in that same way? The way you used paint in Adaptive Radiation seems so meditative and purposeful. I’m thinking of “7 at hand” and “Tired fingers” specifically. The paint seems like it was used for the purpose of filling space similar to the way you explained how “Clacker clacker!” could expand into the space of the gallery.
Cordy Ryman | Tired Fingers, 2013, acrylic and wood on wood, 14 x 11.5 x 4 inches
Cordy Ryman | 7 at Hand, 2013, acrylic, enamel and shellac on wood, 17 x 16 x 1.5 inches
CR: I think I approach painting in a number of different ways. I almost always work on multiple things at once so nothing gets too precious. I’ll generally have 2-3 paintings going that are somehow related to each other or rather I start 1 then 2 more spin off. Since I'm always afraid I'm going to pigeon hole myself or fall too in love with a certain thing I’ll start working on 1-2 things that are totally different or opposite almost just to reassure myself I can go back if I want.
Cordy Ryman | 7 at Hand (detail), 2013, acrylic, enamel and shellac on wood, 17 x 16 x 1.5 inches
For example, I’ll work on a few very loose things that are almost improvised stream of consciousness type paintings then be freaked out and have to start something more ridged and planned. Then I’ll sort of bounce between the 2-5 paintings based on my mood and often will make decisions on painting #1 out of the corner of my eye while working on painting #2.
Some paintings work out and resolve quickly and almost seem like gifts while others get worked on over and over.
AP: What have you learned from making your work?
CR: I can say that I'm aware that I'm working with a certain visual language which is shared and not mine exclusively. As I've used this language over the last 20 years or so I've been amazed that this language has a sort of innate flexibility and infinite scope. It can fit any mood, time, and place and always find its own honest cords without being overly contrived.
Cordy Ryman | ES Trim Hatch and Coil, 2013, acrylic and enamel on wood, 35.5 x 35.5 x 3 inches
Over time my own personal vocabulary within that language continues to expand. I've gotten technically better at some things, probably. My comfort zone shifts from time to time and I get seduced periodically by certain solutions which is always a danger if I stay too long. But as I continue, more and more solutions come up leaving me with a deeper bag of tricks so to speak. Some moves are like old friends and will ALWAYS look and feel right to me. Other moves are like exciting new acquaintances which I want to see again but don’t know exactly what I think of yet.
I think I’m learning all the time. I’m not changing the world but I am involved with a deep dialogue with myself, maybe with history and maybe with others that share a connection to this weird language that I’m working with. Over time I think my vocabulary/proficiency has increased and my confidence has increased which enables me to do more interesting works than I could have done in 1993. But at same time I wouldn't be shocked if some of the 1993 works have a quality that I cannot duplicate the same way.
“Adaptive Radiation” is on view through May 12 at Dodge Gallery in New York City.
Cordy Ryman was born in 1971 in New York, NY. He received his BFA, with honors, from the School of Visual Fine Arts/Art Education in 1997. His work has been exhibited widely at public institutions including PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY; Visual Arts Center, New Jersey, NJ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY; Esbjerg Museum of Modern Art, Esbjerg, Denmark. Gallery exhibitions include DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL; Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, Denmark; Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Koln, Germany; and Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden. Ryman was the 2006 recipient of the Helen Foster Barnett Prize from the National Academy Museum. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, BOMB Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, and Time Out NY. In the spring of 2013, Ryman will install a large public commission at Michigan State University. His work is in the collection of the Microsoft Art Collection, Raussmuller Collection, Rubell Family Collection, The Speyer Family Collection, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. Ryman lives and works in New York, NY.
Arthur Peña is an artist, writer and professor living and working in Dallas, TX.
All images are courtesy of Cordy Ryman and Dodge Gallery. Photo credit: Jason Mandella
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Cordy Ryman
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Culture Cafe
The Culture Café "World Peace Through Cultural Celebration"
America is at the center of the world. Americans produce and consume a huge portion of everything produced and consumed in the entire earth. American culture dominates every household in any country with a TV, radio, or CD player. Madonna, U2 and the Rolling Stones sell millions of records worldwide. The world emulates the US. So why would any American be interested in music and culture from the rest of the world?
Most of the musical traditions of America came originally from Mediterranean Europe and Africa. Folk music, jazz, rock and roll, it all is based on music from somewhere else. Most of the original traditions of this nation of immigrants originated somewhere else. Most people can feel the music from their homeland, once they hear it played with feeling. It will make you laugh, or cry or dance uncontrollably.
The idea behind The Culture Café is to listen to the roots of our own music, as well as understand what has become of the music since we left it behind. Traditional African music has morphed into a myriad of new sizes and shapes, each country and each region of each country has developed its own music.
You might think the rest of the world is still beating on steel drums and wooden logs and Alan Lomax is still doing field recordings. On the contrary, recently, most of the high tech production methods have been established in the home countries. Senegal, Indonesia, and Brazil are home to some of the best production companies in the world. So the music being produced in these countries is often of the highest quality. Electric guitars and synthesized effects have changed the music profoundly. Traditions locked away on the world's back roads are being discovered and recorded by people like Baaba Maal, David Byrne, and David Lindley.
Everything's changing. Every week we receive new releases from groundbreaking groups like France's Paris Combo and Spain's Radio Tarifa. New musicians are discovered constantly in the churning market for World Music. Peter Gabriel's Realworld studios bring together musicians from all over the world to dialogue in rhythm and melody. The results are sent to the Culture Café where we review them weekly.
There's no way to be bored with this music, either. Here are a few of the traditions of music you can hear on the show:
Cuban Son
Native American Cedar Flute Mexican Rock
Brazilian Jazz
Suomi Folk
Gypsy Jazz and Swing Flamenco
Brazilian Samba
Pow-Wow Drumming
Bulgarian Women's Choirs
Israeli Folk Iranian Classical
South African Township Jive Soukous
Algerian Rai
Andean Panpipe Folk
Nigerian Juju
Russian Balalaika
Please join us every Sunday morning. We go far. We travel deep into the countrysides.
We listen closely. And most of all, we have fun and celebrate the cultures of the world.
Brian Grosjean
World Music Director, WWUH Radio
"World Peace Through Cultural Celebration"
91.3FM from the University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Ave, West Hartford, CT 06117
Email: culturecafe913@yahoo.com
Click here for the official Culture Café website.
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Yet another story of undisclosed conflict of interest.� When that happens in a bankruptcy case, it is a fraud upon the court and a felony crime.� Incarceration is mandated when a lawyer defrauds a court.� Consider what happens when false testimony is given by non-lawyers:� Martha Stewart was put in jail.� That is also what happened to Little Kim.
Oh, but there is more.� Failing to disclose a conflict is a serious crime even if everything else was kosher.� Oh, but there is more.� Dan Rather would have spotted the fabricated documents that were also filed in this case by the same lawyers.� The truth is a stubborn thing.� So are a number of people who will never rest until the organized crime operators in the bankruptcy industry are brought to justice.
� All of the documents here in the Baron's Stores category are part of a simple and obvious scandal which will not go away.� Have you seen the television show "The Mole"?� Well, the reason why Congress wrote into law that lawyers for a bankrupt entity can't have any conflicts, and must disclose them, is that otherwise those lawyers could steal the company and give it to their conflicted clients.� You see, a crooked lawyer could pretend that they are working for their bankrupt client, when in reality the corrupt lawyers efforts could be to benefit an opposing party (their conflicted client).� Such sleezy lawyers would be acting like a spy, like a secret agent on the inside, violating all of their oaths to the Courts, the bar, and the Constitution.
�� Look at the documents as filed in the Baron's Stores related matters.� There was a plan prepared under the direction of management, agreed to and signed by management/owners in which they would have received something and preserved their rights against other third parties.� Apparantly, that plan mysteriously disappeared and instead was secretly replaced with a different plan by their hired lawyers who simultaneously held secret undisclosed loyalties to conflicted parties.� The unauthorized plan eliminated any recovery for the management/owners and eliminated their chances at pursuing their claims against certain third parties.� Sure, in some bankruptcy cases it can happen that management is removed from power and replaced by an official trustee.� But that didn't happen in the Baron's Stores case! � So there was no authority for the estate's lawyers to file a Plan which management did not authorize.
�� You don't have to believe Baron's Stores management that a fraudulent plan was filed with their fabricated signatures, and you don't have to believe bankruptcyMisconduct.com - Just read the sworn testimony (we have it here) of the hired document expert who states that the plan which was filed by the conflicted lawyers and then approved by the Court was a fabricated document.
A Fraud Expert Declares Baron's Filed Plan as "Falsified"hot! 03/29/2009 Hits: 2969
Can someone say "Smokin' Gun"?� You need not take anyone's word but the experts'.� And suddenly the picture is becoming clearer.� Not only do we now have proof of the owners' longstanding allegations that they never agreed to the filed plan and never signed it, the disclosure failure crimes are compounded by this fabrication.� By the way, fabricating a document which might be used in a legal proceeding is one crime, just one count.� Actually filing the false document is another crime.�
� Read the experts clear and understandable opinion.� Then download the documents from bankruptcyMisconduct.com and you can verify it for yourself.
Michael G. Kessler is smarter than Dan Ratherhot! 03/29/2009 Hits: 2990
Michael G. Kessler CrFA, CFE,� DABFA FABFE is a Certified Forensic Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Internal Controls Auditor and works with� Kessler International.� Apparently Mr. Kessler has enough balls to stand up to organized crime and to speak the truth.� I suggest that anyone needing the services of an honorable documents expert contact him.
Criminally Altered Disclosure Statement in Baron'shot! 03/29/2009 Hits: 1487
A more obvious forgery than the Altered Plan.� First, we see again the document version 903 signature page being swapped into the version 904 document.� Second, the criminals had the problem of the page numbers not matching as the 904 document had more pages.� Talk about brazen, they just included two pages #24 and #25.� Attention: Dan Rather - the Department Of Justice might be dumberer than you and if you report on it you might get your old job back.
Criminally Altered Plan in Baron'shot! 03/29/2009 Hits: 1462
Spot the Alteration which makes the document a fabrication and is evidence of the owners long sworn testimony that the Plan that was filed was not the plan which they agreed and signed.
�� Look at page 23, notice how the footer is for the lawfirms printed document ending in 903 yet every other page of the filed plan is for a different document bearing a footer ending in 904.� My goodness, almost as if, some crooked lawyer took the signature page from a prior document and just swapped it for the signature page of entirely different plan.� Everybody understands what is wrong here.� Where is the DOJ?
Original Plan in Baron'shot! 03/29/2009 Hits: 1489
Notice how the page numbering, footer, dates and signatures match.
Original Disclosure Statement in Baron'shot! 03/29/2009 Hits: 1488
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"To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless" [...] --G. Flaubert
Diagram of the human mind, from Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, page 217[1] by Robert Fludd
Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. Although intelligence is sometimes viewed quite broadly, psychologists typically regard the trait as distinct from creativity, personality, character, knowledge, or wisdom.
History of the term
Intelligence derives from the Latin verb intelligere. A form of this verb, intellectus, became the medieval technical term for understanding, and a translation for the Greek philosophical term nous. This term was however strongly linked to the metaphysical and cosmological theories of teleological scholasticism, including theories of the immortality of the soul, and the concept of the Active Intellect (also known as the Active Intelligence). This entire approach to the study of nature was strongly rejected by the early modern philosophers such as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and David Hume, all of whom preferred the word "understanding" in their English philosophical works. Hobbes for example, in his Latin De Corpore, used "intellectus intelligit" (translated in the English version as "the understanding understandeth") as a typical example of a logical absurdity. The term "intelligence" has therefore become less common in English language philosophy, but it has later been taken up (with the scholastic theories which it now implies) in more contemporary psychology.
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Four Fictional Drinks We Want On Store Shelves
Fictional worlds provide us with plenty of amusement, and the made-up inventions of those worlds can be equally entertaining. Yet even with the popularity of 3-D, our other senses are not able to experience everything on screen. Take food and drink as a prime example; in this case, let’s pick drink. How often have you watched a movie or show and wondered what something tasted like, whether it was something exotic from the cantina in Star Wars, any bar in Star Trek or Firefly, or perhaps the Korova Milk Bar in A Clockwork Orange? Some fictional beverages have been marketed in stores, such as Duff Beer (The Simpsons), Slurm (Futurama) and Tru Blood soda (True Blood), and there are plenty of others that have left us wondering, “What if?” Following are four fictional drinks from movies and television that might be fun to grab from store shelves and try in real-life.
All hail the Flaming Moe.
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FLAMING MOE (from The Simpsons) — A drink mixing multiple types of alcohol and children’s cough syrup, then lit on fire? That sounds dangerously delicious, kind of like Jägerbull/Jägerbomb shots on overdrive. This concoction — reportedly made of Tequila, Schnapps, Crème de Menthe and Krusty Non-Narkotik Kough Syrup — started as the Flaming Homer. But the name was changed after Moe the bartender stole the recipe to turn his bar into a popular establishment frequented by rock stars like Aerosmith. While a real-life energy drink was marketed with the name and Moe’s face, it’s just not the same. While we just gave you the recipe, has any bar actually served it? (Okay, I found one, but does anyone know what’s in that Krusty Kough Syrup?) It would be fun to find the Flaming Moe elixir bottled in stores, then you could serve and light it on fire in the safety (or not) of your own home.
ENT-DRAUGHT a la Treebeard (from Lord Of The Rings) — Want to grow a little hair on your head and become taller? Try Treebeard’s version of Ent-Draught, the invigorating, all-natural spring water that heals some, but in this case, really gives you a boost. At least if you’re pint-sized; Merry and Pippin gained three inches and became the tallest Hobbits in the Shire after drinking this stuff. Evidently walking, talking trees know where the best organic drinks are found.
DHARMA COLA (from Lost) — Does anyone even know what’s in Dharma Cola? Other than being part of the generic brand of food and drink found in the various quarters of the Dharma Initiative on The Island, there is little information available on this beverage. But it would still be fun to see this stocked on shelves to confuse shoppers and freak out Lost fans. It would be like buying “Acme Soda”.
Fizzy Lifting fun.
(Image courtesy of Warner Home Video.)
FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) — Want to find a new way to get high? And one that will bring you down gently? Take a few swigs of a Fizzy Lifting Drink, which will have you floating into the air in no time. But remember to burp intermittently, or you might find yourself too far off the ground. Plus a big burp might send you crashing to earth. Either way, it sounds like fun.
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Mirkka Rekola. Photo: Elina Laukkarinen/WSOY
The very title of Mirkka Rekola‘s latest collection of poems, Kohtaamispaikka vuosi (‘Meetingplace the year’, Werner Söderström, 1977), reveals a theme central to Rekola’s poetry: that of unity. The time is the place. ‘I do not imagine I shall meet you this year. / This place will be here in summer.’ Rekola has a particular way of using language of the most intense concentration, so that it brings out unity between a wide variety of moods. ‘I shall meet you this year’ also means that you are this year. ‘This place will be here in the summer’ means that it is autumn and this place (a summer café) will remain deserted until the summer, but also that this place will remain there as the summer.
‘The world, a table already laid, there you see your hunger.’ ‘At the same time a little thirsty and a cowberry.‘ The correspondence of place, the synchrony of season and the general sense of undividedness produce countless pictorial and therefore concrete expressions throughout Rekola’s poetry. ‘I spread my hands / and someone yawned, / I held my fingertips in the breeze / and the boats slid into the water.’ ‘The child said to the old man: you are bent, while I am so little.’ ‘A shout is heard which is no other’s.’ Rekola’s concrete and graphical mode of expression is also based on the same philosophy: ‘Do not make a picture, everything is [a picture]’. ‘The sun, star of the night, introduces the day. And the world is so talkative in its dreams.’
‘He who makes space is a gateway.’ The open gateway is an important image in this collection, as is obvious from the fact that it appears in three of the poems translated below. ‘The gateway is so open towards me / that there is no one inside.’ When the gateway is fully open, there can be no one there. The vision of a person at the gate is a mystical vision. Indeed, Rekola is fundamentally a mystic, who frequently produces surprising associations by means of a paradox: ‘its springtime is day to day, night to night, / it is always so different.’ In this same poem (No. 5 below) Rekola uses the homonym teillä to great effect (kansoitettuna kaikilla teillä in lines 6 and 7): it means both ‘on roads’ and the second person plural of the personal pronoun, i.e. ‘by you’ – thus people are also ‘roads’. In the poem ‘I twist it, I give it meaning’ (No. 7), the purchaser of the ring twists it ilman aikojani (line 18), which in normal usage means ‘idly, absent-mindedly’, but has the literal meaning of ‘without my times’. And the ring in the poem is open, just like the year, and its gateways.
The inseparability of life and death is also apparent in this view of unity. Someone is walking along a path from a chapel of rest (No. 5), someone who is a child again, and some people come towards him; they and the whole town are reflected in his eyes and they all come from that place. Mirkka Rekola’s poetry presents great difficulties for the translator, as is generally the case when a poet makes the fullest possible use of the semantic range of a language. Rekola’s poetry has also proved difficult for critics. The emotive power and liveliness of her language make it impossible to translate her verse into clear concepts and the many meanings hiding in simple everyday language are often as difficult to make out as the transformation tables in a psychology textbook. Like Paavo Haavikko, Rekola has the reputation of being a ‘difficult’ poet.
Mirkka Rekola (born 1931) published her first collection of poems, Vedessä palaa (‘Burning in the water’, Werner Söderström) in 1954. Her view of the tension and polarity in the world is already apparent from the title. This first volume and her next, Tunnit (‘The hours’, Werner Söderström, 1957), were for the most part a tightly controlled and voluntary personal statement, although it was already clear that her sharp and independent image-thought was breaking away from traditional lyric poetry. The dualism of the ego and the world finds expression in her collection Syksy muuttaa linnut (‘Autumn changes the birds’, Werner Söderström, 1961); the two which followed, Ilo ja epäsymmetria (Joy and asymmetry’, Weilin + Göös, 1965) and Anna päivän olla kaikki (‘Let the day be all’, Weilin + Göös, 1968), marked the beginning of her mature period, which placed her among those poets of the first rank who were breathing new strength into language and thought. Her three most recent collections, Minä rakastan sinua, mina sanon sen kaikille (‘I love you, I shall tell everyone’, Werner Söderström, 1972), Tuulen viime vuosi (‘The last year of the wind’, Werner Söderström, 1974) and Kohtaamispaikka vuosi demonstrate her consistent and still-growing creative powers. In her two collections of aphorisms, Muistikirja (‘Notebook’, Werner Söderström, 1969) and Maailmat lumen vesistöissä (‘The worlds in the waters of the snows’, Werner Söderström, 1978), Rekola has revived this genre of Finnish literature, giving it a greater sense of space and movement. An aphorism by Rekola is a flash of thought born of an unexpected juxtaposition of words and their many layers of meaning.
Translated by Susan H. Reynolds
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The Editors: In memoriam Mirkka Rekola 1931–2014 (Authors)
Tero Liukkonen: And yet, after decades (Archives online)
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Mirjam Polkunen (1926–2012) was a major figure in the Finnish literary scene. She worked as an arts journalist for YLE, Finland’s public service broadcaster, and as a dramaturge for nearly a quarter century. She also edited poetry and prose. Mirjam Polkunen began her literary career as a poet.
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Tarja Roinila
The forest, everything
31 March 1998 | Authors, Interviews
Lassi Nummi
Lassi Nummi (1928–2012) considered himself a prose-writer who has strayed into poetry. In a career spanning almost half a century and 25 collections of poetry, his preoccupations, and his central metaphors, remained constant: landscape, trees, bushes, blades of grass. Interview (1997) by Tarja Roinila
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My first encounter with the poet Lassi Nummi came with Maisema (‘Landscape’), a novella which appeared in the same year as his first collection of poetry. The experience was startling. The text delineates the building timbers of his subsequent poetry: trees, bushes, blades of grass. Maisema is a dazzlingly modern work, a complete realisation of something Virginia Woolf wrote in the same year, 1925: ‘Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness.’
When I contact Lassi Nummi to arrange an interview, I am startled once again, for almost in his first words he defines himself as ‘a prose-writer who has strayed into poetry’. Quite an odyssey: 25 collections of poetry, of which the first, Intohimo olemassaoloon (‘A passion for existence’) appeared in 1949 and the most recent, Hengitys yössä (‘Breathing in the night’), in 1995. A volume of Lassi Nummi’s collected poetry from 1980 to 1995 is to appear this year. The first volume, which appeared in 1978, comprises almost 500 pages.
The bright living stream passes through the leaves, sparkles through countless objects, bends into a glittering curve. From nowhere, to nowhere: lightly, astonishingly freely and bravely it gurgles onward: free from the violence of ending and of beginning, from the whirlpool of toward-past-away: on the palm of death, completely born and budding with every new moment. Free of the constriction of outlines: no form, only movement: unconditional being-in-itself. Born in dying without remains, flows to-from-to: close, unattainable, here, now. Flows above me, rinses: I submit, disappear, languish: from the depths, weightless, see for a fleeting moment the gestures of the great branches above, far off, high up.
My gaze sinks again.
When I cautiously suggest that this extract from Maisema might serve as Nummi’s poetics, he exclaims:
‘My world view has regressed fom that stage; that sounds really very appealing now! I am prepared to confess it to be my aesthetic programme. Perhaps, however, I have not been able to realise it very much in my life and work. Perhaps this is one answer to the question of why I became a poet: this sort of instantaneous reflection is very important to me.’
Maisema is above all a visual work. The fundamentality of geometric forms and the fragmented, complex observation bring cubism to mind, while the independent role of colour recalls impressionism. It is also easy to imagine the work as a film in which the camera follows the gaze of the main character, accompanying the topography and moving rapidly from low to high.
‘The use of what might be called a subjective camera was a conscious choice, as is a certain cubist method. Another starting-point was the formal structures of music. I wanted to write about how landscape changes, how it behaves differently at different times – sometimes it is threatening, sometimes it fragments, goes far away, sometimes I see it as surfaces, sometimes as colours.’
There is a story to Maisema, too. A parachutist is dropped in a strange landscape, and it is a shock: he has lost his self and has to rebuild both it and his language.
‘It was the story that freed me to write without a story. The leap into the new made it possible to set out from zero, provided a framework in which I could freely submerge myself and set out to construct language from the very beginning.’
The question of why Lassi Nummi became a poet has recently been giving Lassi Nummi pause for thought. Among the reasons he mentions his many extra-literary tasks.
‘During my “social period” I was on the board of the Writers’ Union, and its chairman from 1969 to 1972; after that I worked for the Uusi Suomi newspaper and for the PEN Club, whose chairman I was from 1983 to 1988. I was a member of the Bible translation committee for the entire period of its existence, 17 years. A completely different choice would have been to become either a Buddhist or a Christian monk, or then to be a really convinced down-and-out- that might have been the most elegant solution. One could have regulated one’s liquid intake, but the freedom of movement would have been pleasant. At the moment I am working out how much of my original conviction is really left. I wonder whether I didn’t write my best texts in 1948 and 1949.’
Nummi’s first work, Intohimo olemassaoloon, has been hailed by many as a flagship of modernism. From a contemporary perspective, this is surprising, particularly in the light of English-language modernism – most of the poems in the collection are metrical, and they are fairly traditional in their imagery. Nummi says he, too, has wondered about this.
‘Intohimo olemassaoloon is definitely more old-fashioned than its reputation. Perhaps I was declared a modernist before there was any real evidence for it. Many people knew about my “peculiar novel”, and perhaps my poetry was read through my prose.’
The imagery, free verse and speech-like quality of modernism form only one strand in Nummi’s work. His central programme is not so much a formal revolution as the cultivation of numerous different poetic forms and traditions. Romantic pastorals and Chinese poetry are visible, for example, in his collection Vuoripaimen (‘Mountain shepherd’), which appeared in the same year as his first work.
‘Vuoripaimen, too, was considered surprisingly modern. It is in the Finnish tradition of free metre. In the end, I am a fairly old-fashioned poet.’
For Nummi, the 1950s marked the search for a synthesis between modernism and traditionalism. The monumental collection Tahdon sinun kuulevan (‘I want you to hear’), which appeared in 1954, had a mixed reception.
‘In some big newspapers it was praised, but my own generation panned it. It was “unsuitably broad”; according to the prevailing aesthetic, a collection of poetry had to be thin and carefully chosen. Perhaps the form of the book as a whole didn’t really work, but the fact that I was defending the place of traditional, rhymed form alongside free and modern poetry may have played its part.
‘The sequence “Chaconne”, which I published in my next collection, Taivaan ja maan merkit (‘Marks of sky and earth’), was a clear turning point; I managed to find a temporary solution to the the problem of modernism and tradition, and the poem also became a synthesis of my world-view up to then. “Chaconne” is written in the form of a stream-of-consciousness monologue, and it has strongly romantic elements.’
‘Chaconne’ was written in four days, something which surprised even the poet himself. Nummi, who generally characterises himself as ‘deliberate and purposeful’, is nevertheless cautious in speaking of inspiration.
Nummi has a living relationship with metre, and finding a new metre has often been the prime force behind a poem or collection.
‘That is what happened with my first poem with “free hexameters”, which I wrote in 1956; in it, the metre came to me all at once, as a gift. The poem was not published until Portaikko pilvissä (‘A stairway in the clouds’), as its opening poem, in 1992, but it is still an anomaly in my work as a whole: it is a visionary, surrealist poem that somehow horrifies me, but may – who knows – be a prologue to what I write in the future. That is, if I go on writing poetry; it may be that the future is nothing but prose….’
Diversity is visible in Nummi’s poetry both in the richness of literary taditions and on the religious level. His nature poetry is characterised by pantheism, his love poetry addresses both the loved one and divinity. Wonderment, opening up to the world, is at one extreme the anxiety brought by emptiness and at the other a visionary moment of meaning.
‘I suppose I must be a fairly simple person, since the wonder of existence continues to amaze me. It always seems to be the same basic experience, even though there are differences in tone and aroma.
‘The “Chaconne” sequence is also a synthesis in the religious sense. The charismatic Christian background of my parents is present, but “Lord Christ” comes from Lorca: through Jarno Pennanen’s Lorca translations I realised that I could put it into a poem. A Christian interpretation is present in my texts as one possibility. There is much between the dogmatic Christ and the humanised Christ: teacher, proclaimer of love, victim, crucifix. I think the cross is present in many of my trees, although I do not sense that image in the trees of Maisema.’
The Editors: Lassi Nummi in memoriam 1928–2012 (In the news)
Tuula Hökkä: Verse and freedom (Articles)
Soila Lehtonen: Mikko-Olavi Seppälä & Riitta Seppälä: Aale Tynni. Hymyily, kyynel, laulu [Aale Tynni. A smile, a tear, a song] (Mini reviews)
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Tarja Roinila (born 1964) is a writer and translator who lives in Helsinki. She translates from German, Spanish and French. Together with Jukka Koskelainen she published an anthology of contemporary Spanish poetry in 2008, entitled Katu kadulta taivaaseen (‘Street by street to heaven’).
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Ben Tibber Twelve-year-old Ben Tibber is best known for playing ‘Tiny Tim’ in LWT’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL. He won large numbers of awards for his narration of the role of Christopher in THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME, by Mark Haddon. Film credits include: THE CICERONES (Film Four Lab); the voice of ‘Patch’ in 102 DALMATIONS and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Television includes the voice of ‘Otis’ in GEORGIE GOAT and the voice of ‘Edward’ in LITTLE GHOSTS as well as two episodes of the long-running BBC Television series HOLBY CITY and WITHIN LIVING MEMORY, also for the BBC. Ben’s radio appearances include: THE LONG FAREWELL: A CHILD OF OUR TIME, a monologue for which he won a Bronze Award at the Sony Awards in 2001; FUMERS and SON OF RUTH, all for BBC Radio 4, and NIGHTWAVES for BBC Radio 3. Ben was School Captain at football, Club and School Captain for cricket and has a purple belt for karate.
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The Brown Delusion
The UK under Gordon Brown
Hmmm....I don't think we should let go unchallanged these assertions made about Gordon Brown in the new damian McBride book. If only becuase they show the usual one-eyed perspective expected of an apparatchik. Apprently Brown as amazing during the 2008 crisis because he managed to discuss getting troops on the street. Not only that but he was allegedly very clam with other world leaders and showed good leadership during the time of crisis.
How exactly did this crisis come about? As my colleague Nick Drew described eloquently last week, the banking crisis started in early 2007 and really kicked off when Northern Rock went under in the middle of 2007. Its peak was in October 2008. What did Brown and everyone else do for a year whilst the banks went under. Where were the stress tests and emergency capital calls that could have saved RBS or HBOS or indeed any of the other mutuals that went under. Or where was the preparation to allow the banks to fail whilst preserving the banking system and the deposits of small retail customers? No this was the time for great rhetoric from Mr Darling in hte 2008 Budget; he spoke of 'this other Eden' and about the opportunities that awaited the UK. Even in the teeth of the Financial Crisis there was to be a budget surplus in 201 and growth prediced at 2.25%.
It is hard now, just 5 years later but with so much having happened, to remember just how absolutely delusional the Government was at the time, not even realising there was a crisis until September 2008 and then being left with no alternative but to take over the bust banks which it had encouraged through the noughties to lend money and not worry about that pesky regulator or commercial reality. Tax income was too important for that.
Even in the crisis to say that Brown of Darling were statesmanlike is laughable. They knew nothing until the crisis was upon them and then had to make obvious decisions in the space of a few hours. Where was Brown counselling Bush against letting Lehmans fail or stopping the Wall Street domino crash of investment banks?
Nowhere to be seen, that's where.
They were worrying instead about how to reverse the 10p tax gimmick that had gone wrong. Worrying about whether the current budget was Green enough for Polly Toynbee.
That's where there were busy.
Could any Government have avoided the terrible crisis we have endured, probably not, could it have been handled much better than it was? Certainly. Idiotic scorched earth policies like 50% tax rates show how important political points scoring was over economic reality and also how they were happy to predict a future of easy growth to justify their vast over-spend ahead of what was obviously going to become a huge recession.
Leadership? Bravery? Do me favour. It's a horrific episode in our history that will scar the Country for the rest of my lifetime. Brown and Darling should be arrested for treason.
Finally, let's nto forget that at the heart of this Government, giving advice and inside the small cabal, were Edi Milliband and Ed Balls, the men who will likley be in charge to create the next economic crisis.
Labels: 2008, Damian McBride, Financial Crisis, Gordon Brown, Labour Government, Politics
Jonas Lampeter said...
Totally agree. We saw RBS go through several rights issues before giving up the ghost. The government had no clue.
Remember when Darling warned of the recession he complained about "the forces of hell" being unleashed on him by Brown/McBride from Downing Street.
Worse it wasn't just the handling but the cost. Look at the blank cheques given to creditors in all instances.
Plus on a point of detail, the bank rescue plan was designed by bankers, treasury officials and Darling and only presented to Gordon Brown at 5am on the morning it was launched. However he was quick to claim credit for the bailout plans.
"They knew nothing until the crisis was upon them"
Except Gordon "no more boom and bust" Brown was a historian who knew all about the Great Depression and the credit boom that triggered it. In fact that was probably the only thing he knew about economics.
So the question is, why did he create the credit boom that was bound to lead to a bust? Was he trying to break the system deliberately, or simply trying to buy Blair more time until he got himself in power? Or both? i'm guessing he was simply so ambitious that he was using it to buy time, that he's a thoroughly evil man and Damian McBride and Brown were therefore perfectly suited to each other.
Completely with you until
'Edi Milliband and Ed Balls, the men who will likley be in charge to create the next economic crisis. '
They wont be in charge.
People in the mass wont have as clear a memory as you, but they do know that Labor did something very wrong.
They know what both blair and brown did bad things.
Balls is already tarred by that brush. Milliband might dodge it.
But there are some fairly strong tides moving
After some time when the incumbents have been turfed out, it looks like incumbents are starting to get the upper hand.
Things are getting better (admittedly from a low base) - but they are getting better.
We need get rid of the deficit.
This will not be popular.
As a commentator noted on Today this AM, all the complexity boils down to who sells a vision of hope best.
I dont particuarly rate Cameron, but I wouldn't buy raffle tickets from milliband.
hovis said...
Jonas - I can never understand why the Govt. didnt let them all go bankrupt technically for a second or so and then step in and say we own you - our game our rules. Well actually I do, they didnt have the cohones or the nous.
CU: I'm afraid I dont but the line that The Two Eds will be much worse that the current shower we have in now. It's a question of degree perhaps but too many give Camerborne a free pass as they are dressed in nominal Tory clothes.
Good stuff, but I must chide you over one remark: "the usual one-eyed perspective" is in bad taste.
As for the next election, all talk of who will win is pointless until people realise how huge will be the advantage that Labour will get from its unreversed gerrymandering of the constituency boundaries, and its corruption-friendly changes to postal voting.
good post CU: important to write the history accurately, memories are short and spin is mendacious
let us hope Andrew is correct
They should have set up a load of local banks ready for the crash, perhaps they'll do it this time, it's got to be here in a year or so.
The only thing anyone needs to remember about Gordon Brown is that in 1997 he promised to ensure that a house-price bubble did not occur.
In 1997 Blair promised not to scrap student grants.
I did not realise that student fees had caused the banking crisis. New one on me.
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CLT: Question 8
Now use the applet below, but this time for Population select “Binomial p = .1.” Also select “Show population” (in blue) and “Show sampling distribution” (in green). Click “Show obtained means” (in red) and then “Draw 100 samples” several times for each sample size of N = 5, 25, and 100. Pay special attention to the possible values for the sample means.
What do binomial sampling distributions (p =.1) look like for the various sample sizes?
Regardless of sample size, the sampling distributions have the same shape as the population.
Sorry, this answer is incorrect!
You answered that regardless of sample size, the sampling distributions have the same shape as the population. In the population, only two values are possible, 0 or 1. Sampling distributions of means include possible values between 0 and 1, so they do not have the same shape as the population.
When N is 25 or larger, the sampling distribution of the mean is always close to normal.
You answered that the sampling distribution for N of 25 or larger is always close to normal. This is wrong because we can see that when we have a binomial distribution with N = 25 and p =.1, the sampling distribution is notably skewed and has a limited set of discrete possible values.
The sampling distribution based on N = 100 is closer to normal compared to a sampling distribution based on N = 25.
Yes, good answer!
The sampling distribution based on N = 100 is much closer to a normal distribution than when N = 25 for both p =.5 and p = .1. We noticed that when p = .1, the sampling distribution is not very close to normal even when N = 25.
When dealing with binomial distributions, a rule of thumb is that we can consider the sampling distribution to be approximately normal when Np(1 – p) > 5. When p = .1 and N = 25, this gives a value of (25)(.1)(.9) = 2.25, which is less than 5. Thus, generally it would not be acceptable to assume that the sampling distribution is close to a normal distribution in this case. However, when p = .5 and N = 25, this rule of thumb yields (25)(.5)(.5) = 6.25, a value larger than 5.
With p = .5 and N = 25, the sampling distribution of the mean is close enough to normal that the normal distribution would yield probabilities that would be acceptably accurate for most purposes. We could use the actual values computed from the underlying binomial distribution rather than approximations calculated from the normal distribution if we desire greater accuracy than afforded by the normal distribution.
All sampling distributions are normal distributions.
You answered that all sampling distributions are normal distributions. Use the applet to take another look at the sampling distribution when you set p = .5 and N = 5. Is this distribution close to a continuous normal distribution? Does it help or make it worse when p = .1 How about when N = 100?
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Brazil : where households have more pets than children
Brazil is a really crazy country where every household has nearly two dogs, one cat and much lesser number of kids.
http://worldnewsreport.in/brazil-where-households-have-more-pets-than-children/">
Pets outnumber children in Brazil the fifth largest nation in the world sharing a border with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
Brazil has the unique distinction of having the greatest variety of animals — more than any country in the world. It is home to 600 mammal species, 1,500 fish species, 1,600 bird species, and 100,000 different types of insects.
There are 52.2 million pet dogs in Brazil while the number of children aged 0 to 14 years is 44.9 million, reported Brazil’s G1 news website.
Brazilians have nearly 36 million pups and small dogs at home–more per capita than any country in the world, according to a Euromonitor survey.
That is because of Brazil’s rapidly expanding middle-class population.
In the last nearly one decade the purchasing power of average Brazilian household has shot up significantly while the family size has decreased as a result of effective family planning norms. Young Brazilians live in small homes. They start earning early but marry late and think of having children last. In between when they feel bore or lonely, they keep a small pup.
This is where our story takes a little twist as there are two kinds of dogs in Brazil– pets and the most neglected stray dogs.
Some 44.3 percent of Brazilian households have at least one dog. Each household has 1.8 dogs on an average, Xinhua reported.
The pets dogs owned by upper-class Brazilians are pampered by their owners.
But as far as the stray, wild or abandoned dogs are concerned, less said the better. No one cares for them, many of them are not even fed properly.
The same goes for pets who grow old or seriously ill- their owners simply abandon them at places far from their home. Greater São Paulo a small island is one such place where most Brazilians abandon their pet dogs when they get sick. It’s an island populated by stray and abandoned dogs many of whom die of disease or starvation, but no one cares.
Cats, though less favoured by Brazilian households, are still numerous.
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) estimated that 28.9 million households — or 17.7 percent of the total — own at least one cat, averaging 1.9 cats per household.
But Brazilians are somewhat derelict in performing their duty as pet owners.
According to the IBGE, only 75.4 percent of owners had vaccinated their pets against rabies during the 12 months before the survey was taken in 2013. Yearly rabies vaccines are mandatory in Brazil.
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Severed - Switch Review
September 06, 2017 CGRreview , console , DrinkBox Studios , nintendo , Nintendo Switch , review , Severed , Switch
DrinkBox Studios is one of my favorite smaller development teams. They have a knack for merging cool gameplay mechanics with bright, colorful visuals that I happily spend hours with at a time. Severed is no different - in fact it may be their best overall effort yet. While it is true that this title has seen some prior releases, it plays better on the Switch than any of its prior platforms.
While Guacamelee! will likely always remembered as the first time I completely fell in love with a DrinkBox Studios game, I have played a few of theirs now and each one is so unique that they each become memorable for their own reasons. The story behind Severed is one of my favorites of theirs, as we follow the story of a young woman named Sasha who is trying to put together her story after waking up in a strange and fantastic world.
Because you see the world through Sasha's first-person perspective, Severed is considerably more immersive than some of the studio's prior games. From there you take Sasha on a quest to find her family as she solves puzzles and takes on enemies with one arm and a unique combat system that come together to create something both unique and memorable with Severed.
In many ways, this is a gore-heavy game, almost at odds with its bright, colorful visuals. Why gory? Well, the game itself has a lot of callbacks to the classic dungeon crawling genre, complete with some occasional if fairly easy puzzles along the way. However, the bulk of Sasha's time is spent in combat, but despite only having one arm, she is anything but weak or vulnerable. Where Severed really distinguishes itself in combat is how the myriad enemies are often so very unique from one another. Unlike the typical dungeon crawler where you just pound away at opponents in turn-based combat in an attempt to lower their hit points, Severed offers a far more tactical style of play, despite its action-heavy nature.
I know, I know - saying combat is both tactical and action seems somewhat at odds with one another, and things could have gone south rather quickly here. However, while the game gives you the action through swipe based mechanics that have you actively poking and prodding the screen, you also have to figure out where your enemies are weakest. Swipe using short or long gestures and target specific areas on your opponent's body to exploit their weaknesses. Of course, if it was just a matter of tagging a soft spot, the game itself would not be very challenging. Rest assured however, that as you advance in skill, your enemies develop their own improved means of defense, such as durable growths that cover their weaknesses. Sasha will continue to gain new skills along the way helps to add even more variety to the mix as you develop her abilities through skill trees.
Now, admittedly the story while interesting at first is not the deepest I have ever experienced, but with its unique and vibrant visual style and a subtle but strong ambient soundtrack playing along to support it, the overall experience is a very good one due to how well all of these disparate components come together here. One caveat that drew criticism early on in some circles was that Severed is the second (that I'm aware of) portable mode only game for the Nintendo Switch so far. There is no on-screen play, and I've read interviews that state the developers investigated adding some sort of motion controls to the mix, but found that they were not satisfied with the results. I think that makes a lot of sense, given the precision required at certain points in the game. Why shoehorn a style of play in that is only going to frustrate users? Better to focus on the tried and true system that worked so well in the prior iterations.
Even with that lack of big screen play, I am comfortable in saying that Severed is best played on the Switch. I've had a chance to play it on a couple of other platforms previously, and sporting a larger screen than the Vita or the 3DS, and more responsiveness than on mobile, this version may not be uniquely different than prior iterations in many ways, but it is the cleanest and most visually attractive version of the game to date.
DrinkBox Studios has created a memorable game that really leverages a unique visual style and some cool touch mechanics that create a fully fleshed out and enjoyable game.
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Elisabeth Pacherie è una filosofa della mente e dell'azione presso l'Istituto Jean Nicod affiliato all'Istituto per lo studio della cognizione presso l'Ecole Normale Superieure di Parigi. Crede che l'interdisciplinarità tra filosofia e scienze empiriche sia il punto di partenza per il progresso e la ricchezza di entrambe. I suoi interessi principali sono legati al concetto di intenzionalità, senso di agenzia /agentività e azione collettiva. È autrice di numerosi articoli e pubblicazioni internazionali.
1. How did you get interested in philosophy, and in philosophy of mind and action and philosophy of cognitive science in particular?
EP: After classical studies in philosophy in France with a strong emphasis in the history of philosophy, I had the luck to be a visiting student at the Phi-losophy Department in Princeton, with Gilbert Harman as my supervisor. The philosophy department together with the psychology department and the department of computer science had just launched an interdisciplinary program in cognitive science. Thanks to Gilbert Harman, I was introduced to both philosophy of mind and cognitive science at the same time. Follow-ing this year at Princeton, I spent another year at the Center for the Study of Language and information at Stanford University, where I took classes in linguistics and artificial intelligence. I was introduced to cognitive science at a time where artificial intelligence held center stage and neuroscience was not really on the picture. These two years abroad taught me that it was pos-sible to tackle philosophical issues directly rather than necessarily from a historical perspective and that philosophical research could be fruitfully confronted with ongoing scientific research. I found that really exciting and when I returned to France decided to work in the philosophy of mind. I joined a group of philosophers interested in the philosophy of mind and lan-guage and in cognitive science (at the time based at the Center of Research in Applied Epistemology in Paris and who later founded Institut Jean Nicod) and did my Ph.D. on philosophy of mind –specifically, on naturalizing in-tentionality– with Joëlle Proust. When I was working on my Ph.D. my im-pression was that people tackling the issue of naturalizing intentionality by looking at propositional attitudes states such as beliefs were probably not taking the best angle; my thought was that probably it would be better to look at more basic forms of intentionality, perceptual intentionality or motor intentionality. Philosophers were already working with psychologists on perception and there were a lot of interactions on this topic but on the action side there was very little at the time. Then in the early 90s, shortly after fin-ishing my Ph.D. and thanks to Joëlle Proust, I met Marc Jeannerod, a found-er of the cognitive neuroscience of action, and discovered his work. That was a decisive encounter – Marc Jeannerod's work helped me see how it was possible to bridge the gap between intentions on the one hand and the physiology of muscle contraction on the other hand. I moved from philoso-phy of mind to philosophy of action, or rather to philosophy of action from a philosophy of mind perspective.
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Nearly every country has a franchise-based T20 league today, though not all of them are profit-making like the IPL.
How should T20s be scheduled?
Play them only at club level, and create two windows in the calendar for them
Restrict international T20s to the World Twenty20
There’s nothing wrong with how they are scheduled now
During a discussion at the 2013 Bradman Oration, former Australia batsman Greg Chappell said: "The modern cricketer is challenged more than any other generation before with the different formats and the adaptability required to go across the formats. It is a real challenge for young cricketers to try to develop their game to be chopping and changing so much and playing so much T20 cricket early on."
Does T20 adversely affect young players' techniques?
Yes. Under-25s should not be allowed to play the format
Not really. If your basics are solid, you can adapt to any format
T20 ruins the techniques of all players, not just the young ones, and especially bowlers
The term "freelance cricketer" has come into vogue in the last few years, with domestic leagues around the world offering more attractive options than what a contract with a national board gives a player.
Are domestic T20 leagues around the world a threat to international cricket?
No. They increase the pool of players able to earn good incomes from cricket
Yes, top players skipping international tours to play franchise cricket is a problem
The real threat comes from a weak and lopsided Future Tours Programme
In the ten years since T20 first made its entry, we have seen the birth of a million-dollar league that has changed the dynamics of traditional cricket, four very successful World Twenty20s, and a host of innovations in batting and bowling techniques.
Is it fair to say T20 has done more damage to the game than good?
No, it has increased money and viewership – crucial to the health of a sport
Yes, there’s more scope for fixing, and less inclination for players to play Tests
A bit of both, but all formats can coexist if boards plan schedules well
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Posted by Android on (January 2, 2014, 22:05 GMT)
most of the excricketer r thinking about the future of test cricket because their cricket history are defending around test cricket.they feel jealous the popularity of t20 and oneday cricket.they dont try to understand the peoples and viewers demand..they dislike the oneday and t20 creicket.threre is lot of crowd in oneday and t20 but test without viewers as well as no result come out within 5 days in test.its unfavourablre true that there r three format in one game.i think test cricket should cut out from cricket if we want popularity with foot ball.i know nobody agree with me but it is true that test game is the way of dustbin .famous excricketer r trying to catching the test format like superglue.test cricket damage mean their cricket carier history is damage.
Posted by Dummy4 on (January 2, 2014, 21:41 GMT)
I don't know if anyone will agree or not but I will say it anyways. Scrap ODI World Cup completely. Bring back CT. It should be played upon rating. Top 8 should play CT. It should be held after every 4 years (like the World Cup). There should be a cut off date. Top 8 teams on the date will go on to play CT. There should be tri or four nation series once in a while but no bilateral series for ODIs. When there is a bilateral series of test matches, three T20Is can be included for the series. Then there is World Cup T20. There should be 16-20 teams but each and every team has to qualify irrespective of the rankings. This will give us unexpected teams in the tournament. Imagine Afghanistan qualifying yet Australia failing.
Posted by Dolly on (January 2, 2014, 20:32 GMT)
T20 cricket will eventually kill Test cricket and damage T50 ODI. Because of nature of T20 players will opt to play it even for few seasons just to make enough money and they will leave it or T20 will leave them for younger players with better eyesight, fitness and co-ordination. Good cricketing skills in batting and bowling will be lost .Just look at the T20 champions West Indies and the effect. They cannot field a proper Test side or ODI side. Ironic that WI cannot produce a good fast bowler and are playing 3 spinners and 3 wicketkeepers in a match at same time. Players will ensure they are fit for IPL and will say to hell with other cricket.If they can add big bash, or any other T20 tournament then that will be bonus. What wil end up is the same group of players going from country to country like circus. Sad for game of cricket .IPL has killed "cricket" and made a new game resembling baseball.
T20 has caused young players to lose vital skills of batting. It doesn't take any skill to swing the bat hard and hoping it goes for a boundary. The T20 franchise might as well hire MLB players to hit the ball hard. How often do test squads score over 450 or 500 runs. Before T20 existed, big test runs were more common to see, but now it rarely even seen. I do agree that it easier to watch compared to test, but great batsmen don't come from playing in a childish way. What cricket players playing for? Money? Fame? Representing their country? International cricketers should avoid playing in T20, so they can develop skills that would make them a great batsmen.
I don't think that T20's has affected the overall cricket. This year without a doubt has pulled off some brilliant, nail-biting T20's. My uncle wasn't a fan of cricket but after watching some thrilling T20 matches, he wakes up at 4AM to watch The Ashes. So the T20's has had it's given perks as well! When it comes to the technique of players that have been damaged, than I'd strongly disagree to that. A good batsmen can always adapt to the game. Take Ab De Velliers and Kohli, they both have been terrific in all of the formats, they know how, when and where to score.
So I'd support the idea of playing T20's, maybe two of them when you began or end the tour, it's always refreshing to enjoy the big hitting games once in a while with a couple of beers!
Posted by orsca on (January 2, 2014, 16:05 GMT)
T-20 should be limited to the countries and one in every international tournament and the world t-20. I.P.L. is the worst thing for cricket, especially hosted by India.
Posted by wayne on (January 2, 2014, 15:51 GMT)
I'd much prefer to see T20s as a club-only format, but that's pretty unlikely to happen. More of a concern for me is that with the incredible glut of T20 games, the priority they take, and the imbalance between bat and ball means that even if you were to win a bajillion fans to cricket with T20, most of them simply won't understand the rules, language, or subtlety of Test cricket, nor be able to deal with the pace of a game that lasts for 5 days (and may not have a clear winner).Cricket's gained ground on other sports in terms of viewership (and has potential to crack the USA via a large ex-pat south Asian population), but they're T20 fans, not Test fans, and you're still stuck with the same issue: declining interest in Tests from fans, players, and administrators.
Posted by Hey on (January 2, 2014, 14:50 GMT)
T20s is a good way to advertise cricket as a whole. However it also makes cricket look like just a bat game which is pretty much baseball then. There is no reason why t20s can't be played on slow/spinning wickets or bouncy/fast that tests are played on as its still much more nailbiting
T20s is a good form of entertainment but when Boards prefer T20s to ODis[which is basically just a longer form of T20 now] or Tests, it isn't good. T20s should always be kept to 2 and there should always be 3 test series'. There should be a league where the top 8 test teams play in too.
Posted by ESPN on (January 2, 2014, 14:17 GMT)
Every coin has two sides. T20 does bring about a lot of goods and bads. But it's upto ICC that the glory of Test cricket is not lost because of T20. There has to be a limit to which number of T20s being played. Making T20 allowable only for a 3 test series would be a good notch.
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No dirges for Test cricket, and the importance of Misbah
Five-day cricket is routinely written off, but 2013 proved it is in decent health - though pulling off a Test championship effectively may be a bridge too far
The Ashes fractions, and the successors to Kallis and Tendulkar
The year just gone by has been one of surprises and swings of fortune
One stride forward, three back
West Indies were mostly sloppy and lacked the resilient spirit that had come to define their cricket in 2012
From shambolic to superstars
Whitewashed in India, badly beaten in England and then lo and behold - a transformation and the return of the urn. Australia won't forget 2013 for a long time
A fine year for home teams and left-arm pace
Home teams lost only two Tests in 2013, while fast bowlers had their best year in Tests since 2000
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This is the reason for Mbeya MP Joseph Mbilinyi "SUGU" to be out of prison today
May 10, 2018 HABARI ZA VIONGOZI
The Prison army in the country has said that, Mbeya's MP (Chadema), Joseph Mbilinyi 'Sugu' and Secretary of CHADEMA Regional Zone, Emmanuel Masonga have been released for exemption from Dr. President John Magufuli handed over to prisoners during the 54th anniversary of the Tanganyika Union and Zanzibar, held on April 26, 2018, at the Republic of Dodoma.
Deputy Information Officer of the Prison Army, Deputy Prison Assistant Lucas Mboje, said at the ceremony, President Magufuli gave exemption to 3,319 prisoners, among whom 585 prisoners were released on April 26, 2018.
In addition, according to the law, the President reduced one-third of the imprisonment of various jail suspects.
"Besides, 2,734 other prisoners remained in jail including Sugu and Masonga to end the remainder of the imprisonment after being granted exemption by President Magufuli," said Mboje.
Sugu and Masonga were convicted and sentenced to five months in jail on February 26 this year in Judge Mbeya's Magistrate's Court for giving insults against President John Magufuli at a public meeting held on December 30 last year at Umenge Primary School in Mbeya.
They have served the penalty for 73 days with more than a quarter of their imprisonment.
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Veterans who served aboard USS Sea Owl (SS 405) pose for a photo during their 2019 reunion. The organization, formed in 1997 for those who served aboard the Balao-class submarine, toured Naval Submarine Base (SUBASE) New London, Sea Owl’s former homeport, June 8 to see how the base had changed since they wore the uniform and to get a glimpse of America’s modern submarine fleet.
Photo courtesy of Roy Purtell
Sea Owl Sailors keep in touch
By MC3(SW) Tristan B. Lotz
GROTON, Conn. – Veterans of the submarine USS Sea Owl (SS 405) and family members met at Naval Submarine Base (SUBASE) New London for a reunion and tour of the base, June 8.
Sea Owl was a Balao-class submarine commissioned in 1944 and served until the end of the 1960’s. Men who served aboard it, along with their families, formed the Sea Owl Association to stay in touch and plan reunions. During their most recent annual gathering, the veterans and their families visited SUBASE New London and toured the base, which included stopping to view a modern Virginia-class submarine from the pier.
“The base has changed very much from when all of us were stationed here in the 50’s and 60’s. Sea Owl was decommissioned from Groton in early 1970,” said Roy Purtell, Sea Owl Association president. “During her time here she was very active as what they called a school boat. For many Sailors going to sub school at the time, Sea Owl would have been their first ride on a submarine.”
The Sea Owl Association is a mixed group of men who served during different periods of the submarine’s years of service. Purtell himself served as a Torpedoman’s Mate on Sea Owl from 1967 to 1969, while their eldest member Ralph Sterley, now 93, served aboard as an Electronics Technician from 1945 to 1946 during the submarine’s time in the Pacific War fighting against the Empire of Japan.
“During the third patrol he was standing a radar watch and given credit for spotting a submarine supplying Midway Island with ammunition,” said Purtell of one episode of Sterley’s service at the end of World War II. “Sea Owl then sent three torpedoes toward that submarine, putting it on the bottom near the pier. This stopped Japanese getting supplies and helping the U.S. take Midway Island.”
Like all U.S. Navy crews, Sea Owl’s men came from all over the United States. They served at different times, deployed to different places, but are bound together across time and space by their common service aboard the same submarine and the stories and adventures only they know.
“Exciting stories, where do I start?” said Purtell. “One story involves Torpedoman’s Mate 3rd Class Reno Farina, who served from 1964 to 1967. Underway he was working doing something outboard of the torpedo tubes, which is also where the hydraulic rams are for the rudder. These rams move very quietly. Reno had a grease fitting from the hydraulic ram penetrate his skull, only by the grace of God did the helmsman stop turning the helm in that direction or Reno’s skull would have been crushed!”
USS Sea Owl veterans formed the Sea Owl Association in 1997 and have held 12 reunions since then. They also hold an annual picnic in Sea Owl’s homeport of Groton where many of her veterans ultimately settled after their service. For more information on the Sea Owl Association, visit www.ussseaowl.com.
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Random Pick of the Week: Eisley - Golly Sandra
by Unknown | good music guide, random picks
Eisley were one of the many bands, that released their full-length album last year, but didn’t evoke as much attention and recognition as it could. So, it wasn’t the best among the best, but it also wasn’t the worst out of the bunch either. These guys started out young, but the music portrays a level of maturity way beyond their years. First inspired to make music from a certain British band that goes by the name of Radiohead, they were set to conquer the sonic dominion with their ethereal and charming pop wonders. Although the Radiohead-like impression is hardly ever evident, the music depicted still has a mix of old and new, as well as amiable and inaccessible.
Through out their whole career, and collection of songs, the workmanship has always maintained on the same line; vocals are generally more forefront in tunes, compared to the manipulation of the assortment of instruments employed to make up the background music. Songs are generally built on soaring vocals and dynamic sweeping range, while also being used as instruments to great effects. There’s possibly no other band that makes music sound as graceful yet as elusive as this, well at least no one has the smooth honeyed vocals like the DuPree sisters do.
And as for the song, the polaroid pictures says it all. I love the sunny, beachy vacation feel it has to it, definitely one of the group’s best works, that’s taken off their 2005 record, Room Noises. To get a taste of your own, right-click, save as.
|mp3| Eisley - Golly Sandra
p/s: Eisley have also just released an EP called Like the Actors following their album late last year. Click here to purchase it.
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Stratton Markets - reviews
Asian stocks are on a mixed pattern
Asian stocks are on a mixed pattern, with some markets giving up some early gains and finishing the day lower. Most traders are focused on the Federal Reserve after it kicked off its March meeting in the previous session. Seoul's Kospi closed little changed after hovering slightly above the flat line earlier in the day. The benchmark dropped 0.02 % to close at 2,484.97. The Australian the S&P/ASX 200 drifted higher by 0.23 % to close at 5.950.30. Most Asian central banks will stand pat for the present time, even in case the Federal Reserve poised to raise borrowing costs later in the week.
While previous tightening cycles in the U.S. prompted many Asian countries are likely to move in lockstep, things are different this time. Australia's trade minister calls for a reinforcement of the global trade order. We need to avoid a scenario where "the big fish eat the little fish," according to Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Steven Ciobo. Speaking at Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong , the minister recognized that there are some ongoing questions about the efficacy of the international trade regime, but he emphasized it should be strengthened.
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Board index » General Discussion » General Politics » Election Results
South Carolina Election Results Thread
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IowaforHuckabee
Post subject: Re: South Carolina Election Results Thread
WalterCan wrote:
Britt Hume and others tried to make the point that the establishment is backing Romney and will back him even harder now because they are afraid Newt will cause House and Senate Candidates to lose.
This would be downright hilarious (panic - what can we use now???!!??), if it wasn't so sad that people will be sucked into believing it.
Yes, since obviously the other garbage they have tried hasn't worked, they are wildly grasping for something else, and this is what they've come up with.
FOX and the rest will keep trying. Hopefully, the Santorum supporters on here are smarter than these desperate establishment talking heads and won't get sucked in to this "pious baloney". Didn't they say the same thing about Reagan?
FL4Huck
Location: Lehigh Acres,Florida
Pam Bondi(Fl) backed Mitt today. I really like her but was blown away by this. She is fighting hard to get ObamaCare thrown out but yet she is backing the guy that started it?
ibelieve
They have been pouring it on as hard as they could against Newt every single day and night. They spent multi-millions in attack ads against him - BUT the great news is that South Carolina didn't fall for it at all! Hopefully all of America is waking up to the propaganda machines! It may be finally sinking in that all of our so-called "news" is coming from the voices of a very few people that have the power over all the media.
akprayingmom
Chuck Norris has spoken of other candidates just like Governor Huckabee has spoken of other candidates but not endorsed any of them. Now Chuck has publicly come out and endorsed Newt.
I wish Governor Huckabee would too.
Newt is the only one who can beat Romney now and if we all don't get behind him, Romney will win be default and we will get Obama and again. And not just for four more years. That is exactly how Chavez came to be president for life and now a tyrannical dictator of Venezuela, which used to a very strong Constitutional Democratic Republic much like others.
I have some very good friends who are Venezuelan nationals here on work visas for the last 10 years and applying for U. S. citizenship. They told me the horror story of how Chavez came to power. It was very much like Obama. In fact Obama has mirrored Chavez's rise to power and my friends are very afraid and sad that what happened in they home country is destined to happen in the United Sates.
I would say it is absolutely imperative that we get behind someone who can stop this from coming true. That person is Newt Gingrich!
"We don't want to run a Republican campaign, we want to run an American campaign"
"Do you believe that this country, because of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is a fundamentally exceptional system for human liberty or do you believe we are a normal country like every place else in the world?
"It is a lie to teach American history as though this is a secular nation in which GOD did not reappear again and again for every generation."
We are either in the next few years going to become a secular, socialist country dominated by very left wing values or we're going to reach out and not only defeat the left, but insist on a principled conservatism that can solve the problems, reduce the size of government, and can create greater prosperity, greater freedom and greater safety."
"The American People create jobs, not government."
"I think the Fed should be audited."
"I for one, and I hope all of my friends up here, are going to repudiate every effort of the news media to get republicans to fight each other to protect Barack Obama who deserves to be defeated..."
"Nothing will turn America around more then election night when Barack Obama loses decisively."
"This campaign cannot be only about the presidency. We need to pick up at least 12 seats in the U.S. Senate and 30 or more seats in the House, because if you are serious about repealing Obamacare, you have to be serious about building a big enough majority in the legislative branch that you could actually n the first 90 days pass the legislation."
"The Founding Fathers recognized that while GOD gives us freedom, people are all to often ready to take it away. What we represent is as old as this country. It is something that Lincoln or Jefferson or Washington would have understood. It is something that Grant people who died to preserve. It is the romantic idealistic belief, that a free people, just everyday folks of all backgrounds can come together and despite all the difficulties we built into the Constitution to protect freedom, we can use that freedom to improve our lives and improve the lives of our children.
If I had one message for this country, on this day when we celebrate the act of keeping our word, it would be a simple message. Idealism is American. To be Romantic is American. It OK to be a skeptic but don't be a cynic. It's OK to raise good questions but don't assume the worst. It OK to report difficulties, but it is equally good to report victories. Yes we have problems. And of course it's going to be difficult to pass these things. but why should we be afraid of them? That is freedom! It is in that spirit of committing ourselves idealistically, committing ourselves romantically, believing in America, that we celebrate having kept our word and that we promise to begin a new partnership and together, we and the American people to give our children and our country a new birth of freedom."—Newt Gingrich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDIuCF8_bJ4
Post by akprayingmom has received Likes: 3 GAVoter4Huck, ibelieve, IowaforHuckabee
Just a little suggestion on exit poll analysis. It's generally a good idea to look at the splits rather than the aggregate numbers. For example a Santorum 20% of women voter and 14% of male while taking 17% of the vote means he "overperformed" his average with female voters and "underperformed" with male voters. Furthermore that "split" shouldn't really be thought of as 3 points or 6 points but as a percentage of his total vote if you are looking for any strength/weakness trends you want to project forward. So Santorum is doing 50% better with women than men in this poll. That could be a significant result but what it actually means is subject to alot of interpretation.
The second consideration I'd encourage when looking at any exit poll is to resist the temptation to extrapolate the data especially in a crowded field. For example the idea that Paul "won" the category of "would not vote for Romney under any circumstance" with 38% does not mean that he is the "leader" of anti-Romney bitterenders. That is because there are still 62% out there who have also said no to Romney under any circumstance and you can't know where they will go if their current candidate dropped out (except of course you could assume NOT to Romney). A no-Romney under any circumstances Santorum voter does not become a Paul voter just because Santorum were to drop out. In other words it is way to speculative to conclude that if Newt "won" women with 38% of the female vote that the other 67% would be winnable by him.
Now once you are above a certain benchmark then you can rest easier, for example if your Newt getting 47% of the total over 65 years old voters you can know that you don't really have a problem with that group (which is great news for him going into Florida so look for Romney to Social Security scare Newt with that group in coming days). But 38% support among all female voters with a gender split of 4% and only 34% among unmarried females means that these groups are still among those least likely to support Newt. He got their plurality of female support but it is still an area of relative weakness for him.
Newt did well but it is too much to say that he has "won" all the subgroups in which he got a plurality of the vote in a four person race where the other competitors gained 60% of the vote. The same media we love to hate has a problem with overstating the significance of exit polls. I know you are shocked.
No amount of spin can take away the obvious.
Congratulations to Newt Gingrich for his "blowout" victory in South Carolina!
"Understanding the significance of this DEEP victory..."
Who won the elderly vote? - Newt Gingrich.
Even though Ron Paul is believed to have a lock on the young vote, who actually won the young vote? - Newt Gingrich
The moralist and self-righteous "religionist" have complained that because Newt is on his third marriage that he would NEVER gain the women's vote, in fact - that women would never trust him. However - Who won the married women's vote? - Newt Gingrich
Who won the single women's vote? - Newt Gingrich
Who won the male vote? - Newt Gingrich
South Carolina is a HUGE active military state. Who won the active military vote? - New Gingrich
Who won the veteran's vote? - Newt Gingrich
Who won the social conservative vote? - Newt Gingrich
Who won the fiscal conservative vote? - Newt Gingrich
Who won the undecided vote (the people undecided on Friday) - Newt Gingrich. And he didn't just win them by a small percentage. He won the MAJORITY......... 51 percent of the undecided vote broke for - - - -wait for it - - - - Newt Gingrich!
Newt Gingrich in this blowout victory won EVERY measurable demographic.
Newt won all the counties that Huckabee, Romney, and McCain together won last cycle.
He beat Ron Paul - who really thought he had support in the active military people by 69%.
He beat the supposed "choice of Evangelical leaders", Rick Santorum -who was thought to have taken that vote easily......by 59%.
He beat the Moderate-Corporatist Mitt Romney by 45%
Anyway you add this up, this is a historic win for Newt Gingrich and shows that the people in South Carolina get it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:31 pm
I'm sorry you think it spin.
Santorum lost badly in his appeal to all voters only getting 17% of the total vote. But proportionally he had the largest percentage of women voters in the composition of his supporters of any candidate. In addition to doing poorly over all he did worst among men proportioanlly among the candidates.
His major concern going forward is simply finding more support generally and more male voters specifically.
Newt did best in his appeal to all voters getting a plurality of 40% of the vote. Proportionally he did best among males voters, those earning between 50-100,000 dollars, ideologically self ID "very conservative," who were late deciders, influenced by the debates. Going forward that was his "sweet spot," his core base that most put him in a position to get a plurality of votes. But his relative weakness was still in the area of women voters. Those female voters were still the ones most likely to stay with Santorum (though Santorum's voter profile of supporters is otherwise very similar to Newt) or stay with Romney (whose typical voter profile has little overlap with Newt).
The group least likely to join the Newt bandwagon were female Santorum supporters which were 20% of the electorate. If Newt is to beat Romney for the nomination he will need to consolidate an actual majority and not just a plurality of voters in a "two man race." That means he will need to add to his total vote. That could come from the Paulites but seems unlikely. Or it could come from Romney or Santorum supporters. But Santorum supporters are already 2 to 1 female. So for Newt to climb to the magical majority, and not just plurality, he needs to find a way to better appeal to female voters.
But you can dismiss the effort an analysis as spin if you want though I'm quite confident Newt's pollsters are taking note of the same patterns.
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Archive | January, 2012
Forget global warming – it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)
By Dan McGrath on January 30, 2012 in Climate History, Global Cooling, Ice, Mythical Consensus
By David Rose The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw […]
Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming
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There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to ‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy By 16 concerned scientists (see end of article) A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about “global warming.” Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that […]
Inhofe Comments on State of the Union Address
By Dan McGrath on January 25, 2012 in Bad Policy, Economics, Misguided Leaders, Obama, Public Policy
Washington, D.C. – Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works commented on President Obama’s State of the Union Address. “President Obama has clearly received the message that his global warming agenda is gone, dead, done with the American people – that’s why he was touting oil and […]
Bankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts
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From CBS San Francisco After filing for bankruptcy last year, Fremont solar company Solyndra still owes American taxpayers half a billion dollars. But CBS 5 caught them destroying millions of dollars worth of parts. At Solyndra’s sprawling complex in Fremont, workers in white jumpsuits were unwrapping brand new glass tubes used in solar panels last […]
Climate Change Skepticism Seeps into Science Classrooms
By Dan McGrath on January 23, 2012 in Cause/Effect, Education, Indoctrination, Junk Science, Mythical Consensus, Public Policy, Science
[Interesting article, but the warmist bias of the writer is apparent] Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man-made global warming. A national watchdog group says it will start monitoring classrooms By Neela Banerjee Reporting from Washington — A flash point has emerged in American science education that echoes […]
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Global Warming: Fail. Ocean Acidification: Fail. Climate Disruption: Fail. What next? Maybe Drunk Fish? By Wendy Zuckerman Carbon dioxide in the ocean acts like alcohol on fish, leaving them less able to judge risks and prone to losing their senses. The intoxication adds to the threats that global warming and ocean acidification pose to marine […]
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By Doug Powers Yesterday there was another White House document dump regarding Solyndra’s bankruptcy filing just after the 2010 elections. While Solyndra is the crown jewel in the Department of Energy’s “you can’t make a green omelette without breaking a few hundred million taxpayer eggs” trial-and-error initiative, there are many other examples. CBS News’ Sharyl […]
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By Dan McGrath on January 6, 2012 in Bad Policy, Biofuels, Corruption, Economics, Global Warming ‘Solutions’, Misguided Leaders
By Dan Chapman The failed Range Fuels wood-to-ethanol factory in southeastern Georgia that sucked up $65 million in federal and state tax dollars was sold Tuesday for pennies on the dollar to another bio-fuel maker with equally grand plans to transform the alternative energy world. LanzaTech, a New Zealand-based biofuel company, paid $5.1 million for […]
Could Climate Change create deadly, mutant sharks which kill us all?
By Dan McGrath on January 6, 2012 in Junk Science, Loonies
By James Delingpole It had to happen. As if the plight of the polar bear wasn’t punishment enough for our evil, selfish, refusing-to-change-our-lifestyle-because-we’re-addicted-to-oil ways, it now seems that Mother Gaia may have a deadly new weapon up her sleeve: KILLER MUTANT SHARKS!!! (H/T Brown Bess) So far, admittedly, Mother Gaia is in the very earliest […]
Greenpeace Founder Questions Windfarms
By Dan McGrath on January 5, 2012 in Bad Policy, Economics, Wind Power
By Patrick Moore Southwestern Ontario’s flourishing wind energy industry came under fire Wednesday from the co-founder of Greenpeace. Dr. Patrick Moore told more than 1,000 area farmers the industry destroys more jobs than it creates, and causes energy prices to climb for all users. “The industry is a destroyer of wealth and negative to the […]
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Home Technology - Hacking Exactis leak exposes database with 340 million records
Exactis leak exposes database with 340 million records
A marketing firm exposed records on most adults in the U.S., but experts weren’t surprised at the number of people affected and said the lesson should be about the depth of data gathered.
Marketing firm Exactis, a data company based in Palm Coast, Fla., exposed 340 million records — 230 million for individuals and 110 million for business customers — via a publicly accessible server, meaning anyone who knew where to look could have taken the data. Vinny Troia, security researcher and founder of NightLion Security, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., discovered the potential Exactis leak and wrote on Twitter that he is working with the company to determine if anyone accessed the data. Exactis has since secured the server.
The data potentially exposed in the Exactis leak added up to 2 terabytes of information, including phone numbers, home and email addresses, but Bruce Silcoff, CEO of Shyft Network International, a cybersecurity company based in Barbados, said the Exactis leak is noteworthy “not only for the number of customers impacted, but also for the depth of compromised data.”
“It’s been reported that every record includes more than 400 variables of personal characteristics,” Silcoff wrote via email. “The reality is that we live in a digitized world and all our interactions on social channels are recorded, and this isn’t stopping anytime soon. The centralized storage of user information makes institutions like Exactis hacker bait. Never has there been such urgency nor opportunity to introduce a disruptive alternative to an antiquated system and solve an urgent global problem.”
Wired’s original report on the Exactis leak noted that the personal characteristics data could include information such as personal interests and habits, if the person smokes, has pets or the number, age and gender of the person’s children.
The reality is that we live in a digitized world and all our interactions on social channels are recorded, and this isn’t stopping anytime soon.
Bruce SilcoffCEO of Shyft
Troia told Wired that he found the Exactis leak with a simple Shodan search for ElasticSearch databases on publicly accessible servers in the U.S. While there is a huge trove of personal information, the dataset does not include Social Security numbers or credit cards, so experts said it would be more useful for social engineering.
Nico Fischbach, global CTO at Forcepoint, said the highly sensitive data in the Exactis leak “could be exploited by malicious actors to carry out a number of different types of attacks.”
“If an attacker combined this intel with data from the 2015 OPM breach, they could run human intelligencetype special operations attacks against cleared personnel. It’s also a huge asset to criminals using impersonation as a tool for phishing. Further, as 110 million of the records pertain to businesses, criminals could utilize the data for spear-phishing campaigns aimed at data exfiltration,” Fischbach wrote via email. “In the case of Cambridge Analytica, attackers had to ‘steal’ this type of profile data from Facebook, but, with Exactis, the data was publicly accessible on a server with weak or no authentication. This further underscores the need for enterprises to focus on knowing how their people interact with their data, have insight to risky activity and to think ahead on how vulnerabilities like this could be mitigated against, or prevented entirely.”
Ruchika Mishra, director products and solutions at Balbix, a cybersecurity company headquartered in San Jose, Calif., said this was likely a problem of Exactis not understanding the mindset of an attacker.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that Exactis knew exactly what type of information they had and the ramifications there would be if there was a breach,” Mischra wrote via email. “But the problem with most enterprises today is that they don’t have the foresight and visibility into the hundreds of attack vectors — be it misconfigurations, employees at risk of being phished, admin using credentials across personal and business accounts — that could be exploited.”
Robert Capps, vice president and authentication strategist for NuData Security, a behavioral biometrics company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, said “if U.S. citizens did not think their personal information has ever been compromised, this should convince them it definitely is.”
“Unfortunately, breaches are here to stay, but government agencies, businesses, and organizations across the U.S. can protect users by applying a new authentication framework,” Capps wrote via email. “Multi-layered security solutions based on passive biometrics and behavioral analytics make this stolen information useless to cybercriminals, as they identify users based on their behavior instead of data such as names, last names, dates of birth, passwords, addresses, and more.”
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HMRC 'haven't played with a straight bat' in KPMG case, claims counsel
Counsel for four former senior managers at KPMG in Belfast claimed HMRC 'misled' magistrates
A process to obtain warrants to search the homes of four Belfast accountants under investigation for suspected tax evasion could be seen as just a "rubber-stamping operation", a senior judge has suggested.
Lord Justice Gillen pressed counsel for HM Revenue and Customs on the lack of available reasons for authorising the raids on the former KPMG partners' houses.
His comments came as judgment was reserved in a legal action mounted by Eamonn Donaghy, Jon D'Arcy, Paul Hollway and Arthur O'Brien.
The four executives are challenging the legality of the searches carried out at their homes and offices.
They were arrested last November, but have not been charged with any wrongdoing.
KPMG has stressed the investigation related solely to the executives' personal affairs and was unrelated to the company's business or its clients.
Counsel for the four claim HMRC misled magistrates who granted the warrants at hearings where they were not represented.
On the second day of the hearing before three High Court judges in Belfast, Lord Justice Gillen questioned why reasons for the decisions were not available.
He said: "The overwhelming likelihood appears to be that the judges, the decision makers, simply granted these - that smacks arguably of a rubber-stamping operation."
Barrister Paul McLaughlin, for HMRC, disputed the suggestion and argued that a statement of complaint prepared by the tax authority would have provided reasons.
Revenue concerns about the four men involved the formation of a separate business partnership and when it was registered.
Loans being issued and written off as bad debt also featured in inquiries.
The court heard the accountants set up a finance partnership in 2009.
It said to have lent sums of up to £800,000 and €2.2 million to another property investment company, JEAP, the four men had established in 2005.
Within 24 months those loans had been written down to zero, according to Mr McLaughlin.
That was said to be a ground for concern that unlawful activity may have occurred - that the partnership could have been used as a vehicle to reclaim bad debt.
But counsel for the accountants accused the tax authority of treating the case as an opportunity to seek to arrest and prosecute high-profile individuals.
Instead of putting direct questions to the accountants about issues of concern, HMRC was said to have taken the "nuclear option" of applying for search warrants.
The move was intrusive and breached the human rights of the four men and their families.
Early morning raids were carried out when children were at home and involved officers trawling through school bags, the court heard.
In closing submissions, Barry Macdonald QC, for the accountants, said: "To put it neutrally, HMRC haven't played with a straight bat in this case - either in dealing with this investigation or in dealing with this application for judicial review."
Following arguments Lord Justice Gillen pledged to deliver judgment as soon as possible.
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Thai journalist charged under draconian charter law
BANGKOK - A Thai journalist and four activists were charged Monday under a draconian law banning criticism of the junta's new constitution which will be voted on in a referendum next month.
Taweesak Kerdpoka, a reporter with the news outlet Prachatai, was arrested on Sunday morning alongside four members of the New Democracy Movement, one of the few activist groups that dare to challenge the military since generals seized power two years ago.
"Their actions were violating the referendum bill article 61 clause 2," police colonel Amnuay Pongsawat, from Ban Pong district in central Ratchaburi province, told AFP.
He did not elaborate on how their actions had broken the law, but the men face up to ten years in prison if convicted.
The clause outlaws critical discussion of the junta's new draft constitution, which if passed will become Thailand's 20th in less than a century.
Prachatai editor Chiranuch Premchaiporn said Taweesak was travelling in the same car as the activists to report on their activities.
Police stopped the car and found documents that they deemed were in breach of the referendum law.
"He is a reporter that covers human and environmental rights," she told AFP. "He was just doing his job."
All five were later bailed, she added.
Thais will vote on the the new charter on August 7, the first return to the ballot box since the 2014 coup.
The junta says the document is the antidote to Thailand's caustic political divide.
But politicians on both sides of the divide have dismissed it as an attempt to further entrench the military's hold on power through an appointed senate.
Video posted online showed the five shackled men making their way to court on Monday morning as supporters handed them roses.
The activists could be heard shouting: "Voting 'no' is our right, it is not against the law".
A message from Taweesak on his Facebook page read: "Being arrested for referendum campaigning is bad, but what should we call being arrested for reporting on the referendum campaign?"
Thai junta chief Prayut Chan-o-Cha, who often rails against the media, said police were entitled to make the arrest.
"If (journalists) violate laws, they will be arrested," he told reporters, adding that the press often pushed for reform "but do not reform themselves".
Prachatai has a history of investigative journalism that frequently riles Bangkok's ultra-nationalist establishment.
Last year its editor Chiranuch lost an appeal against a conviction under the country's notorious royal defamation law for failing to speedily remove reader comments deemed critical of the monarchy.
Since the military's takeover Thailand has undergone a major rights crackdown, with scores of activists jailed and skyrocketing lese majeste convictions.
The kingdom has been handicapped by more than a decade of political deadlock and violence including two military coups. - AFP
The News, August 30, 2018
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First Look: Fête
Simple food served in a comfortable setting makes this new restaurant in Chinatown a place to keep coming back to.
The humble linguine carbonara is one of the most popular dishes at Fête, a new restaurant that opened in Chinatown last week.
Photos: Catherine Toth Fox
There was no big event, no fanfare. It was just by word of mouth—and a little buzz on social media—that people found out Fête, a new restaurant in Chinatown, had opened last week.
And even without a name-brand chef at the helm or a big media blitz, Fête has been so busy the owners decided to hold off starting lunch service until next week. (It was supposed to start yesterday.) They just haven’t had time to refine the menu.
“We’ve had a great response from people on the food, service and space,” says Chuck Bussler, who owns Fête with his wife, Robynne Mai‘i.
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The couple, who moved to Kaimukī last year from New York City, couldn’t have found a better location: a 1,700-square-foot space on the busy corner of Nu‘uanu Avenue and Hotel Street, on the ground floor of the Real Office Centers, that sees a lot of foot traffic during the day. It wasn’t uncommon to see people peering through the plate-glass windows as they walked by days before the restaurant opened. The pair kept the exposed red brick—a signature of Chinatown buildings—and decorated the space with reclaimed wood, blown-glass light fixtures and a giant living plant wall. It’s a place where you can linger over a Maui Bikini Blonde—served on tap—or Boulevardier, nosh on the crispy fried chickpeas and marinated olives that come before you even order, and relax.
The dinner menu at Fête is very simple—a single page, in fact—with two salad options, a soup, a handful of snacks and starters, about half a dozen entrées and four desserts. But Mai‘i, a trained chef and culinary instructor originally from O‘ahu, is proving herself to be a master at creating depth in seemingly simple dishes. For the grilled pulpo ($16), she brines the octopus in red wine for about an hour, then finishes it on the grill and pairs it with a fingerling potato salad. The humble linguine carbonara ($17) is a plate of perfection, with perfectly cooked noodles tossed with slab bacon and Portuguese sausage, then coated with an egg-and-cheese mixture and topped with grated Parmigiano-Reggiano and Pecorino Romano cheeses.
“Oftentimes it’s the simplest dishes that are the hardest to make,” Bussler says.
Inside Fête, located on the corner of Nu‘uanu Avenue and Hotel Street.
Mai‘i in the kitchen at Fête.
Owners Mai‘i and Bussler say they will use as many local ingredients as possible—and as makes sense. Here’s the grilled head-on Kaua‘i shrimp in an anchovy butter with lemon and Italian parsley.
Between 30 percent and 50 percent of the menu here is locally sourced, with the restaurant working with local producers such as MA‘O Farms, Hawaiian Island Goat Dairy and Otsuji Farm.
Mai‘i’s flavor preference and style of cooking are evident throughout the menu. Take the grilled kalbi-marinated bavette ($28), a nod to her Korean heritage. The flank steak (bavette, in case you were wondering) is marinated in a house-made kalbi sauce, grilled to medium rare, then sliced. It’s served with a flavorful fried rice with gosari (bracken fern) and mung bean sprouts, topped with an over-easy egg to add richness, cucumber namul (side dish) and her grandma’s kochujang sauce.
The gyoza on the menu ($17) are stuffed with a duxelles of maitake mushrooms, water chestnuts and foie gras, then drizzled with the unlikely but tasty pairing of Maui Upcountry pohā berry jam and a soy-balsamic-chili reduction.
The grilled kalbi-marinated bavette, or flank steak, is a nod to Mai‘i's Korean heritage.
Though these dumplings are filled with foie gras, they weren’t overly rich. The pohā berry jam from Maui complemented the soy-balsamic-chili reduction nicely.
The popular Chaz Burger—which is served at both lunch and dinner—boasts a beef patty that’s a blend of brisket, chuck roast and short rib.
One of the most popular dishes so far is the Chaz Burger ($16), which ranks high on my list of favorites. Mai‘i blends brisket, chuck roast and short rib to create a tasty and juicy burger. It comes with caramelized onions, Kula-grown tomatoes, Naked Cow Dairy’s Pika Moon Havarti, roasted garlic aioli and house-made ketchup. The bread-and-butter pickles are sweet and crunchy—just how they should be.
Another talker is the fried chicken, which, at $26, may seem pricey—until the dish is served and you realize you’re about to eat half a chicken (minus the wings). Fête uses free-range, organic Jidori chicken from Mary’s Organic Chicken, brined and deep-fried twice for extra crispiness. It comes with a house-made tomato jam spiced with red pepper flakes and old-fashioned Charleston grits (which means it’s cheesy) and roasted melty green beans, stewed and slow-cooked, on the side.
The fried chicken, using Mary's Organic Chicken, is massive and served with cheesy grits.
One of four desserts on the current menu, this Rocky Road to Hāna ice cream tops my list. Its creamy, silky texture and blend of sweet marshmallows and dark chocolate are divine.
Save room for dessert, at least the Rocky Road to Hāna ice cream ($4 for one scoop, $6 for two, $8 for three and so worth it). One of Mai‘i’s personal guilty pleasures, this creation features the blending of Madre Chocolate’s 70-percent Guatemalan chocolate with marshmallows and dragée macadamia nuts. The smooth, rich texture with the hint of sugary-sweet marshmallows is highly addictive. As much as I enjoyed the liliko‘i bombolinis ($8), passion fruit-filled malassadas of sorts paired with a decadent chocolate sauce, I’d go back just for this ice cream alone.
Lunch service starts on Monday, with several salads and sandwiches. Some interesting items include the Korean chicken sandwich with a kochujang aioli, Asian pear slaw and cucumber namul on a sesame brioche bun, and a broccoli raab and Italian sausage sammy with tomato jam and semisoft cheese on buttered bread. The linguine carbonara and Chaz Burger will also be served at lunch. Brunch begins at the end of April.
Fête, 2 N. Hotel St., 369-1390, facebook.com/fetehawaii
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J Cancer 2019; 10(16):3860-3870. doi:10.7150/jca.31291
Upregulation of nucleoprotein AHNAK is associated with poor outcome of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma prognosis via mediating epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Zhiwen Zhang, Xiaoding Liu, Rui Huang, Xuguang Liu, Zhiyong Liang , Tonghua Liu
Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100730, China.
Zhang Z, Liu X, Huang R, Liu X, Liang Z, Liu T. Upregulation of nucleoprotein AHNAK is associated with poor outcome of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma prognosis via mediating epithelial-mesenchymal transition. J Cancer 2019; 10(16):3860-3870. doi:10.7150/jca.31291. Available from http://www.jcancer.org/v10p3860.htm
The nucleoprotein AHNAK (AHNAK) is a large scaffold protein that is involved in several biological processes. Previous studies have suggested a possible relation between AHNAK and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). However, the role of AHNAK in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has not been unveiled. The present study focuses on identifying the potential value of the biological effects of AHNAK in PDAC, which is one of the most lethal malignancies. Bioinformatic analysis was carried for driver gene prediction, and we proved that AHNAK was a driver gene of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and a predictor of poor outcomes of PDAC by clinical characteristics analysis and in vitro experiments. High AHNAK expression was associated with short disease-free survival and poor overall survival. In vitro assays showed that AHNAK was associated with cell proliferation and migration, and a positive relation was observed between AHNAK and the EMT. In conclusion, AHNAK is a crucial biomarker that may promote cellular proliferation and migration and thus impact PDAC outcomes via the EMT, which suggests that AHANK might be a potential target for PDAC.
Keywords: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, nucleoprotein AHNAK, prognosis, epithelial mesenchymal transition
The outcomes of patients with pancreatic carcinoma (PC) remains poor, and diagnosis and treatment have not improved in past decades [1]. With the development of new technologies, the whole genomes of several cancers have been sequenced, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) [2]. However, the functions of most gene alterations have not been validated. Doctors and scientists have focused on genomic data to seek new targets for PDAC treatment.
The nucleoprotein AHNAK (AHNAK) is a large structural scaffold protein that plays a role in diverse biological processes, including the blood-brain barrier, cell junction and migration [3].AHANK was one member of the AHNAK family, with a paralog member of AHNAK2, which has been proved as an prognostic biomarker in PDAC and renal clear cell carcinoma [4, 5]. Several studies have concentrated on the function of AHNAK in diverse cancer types, including melanoma, triple-negative breast cancer, and mesothelioma [6-8]. However, few studies have focused on AHNAK in PDAC, and validation of the expression and function of AHNAK has not been reported. Thus, the present study investigated the role of AHNAK in PDAC progression and its related molecular mechanism.
Bioinformatic analysis
The driver genes were predicted, and a cloud map was generated using the IntOGen website (http://www.IntOGen.org) [9, 10]. One hundred seventy-eight PDAC cases were downloaded from the cBioPortal for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database (http://www.cbioportal.org) [11, 12], including clinical data and genome alterations detected by whole exon sequencing (WES). The genome data included mRNA expression z-scores (RNA-seq V2 RSEM). Twenty two paired samples were selected from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/, GSE41368, GSE16515) [13, 14] that included AHNAK, KRAS and SMAD4 mRNA expression data, among others. Nineteen (10 tumors and 9 adjacent tissues) Immunohistochemical staining images of AHNAK in PDAC samples were acquired from the Human Protein Atlas website (http://www.proteinatlas.org) [15], and the protein expression levels were calculated using the Image-Pro Plus software (version 6.0; Media Cybernetics, lnc). Biological processes and signaling pathways in the PDAC samples were analyzed using Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA version 2.2, http://www.broad.mit.edu/gsea/) [16] to calculate the gene set enrichment score (ES).
Collection of PDAC cases
To prove the prediction by bioinformatic analysis, 66 PDAC cases were selected from the Pathology Department archive at Peking Union Medical College Hospital for immunohistochemical staining and statistical analysis. The inclusion criteria were 1) pathological diagnosis was pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; 2) the clinical and follow-up was available, and 3) tumor specimens and adjacent specimens of each case could be explicit via microscopic examination. The patients with other pancreatic disorder or subtypes of pancreatic cancer, or without clinical and pathological information, or loss to follow-up were excluded. This study was approved by the ethics committee of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and all patients signed a written informed consent form when admitted to the hospital in accordance with Declaration of Helsinki.
Immunohistochemistry array
The PDAC slides were deparaffinized, rehydrated and subjected to the EnVision two-step method. After antigen retrieval with citrate buffer (pH 6.0), the slides were blocked with 3% hydrogen peroxide (Dako, Glostrup, Denmark) for 10 min and incubated with an AHNAK mouse monoclonal antibody (product code: ab68556; Abcam, Cambridge, UK) at 4°C overnight. The next day, the slides were incubated with anti-mouse HRP-IgG (product number: 7076S; CST, Danvers, USA) and washed with phosphate-buffered saline. Diaminobenzidine (DAB) was used for the chromogenic reaction.
The number of positive cells and the staining intensity of each specimen were interpreted by two pathology experts. The strong and intermediated staining in plasma was considered as positive while weak staining and no-staining was negative. The positive cells were observed under 400× magnification, and the percentage of positive cells was recorded as follows: 0-25%, 0; 25%-50%, 1; 51%-75%, 2; and >75%, 3. Levels 0 and 1 were considered low expression, and levels 2 and 3 were considered high expression.
Human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines (PANC-1. MIA PaCa-2 and AsPC-1) and were acquired from the Cell Resource Centre of Peking Union Medical College (Beijing, China). Pancreatic duct normal cell lines (hTERT-HPNE) were purchased from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). PANC-1 and MIA Paca-2 were cultivated in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM, Cell Resource Centre of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China), while AsPC-1 was in RPMI-1640 (Cell Resource Centre of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China), and both cell lines were supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; product number: 35-010-CV; Corning, NY, USA) and penicillin and streptomycin (100 U/ml; catalogue number: 10378-016; Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Jose, USA) in 75-cm2 flasks in a 37°C incubator with 5% CO2. hTERT-HPNE was cultivated in 75% DMEM without glucose (Sigma Cat#. D-5030 with additional 2 mM L-glutamine and 1.5 g/L sodium bicarbonate) and 25% Medium M3 Base (Incell Corp. Cat# M300F- 500), with a supplementary of 5% FBS, 15 ng/ml human recombinant EGF, 5.5mM D-glucose (1g/L) and 2μg/ml puromycin. The cells were passaged into 3 flasks when adherent cells accounted for 75% of the total area. Recombinant p53 protein was purchased from Origene (Catalog: TP710022) and Cell culture experiments were used to verify the predictions.
The RNA oligo was synthesized from GenePharma Ltd. (Shanghai, China). The siRNA sequence of AHNAK was 5'-GUGCCACCAUCUACUUUGATT-3' (sense) and 5'-UCAAAGUAGAUGGUGGCACTT-3' (antisense), the sequence of negative control was 5'-UUCUCCGAACGUGUCACGUTT-3' (sense) and 5'-ACGUGACACGUUCGGAGAATT-3' (antisense). AHNAK mRNA interference was induced following the Lipofectamine RNAiMAX protocol (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). Briefly, 15 μl of RNAiMAX and 5 μl of siRNA were diluted with 250 μl of Opti-MEM and then mixed prior to transfection. The final siRNA concentration used for transfection was 100 μmol/l. The cells were harvested for RNA interference and in vitro assays after 48 h of incubation. The siRNA efficiency was verified by quantitative real-time PCR.
Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR)
The mRNA expression levels of AHNAK and other markers in PDAC cells with AHNAK knockdown or negative controls were analyzed by qPCR. Total RNA was extracted by TRIzoL reagent (Catalog Numbers: 15596026 Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) following the protocol and quantification by microplate reader (Epoch2, BioTek lnc, Whinooski, VT, USA). The 260/280 ratio ranged from 1.8 to 2.0 was required. Reverse transcription was carried out following the protocol of High Capacity cDNA Reverse Transcription Kit (PN number: 4368813, Life Technology, Foster City, CA, USA) and acquired cDNA was used for PCR after quantification. The primer sequences are listed in Supplementary Table 1. The PCR procedure was performed using the 7500 FAST Real-Time PCR system (Life Technology, Foster City, CA, USA) with the following protocol: 95°C for 20 s; 40 cycles of 95°C for 3 s and 60°C for 30 s; one cycle of 95°C for 15 s; and one dissociation cycle of 60°C for 60 s, 95°C for 15 s and 60°C for 15 s. Relative quantitation (ΔΔCt) of the expression of PDAC markers was calculated using the 7500 software (version 2.3, Life Technology, Foster City, CA, USA).
PDAC cells were lysed by RIPA (BioRuYee, Beijing, China) with protease inhibitors on ice for half an hour, then centrifuged at 12,000g and collected the precipitation to acquire the total protein. After quantification, twenty micrograms of each sample were resolved on 8% sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel by electrophoresis (BIO-RAD, California, USA). As the protein was large, constant 80 voltage was needed during the electrophoresis for more than 2h. Then the samples were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes with a constant voltage of 20V overnight. Then, the membranes with proteins were blocked by bovine serum albumin for 1h. Subsequently, the membrane was incubated by primary antibody (AHNAK: 1:500 product code: ab68556; Abcam, Cambridge, UK; EMT markers: lot. No. 9782T, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA; TP53: 1:2000; lot. No. 2524S, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA; Phospho-p53(Ser33): 1:500; lot. No. 2526S, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA; AKT: 1:1000; lot. No. 4691S, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA; Phospho-AKT (Ser473): 1:1500; lot. No. 4060S, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA; ERK: 1:2000; lot. No. 4695S, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA; Phospho-ERK(Thr202/Tyr204): 1:500; lot. No. 4370S, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA;) overnight at 4°C and incubated by secondary antibody for 1h at room temperature. The protein-antibody compounds were detected by Immobilon Western chemiluminescent HRP Substrate (Millipore, Billerica, USA) and the images were developed by Chemidoc Touch Image System (BIO-RAD, California, USA).
PANC-1 cells were fixed by formalin and membrane was permeated by PBS with 0.1% Triton-X for 10 minutes. Then the cells were blocked by 10% goat serum for 30 minutes. The blocked cells were incubated by primary antibody (AHNAK: 1:500 product code: ab68556; Abcam, Cambridge, UK) for one hour and reacted by fluorescein-conjugated IgG antibody (cat number: ZF-0311, Zhongshan Golden Bridge, Beijing, China) for one hour. The cells were mounted by mounting medium with DAPI (cat number: ZLI-9557, Zhongshan Golden Bridge, Beijing, China).
Colony formation assay
Both PANC-1 and AsPC-1 cells (3×102 cells) with and without RNA interference were seeded into 6-well plates and incubated in a humid atmosphere with 5% CO2 at 37°C for 14 days. After incubation, the cell colonies were dyed by crystal violet and recorded and counted for comparison.
Wound healing experiment
RNA interference and control PDAC cells were cultured in a wounding healing matrix (lot number: 80206; Ibidi, Germany) in 2-well plates coated with silicone for 24 h. Then, the silicone was lifted from the matrix, and the distance between the two groups of cells was recorded. The matrix containing cells was incubated for an additional 24 h, and the distance was recorded a second time for comparison.
Transwell assay
RNA interference and control PDAC cells were cultured in a Transwell chamber with an 8.0-μm pore size (Corning, NY, USA) in a 24-well plate at 37°C in 5% CO2 for 8 h. The chambers containing cells were removed to allow collection of the polycarbonate membranes. The membranes were stained with crystal violet (BioRuYee, Beijing, China) to observe cell migration.
Cell counting kit-8 assay (CCK-8)
The CCK-8 reagent (Dojindo, Toyko, Japan) was added to 96-well plates containing RNA interference or control PDAC cells. The absorbance was detected by a spectrophotometer, and the OD values at 0 h, 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h were recorded to generate proliferation curves for comparison between the interfered and negative control cells.
All data were analyzed with the SPSS (version 20.0; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and GraphPad software (version 7.0; GraphPad Software Inc., San Diego, CA, USA). A two-tailed independent sample t test was performed to analyze the mRNA expression, protein expression and in vitro assay data. Clinical characteristics were compared using the Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test. The survival status was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier and multivariate Cox regression analyses. P≤0.05 was considered significant.
AHNAK is predicted to be a driver gene and associated with poor prognosis in PDAC、
Twenty-one driver genes were predicted from the IntOGen website, including AHNAK, KRAS, TP53 and SMAD4 (Figure 1A). Twenty-eight immunohistochemistry graphs were downloaded from the Human Protein Atlas database for comparison of AHNAK protein expression levels (Figure 1B and C). Twenty-two PDAC tissue pairs from the GEO database (GSE41368, GSE16515) were selected for comparison of AHNAK mRNA expression between PDAC and adjacent non-tumor tissues (Figure 1D and E). Both the AHNAK mRNA and protein expression levels were significantly upregulated in the PDAC tumor tissues. Then, a prognostic analysis was performed using Kaplan-Meier and cox Regression analyses, and a survival curve was generated to observe the distinctions. PDAC information from TCGA data and the Kaplan-Meier results showed that high AHNAK expression predicted short disease-free survival (DFS) and poor overall survival (OS) (P=0.002, and P=0.015, respectively), suggesting that PDAC patients with relatively low AHNAK expression tended to have longer survival and better outcomes (Figure 1F, G). After adjustment in the univariate analysis, a multivariate Cox regression analysis was performed. AHNAK was independent prognostic factors of DFS in PDAC patients (P=0.019), but AHNAK was not an independent prognostic predictor of OS (P=0.142) (Figure 1H and I). These results revealed that AHNAK was an important biomarker in PDAC and suggested a poor clinical outcome.
Upregulation of AHNAK is verified in PDAC
We selected 66 PDAC formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) specimens to verify the expression and prognostic prediction. We performed immunohistochemical staining to detect AHNAK expression in PDAC and adjacent non-tumor tissues (Figure 2A). Immunohistochemical staining showed relatively higher AHNAK expression in the PDAC tissues than in the adjacent non-tumor tissues (Figure 2B). Immunofluorescence showed AHNAK was mainly expressed in cytoplasm of PANC-1 cells (Figure 2C). Then, we identified AHNAK expression in both a PDAC cell lines (PANC-1, MIA PaCa-2, and AsPC-1) and normal pancreatic ductal cell line (HPNE). The qPCR and western blotting results also showed that AHNAK was highly expressed in the PANC-1 cell line (Figure 2D, E), which was consistent with the predicted results from the GEO databases that AHNAK was upregulated in PDAC. These results suggested that AHNAK was upregulated in PDAC.
High AHNAK expression indicates a poor prognosis for PDAC
The relationships between AHNAK expression and clinical characteristics and between AHNAK expression and the prognosis were investigated. We selected 66 PDAC specimens to confirm the relation, but the present data suggested that no characteristic was associated with AHNAK expression (Table 1). We also performed prognostic predictions and found that high AHNAK expression was significantly associated with shortened DFS and poor OS (P=0.013 and 0.017, respectively, Figure 3A, B, Table 2). Lymph node invasion was also related to worse DFS and OS (P=0.020 and 0.006, respectively, Figure 3C, D, Table 2). The cox Regression analysis also showed that high AHNAK expression was an independent prognostic predictor of PDAC, as well as lymph node invasion (Table 2). High AHNAK expression and lymph node invasion suggested worse DFS (P=0.031 and 0.025, respectively) and dismal OS (P=0.004 and 0.006, respectively). These results verified that AHNAK was a crucial biomarker for PDAC patients and was associated with patient outcomes.
AHNAK was predicted to be a driver gene in PDAC. A: AHNAK was predicted as a driver gene in PDAC as analyzed using the IntOGen website. B and C: Nineteen images of PDAC and adjacent non-tumor tissues were downloaded from the Protein Atlas database, which showed high AHNAK protein expression in PDAC compared to adjacent non-tumor tissues. D and E: Twenty-two pairs of PDAC sequencing data were downloaded from the GEO database, which showed upregulated AHNAK mRNA expression in PDAC. F and G: PDAC data were downloaded from TCGA database. The Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that high AHNAK expression was associated with shortened DFS and poor OS. H and I: multivariate analysis showed that AHNAK and the AJCC N stage were independent prognostic predictors of DFS, but not an independent prognostic predictor of OS in PDAC.
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Upregulation of AHNAK was discovered in PDAC and PDAC cell lines. A and B: Sixty-six PDAC specimens were collected and subjected to immunohistochemical staining, which showed higher AHNAK protein expression in PDAC than in adjacent non-tumor tissues. C and D: AHNAK expression was measured in three pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells(PANC-1, Mia PaCa-2 and AsPC-1) and Pancreatic ductal normal cells (hTERT-HPNE). The PANC-1 cells had higher AHNAK mRNA and protein expression levels as detected by qPCR and western blotting analyses.
High expression of AHNAK indicates poor clinical outcome of PDAC. High AHNAK expression was associated with shortened DFS (P=0.013) (A) and poor OS (P=0.017) (B) in PDAC, with significant difference. Invasion of lymph node also suggested poor outcome of PDAC (P=0.020 of DFS, and P=0.006 of OS, respectively) (C and D) with statistically significance.
Relationship between AHNAK expression and clinical characteristics of PDAC
low AHNAK
high AHNAK
Age 66 0.937
< 65 41 16 25
≥ 65 25 10 15
Gender 66 0.584
Male 34 14 20
Female 32 12 20
Clinical stage 66 0.532
Stage 1/2 62 25 37
Stage 3/4 4 1 3
Smoking status 66 0.974
Yes 23 9 14
No 46 17 26
Position 66 0.159
Head 35 11 24
Body/Tail 31 15 16
Bile invasion 66 0.775
Yes 24 10 14
LN invasion 66 0.541
AJCC T stage 66 0.826
T1/2 3 1 2
T3/4 63 25 38
AJCC N stage 66 0.585
N0 34 15 19
AJCC M stage 66 0.127
M0 62 26 36
M1 4 0 4
AJCC: American Joint Committee on Cancer; LN: Lymph Node.
Univariate and multivariate cox regression analysis in PDAC
Univariate
Age (>65 vs. ≤65) 0.833 0.628
Gender (Male vs. Female) 0.592 0.359
Clinical stage (Stage 1/2 vs. 3/4) 0.071 0.261 0.579
Smoking status (Yes vs. No) 0.296 0.508
Position (Head vs. Body/Tail) 0.937 0.239
Bile duct invasion (Yes vs. No) 0.158 0.096 0.053
LN Invasion (Yes vs. No) 0.020 0.025 0.006 0.006
AJCC T stage (T1/2 vs. T3/4) 0.462 0.512
AJCC N stage (N0 vs. N1) 0.153 0.370
AJCC M stage (M0 vs. M1) 0.071 0.195
AHNAK (high vs. low) 0.013 0.031 0.017 0.004
AJCC: American Joint Committee on Cancer; LN, Lymph Node.
Downregulation of AHNAK inhibits PDAC cell proliferation and migration
AHNAK interference was confirmed by the qPCR and western blotting analysis (Figure 4A). CCK-8 and colony formation assays were performed to measure cellular proliferation. The proliferative ability of PDAC cells with AHNAK interference was significantly decreased compared to that of the negative control cells (Figure 4B, C, and D). In addition, cell migration was examined using a Transwell assay and wound healing experiment (Figure 4E, F and G). A significant decrease in the cellular migration of PDAC cells was observed after AHNAK was suppressed. These results indicated that AHNAK might promote PDAC cell proliferation and migration to accelerate the progression of PDAC, thereby contributing to the poor outcomes of PDAC patients.
AHNAK mediates the epithelial-mesenchymal transition to promote proliferation and migration via TP53 signaling pathway
To uncover the mechanism by which AHNAK mediated PDAC cellular proliferation and migration, we performed GSEA analysis to investigate cancer-related biological processes. The results suggested that the majority of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers were upregulated (NES=1.34, FDR=0.558; Figure 5A). We selected PANC-1 cells to search for relevant cellular mechanism as the cells had an abundant AHNAK expression. After siRNA interference, the AHNAK expression level was downregulated in the PANC-1 cells by approximately 70%-90% as verified by qPCR and western blotting (Figure 5B, C). The RNA and protein expression levels of EMT-related markers, including E-cadherin, EGFR, N-cadherin, SNAIL, β-catenin, and Collagen Ⅰ, were assessed in PANC-1 cells with and without AHNAK interference (Figure 5B, D). AHNAK-deficient PANC-1 cells had upregulated epithelial markers, such as CDH-1 and EGFR, but downregulated mesenchymal markers, including CDH-2 and COL1A1 (Figure 5B, D). Moreover, AHNAK showed no obvious relationship with SNAI1 and CTNNB-1 (Figure 5B, D). These results suggested that the PANC-1 cells transformed from a quasi-mesenchymal to an epithelial status after AHNAK was suppressed. Because a quasi-mesenchymal status suggests relative invasive behavior, AHNAK may promote PDAC cell proliferation and migration via the EMT to influence PDAC patient outcomes.
Then we searched relative signaling pathway that involved in the procedure and found that expression of TP53 was influenced while others, including AKT, ERK, were not changed (Figure 6A). Then we detected the alteration of TP53 signaling pathway in PANC-1 cell line. GSEA showed an alteration in TP53 signaling pathway (NES=0.688, FDR=0.896), suggesting TP53 signaling pathway was downregulated in PDAC and our qPCR and Western blot analysis also suggested that TP53 was downregulated in AHNAK knockdown cells (Figure 6B). To verify the relationship between EMT and TP53 signaling pathway, we added the recombinant p53 into AHNAK knockdown cells. The results showed that E-cad was downregulated while N-cad showed no alteration in western blot analysis (Figure 6D). Cellular function assays also showed an upregulation in cellular proliferation and migration (Figure 6E, F). These suggested that the EMT phenotype might be mediated by TP53 signaling pathway.
Downregulation of AHNAK inhibits PDAC cell proliferation and migration. A: AHNAK mRNA expression was suppressed by siRNA. Both qPCR and western blotting analyses showed downregulation of AHNAK in PANC-1 and AsPC-1 cells. B: The CCK-8 assay showed that AHNAK deficiency dramatically inhibited the proliferative ability of PDAC cells. C and D: The colony plating assays also suggested AHNAK knockdown inhibited the proliferation of PDAC cells, with statistical significance in PANC-1. E and F: Transwell assays showed a reduction of the migration ability in PDAC cells once the AHNAK was inhibited, with statistical significance. G: The wound healing also suggested AHNAK deficiency might inhibit cellular migration in PDAC cells. OD, Optical density; LPF, Low power field; NC, Negative control.
AHNAK mediates the EMT to promote PDAC cell proliferation and migration via TP53 signaling pathway. A: GSEA was carried out in the paired PDAC samples in GEO database. It showed that most biomarkers were involved in the EMT phenotype. B: Western blotting analysis showed that AHNAK suppression caused an increase in E-cadherin but a decrease in N-cadherin. C and D: The qPCR results showed the alteration of gene expression in EMT phenotype after knockdown of AHNAK.
AHNAK mediates the EMT via TP53 signaling pathway. A: Western blot analysis showed that after knockdown of AHNAK, only expression of TP53 was altered, while other markers, including AKT and ERK. The phosphorylated level of TP53, AKT and ERK also showed no alterations. B: qRT-PCR showed the alteration of markers in TP53 signaling pathway. C: GSEA suggested an enrichment of TP53 signaling pathway in PDAC by analyzing the GEO database. D: Western blot showed after the recombinant TP53 protein was added into the AHNAK deficiency cell lines, E-cad, the epithelial markers of EMT phenotype was restored. E and F: CCK-8 and Transwell assays showed that recombinant TP53 could restore cellular proliferation and migration.
PC is a highly lethal malignancy in the pancreas due to its high mortality and short survival. New epidemiological evidence has shown that no effective therapeutic strategy has been established and that patients with pancreatic neoplasms still suffer [2, 17]. The latest epidemiological investigation in China showed that the survival of PC patients has deteriorated and has not improved in recent decades [1]. Because of the biological characteristics of the pancreas and PDAC, recent treatments are feeble and futile. Thus, new biomarkers of treatment are urgently needed to relieve symptoms and improve survival. The present study predicted new markers for PDAC based on online database and conducted molecular experiments and statistical analyses to elucidate new alterations in PDAC and aid in the development of new potential treatment targets.
The nucleoprotein AHNAK, which is also known as desmoyokin, is a large scaffold protein (629 kDa). Previous studies have shown that AHNAK is a complex protein with a tripartite nature and multiple domains [3]. AHNAK has been reported to be associated with several cellular processes, including cell signaling, cell-cell contact formation [18], calcium ion channel regulation [19, 20], and cellular adherence and migration [21].
We found that AHNAK was highly expressed in PDAC and was an independent prognostic predictor of PDAC. Upregulation of AHNAK was associated with poor outcomes and short DFS in PDAC patients based on analysis of TCGA data. In addition, we compared AHNAK expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of PDAC and showed that high AHNAK expression predicted poor survival. Cox regression indicated that AHNAK was an independent prognostic predictor in PDAC. Previous studies have reported AHNAK expression in several tumors. Caruso discovered higher AHNAK expression in breast cancer cell lines than in normal epithelial cells [22]. Dumitru reported that AHNAK was associated with poor outcomes in laryngeal carcinoma patients [23]. A meta-analysis suggested that AHNAK was upregulated in pancreatic cancer and was associated with cell migration and the EMT [24]. Together, these findings suggested that AHNAK was an important biomarker for the progression and prognosis of tumors.
Because AHNAK suggested a poor outcome, the molecular mechanism of AHNAK that impacted the PDAC outcome was further investigated using the PANC-1 and AsPC-1 cell lines in vitro. Cellular proliferation and migration were both inhibited by AHNAK suppression, suggesting a positive relation between AHNAK and invasive behavior. Some studies have revealed the molecular mechanism of AHNAK in tumor metastasis [25-27]. Shankar reported that AHNAK was assembled in pseudopodia in epithelial cells and that knockdown of AHNAK led to pseudopodia retraction and decreased cell migration [25]. AHNAK has also been shown to predict cell invasion and chemotherapeutic responses [26]. We verified that AHNAK promoted cell migration using wound healing and Transwell assays. In addition, we also proved that AHNAK promoted cell proliferation using colony formation and CCK-8 assays. Lee reported that overexpression of AHNAK prevented cancer proliferation via TGF-β in cervical cancer cells [27]. However, our results showed promotion of cancer cell proliferation in pancreatic cancer cells. These inconsistent results suggested that AHNAK might play diverse roles in different tumorigenic mechanisms.
EMT is a frequently studied biological process that was first identified by Elizabeth Hay in the 1980s [28]. Subsequently, Thiery verified that the EMT could aid in resistance to senescence and apoptosis [29]. Alterations of several EMT biomarkers have been identified, including E-cadherin, EGFR, N-cadherin, Vimentin, and Collagen [30]. Epithelial cells lose their original phenotypes, with a downregulation of epithelial markers (E-cadherin and EGFR) and upregulation of mesenchymal marker (N-cadherin, Vimentin, and Collagen) [30]. Up to now, the EMT is well-known to be a crucial process in multiple tumors and is associated with tumorigenesis and the prognosis. Several studies have reported that AHNAK is involved in the EMT because AHNAK knockdown reduces the EMT phenotype [3, 31-33]. The present study showed that inhibition of AHNAK in PANC-1 cells altered the expression of EMT-related biomarkers in the progression of PDAC. Previous studies have shown that the EMT occurs frequently in PDAC and is related to PDAC progression and metastasis [34]. Additionally, the EMT has been shown to predict poor outcomes of PDAC patients [34]. The present study verified that the EMT occurred in PDAC using GSEA analysis. The relation between AHNAK and EMT-related markers, including CDH-1, CDH-2, EGFR, CTNNB-1, SNAI1 and COL1A1, was established by assessing mRNA and protein expression in PANC-1 cells. These results showed that AHNAK might be associated with the EMT and that AHNAK suppression reduced the level of the EMT phenotype in PANC-1 cells. Thus, we postulated that AHNAK promoted PDAC cellular proliferation and migration, which impacted PDAC patient survival via mediating the EMT.
TP53 signalling pathway is the most frequent transduction pathway in most cancers. The acknowledged functions of p53 are its impact on cell cycle and apoptosis [35, 36]. Besides functions above, recent studies showed p53 was involved in multiple biological processes via regulating several target genes[35]. In present study, we discovered a possible relation between TP53 and CDH1, which was an evidence that p53 might be involved in EMT. It suggests that not only did TP53 involve in tumorigenesis, but also mediated tumor proliferation and migration. We detected an alteration of TP53 signalling pathway in AHNAK-deficient PANC-1 cells and PANC-1 cells tended to be quasi-mesenchymal phenotype with CDH1 downregulation. After added the recombinant TP53 protein, the AHNAK knockdown PANC-1 cells could restore some EMT phenotype and cellular proliferation and migration. It suggested that TP53 signalling pathway might be involve in EMT in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
According to the present study, AHNAK is an independent prognostic marker of PDAC patients and mediates the EMT phenotype to promote cellular proliferation and migration in PDAC. Therefore, AHNAK is an important biomarker of PDAC and may be a new therapeutic target for clinical evaluation and treatment.
AHNAK: Nucleoprotein AHNAK; ATCC: American Type Culture Collection; CDH-1: Cadherin 1; CDH-2: Cadherin 2; COL1A1: Collagen Type I Alpha 1 Chain; CTNNB-1: Catenin Beta 1; DFS: Disease-Free Survival; EGFR: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor; EMT: Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition; GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus; GSEA: Gene Set Enrichment Analysis; IPCM: Inverted Phase Contrast Microscope; NES: Normal Enrichment Score; OS: Overall Survival; PC: Pancreatic Carcinoma; PDAC: Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma; TCGA: The Cancer Genome Atlas; SNAI1: Snail Family Transcriptional Repressor 1; WES: Whole Exon Sequence.
Supplementary table.
We acknowledge immunohistochemical staining support from Jun-Yi Pang of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and bioinformatics assistance from Qiang Ma of Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
Z.Z. was responsible for the entire study and manuscript writing. Xiaoding L. contributed to the bioinformatics analyses. R.H. and Xuguang L. contributed to qPCR assays. Z.L. supplied the technical analysis and T.L. conducted the study. All authors were qualified according to the ICMJE criteria for authorship.
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Corresponding authors: Zhiyong Liang, Department of Pathology, Research Centre for Molecular Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, NO. 1 Shuaifuyuan of Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China; liangzhiyong1220com. Tonghua Liu, Department of Pathology, Research Centre for Molecular Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, NO. 1 Shuaifuyuan of Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China; Tonghua_liucom
Received 2018-11-6
Accepted 2019-5-5
Published 2019-6-10
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It’s not often that a clever, renowned, mild-mannered economics editor pops by for a quick sing of Bohemian Rhapsody in the beautiful St Barnabas Church, Jericho. A couple of years back the Radio 4 PM programme asked listeners to write in with suggestions for challenges that Robert Peston could do as he likes trying new things.
One of our choir members, Sarah Wood, suggested that Robert should have the experience of singing one of pop’s most loved anthems, Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody with us all. This was one of the challenges that were chosen.
You can hear the radio 4 clip here.
Sarah is a committed member of our choir and was inspired by our tour to Italy in June 2015 to believe that we we were up for the challenge, and she thought Robert would be too.
When Robert left the BBC to join ITV and we thought that was that. So Sarah, and in fact the rest of us, were quite surprised, though delighted, when, about two years later, to find out that the gig was back on.
But how? With a love of singing and a good spirit Robert agreed to fulfill his promise to sing with us. He was coming to Oxford for a talk organised by Jacqui Ibbotson from with Tim Harford at Oxford University’s new Blavatnik School of Government in Jericho and the opportunity was too good to miss.
The choir practiced hard and we recruited an ace band of Al Pirrie on bass, Keith Fairburn on drums, Martin Pickett on piano and Brian May non-look-a-like but much sound-a-like Ben Avison.
On the day, Robert arrived for a bit of lunch and a wee practice, followed by more rehearsing with the band and most of the choir. This was a lot of fun in itself, never mind the show later. Robert really threw himself into the performance!
The performance was part of a lovely concert ‘Roses and Castles, created by Steph Pirrie and Charlie Henry to celebrate life in and around the Oxford canal. A celebration of history, stories, music and sounds.
More about the concert here www.oxfordcanalheritage.org
Our final performance was a triumph, Robert must have been nervous and exhausted, but if he was, none of this showed. He absolutely went for it and threw himself into the song. Freddie would have approved.
We hope he will come back for a re-match soon and that he enjoyed it as much as all of us! He certainly looked as if he did!
A big thank you all our friends and community folk who came down to support us. It was a memorable and wonderful evening.
Read the Oxford Mail article here http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk and the Evening Standard article here
Steph:)
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ProdID: 510 - King Arthur
Directed by Antone Fuqua
King Arthur product reviews
This is the valiant tale of Arthur and his bond of brotherhood with Lancelot and the loyalty of the Knights of the Round Table as they fight for freedom and those they love.
Also starring Keira Knightley as Guinevere, this never-before-seen King Arthur is a longer, grittier and more explicit motion picture -- don't miss it!
DVD Special Features:
Blood on the Land: Forging King Arthur, Alternate Ending : Badun Hill w/Optional Director's Commentary, Producer's photo gallery
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Rating: 10.0 Murder On The Orient Express
Rating: 10.0 Mary Queen of Scots
Rating: 7.8 Cooties
Rating: 6.0 The Sisters Brothers
Rating: 5.5 Band of Brothers
Rating: 10.0 Pulse
Rating: 7.8 Zero Dark Thirty
Rating: 6.0 Pink Panther Box Set
Rating: 9.5 Daffodils
Rating: 8.5 Bride & Prejudice
Rating: 8.8 Isle of Dogs
Rating: 6.8 The Nightmare Before Christmas
Dated: 1st of February, 2005
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Attention Span:
Believeability:
I could almost leave it at that really... but I'm not going to. I want to have a rave about this brilliant, and far more plausible, version of the Arthurian legends.
When you think of King Arthur, you get Merlin the magician, knights in shining armour with high ideals and ethical standards far above mortal men. BZZZZT! SO on the wrong track! Having done a stint as a Living History Re-enactor, I learned that 'shining armour' was for display, and usually half the thickness of combat armour. REAL armour, worn out to battle, was often covered in pitch (a thick, sticky tar often used in modern life to seal concrete rooves) to stop it from rusting in the wet, muggy air, and blood of course.
I also learned that what we would consider 'a clever person with a basic grasp of psychology and chemistry' would be considered a 'magistre' or magician... mage for short. Merlin (and Guinevere) were both Wodes, a breakaway group of Britons who dyed their bodies blue in order to blend into the forest areas better. Worked really well in the movie, and even better in real life.
Arthur wasn't a king at all, he was a soldier, plain and simple... but he was a damned effective one, which is where his aura of mystery and unbeatable power came from, because he won his battles. He used his brain more than his weapons, and as well as out-fighting his opponents, he out-thought them too. His 'Knights' were Sarmatian Knights, the decendants of a proud but conquered group of fighters who remained standing after a great battle against the Roman legions.
Overall, I can't really go into too much more, lest I spoil it for you. However, if you think you know anything about the Arthurian legends, you really must see this movie. There's no great hocus-pocus magic, no spells and chants, there IS a great soundtrack, and some things that will make you sit back and say "Oh WOW! That's a new twist"... and you'll either accept it and love it, or you'll cling to the traditional stories and find this to be just a great action movie. I loved the swordfights, stunning, simply stunning.
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Soldiers' Letters
Battle Files
The Rev. Charles A. Baer's Civil War
Labels: 122nd Pennsylvania, 51st Pennsylvania, Battle of Gettysburg, Religion
The Rev. Charles Alfred Baer
From album of Lutheran pastors in the
archive of LTS Philadelphia
While the Civil War has been thoroughly documented through lenses such as regiments, battles, and cities, how religious communities experienced the war is somewhat of an open question. Perhaps the minutia of congregational life and how people lived out religious commitments over the entire 19th century hasn't received too much attention, but the intense experience of the Civil War provides a natural focal point. Not long ago during a trip to the archives of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, I found a reference to the diaries of the Rev. Charles Alfred Baer conveniently published in the 1950 Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, which are a fantastically interesting account of the Lancaster native's duties and how he cared for members of his congregation in Norristown.
The battlefield-home front connections are rather direct. He visited both the Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields, as well as the camp of the 122nd Pennsylvania. Trinity Lutheran Church in Norristown seems to be most connected with the 51st Pennsylvania, famous for charging across Burnside's Bridge at the Battle of Antietam. A role on the Board of Directors of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg brought him to Gettysburg after the battle, which makes sense as much planning for repairs would have needed to take place after the intense battle on Seminary Ridge on July 1, 1863. The trip to Gettysburg -- and, presumably, the time that he spent visiting battlefield hospitals -- caused his unexpected and much-lamented demise a few weeks later.
Baer was born on May 28, 1831, to John and Frances Baer in Lancaster. John Baer was a prominent publisher in Lancaster who might be best known for a farmer's almanac that is still published today. After studying in Lancaster under Prof. F. A. Muhlenberg, he went to Yale, which was actually the setting for a spiritual awakening. He proceeded to the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and ended up as the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Norristown in 1859. His diaries ended up in the hands of someone named Kirke Bryan, who published selections in successive issues of the 1950 Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County. I don't know where the diaries are now. Just a few examples of the rich content that stuck out to me include:
On August 15, 1862, he received a letter from his brother, Benjamin F. Baer, who was going off to war as a captain in the 122nd Pennsylvania. Charles Baer rushed to Lancaster to see him off, but missed seeing his brother. Charles Baer stuck around to visit with the Sunday schools on August 17 and preach a sermon entitled, "A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ," that evening in Holy Trinity.
On August 27, he was back in Norristown talking to the Sunday school assembled for a picnic. To impress the young people, he borrowed a sword from the Schall family -- which had several sons as officers in the 51st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry -- that had seen use in Burnside's North Carolina Expedition: "The exercises opened with singing several pieces and prayer, after which I made an address. I took with me a sword which I borrowed from Schalls' which had been used in battles in North Carolina. It attracted the attention of the scholars. From the 'carnal weapon' I led them to the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and showed them how they must use that weapon to keep them safe from the assaults of the Devil."
From Sunday, September 21, 1862: "Just as the people were gathering to churches several of our wounded men of the 51st Regiment came up the street, returning home. One of them was Mr. John Freedley, who was wounded in the battle of Antietam. He had been reported dead, but his family had the gratification to meet him alive." Also, "Evening services were well attended. I preached on the parable of the Good Samaritan, and made an application of it to the duty of caring for our wounded soldiers."
Some other links and notes:
Another photograph of Charles A. Baer is in the collection of the Lancaster County Historical Society as object ID A-23-01-24.
Diary Part 1
Yale's 1863-1864 Obituary Record
Several tributes to Baer in the Evangelical Quarterly Review
History of Trinity Lutheran Church, Norristown
Find A Grave entry
The charge of the 51st Pennsylvania across Burnside's Bridge at the Battle of Antietam
Many of Pastor Baer's parishioners served in this regiment.
Sketch by Edwin Forbes (source)
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"Bride of a Month" -- The Tragic Death of Emma Greenwald
Location: 501 S Queen St, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA Labels: Death, Religion
Gravestone of Emma Greenwald in Woodward Hill Cemetery
As you travel on the path that winds through Woodward Hill Cemetery, a particular phrase on a tombstone will likely stand out to you in the cemetery's easternmost section. One tombstone, which already catches the eye as it's a horizontal stone (is altar stone the correct term), is emblazoned with the words, "Bride of a Month." The mind might dart to a Wilkie Collins novel or Tim Burton film, but let's investigate the real story.
The gravestone marks the final resting place of Emma Greenwald. Behind her stone is that of her parents, Levinia and the Rev. Emanuel Greenwald, who served as Holy Trinity Lutheran Church's pastor from 1867 until 1885. Emma was born on October 25, 1852, which would be when her father was serving a Lutheran church and college in Columbus, Ohio. In a memorial volume written by the Rev. C. Elvin Haupt after Pastor Greenwald's death in 1885, Haupt described the roles of Emma and her sister, Ada, in the early years of Pastor Greenwald's pastorate in Lancaster:
During these years two faithful daughters had been the diligent aids of their father in the midst of his duties. Emma and Ada were wont to be seen accompanying their father, or taking prominent parts aiding the missionary operations, both at home and abroad. It seemed a peculiar delight for Emma to join her father in his visits to the needy, the sick or the missions; and, although it began to be very evident that her strength was failing, and that an insidious pulmonary trouble was more and more asserting itself, the nobility of the Christian womanhood that was in her could not be quenched. She had previously become the betrothed of Mr. B. Frank Saylor, well known and justly prominent as a photographer, of the city of Lancaster, and a very active member of the Church of the Holy Trinity. At her desire and knowing that her remaining days were but a few, the marriage of this beloved daughter occurred. It was not long after that those who watched about her saw with regret that the end was fast approaching. Emma Saylor died as the bride of a month. The joy of her parents, her sisters, her husband and hosts of loving friends, her life work was complete. Her tomb rests surrounded by those of many whom on earth she loved, and among the changing shadows of the beautiful Woodward Hill cemetery of the city of Lancaster.
Cabinet Card by B. F. Saylor (vws)
The Rev. Emanuel Greenwald in center
A good guess for the cause of Emma's death based on the description would seem to be tuberculosis. To compound the tragedy, it would appear that Emma's niece, who was named after her, died a few months before Emma and only a couple of days after Emma's wedding.
Emma's husband, Benjamin Franklin Saylor, would remarry, and his second wife would help raise money for a memorial window dedicated to Pastor Greenwald at Christ Lutheran Church in the 1890s. In my collection -- an eBay find -- is a cabinet card by Frank Saylor of Pastor Greenwald and his various assistant pastors that is a collage photo of the portrait photographs that he took.
A Stereoview of Woodward Hill Cemetery
Stereoview of Woodward Hill Cemetery by William Gill, c. 1866
Dennis Collection, New York Public Library
On Sunday, June 9, 2019, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will hold a tour of Woodward Hill Cemetery focused on members of the church family who happened to live in the 19th century as part of its "Sneaker Sunday" series. My father is organizing the program, and I've helped him with the content although will unfortunately not be in Lancaster to attend. Full details are:
The destination of Holy Trinity’s Sneaker Sunday on Sunday, June 9 is Woodward Hill Cemetery. Walkers will leave between 9:35 & 9:40 from the Duke Street steps of the Parish House. The distance is .9 miles. Those driving should park at the end of the straight road at the cemetery, away from Queen St. We will lead tours highlighting the history of Woodward Hill, gravesites of four Trinity pastors – Muhlenberg, Baker, Krotel, & Greenwald, other notable Trinity families such as Hager, Eicholtz, Fondersmith & Heinitsh, and notable Lancastrians such as President Buchanan, Watt and Steinman. Total tour walking distance in the cemetery will be less than .5 miles. Please join us!
Anyway, I thought I'd use the occasion to present a stereoview from around 1866 of Woodward Hill Cemetery and list the biographies of some pastors and members whose life stories will be highlighted. The cemetery was founded by Trinity Lutheran Church in 1850 as an alternative to the church's graveyard, but was quickly converted to an independent organization. It is a fantastic example of the rural cemetery movement, although the last several decades do not appear to have been kind to Woodward Hill's maintenance or appearance. For more information, check out the cemetery's registration form for the National Register of Historic Places.
The stereoview is part of the Dennis Collection at the New York Public Library. It is the only one of about ten views created by William L. Gill around 1866 as part of his series of Lancaster stereoviews (see here for a list). I will have to check it out in person, but I believe the image is looking north from the path on the west side of the cemetery's chapel. You can view it as an anaglyph or a wiggle 3D photo -- although I struggled to get the 3D working right on this one.
Anaglyph of Woodward Hill Cemetery
Wiggle 3D Animated GIF of Woodward Hill Cemetery
The following pastors of Holy Trinity will be featured on the tour:
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
John C. Baker
Gottlob F. Krotel
Emanuel Greenwald
The following members will be featured, as well:
Reuben and Mary Baer (second link); John and Frances Baer; The Rev. Charles A. Baer (another link)
Charles A. Fondersmith
Christopher and Catherine Hager
Charles and Maria Heinitsh
Dr. John F. Huber
John B. Kevinski
Dr. Frederick A. Muhlenberg
Horace Rathvon
The good deeds and extensive committee work of many of these members are documented in a history of the congregation written by Pastor Krotel in 1861 as part of its "Centenary Jubilee" celebrating the 100th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone. Besides the pastors, the set of names that have been selected above for the tour is somewhat random based on whom I've happened to run into in my research and whose plot is along the tour route. Some, like Charles A. Baer and John F. Huber, had their lives cut short by diseases acquired in Civil War hospitals. Others like Frederick A. Muhlenberg and Christopher Hager presided over the church vestry and played leading roles in the city's economy. Heinitsh and Kevinski supervised the shipment and distribution of supplies to soldiers after the Battle of Antietam. A few of the rest helped with church Sunday School efforts that led to the establishment of new Lutheran churches in Lancaster.
I hope everyone involved in Sunday's tour enjoys the chance to get out and see Woodward Hill Cemetery, as well as hear some stories that can help inspire service to their church, community, and country. I'll try to provide some of those stories in future posts, particularly a post about Charles A. Baer's 1862-1863 fascinating diaries and the wartime diary of Horace Rathvon's sister-in-law (whose husband was a Lutheran pastor in Virginia and whose elderly father owned the Forney farm at Gettysburg where fighting occurred on July 1, 1863).
Book Published on The Camp Kettle and 100th Pennsylvania
Labels: 100th Pennsylvania, 45th Pennsylvania, Newspapers
The Camp Kettle
Congratulations to long-time friend and talented genealogist Gary Hawbaker on publishing a book containing on the Camp Kettle newspaper published by the 100th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. The full text of the newspapers is presented along with detailed biographies of soldiers associated with it. There aren't too many direct Lancaster connections, but anyone interested in the 45th Pennsylvania (which at times was brigaded with the 100th Pennsylvania) would appreciate the material. Here are further details about the book:
Civil War Newspaper
100th Pennsylvania Volunteers
The Roundhead Regiment
With selected biographies of members of the 100th Pennsylvania and the 8th Michigan who fought with them After years of research, the complete collection of The Camp Kettle has been transcribed (with photographs and letters from the editor’s collection included). Pension records for seventy-five soldiers were researched and valuable information found in them has been included. Of special interest are the original soldier letters that families sent to the Pension Office to prove that a son had provided for the family before or while he was in the service which were never returned to the family.
Background on other newspapers printed by soldiers during the Civil War is included as well as references to The Camp Kettle found in other newspapers across the United States. Where available, images of the soldier and of his grave stone are shown.
Biographies and family histories of 75 soldiers (47 Pennsylvania and 28 Michigan). Over 8,000 references in the index. Major surnames: Atherton, Ayers, Badger, Bailey, Baker, Banks, Barton, Bell, Bidwell, Bonner, Borden, Brown, Browne, Campbell, Church, Clements, Condon, Crawford, Crowl, Cubbison, Dunlap, Eichbaum, Emery, Evans, Ferren, Fisher, Foote, Gilmore, Gordon, Graul, Gross, Gulmire, Hamilton, Hanna, Hart, Hobbs, Holton, Johnson, Kelly, King, Lobinger, Lock/Locke, Marshall, McClain, McClure, McCracken, McCreary, McKeever, McMillen, Miel, Miller, Mills, Mire, Nelson, Nicklin, Noah, Otto, Parkhill, Pentecost, Quest, Rhett, Rogers, Romberger, Semple, Shelter, Smith, Stevenson, Stewart, Stoner, Sutherland, Thurston, Waddington, Wagner, Watt, White, and Wood.
Publication is 5½ x 8½ inches. Perfect Bound. Laminated Soft Cover. Illustrated. 510+ pages. Index.
Gary has made available an order form available, which I have uploaded and made available at this link.
A blog focusing on events in Lancaster and the soldiers of the 79th Pennsylvania through the exploration of a variety of primary sources.
Better know officers and men of the 79th Pennsylvania:
--Col. Henry A. Hambright
--Capt William G. Kendrick
--Lieut. W. Wilberforce Nevin
--Lieut. Daniel A. Zook
--Sgt. William T. Clark
--Sgt. Sigmund E. Wisner
--Corp. Elias H. Witmer
--Pvt. Henry C. Gemperling
--Pvt. Lewis H. Jones
Others to know:
--F. J. Bender (77th PA)
--Sallie Eva Bolton (Millersville Normal School)
--Rev. F. W. Conrad (Trinity Lutheran Church)
--Henry Harley (3rd USCT)
--Dr. John F. Huber (Army Surgeon)
--Francis Kilburn (Western Gunboat Flotilla)
--Rev. G. F. Krotel (Trinity Lutheran Church)
--Josiah A. H. Lutz (1st Pa Res.)
--Corp. Isaac Parker (3rd USCT)
--A. C. Reinoehl (76th PA)
--E. D. Roath (107th PA)
--D. P. Rosenmiller (USS Essex)
--Edward M. Shreiner (5th Pa Res.)
...just an ordinary guy with some extraordinary microfilm.
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The 79th Pennsylvania in the Battle of Perryville: The Fight
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Nearly the First Battle: The Battle of Rowlett's Station
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the first battle of the central wing of the Union army in Kentucky. It was the first battle in the nei...
Gravestone of Emma Greenwald in Woodward Hill Cemetery As you travel on the path that winds through Woodward Hill Cemetery, a particular...
The USS Essex, CSS Arkansas, and 4th Master D. P. Rosenmiller
Destruction of the CSS Arkansas by the USS Essex , August 6, 1862 ( Library of Congress ) Continuing the trend of literate Lancasterians...
Better Know a Soldier: Sigmund E. Wisner
Capt. Sigmund E. Wisner 79th Pa Officers Oval, Mathew Brady, 1865 Name : Sigmund E. Wisner Birthplace : August 31, 1839 (Marietta, Lan...
Better Know an Officer: Henry A. Hambright
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“Find Your Ancestor Night”
When: Thursday January 29, 7pm - 9pm
Where: Magrath Museum
Description: The Magrath History And Museum Association presents “Find Your Ancestor Night” Thursday, January 29th – 7-9 pm. Specialists will be at the museum to help you trace your ancestral lines - bring names and any vital information you have about your ancestor and see how far back your line can be traced. Also see if you are related to royalty or other famous people!
For more information contact: Wes Balderson – 758-6380 Wendy Coleman – 758-3483 Steve Brinton – 758-3424
A Great Christmas Gift:
Booklet "Wit, Wisdom and Opinion" For Sale. $20.00
These are comments made by J. Alfred Ririe in his weekly Magrath Trading Company Store News. The comments range from about 1934 to 1964. The booklet consists of 37 written pages.
Contact Alan or Patricia Dudley 403-758-3200 or Wendy Coleman 403-758-3483
Why We Love Magrath
We have a new summer student working here til the end of August. Her name is Quincee and she is great. About a week ago, Quincee proved Magrath is really that charming. A lady came by a little lost and looking for a relative's house. She gave Quincee the address, which Quincee said, no no, who is your family? Once she had the name she had the lady there in no time. Only in Magrath do last names make more sense than a street address!
Magrath Days!
Magrath Parade 1962
Magrath Celebrations, Pool, 1962
It's Magrath Days this week! In honor of it,let's take a flash back to the floats of the past. Feel free to comment and leave your favorite parade and Magrath Day memories.
History is Relative
What is history? I remember the day in Grade 3 when I clicked that History sounded and was spelled a lot like His-story. I know most of you probably made this connection way earlier, but I take a few more clicks than the rest of us so please forgive me. Anyways the more and more I work at the museum the more clicking that happens. History isn't some giant event we're all prepared for. I don't think anyone wakes up aware that that day, they are going to be involved in some life changing event. What we consider history is just when someone is living their lives, in their day, and someone was smart enough to take note of it and learn from it.
Yesterday my little cousin came through the Magrath Museum and was just amazed to see his Grandma on the wall as one of the dancers in the Magrath 50 Year Celebration Program. He couldn't understand why ordinary us deserved to be in a museum because all we did was live. But that's the cool part, we've lived, and we've mattered and we've contributed simply by being here and being apart of Magrath. We take note, and we have a lot of notes. My grandparents stories and histories have been recorded and are on file, and I bet yours have too. We have files and files of stories and stories. Memories from the likes of Nyal Fletcher, Lawrence Turner, Elizabeth Strong. Come find your stories and roots, because not only is history relative, it's even more fun when you are related. And don't forget, in 20 years, someone may think your stories are worth taking note of.
The Trading Company, or today known as Rooster's, has come a long way considering it started out in a tent. We have a few memories from one of our favorite destinations on Main Street, so let's take a look at some shall we? Memories as recorded by Lorena Rodgers:
Alf Ririe and Marj Balderson, people from the store like Johnny Bourne and Junior Turner are spoken of with legendary status.
For a small community store, customers could find things at the Trading Company that just were not available anywhere else.
Ken Robinson, originally of Del Bonita and now living in Magrath, remembers when he couldn’t find any place in southern Alberta to buy horseshoes, not even Lethbridge, but he could find them at the Trading Company. Some of the old horseshoes are now in the Trading Company display.
Marietta Wilcox says the same was true for fabric. Originally of Del Bonita, her mother always stopped at the Trading Company as it had the best fabric. “You couldn’t get tricot anywhere else.”
George Harker relates that when he was three or four years old he found a penny on the road. At the Trading Company he could buy three fishhooks for a penny or four hooks for a penny. He remembers he bought three because “the ones that were four for a penny looked too small to catch any fish.”
Duane Thomson says you could find anything you wanted at the Trading Company or Johnny Bourne would order it in for you. While working at the Research Centre in Lethbridge, he knew if they couldn’t find something they needed in Lethbridge they could get it from the Trading Company.
A few years after Duane married, he moved back to Magrath with his young family. His wife Carma remembers being welcomed to town at the Trading Company. “Johnny Bourne said hi and said I must be Duane Thomson’s wife. ‘What’s your name? Where are you from? Who’re your parents? When’s your birthday?’ And of course he remembered my birthday from then on. He gave the kids candy, and we felt genuinely welcomed into the community.”
Patricia Dudley says when her children were young, one of her boys came home from the Trading Company with something he had not paid for. She took him back to the store to return the item and the boy got a “talking to” from Junior Turner. Rather then scolding him, he told him that the Dudley name is a very honoured name in Magrath and he needed to live up to the family name. Patricia expressed how grateful she was for how Junior handled that situation, and the lesson stuck with her son.
Seeing a display in the exhibit representing the butcher department, Donna Thompson remembered working there as a youth. “Wrapping the liver was the worst,” she said, recalling how the meat would slip around in the brown paper packaging and demonstrating the technique to wrap it quickly and keep it from falling out on the counter. “I really wanted to get transferred to the ladies’ clothing department.” No luck with that, but she did get moved to the grocery floor.
As part of the family that ran the Trading Company, Wes Balderson says that as he grew up he remembers talk about the store being dinner table conversation. His wife Lorraine says, “I don’t think the kids thought groceries cost any money. They didn’t know that dad later got the bill for it.”
That Looks Dangerous...
The Electric Theatre
East of the Elton Press was the Kirby Hotel on property later holding the lumberyard of E.P Tanner. East of Elton Press the Electric Theatre built by Clare Bennett. Both structures were put up shortly after Magrath became a town. It had the first electric light in town. The generator and engine for the lights were housed in a lean-to shed in the rear of the building.
The engine was a one cylinder stationary I.H.C. gas engine with a pair of huge flywheels about five feet across. Some of these same engines were used as power for threshers and other farm machinery. None of them were too reliable but they were the first replacement for the huge steamer engines. The steam engines had several disadvantages. One big disadvantage was the number of men required to operate the machine, and the second was the necessity of having a qualified engineer in charge which meant a specially inspection of the machine each year and also specially engineer’s wages. There was also the danger of setting the place on fire in the harvest, though it seldom happened.
The gas engine could be operated by anyone who could handle the thing and required only one man. There were soon gas-operated tractors but these engines were portable and weighted about four tons. All that were in the district came to a bud end. The operation was about the same for all of them.
If the engineer got just the right amount of gas allowed for, a turn of the flywheel by one or two men got a big bang out of the engine and the engineer had to regulate the choke quickly. If the flywheel got a second explosion before it ran down, things were going pretty well and likely after about two or three more violent explosions the thing would settle down to work.
When I was reading through the Power of the Dream, A Collection of Photographs and Stories of Magrath Through the 20th Century I stumbled upon this great little section that should be shared. "So Magrath is a hundred years old. Big deal. Parliament probably won't sit up and take notice. It's not likely to change the course of events in London or Washington. The effect on climatic change will be scarcely noticeable. It will cause not even a small ripple in the daily schedule at Buckingham Palace. And yet, those who think of Magrath as home, even those whose careers and life choices have taken them elsewhere, it's a significant landmark in history. This is a place that shaped them and will be apart of them forever. The history of Magrath cannot be told in a litany of official events and statistics. it is told in the lives of its people, of those who live here or who have lived here."
What you do today may not seem all that significant. But all that you do today becomes tomorrow's history. It will matter to the children of the next generation, the future inhabitants of Magrath, and to all those that call, called or will call Magrath home. We may not have the biggest influence in the world, but we still have an influence, and that little bit is enough to matter. And just think, the time that little Jimmy escaped the house and ran down main street in nothing, not even his diaper, may seem stressful now, but it will make a heck of a story to tell at the museum in 30 years.
-Kaytie
Ever wondered what the town looks like from a satellite aerial image? Come into the museum and find out! This year one of the newest editions is a table displaying Magrath as a satellite image taken in 2009. The table has historic sights labeled by buttons that light up its location in town when pushed. Come in and find your house, show your children what areas of town you use to hang out in and see the town's growth from a new perspective, it is definitely worth coming in and checking out. See you here soon!
Spring is Sprunging
We are preparing for a new set of summer student helpers. Watch for new content coming your way soon. Kaytie Cook is taking over for her sister Cori Frogley from last summer. They may confuse you if you don't know they are twins. But just smile and nod hello like I do. Kaytie has same roots as Cori and will answer hello to both names. Nigel Goodwin is from Southern Alberta as well, currently commuting from Lethbridge and working on editing media for the museum.
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Entourage: The Complete Fifth Season DVD
DVD Review by Kam Williams
Headline: Fifth Season of Hit HBO Series Released on DVD
If you every want to get a good idea of what it’s like to try to make it in show business, for better or worse, you might like to check out Entourage. For this Emmy, Golden-Globe and Peabody Award-winning slice-of-life drama offers a super-realistic, albeit often lighthearted look at the fortunes of a young Hollywood actor on the rise.
That fictional character, Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier), negotiates his way around the murky waters of Tinseltown with the help of his tough as nails agent, Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), and surrounded by three childhood friends: his manager Eric (Kevin Connolly), his half-brother Drama (Kevin Dillon) who is also an aspiring thespian, and party animal Turtle (Jerry Ferrara). And rounding out the support players in Vince’s entourage are his publicist Shauna (Debi Mazar) and Ari’s long-suffering assistant Lloyd (Rex Lee).
Season Five also featured an impressive array of guest appearances, including by Giovanni Ribisi, rapper Bow Wow, Fran “the Nanny” Drescher, Oscar-winner Martin Landau, Lukas Haas and comedian Kevin Pollak. In addition, plenty of celebs made cameo appearances as themselves, such as since incarcerated gangsta’ rapper T.I., crooner Tony Bennett, golfer Phil Mickelson, actors Mark Wahlberg and Eric Roberts, and film critic Richard Roeper.
Faithful followers of the show will remember that the season opener picked up right where the previous one had left off, with an episode entitled Fantasy Island chronicling the aftermath of Vince’s movie Medellin’s bombing at the Cannes Film Festival. In subsequent installments we find him ironing out relationships issues with his girlfriend (Julia Levy-Boekin), hunting for a job just to pay the bills, and doing a photo shoot with a supermodel (Daniella Van Graas) he has a history with.
Overall, an alternately hilarious and plausible peek at life in L.A.’s fast lane.
Rated TV-MA
Studio: HBO Home Entertainment
3-Disc DVD Extras: Behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast and crew, and three audio commentaries by the show’s writers, producers and cast members.
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Security cover of protected persons being reviewed on basis of threat perception, say police officials
Srinagar, July 10 (KNO) : Governor Satya Pal Malik has directed the police top brass in Jammu and Kashmir to review the security cover of all the protected persons including the politicians of various political parties to ensure they get proper protection and any bid on their lives is foiled, top officials in Rajbhawan told KNO. The directions have come after the detailed report on the killing of politicians sought by the Governor last month was submitted to him with a series of remedial measures and the details of political workers and leaders of various political parties killed in the past nearly a decade. “After the killing of a political worker of BJP at Kokernag area of Anantnag in May, the Governor had sought a report from the police that was submitted to him recently. After going through the report, the Governor directed the police top brass to review the security cover of protected persons including those affiliated with political parties to ensure they get proper protection,” an official in Rajbhawan told Kashmir News Observer (KNO), wishing not to be named. He said that 300 politicians of various parties had approached Rajbhawan with written requests seeking protection. “Some had sought bullet proof vehicles while some had requested for raising the number of men guarding them. The Governor took a serious note of the issue and passed certain important directions to police top brass to ensure proper protection,” the official said. He said the directions included that the police must go for a detailed security review and on the basis of threat perception and genuineness of the requests of politicians, “security cover may either be enhanced or granted as per the need.” A police official told KNO, that they have started review of the security cover to be granted to politicians of various parties. “There are lot of requests as some demand bullet proof vehicles while some are for raising the number of men deployed for their security cover,” he said, requesting anonymity. The officer said that police have, however, started a massive review where in party affiliations, position, rank and above all threat perception is being kept in mind while issuing the security men for protection. “There is a dearth of bullet proof vehicles, but in a case where we feel there is a dire need of issuing a bullet proof vehicle to a person, we sanction it,” the officer said. He told KNO majority of requests they received from politicians were from those hailing from the south Kashmir districts of Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam followed by Anantnag. “The process of review is on and the concerns expressed by politicians in terms of security issues are being taken care of,” the officer said.(KNO)
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Red Herring?
By Robert Farley
In Robert Farley
By misocrazy from New York, NY – Cropped from Kipper, CC BY 2.0
Jeet Heer flags a pair of articles raising concerns about the investigation of ties between Russia and the Trump campaign:
“Imagine if the same kind of attention could be trained and sustained on other issues—like it has been on the Muslim travel ban,” Masha Gessen argued last week in the New York Review of Books. “Russiagate is helping [Trump]—both by distracting from real, documentable, and documented issues, and by promoting a xenophobic conspiracy theory in the cause of removing a xenophobic conspiracy theorist from office.”
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi fears that the final scandal will amount to a relatively minor matter, thus discrediting the press and Trump critics.
Dan responded to a similar piece last week, but I think it is well beyond time to cease treating Greenwald as an honest interlocutor on these issues. And I believe Heer’s analysis of the motivation behind these kids of pieces is spot on:
There are other reasons to sideline the Russia narrative. For a Democratic Party adrift after last year’s electoral wipeout, focusing on the Russia story risks ignoring hard questions about the need for internal reform. After all, if the election loss can be blamed on Russian interference, the party doesn’t need to change. For some on the anti-war left, there is also the fear that the Russia story will ignite a new Cold War. And pushing unfounded claims about the Trump administration’s Russian connections only contributes to the destructive culture of conspiracy created by the president.
Granting that it is possible (even probable) that the Russia connections will not amount to anything much more significant that what we’ve already seen, I think it’s worth working through some of the complaints.
Strictly in terms of doing damage to the Trump administration, the investigation has already been worthwhile; Flynn is gone, and Trump has been far more distracted by the task of fighting the investigation than the Democrats have been by pushing it.
If there is anything more to Trump-Russia collusion than is already in the open, we certainly won’t find anything about it UNLESS the Dems push hard. Some Republicans are at least somewhat sensitive to these questions, but can’t be expected to drive the investigation on their own.
Taibbi’s warning about a failed investigation discrediting the media is really quite strange; it seems to suggest that journalists should avoid serious investigations when they’re not sure what precisely they might turn up.
There is zero evidence that “failed” investigations are politically damaging to those who drive them. The Russia investigation has already turned up more than Benghazi ever did, and the political penalty that the GOP paid for pushing Benghazi appears to be nil.
There is zero evidence for Gessen’s assertion that calling for investigations of Russia will “crowd out” other complaints, and help Trump; the Democrats (and other groups opposed to Trump) haven’t had any trouble generating opposition to Trump’s travel ban, Ryancare, etc. The various failed investigations of Clinton and Obama did not prevent the GOP from also pursuing policy-oriented opposition (such that it was).
Concern about the efforts of a right-wing semi-authoritarian country to influence a US election is not “xenophobia,” whether the country in question is Russia, China, or Saudi Arabia. More later on the “new Cold War” nonsense.
As Heer suggests, the main driver of concern over the Russia investigation seems to be the role that it will play in internal reform of the Democratic Party. I can fully appreciate the reluctance of would-be reformers to place Russia (or Comey) front and center in an analysis of the 2016 election, evidence of their importance notwithstanding. Narratives of reform always borrow facts selectively, and it’s not obvious that the Russia investigations will be useful for progressives in internal battles. But this is only part of the project, and there is no reason to discard what may well be an exceedingly useful weapon against the Trump administration.
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Downpuppy
To try and separate Trump’s campaign’s tie to Russia & Trump’s business ties to Russia is absurd. It’s not like Trump makes any such distinction. That having a President owned by a fascist foreign government is utterly horrible shouldn’t really need saying, should it?
I am a little concerned that the Russian investigation is being used to rationalize what appears to be the congressional Democratic strategy going forward: make Trump seem “un-American” and unfit to govern while hoping for Republican defections. It’s the same strategy that the Clinton campaign tried in 2016, and while it wasn’t the reason she lost, it pretty clearly was a failure – Republicans did not defect.
upstate_cyclist
What else are you going to do as the minority party in both houses of Congress besides call for investigations and slow things down? And its not as if its slim pickings for corruption and criminality in the White House septic tank.
I’d like to see it used to promote the need for strong, public encryption of our voting machines. It’s been years since they were updated, and the software is old, out of date and relies on a corporate group for staying current.
We can do better. It would be great if the Linux group got together and came up with an open-source, public key solution for our voting machines.
JR in WV
AS a career software guy, this is a sweet but naive suggestion. What we need to do is use paper ballots, make X’s where we want to vote, and then count like hell until we count all those ballots, everywhere.
No electrical system is foolproof from fraud, particularly from insiders with the passwords and keys to the “kingdom”.
But ballot faking is really hard and leaves physical evidence.
Go back to paper and pencils – harder to hack than anything.
That would absolutely work for me. My state uses paper ballots, and I wish that Pennsylvania also had a paper trail.
My point is that we can make constructive suggestions that would help reassure us, and hopefully also improve the outcome. This is an opportunity to change the subject from “in person voter fraud.”
Aimai
I don’t think the argument is, or needs to be, that Trump is Unamerican. Its that he’s a lying liar who can be bought and was bought. Trump ran as an outsider who had so much money that he was completely above business and corruption. Hammering away at “what bought the president and when was he bought”–which should be done with every single deal that his family has made since he got into power–is part of the overall strategy.
jml1990
Purely considered in terms of its political utility, Trumpworld-Russian government collusion stands as one of two key wedge issues Democrats can use to drive a divide between the Trump administration and congressional Republicans (the other is the AHCA or whatever horrible “repeal and replace” plan succeeds it.) Apparently, vulnerable Republican congressmen have been taken aback by the amount of concern fom their constituents over Russian interference/influence. There will never be an effective and independent investigation of Russian interference/influence unless we gain back a chamber of Congress – but, the more we push at it, the more vulnerable Republican elected officials have to distance themselves from the Trump administration, which further damages their party unity.
NeonTrotsky
I’d say this was a useful line of attack if it wasn’t abundantly clear that most republican politicians and voters don’t really care, save a few of the older hawks in the senate.
delazeur
Republican Senators are at the top of the list of people Democrats need to be convincing, and “a few” is enough for the moment.
humanoid.panda
Except that, even if the only result of the investigation is McMaster replacing Flynn, that’s already a great achievement in terms of minimizing damages from the Trump maladministration.
Joe_JP
a few of the older hawks in the senate
Republicans have a two (three perhaps if you toss in Pence) vote margin. A few older hawks, especially given how much cred they have among the “serious people” in the media etc., very well might matter.
Dilan Esper
Look, no country can be allowed to get away with what Russia did, so there needs to be a complete investigation and we need to do something about what Russia did.
But do I fear this turning the party into the Russia hawk party? Absolutely. And do I fear centrist hawks in power will use this to try and shut down attempts to move the party in a more dovish direction. Of course. But we have to act anyway.
aturner339
“But do I fear this turning the party into the Russia hawk party?”
Is this a serious concern. That investigation of Trump/Russia links will lead to.. what exactly? Nuclear holocaust?
Aexia
When you’re so wrapped up in the narrative that Clinton is objectively much worse on foreign policy than Trump and Trump is so terrible, you have to resort to increasingly ridiculous claims (Clinton will start WW3) to bolster your narrative.
Murc
Is this a serious concern.
Remember, this is Dilan. He thinks that entering into defensive alliances with countries that Russia has a long history of picking up and slamming into walls is an act of aggression against Russia’s legitimate sphere of influence.
Expanding NATO was offense, not defense. Bombing Serbia was also offense, not defense.
NATO is no longer a defensive organization. Things changed. The original NATO, I think was a reasonable response to a Soviet threat. When the threat ended, NATO should have as well (and at the very least, should have never been expanded and moved into offense).
ericblair
So, are countries like Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Romania sovereign or not? Who gets to tell them which alliances they can and can’t join? Should the US and Russia just decide for them? Because that’s certainly not imperialist thinking at all.
1. This isn’t about what those countries do, but what WE do. The US should not agree to risk nuclear war to protect far away countries from Russia and interfere in Russia’s legitimate sphere of influence.
2. Your argument makes no sense anyway. NATO told Ukraine it couldn’t join. You have a problem with that?
1. How is a sphere of influence not an imperialist construct? Seriously? And how are the NATO nations bordering Russia doing versus non-NATO nations?
2. NATO didn’t offer Ukraine a Membership Action Plan; it wasn’t the US. There are conditions, and the Alliance as a body decided that Ukraine didn’t meet them yet. In fact, like Georgia, Russian interference has made it impossible for the countries to control their own borders, and do you think this is a coincidence?
The United States is not the same as NATO; it’s one vote of 28. While the Warsaw Pact was just a tool of Moscow, NATO is an actual alliance, and the Russians have never seemed to understand this.
A sphere of influence is realism. Great powers have them. We have one. (Ever hear of the Monroe Doctrine?)
It really doesn’t matter to me what nations bordering Russia are doing or not doing. It is none of our business. When the people of the world vote democratically for the United States to run the world’s affairs, let me know. Until then, I’d prefer we appease nuclear powers so I don’t get incinerated, thank you.
I also really don’t care whether Russia’s neighbors can prevent Russian interference or have stable borders. It seems to me Crimea, in particular, is one where the Russians can make a strong case for what they did. In any event, they are a great power with nuclear weapons and I don’t want to cross them.
My point about Ukraine and NATO is that you just endorsed the fact that we don’t have to let Russia’s neighbors into NATO– that’s something we chose to do, and it was dumb and imperialistic.
Finally, no, the US is NATO. I’m sorry, but what we say goes. No, it’s not the same as the Warsaw Pact, but nonetheless, NATO will never engage in a military action that the US does not approve. There’s no such thing as a 27-1 vote here. It’s us, and it’s our tool for dominating the world.
Redwood Rhiadra
Once again, Dilan, you make an argument that also supports the US remaining neutral against Germany in World War II while they conquered *their* sphere of influence.
You are a sociopathic, immoral monster. So go fuck yourself and then DIAF.
MDrew
Well, that escalated quickly (and then ended).
Expanding NATO was offense, not defense.
A defensive alliance… is offense. Right.
NATO is no longer a defensive organization.
This is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.
UnderTheSun
The United States has got away with what it’s alleged Russia did for the better part of a century so perhaps some self reflection and discipline should be in order.
BTW, what did Russia do? A few truthful articles in RT and Sputnik News seem to be all that Russia did.
Morse Code for J
They facilitated a hack of email accounts (a federal offense) used by prominent Democrats and their affiliated organizations. They disseminated those emails through WikiLeaks, perhaps with encouragement or instruction to push a narrative of election-fixing supported neither by press investigation nor truly the emails themselves.
Meanwhile, Trump refuses to release his tax returns, and has appointed to Secretary of State a man whose only relevant accomplishment is negotiating an oil deal that only works if sanctions imposed by the previous administration are lifted. If you can’t see a quid pro quo here, maybe you’re trying too hard.
And your evidence for these claims is what exactly? The report by the ODNI which drew on “intelligence” from the CIA, FBI and NSA? The ODNI where the DNI said later that he was not aware of any evidence against the Russians?
Even leaving aside the reports of FBI and CIA appraisals of who did the hacking, or contacts between members of the Trump campaign and the Putin government to a degree that would be unusual for any presidential campaign for either party?
Look at who benefitted here. A series of hacks orchestrated against only the Democrats, with law enforcement suspecting a state actor. The famously incurious Trump, whose policy team made sure that the platform committee at the RNC made way for serious changes on how the party would treat Russia and its incursion into Ukraine, and nothing else. The famously narcissistic Trump, who spoke glowingly and unnecessarily of Putin throughout his campaign as no other candidate anywhere at any strata of the party did. The famously rich-question-mark Trump, whose post-bankruptcy real estate development empire depended on foreign cash and whose tax returns were unreleased against 45 years of political tradition.
Add to that a campaign manager with ties to the Ukrainian president-in-exile, a close ally of Putin and supporter of Russian military intervention. Other campaign surrogates speaking to Russian officials with no obvious reason to do so. Michael Flynn’s issues. And most obvious (for me), Rex Tillerson named Secretary of State over dozens to hundreds of Republicans with real foreign policy experience, for no apparent reason but that he had done an oil deal with the Putin government that depended on sanctions being lifted.
I don’t think Trump is a Manchurian Candidate. I do think that he was a good investment for Russian financiers who may have been looking for large business projects to launder state funds and allow for re-depositing in Western banking institutions, with Trump taking a fee. Putin saw that it would be him and Clinton, and decided that Clinton offered no hope of changing the sanctions he wants to be lifted. Trump was happy to accept the help against a candidate that was beating him in the polls. Now the quid pro quo continues.
ColBatGuano
What brand of tinfoil do you use for your hat? I’ve been having problems with stray messages from the aliens slipping through.
gccolby
“The USA has interfered in foreign elections in the past, therefore it’s ok that Russia is doing it to us,” seems to be an emotionally satisfying argument for many people opposed to American imperialism. Unfortunately for them, it’s also an incredibly stupid and childish argument. Foreign interference in the internal affairs of the United States is an extremely serious problem.
Nick never Nick
Just because something is emotionally satisfying doesn’t mean it’s wrong. A lot of people make that argument because they are internationalists — they respect the rights of other countries and peoples, just as they respect the rights of the United States and Americans.
Your rebuttal to them is a patriotic rebuttal — Russian interference isn’t wrong because it’s interference, it’s wrong because ‘this is my country’. Many people on the left identify excessive American patriotism as a serious problem; it feeds American exceptionalism, and it makes policy proposals such as gutting the State department, or depending on the use of military force, more reasonable. Attacking Trump by arguing that he is insufficiently patriotic is a dangerous bargain — you’re limiting the near danger while feeding its underlying cause.
And from an internationalist perspective — look at the damage that Russian interference has already caused in America! One reason to point out that this tactic is wrong, even when America does it, is because it has that effect elsewhere. Imagine how much stronger the effect would be if a country the size of the United States interfered, in, say, the political process of El Salvador or Guatemala. The huge power differential would completely warp national governance.
Yes but of course this is the “two wrongs don’t make a right” problem. If you believe international interference in elections is wrong then it’s still wrong when Russia does it.
I totally agree with this. I’m not arguing that two wrongs make a right, but that this is an excellent time for people to be saying “Hell Yes That Was Wrong” and at the same time, explicitly think about maybe we should forswear that sort of thing too. Maybe make it into what optimistic parents call a ‘learning moment’.
Your rebuttal to them is a patriotic rebuttal — Russian interference isn’t wrong because it’s interference, it’s wrong because ‘this is my country’.
No. This is completely false. This is about as big a mischaracterization of my statement as it’s possible to make. Interference is wrong because a nation’s elections and decisions about policy should be made by it’s own citizens and sovereign government, not by clandestine foreign saboteurs.
A lot of people make that argument because they are internationalists — they respect the rights of other countries and peoples, just as they respect the rights of the United States and Americans.
Sorry, this is bullshit. There’s no way to take a principled stance where it’s bad if the US interferes in foreign elections, but no big deal if other nations interfere in US elections. Unless the principle is that anything another nation does to oppose the USA is good, I guess. That’s a principle, I guess, but not a good one.
If it’s wrong for the United States to interfere in foreign elections (and it is!), it’s because it’s wrong, period. Even someone who believes in realpolitik and thinks nations are justified in engaging in these kinds of operations doesn’t need to resort to patriotism to argue that nations on the receiving end of interference operations should take them seriously. For the obvious reason that nations should want control of their own affairs, not a foreign party with different interests.
Maybe I did mischaracterize your argument, if so, I apologize — but you do the same to mine. I’m not arguing that America deserved it, or that it’s bad if America interferes in other elections but OK for other countries to interfere in ours. I’m arguing exactly what your second paragraph says, and that this is a good time to affirm the wrongness of this, both within America and by America.
I’m afraid I have to go home and watch the kids now while my wife goes to a dental appointment, so I can’t look at this carefully, but I’ll try to do so later.
See below for my thoughts on “moments of reflection,” and “national conversations.” The idea that at this particular moment we need to take a moment to loudly affirm that interfering in foreign elections is wrong is just facile. Like, is Nancy Pelosi supposed to go on the floor of the House and say, “I’m calling for an independent investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election. And just so everyone knows, this sort of thing is totally wrong. Including when we do it. Anyway, investigate Russia.”? This is silly.
Like, is Nancy Pelosi supposed to go on the floor of the House and say, “I’m calling for an independent investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election.
No, but perhaps she should demand an independent investigation into possible American support for the Honduras coup in 2009, support of jihadists in Syria since 2011, interference in Ukraine in 2014, and possible war crimes in Yemen to start with.
Abbey Bartlet
possible American support for the Honduras coup in 2009, support of jihadists in Syria since 2011, interference in Ukraine in 2014, and possible war crimes in Yemen to start with
Why am I not surprised that you want her to focus on what one specific previous administration did?
PS We may have committed a war crime or two between 2001 and 2009.
Your rebuttal to them is a patriotic rebuttal
No, not even close.
Interfering with the US election to put the likes of Trump in charge of the biggest military, including the nuclear arsenal in the world, is rather more serious than interfering with who runs Guatamala–not that it excuses the US from messing with Guatemala
Consider these:
Battle of the Bulge. US Corporal shoots German soldier.
Normandy. German soldier shoots Canadian soldier.
Both shot an opposing force’s soldier! Both sides do it!
But isn’t there a moral difference?
Compare a moral aspect of Trump to Putin’s.
Donald “We aren’t so innocent” Trump isn’t assassinating journalists yet.
James B. Shearer
…it’s also an incredibly stupid and childish argument. …
I don’t see what’s so stupid about the argument. Which isn’t jut that that US has routinely done similar things but that most nations routinely do similar things and that it is well within the generally accepted norms of international behavior. So complaining about it is kind of like complaining about the other team deliberately fouling at the end of a basketball game in order to obtain an advantage.
There are those of us in the US who complain when the US does it, and would love to see international norms change. Do we get to say something?
…Do we get to say something?
Sure but such complaints are more credible when directed at your own side. And when not exaggerated.
This isn’t about “complaining,” it’s about whether or not it’s in the political and national security interest of the United States to investigate possible foreign interference in a Presidential election. To which the answer is “DUH, YES.” That the USA has engaged in these sorts of activities itself is a given and doesn’t bear on the question of whether an investigation is called for.
The point is that “Well the USA totally engages in this sort of thing, therefore we had it coming and should let it go,” is an idiotic argument. The nonsense about “a moment of self-reflection,” reminds me of the similarly vapid comments about we need “a national conversation about _____,” on whatever the Talking Point of the Day happens to be. The United States isn’t a family sitting around the dinner table. We don’t have “national conversations” or “moments of reflection” in any kind of analogous or relevant way. The arguments about how the US should conduct itself internationally are already happening. They’ll keep happening. That’s good.
Foreign interference is bad for the United States. Period. Therefore an investigation into the possibility that it happened is necessary. That the US has behaved itself badly in the past is true, but not an argument against investigating.
Foreign interference is bad for the United States. Period. …
I doubt your commitment to this statement as an universal principle. Do you object when some foreign human rights organization complains about conditions in US prisons?
And on a different topic, I don’t begrudge the blog owners getting some revenue from ads but does this really require making the comments almost unreadable?
Major analogy fail.
Actually, I am in favor of humanitarian groups all over the world working to take torture out of American prisons. Solitary confinement as a punishment is wrong. Solitary confinement to protect one from other inmates is different IF the prisoner being protected agrees with that method.
I’m also against American interference in elections in other countries! Participating in missions to observe elections in an attempt to ensure fair and open election process is another thing all over.
I’m even willing to invite election observers to come into the US to watch some counties and states attempt to sabotage the rights of minority groups to vote! Absurdly long lines as a result of inadequate numbers of voting precincts and voting apparatus is one of those tools used to hurt community rights to vote fairly.
I’m also very interested in implementing sanctions against any country that interferes with elections in the US, no matter the methods used. I would be interested in putting Americans who aided other nations interfering in our elections on trial for federal felonies.
Surely you aren’t arguing that clandestine efforts to interfere in democratic elections are equivalent to public criticisms of a nation’s human rights record. After all, that would be ludicrously dumb. So I can only assume you meant something else, didn’t you?
So in fact your commitment is qualified. Some foreign interference is okay.
If you define “interference” this vaguely, it’s pointless to talk about any kind of principle.
The people complaining also need to get their tenses straight. The US did interfere in foreign elections back doing the Cold War. Now? Not so much. The people defending Russian interference are lying when they say “but the US does it too!” instead of “but the US DID it too!”.
But then, these are mostly the same people whining that “The DNC rigged the election for Hillary!” even though that has been proven to be completely false and actually part of the misinformation spread by Russia to help elect Trump, proving that they care as little for actual facts instead of alternative ones as Donald himself and his supporters.
nemdam
And it also seems to imply that the USSR didn’t interfere in other countries during the Cold War which AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Also, didn’t the US do most of its covert government interference like in the first 20 years of the Cold War? I know Reagan got involved with Nicaragua, and none of this is to excuse what we did, but the US nature of foreign interference has changed dramatically from the early Cold War period which is usually where the bulk of the bad examples of US intervention come from.
The people complaining also need to get their tenses straight. The US did interfere in foreign elections back doing the Cold War. Now? Not so much. …
A recent example of the US interfering in a foreign election.
We’re talking about clandestine meddling in an election, and you’re trying compare an open statement favoring voting against a specific referendum – a referendum for which notably there was not a single good reason to vote for, which you have to be completely stupid to support, so of course it passed – really?
That is one of the most asinine false equivalences I’ve ever seen, well done proving that you’re not arguing in good faith at all.
For obvious reasons it is easier to cite (and harder to dispute) examples of open meddling than of clandestine meddling. That does not mean clandestine meddling is not also occurring.
a_paul_in_mtl
Openly expressing an opinion about an election is “meddling”?
So, in other words, you’ve got nothing.
This is the sort of stupid I don’t even know how to respond to without gifs.
Spying and espionage happen. This is a form of it. I certainly keep it in the perspective that we do this stuff too, but there still has to be a response, just as I wouldn’t be particularly exercised to find out that there were a bunch of Russian spies in Washington, but I would still try to catch them and prosecute them. (And I also wouldn’t have any problem with other countries holding us to account when we interfere in elections or engage in other forms of espionage.)
The problem isn’t even that other countries spy on us or we spy on them. Spying is as old as warfare and not unexpected. Of course we should run counterintelligence to try to root them out and blunt their influence. But Russia has done much more than merely spying. If they were just spying during the election, then it would be just like every other election. But they actively put their thumb on the scale to try to get their man in the WH. If that isn’t considered a very serious, arguably existential problem to be fought against, then the lesson Russia and other nations learn is that they should try to aggressively intervene in our elections to advance their national interests.
Brien Jackson
To go further, even if we grant that Russia’s actions aren’t really that bad, which I’m sympathetic to actually, it’s still obviously the case that THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN is massively in the wrong for colluding with them.
Yeah, of course. My opinion is that the effect was significant, but even if it wasn’t, the intervention will be bigger next election if we don’t do something about it now.
Rob in CT
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
And other GOP officeholders like McConnell & Ryan, who were briefed and refused to do anything about it, because it was helpful to them.
SatanicPanic
Russia is led by a fascist. I don’t need any more reason than that.
A foreign power using clandestine methods to influence American elections and policy is problematic just on general principles. That Putin is an authoritarian who we don’t like ratchets up the emotional and geopolitical stakes, but it would also be bad if Justin Trudeau were hacking the RNC and Reince Priebus in an effort to get Clinton elected. Worse if Clinton campaign staff appeared to be meeting secretly with Canadian officials over the course of the campaign.
True. I’m just saying Russia could have been minding its own business and I still wouldn’t like the government or feel any need to defend it. So far as I know Hungary didn’t meddle in our election but fuck their government too.
I can’t get over that was practically a Capital Crime when Obama said it is now a praiseworthy moment of reflection when Trump does.
I should have refreshed before posting the same thing.
You are really staying on message.
I think the point of an investigation is TO FIND OUT what Russia did do. If it turns out to be “a few truthful articles” then I will be happy to say you were right all along, and I will praise you every time I see you, fulsomely. Somehow I don’t think I need to worry about that eventuality.
The United States has schemed to put and keep reactionary client regimes in power in other countries.
Another country allegedly schemed to put a reactionary regime in power in the United States.
Those who oppose the practice of putting reactionary regimes in power through foreign interference have every reason to resist the practice, not by reflection, but by raising hell about it.
BTW, what did Russia do?
Allegedly, they hacked the DNC and the Clinton campaign in order to help Trump win the election – as you surely already know, so clearly you did not ask that question in good faith.
few truthful articles in RT and Sputnik News seem to be all that Russia did.
articles… which you demonstrate inability to name, much less link.
Actually, the ODNI report(pdf) seems to rely for evidence of what happened in 2016 on a report published in 2012. See annex A of the report.
The report mentions, the Occupy protests, the United
States as a “surveillance state”, infringements of civil liberties, police brutality, drones, Wall Street greed, the national debt, fracking and its effect on the environment and public health, western interference in Syria and the Georgian attack on South Ossetia. As the report contains no links, I’m not going to add links because I can’t be sure I’m linking to the articles referred to.
“A few truthful articles in RT and Sputnik News”
Bwahahahahahaha.
“Truthful” articles in RT and Sputnik, really? The Putin propaganda outfits infamous for peddling complete bullshit? Fuck, if an article appears in RT, that’s a pretty solid proof that it’s nothing but lies. There’s no such thing as a truthful article in RT!
Here’s an article from RT:
Turkey’s Erdogan calls Netherlands ‘rotten, terrorist state’
Now show me all the lies that RT rather than Erdogan or anyone else are responsible for.
And that means what? It’s an article from RT, so unless there’s actual credible sources reporting the same thing it is safe to assume that never happened, because RT is infamous for publishing outright falsehoods.
What concrete (or slurry) steps have Democratic politicians or their affiliated organizations made beyond the election cyber-warfare protection efforts?
One thing I truly hope is that the DNC has learned something about internal security. John Podesta is a very powerful man, and very powerful men never seem to get held to account for their stupidity, but honestly he was extremely careless with very sensitive information and hopefully the party and its high officials have learned something from this.
Dilan, I was asking about your concerns about Russian hawks. I have yet to see much of anything justifying your anxiety about what members of this group remain in the Democratic party.
Dilan Esper says:
DNC has learned something about internal security.
Should have.
John Podesta is a very powerful man, and very powerful men never seem to get held to account for their stupidity, but honestly he was extremely careless
Security is not Podesta’s expertise. You could blame Podesta for not employing strong security staff. Or maybe campaign management disregarded some of security’s advice.
I read that a campaign employee previewed messages, but the employee mistakenly labeled the phish mail as a genuine google alert.
it wasn’t (and obviously wasn’t, as seen by checking domain in the link)
the previewing employee claimed he typoed, but the text suggested that he missed the phish.
IMO, Google’s standard scam/spam filters should have binned the phish.
Otherwise (why?), the campaign’s software should have caught the phish without any employee preview.
(so, I don’t understand how the phish reached Podesta)
Phil Perspective
LOL! Do what, exactly? Are Scott Walker, Rick Snyder, Rick Scott and John Kasich all Putin puppets too? Did Putin cause the Democrats to lose close to 1,000 state legislative seats the past 8 years?
Ah, it’s charming Phil with his fascinating Perspective on how Russian interference in 2016 is irrelevant because Democrats did badly in recent local and state elections. Bit of a non sequitur to be sure, but when have the rules of logic ever constrained Phil’s Perspective?
“Ignoring hard questions about the need for internal reform” = failing to give disgruntled Sanders supporters as much authority as they want to shape the party, now now now.
cleek
this is the key to all of it.
Ding ding ding! The disgruntled American Left also has goals that nicely dovetail with Russia, namely the destruction of international order (EU, NATO, Pax Americana), and turning against Russia now means turning against Wikileaks, whose motives must remain pure because reasons or something.
Hey BernieBros, state your platform for dealing with Russia. And guess what? “The US deserves it” is not an answer.
I don’t think I’m a “BernieBro” as you’re using the term, but this Sanders supporter wants a stronger NATO, including more armored divisions in Europe. Good enough for you?
Unfortunately, we don’t really any active but unassigned armored divisions to send to Europe right now. We were moving some around to be closer to the threatened NATO members when the election happened.
I don’t think Trump is likely to send more troops to the Baltic states or Poland given their attitude that Russia’s foreign policy is none of our business. And he surely isn’t going to send some new divisions to Europe when he wants to fight a war in the Middle East so bad we can all taste the blood.
I fear that we will find that Iran, as theocratic as it is, is not the pushover Iraq was. And of course, while we defeated the Iraqi army pretty easily we never did win the war against the Iraqi people who fought against our presence there until we pretty much left.
After Bush failed to negotiate a state of forces agreement with the Iraqi government, we pretty much had no choice but to pull our troops out. Not to mention that the entire war was a war crime based upon a deliberate campaign of lies by the Bush administration.
Just as a war with Iran will be a war crime based upon either a campaign of lies on the part of Trump and his staff, or after an Iranian response to provocation on the part of Trump’s military, which he is in the process of giving the power to order strikes without Presidential authorization in advance.
So once war powers are devolved to field generals, who will be blamed for the deaths of millions of civilians and military? Hard to say, especially if we don’t win the war with ease.
Unfortunately, we don’t really any active but unassigned armored divisions to send to Europe right now.
No shit. But we can organize more, and encourage our allies to do the same.
Russia certainly wants a strong EU because it guarantees stability in Europe which Putin has said quite clearly he wants. And the last time there was real instability in Europe it was Russia as the Soviet Union which had to clean up the mess.
As for NATO, Putin has said quite clearly that it would be stupid to attack it, but he does seem to have a problem with Germany positioning armored troops on Russia’s border. I can’t imagine why?
Pax Americana. Now you’re having a laugh. On the whole, there was peace while the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact were around to counteract the US and NATO. Since the Russian gave up on the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, there has been one fucking war after another usually initiated by the United States and supported by the vassals of NATO.
As for the instability in Europe, some of it can be laid at America’s door with its interference in Ukraine, the Middle East and North Africa resulting in streams of refugees and sanctions that impact European busnesses. The rest can be laid at doors of the various EU leaders and their totally stupid and unnecessary love of austerity. That leaves very little room for Russia to be responsible for any of it.
As for Wikileaks and Russia, I read recently that its main connection with Russia seems to be that the servers are located at a commercial site in Russia, probably because it would be pretty difficult for the CIA to put a jackhammer through the cables.
I’d reply but I’m too busy picking my jaw up off the floor.
I wonder why all those peaceful, happy Eastern Bloc countries bailed as quickly as they could once the U.S.S.R lost leverage?
Porlock Junior
Hey, that was one of those times when there was real instability in Europe! And arguably the last (meaning previous) time before the current family of crises. So it must be the one UtS is referring to. (At first I made the mistake of remembering 1956, a typical geezer error.)
And the Soviets made an excellent contribution to cleaning up that dangerous mess: on that occasion they kept their fucking tanks at home. Good point, UtS.
msdc
One obvious counterpoint to Heer’s argument is that the far left has other, less noble reasons to sideline the Russia investigation – namely, downplaying or denying Russian interference allows them not only to blame Clinton alone for her loss but also to deny their own culpability in promoting and amplifying Putin’s propaganda.
Perversely, it also allows the people who were/are most gulled by that propaganda to claim they hold more power to reshape the Democratic party than they actually possess, precisely because they can present that party as weaker and more corrupt than it actually was while ignoring their own complicity in the corruption of the election.
It has a nice “heads I win, tails you lose” logic to it. Unfortunately, this little power play depends on their willingness to defend the actions of one authoritarian demagogue to elect another as POTUS.
I don’t think there’s much of that “far left”.
I suspect many supposed disgruntled Sanders supporters that promoted Trump (on the web) were fake.
Yeah, a lot of them fell for the “the DNC rigged the primary!” bullshit, and then helped elect Trump by staying home or voting third while encouraging others to the same by constantly spreading lies about Clinton, and now they don’t want to admit that their were fooled, that they got played by Vladimir Putin into helping to put an actual fascist in the White House. Instead, they want to take it out on the Democratic Party for daring to nominate the person who won the vast majority of primary votes.
There are now very few twitter accounts that seem genuinely BernieBros and virulently anti-Obama and anti-Clinton.
I think that those types of accounts preceding the election were fake.
That has not been my experience.
That would be nice if it were true – as did seem to be the case with most of the PUMAs in 2008 – but I’ve seen a lot of people in various comments sections (not Twitter, since I don’t use it) who have been around for years and so I’m pretty sure are not faking it peddling those lines.
Though I don’t recall seeing UnderTheSun here until recently (though correct me if that’s wrong) and kind of suspect that one possibly is a Putin plant.
All of the Bernie-or-Bust folks I knew are people I have known for AT LEAST four years, if not eight, and are people I have talked with in real time, several times a week. At least two of them had run for local offices, and one actually appeared on Rachel Maddow.
None of them are fakes. And they were about a third of the progressive community I was active with on Facebook and Second Life.
There are a *lot* more of these idiots than you think, and I said that repeatedly during the election.
namely, downplaying or denying Russian interference allows them not only to blame Clinton alone for her loss
I think this explanation is sufficient. Today on Twitter I read the most succinct encapsulation of the current intra-left brouhaha I’ve seen yet. Unfortunately I don’t remember who it was, but to paraphrase, they said “[denial about the role of racism in who decided to vote for Trump] is because they want the election to be a referendum on the Democratic leadership.” This was a reply to an Yglesias tweet wondering why the racist vote had become controversial in intra-left circles; for racism you can substitute denial that there were Russian attempts to influence the election or any number of other things.
I’m not sure why I hadn’t seen it clearly in those terms before, but that really is the nub for the anti-Clintonites. They want the election to mean that the electorate has rejected the neoliberal Democratic platform. Acknowledging other factors is kind of problematic for this idea.
Go on, keep burying your head in the sand and see the Republicans win in 2018 and 2024 and the Republicans and Trump win in 2020.
Oh my God, you mean pampered white twentysomethings might not be inspired enough to vote while the base turns out to fight for its life?
StellaB
It’s no wonder the Democrats are fucked. Since people like you are probably running the party. Do you know why close to have the voting eligible population doesn’t vote? If you did, you wouldn’t be popping your mouth off like a dumb ass. A fair amount of them don’t believe you’re going to make life better for them. Did you watch Chris Hayes last night?
Actually, “close to half” of the voting population never votes. Turnout bounces around a bit from high 50s to low 60s in Presidential elections and lower numbers for mid-terms, and lower still for special elections/local only.
We should do what we can to increase turnout, including appealing to The Yout. HOWEVER, thinking that you’re going to get a political sea change out of it is just dumb. You’re tinkering around the margins.
Most of the people who don’t vote aren’t going to vote no matter what you do.
sigaba
Witness here the blackmail.
MPAVictoria
As opposed to “vote for dems or else”?
/Which I think one should do. But come on!
“vote for dems or else”?
The “or else” is not “or else I’ll retaliate against you.” The “or else” is “or else bad things will happen due to the actions of other people, which I’m trying to stop.”
It’s not blackmail to point out the consequences of one’s actions. Jesus.
The ‘or else’ phrase could avoid misinterpretation by specifing the source of the ‘or else’ danger.
Or else those folks stay home again!
And I will continue to not care if they drop dead.
If they’re going to keep punching themselves despite being given ample warnings and opportunity to stop, I’m not going to waste my time feeling sad for them when they’re all bruised.
It’s weird that you have to specify this, but there ya go.
You’re one to talk about “burying your head in the sand”.
You’re the one going “LA LA LA LA NOTHING TO SEE HERE! Investigation can only be a waste of time”.
Because the whole “Russia won it for Trump” is fake and an unnecessary distraction. It might make liberals and so-called progressives feel good because then they don’t have to face up to their support for such a useless candidate as Hillary Clinton, but it’s still a waste of time and effort and just seems to increase support for Trump.
Because the whole “Russia won it for Trump” is fake
As you well know, it is alleged that Russians hacked the DNC and Clinton campaign and spread information to fuck with the campaign, and that the Trump administration has some fishy connections to Russia. We know they were in contact with the Russians during the campaign. So, straw men aside, this is not “fake”. What, are you going to start chanting “fake news!” along with Trump and his minions?
an unnecessary distraction
Becsuse a foreign power fucking with a U.S. election should not be of any concern to Americans?
It might make liberals and so-called progressives feel good because then they don’t have to face up to their support for such a useless candidate as Hillary Clinton
If you call yourself a progressive and did not support Clinton during the general election you have no business lecturing anyone on being “so-called” or supporting “useless” candidates.
still a waste of time and effort
Translation: LA LA LA LA NOTHING TO SEE HERE!
just seems to increase support for Trump
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Good one!
UnderTheSun says:
keep burying your head in the sand
Your comments are uslessly non-specific and aloof from reality, thus pointless.
You may be a 16 year old. We’re older.
witlesschum
Couching it in these terms doesn’t change the fact that we have to come up with something that Americans will like better than a celebrity appealing to white supremacy.
here and how does the party position itself in relationship to Trump? Medicare for all? Even if we were correct in assuming the next nominee won’t face the toxic combination of media hatred and frivolity, perceived baggage among voters, femaleness and Russian interference that Clinton got hit with, it’s probably a good idea to prepare as if that’s not the case.
leftwingfox
Finding a revolutionary leftist leader for the Democratic party seems like a doomed effort. Organizational distrust and purity politics are preventing the left from making the same inroads to the DNC that the Goldwater conservatives managed with the Republicans. Instead we get weird proxy battles with artificially inflated stakes.
The more explicitly socialist groups seem to be focused more on third party efforts at the moment, which will probably be useless without either the complete destruction of the Democratic party or a massive change in electoral politics.
There may need to be an effort for leftists to work within the corrupt system to break it apart. Use crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding to fund pro-single-payer and pro-socialist lobbies that can buy Dem politician votes.
The current Democratic message seems pretty popular. Maybe we should try embodying it in a popular, charismatic candidate? Like this Obama guy, he did pretty well running on a pretty similar platform to Clinton!
veleda_k
Yep. This isn’t about an investigation into Russian hacking drawing attention away from the Muslim travel ban. It’s about an investigation into Russian hacking drawing attention away from,”Hillary was the worst candidate ever, and everything is her fault.”
And from, “we totally got played by the Russian hacking, sometimes unwittingly and sometimes quite eagerly.”
quite eagerly
who eagerly got played?
I assume you meant unconsciously, inadvertently?
I don’t think there’s anything remotely unconscious or accidental about Greenwald, Assange et al. siding against Clinton and with Putin.
Dateline: March 14, 1973:
“There are other reasons to sideline the Watergate narrative. For a Democratic Party adrift after last year’s electoral wipeout, focusing on the Watergate story risks ignoring hard questions about the need for internal reform. After all, if the election loss can be blamed on Republican interference, the party doesn’t need to change.”
“Watergate burglar James McCord writes a letter to Judge John Sirica, claiming that some of his testimony was perjured under pressure and that the burglary was not a CIA operation, but had involved other government officials, thereby leading the investigation to the White House.”
We’ve got to push the investigation to a conclusion before concluding that it is pointless.
Granting that it is possible (even probable) that the Russia connections will not amount to anything much more significant that what we’ve already seen,
What have we already seen beyond some lame whining about RT and Sputnik News? Nothing as the bias in RT and Sputnik News is on par with what we’ve seen from mainstream media organizations like CNN, Washington Post and NY Times. So, really, there’s nothing there as even ex-DNI Clapper has admitted.
As I state above:
… the bias in RT and Sputnik News is on par with what we’ve seen from mainstream media organizations like CNN, Washington Post and NY Times.
Please elaborate – what biases do the various news outlets display, and why are they equivalent?
Two words for now – Burlington and Electric.
Don’t Criss Angel me, bro. Say what you have to say.
Bull fucking shit. The “bias” in RT and Sputnik News are like the biases at the National Enquirer and Weekly World News, in that the stories they push are completely made up.
some lame whining about RT and Sputnik News
that same lame whining is “yours”.
same same.
“your” comments are the same with slight rewordings.
that’s botlike.
So there was a story in Raw Story today about online Bernie trolls being fake Russian based accounts. Just saying.
nadirehsa
So this is a debate my Indivisible group has been having. Some members want to go all out on calling MoCs to push Russia investigations and demanding Trump’s tax returns. To the exclusion of all else, almost, because our group mostly agrees that we need to focus on a small number of issues.
My objection to this is that total success on this issue leaves us with President Pence. And I’m not confident that toppling Trump will kneecap Pence and prevent him from enacting all sorts of insane right wing policies. So I think we need to focus on policy issues, like health care, and hammer MoCs there, because President Trump or Pence is a clear and present danger in those realms.
That said, I’ve noticed there is a ton of genuine passion around the Russia investigations. And I’m wary of squelching people’s appetites for engaging their reps. So I see both sides of this debate, I guess.
I guess I think a good idea is to ask your group to vote on how important each topic is to them and then have a working group for each topic: Working group of 5 people to push Trump’s tax returns etc.. on the press and local government officials. Working group of 5 people to do the other things (or however many sign on for it). A committed small number of people who really care about a thing is more important than 40 people all pursuing the same thing if some of that forty are backsliding or uninterested.
I, personally, think that Pence is no more dangerous that Trump and lacks the glamor of Trump/tie to trump’ voters. So even though pence will do horrible and stupid things in power he a) won’t blow up the world and b) will lose trump’s voters at the midterm and election.
Second the organizing suggestion. And make sure that the working groups report back to the whole on their progress.
cpinva
the organizing suggestion is a great idea, it might actually accomplish something concrete, as opposed to the chickens running around with their heads cut off approach that so many seem to have adopted. if I weren’t consumed with personal issues, this is something I might get into doing.
not so sure about your take on Pence horrible v Strump horrible. sure, he probably won’t start WW3 by accident, he’ll just spend his time trying to make women wards of the state, so their sexuality can be controlled, just as the men folk like it. I would prefer to just get rid of the whole lot of them, but there’s no realistic chance of that happening.
Trump is not going to interfere with the christianist wing of the party doing whatever it wants so Pence will not be any worse than trump, even on the things pence cares about.
Yes. Also, AND I COULD BE WRONG ABOUT THIS, I don’t think Pence is as lucky/ favored by Azathoth as Trump seems to be.
Trump is not going to interfere with the christianist wing of the party doing whatever it wants so Pence will not be any worse than trump
Once more for the people in the back.
I’d like a unionized tech sector but that ain’t gunna happen in the next 4 years either. So you work with what’s in front of you. Let not the perfect be the enemy of the good.
And even if you somehow impeach Trump and Pence in tandem, that leaves you with President Zombie-eyed Granny Starver.
I organized an Indivisible group where I live, and we divided up much like Aimai described. Ours is somewhat different in that we have people focused on specific MoCs in some cases, and on specific issues in other cases, but the basic idea of getting a few people to lead on things they care most about is a good one. Another thing we have done where I live is to partner with other Indivisible groups nearby for actions and townhalls, etc. Since each group has its pet issues, that allows us to focus on our pet issues that are different, so nothing is being left behind. We are also reaching out to other progressive groups locally that are not under the Indivisible umbrella. Many of those groups are more single-issue specific. They are organizing actions, and our members are piggybacking onto those actions, and then some of their people are coming to things we plan. That allows our members to participate in ways they want to. We want to make sure that our people are engaged on issues they care about, so we are trying to make sure that there are ways to accommodate everyone’s passions, without overwhelming people.
As for impeaching Trump only to have to deal with Pence, I am personally pessimistic that Trump will be impeached. Maybe if Democrats are able to capture the House in 2018, but otherwise I just don’t see it happening. Perhaps I am wrong, I often am, but I don’t believe the Republicans would ever impeach Trump. To me, the value of pushing for in-depth investigations is that it can weaken Trump by driving a wedge between congressional Republicans and Trump, and it puts his administration on the defensive. As Farley noted in his post, the issue has already had some of that effect. This can eat away at Trump’s already weak level of legitimacy with the electorate, making him less effective at pushing his crap agenda, even if it never leads to an impeachment.
keta
Taibbi:
If that’s the case, there are big dangers for the press. If we engage in Times-style gilding of every lily the leakers throw our way, and in doing so build up a fever of expectations for a bombshell reveal, but there turns out to be no conspiracy—Trump will be pre-inoculated against all criticism for the foreseeable future.
Bullshit bullshit bullshit. Christ but does this mindset ever piss me the fuck right off.
Look. Solid investigative reporting does NOT have to lead to a “bombshell reveal” to be worthwhile or successful. Solid investigative reporting isn’t a fucking reality teevee show with some big fucking SURPRISE! promised for the ending, no matter how much the gormless media seems to think this is the desired dynamic.
Solid investigative reporting takes you to the facts. Period. Full Stop. What those facts tell us can be many things, one of which, yes, could be a “bombshell reveal,” but more often than not is NOT. This does not make solid investigative reporting moot, or unimportant, or heaven fucking forbid, somehow inoculate the subject from further criticism or further solid investigative reporting.
I mean, for fuck’s sake Taibbi. Does everything in America have to be a guaranteed grand slam fucking home run or just don’t bother shuffling up to the plate? Christ. No wonder American media is such a fucking shallow, narcissistic, craven pool of jerk-off artists all looking to make themselves bigger than whatever story they cover.
Matt Taibbi once came up with a clever way of describing Goldman Sachs. Criticizing him is neoliberal wrecking.
kped
Another problem I have with the guy (besides the thing i rant about below). He is this “finance” reporting expert (or so he thinks), but he knows jack and shit about finance. He was ranting for years about the Feds balance sheet. Got into it with Krugman a few times as Krugman pointed out that guys like him didn’t know what they were talking about as they warned of all manner of catastrophe from Quantitative easing. Taibbi was snarky (and became a hero to conspiracy theory sites like Zero Hedge in the process). Well, almost 10 years later…where’s the doom from QE? Or QE2? Or any of the things Taibbi and others were so sure about?
But does he or anyone like him ever go back and say “got that one wrong”. Nope. Always forward, with more and more bullshit. If he couldn’t turn a clever phrase, he’d be Thomas Friedman, the man he so loves to mock.
Self-proclaimed progressives who hate expansionary monetary policy. Jesus John Maynard Keynes wept.
It’s because everything is rigged and only the banks will win in anything.
Now, the banks sure do win a lot. But things like QE and QE2 did in fact help stabilize the economy and add jobs. Cap and trade, which he was also against because “the banks will speculate” would also help, even if just a little, with pollution, as carbon pollution would have a real price. But it’s always some shadow conspiracy with Goldman Sachs.
(Krugman also ripped him for his anti-cap and trade stuff, noting that guys like Taibbi don’t seem to have a problem with commodities like wheat being traded, and if speculation in that and other areas hasn’t doomed the world, or enriched banks at the expense of all others, what makes cap and trade so different? Seriously, people like Matt are much less knowledgeable then they think they are about their supposed areas of expertise, but they get away with it because they can make a good dick joke).
No, no, no, the business model of Wall Street is fraud, ergo if a bank is involved with anything it will be exploited to only enrich itself. For example, the Wall Street bailout did nothing to actually stabilize the economy and prevent another Great Depression and just put money directly in the pocket of Goldman Sachs because Congress is all neoliberals.
Well put.
I mean, I will always love that review of “The World is Flat,” but he does seem to be at a loss when he can’t go for the easy joke.
FlipYrWhig
The vampire squid essay has a whole thing about how the next thing to be financialized because Wall Street will love it so much is… cap and trade. By Taibbi’s own criterion, that sort of no-conspiracy revelation should mean that no one gets to criticize Goldman Sachs and be believed anymore, right?
Alex.S
It’s the mindset that caused New York Times to breathlessly report that people asked the State Department for favors and didn’t receive them.
Or to run a daily “Wikileaks!” email scandal story without any scandal or story.
It’s also the mindset that caused the media to give up on Trump’s taxes and financial records. Reporters weren’t assigned to investigate Trump’s charity because there probably wasn’t a good story there, so it took a single person working months to eventually point out that Trump was constantly breaking the law with his charity.
probably wasn’t a good story there, so it took a single person working months to eventually point out that Trump was constantly breaking the law with his charity.
Clinton allegedly breaking the law was apparently a good story, but Trump? Yawn!
See my comment below…
The Times had no trouble dribbling out Whitewater, the emails, vince foster, and a ton of other literal non stories and materially damaging both President Clinton and Hlilary Clinton multiple years later. You have to figure that a steady drip of stories–the sheer quantity, has a quality all its own. Some people don’t read the paper every day. If every time you open the paper or turn on the news you hear about Trump’s russia ties that has an affect. We should be going for that affect so that Trump’s children’s children’s children will be hurt by the Trump/Putin association.
Davis X. Machina
Some people don’t read the paper every day. If every time you open the paper or turn on the news you hear about Trump’s Russia ties that has an affect.
It doesn’t matter who won the week, or the morning.
It matters, really matters, matters a whole lot, what the background noise is.
Alex.S says:
single person working months to eventually point out that Trump was constantly breaking the law with his charity
David Fahrenthold [email protected]
1/I’ve now called 422 charities, looking for proof @realDonaldTrump gave his own $ away. Results: 229 said they’d never gotten $ from Trump. 26 Oct 2016
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/09/fahrenthold
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/03/red-herring/comment-page-1#comment-2696741
David Fahrenthold
Yes! 100% yes to this.
Also, Taibbi is so fucking disingenuous here. I read this clown, and here is what he wrote during the fucking election (yes, he drives me to swearing online…that’s how annoyed I am with this shit head).
Seriously, read this: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/stop-whining-about-false-balance-w440228
Where he whines about people on the left pissed off about false balance. Hell, take a look at what he says in this piece about the bullshit Clinton Foundation stuff:
The irony is, the Clinton Foundation thing is a rare example of an important story that is getting anything like the requisite attention. The nexus of elite connections that sits behind tales like Bill Clinton taking $1.5 million in speaking fees from a Swiss bank (and foundation donor) while that same bank is seeking relief from Hillary Clinton’s State Department is exactly the kind of thing that requires the scrutiny of reporters.
This is particularly true since the charity is a new kind of structure, with seemingly new opportunities for conflicts, and an innovation that is likely to be replicated in the future by other politicians – perhaps even a future President Trump himself.
Such investigative reports on the mechanics of political influence are also exactly the sort of thing that media audiences routinely ignore, unless by some lucky accident they happen to be caught up in the horse-race drama of a Campaign Reality Show.
Of course, nothing was actually there, but…it was important! And good that the media went after this, according to Taibbi. Now, he won’t admit that there was nothing actually scandalous going on, but this was a story that was important to flog.
But now…”hey guys, i’m worried that we are digging too deep on this Russia thing…what if nothing big is found?” Excuse me? Now you have fucking worry about stories potentially turning into bullshit? Now Taibbi is worried about potential consequences of going after stories that don’t add up to anything criminal?????????????????????????????
He said a reporter should be like a hungry dog going after a bone (i believe this was on twitter, not in the piece I linked), yet now he’s saying “hey reporters, step back a little, you’re going to chew through that bone”. Seriously, fuck this guy.
Q.E.Dumbass
The truly depressing is, among the eXile pink anarchist bunnies, he was the voice of sanity.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/03/socialists-electoral-politics#comment-2685403
More dumbassery from Matt:
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/841336515976450052
Virtually no US media outlets have picked this story up
This being…a Russian bank hiring John Podesta’s brother to lobby. He wrote this to show…hypocrisy on liberals side? Except…this isn’t John Podesta, it’s his brother. He also worked for the same bank in the past…and it did nothing to the Democratic platform (in fact, guys like Taibbi said that Clinton was too anti-Russia…). So why is this story something that needs mentioning? Well…uh…it has the name “Podesta” in it…so there’s that.
He also says “yuck” in a tweet about the “our sides” use of terms like “bothsiderism”, and “lesserevilism”…and calls them “soviet” techniques…because noting that the media is obsessed with yelling both sides is exactly like Stalin? I don’t even fucking know anymore. These guys are so fucking intellectually dishonest, nothing guys like Taibbi can be taken at face value anymore. It’s all about who you hate, and it seems guys like him and Greenwald hate the same people – liberals. So anything to knock us down? even if it means downplaying the actual people in powers crimes and plans.
and calls them “soviet” techniques
Red baiting! Wait…
Thing that angers me so much about the Clinton Foundataion and EMAILS! (other than the obvious) is that virtually no Clinton supporters think this stuff shouldn’t be investigated. Investigate away! All of our leaders should be held accountable, especially Presidential candidates! Their objection is relentless painting this crap as a scandal when there’s no there there.
Exactly. Like, the NYT spent 2000 words on Hillary possibly doing favors for the foundation by arranging diplomatic VISA’s for them. Now, the piece said that they didn’t give the VISA’s. Nor that they even met. And also, the VISA’s were for Bill’s aides to join him in North Korea to help free American hostages. Literally every question was answered in the piece, yet it painted this as something nefarious and adding “questions”.
That’s the shit we objected to. If you have a story, you report it, and find it comes out clean:
a) Don’t write it up, your investigation didn’t bring anything up, or
b) Don’t write it up as if something fishy is going on and use that tone in the piece while burying a one sentence “no wrong doing was found” in the 10th graph.
How many stories did you read about “while it seeked approval from Hillary Clinton’s state department”, that briefly mentioned that the State Department was only 1 of a dozen agencies to have to give approval…and it didn’t even give the approval. That was what pissed people off, not the “investigation”.
royko
Well, I mean, clearly, when both Bill and Hillary’s attackers fixated on bullshit scandals, that totally inoculated them forever!
“I mean, for fuck’s sake Taibbi. Does everything in America have to be a guaranteed grand slam fucking home run or just don’t bother shuffling up to the plate?”
good point, look how well that approach worked against the Clintons. oh………..um, wait. never mind!
There was never a “big reveal” with Hillary Clinton, and yet . . .
The Russia scandal does a few things-
* Shows how absurd and partisan the FBI interference in the election was. The FBI made a choice and used their influence to downplay Russian interference with the election and interaction with the Trump campaign. It shows that Comey knew how sensitive it was to throw the FBI’s weight around during an election.
* Gives a possible line to maybe, just maybe, having Trump reveal his financial records.
* Get rid of some of the worst people, such as Flynn. A lot of the terrible people surrounding Trump were also happy to work with Russia.
* Maybe, just maybe, have the media give a little self-reflection to which stories they hype for the clicks and the general “NEWS!” 90% of the Russian scandal is the media was willing to carry water for Wikileaks over nothing.
I’m not expecting it to be an all-consuming scandal that causes impeachment. But it would be nice to know Trump’s finances and business holdings, which has been a basic level of knowledge we’ve had about every President since Nixon.
Good bullet points.
Russia connections also seem to be something that can be used as a wedge between Trump and his supporters / other Republicans. Part of the way to win is to weaken your opposition even if the opposition doesn’t simply come to your side.
Bugboy
“The Russia investigation has already turned up more than Benghazi ever did…”
But that was never the point of Benghazi Fever. By GOP metrics, Benghazi was a stunning success, because it helped keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House. That’s certainly not something GOP would consider “a failure”.
Stop talking about Cheney and Halliburton; Real Americans don’t care and there are better ways to be against the Iraq War.
And contrary to Gessen and Taibbi, I don’t know why it would be a minor story to prove exactly how Russia, a country under crippling sanction for good reason, used its intelligence services and WikiLeaks to divide the party most likely to continue those sanctions, for the benefit of a wholly unqualified candidate who very likely has deep and ongoing financial ties to individuals in or close to Putin’s government.
That’s just me, of course.
and the political penalty that the GOP paid for pushing Benghazi appears to be nil.
Given that BENGHAZI begat EMAILS!, it was in fact a huge net win for Republicans.
Taibbi, Gessen, Greenwald, etc. are concern trolls. I liked Gessen’s columns in NYRB and NYT on resisting autocrats, but she increasingly seems to be of the far-left “I don’t like all this anti-Russia stuff because it distracts from Shillary’s emails” crowd.
I think that Gessen’s basic point is that she believes Trump should be fought on the fundamentals — what he is doing to public policy in the United States (e.g. health insurance, the EPA, voting rights), that these are vital issues. Russian interference is a Hail Mary, the froth on the scum, so to speak. It’s not that different from the opinion widely expressed on this blog, which was that Russian interference was worth noting, but that the actual scandal was the behaviour of American institutions during the election.
I didn’t really even think Gessen’s essay was all that good in its prescriptions for fighting Trump because she clearly didn’t know much about American politics or domestic government (i.e. federal institutions like the judiciary and bureaucracy, to say nothing of Democratically controlled state governments, certainly WILL be critical to resisting Trump and hurting him politically). She’s only made my opinion of her value as a commentator go down since.
The bigger problem with Gessen is that she profoundly misunderstands where Putin came from and how he assumed power. Her story is that Russia was a fledgling democracy, and then Putin destroyed it by using massive doses of propaganda and coercion. The problem with that story is that the entire toolkit at his disposal was inherited from Yeltsin: a super-powerful presidence able to rule by decree, weak parties and othe institutions, media controlled by Kremlin proxies, rapidly recovering secret services. So its hard for her to grok that Trump doesn’t have those tools, and thus her advice is largely useless. Add to this the fact that she absolutely doesn’t care about rising popular prosperrity and restoration of basic state function as foundation of Putin’s popularity, and you see how her Trump/Putin parallel falls apart.
NewishLawyer
Sometimes I feel like I am the only person who likes being a Democratic Party member.
Jeet Herr is great but it is obvious that TNR has been taken over by the Bernie or Buster wing which doesn’t really see itself as being warm and fuzzy with the Democratic Party. They can be valuable at pushing against concern trolling from neoliberals at Vox but sometimes get carried away.
What happened to the Democratic Party in 2016 was freakish and weird and the product of much gerrymandering. We won seats in both the House and Senate but not enough to gain control. This is dispiriting but so many people on the left and right are learning the wrong lessons (IMO) from this event.
As a Democratic Party member, PLEASE articulate the party’s platform.
I was just coming here to post the same link.
Of course, that was before the election. Currently you can add the preamble “Oppose the fascist currently illegitimately in power by any legal means, then work towards platform of….”
A fair and just America — the goal of the Democratic party is to have Americans treated equally and fairly by the law and the government. The party also believes it is the role of the federal government to provide a level of support for people who have fallen on hard times or are coming from a difficult situation (some might call it a safety net).
As such, it’s primary commitments are
* fighting discrimination
* providing access to basic benefits such as health care, food, and housing
* improve jobs and wages for the non-wealthy
* also environmentalism
Now, the largest problem facing the Democratic party is that the various issues are not solvable via one all-encompassing solution. It’s a coalition of groups that are “stronger together”, working with each other to try to improve the lives of all Americans.
Now, the largest problem facing the Democratic party is that the various issues are not solvable via one all-encompassing solution.
When you replace the prevailing late-capitalist mode of production-for profit with a socialist, production-for-use of production, all those problems become self-solving. It's all in the Grundrisse.
In fairness, the more ridiculous material mainly comes from Jones, Chang and Shephard.
Because lost elections always prove whatever it is that you believed in the April before they happened to be correct, the, uh, Left (?) is really hammering hard on the “Democrats are DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED if they don’t adopt my specific policy preferences right now!” drum. After a very weird election decided by 80,000 votes in three states. Where, as you point out, Democrats gained a small number of seats in both houses of Congress.
There’s no denying the Democrats are in a very tough spot and have a lot of rebuilding to do. But explanations of the election results of 2016 that lean so heavily on ideological failure on the part of the Dems seem outrageously overdetermined to me. As do the claims that energized young people will abandon the party in droves in 2018 and 2020 if it doesn’t immediately transform into a Workers party. I’m totally fine with the Democrats tacking further left economically, but expecting that to transform us into a permanent majority party seems a little too optimistic.
As do the claims that energized young people will abandon the party in droves in 2018 and 2020 if it doesn’t immediately transform into a Workers party.
Where the fuck did this idea come from, by the way, that rough-hewn laborers are just itching to ally with countercultural youth? It’s all over the Bernie-sphere. Don’t laborers hate the “participation trophy” and “special snowflake” generation almost as much as they hate black and brown people?
Since the Flowers of the Revolution are on the intertubes screeching at women and POC for being insufficiently Marxist instead of talking to anyone wearing Carhartts, I think we have our answer.
I don’t know. Might be because Bernie got more votes than Hillary in the WV and MI primaries. Which obviously proves these salt-of-the-earth rust belt workers are hungry for socialism.
Bluntly, the idea comes from Karl Marx (the idea that once you get rid of “false consciousness”, the proletariat will be eager to unify against the capitalists). Communism is fashionable again on the hard left. (See TVTray, NoMoreAltCenter, etc, who have explicitly advocated Marxism – by name – in their comments.)
If there is anything more to Trump-Russia collusion than is already in the open, we certainly won’t find anything about it UNLESS the Dems push hard.
Really? Then we’re sunk.
Fuck off.
Kthanx, bai.
People like this always want other people to fight harder. Gotta pick up slack for them after all!
I know it’s fashionable to crap on Democrats as weak-willed, but since the election a lot of us have been devoting a lot of time to calling our representatives and telling them to fight. And the results have been better than usual. If you have access to a working telephone or if you have the ability to go to their office in person, they you too can join in this effort. Sitting there going “we’re doomed” is also an option, but when people around you are actively trying and seeing results, then it’s not option that is helpful.
I think the attacks on Democrats for being “weak willed” is all part of the romance of the political as stern, somewhat unpleasant, fighting truth teller to power. The whole Bernie Shtick. In reality politicians are responsive to pressure from their constituents and from their party–pressure from constituents should drive them. That’s why we elect them. Party membership and party goals are somewhat more long term and we shouldn’t vote for them if we don’t agree with them and we should expect that they are willing to sacrifice themselves for tough votes (like the ACA was) in pursuit of long term promises that they made to their voters.
The soi disant leftists who maunder on and on about wanting a fighting, angry, democratic party are really in love with the notion of a authoritarian leader who is not responsive to their voters. We are the voters we have been waiting for. A shitload of people were not politically engaged and they (not me, because I’m pretty political) left the hard work of calling, pressuring, donating money, and getting out the vote to other people. Politics in this country is not going to go to the most right, or the most complaisant, voters. Its going to go to those who get off their asses and vote. So any voter who is waiting to be inspired, or to see a politician shaking their fist on TV, is in the wrong business.
This comes up over and over in their hissy fits. They really did believe Bernie would rule by dictate and singularly impose his agenda Congress and Republicans be damned.
Keep in mind that Bernie’s own theory for how this would happen was that people would appear outside Mitch McConnell’s house and scare him into doing what they wanted.
ETA: NVM DFTT.
Folks bristle when I suggest this, but I increasingly believe the Bernie-or-Busters are really just authoritarian leftists. They believe there is one narrow, uncompromising way to do leftism, they justify using bullying and intimidation to get what they want, and they put all of their hopes and dreams into a daddy-like figure. In 2004 it was Howard Dean, in 2008 it was Obama, now it’s Bernie, and in the DNC Chair race it was Keith Ellison. There was also this attitude on a smaller scale with Russ Feingold and Zephyr Teachout.
Of course, Authoritarian Leftism is an actual political philosophy with an actual name. But of course we can’t use that name, because it’s “red-baiting”.
JustinRunia
Now they’re coming out of the authoritarian closet
a core tenant of the idea behind the United States
OK, I’m done.
Lee Rudolph
Shouldn’t we at least wait to find out whether he’s talking about a mere roomer, a full boarder, or someone in between?
Ho-ly shit! I know it’s the logical conclusion of the modern “left” as I outlined it, but it’s still amazing to see it articulated so clearly.
Uh oh. Jacobin hates that guy. Circular firing squad, assemble!
Ah, I couldn’t figure out where that guy was coming from, the libertarian angle does fit better than the socialist one. Paste has been on my watch list (by which I mean, my hate-read list–I might have been the reason they closed their Disqus comments last month…) since they picked up Walker Bragman. But the stable of blow-hard brogressives over at Paste may be running out of gas now that we’re out of presidential election season and the economic reality of covering hundreds of congressional races comes to bear.
I did find this comment pretty ironic, coming from Jacobin:
“So it’s not too surprising that Brennan deals with persistent social problems like racism by acknowledging their existence, expressing vague concern, and then sliding right on by.”
Wow, I agree, obtuse ideologues are problematic!
Oh, absolutely. And this is nothing new: They’ve been this way at least since 2009 when they were shrieking about Obama ramming a strong public option down Max Baucus’ throat and demanding passage of Obamacare by the end of the day.
JBC31187
We’ve gone from Schumer and Sanders saying “Well, we’ll work with the fascist if he has good ideas” to “fuck you Trump.” I’m less worried about our politicians (even Manchin!) than I am our populace.
What’s amazing is I hear this in California, where I woke up the day after the election to hear politicians hammering Trump right out of the gate. It was the first time in my life I’d ever thought, wow, the pols are out in front of me (Feinstein being the lone disappointment). I’m still hearing the same old from the usual suspects. It’s like they’re immune to new information, but I’m working to get them off their butts and making the phone calls or doing something besides navel-gazing.
And what’s great about these people is they are conspicuously silent on chastising Bernie for his vows to work with Trump. Somehow all the Democrats are too weak, but Bernie gets a pass for fighting Trump less than Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
During the cold war, the Soviet Union was at least nominally a communist state so you’d understand why the left would cape for them.
Today’s Russia is a brutal authoritarian regime with no such pretenses yet a certain element of the left continues to white knight for them. It’s time to stop giving Greenwald et al the benefit of the doubt and start looking into the actual reasons they defend Russia so much.
A brutal authoritarian regime with a strong penchant for “drowned-in-the-bathtub” style gangster-capitalism, and religious fundamentalism, and foreign policy imperialism.
Speaking of which: dear God, if I never hear the phrase “near abroad” again from an alleged progressive, it’ll be too soon.
No Longer Middle Aged Man
“near abroad”
Only neo-liberal shills would deny this as justification for Cuba and/or Venezuela to invade the USA.
Greenwald is essentially a state power skeptic on the level of Rand Paul; therefore pointing out the wide variety of states that are far more authoritarian and repressive, that do far less for their citizens and ask far more of them undermines his thesis that the US is a Civil Liberties Gehenna, and cannot be tolerated. He’s not bought, he just lives in the bubble of libertarian ideology that afflicts a lot of white guys like myself.
A state power skeptic who is selectively blind to the horrors of some states but not others, who ignores the rise of corporate and global actors, is just fucking embarrassing at this point.
It’s always 1917
I’m not sure “state power skeptic” is the best term. He’s an America-power skeptic, who thinks the U.S. is the focus of evil in the modern world, and that allying with anyone opposed to it is therefore justified along “if Hitler invaded hell, I would at least make a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons” lines. (And has convinced himself that the Democrats are, within the American spectrum, the purest embodiment of that evil).
At least that’s the most charitable interpretation I can come up with.
(And has convinced himself that the Democrats are, within the American spectrum, the purest embodiment of that evil).
Remember, social fascists are the real class enemy.
With Greenwald, remember where Snowden is staying. Now – it is possible that Greenwald was not involved in that arrangement, or has no positive feelings for Russia for providing such an arrangement – but I sincerely doubt it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The most charitable reading of Greenwald is that Russian agents have told him to carry water for them or they’ll kill Snowden.
Wait, you mean a journalist whose Pulitzer Prize level claim to fame is “whistleblowing” against the US, working with a person who sought asylum in Russia, and working with an organization which is a front for Russian intelligence might not be on the level? And said journalist also makes excuses for the most dangerous man ever win a major party nomination who also happens to be Russia’s preferred candidate, and said journalist also propagandizes against the one party that most closely aligns with his ostensible values and can stop said candidate? Why, you must be a red-baiting conspiracy theorist to question the motivation of someone with this background.
the Democratic Party should listen to us and do as we say because hate it!
I've written a thousand letters to the girl I love calling her a worthless bitch and treacherous whore...why doesn't she respond? I've said repeatedly I only want to use her for my own self-gratification and amusement...shouldn't that be enough? Doesn't she see we could be an unbeatable team if she simply did everything I commanded and allowed me to control her utterly?
Perfection! I have long thought that there was a heaping dose of NiceGuy/PUA attitudes towards the democratic party in the current left in the US.
MyNameIsZweig
Oh man, I had never noticed that before but now it is so obvious.
Puts a whole new spin on the “Dad party versus Mom party,” don’t it?
Democrats are the party everyone takes for granted. That makes them either the national maid, the national mom, or the national unappreciated wife/girlfriend/wev. But yes, all female archetypes.
Bingo! Yes, this is one reason I hated having to read that stuff about how the democrats are the mommy party over and over and over again, or the nanny state stuff. If you don’t understand how that feeds into an essentially permanently misogynist attitude towards both women and government then you are not helping anything.
Harrumph.
mind.blown.
One: the question of whether or not the president has ties to our most powerful foreign competitor is not a “distraction.” It’s a real problem in and of itself that any American, much less any liberal, should be very concerned about.
Two: whether or not Trump has illicit ties to the Russian government or entities under its control, he’s made it very clear that he’s a huge fan of theirs, more than he is of the liberal democracies that’ve been longstanding allies of ours. Anything that puts him on the defensive on this front and forces him to distance himself from Russia is a good thing.
Three:
and by promoting a xenophobic conspiracy theory in the cause of removing a xenophobic conspiracy theorist from office.
Dear God:
Is anybody arguing that we should revoke travel privileges for Russians because they’re Russian?
Is anybody arguing that people seeking political refuge from Russia should be banned from entering the country?
Is anybody arguing that Russian-Americans are inherently suspect and should be made to take loyalty oaths, or sent home to Russia?
Is anybody arguing for the profiling of ethnic Russians or of Russian-Orthodox believers?
Has there been a series of Russian-Orthodox churches burnt down by arsonists?
Has there been an increase in random street violence directed at people who are or look/sound Russian?
Has there been an increase in Russophobic messages in white supremacist groups?
I’ve come across a few of these accusations that being worried about Putin’s influence in American politics is just like Islamophobia but with Russians, and it’s even more ridiculous than the McCarthyism. People are worried about the Russian government, period. Nobody’s attacking the vodka salesman down the street. The people who do go in for that kind of crap are too busy hating on Jews, Muslims, and Mexicans. And loving Putin for sharing their goals.
Just a matter of time before Rod Dreher runs a letter from a reader describing how a gay mob attacked an Orthodox Church, screaming “this one’s for Wikileaks!”
*grumbles, looks for cloth to clean keyboard and screen*
Russia/Trump is also materially tied to the emoluments issue, bribery, corruption, and graft. There’s no way to get around it. Nothing Trump does is without a literal payoff in cash money or trademark. There’s no way to ignore this.
As CP correctly notes, this whole Trump-Russia issue needs to be looked at through the lens of the health of American democracy, not just in this moment but also with an eye to the future.
Partisan politics has subsumed every single issue in American political life, and it absolutely blows my mind to see people squealing, “Don’t pursue that, it’ll make our party look bad!” Meanwhile, “that” is ripping apart the fabric that holds the highest office in the land accountable, respectable, and respected.
Un-freaking-believable.
To be fair, I think it’s to some extent inevitable, because partisanship has subsumed everything else in the GOP so completely that they now can’t even be relied on to care about evidence of potential government subversion by a foreign power, as long as the subversion is from one of their own.
That doesn’t do anything to excuse the braying brogressives, though.
The organs of the state exist to serve the Party, and not the other way round, because the Party, and not the state, is the Vanguard of the Revolution.
Come the Revolution, as it is, the state is fated to wither away.
All power to the soviets of jackleg preachers and hedge-fund managers!
I’m taking the Leftist concern trolling and the oblique defenses of Trump and Putin as a good sign.
If there’s one thing I learned this election it’s that no one cares about “pay-to-play” schemes.
Unless it’s a woman.
It’s what also makes the “Russis is overblown” criticism from the left so dopey. They are APOPLECTIC that Hillary gave some Goldman Sachs speeches because they just KNOW that this is evidence she was bought off for $675,000 even though her family is worth like $100 million and she donated the money to charity. But Trump being in the pocket to the tune of tens of millions to a hostile foreign nation that actively tried to get him elected? Nothing to see here.
After all, if the election loss can be blamed on Russian interference, the party doesn’t need to change.
Take out Russia and/or Comey and Hillary Clinton is in the White House. Take out both and Majority Leader Schumer is waving his gavel. Seems to me that if we had reason to believe those things won’t happen again (which we don’t), we wouldn’t need to change at all.
The notion that we don’t need no freaking change at all is a deeply bizarre one. Let’s say that Hillary wins the popular vote by 4 point, putting her over the edge in the Senate, and we have a 51-49 majority in the Senate, and maybe gain 10 instead of six sits in the House. We are still faced with a policy paralysis, and heading into an election in which we are lucky if the GOP doesn’t gain 8-10 Senate seats. This is not nearly enough.
It is not nearly enough to shape policy, but it would have been enough to protect our gains to this point AND install a Supreme Court justice whose vote might have made the difference between keeping or losing future gains under a hypothetical unitary Democratic government.
When white people who need the Affordable Care Act merely to live still vote for Trump, or Sanders supporters refuse to vote for the most progressive platform in party history because of the name at the top of the ballot, maybe policy articulation is not as dispositive as we might like to think.
Well, we do need change but not because we did anything wrong and need to be punished for it, but because the electorate is more viciously stupid and self destructive than we could ever have dreamed. So instead of putting up a fantastic grown up with a great resume and wonderful policies which have been thoughtfully put together by experts and humanitarians we should probably run a telegenic tv candidate using free publicity that will be given to us willingly by the same corporations, tv and news media that propped up Trump. We should give the voters what they want which is someone who will promise them everything while costing foreigners, immigrants, mexico, and our own black citizens pain and suffering. How’s that working as a proposal? Is there any reason that that might not be a good idea?
The free nonstop TV coverage a celebrity gets is a big advantage.
I hear your sarcasm, and it would be a bad idea to promise pain and misery to people, as that only sells among conservatives.
But what about nonstop TV hijinx? Entertainment is the name of the game now.
I keep thinking Justin Bieber, but he is Canadian. Scarlett Johansen I think is also foreign.
Will Jennifer Lawrence be 35 in 2020? There is misogyny, but if she wore leather and carried a bow and arrow . . .
Is Samuel L. Jackson too old? I can really imagine him getting the nonstop TV like Trump did.
Aziz Ansari?
Ryan Gosling? The memes ads write themselves.
Just_Dropping_By
ScarJo is a native-born American citizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson#Early_life
Curse the lack of an “edit” button:
Johansson will be 35 as of election day 2020.
Ryan Gosling is Canadian by birth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Gosling#Early_life
Jennifer Lawrence is a native-born American citizen, but will only be 30 in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence#Early_life
Aziz Ansari will be 38; Samuel L. Jackson will be 71.
Jackson/Johansson: Americans Assemble!
George Clooney doesn’t sound like the worst possible option.
Clooney/Springsteen 2020. I’m not really kidding, I think.
Matt Damon would be my other choice. When I’ve seen him talk politics, he seems to really know what he’s talking about.
Rosario Dawson.
I have a vague memory of being very impressed by her as a public speaker, and the demographics are right.
Granted, she’s not a huge name.
… or Oprah is rumored to be considering it. Oprah/Beyonce 2020.
I don’t consider Hillary the best American politician by a long shot, but I’ve always considered Nas to be her best hip-hop counterpart (and personally I consider him Top 5 dead-it-alive, no question).
Huge Bernie backer who then devoted her time to attacking Hillary and voting for Jill. No thanks.
Really? Shit. I remember her as sane, my mistake.
She was a contender for worst Bernie supporter in the primary. She was AWFUL.
And after the primary.
What change, exactly?
Everybody remember in 2008 (or even 1973 god forbid) and we were all told that it was imprudent to litigate this past. Yeah, not this time!
It’s even more surreal hearing this from people who had as one of their biggest objections to Obama that he didn’t immediately jail everyone in the Cheney administration for war crimes and everyone on Wall Street for the financial crisis.
And I thought it was just the RWNJ who sustained themselves by reflexively hating anything a liberal interest group believes is a good idea.
And in 1973, 2008, and 2017 it’s a lot of the same bad actors we are not supposed to try to expose to sunlight.
Second all the comments about that caviling about follow up on Trump-Russia is absurd.
But what I really want to know is where I can buy herring or any other fresh fish at that price. British pound 5.95 per kg is just over $3 per pound.
sleepyirv
The Left would not benefit a major Russian investigation as it would not give them an advantage over moderate Democrats. If the “focus” was only on economic issues, the Left would have the inner-party debate they really want. Ironically, by probably not differing that much from Moderates on the central issue (Trump working with the Russians is bad), it became necessary for the Left to come out full-throated against any change in focus, as they were afraid of losing an advantage (apparently missing that a political party should be able to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, like focusing on two issues at a time).
I don’t know if it will change any voter’s mind, but I CARE. This is a serious news story! OF COURSE, reporters should be following up on it and Congressional Dems should be clamoring for an investigation.
The Left would not benefit a major Russian investigation as it would not give them an advantage over moderate Democrats
Is it just me or is the continual use of “Left” to mean non-intersectional white male Marxism REALLY frustrating?
Yes, which is why I’m trying to make “pink anarchist bunnies” catch on as a replacement description for these types.
“Pink anarchist bunnies” makes THIS remixed New Yorker cartoon even funnier.
If you are anything but a non-intersectional, white, male Marxist, then you are a conservative, QED.
A lefty invoking “culture war” in anything other than a description of right-wing media tactics is not to be trusted.
I’m not sure it’s non-intersectional, though, because one of their hobbyhorses is mass incarceration, concern (or supposed concern) for which makes them Woke As Fuck. But I’m still not sure how it’s supposed to be both a sort of hipster-leaning Occupy Wall Street left AND one that appeals to displaced factory workers. How many discussions of pipeline-building do you think _that_ alliance would survive?
They only care about mass incarceration as a dodge for legalizing the recreational drugs they like, though.
AFAICT they mostly care about mass incarceration because Hillary Clinton said “superpredator” once, which means she’s horribad, no backsies, infinity.
I don’t know who ‘the Left’ are, but I’m pretty left-wing myself and I’m not prepared to grant that Greenwald, Taibbi, et al. get to define what “the Left’s” position on this is.
It’s a self-ID. These people always claim they are to the “left” of the Democratic party, and they justify what they do by saying they are trying to push the party to the “left”.
Lord Jesus Perm
I remember when Matt wrote at TrueSlant and he got shares for his takedowns of David Brooks and Tom Friedman. That was years ago.
The more I read him and the rest of the crew (Pareene, Hamilton Nolan, etc.), the more I realize that if it’s not punching down at easy targets like Brooks, they just don’t offer anything worth a damn.
Yup. Its the narcissism of small differences. In order to make a splash at this point they have to be anti-democratic contrarians. They aren’t going to swing all the way over to Trump so there is no where to go but punch and kick at the dems.
I’d actually group Taibbi more with his former eXile coworkers (Eileen Jones, Mark Ames, etc.) They do, or at least have done, worthwhile work in the past — I actually read eXiled Online in the early 10’s — the problem there is that they have a large reserve of free-floating cruelty, and it gets very tiring after a while. (The Concourse lefty-bros are more snarky than cruel, and in fairness HamNo’s November endorsement managed to be critical of Clinton without descending into holier-than-thou wankery).
I haven’t been able to read Taibbi or Ames after reading an article about their sexual exploits with underage prostitutes in Russia. These are hideous people. The fact that they can be amusing politically does not make up for the fact that they used their infinitesimal privilege in Russia to have sport sex with desperate children.
This is a good start (and BONERS actually had a good piece on it a few years ago, although it seems to have been deleted from its site).
Did not know about that. I feel like I need to shower now.
In case you don’t read far enough down on Dumbass’s link, on the general subject of exploitation of women:
Ames then recounts how he threatened to kill a women he impregnated unless she consented to an abortion:
“I can’t do that,” she said. “I can’t kill our child.”
Right then, I stared at Katya with a look—I’m not sure how it appeared to her, but in my mind, I was started to contemplate two courses of action: murder, or AWOL.
“What will you do, kill me?” she said, laughing nervously.
“Maybe, yeah,” I replied. “I’ll throw you off my balcony. I’ll make it look like an accident.”
She started to cry, but I was relentless. I told her that if she had the child, she would be killing me, so it was an act of self-defense. And if I didn’t kill her, then I would flee Moscow and she’d never find me. Her child would be fatherless. He wouldn’t have an Oedipal complex like the other kids; his complexes would be monumental, guaranteed to make her life a living hell … I wore her down for hours during the night, KGB interrogation-style …
At 5:30 the next morning, Katya, acting the martyr, quietly slipped out of my apartment, made a beeline to the abortion clinic, and sucked the little fucker out (eXiled, 154).
… jesus christ, that’s horrifying.
sibusisodan
I know, right? It’s like a fractal of ghastly.
“acting the martyr”
I don’t know this Ames person, and I’m glad I don’t. I’ve read a little bit of Taibbi’s stuff. If Matt was involved in anything even half as shitty as that, I regret giving him a single click.
Ames wrote Going Postal, a very good book about workplace shootings and rage killings in general. Also, he’s a monster.
Yep. Reading that made me give up on that whole crew, aside maybe from the War Nerd.
Who, not coincidentally, seems to be in a happy, healthy marriage.
John Dolan (the persona behind the War Nerd) wrote a godawful squid cloud that accused George Orwell of being an overt /white supremacist fascist. As it was ostensibly an anti-Hitchens piece, it ran as a semi-obituary; that particular idiocy was what made me quit the eXile writers for good.
His politics are crap, don’t get me wrong. I’ve seen tweets buying into the party line on Russia, as well. But his historical groundings are informative and, as far as I can tell with my very limited relevant resources, factually trustworthy.
And that he does not hate women with a glowing, white heat makes him notable in that crowd.
I miss you, edit button.
And, to add, anti-imperialists have all too often followed Said in their reactionary distaste for Orwell. It’s disappointing that all they see is his background and miss his actual words, but understandable in many ways as well.
IIRC Dolan’s hate for Orwell was based in the latter’s documented disdain for the Catholic Church.
Wait, I knew something was off. The War Nerd is Gary Brecher, not Dolan.
They’re the same guy; Brecher is the alias.
Ah. It’s been a while since I really paid them all much attention.
Part of why I have trouble taking Taibbi at all seriously whenever Russia is mentioned, as well. He runs in circles, still, where talking about all this Russian mess at all is considered the true xenophobia.
As Orwell opposed the Empire in India and Burma, fought against the actual Fascists in Spain, and literally wrote the fucking book on modern totalitarianism, I don’t think so.
Hmph.
But if you ignore his actual words and focus on the accent he spoke them with…
Here’s the article in question.
The argument is contagion. The Burmese are so vile that they infect the hero; he and his comrades should give up Burma simply to avoid infection.
Apparently Orwell was really barely more than a wordier Kurtz.
I think it ultimately is comparable to Said’s willfully blind reactionary take. Both think Orwell is just too British to have meant anything he spent a lifetime saying and doing.
The War Nerd is also not very well informed about war. His continual insistence that no warship bigger than a missile boat is any use betrays the fact that he’s never actually been to sea…
Same, that made me see Matt in a different light. And the end of the story, where he nearly attacked the reporter for giving his book a bad review, chasing him outside of a restaurant in a rage, made me just absolutely dislike the man with a passion. If your shtick is to go after people and be as vile and douchy as possible when doing so, you better have some thicker skin. His skin is onion-paper thin.
It’s enough to make you start using phrases like “kompromat” and “agent of influence”.
The Concourse bros got terrible in 2016 (happened to a lot of people but also found a lot of great people!), but Hamilton Nolan is much better than the rest of them. He can actually criticize the Dems from the left while still strongly advocating for supporting and working with the party. I still disagree with a lot of his stuff, but he isn’t a purity pony and actually cares about progress.
Back on the emails/Benghazi thing — not only did they pay no penalty, it is what won everything for them. I’m pasting a few lines from a FB post by a Trump-supporting relative last summer, which I normally would not do, except that I am 100% sure it is copypasta:
I found it hard to believe she beat Bernie in New York! He was born & raised there!! Bernie was robbed plain & simple. She temp. transplanted herself there as part of this plan! And WHY OH WHY can’t most of America SEE & REMEMBER how she LET Americans be murdered in Benghazi???? They cried out & begged for help multiple times knowing they’d die without it! What happened to them? THEY WERE ALL MURDERED!! And the ambassador was SUPPOSEDLY her ‘close friend’? Did most everyone MISS this fact? And her 1st & ONLY public answer for this WAS… “What does it matter now?” I’m sure there are many internet links that would show you she did say just that!! Truly THINK about her reply… what if this was her very public reply about YOUR loved one who was murdered on her watch?
This is the mentality that drove Trump voters to the polls in high numbers in just enough rural counties to tip the EC and win the gerrymandered House. I see absolutely no downside in pushing an investigation into the Russia ties as hard as possible, because FFS, people:
* It’s substantively the right thing to do given what happened.
* It is, as aimai keeps trying to get through to us, the same issue as Trump’s finances, business dealings, debts, emoluments, branding, all that money shit. We need his tax returns and bank accounts opened up by courts.
* Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, . . . forever.
* Pence will not drive voters to polls, as others have noted.
I know I’m preaching to the choir, but I really wish someone would ask those nincompoops at some point where exactly they think “Secretary of State” appears in the chain of command of anyone who might theoretically have stopped them from dying.
It’s really not productive to engage them at this level of The Crazy. It was a cousin I could talk to, and these weren’t her words (I realize now), so I and a moderate anti-Trump Republican got her to the point of admitting that the “what does it matter” was being twisted out of context (though she didn’t get all the way to the actual context — they were trying to make a scandal out of the exact timing of when the State spokespeople got intelligence about who was behind the attack, and that’s what didn’t matter).
And “What difference at this point does it make?” was far from being the “ONLY PUBLIC ANSWER” Hillary Clinton ever gave. I mean, her remarks to the Benghazi committee begin, as a normal human being would expect, like this:
CLINTON: Thank you Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Cummings, members of this committee.
The terrorist attacks at our diplomatic compound and later, at the CIA post in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, took the lives of four brave Americans, Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty And Tyrone Woods.
I’m here to honor the service of those four men. The courage of the Diplomatic Security Agency and the CIA officers who risked their lives that night. And the work their colleagues do every single day all over the world.
Not that _you_ need to know that, but, sometimes, GAAAAH
Thlayli
I, also, find it hard to believe that someone who won two Senate elections in New York could win that state's presidential primary.
Her 16%-margin win in the 2008 New York primary was just laying the groundwork for her 16%-margin election theft in the 2016 New York primary.
Trump was, before the election, probably the most famous Manhattan resident on the planet and won a whopping 9% of the vote there.
Trump was, before the election, probably the most famous Manhattan resident on the planet
That seems unlikely. A lot of very famous people live in Manhattan.
jpgray
I’m trying and failing to imagine the GOP applying a “but what if there’s not any real wrongdoing guys!” brake on going after HRC’s email server.
What’s the worry? That we’ll get to a space where someone says “investigation complete – no evidence of illegal behavior?”
That happened and did little to nothing to exculpate HRC in the media or slow down the pace of the attacks. So either we’re useless at offense or useless at defense, or both?
Well, the Republicans have the advantage of being nihilist lunatics.
power-hunger does not a nihilist make
Sure it does. The only thing they believe in is whatever makes them feel good.
They are willing to put party over country, and to spit in the face of every civilized value, for that power.
I’ll grant that the true believer Christianists are not nihilists. They are antichrists.
As if the media was disqualified by its endless but failed investigations into the email server and the Clinton Foundation. They lost credibility temporarily with the most dedicated part of the actual-Democrat wing of the Democratic party. Sadly, we don’t hold grudges well.
I am now able to look at the front page of the NY Times without a panic attack. It took more than four months though, to reach that point.
Does anyone here go to DSA meetings or Jacobin reading groups? I realize that everyone has their own tolerance for lefty shtick, but would be nice if there was some push back on this myopia from within the bubble. Or are the meetings actually productive and not what we see in media publications? That would be awesome.
DSA itself, based on one local meeting, anyways, tends to be split between olds and news.
A lot of the olds I recognize from the two Jesse Jackson campaigns — they’re pretty pragmatic.
The DSA endorsed Kerry in ’04. Unfortunately, they’ve since been taken over by people who are some combination of naive/young/stupid/nihilist.
Interesting. And I presume there was some pseudo-Naderism back in 2000. What then does this portend for the 2020 election. Is living through another 4 years of full GOP control going to push them again towards cooperation?
I live in a city of six million people. The local DSA consists of some sparsely attended reading meetings, a snarky twitter feed, cosigning other people’s work, and nothing else of any substance. Why should I waste my time?
It’s interesting — the comment thread is a whole heck of a lot angrier, and more contemptuous, than the original post. I’m curious why? I personally don’t see Jeet Heer’s article as symptomatic of any Manichaean fight with the Democratic party — to me, he’s simply questioning the value of a particular tactic. It should be possible to comment on that without bringing up Sanders, his voters, and then bashing them. Why are people so worked up about this?
A subtext so obvious it’s barely subtext at all?
It’s also broadly affirmative of Farley’s own stance regarding the issue; my impression is that most of the anger here’s directed at the Taibbi types (and to a lesser extent Gessen, who’s really much more of the “Donald Trump SUPERGENIUS” school).
I don’t get that vibe from Gessen at all, at least from her NYBooks articles — I think that her perspective on Trump is a bit outside the standard American political perspective, but that makes sense since the value she claims for her writing is based on experience with Russian politics.
Taibbi, I’m not even sure how he came into this, was he in the original post? No opinion, there.
She’s generally a pretty good columnist, but here she’s treating serendipity as proof of intention — and as humanoid.panda’s noted, tends towards the maximalist interpretation w/r/t Trump’s planning.
…hence the SUPERGENIUS appellation. (FYWP)
Also, Taibbi was mentioned in the Heer article.
You know, I’ve noticed this in a lot of people from the Middle East as well — coming from societies with political repression makes them tend to see repression or planning where chance or the confusion of having many actors are just as likely.
I think this is right about Gessen: She just doesn’t know much about America’s political system and is viewing Trump through a Russian-centric prism.
shah8
Man, I do have a problem with cheap Russophobicism, in that I think it obscures a necessary debate on the worth of NATO policies. I *think* that Russia does what it does, effectively because of NATO being on its borders, and that no sustainable reapproachment or return to some sort of sanity is possible without that being on the table. One does have to remember that Putin can be both the dictator, and not entirely the state. Everything I’ve seen suggests that he has pretty strong internal support for his policies, and that western orientated thinkers and businessmen have been pushed out as as a result.
As far as the topic goes, Jeet Heer is wrong, except where it touches on my bugaboo.
I *think* that Russia does what it does, effectively because of NATO being on its borders, and that no sustainable reapproachment or return to some sort of sanity is possible without that being on the table.
If Russia’s demand for rapprochement and sanity is that we let it go back to the good’ol days when it could trash the smaller states in its periphery at-will, that is not a reasonable or acceptable demand.
I know right? What the fuck kind of leftism is this supposed to be?
The kind that freaks out squares!
It’s what enrages me about the “near abroad” mantra. “Near abroad” is the Russian version of the American belief that they had the right to continue ruling Central America and the Caribbean by proxy dictator forever. Historically, the hard left has been very hostile to that idea. It’s supported the rights of nations like Cuba and Nicaragua to throw the pro-U.S. dictator out on his arse, and make their own arrangements with other foreign powers. And it hasn’t objected when Russia or China take them up on it.
The idea that all of that is okay, but that it’s somehow terribly shady when East European nations seek the exact same independence from Russian domination, or when the West helps them achieve it, is too ridiculous for words. It’s exactly what conservatives accuse the far left of being: A-holes with no consistent principles, only a raging hate-on for the United States.
Mike in DC
There’s evidence that Bernie supporters got bombarded with fake news stories propelling the existing anti Clinton narrative forward, and that these stories were funneled to them by Putin bots.
I think one additional reason for the left’s resistance to looking further into the Russia story is that it may expose some of them as apologists, enablers and useful idiots for the Putin regime and their agenda. Anyone tied into RT, for example, may find their standing diminished going forward.
I agree with this. DailyKos was flooded with useful idiots channelling russian pro-beanie propaganda for months. The bitterest, most hateful, language imaginable was used against HRC and her supporters on the basis of internet rumors, wikilieaks, RT and guccifer. I don’t know about standing but that shit was incredibly ugly and personal. There are a lot of people who are still invested in believing that it was immoral for the Democrats to have even run such a corrupt person as HRC for president. And their hatred of the democratic party seems to them as natural as breathing. They have of emotion and personal reputation involved in not admitting they were manipulated. As much as Trump’s voters do in not admitting they were lied to and were suckered by Trump.
2 people I used to respect are utterly swamped by their unwillingess to forgive those of us who were right about the stakes.
Donna Gratehouse
This is exactly it. And a proper accounting of what happened and what Dems must do going forward must address the media problem. The ability to ratfuck elections via intensive info manipulation campaigns is endless and not going away, whether it’s Russia doing it or someone else. I know it distracts from the all-important project of chasing white coal miners in West Virginia and sneering at Hillary but it’s got to be part of the plan.
Also, too, Russia interfered in our fucking election and is continuing to interfere in our governance. That warrants a response and if the GOP isn’t going to lead the Democrats must.
Yup. To properly come to terms with the Russia story is for the “left” to admit the Bernie campaign devolved into a Russian vehicle to hate Hillary. They were Putin’s useful idiots, and no one likes to admit they got conned.
Arouet
When we run out of good political reasons our reason could be that it seems like a hostile power interfered in our domestic affairs and that’s bad and should be investigated even if it doesn’t accrue to our political benefit.
Maddow says she has Trump tax returns.
This entire thread: HS, WTF.
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Prepping for the 2nd
Our next open date is Saturday, June 2nd. We're back in reasonable physical condition and the Swoop events are well behind us. Now our attention and energy is focused on getting back to normal activity.
On the website we've added some additional cabinets like the Multigraph cabinet (C-273), a California cabinet with dual working tops (C-327), and a press stand with ten cases (C-338) to name a few. As always, there's many more cabinets available on the website and at the store.
Several additional machines are also on hand, such as a Martin Yale paper cutter (M-184), and a Bostitch stapler (M-185) with lots of staples. We're also showcasing one of the rarer presses we've had in quite awhile; a 5 x 8 Golding Pearl with a motor (M-186). Even if you're not interested in purchasing it, it's a press really worth seeing in person!
Also on hand is a tabletop 5 x 8 Kelsey (M-178) which will be available for shipping after the second.
There's still a bunch of "things" (furniture cabinets, slug cutters, hand tools, type, etc.) to rummage through at the store and the various type fonts/plate sets seen on the website can be purchased in house sans postage fees. Teachers and professional printers, consider stopping by for your summer printing project supplies!
Hope to see you soon! - JB
Open Dates, Presses, Machines, Cabinets
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Golding Pearl No. 11
March 17, 2017 / John Barrett
Spending time in the store during the winter is tough. It's cold, dark, and just plain uncomfortable to do anything! But winter's grinding by on the calendar and daylight minutes are on the increase. We've been spending more and more time out on the floor, changing some displays around, processing "things" in from last Fall, and preparing for several events coming up in April.
The big project at the moment is getting a No. 11 Golding Pearl readied for sale. Picked it up on very short notice a month ago just as a major snow storm began. It's in need of several parts which have been located, to be installed soon.
If you're interested in your very own Pearl, stop in this Saturday to take a look.
If a tabletop interests you then come check out a fully ready-to-print 5 x 8 Kelsey.
We've got a couple of other units which are being checked over now so stay tuned for updates!
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Melissa Nassauer
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Actress, future entrepreneur who wishes to own a winery, production company and an animal rescue ranch hardly describes this fiery redhead’s passions and desires.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Melissa inherited her family’s zest for music, Creole cuisine and LSU Tigers. After moving to Texas, Melissa’s fiery personality would bring delight to people. At 6 years old, she entertained with a song to random people in the street, mall or amusement park. Melissa also enjoyed a game she played with her dad called “strike-a-pose” where her dad would randomly say “strike-a-pose”, and whatever Melissa was doing she had to stop and pose like a model. This game would occur in restaurants, malls, school functions; anywhere. Melissa’s charm and confidence then and now fills the room, especially on camera.
An avid reader, Melissa is now in the processes of finishing her third novel. Now living in LA, Melissa is highly focused on her acting career. She is currently training at The Groundlings, but values the time spent learning from her acting coach, mentor and friend; actress Lar Park Lincoln.
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Stopping Smoking - so how am I getting on?
So I understand that I haven't given anything up by stopping smoking. I have simply stopped doing something that was stupid, expensive and injurious to my health. Following my decision to give up on Sunday night I have started to read Allen Carr's famous book "Easy Way To Stop Smoking". It is actually designed to be read by someone who is still smoking, but it is still very helpful if you are using it to reinforce your commitment to stop. In a sense, the opening sentence of this paragraph summarises Carr's point. But it is far cleverer and useful than that pithy sound bite. I am stunned by how much of his analyses directly corresponds to my experience. The guy is clearly quite full of himself but he really does has a lot of understanding.
Likewise, I have also watched the excellent Russell Crow/Al Pacino film The Insider which shows the utter contempt the Tobacco industry has for it's customers and human life. They see cigarettes as a nicotine delivery system and clearly suppressed the evidence that Tobacco causes so many serious health problems like lung cancer, heart problems, circulation and such stuff. And they still try the "we aren't trying to encourage new people to smoke - we are just trying to persuade people to swap brand" bullshit. Excuse my French, but they are cynical lying murdering bastards. Now that they are seeing the western world is starting to reject their evil poison they are focusing on the third world. How low can you go? So Bob Geldoff gets their debt dropped and they spend it all on fags! Hmmm.
And yet, even understanding all of this and having only been off the smokes for 3 days I am starting to get cravings. I went to the pub quiz yesterday evening and it was no problems sitting in the no smoking area and quaffing ale without feeling bad. But today despite all the above I still feel like lighting up. I have gone the hardcore route and haven't bothered with patches or Nicotine gum since it seems a bit illogical to try and give up nicotine by taking nicotine. Still, I suppose it was nieve of me to think that breaking a 25 year habit would be pain less.
Also, I should say thanks to those who have offered congratulations and encouragement, both on this web log and in the real world. It is both much appreciated but also very helpful since it would make me feel so bad if I were to go back to my stupid smoking ways. It has been often been observed that ex Smokers are by far the most vocal when criticising smokers and I am planning on joining them if for nothing else but to make it untenable and embarrassing to slide back into the filthy habit.
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Smoking - it's a bit rubbish
I'm not proud - but I started smoking when I was 11 years old :-( My mate Harry Lines had a job as a paper boy and miraculously every now and then he would turn up with two hundred JPS (John Player Specials) . I'm not suggesting that he nicked them, but let's just say I never saw any receipts.
Anyway, we used to stand on the corner of Chanterlands Avenue and Loveridge Avenue in my home town, Hull, looking kinda like James Dean. Or so we thought. Until two big lads beat Harry and I up and nicked our stash of cigarettes and pointed out that we should be sucking rather than blowing. Because up until then we had been blowing. Scoff as you might but there aren't any instructions on a pack!
These days the advice on cigarette packs are pretty is explicit. The pack of Silk Cut Silver I'm currently looking at says "Smoking Kills" and "Smokers Die Younger". My good mate Brendan decided to give up the smokes yesterday because when he asked his daughter what she most wanted for her 21st birthday she didn't ask for an XBox or Playstation, she asked him to stop smoking. Ouch! But fair play to the fella - he has gone for it. He has ditched that fags.
So has it made me pause for thought? Damn right it has. Smoking is unattractive, unsociable, unheathy, illogical and basically stupid. But bizarrely I'm still smoking as I write this. What a F**k Wit I am.
So I look at my current pack of fags and see I have 15 snouts left. I'm really enjoying my last smoke. I really am. But of course, I know it is stupid. SO NOW IT STOPS.
Can I Keep it up? I don't know. But I'm going to try...You betta believe it.
(and if you hear a funny cracking sound - that is me crushing the last of my fags)
Do you get what you pay for?
As the regular reader may recall, our DVD player packed up a few weeks ago. I was exploring all sorts of options to replace it but then we decided to buy a house. So we're skint. However, I was really missing playing my challenging European art house films. Ok, so I haven't got any challenging art house films, but I have got loads of dumb American action films and I really miss not being able to play them. So as a stop gap, I decided to get a £35 Mico DVD808 from Sainsburys. I expected it to be rubbish but I am astounded how they have packed so much performance into such a cheap package. It even has a Optical Digital output to pump the sound into my surround sound HiFi. I watched The Aviator on it last night and there was no fragmentation, artifacting or dodgy colours. For £35! That's less than the cost of 3 DVD films. My last player cost £970. Me thinks I may have been ripped off last time.
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So Tim Henman crashes out of Wimbledon whilst new hope Andrew Murray defeats the 13th seed . Like most British folks, I suspect, I'm only really interested in tennis when Wimbledon comes round. But all these years of watching Henman have done nasty things to my nerves. Even when he is on top he still manages to throw sets away to make us think he is going to lose. So it is a breath of fresh air to see Murray winning in straight sets and never seeming to lose his confidence. That is not to knock Henman's achievements. Staying in the top 10 in the world for 10 years is an outstanding achievement. So even if Murray loses to Nalbandian in the next round I think it is fair to say that Murray has taken over from now on. It might take him a while to get into the top ten but I don't think his ranking of 313 will stay for very long.
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The Worst Road in the World
I have to travel from my home in South West London to the North quite a lot for customer meetings. Getting to the M1 which starts at the top of North London is a doddle. Just follow the North Circular road. Some bits of Hangar Lane are just a single lane, but for the most part it is two or three lanes. It's about 15 miles and normally takes me about half an hour.
But today I had to go south to Chelmsford so had to take the South Circular road to the Dartford tunnel and the M25. Again - this is about 15 miles but this morning it took me 1 and a half hours! In fairness there were road works in Wandsworth and Lewisham, but the real problem is that the South Circular isn't really a road - it is just a set of confusing road signs. I kept finding myself doubling back on myself when I hit signs that pointed left saying "South Circular (E)" and right saying "South Circular (W)". I don't know if I need to go East or West! Just tell me where they go to. Getting from the Dartford tunnel to Chelmsford which is 30 miles only took an additional 20 minutes. So today's lesson is if you have to travel from South West London to Essex - take the train.
My good mate Glastonbury John (who ironically lives in Topsham) and his main squeeze Heather are in a bonkers punk band called the Reoffenders. They're mighty fine whether you like your Punk classic (as in the Pistols or The Clash) or modern (as in PJ Harvey or Hole). Anyway, John has just bought a PA system for the band from some geezer in Morden via the power of eBay. Now Morden (which if you don't know it is in South West London) and Topsham (which if you don't know it is just near Exeter) are about 200 miles apart so a trip for John to pick up the PA would be around 400 miles. Not ideal. So he asked me to pick it up and keep it for him until next time he is down in the Big Smoke. Morden is only 8 miles from Chez Ports.
Obviously my saint like generosity meant that I was only too happy to help out my chums. But also I was quite curious. I have never been to Morden but it was one of the areas Ali and I had considered moving to before we realised we could stay in Barnes (fingers crossed). How glad I am that we didn't move there. I have seldom been to a more soulless, featureless and frankly boring place. It is more suburban than Surbiton and that is saying something. It's no coincidence that Morden sounds so similar to Mordor. Don't go there. It's shit.
Bad Wolf
As the regular reader of this web log will know, I am a huge fan of the new series of Doctor Who. To bring the series back after 16 years and manage the amazing trick of appealing to the adults who remember the classic series and also to appeal to a new generation of children who are viewing it as something brand new is amazing.
Obviously the greater budget and improvements in technology have had a significant result on the look of the show especially the special effects. The writing has been excellent and under the stewardship of Russell T Davis, the series feels consistent and in safe hands. The acting and actors are brilliant and there are plenty of laughs, scares and surprises.
This is of course great news for a Whovian like myself. I so hoped that they would get it right and they have. But what has surprised and delighted me even more is how the show has adopted the Internet as an additional route to the viewers. It started of with the leaking of the first show "Rose" a couple of weeks before the premier. The BBC claims that this was unauthorized and that the person responsible had been sacked. I suspect that it was deliberate though, because it is a classic example of viral advertising, starting a movement on the Internet and generating massive media coverage.
It hasn't stopped there though. The amount of additional material, behind the scenes coverage and extras available on the official web site is quite staggering. It is also the first show I have ever seen that introduces a brand new theme for the site for every episode. That would be enough for any other TV show but they have also created other sites to support the series. For example the site Mickey is maintaining can be found at Who is Doctor Who and there is a real site for UNIT (the secure password is badwolf).
Observant viewers will have noticed a theme through the series of reference being made to "Bad Wolf". For weeks there as been intense speculation and debate on Internet forums and web logs about what Bad Wolf means. In the last episode The Doctor even comments on this, dismissing it as coincidence. Now there is a web site Bad Wolf that outlines the clues and proposes some theories. This site is also created by the BBC. I won't speculate here on what I think Bad Wolf means, but I applaud that brilliant use of new media. If you don't agree with me just try searching for "Doctor Who Bad Wolf" in Google and you will soon see how it has spread.
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You may be familiar with some of the most ground-breaking workplaces in Australia like the ones Futurespace has designed for Microsoft, JLL, REA Group, Google, MYOB, EA Games, Wotif.com, Pexa and many more. These workplaces are all designed with people and their experience of a workplace at its centre. The clients we work with know that we live in a fast paced, challenging world with constant change and disruption affecting people, and their work, like never before.
As Australians spend longer and longer hours at work (our typical working week is well above the OECD average) many organisations have realised that the workplace can play an important role in attracting and retaining staff, in improving people’s health and wellbeing, and supporting people in bringing their ‘whole self’ to work so that they are more fulfilled in all areas of their lives.
There is a huge list of initiatives that many businesses provide for their people including:
easy access to WIFI throughout the workplace,
choice of open and closed spaces to suit various styles of meetings,
fun, creative spaces that include arcade games and table tennis, for example,
collaborative spaces, that are flexible and can be easily rearranged,
concierge services such as drycleaning, bag storage and local recommendations,
secure project areas and co-creation spaces for workshops and immersion sessions,
access to the organisation’s knowledge, strategy and the corporate community,
different levels of hospitality and catering,
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lockers, showersbike storage and other ‘end of trip’ amenities.
You can read more about the Sydney project here.
Many of the above are givens when it comes to designing a workplace that benefits an organisations’ people.
But what about the boardroom and the way a business meets and works with its clients? Whilst workplace design – for staff – has been revolutionary in the last 20 years in Australia, client spaces have lagged far behind when it comes to innovation. There is now a huge disconnect between the level of amenity available to staff, and the level of amenity available to clients. Most boardrooms and client spaces today have a single purpose, are very formal with limited amenity, variety or choice. Technology too is often an ‘add on’, is rarely current or seamless and can often be more frustrating than helpful.
When creativity and innovation are the currency in a disrupted business world, the time is ripe for change.
PwC is the first organisation in Australia to recognise that working differently with clients is the way of the future. The recent projects Futurespace designed for them at Barangaroo in Sydney and at Riverside Quay in Melbourne embrace a business milieu that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (also known as VUCA). Through these cutting-edge projects PwC has taken control of the rapidly changing world we find ourselves in.
Their new Client Collaboration floors in both Melbourne and Sydney are an innovative way of working with clients that will cement PwC’s position as leaders in the professional services sector well into the future.
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) Shinji Sômai
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
aka Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû
Genre: Action | Comedy
Country: Japan | Director: Shinji Sômai
Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English (.srt file)
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 111mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv - 1280x694 - 23.976fps - 3.94gb
Humorous satire of Japanese yakuza flicks in which Hiroko Yakushimaru plays the daughter of a yakuza oyabun (boss) who dies and leaves the clan to her. Unfortunately, the clan is not exactly top flight, as they drive around in old, backfiring cars, one member is, well, a little effeminate, and veteran actor Ken Takakura (Black Rain, Mr. Baseball are his two most recent American flicks) tries his best to keep Hiroko out of trouble. The scene with Hiroko when she sprays a room with machine gun fire and then exclaims "Kaikan"!! (roughly translated as "exciting" but perhaps in a physical sense) became somewhat famous in Japan at the time with people using the phrase in the same tone of voice as Hiroko. A funny and entertaining movie.
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Royal Caribbean Skips Calls in San Juan Due to Political Protests
After the recent release of hundreds of pages of offensive chat messages sent by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello, demonstrators have gathered in Old San Juan to call for his resignation. The protests turned violent on Monday night, prompting an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI. Given circumstances on the ground, Royal Caribbean has elected to cancel at least two port calls in the city. "Due to the ongoing civil unrest in San Juan, Puerto Rico, we have canceled Harmony of the Seas' call to San Juan. Harmony will now sail to St. Maarten, her next scheduled port of call. Concern for the safety and wellbeing of our guests and crew members is our top priority," the cruise line said in a statement to media. The decision also affected the Empress of the Seas, which was scheduled to call San Juan on Tuesday. As of Wednesday evening, RCCL's Allure of the Seas was still on track to call San Juan on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/9YijXgaiQT — gloria ruiz (@gruizkuilan) July 17, 2019 Despite the ...
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Syria: Kobane protest held against Turkish military border incursions
Hundreds of protesters gathered at Free Woman Square in Kobane city centre on Wednesday to condemn Turkish military incursions into northern Syria. Protesters held flags and banners as they assembled at the square. Kobane Canton Council Co-president Mistefa Ito addressed the protesters saying, "Turkey's aim is to cause trouble between the different segments of this region." According to one protester, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava) has not been a threat to Turkish interests, adding, "it is Turkey that threatens the north eastern region with all its [social] segments." A convoy of Turkish military vehicles was seen moving in northern Syria close to Azaz late on Monday. According to media reports, Ankara sent reinforcements to the border area. In 2018, Turkey conducted an operation in and around the nearby town of Afrin as part of the Turkish-led 'Olive Branch' military operation against Syrian Kurdish forces.
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Sudanese protesters, military leaders agree to power-sharing deal amid ongoing protests
Following weeks of negotiations and a deadly crackdown last month by security forces, a Sudanese pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council have agreed to a power-sharing deal.
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Dravidian outfit stages protest over workshop on draft NEP.
Activists of a splinter Dravidian outfit Wednesday barged into the venue of a workshop on the Centre's Draft National Education Policy and questioned its conduct without the presence of all stakeholders. Thanthai Periyar Dravid Kazhagam general secretary K Ramakrishnan along with a few activists entered the college where the workshop was being held and alleged the organisers had invited only those who were supporting the draft NEP. The workshop was conducted based on the directives of State Council of Education Research and Training, to elicit views from various stakeholders from eight western districts of Tamil Nadu. SCERT officials said it was attended among others by headmasters of District Institute of Education and Training from the districts. However, the officials said they could not invite students, teachers, parents, education officials, school headmasters from the districts due to paucity of time, as information on conduct of the workshop was received late. The
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KSU woman activist barges into Secretariat, violence during student protests in University College
A woman activist entered the highly secured Kerala Secretariat Wednesday and reached the block where the chief minister's office is located to protest over a stabbing incident inside a college campus here. Police said Shilpa, the state leader of the Congress-backed Kerala Students' Union (KSU), along with three other activists, entered the state administrative hub, protesting the stabbing of Akhil. The final year BA political science student was stabbed allegedly by leaders of the pro-CPI(M) Students Federation of India inside the University College campus. He is presently undergoing treatment at a government hospital. Shilpa managed to reach the North Block while the other three activists were blocked by the police. Later, she was removed by women police force. Just a few metres away from the Secretariat, 12 people, including a police man, were injured in a clash between protesters and the security force personnel outside the college. "The march by the Muslim Students Federation ...
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Covering Protests Where There Is a Distrust of Social Media
Daniel Victor, a reporter in Hong Kong, on why protesters there chose not to go after the Instagram moments while marching.
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Myanmar protests demand military loosen grip on politics
Protesters in Myanmar called for the military to loosen its grip on politics Wednesday, as tensions mount over the country's army-drafted constitution ahead of national elections next year. The 2008 charter, enacted by the ruling junta after decades of repressive army rule, bars embattled civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the presidency and forces her to share power with the generals. It also guarantees a quarter of parliamentary seats to the armed forces, along with powerful defence and security portfolios. Parliament is set to discuss proposed amendments to the document but military MPs hold a veto on any changes, prompting more than 1,000 protesters to gather in downtown Yangon and shout slogans demanding constitutional reform. "I think the military should stand with and think for the public," said Yangon resident Thi Thi Han. But opinion over the issue is split, and a rival protest later on Wednesday demanded Myanmar leaders keep the charter as it is. "Democracy here is so ...
Kuwaiti authorities have arrested more than a dozen people, including a leading rights activist, in a crackdown on protesters demanding greater rights for stateless Arabs, Amnesty International said Wednesday. They face a number of charges including participation in unlicensed demonstrations, spreading false news and state security offences, the London-based rights group said. "The Kuwaiti authorities have arbitrarily arrested more than a dozen protesters in recent days, including prominent human rights defender Abdulhakim al-Fadhli and other activists, in a crackdown on peaceful protestors demanding greater rights for the stateless group known as Bidun," Amnesty said in a statement. "Twelve protesters remain in custody." Amnesty said the arrests took place between July 11 and 14 following protests by members of the Bidun group in Kuwait after a fellow Bidun, 20-year Ayed Hamad Moudath, committed suicide for reportedly being unable to obtain official documents and ultimately losing ...
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The Puerto Rican megastar has praised the "bravery" of protesters in the country.
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Activists block ICE headquarters in standoff to protest immigration policy, migrant detention
Federal authorities arrested at least 11 Jewish activists and immigration rights activists who blocked entrances and exits to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington Tuesday.
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ISM Raceway Announces National Anthem Performers for Opening Weekend
ISM Raceway was excited to announce the singers who will be performing the national anthem at each of the three races over the Can-Am 500 Opening Weekend Nov. 9, 10 and 11.
James “Rambo” Smith
Kicking off the first of three races over Opening Weekend, ISM Raceway is excited to invite “The Singing Fireman” to perform the anthem before the start of Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150.
James “Rambo” Smith is a retired firefighter, U.S. Army Veteran and an award-winning gospel artist. Smith has used his talents to assist in relief efforts and benefits for firefighters across the globe, and has performed at sporting events and gospel concerts.
Saturday’s national anthem prior to the NASCAR Xfinity Series Whelen Trusted to Perform 200 will be sung by American Idol season 7 finalist and recording artist David Hernandez.
He released his debut single, “Beautiful,” in 2016, which was named by Billboard as one of the year’s Top Dance Songs. He has recently released his second, self-penned album. Hernandez has been touring and performing for the last 10 years, sharing the stage with Bryan Adams and Donna Summer, among others.
Steven Powell
Prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Can-Am 500 on Sunday, Nov. 11, retired U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Steven Powell will take the stage to perform the national anthem on the 100th anniversary of Veterans Day.
In addition to serving 25 years in the military, Powell is also an accomplished vocalist, musician, producer and songwriter. He has shared the stage with artists like Lee Greenwood and Montel Jordan, and has performed the anthem at over 200 events, including the World Series and NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
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